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American easing away from continuous hubbing, returning to peak banking

American Airlines will ease away from the continuous hubbing that smooths operations at key airports, increases aircraft utilization and cuts costs as it returns to the peak-and-valley hub-and-spoke system adopted decades ago under former CEO Robert Crandall. Although… Read More

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 Posted on June 19, 2014 by

 American Airlines, CFM, Pratt & Whitney

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PW works toward 10% fuel efficiency gain for 2020’s GTF

With the Airbus A320neo expected to enter flight testing this fall, equipped with the Pratt & Whitney P1000G Geared Turbo Fan and the Bombardier CSeries, also with the GTF, already in testing, PW is already engaged in research… Read More

 19 Comments

 Posted on June 16, 2014 by

 Airbus, Bombardier, CSeries, Pratt & Whitney

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Airbus Innovation Days, Part 3: the A320neo

Klaus Roewe, SVP of the A320neo Family: There are 2,700 A320neos in the backlog. Roewe provided a program update during the Airbus Innovation Days. Here is a paraphrased synopsis. The first flight remains on target for 3Q2014. Final… Read More

 8 Comments

 Posted on June 12, 2014 by

 Airbus, CFM, Pratt & Whitney

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Low pressure turbine failed in CSeries incident: UBS, citing Bombardier

The low pressure turbine failed in the Pratt & Whitney Geared Turbo Fan engine on Bombardier’s CSeries, reports investment bank UBS, citing Bombardier. Writes UBS: BBD confirmed that recent GTF engine failure was in the low-pressure turbine and… Read More

 11 Comments

 Posted on June 6, 2014 by

 Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, GE Aviation, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce

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Repost: Pratt & Whitney GTF program update at PNAA conference, plus Q&A PW, RR and GE

Due to technical issues we don’t begin to understand, the PW GTF engine program update didn’t display the videos, only the links. We are re-posting to correct the situation because we couldn’t fix it within the original post…. Read More

 5 Comments

 Posted on February 12, 2014 by

 GE Aviation, Pacific Northwest Aerospace Alliance, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce

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First production CSeries reveal March 7; BBD sees Russia as ripe market

Bombardier earnings call today: CSeries: Bombardier will reveal its first production aircraft March 7, the company said on its earnings call today. First year production will be 20-30 aircraft, and up to 120 a year by 3 1/2… Read More

 43 Comments

 Posted on February 21, 2013 by

 Bombardier, CSeries, Pratt & Whitney

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Southwest launches 737-8, bypasses 737-7 for now

Here is an article we did yesterday for Flightglobal Pro’s subscription service. The Southwest Airlines order on 13 December launching the 737 Max programme is a launch of the -8 version. The carrier, which has substitution rights between… Read More

 16 Comments

 Posted on December 16, 2011 by

 Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CFM, CSeries, Pratt & Whitney

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