Airbus rides high on new year orders
Airbus continues its charge into the new year announcing firm orders for 75 A320 family aircraft. Garuda Indonesia’s low-cost subsidiary CitiLink has ordered 25 A320neo aircraft to add to the 25 already on order. The airline currently has 12 leased A320s in service. At the same time Airbus announced that Bank of China subsidiary BOC
787 woes worsen as fleets grounded
JAL and ANA have grounded their combined fleets of 24 787s in the wake of another incident involving onboard electrical systems that resulted in passengers of an ANA 787 being evacuated after a precautionary emergency landing at Takamatsu. Pilots of the aircraft en route on the domestic light from Ube to Tokyo received a battery
F-35 performance specs lowered
A new report by the Pentagon’s Director of Operational Test and Evaluation has detailed the United States Department of Defense’s intent to lower the performance requirements for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, across all three variants. The lowered specifications concern the transconic acceleration and sustained turn rates. While the F-35C CV carrier variant will see
Embraer delivers more than 200 aircraft in 2012
Embraer delivered 106 commercial aircraft and 99 executive jets in 2012, and retained an order backlog worth US$12.5 billion as it moved into 2013. The E190 was the most popular of the E-Jets, the company having delivered 62 during 2012. The E195 was the second highest at 23, followed by the E175 at 20 and
HNZ’s first AW109 takes to the air
Perth-based HNZ (formerly Helicopters Australia) has taken delivery of the first of three AW109SPs. The aircraft is being readied for marine pilot transfer operations at Karratha in the north-west of Western Australia. Replacing three EC145 helicopters, the new Agustas were shipped to Perth from Italy and re-assembled at HNZ’s Jandakot facility where they are now undergoing
And the results are in for 2012
As the world’s economy began to improve modestly towards the end of 2012, trends in the global airline industry were emerging that gave clear indications of what can be expected in 2013 – all things being equal. Of course, they rarely are equal in the airline industry, but as figures released by the Centre for
