20 October 2011
Air New Zealand orders seven ATR72-600 turboprop planes
Air New Zealand has ordered seven new short-haul planes with an option to buy five more from France-based company ATR for $270m.
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19 October 2011
Airbus, Rolls-Royce prepare for A350 engine flight test
Airbus has completed installation of the first Rolls-Royce Trent XWB flight-test engine on the A380 flying-testbed aircraft (MSN 001) at its Jean-Luc Lagardere site in Toulouse, France, ahead of the...
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19 October 2011
China Eastern orders 15 Airbus 330 aircraft
China Eastern Airlines has ordered 15 Airbus 330 wide-body aircraft for $2.5bn and the resale of five A340 aircraft.
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19 October 2011
Middle East airlines market to grow to $390bn
Boeing forecasts that Middle Eastern airlines will require 2,340 aircraft by 2029 with a total value of $390bn as the regional industry expands.
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18 October 2011
China Eastern cancels 24 Boeing 787 Dreamliner jets order
China Eastern Airlines has terminated an order of 24 Boeing 787 Dreamliner jets due to delivery delays.
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18 October 2011
Cobham extends QantasLink contract with Qantas
Cobham has signed a five-year extension of its B717 QantasLink contract with Australian airline Qantas worth A$500m ($514m), which was scheduled to expire in 2013.
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18 October 2011
Airbus delivers A380 to China Southern Airlines
Airbus has delivered the first A380 aircraft to China Southern Airlines, under a firm five-aircraft order, at its delivery centre in Toulouse, France.
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18 October 2011
Virgin Atlantic develops low-carbon aviation fuel
Virgin Atlantic, in collaboration with New Zealand-based LanzaTech, has developed an aviation fuel from industrial waste gases which will reduce the carbon emission of standard jet fuel by half.
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17 October 2011
Airbus opens new wing facility in Broughton
Airbus has opened a new £400m wing-manufacturing factory in Broughton, UK, to expand existing manufacturing capacity and produce high-tech carbon fibre composite wings for the A350 XWB long-range aircraft family.
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17 October 2011
Nasa to launch Earth-observing satellite
Nasa is planning to launch the first Earth-observing satellite, the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP), on a Delta II rocket from Space Launch Complex 2 at...