An Asiana Airlines Boeing 747-400 freighter, operating flight OZ991 from Seoul Incheon to Shanghai Pu Dong has gone missing. The aircraft reported problems en route and decided to divert to Jeju (IATA:CJU). The aircraft lost contact with the radar eventually and its last known position was about 100km Southwest...
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...
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...
A Hewa Bora Airlines aircraft carrying 112 passengers has crashed at Kisangani airport in Democratic Republic of Congo. Details about the incident are sketchy at the moment. The airline confirmed the aircraft as a Boeing 737, although the GDS displays it as an MD-82. This post will be updated...
-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...
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...
The May Day of year 2011 – turned out to be a day of significant importance to aviation. In the true aviation fashion, two events where pilots said “Mayday” were solved on the very day. 1. AF447 FDR memory unit retrieved The missing memory unit of the Air...