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Airbus and Boeing Deliveries Salve Sting of Weak Sales

Airbus and Boeing tallied their 2009 delivery totals this month and each

January 25, 2010

Japan Airlines Bankruptcy Brings Recovery Hopes Back to Earth

Japan Airlines (JAL) filed for bankruptcy on January 19, hammering home a sobering lesson for air carriers worldwide that the industry’s latest crisis is f

January 25, 2010

Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Embraer Ponder Their Next Moves

The start of a new year usually stimulates positive resolve, with which Boeing and Airbus might summarize their intentions for 2010 in three words: “Must d

January 25, 2010

Airbus Seals A320 Deal with Yemenia

Airbus has received a firm purchase order for 10 A320s from Yemeni flag carrier Yemenia, the European manufacturer announced today.

January 21, 2010

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Airlines Doing their Part in Haiti

Airlines from as far afield as Israel have contributed to the earthquake relief effort in Haiti, where dozens of medical teams and tons of emergency suppli

January 20, 2010

ATR Delivers 54 Airplanes, Logs Orders for New -600 Series Turboprop in 2009

Franco-Italian turboprop manufacturer ATR logged record revenues of $1.4 billion and delivered 54 airplanes last year, the company announced during its ann

January 18, 2010

Boeing 787 Dreamliner Reaches First Airworthiness Milestone

Boeing has completed initial airworthiness testing on the 787 Dreamliner, the company announced last Friday.

January 18, 2010

Bombardier CRJ1000 Still Grounded

The pair of CRJ1000s participating in the program’s flight-test program remain grounded as Bombardier engineers continue to work on a solution to the softw

January 15, 2010

FAA and Europe Renewing Air Traffic Vows

With a view to guaranteeing interoperability between the FAA’s NextGen air traffic management system (ATM) and the European Union’s Sesar (Single European

January 5, 2010

Regional Update: UAL Resists Mesa Overture

United Airlines has turned the proverbial tables on Mesa Air Group with an effort to block a plan by Mesa to replace some of the 50-seat CRJ200s scheduled

December 29, 2009

Regional Update: USAPA: Piedmont Jobs in Jeopardy

The union that represents the pilots of US Airways has asked the Justice Department’s antitrust division to investigate the potential for anti-competitive

December 29, 2009

Regional Update: ExpressJet’s Ream Defects to AA

Jim Ream, the CEO of Houston-based ExpressJet Airlines, has accepted a position with American Airlines as senior vice president of maintenance and engineer

December 29, 2009

More delays for CRJ1000

Bombardier’s CRJ1000 program now appears unlikely to receive Canadian and EASA certification before the second half of this year–a delay of at least anothe

December 29, 2009

Delays to engine certification stall Superjet’s entry into service

Sukhoi Civil Aircraft (SCAC) missed its December target for delivery of the first Superjet 100 regional jets to launch operator Aeroflot after delays invol

December 29, 2009

Niki adds pair of E190s to order book

Austrian low-fare airline Niki in late November converted purchase rights into <link airshow-convention-news/farnborough-air-show/single-publication-story/

December 29, 2009

Comair Jury awards victim’s family $7.1 million

An eight-member jury in Lexington, Ky., has awarded $7.1 million to the family of one of the victims of the <link ain-and-ainalerts/ainalerts/single-public

December 29, 2009

Big order fails to halt CRJ rate cut

Conversion of a letter of intent into a firm order for 22 CRJ700s by American Airlines this month failed to save the jobs of more than 600 employees at Bom

December 29, 2009

Newsmakers 2009: Hello? Hello? Northwest pilots overfly Minneapolis destination

Not long after Capt.

December 28, 2009

Newsmakers 2009: Alphabets and OEMs tackle negative portrayal of bizjets

The coordinated response by NBAA, GAMA and business jet manufacturers to critics who chose to make business aircraft a high-profile symbol of all that’s wr

December 28, 2009

India’s Mahindra Acquires Gippsland and Aerostaff

Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) of India acquired a 75.1-percent stake each in Australia’s Aerostaff Australia (AA) and Gippsland Aeronautics (GA) last w

December 23, 2009

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