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Air New Zealand orders Airbus A320s to replace Boeing 737-300s
November 03, 2009
Air New Zealand has ordered 14 Airbus A320s to replace its existing domestic fleet of 15 Boeing 737-300s. Valued at slightly more than $1 billion at list prices, the contract calls for deliveries to start in January 2011 and continue until 2016 to coincide with the expiration of 737-300 leases. ANZ has chosen IAE V2500 engines to power the A320s. Somewhat...
moreCFM International To Set Up Maintenance Training Center in India
November 02, 2009
GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd. (GHIAL), has signed an agreement with CFM International to establish a new CFM56 maintenance training center to support its customers in the South Asian region. GMR Group is a Bangalore-based global infrastructure conglomerate with interests in airports, energy, highways and urban infrastructure. “GHIAL will...
moreBoeing To Place Second 787 Assembly Line in North Charleston, S.C.
October 29, 2009
Boeing announced yesterday that it will place its second final assembly line for the 787 Dreamliner in North Charleston, S.C., ending months of speculation over how and when the company’s standoff with the International Association of Machinists would end. Along with serving as a location for final assembly of 787 Dreamliners, the facility also will have...
moreBoeing Decision on Second 787 Line Imminent
October 21, 2009
Boeing will reveal the location of its planned second final assembly line for the 787 “over the next couple of weeks,” CEO James McNerney said today. Speaking during the company’s third-quarter earnings call, McNerney effectively narrowed the competition to Everett and Charleston, S.C., while downplaying the risk and redundancy of locating two lines that...
moreJapan Joins Green Asia and Pacific Aviation Partnership
October 13, 2009
Japan has become the latest partner in the Asia and Pacific Initiative to Reduce Emissions (Aspire), joining the FAA, Airservices Australia and Airways New Zealand as full members of the program. Established in February 2008, Aspire identifies and shares procedures that produce environmental benefits, quantifies so-called “green” enhancements in the region...
moreBoeing Takes $1 Billion Charge against 747-8, First Flight Delayed
October 06, 2009
Boeing announced today that it would take a pre-tax charge against third-quarter financial results of approximately $1 billion “due to increased production costs and the difficult market conditions” associated with the 747-8 program. Rather than flying three prototypes of the model’s cargo version by the end of this year, as program head Mo Yahyavi had...
moreSpirit Breaks Ground on New French Plant
October 02, 2009
Spirit AeroSystems yesterday broke ground on a new 57,888-sq-ft facility in Saint-Nazaire, France, where it plans to receive and assemble the composite center fuselage frame sections for the Airbus A350XWB from Kinston, N.C., site of another new plant under construction since last September.The company will ship sections designed and manufactured in North...
moreQatar Airways Finances Four Boeing 777s
October 01, 2009
Against a backdrop of ongoing financial insecurity in the global banking sector, Qatar Airways announced this week that it has secured two “innovative” financing deals worth a total of $700 million to buy four new Boeing 777s due for delivery over the next few months. A $350 million finance lease involving a 777-300ER and a 777-200LR followed an agreement...
moreWTO Subsidy Battle between Boeing and Airbus Still Unclear
September 29, 2009
Despite the partisan claims and counter-claims on both sides of the long-running dispute over alleged subsidies between Airbus and Boeing, it remains extremely unclear whether or not the World Trade Organization (WTO) will ever definitively resolve the issue. On September 3, the WTO sent both parties its confidential interim report into Boeing’s allegations...
moreIAM Sues To Keep Pratt Jobs in Connecticut
September 23, 2009
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) has filed a complaint in federal court in an attempt to block Pratt & Whitney from moving 830 union jobs out of Connecticut. All told, Pratt & Whitney’s plans to close its engine repair shop in Cheshire, Conn., by early 2011 and move some work from its East Hartford facility...
moreBoeing Charleston Workers Choose To Decertify Their Union
September 11, 2009
Production and maintenance workers at Boeing Charleston, the former Vought factory in North Charleston, S.C., yesterday voted to remove the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) as their collective bargaining representative. The vote affects some 280 workers, leaders of whom filed a petition with the National Labor Relations...
moreMitsubishi To Delay MRJ First Flight
September 09, 2009
Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation (MJET) announced today that it will delay first flight of the 92-seat MRJ90 by as much as six months, from late 2011 to the second quarter of 2012, to accommodate changes to the design of the cabin and the wing box. MJET now expects to make delivery of the first MRJ90 during the first quarter of 2014. Development of the...
moreSoftware Glitch Delays CRJ1000 Certification, Deliveries
September 03, 2009
Bombardier has moved the certification target for its 100-seat CRJ1000 to the first quarter of the company’s next fiscal year, starting February 1, from this year’s fiscal fourth quarter, after a software glitch recently forced the company to reassess its schedules. “The problem’s been found, the software’s being rewritten, so in a sense it’s done, but as...
moreOutlook Good for Large-cabin Bizjets; Midsize Less So
September 03, 2009
Bombardier Aerospace and Gulfstream Aerospace are well known fierce rivals, but that doesn’t mean they can’t agree from time to time, especially when it comes to the outlook for business jets. In separate investor presentations yesterday, executives at both Bombardier and Gulfstream parent company General Dynamics said they are increasingly optimistic about...
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