Aviation

  AFP European aerospace giant Airbus scored the first big win at the Farnborough airshow, which opened on Monday facing global economic headwinds triggered by Brexit. Airbus, which traditionally fights US rival Boeing for blockbuster order announcements at Farnborough, southwest of London, revealed a US$4.4-billion (3.9-billion-euro) firm order from Virgin Atlantic for twelve wide-bodied Airbus A350-1000 jets. The carrier has ...

  Bloomberg Airbus Group SE is poised to win an order for as many as 100 jetliners from AirAsia Bhd, people familiar with the matter said. The deal may be announced as early as tomorrow, said the people, who asked not to be named because the discussions are private. The purchase would consist likely of A321neo narrow-body aircraft, which have ...

  Bloomberg Boeing Co is seeing strong airline interest in a new mid-range aircraft on its drawing board, bolstering the case for its biggest potential product development of the next 10 years. No current-generation aircraft are specifically designed for long flights within a region, like the seven-hour trek from Tokyo to Singapore, said Ray Conner, chief executive officer of Boeing’s ...

    Bloomberg Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp, the maker of Japan’s first passenger jet, has won an order for as many as 20 planes from Swedish leasing company Rockton, according to a person familiar with the deal. The order is the second for the Mitsubishi Regional Jet this year, following a deal from US lessor Aerolease Aviation LLC for as many ...

  AFP The Solar Impulse 2 left southern Spain on Monday on its way to Egypt for the penultimate leg of the solar-powered airplane’s landmark round-the-world journey. The experimental aircraft took off from Seville at 6:20 am (0420 GMT) for a flight that should last about 50 hours and will take it over the Mediterranean Sea. Swiss national Andre Borschberg ...

  Bloomberg The US government proposed eight airlines to begin scheduled passenger service to Havana, as carriers hustle to open regular flights to the Cuban capital for the first time in half a century. Flights may begin as early as this fall, the Department of Transportation said in a statement. The airlines winning approval for Havana service were American, Delta, ...

  Bloomberg American Airlines Group Inc will be the first US carrier to offer a premium economy cabin with more legroom, in a bid to win overseas travelers seeking extra perks at a lower price than in business class. The 21-seat, three-row section will debut Nov 4 on the carrier’s first Boeing Co 787-9 Dreamliner on flights between Dallas-Fort Worth ...

  Bloomberg The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a Delta Air Lines Inc flight that mistakenly landed at a South Dakota Air Force base, about 12 miles (19 kilometers) from its intended destination. Delta Flight 2845 departed from the Minneapolis-St Paul airport Thursday evening en route to Rapid City, South Dakota, carrying 130 passengers on an Airbus Group SE ...

  Bloomberg CFM International Inc., which competes with Pratt & Whitney to power Airbus’s new A320neo aircraft, said it’s confident that deliveries of its Leap 1A engines will stick to the planned schedule even after the European planemaker said its deliveries of the single aisle model this year will be backloaded in the second half. The engine maker, a joint ...

  Bloomberg Boeing Co.’s historic agreement to provide 109 aircraft to Iran’s national airline is coming under increasing pressure from lawmakers in Washington. “I am extremely concerned that by relaxing the rules, the Obama administration has allowed US companies to be complicit in weaponizing the Iranian regime,” Republican Representative Bill Huizenga of Michigan said on Thursday at a hearing of ...