The third day of the show included a handful of orders.
Inside a Boeing 787 Dreamliner flight deck at the Farnborough Airshow (Photo: AirlineGeeks | William Derrickson)
It’s the third day of the Farnborough Airshow and a relatively quiet one due to there being no aircraft orders scheduled. While the commercial news may be quiet, the airshow is far from it, with people still very much everywhere.
Thai Airways signed a deal with General Electric (GE Aerospace) to continue to maintain its Boeing 777 fleet. The service provided by GE Aerospace is dubbed the “TrueChoice” service, which includes maintaining, repairing, and overhauling the Thai Airways GE90 fleet.
Thai Airways remains a loyal customer of GE Aerospace, having used the GEnx on its Boeing 787 fleet expansion and equipping its fleet of Airbus A321neos with CFM LEAP engines.
The Thai flag carrier’s CEO, Chai Eamsiri, said that GE Aerospace “continues to prove itself as the right maintenance provider for our GE90 engines. This agreement extension ensures comprehensive coverage for our engines well into the future.”
Sustainable aviation start-up ZeroAvia has revealed that it will be partnering with the Dutch flag carrier to attempt a test flight. This would be a flight using liquid hydrogen as fuel, between two cities. When asked about the time scale at which a test flight could take place, ZeroAvia Founder and CEO, Valery Miftakhov, said that they were initially looking at 2026 at the latest.
When asked what kind of aircraft would be used for the test, Mr. Miftakhov said that he could not specify, but that it would be similar in size to the ATR 72 or DeHaveland Canada DHC-8.
At the moment, ZeroAvia is steadily making progress, having successfully produced multiple turboprop engine variants. These have been fitted to aircraft such as the DHC-8, and the Dornier 228.
Airbus has revealed that it will be partnering with Avolon in order to study Hydrogen-powered aircraft and reduce emissions in the aviation industry. This is the first partnership with an active lessor in the project’s history.
The European aviation manufacturer’s environmentally friendly project includes four concept aircraft, with all four carrying under 200 passengers. Its main goal is to make the first hydrogen-powered aircraft by 2035, and then start selling these commercially.
At the moment, progress is heavily underway, with other partners including Gatwick Airport for Infrastructure, easyJet, and Air Products, the world’s biggest supplier of hydrogen.
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