Manufacturers

Finnair’s fourth Airbus A330 enters service

June 23, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Finnair’s fourth Airbus A330 aircraft, registration OH-LTP, makes its first commercial flight to Delhi today, after which it will make regular scheduled flights on Finnair’s long-haul network. With the addition of the fourth aircraft, Osaka will be served with the A330 as of 6 July. The arrival of the new A330 aircraft [...]

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Waha Capital Agrees to Acquire Fifty Percent Stake in US$2.4 Billion AerVenture from AerCap

June 22, 2009

Image by leff via Flickr AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, June 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — AerCap Holdings N.V. announced that Abu Dhabi-based investment holding company Waha Capital PJSC  has agreed to acquire a fifty percent stake in AerVenture Limited. The remaining fifty percent will be held by AerVenture’s current parent company AerCap. The parties have committed to a [...]

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Pratt & Whitney Wins US$192 Million Order

June 17, 2009

PARIS, June 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — PARIS AIR SHOW — Etihad Airways has selected International Aero Engines (IAE) V2500 engines to power a new fleet of 20 Airbus A320-family aircraft.  The contract is valued at more than $192 million to Pratt & Whitney, including a long-term IAE aftermarket agreement. Etihad Airways was the launch customer for [...]

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Boeing and Industry Study Shows Biofuels Perform Effectively as Jet Fuel

June 17, 2009

Image via Wikipedia LE BOURGET, France, June 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Boeing (NYSE:BA) and a team from across the aviation industry today released high-level elements of a study that shows that sustainable biofuels analyzed in a series of pioneering test flights performed favorably in comparison to petroleum-based fuel. According to the study, Evaluation of Bio-Derived Synthetic [...]

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Boeing Affirms Market-Driving Products and Services

June 17, 2009

Image via Wikipedia LE BOURGET, France, June 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Boeing (NYSE:BA) continues to make steady progress on its largest commercial development programs, the 787 Dreamliner and the 747-8. Pat Shanahan, vice president of Airplane Programs for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, reported the progress at the 48th International Paris Air Show, affirming the company will fly [...]

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Embraer Sells the Third E-Jet to Japan’s Fuji Dream Airlines

June 16, 2009

Image via Wikipedia SAO JOSE DOS CAMPOS, Brazil, June 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Embraer (NYSE:ERJ) has sold a third E-Jet — an EMBRAER 175 — to Japan’s Fuji Dream Airlines, a company of the Suzuyo Group. The original contract, signed in November 2007 with the Suzuyo Group, covered a firm order for two EMBRAER 170s and [...]

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Pratt & Whitney Signs Agreements With Italian Supplier TCS Group for F135 Engine Work

June 16, 2009

Image via Wikipedia PARIS, June 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — PARIS AIR SHOW – Pratt & Whitney has signed additional purchase orders with TCS Group to manufacture critical engine components for the F135 propulsion system.  These new orders, signed today at the Paris Air Show, have a potential value of more than $19 million over the life [...]

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JetBlue Airways Signs Pratt & Whitney EcoPower(R) Engine Wash

June 16, 2009

Image by Getty Images via Daylife PARIS, June 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — PARIS AIR SHOW — JetBlue Airways has signed an agreement to begin Pratt & Whitney EcoPower engine washes on its fleet of V2500 and CF34 engines.  JetBlue will initially start washes at John F. Kennedy (JFK) International Airport in New York and at Orlando [...]

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