Airbus has formally redesignated the Bombardier CSeries as the A220, complementing its larger A320 single-aisle range.
A former CS300 – now known as the A220-300 – has touched down in Toulouse, painted in its new Airbus colour scheme.
Its smaller sister aircraft, previously known as the CS100, will be called the A220-100.
Airbus took over the CSeries programme from Bombardier on 1 July.
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Despite Rolls-Royce’s wider difficulties in the wake of the pandemic, the Pearl engine is restoring the UK engine maker’s once powerful position in business aviation propulsion.
Long-haul budget carrier Norse Atlantic Airways is opening services to the South African city of Cape Town from London Gatwick later this year. It will start operating the route on 28 October, ahead of the southern hemisphere summer. Norse, which exclusively uses Boeing 787s, says it will serve Cape Town ...
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Its cavernous halls, 46m ceilings, and giant wall art depicting the superjumbo over the Pyrenees give more than a clue to its previous purpose, but Airbus’s former A380 Jean-Luc Lagardere plant in Toulouse is readjusting to its role as the newest and most technically advanced A320 family final assembly line (FAL).
As Boeing on 31 January brought and end to more than 50 years of jumbo jet production, FlightGlobal gets some perspectives on why the 747 meant so much to those who knew the aircraft.
Boeing has delivered its final 747, closing a chapter on an aircraft that revolutionised travel, linked distant cities, made the world seem smaller and became a symbol of American industrial might and of last century’s jet-set culture.
