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Spirit Airlines finalizes its order for 100 Airbus A320neos
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Crash: Ukraine International loses a Boeing 737-800
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FAA certifies Global 5500 and 6500 aircraft
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Carlos Ghosn: illegal use of MNG Jet's aircraft

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MRO: easyJet extends with Safran Landing Systems

easyJet extends its contract with Safran Landing Systems for the MRO of the landing gear of its fleet of Airbus A320.
Civil Aviation

Spirit Airlines finalizes its order for 100 Airbus A320neos

On January 6, Spirit Airlines finalized its order for 100 Airbus A320neo family aircraft. Still is to be determined whether Airbus registered the contract in 2019.
Civil Aviation

Crash: Ukraine International loses a Boeing 737-800

A Boeing 737-800 belonging to the airline Ukraine International crashed shortly after taking off from Tehran airport, according to Iranian media reporting technical issues.
Civil Aviation

FAA certifies Global 5500 and 6500 aircraft

Bombardier's Global 5500 and Global 6500 business jets have received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification. Their Rolls-Royce Pearl 15 engine has been certified too.
Civil Aviation

Carlos Ghosn: illegal use of MNG Jet's aircraft

MNG Jet filed a criminal complaint concerning the illegal use of its jet charter services in relation to Carlos Ghosn’s escape from Japan.
Civil Aviation

Aston Martin takes to the skies with Airbus

Aston Martin and Airbus Corporate Helicopters join their teams for a project. Their first creation will be unveiled on January 3, 2020.
Industry

Aeronautics: a growing industry for Europe

An ASD Communication study shows the crucial place of the aeronautical and defense industry in Europe.
Civil Aviation

Air France-KLM confirms its 60 Airbus A220s

Air France-KLM transforms into a firm contract its commitment on 60 Airbus A220s powered by Pratt & Whitney PW1500G. The aircraft will be operated by Air France, which selected the largest version, the A220-300.
MRO

China Southern Airlines secures A350 operational capacities with AFI KLM E&M pooling solutions

China Southern has signed a long-term contract for the provision of component support for its twenty newly acquired aircraft.
Civil Aviation

Sunrise: Qantas chooses the Airbus A350-1000

After months of evaluation, Qantas Airways selects the Airbus A350-1000 to perform direct services between Australia, London and New York.
Civil Aviation

Air France-KLM rationalizes its fleet with 10 more Airbus A350 XWBs

Air France-KLM Group orders an additional 10 Airbus A350-900s, which will take its total order for the type to 38 aircraft as part of the rationalization of its fleet.
Civil Aviation

The safety of global airlines has improved significantly in 2019

In 2019, the accident rate of global airlines improved significantly to 0.91 (number of accidents per million flights), compared to 1.35 in 2018. This rate is even lower (0.68) for IATA member airlines.
Civil Aviation

IATA: 3.2% increase in global air transport turnover in 2019

The year 2019 should end with a global traffic increase of 4.2%, to more than 4.5 billion passengers. Global airline net income is forecast at $25.9 billion, decreased by 5.13%.
Civil Aviation

Air France-KLM and Qantas group strengthen their cooperation

As part of the resumption of their codeshare between Europe and Australia, via Singapore and Hong Kong, the two airlines are moving closer to their loyalty programs and a new codeshare is concluded with JetStar Asia Airways and JetStar Airways for Southeast Asia and Australia.
Civil Aviation

With Monrovia, Air France strengthens its African network

The line will be open from April 20, 2020, directly and as a continuation of service to Bamako, which at the same time will undergo capacity building.
Civil Aviation

Alitalia gets more time

On Monday, December 2, the Italian government gave Alitalia a new deadline to find a buyer, until May 31, with a new bridge loan of 400 million euros.
Civil Aviation

Airbus A321neo: China Airlines selects Pratt & Whitney engines

China Airlines chooses Pratt & Whitney GTF engines to equip its Airbus A321neo. The airline is the fourth company of the APAC area to get EngineWise maintenance and support services in a month.
Civil Aviation

