Category: Civil Aviation

American Airlines has become the first US carrier to order the Boeing 777-300ER in exercising two 777 options for the type. “These additional widebody aircraft will bolster our network strategy, particularly the international growth opportunities we expect from our joint businesses with oneworld partners in the transatlantic and transpacific markets,” said Tom Horton, president, AMR

Boeing says it now expects to deliver the first customer 787 in the “third quarter” of this year, after it has finalised assessing the impact on the 787’s certification and production program following last November’s inflight electrical fire on test aircraft ZA002. “This revised timeline for first delivery accommodates the work we believe remains to

Airbus has announced that it booked 644 orders for its commercial aircraft in 2010, a slightly higher figure than the 625 sales for the year Boeing announced earlier this month. The European manufacturer also achieved a company high delivery total of 510 aircraft for the year (Boeing delivered 462), 12 more than in 498, handed

Sukhoi has released its first official photos of the Superjet SSJ100-95LR in the colours of launch customer Aeroflot, which plans to order as many as 40 of the 100-seat class twin-engine airliner. Sukhoi says it has booked a total of 150 firm orders for the jet, which is due to enter service in 2012. This content is available exclusively to Australian