Category: Civil Aviation

Ryanair is threatening to cancel and defer some of its Boeing 737s on order and curb its growth if it does not reach a fleet renewal agreement by the end of the year. “We would prefer to grow, but if Boeing doesn’t share our vision, then I believe that Ryanair should change course before the

Rolls-Royce has won a US$720m (A$797m) order for Trent 700s to power 10 Virgin Atlantic Airbus A330-300s. The contract includes Total Care support for the engines. Want to see more stories from trusted news sources? Make Australian Aviation a preferred news source on Google. Click here to add Australian Aviation as a preferred news source.

In a rare spot of good news for the Boeing 787, it has been revealed lessor GE Commercial Aviation Services is considering a firm order for as many as 30 aircraft. “We expect some delivery slots will open to accommodate an order of that size,” GECAS executive vice president for product evaluation and strategy Bill

“We’re on track to repeat the 2008 delivery record of 483 planes in 2009,” said Tom Williams, Airbus’s vice president of programs at a briefing in Wales on October 28. He added that the A380 program was “not running as smoothly as we would like,” appearing to confirm earlier comments from CEO Louis Gallois that