Pratt & Whitney certified on Airbus A319neo

The Airbus A319neo equipped with Pratt & Whitney PW1100G engines has just been certified by the European Aviation Safety Agency after a test campaign launched last April.
Civil Aviation

United Airlines orders 50 Airbus A321XLR aircraft

United Airlines becomes the third U.S. airline to order the Airbus A321XLR with a contract for 50 units. The A321XLR is not very far from 400 copies sold.
MRO

Fiji Airways entrusts AFI KLM E&M with the A350 equipment maintenance

Fiji Airways has joined the community of A350 operators benefiting from access to AFI KLM E&M’s dedicated component solutions.
MRO

Malaysia Airlines awards CFM56 MRO to MTU Maintenance

Malaysia Airlines entrusts MTU Maintenance with the MRO of its CFM56-7B, more than 100 engines, to over a period of ten years.
Civil Aviation

Groupe ADP looks toward Kazakhstan

Groupe ADP and its Turkish partner TAV Airports started discussions with the owner of Almaty International Airport in Kazakhstan for its “potential acquisition” in the coming weeks or months.
Dubai Airshow 2019

Dubai Airshow 2019: Leonardo sells six helicopters and a simulator

Abu Dhabi Aviation orders five helicopters to Leonardo including its first AW169 and the related simulator to expand its activity capacity. During the Dubai Airshow, the Italian manufacturer sold another AW139 to Petroleum Air Services of Egypt as well.
Dubai Airshow 2019

Dubai Airshow 2019: De Havilland Canada strongly positions in Middle East and Africa

De Havilland Canada announces commitments for up to 37 Dash 8-400 aircraft with Middle Eastern and African airlines and enhances support to customers in the region with the addition of two Authorized Service Facilities.
Dubai Airshow 2019

Dubai Airshow 2019: 95 Boeing aircraft sold at more than $17.4 billion

During the 2019 edition of the Dubai Airshow, Boeing announced orders for 95 commercial airplanes, valued at more than $17.4 billion at list prices, including 787 Dreamliners and 737 MAXs.
Dubai Airshow 2019

Dubai Airshow 2019: Ghana re-launches airline with Boeing 787-9s

During the Dubai Airshow 2019, the Republic of Ghana signed a Memorandum of Understanding to get three Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners. The country indeed intends to re-launch a national airline.
Dubai Airshow 2019

Dubai Airshow 2019: Airbus sells 220 aircraft for $36 billion

In two days of the Dubai Airshow 2019, Airbus has announced 220 sales of medium-haul and wide-body aircraft for a total amount worth slightly over $36 billion.
Dubai Airshow 2019

Dubai Airshow 2019: Emirates confirms an order for 30 Boeing 787-9s

The firm order announced Wednesday, November 20, amounting to $ 8.8 billion, is in fact a conversion of part of the ongoing Boeing 777X order, now covering a total of 126 aircraft. Emirates is still the world's largest operator of Boeing 777s, with 155 aircraft in operation.
Dubai Airshow 2019

Dubai Airshow 2019: Airbus announces 170 sales in one hour

In exactly an hour and three minutes, Airbus announced 170 sales during the second day of the Dubai Airshow 2019. To the 50 A350-900s order of Emirates are added Air Arabia’s 120 Airbus A320neo family aircraft.
Dubai Airshow 2019

Dubai Airshow 2019: Emirates signs firm order for 50 Airbus A350s

During the second day of Dubai Airshow 2019, Emirates announces a firm order for fifty Airbus A350-900 aircraft powered by Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engines. Emirates also addressed its fleets projects.
Dubai Airshow 2019

Dubai Airshow 2019: Airbus anticipates a near-tripling of fleets serving the Gulf and the Emirates

The global fleet of operators serving the Arabian Gulf and the United Arab Emirates could rise to 1,730 aircraft in 2038 (against 630 today), with passenger traffic forecast to grow 5.8% per annum over the next 20 years.
Dubai Airshow 2019

