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Jury Still Out on Effect of Credit Crunch on Aircraft OEMs

It seemed unlikely that tightening credit wouldn’t trigger more order cancellations or delivery deferrals among the world’s airlines, so even though the to

January 30, 2009

Boeing Commercial Airplanes Layoffs Puzzle Labor

Boeing’s announcement on January 9 that it planned to lay off some 4,500 employees within its Commercial Airplanes business starting in April might not hav

January 30, 2009

Airbus Meets A380 Delivery Goal, Lowers Target for 2009

It took all the resources it could reasonably muster, but Airbus managed to reach its target of delivering 12 A380 aircraft last year when on December 30 i

January 30, 2009

GKN Transfer Completes Airbus Restructuring, For Now

GKN Aerospace assumed full ownership of the former Airbus wing component and assemblies factory at Filton, UK, on January 5.

January 30, 2009

Boeing Tallies Strike Losses, 747-8 Effect

Boeing estimates that the two-month strike staged by its machinists late last year cost it some $2.5 billion in cash–the single biggest factor in the fourt

January 30, 2009

Airbus Breaks Ground on A350 Line, Pledges mid-2013 First Delivery

Having badly burned its fingers with production delays on the A380 program, Airbus is determined not to fall into the fire again with its next large airlin

Aircraft

January 30, 2009

Airbus Signs Major Partnership Deal with Chinese

Airbus and a group of Chinese industrial partners today signed a contract to establish a joint-venture manufacturing center in Harbin, China, to build comp

January 30, 2009

Boeing Resumes 787 Production

Boeing resumed production of 787 Dreamliners yesterday as it joined the major assemblies of the fifth airplane designated for flight test, the company anno

January 30, 2009

EC plan would shift money from navaids to avionics

Eurocontrol might ask the European Commission to use some of the money expected to be saved by the planned decommissioning of VOR and NDB beacons to sponso

ATC

January 29, 2009

Embraer braces for ‘challenging’ 2009

Embraer delivered a record 204 airplanes last year, including 162 jets in the regional/commercial sector, leaving the company on what it hopes proves firm

January 29, 2009

Horizon Settles On Q400 Deferrals

Horizon Air has negotiated a deferral of Q400 deliveries with Bombardier to re-time the shipments to coincide with the removal of the Seattle-based regiona

Aircraft

January 29, 2009

Second SSJ Takes Flight

The second of four planned Sukhoi SSJ100 prototypes–S/N 95003–took to the skies on December 24, joining the flight-test program started in May with the fir

Aircraft

January 29, 2009

Great Lakes Boosts EAS

Cheyenne, Wyo.-based Great Lakes Aviation announced it would launch EAS routes to four Montana destinations from Billings on February 1, marking an end to

Aircraft

January 29, 2009

ASA To Furlough 80 Pilots

Atlantic Southeast Airlines sent furlough notices to 80 pilots last month as partner Delta Air Lines pares back Bombardier CRJ flying.

Aircraft

January 29, 2009

Boeing Posts Fourth-quarter Loss, Plans Flat Production Rates in 2009

Boeing posted a company-wide fourth-quarter loss of $56 million, resulting mainly from its two-month-long machinists strike and a charge related to the del

January 28, 2009

ATR 42 Cargo Plane Crashes in Lubbock

An ATR 42 cargo airplane operated by Empire Airlines for FedEx ran off the runway early this morning at Preston Smith International Airport in Lubbock, Tex

January 27, 2009