Airline news
First A350 XWB Painting Completed in Toulouse
The aircraft painting was achieved in less than seven days and follows the recent completion of MSN001s flight-test-instrumentation (FTI) verification. Painting of the first A350 XWB “MSN001” was today fully completed as ...
AirAsia X Eyes USD$300 Million IPO
Malaysian long-haul budget carrier AirAsia X said it is looking to raise USD$300 million in an IPO, throwing its hat into an expanding fundraising ring as Southeast Asian airlines seek to build up their fleets and ride a...
Kuwait Airways To Sign Airbus Deal
State-run Kuwait Airways will spend 850 million dinars (USD$2.98 billion) on 25 new Airbus jets and aims to lease a further 13 to upgrade its fleet, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported on Sunday. Daily Al-Watan cited sources cl...
ANA 787s To Fly Again From June 1
Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) said on Thursday it would return its Boeing 787 Dreamliners back to service from June 1 after the planes were grounded worldwide for more than four months. ANA, which is Boeing’s ...
Jet Airways Readying 100 Plane Order
India’s Jet Airways is expected to order more than 100 planes from Boeing and Airbus at the Paris Airshow next month, a leading aviation consultancy said. The Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA) said in a repor...
US NTSB Orders Scans Of Boeing 787 Batteries
The damaged battery taken from a Japan Airlines Boeing 787. The lithium-ion batteries used in Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner are to be x-ray scanned to help investigators determine what caused them to overheat and in one ...
