Engineering and leasing news

Singapore Airlines has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with Airbus for seven Airbus A350F cargo aircraft to replace the airline’s ageing Boeing 747-400F aircraft. The A350F is a purpose-built freighter variant of the popular Airbus A350 airline which the airline already operates and the letter is a sign of [read more]

Airbus has confirmed it is seeking independent legal assessment of the Airbus A350 paint issue which Airbus says is being subject to ‘mischaracterization’ by ‘one of its customers’. Although not naming the customer directly, Qatar Airways is the customer that has been driving this issue which has resulted in a [read more]

Flybe has reached another milestone in its bid to bring the airline back to the skies by appointing Assured Aviation Services as its ground handling agent at Birmingham Airport. The deal will see 100 local jobs being created for the Warwickshire based company who handle all Flybe’s ground requirements from [read more]

Concern has been raised over early skin degradation on Airbus A350 models after a problem first reported by Qatar Airways has resulted in them grounding 20 of their 53 A350 aircraft. The issue has been visualised by external paint cracking, particularly around areas where external probes join the fuselage. Other [read more]

Following on from the first day massive order for 255 aircraft, Airbus has maintained momentum with more orders on days two and three. Monday saw a Letter of Intent (LoI) signed by Air Lease Corportation (ALC) for 111 aircraft from across Airbus’ current product catalogue. The list is made up [read more]

Airbus says it foresees the need for around 39,000 new airliners and cargo aircraft by 2040 to meet the industries needs of meeting carbon emissions targets and replace retiring aircraft. Speaking in Dubai, Airbus says it expects that air travel will continue to grow in the next 20 years, mainly [read more]

European airframer Airbus has delivered a total of 36 aircraft to 23 customers in October 2021 including one of the final two Airbus A380 super-jumbos. In October Airbus delivered 30x A320neo family aircraft. This was made up of 1 A319neo, 17 A320neo and 12 A321neo aircraft to airlines including Air [read more]

A new early years aviation careers portal has been launched today to help employers find talent ahead of the expected rise in air travel in early 2022. Talentview Aviation is backed by the Department for Transport (DfT) and the Aviation Skills Retention Platform (ASRP) and is free to use platform [read more]