Engineering and leasing news

ANA Holdings, which owns All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Peach Aviation, has signed an order for 27 Airbus A320neo family aircraft at the Paris Airshow today. The order is made up of 24 A321neos and three A321XLRs aircraft of which 14 A321neos will go to ANA and the remainder, including [read more]

At the Paris Airshow today RTX announced that Frontier Airlines had selected its Pratt & Whitney Geared TurboFan (GTF) engines to power 91 new Airbus A321neos, the first of which is due for delivery in Q4 2026. This order brings the total P&W GFT engine commitment for its A320neo family [read more]

Riyadh Air has become the latest operator to sign up for Airbus airliners at the 2025 Paris Airshow with its order for 25 A350-1000 widebody airliners. The Saudi Arabia based premium airline will become the first A350 Operator in the Kingdom and deal includes the potential for a further 25 [read more]

Honeywell’s runway safety systems, Smart Runway and Smart Landing are being installed fleetwide on Southwest Airlines as the airline looks to increase runway safety in its operations. The software is an extension of Honeywell Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS) which is already installed of Southwest Airlines Boeing 737s and [read more]

Suadi Arabian headquartered global aircraft lessor AviLease has signed a deal for 10 Airbus A350F and 30 A320neo aircraft on the first day of the 2025 Paris International Airshow. The deal, which sees AviLease as Airbus’ newest customer, also includes an option to increase the initial 10 A350Fs to 22 [read more]

UK based OEM Britten-Norman is celebrating 60 years of its iconic Islander aircraft which has been popular around the world as a rugged, go anywhere aircraft ideal for remote locations. The Islander first flew on the 13th June 1965 from Bembridge Airport on the Isle of Wight, which is still [read more]

Airbus has delivered 51 aircraft to 32 customers in May 2025 as the European OEM continues its strong start to 2025 with 243 aircraft delivered so far this year. May’s deliveries consisted of six wide-body airlines made up of three A330-900s and three A350-900s to airlines including Delta Airlines, Emirates [read more]

Sustainable aviation innovators Deutsche Aircraft have unveiled their first D328eco test aircraft at an event at their headquarters in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. Rather than a clean sheet aircraft, the D328eco is an advanced evolution of the established Dornier 328 and will be used to test the technology that will deliver enhanced performance and [read more]