Qatar Airways has commenced the first commercial operation with the Airbus A350, its initial aircraft having departed from Doha for Frankfurt.
The airline confirms that the Rolls-Royce Trent XWB-powered A350-900 is en route. It is operating as flight QR67 and left the Qatari capital at around 08:00.
Qatar Airways took delivery of the aircraft (A7-ALA), one of 80 A350s the carrier has on order, on 22 December.
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 ...
US investigators probing the in-flight opening of an Embraer EMB-545’s passenger door have determined that a corroded and jammed door sensor falsely indicated to the crew that it was locked prior to departure.
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.
