Fuselages made by Boeing's supplier Spirit AeroSystems regularly had serious defects, according to former quality inspector Santiago Paredes, who worked at Spirit's Kansas facility, USA.
Boeing takeover target the plane parts maker Spirit AeroSystems says it plans to invest in its Belfast, Northern Ireland factory (formerly owned by Canada's Bombardier) and to ramp up production for Airbus A220 jet wings (Airbus is its second-biggest customer) - but only if it can agree pricing for the A220 work it does, because it made a US$167 million first quarter 2024 loss on the A220.
In Australia, Bonza's small fleet of 737-Max 8s are headed overseas after administrator Hall Chadwick failed to negotiate a short-term agreement with the lessor to let the airline fly again.
In the UK, British Airways has held the first meeting of its new Customer Access Advisory Panel, aimed at engaging with members of the community to improve the end-to-end experience for customers with accessibility requirements. Korean Air has reported first quarter revenue of KRW3.8225 trillion, an increase of 20 per cent year-on-year, driven by the strong recovery in passenger traffic.
UK-based easyJet has based a sixth A320 jet at Glasgow Airport in Scotland and is now flying for the first time to Enfidha in Tunisia.
Flights to Larnaca in Cyprus will follow.
Dubai-based Emirates is adding a second Scottish destination, saying it will fly the A350 to Edinburgh from November.
A UK-wide e-gates* outage caused chaos at airports across the country on Tuesday, with long queues of travellers waiting to have their passports checked manually.
Dubai-based Emirates is to refurbish 71 aircraft it has in its fleet - 43 Airbus A380s and 28 Boeing 777s.
Emirates president sir Tim Clark said the airline was "topping up" its multi-billion dollar retrofit program to introduce cutting-edge cabin products on more A380s and Boeing 777s ... "with a best-in-class suite of products across every cabin".
A fresh investigation into the Boeing 787 has been opened by US regulators, after the US plane maker said some employees may not have inspected some planes properly.
Fuselages made by Boeing's supplier Spirit AeroSystems regularly had serious defects, according to former quality inspector Santiago Paredes, who worked at Spirit's Kansas facility, USA.
Boeing takeover target the plane parts maker Spirit AeroSystems says it plans to invest in its Belfast, Northern Ireland factory (formerly owned by Canada's Bombardier) and to ramp up production for Airbus A220 jet wings (Airbus is its second-biggest customer) - but only if it can agree pricing for the A220 work it does, because it made a US$167 million first quarter 2024 loss on the A220.
In Australia, Bonza's small fleet of 737-Max 8s are headed overseas after administrator Hall Chadwick failed to negotiate a short-term agreement with the lessor to let the airline fly again.
In the UK, British Airways has held the first meeting of its new Customer Access Advisory Panel, aimed at engaging with members of the community to improve the end-to-end experience for customers with accessibility requirements. Korean Air has reported first quarter revenue of KRW3.8225 trillion, an increase of 20 per cent year-on-year, driven by the strong recovery in passenger traffic.
UK-based easyJet has based a sixth A320 jet at Glasgow Airport in Scotland and is now flying for the first time to Enfidha in Tunisia.
Flights to Larnaca in Cyprus will follow.
Dubai-based Emirates is adding a second Scottish destination, saying it will fly the A350 to Edinburgh from November.
A UK-wide e-gates* outage caused chaos at airports across the country on Tuesday, with long queues of travellers waiting to have their passports checked manually.
Dubai-based Emirates is to refurbish 71 aircraft it has in its fleet - 43 Airbus A380s and 28 Boeing 777s.
Emirates president sir Tim Clark said the airline was "topping up" its multi-billion dollar retrofit program to introduce cutting-edge cabin products on more A380s and Boeing 777s ... "with a best-in-class suite of products across every cabin".
A fresh investigation into the Boeing 787 has been opened by US regulators, after the US plane maker said some employees may not have inspected some planes properly.