Dubai Airshow 2019: Saudi Arabia’s grand design

Following the recent inauguration of the new terminal at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is well on track towards achieving its growth targets in the aviation sector.
Civil Aviation

EngineWise: Pratt & Whitney gets two more customers

China Southern Airlines and Vietnam Airlines both signed a 12-year EngineWise comprehensive maintenance service agreement with Pratt & Whitney for the engines powering the airlines’ A320neo family aircraft.
Civil Aviation

CFM International records $4 billion order from Qatar Airways

Qatar Airways announces an order worth $4 billion for CFM LEAP-1A engines. CFM International’s engines will equip 50 Airbus A321neo aircraft.
Civil Aviation

China: CFM concludes $1 billion agreement

Colorful Guizhou Airlines selects CFM LEAP-1A to power its future fleet of Airbus A320neo. The deal also includes five spare engines.
Civil Aviation

China Eastern Airlines selects Pratt & Whitney EngineWise

The Chinese airline has selected Pratt & Whitney's EngineWise MRO service platform to monitor the IAE V2500 engines powering its first-generation Airbus A320 aircraft.
Civil Aviation

Cebu Pacific confirms its 16 Airbus A330neo aircraft

Cebu Pacific confirms the sixteen Airbus A330-900s of a Memorandum of Understanding which also includes ten Airbus A321XLR and five A320neo aircraft.
Industry

LiFi aboard commercial aircraft

Latécoère, Signify and Huneed Technologies have signed a memorandum of understanding that paves the way to a revolutionary industrialization of cabin lighting technology. Meanwhile, Air France first tests LiFi.
Civil Aviation

SpaceJet: Mitsubishi Aircraft blocked by scope clause

Trans States Holdings, which controls Trans States Airlines, Compass Airlines and GoJet Airlines, cancels its firm order for 50 SpaceJet M90 aircraft and additional 50 options.
Civil Aviation

Airbus A321XLR: 300 firm sales and 13 customers

The Airbus A321XLR now has 300 firm sales and 13 customers with orders from VietJet and IndiGo. VietJet signed for 15 copies.
Civil Aviation

IndiGo: a merciless commercial battle between CFM and Pratt & Whitney

Behind the new order from IndiGo, the engine manufacturers CFM International and Pratt & Whitney are fighting a merciless battle to win the propulsion of the 300 Airbus A320neo aircraft.
Civil Aviation

Spirit Airlines signs for 100 more Airbus A320neo aircraft

Already customer of the Airbus A320ceo and neo families, the U.S. carrier Spirit Airlines has signed a memorandum of understanding for the purchase of up to 100 additional Airbus A320neo aircraft.
Civil Aviation

IndiGo places huge order of 300 Airbus A320neo aircraft

This firm order includes a mix of A320neo, A321neo and A321XLR aircraft. This is one of the largest orders ever placed at Airbus by a single operator.
Civil Aviation

Drukair upgrades its ATR fleet

Drukair takes delivery of new ATR 42-600 aircraft. With this renewal the Bhutanese national flag-carrier aims at providing upgraded aircraft for both pilots and passengers.
Civil Aviation

New tour in Asia for the Airbus A220

The Airbus A220 returns to Asia for a new demonstration tour. The aircraft, an A220-300, was loaned by airBaltic and will focus this time on the southern part of Asia.
Civil Aviation

Lufthansa cleans up its Airbus and Boeing fleet

The aim is to reduce the number of long-haul aircraft models within the group's global fleet by 2025, in order to obtain significant savings in terms of training and maintenance operations.
MRO Europe 2019

MRO Europe 2019: Embraer signs with several European and African customers

For the European customers, Embraer has signed or extended contracts with Helvetic Airways, Pan Européenne Air Service and Flybe, while the African customer is the Zambian Royal Air Charters.
MRO Europe 2019

MRO Europe 2019: Safran Nacelles signs with Virgin Atlantic for A330ceo thrust reversers

The contract will be valid for 5 years and concerns a total of 10 aircraft.

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