ANA Holdings will add 20 Boeing 787 Dreamliner Jets to their fleet

Japanese airline group ANA Holdings has announced they will acquire up to 20 more 787 Dreamliner airplanes. Valued at over $5 billion, the agreement with Boeing includes eleven 787-10s, one 787-9 and options for five 787-9s. There are also plans to acquire three new 787-9 planes from Atlantis Aviation Corporation. “Boeing’s 787s have served ANA […]

Kenya Airways picks GSAs for Geneva and Rome flights

Kenya Airways has appointed cargo GSAs and warehousing partners for its new flights from Geneva and Rome to Nairobi. In Geneva, GACSA and been appointed the GSA with Swissport providing warehouse services, with IAS Air Cargo acting as GSA in Rome and XPH operating the warehouse. They will provide services for Kenya Airways on the […]

Virgin Atlantic Cargo to enter South American market

Virgin Atlantic Cargo will fly to South America for the first time with services between London Heathrow and Sao Paulo Guarulhos in 2020. A Boeing 787 Dreamliner will be operated on the daily London – Sao Paulo flight, offering considerable cargo capacity and giving customers direct access to South America’s largest import and export market. […]

Qatar Airways starts double daily services to Gatwick

Qatar Airways’ inaugural flight from Doha to London’s Gatwick Airport has touched down, making it the airline’s sixth gateway into the UK and the second one for London. The double daily service is operated by a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, and for the summer, Qatar Airways will operate 95 flights to the UK a week, with […]

Singapore Airlines welcomes the world’s first 787-10 to its fleet

Singapore Airlines has taken delivery of the world’s first Boeing 787-10, the newest and largest member of the Dreamliner family. The new aircraft is designed with strong, lightweight composites, advanced systems and a longer fuselage than other 787 Dreamliners. The airlines, through its subsidiary Scoot already flies 787-8 and 787-9 Dreamliners and the group is […]

AFKLMP adds new routes to its summer schedule

Air France KLM Martinair Cargo (AFKLMP) will operate new routes for the summer providing connections to locations including Taipei, Fortaleza and Seattle. It will provide capacity from both hubs at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, where the airline offers 1,115 weekly services to 116 unique destinations around the world. From Paris […]

AF-KL-MP expands network for the winter

Air France KLM Martinair Cargo is expanding its network for the winter including new services to locations including Mumbai and Port Louis. The winter schedule starts on Sunday 29 October, ending Sunday 25 March 2018 and will add new flights from both Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. Air France will […]

New GSA for Air India in Austria

Mondial Airline Services – the Austrian office of the Global GSA Group – has been appointed as the new general sales agent (GSA) of Air India in Austria. Air India currently flies three times a week utilising a Boeing 787 Dreamliner from Vienna to Delhi. Mondial Airline Services managing director, Aytekin Saray says: “Air India is […]

El Al takes delivery of its first 787 Dreamliner

El Al Israel Airlines has taken delivery of its first Boeing 787 Dreamliner, the first of 16 on order. The 787-9, leased through an agreement with Air Lease Corporation, touched down in Tel Aviv following a non-stop flight of 6,746 miles from Paine Field, adjacent to Boeing’s factory in Everett, Washington. El Al chief executive […]

Norwegian to connect Gatwick with Buenos Aires

Norwegian has announced its first South American route with flights to Buenos Aires from London starting on 14 February 2018. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner flights will fly four times a week between London Gatwick Airport and Buenos Aires Ezeiza International Airport, leaving at 08.15h on Mondays and Fridays, and 21.30h on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Norwegian […]

China Southern to start second daily Heathrow-Guangzhou flight

Heathrow Airport is to get extra capacity to China with a second daily China Southern Airlines flight to Guangzhou from 1 June. Guangzhou is located 75 miles up the Pearl River bay from Hong Kong and is one of China’s most vibrant business markets and its biggest port. The new service will boost trade capacity […]

Boeing profits fall despite strong fourth quarter

Boeing Commercial Airplanes’ earnings from operations fell 39 per cent in 2016 despite improvements in the fourth quarter. Full year earnings fell from $5.1 billion in 2015 to $3.1 billion in 2016, though it improved 160 per cent in the fourth quarter to $1.47 billion. Fourth quarter revenue was up one per cent to $16.2 […]

KLM welcomes eighth 787 Dreamliner to its fleet

KLM has taken delivery of its eighth Boeing 787 Dreamliner, registration PH-BHI and named ‘Lavender’, keeping up for flower name theme. The aircraft landed at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol at 08.00h on 24 September and arrived a month after KLM received its seventh 787. The ninth Dreamliner is expected to arrive in July 2017. All of […]

50th Boeing 787 Dreamliner for All Nippon Airways

All Nippon Airways (ANA) has become the first carrier in the world to operate 50 Boeing 787 Dreamliners following a ceremony at Boeing’s Everett Delivery Center. The Japanese carrier was the 787 launch customer when it ordered 50 in 2004, with the first aircraft entering service in 2011, and since then it has ordered an […]

FIA16: Six more 737 MAX 8s for Air Lease Corporation

Air Lease Corporation (ALC) has ordered six more Boeing 737 MAX 8s at the Farnborough International Airshow, bringing its total orders to 118. The order is worth $660 million and three orders are new, with the others previously attributed to an unidentified customer. Boeing has orders for more than 3,200 737 MAXs and says it […]

Air Austral takes delivery of first 787

Air Austral has taken delivery of its first Boeing 787 Dreamliner, having ordered two 787-8s in 2015. The aircraft will fly from Boeing’s delivery centre in Everett, Washington state to Roland Garros Airport in Saint-Marie, Reunion Island, a 10,500-mile delivery flight. Boeing says the 787 uses 25 per cent less fuel with 25 per cent […]

Latin America’s fleet predicted to triple by 2035

Latin America’s fleet will triple in size by 2035 as Boeing predicts the region will need 3,050 new aircraft worth about $350 billion. Boeing forecasts the region will require 2,500 new single aisle aircraft to cater for regional growth and low-cost carriers. The manufacturer predicts 340 new aircraft will also be needed as the region’s […]

Qatar announces 14 new routes for 2016 and 2017

Qatar Airways has announced 14 new routes across Europe, Africa and Asia, including Doha – Auckland, which it says will be the world’s longest flight when launched. The network expansion was announced at the ITB Berlin international travel fair, where Qatar unveiled services to Bosnia, Cameroon, Finland, France, Gabon, Italy, Macedonia, Morocco, Namibia, New Zealand, […]

El Al orders nine Boeing 787 Dreamliners

El Al Israel Airlines has ordered up to nine Boeing 787 Dreamliners, worth $2.2 billion, and will lease an additional six 787s from leasing companies. Boeing says three of the orders are firm while the others are subject to contractual requirements being finalised. The manufacturer says the 787 uses 20 per cent less fuel and […]