Air China has firmed up its order of five Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental aircraft, according to the airframer's updated orders today.
The state-owned carrier had previously signed a memorandum of understanding for the five aircraft.
Air China's firm order takes the total number of 2012 net orders for Boeing to 671 aircraft, comprising 667 737s, five 747s, 19 767s, 16 777s and includes the cancellation of 36 787s.
Source: Air Transport Intelligence news
Spanish firefighters have extinguished a blaze which destroyed a dormant Airbus A330 parked at Ciudad Real airport. The Ciudad Real fire and rescue service, SCIS, states that the aircraft “was being scrapped”. It says that it cordoned off the affected area while firefighting and emergency personnel from Ciudad Real, as ...
On back-to-back days, executives from two major US airlines described how a major safety scare and the related weeks-long grounding of all Boeing 737 Max 9 jets undermined both companies’ otherwise strong first-quarter performances.
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