Ambitious and successful Europe based low cost carrier, Norwegian, has announced that it has placed the largest ever aircraft order by a European airline. The order is for 150 Airbus A320neos, and 222 Boeing 737s. This makes a departure for Norwegian from its Boeing-only strategy so far. The order...
First photos of SriLankan Airlines’ next factory fresh Airbus A320, MSN4869 (to be registered 4R-ABN) has emerged following its first flight. Photo courtesy of Hamburg Finkenwerder Spotter The new aircraft, the second factory fresh Airbus A320 for SriLankan, made its first test flight on 4th October and...
SriLankan Airlines’ Airbus A320-232 aircraft, MSN 2914 (4R-ABH), has had its lease period ended and has now been taken up by TransAsia Airways of Taiwan. SriLankan took delivery of MSN2914 in 2009, on a two year operating lease. The aircraft last appears to have operated for SriLankan on 15th...
International Aero Engines has won the campaign to power the 50 Airbus A320 family aircraft that China Eastern Airlines has on order. China Eastern at present operates an A320 fleet powered by a mix of IAE V2500 and CFMI CFM56 engines. The new order is a boost for IAE...
Air France and KLM today announced their plan to purchase both Airbus A350 and Boeing 787 aircraft for its future fleet expansion and renewal. The deal, approved yesterday by Air France KLM Board of Directors, is yet to be finalized by the manufacturers. The order will consist of 50...
To an outsider, it may seem as if the once proud Indian national carrier – Air India – is on the brink of bankruptcy. And there now is a real issue about the airline’s future. Will Air India go bankrupt? What made it to fall to this situation? And...
SriLankan Airlines flight UL422 returned to Colombo yesterday after it incurred a (yet to be reported) technical difficulty in-flight. The Bangkok and Hong Kong bound flight left Colombo at 0727L (ETD 0720) and returned to Colombo at 0831L for a safe landing. The actual issue that the aircraft incurred...
Since the return of its wet leased An-12 freighters a few years ago, it seemed that SriLankan Airlines had stopped its cargo operations. There was next to none marketing about any freighter flights operated by SriLankan and the SriLankan Cargo website too had not been updated in a good...
American Airlines (IATA:AA) today placed orders for a total of 460 narrow-body aircraft ( 260 firm, and 825 with options) in the history’s largest aircraft order ever. The airline also launched the yet to be named Boeing’s conceptual future narrow-body re-engine aircraft. The total order numbers are - 130...
It was widely reported recently on many major news sources, that the long-time Boeing loyal American Airlines is contemplating a deal with Airbus for up to 250 aircraft. As per the news reports, American (AA) had first talked to Airbus and only then returned to Boeing asking to make...