Category: Civil Aviation

Chile based LAN Airlines has signed a firm order for 50 Airbus A320 Family aircraft, including A321s, confirming an order announced as a Memorandum of Understanding at the Farnborough Airshow in July. Aircraft to be delivered under the order from 2013 will be fitted with the new ‘sharklet’ winglets. Want to see more stories from

Boeing says it will lift the production rate for the 777 to 8.3 aircraft per month in the first quarter of 2013. “In response to strong customer demand globally, we are increasing our yearly production to 100 777s,” said Boeing Commercial Airplanes president and CEO Jim Albaugh. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation

Boeing says it will launch a spare parts inventory management system using technologies such as RFID (radio frequency identification devices) and contact memory buttons (CMBs) in the first quarter of 2012, after signing a strategic alliance with Fujitsu. Under the deal Fujitsu will provide Boeing with automated identification technology devices, device readers, software applications and

Airbus’s latest Global Market Forecast (GMF) predicts a more bullish recovery in demand for new aircraft, projecting an additional 900 aircraft deliveries over the next two decades compared to its 2009 GMF. The 2010 GMF predicts 4.8 per cent annual growth in airliner deliveries, compared to the 4.7 per cent rate of growth forecast a