Category: Civil Aviation

Boeing has finalised the firm configuration of the stretched 787-9, which is expected to make its first delivery in late 2013. “Firm configuration means the airplane’s structural, propulsion and systems architectures are defined and not changing,” said Mark Jenks, vice president of 787-9 development, Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Boeing says it has completed the trade studies

Airbus and Boeing have traded claims after a judging panel of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) issued its ruling that some aid given to Airbus in the development of the A380 was illegal and must end. “This is a landmark decision and sweeping legal victory over the launch aid subsidies that fuelled the rise of

Vietnam Airlines has switched an order for 16 Boeing 787-8s to the larger -9 model, citing the unexpected performance limitations of the -8. “The -8 doesn’t meet the performance guarantee as they told me,” Vietnam Airlines CEO Pham Ngoc Minh told Flightglobal during a meeting of the SkyTeam alliance in New York. “We found the

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is working with Boeing and American Airlines (AA) to remedy structural cracks found on the engine pylons on at least two of the airline’s Boeing 767s discovered during recent maintenance checks. According to a report from Reuters, the cracks were discovered by FAA inspectors while working on a different