All Aircraft programmes articles – Page 467
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China bucks the downturn at home
Chinese carriers may not have escaped the economic crisis unscathed, particularly on cargo and international routes, but domestic traffic is surprising healthy and has defied the downturn with double-digit growth since October.
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PARIS AIR SHOW: Pacific Scientific tackles tough new oxygen carriage rule
New US regulations stemming from the fatal Valujet Airlines crash in 1996 come into force in four...
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Philippines' Zest getting A320 in July and later more MA60s
Philippine carrier Zest Airways aims to take delivery of a third Airbus A320 next month and is in negotiations with Xian Aircraft to add six more Xian Aircraft...
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PARIS AIR SHOW: FTI engineers lightning protection into composites
FTI develops lightning dissipation system
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SIA Engineering and France's Safran to form avionics repair JV
SIA Engineering and French company Safran Electronics are forming a joint-venture in Singapore for the maintenance, repair and overhaul of avionics equipment.
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PARIS AIR SHOW: Volvo Aero gives Ariane 5 rocket nozzle upgrade
In the third quarter of this year a full-scale demonstration of a Volvo Aero (hall 2, B114) nozzle...
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PARIS 2009: Saab deal with Mitsubishi remains in limbo
Saab deal with Mitsubishi remains in limbo Three years after signing a memorandum of understandingwith Saab for product support, Mitsubishi has yet...
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Australia's Virgin Blue signs interline agreement with Emirates
Australian carrier Virgin Blue has signed an interline agreement with Emirates and also decided to have a tie-up with the Middle East carrier's frequent...
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PARIS AIR SHOW: Vietnam Airlines 'can't get new Airbuses soon enough'
Vietnam Airlines wants delivery of its just-ordered 16 Airbus A321s "as soon as possible", according to a distinctly upbeat Pham Ngoc Minh, the carrier's president and chief executive, who signed the formal order for the aircraft in a ceremony at the Paris air show.
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PARIS AIR SHOW: GEnx-2B for 747-8 close to completing testing
GE's GEnx-2B engine for the new Boeing 747-8 is close to completing the first phase of its flight tests on GE's 747 flying testbed. The engines have run...
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Jet2 flies Boeing 737 with Pratt & Whitney parts in CFM56
Jet2 737 flies with PMA parts A Boeing 737-300 of UK leisure carrier Jet2 has become the first aircraft to begin flying with Pratt & Whitney-supplied...
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PARIS AIR SHOW: Susi Air receives third PC-6
Pilatus's Franz Odermatt hands over Susi Air's third PC-6 Porter yesterday to airline founder Susi Pudjiastuti. The type - at 50 years old...
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PARIS AIR SHOW: EADS chief engineer champions green technologies
EADS champions green favourites Composites with reduced riveting requirements, algae-based biofuels and hydrogen fuel cells are the environmental technologies...
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PARIS AIR SHOW: IAE wins new engine business from Air China
Air China has selected the International Aero Engines V2500 to power 22 Airbus A320/A321 aircraft through a new contract valued at $700 million. Deliveries...
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PARIS AIR SHIOW: Gulf Air owner opts for CAE simulators
Gulf Air owner opts for CAE simulators CAE has sold two more full-flight simulators and a support package to Bahrain's government investment house...
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PARIS AIR SHOW: Taiwan's AIDC invited to participate in Chinese aircraft programme
Taiwan's AIDC to bid for Comac contract Taiwan's Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation has been invited to become a supplier for Commercial...
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PARIS 2009: ACG to partner on new Egyptian lessor joint venture
US lessor teams with Egyptian shareholders US lessor Aviation Capital Group (ACG) is teaming with Egyptian private and public shareholders to establish...
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PARIS AIR SHOW: CAE to help build virtual CSeries for total testing
Montreal, Canada-based simulator manufacturer CAE (hall 3, C38) is working with Bombardier (hall 2E, E111) to produce the first full flight simulator for the CSeries next-generation single-aisle twinjet
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NewsPARIS AIR SHOW: Bombardier eyes 2012 CSeries first flight as development picks up
Bombardier has reached the joint definition phase of its CSeries programme and has confirmed the airliner will fly in 2012.