Posts Tagged ‘A330’
Podcast: Episode 3 – SR-71 Blackbird, Farnborough, American Airlines
Podcast: Episode 3 – SR-71 Blackbird, Farnborough, American Airlines
A world’s first: onboard mobile and Wi-Fi with Oman Air’s A330
Photo by: Guillaume Besnard – GBPhotoworks Air Pictures This is a reprint of an Airbus Press Release: Oman Air has introduced onboard mobile telephone and wireless Internet on the A330, offering customers both services for the first time in the airline industry. Following the 1 March world debut of this combination on Oman Air’s new ...
Turkish Airlines Orders 2 A330-200F Airplanes
Turkish Airlines ordered 2 A330-200F airplanes from Airbus, but there was a catch. The catch is that one of the 2 planes is the development aircraft that took the bulk of the 200 hours of flight testing. Temel Kotil, Turkish Airlines CEO, said that since it was a development aircraft, it made it “cheaper.” The ...
Boeing and Airbus Deliver 230 Aircraft Combined In Q1
Boeing delivered 108 aircraft to customers in Q1 2010. Here’s the breakdown of deliveries: Photo Credit: BriYYZ Number Type Number Aircraft Type 87 B737 NG 3 B767 19 B777 108 Total Boeing received orders for 75 new B737s and 25 of its new B787. However, they also received the following cancellations: Number Aircraft Type 4 ...
April 4, 2010 Aviation News Grab Bag
EADS reports that their A330-200 Freighter plane has received type certification from EASA. The plane was certified with a payload capacity of 70 tonnes (metric) which is one more than they had expected. The plane was awarded the certification after 200 hours of flight tests, using 2 different planes and 2 different power plants. Read ...
Jet Airways Dry Leases 3 B777-300ER to Thai Airways
Thai Airways leases 3 B777-300ER from Jet Airways while they wait for Koito to furbish seats for their brand new A330s sitting in storage in Bordeaux
Aviation News Articles
Here’s a summary of articles from across the web: Boeing gets a $1.6 Billion order from Turkish Airlines Marketwatch reports that Boeing received an order of 20 B737 jets from Turkish Airlines. The order is split evenly between 737-800s and 737-900ER models. “The 737-800 is the backbone of the Turkish Airlines fleet and proves its ...
