Commercial Aircraft News

"We would be perfectly willing, if we had a total moratorium on narrow-body and wide-body financing, to forego" export credit help on narrow-body jet purchases from Bombardier

Virgin Atlantic announced the increase in capacity of more than a third after it confirmed it would use a Boeing 747 plane for its 2014 programme.

It took off at 04:47 local time from Phoenix, Arizona on Wednesday, bound for Dallas, Texas.

Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Ray Conner, shown in Tokyo earlier this year, is on Kiawah Island today.

But the Chicago-based carrier that combined in 2010 with Continental Airlines to create the world's largest carrier, found three ways Tuesday to change the subject, at least for now.

The low-cost arm of the state-run Air India Ltd flies an all-Boeing 737 fleet and gets 75 per cent of its business from Kerala.

A Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental successfully completed its first test flight this week with a package of performance improvements including enhanced GE engines.

There aren't many of our readers who are likely to go out and buy a Gulfstream G650, at $60-million-plus per copy, but there are a few, and those few are most likely going to find themselves not in the left or right seat but in one of the seats in back, doing business, spending time with the family or just kicking up their heels and enjoying the ... (more)

United Airlines put its 787 Dreamliner back in the air on Monday, with both the airline and Boeing hoping to put the plane's four-month grounding behind them.

CEO Louis Chenevert told analysts Tuesday that airline profitability looks better for 2013 than in recent years.

Sharjah: Air Arabia said on Monday it has signed a $350 million financing deal from a syndicate of two GCC banks - Qatar National Bank and Commercial Bank International .

Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has plans to recruit more than 50 pilots from its partner airline, airberlin.

A Boeing Dreamliner took off Monday - it was a United Airlines flight from Houston to Chicago.

The vertical tail wing of the first Airbus A350 is seen on the final assembly line in Toulouse, southwestern France, in this October 23, 2012 file photo.

One reader asks if it's possible for an onboard computer to be hacked by a phone.

A US Airways flight made a belly landing at Newark International Airport in the early morning hours on Saturday after the plane reported a problem with its landing gear, a spokesman for the airline said.

A "loyal" South African Air Force officer stands to lose her entire pension and service benefits - eight months before her scheduled retirement - after being named as one of the two key people in the Guptagate scandal.

Dreaming Again Boeing's embattled 787 Dreamliner , no longer grounded for safety concerns, returned to America's airways today.

Parker is about to run the world's biggest airline and Baldanza heads a successful start-up that has captured Wall Street's affections.

No longer grounded for safety concerns, Boeing's embattled 787 Dreamliner now has a few things to prove.