Israel Aerospace Industries will establish two conversion lines for Boeing 777-300ER wide-body planes at a maintenance facility run by Etihad Aviation Group
The Chicago-based planemaker now expects to hand over fewer than half of the 100 or so Dreamliners
Tim Clark said other options for state-owned Emirates include taking on more debt
The order for the Max 8 variant is worth about $1.8bn at list prices
About 450 Max planes built since early 2019 could potentially require repairs
Starting March 28, the airline will offer customers 28 weekly flights to Male, and seven weekly flights to Mahe
The Max was grounded worldwide in March 2019 after a second fatal crash in less than five months
The carrier is seeking to switch between 30 and 40 of its 115 commitments for the 777X to the Dreamliner as it calibrates fleet plans
A joint search and rescue team will comb an area of 96 nautical square miles, as well as a 16 nautical square-mile area under the water
Delivery of the remaining aircraft is expected to be completed in the coming months
Demand for the 787 has been particularly hard hit, with international travel down 90 per cent from a year ago
Commercial flights wouldn’t begin immediately after the FAA approves the plane for service
Earlier this year, EPI became a key regional manufacturer of Airbus aircraft parts
Airbus customers to get jets in August included Gulf Air, which took its first A321neo, and Portuguese carrier Orbest, which received an initial A330-900 wide-body
Emirates was supposed to take delivery of three A380s in June, but the carrier agreed with Airbus to delay these until later this year
The world’s biggest planemaker will now aim to produce five A350 aircraft a month rather than the six targeted in April
The testing programme will last approximately four weeks before Etihad’s Boeing 787-10 is entered into service in Abu Dhabi
The airline plans to resume operations to over 40 destinations worldwide in July
The manufacturer is rolling out more than a dozen initiatives aimed at improving safety and quality on its 737 assembly lines
The PIF is looking into “any opportunity” arising from the economic wreckage of the crisis, its governor said in April
Chicago-based Boeing has struggled since the Max crashes, which were blamed on faulty flight control software, inadequate flight manuals and lax regulation
The discussions are ongoing and the size of the order hasn’t been determined