easyJet to buy 135 single-aisle Airbus A320s
Budget carrier easyJet has agreed to purchase 135 single-aisle Airbus jets that will allow the European airline to pack in more passengers than it currently does.
Bombardier said Tuesday that VistaJet had placed firm orders for 20 Challenger 350 jets and options for an additional 20 Challenger 350 jets, a deal that would be worth just over $1 billion at list prices if all options are exercised.
Budget carrier easyJet has agreed to purchase 135 single-aisle Airbus jets that will allow the European airline to pack in more passengers than it currently does.
Boeing Co. won major orders from five customers for a stretched-out version of its popular 787 Dreamliner jet at the Paris Air Show Tuesday, further evidence of a strengthening market for more expensive long-haul jets.
Airbus engineers at the Airbus Americas Engineering center in Old Town gathered in a conference room early Friday to watch the first flight of the Airbus A350 XWB by live-streaming video.
The Government Accountability Office has rejected Beechraft Corp.’s protest on a high-stakes Air Force contract for light support airplanes that the Air Force awarded to Sierra Nevada Corp. and its partner, Embraer.
The state’s aviation industry will be on display to the world next week in France at the Paris Air Show, the world’s largest aerospace show.
When Jeff Turner first joined Boeing Wichita as a part-time computer programmer in college in 1973, “I didn’t know Jack” about business, he said.
In a just-released forecast, Boeing projects demand for 35,280 new airplanes worth $4.8 trillion over the next 20 years.
The Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace has filed an unfair labor charge against Spirit AeroSystems alleging that Spirit refused to answer questions or bargain regarding the firing of 38 employees in March.
Cessna Aircraft has filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit after a U.S. District judge upheld an award to Canadian supplier Avcorp Industries for $27.4 million.
As former CEO of Cessna Aircraft, Jack Pelton has experience fighting a government push toward user fees for the general-aviation industry.
For many decades, Wichita has been known as the Air Capital of the World as Boeing churned out bombers during World War II and Clyde Cessna, Walter Beech and Bill Lear opened factories.
A class action lawsuit against Spirit AeroSystems and two of its directors was filed Monday in U.S. District Court, District of Kansas, alleging violations of federal securities laws.
The Wichita Airport Authority approved a lease agreement with Southwest Airlines Tuesday for space at Wichita Mid-Continent Airport.
“Love is finally in the air in Wichita, Kansas, and it feels good,” Ron Ricks, executive vice president of Southwest Airlines said Monday during a rollicking news conference celebrating the arrival of Southwest in Wichita.
Beechcraft on Monday delivered its 4,000th Model 36 Bonanza.
Technically, it was the second Southwest Airlines flight that garnered all the attention Sunday.
Boeing is establishing engineering design centers in Washington state, South Carolina and Southern California as it works to diversify, the company said Friday.
As Southwest Airlines makes its entrance into the Wichita market on Sunday, passengers not used to flying Southwest will notice some differences.
Researchers at the National Institute for Aviation Research, experts on aircraft composites, are closer to branching into another field of creativity.