At the Farnborough Airshow 2024, on Day two, Boeing and Airbus both received a bunch of orders for their widebody and narrowbody aircraft.
Farnborough Airshow Day 2: Virgin Atlantic, Qatar Airways and Japan Airlines place widebody aircraft orders
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Turkish Airlines introduces new “Crystal” Business Class
Turkish Airlines has announced its new business class product, which it will launch on its Boeing 777 aircraft in the coming years.
Farnborough Airshow: Qatar Airways places order for 20 additional Boeing 777X Jets
Qatar Airways adds more aircraft on order to the Boeing 777X fleet it already has on order. Here are the details.
Farnborough Airshow Day 1: Boeing takes the lead on commercial airplane orders
At the Farnborough Airshow 2024, on Day one, Boeing came up with a flurry of announcements, taking the lead on the order books that originated at FIA.
Qatar Airways introduces the Qsuite Next Gen
Qatar Airways has showcased the newest version of their famous business class product, the Qsuite. They call it the QSuite Next Gen. And it is mind-blowing. Here are the details.
Air India’s A350-900 to fly to New York as its first ultra long-haul destination
Air India’s first ultra-long-haul international destination with the A350-900 aircraft will be New York. Flights to JFK with the A350 will go live on November 1, 2024. Flights to EWR will follow on January 2, 2025.
Global CloudStrike Outage takes down aviation with it; Indian airlines and airports affected
Akasa, SpiceJet and IndiGo are some of the Indian Carriers, and Delhi and Mumbai are some of the Indian airports which are currently affected by a global IT outage which is currently ongoing.
Status Match Opportunity: Get upto SkyTeam Elite Plus Status (useful as Star Alliance Gold in the future)
ITA Airways is offering a lucrative opportunity to earn a SkyTeam status match right now, which might convert into a Star Alliance status sooner rather than later. Here is how.
Air India starts codesharing with Vistara
Air India has launched a global codeshare on Vistara flights, the first step of the virtual merger between the two carriers.
IndiGo finally preparing to induct Qatar Airways’ Boeing 737 MAX aircraft?
IndiGo might be close to adding a lease of five Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft from its partner, Qatar Airways, in a move to try to ride out the grounding of over 70 of its own A320neo jets.
Boeing begins certification flight testing for the 777-9
The Boeing 777X has been granted its TIA, and is now entering the phase where the regulator will test the aircraft to be able to approve it for Entry In Service.
