Airbus

Iberia has chosen Argentina as the first intercontinental market to debut the new A350 Next aircraft, which include its new cabin products, on the Madrid (MAD) – Buenos Aires (EZE) route. Gradually, these aircraft will be incorporated on the company’s other Latin American services. On January 3, flight IB 6845 was operated by the A350-900 […]

Lufthansa will modify its operation in Colombia for the summer season 2023, increasing its services on the Frankfurt (FRA) – Bogota (BOG) route and changing aircraft. Currently, the company is the only airline that offers non-stop flights between Germany and the South American country. From March 26 to July 1, 2023, the airline will increase […]

Perhaps, this year is best summed up by one word — lively. From the chaos of reopened airports to the incredible development of new aircraft, we certainly are finding ourselves in a new era of aviation and air travel. While the dreaded COVID-19 has not yet disappeared, it would appear that the airline industry has […]

Coming off of a near collapse just a few months ago, Scandinavian carrier SAS has announced expanded route offerings from secondary cities in both Sweden and Denmark to New York City for the summer season of 2023. The airline plans to serve Gothenburg, Sweden and Aalborg, Denmark on a thrice-weekly basis in a somewhat surprising […]

Airbus presented an airBaltic Airbus A220-300 on a demonstration flight to TAAG – Linhas Aéreas de Angola last Tuesday — Dec. 6 — in Luanda, Angola. The model is expected to be integrated into the fleet of the flag carrier of the Republic of Angola from August 2023 and will thus receive six units over […]

Embraer revealed new aircraft concepts today as part of the company’s progress report on Energia, Embraer’s initiative to get the aviation industry to net-zero by 2050.  A year on from Embraer’s Sustainability in Action event, which detailed the study of four new aircraft concepts powered by new technologies and renewable energies, the company has been […]

Korean Air began operations with its Pratt & Whitney-powered Airbus A321neo aircraft, the newest model in the company’s fleet. The new A321neo features a new Prestige Class product with a fully reclining seat, the only South Korean company to offer this feature on a narrowbody aircraft. Korean Air’s first service of the A321neo was on […]

A few days ago, Airbus UpNext, entered into a partnership with CERN, the world’s largest particle physics laboratory (located in Geneva, Switzerland) to carry out a research project to evaluate how superconductivity can contribute to the decarbonization of future aviation systems. Airbus UpNext is a branch of Airbus that explores innovative technologies, identifying future trends […]

In October 2020, Airbus announced they would offer the A220-100 as an Airbus Corporate Jet (ACJ), known as the ACJ TwoTwenty. The Toulouse, France-based manufacturer had limited success marketing the A319 as an ACJ with only around 70 currently operating as a corporate jet. So what makes them think they can be successful with the […]

The Comac C919 is a twin-engine narrow-body low-wing airliner made by the Chinese company Comac — short for Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China. It began the design and construction stages in 2009 with the aim of entering the short- and medium-haul market, and since its announcement has aroused much interest in the aviation world as […]