Rolls-Royce has been selected by All Nippon Airways (ANA) to provide Trent 1000 engines, worth $1.1bn, to power 25 Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. The airline already has 55 of the aircraft in service or on order, all powered by the Trent 1000. The engine, which offers the best lifetime fuel burn performance on the 787 … Dowiedz się więcej
Kenya Airways has selected AFI KLM E&M to provide component support services for a total of nine Boeing 787 Dreamliners currently on order and scheduled for delivery between March 2014 and end-2015. Billed power by the hour, the contract also includes pool access and a Main Base Kit pre-positioned at the client’s Nairobi base. Extensive … Dowiedz się więcej
Air France-KLM has finalized an agreement with General Electric and has selected the GEnx-1B engine to power its fleet of Boeing 787-9*. The first aircraft will be delivered to KLM in October 2015 and to Air France in January 2017. The joint selection of engine for Air France and KLM’s Boeing 787-9 enables the Group … Dowiedz się więcej
Honeywell (NYSE: HON) and Safran (NYSE Euronext Paris: SAF) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with GoAir, one of India’s leading low cost carriers, to support the advancement of the EGTS taxiing system, a technology that can save airlines up to four percent block fuel consumption per flight. EGTS uses electric motors on the main … Dowiedz się więcej
Boeing [NYSE: BA] and Hainan Airlines announced a five-year pilot training agreement today to support Hainan’s recent introduction of the 787 Dreamliner to its fleet. Under the agreement, Boeing Flight Services, a unit of Boeing Commercial Aviation Services, will extend the airline’s existing contract for flight training at Boeing’s Singapore and Shanghai training campuses on … Dowiedz się więcej
Aeronautical Radio of Thailand (AEROTHAI), the Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP) for Thailand, has selected defense and security company Saab to deploy an upgraded and expanded Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) system across Thailand. The ADS-B system will provide surveillance of flights over Thailand’s airspace in an expanded trial of the technology. Saab first deployed an … Dowiedz się więcej