The competing—and once fiercely debated—Airbus hub-centric and Boeing point-to-point views of the commercial air travel market have created a battle that is now largely “theoretical” given some of the market success of the A380 to date, says Airbus President and CEO Fabrice Bregier. “When a customer operates an A380 they gain market share,” even in …
Contrails are generally classified into two types. Exhaust contrails and aerodynamic contrails. Exhaust contrails are formed by the mixing of the hot humid exhaust of the engines with cold humid surrounding air, creating long streamers of clouds. If the conditions are right then these can persist and spread. These are the most common type of …
Boeing began installing reinforced lithium-ion battery systems on five 787 jets in Japan on Monday, starting a process that should make the first commercial Dreamliners ready to fly again in about a week.Boeing’s Dreamliners have been grounded since regulators ordered all 50 planes out of the skies in mid-January after batteries on two of them …
American Airlines played catch-up Wednesday, resuming most flights and even adding a handful that weren’t on the schedule to help passengers stranded by a massive technology failure that grounded the carrier’s entire U.S. fleet a day earlier.But some cancellations persisted, and delays were still common. About a third of American flights were late as of …
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