In case you missed it, American has decided to buy an insanely large number of airplanes. With 460 orders and another 10 million options (ok, maybe just 465), this was easily the largest order ever for an airline. Not only did American order a lot of Read More...
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Cranky Flier
on Thu, Jul 21 2011
Filed under: American, Boeing, Airbus, A320, 737
That’s the question. What will Boeing do? The Airbus A320neo has been a hot seller at the Paris Air Show this year, and even American is said to be in talks with Airbus about buying. (This sounds like an effort to get Boeing off its butt, but that’s Read More...
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Cranky Flier
on Fri, Jun 24 2011
Filed under: Boeing, Airbus
There’s no small amount of irony in the fact that Rockwell Collins announced it’s new “One Touch Safe Mode,” button at the Paris Air Show this week … at least to me. The button, integrated into the avionics giant’s popular Pro Line Fusion integrated Read More...
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Jetwhine
on Thu, Jun 23 2011
Filed under: The Buzz, Airlines, FAA, Business Aviation, Blogging, airline pilots, Airbus, Air France 447, professional pilots, Aviation Security, Garmin Perspective, Rockwell Collins
When you think of air shows, you probably think of a warm summer day, some cool flying demonstrations to show off military might, and a few static displays of airplanes to walk through. That’s the core of any air show, but for the premier airshows Read More...
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Cranky Flier
on Tue, Jun 21 2011
Filed under: Boeing, Bombardier, Airbus, ATR
(Update at the bottom of this post.) So the selection announcement for the long running, never dull KC-X tanker competition may come as soon as Thursday. As I write this, media reports indicate that the odds would appear to favor the EADS bid of an A330-based KC-45 tanker over Boeing’s KC-767 bid...