Addison Schonland has a great article on AirInsight about a possible bottleneck in aircraft deliveries following the anticipated big orders from Air France/KLM and Lufthansa. While talking about the usual situation in our cyclical industry – too many deliveries during the next downturn – he also discusses about the...
-SriLankan Airlines fleet list has been updated with new information, including the change of MSN4915 registration to 4R-ABO (This author had previously expected that the letter O will be omitted, as they recently did with the letter I). - SriLankan will be temporarily increasing their Dubai flights to twelve...
SriLankan Airlines has gone through many significant changes in the last few years. It switched its management from an Emirates led one to a local one in 2008, and became a state-owned entity in 2010. SriLankan’s present CEO, Mr. Manoj Gunewardena is due to step down from his post...
Today was the last business day of 2011′s Paris Air Show, and while it did not see as much individual orders as the previous days, it recorded one of the aviation history’s most significant orders. Airbus - AirAsia ordered 200 Airbus A320neo aircraft. This, the biggest single aisle aircraft...
Today, 22nd June, saw a range of aircraft deals at the Paris Air Show. The summary of which could be found here. You can access order summaries for days 1 and 2 here and here. Airbus -Kuwait based lessor ALAFCO placed orders for six additional Airbus A350-900s. -Avianca-TACA signed...
Following on from yesterday’s report, let’s find out the orders recorded for day 2 of the Paris Air Show. Airbus -Transasia Airlines signed up for six Airbus A321neo aircraft -CIT signed a MoU for acquiring up to 50 Airbus A320neo aircraft -Garuda Indonesia placed orders for 25 A320 aircraft,...
The much anticipated Paris Air Show 2011 at Le Bourget, Paris, began today. Here’s a re-cap of the aircraft orders announced today Airbus -SAS ordered 30 Airbus A320neo aircraft, with CFM LEAP engines. -Saudi Arabian placed orders for four additional Airbus A330-300 aircraft. The airline had already entered...
An extraordinary video footage has emerged, showing a Vueling Airbus A320 being escorted by a Dassault Mirage 2000. The video details the full interception. from the fighter jet’s arrival to its departure and the scene of the fighter pilot taking photos of the Vueling aircraft with both hands almost...
There have been many news circulating about SriLankan Airline’s future plans and details have been minimum. To bring an end to the lack of information, AIR today has a wealth of information to share with you about SriLankan’s future. All of the following information are verified via official airline...
The BEA today released a special report containing the final moments of Air France flight 447. The report can be found here. The aircraft apparently entered a stall and never recovered due to continuous nose ups and a very high AoA. As once guessed by this author, the aircraft...