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...
Nokia, the Finnish mobile phone manufacturer who recently embraced Windows Phone as its main smartphone OS, has taken the advertising for its new Lumia lineup one step further, by painting a Jet Airways aircraft with a Lumia ad. While photos of this aircraft are not yet to be seen...
Southwest Airlines, the largest Boeing 737 customer, today announced that it has signed up for 150 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, and will become the type’s launch customer. The airline placed firm orders for 150 Boeing 737 MAXs, and also took options on 150 more. At the same time, Southwest...
This just in: White House just announced that during President Obama’s visit to Indonesia, Lion Air has signed up for 230 firm orders for Boeing 737s with options on 150 more. 201 of the orders are for 737Max. Valued at USD21.7 billions at list prices, excluding options – this...
Dubai Air Show 2011 began on yesterday, the 13th November, 2011. Here’s a recap of what happened in Day 1 of the Mid East’s most prestigious air show. Show Stealer : Emirates orders 50 more Boeing 777-300ERs. Emirates literally stole the show yesterday by placing firm orders for 50 more...
The first Boeing 747-8 Freighetr for British Airways World Cargo was captured doing taxi tests, by Matt Cawby. The aircraft reg is G-GSSD. Also can be seen are some pics of the aircraft on his blog.
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...
Criticism of loss-making Air India’s large Boeing order in 2005 came to light this week with a report by the Indian Auditor General. And now Aviation Week is reporting about a U.S Diplomatic cable leaked by Wikileaks that reveals some new information about the U.S government’s role in the order....
An Egyptair Boeing 777-200ER aircraft that was being prepared to a flight to Jeddah from Cairo, caught fire at the Cairo international airport today. The aircraft had about 300 passengers, all of whom were safely disembarked according to the airport authority. The fire fighter teams had successfully contained the...