Bhutan's Drukair has signed a purchase agreement for a single Airbus A320neo.
The aircraft will be powered by CFM International CFM Leap-1A26E1 engines, which Airbus says will be optimised for the high altitude operations of the airline from its Paro base.
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The new aircraft will feature a two-class cabin and complement Drukair's existing fleet of three A319s.
It will be deployed on the carrier's services to Singapore, Bangkok, Kathmandu, Delhi and Kolkata.
Source: Cirium Dashboard
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.
Hanwha Aerospace has broken ground on a new facility to licence-build the GE Aerospace F414 engine for the Korea Aerospace Industries KF-21 fighter.
Taiwan’s Starlux Airlines has ordered five Airbus A350 freighters as well three more A330neo passenger aircraft at the Singapore air show today.
Royal Brunei Airlines has ordered four more Boeing 787-9s as part of a widebody fleet renewal.
After strong order activity at the Paris and Dubai air shows in the past year, a bullish Asia-Pacific airline sector in the thick of recovery, coupled with ongoing fleet renewal campaigns, could yield some significant announcements at the upcoming Singapore Airshow.
