Deal has a list price in excess of $3.5 billion before discounts, comprising of 20 A320neos and eight larger A321neos
passenger plane
Latest in passenger plane
A380
Video: Why Emirates can’t give up on the Airbus A380
As increasing numbers of airlines either retire their A380s or place them in long term storage, one airline is doubling down on the superjumbo: Emirates.
A380
Video: What if the Airbus A380 had been released 50 years ago?
The Airbus A380 was never the huge success it could, or should, have been. While everyone agrees it’s a superb aircraft, its release coincided with a number of external factors that meant it never achieved its full potential. Here’s a look at how things could have been different for the Airbus superjumbo if it had been created around the same time as the Boeing 747.
Air transport
Video: The evolution of transatlantic flight
Crossing the Atlantic has always been a magical experience, since the dawn of the age of exploration till today, made much with a quick hop across the pond in an aircraft.
Air India
Enraged bees swarm cockpit window, delay Air India flight
The angry insects attacked ground staff who tried shoo them away
Aviation
So when will the Boeing 737 Max fly again?
Flydubai, which has idled 14 Max planes that have been delivered out of 251 ordered, says it has had to delay the Oct 1 launch of flights to Budapest
Airbus
Russia eyes Middle East market for new passenger plane
Irkut’s chief designer and first deputy director Oleg Demchenko named Latin America, the Middle East and Southeast Asia as target markets for the MC-21
aircraft
Passengers wary of 737 Max’s return to the skies
Surveys show that many passengers would avoid the Boeing 737 Max as much as possible
Air Travelers
Video: How to reduce your carbon footprint when you fly
Travelling by plane has never been more popular, with four billion passengers flying every year.
civil aviation
UAE airlines to operate as normal, despite US warning to aircraft flying over the Gulf
Federal Aviation Administration warned of “heightened military activities” in the region
Abu Dhabi
Australian-Lebanese charged with Etihad Airways bomb plot released on bail
Amer Khayyat was arrested and detained in Lebanon in 2017 after Australian officials managed to thwart an attempt to blow up the plane flying from Sydney to Abu Dhabi
aircraft manufacturer
Boeing 737 Max ‘an important part’ of Flydubai’s future, says CEO
Flydubai CEO Ghaith Al Ghaith said possible compensation from Boeing will be ‘discussed at the right time’
Airbus A320
Kuwait Airways A320 hits snow, bends nose while landing in Beirut
The Kuwait Airways Airbus-A320 was descending on Beirut’s runway at 8,000 feet when the impact occurred
aerospace manufacturing
UAE’s aviation regulator to review Boeing’s 737 Max planes
UAE’s General Civil Aviation Authority part of multi-nation review of the Boeing 737 Max automated flight-control system
aircraft technical issues
Boeing conducts final test flight of 737 MAX with software fix
Investigators have zeroed in on the system as a factor behind the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes in October and in March respectively, killing nearly 350 people in total
aircraft technical problems
Boeing says it needs more time to complete 737 Max software fix
An issue with integrating the software fix and the plane’s existing flight-control architecture came to light as Boeing did a final audit of the upgrade
Airbus A320neo
IndiGo flight diverted to Kuwait after engine troubles
According to Indian media reports, the pilots were alerted of low oil pressure in one of the aircraft’s engine