Qantas has threatened Los Angeles Airport that it will move its flagship Airbus A380 services to San Francisco unless Los Angeles upgrades its facilities. The calls come just weeks before the inaugural Airbus flight is due to fly from Melbourne to Los Angeles on October 20. But a Los Angeles Airport spokeswoman described Qantas’s demands [...]
Read full post...Affrontare un mercato scosso dai prezzi record del petrolio, che mette in ginocchio i conti delle compagnie aeree, è la sfida lanciata dall’industria aeronautica al tradizionale di Farnborough, prima vetrina mondiale per il settore. Si chiude oggi, dopo una settimana di esibizioni in volo e trattative d’affari, la sessantesima edizione del salone inglese dell’aerospazio, nel [...]
Read full post...Alenia Aeronautica, a Finmeccanica company, successfully completed destructive testing on the horizontal stabilizer of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The test took place at Alenia’s Pomigliano plant in Naples with Boeing engineers and representatives of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) in attendance. The stabilizer is made at the Alenia [...]
Read full post...The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] this week delivered a Next-Generation 737-800 to Toronto-based Sunwing Airlines. The third new Next-Generation 737 to be delivered to Sunwing and the first to be operated on lease from lessor Aviation Capital Group (ACG), the airplane is equipped with performance-enhancing Blended Winglets, which improve fuel efficiency and reduce CO2 emissions [...]
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