Crucial milestone achieved as Boeing 777X takes first flight
EVERETT: Boeing welcomed its newest airliner, the enormous 777-9X, to the skies for the first time on Saturday. The crucial milestone ushers... Continue Reading
Tag Archives: Airbus A350-1000
Air France worries A350-1000 will help low-cost, long-haul competitors
Air France is concerned that new generation aircraft like the Airbus A350-1000 will undermine the competitiveness of its de facto in-house l... Continue Reading
In Conversation Transcribed: Qantas’ Project Sunrise with Jordan Chong
Australian aviation journalist Jordan Chong joins RGN deputy editor John Walton to get to the bottom of Project Sunrise, Qantas’ plan to fly... Continue Reading
BA’s new A350 Club Suites: scores on the doors?
British Airways is at a crossroads in passenger experience, with its new Collins Aerospace Super Diamond doored mini-suites arriving on its ... Continue Reading
Op-Ed: Hong Kong protests bring paradigm shift to passenger experience
The fortunate passengers contorted themselves into the bus luggage rack, such was the space constraint for Hong Kong International Airport’s... Continue Reading
Press Release: Lufthansa Technik Malta starts tech services on A350
Lufthansa Technik Malta has started to carry out technical services on the Airbus A350. A first aircraft, an Airbus A350-1000 from an undisc... Continue Reading
Press Release: Inmarsat’s GX IFC now available on Virgin Atlantic’s A350
Inmarsat, the world leader in global mobile satellite communications, today announced that its award-winning GX Aviation inflight broadband ... Continue Reading
Airbus pushes 10-abreast A350 beyond leisure/charter markets
Having told Runway Girl Network in 2015 that it is working to make the 10-abreast A350 XWB more comfortable, Airbus now confirms it has adva... Continue Reading
Press Release: Virgin Atlantic selects Inmarsat GX connectivity for A350s
Inmarsat, the world leader in global mobile satellite communications, today announced that its award-winning GX Aviation inflight broadband ... Continue Reading
Press Release: Qatar announces A350-1000 expansion on US routes
Qatar Airways is delighted to announce that its ultramodern Airbus A350-1000, equipped with the airline’s luxurious, award-winning Qsuite, w... Continue Reading
Cathay still fixing Safran seats, lavatories on even new A350s
Seat materials separating from their structures. Toilets taped together. Lavatories sealed with shabbily rough caulking. That’s not what Cat... Continue Reading
Qantas waiting for Sunrise to launch international inflight Internet
Qantas plans to time the launch of its international inflight connectivity services to correspond with new longhaul aircraft to debut around... Continue Reading
Signature widebody entryways fall in and out of favour
When airframers display the latest designs in their cabin concepts, all too often the realistic response is “that’ll never fly”. That’s part... Continue Reading
Not ready for prime time? When media demo flights go wrong
A well-known line in To a Mouse by Robert Burns states, “Even the best-laid schemes of mice and men oft go awry.” The same could be said for... Continue Reading
A whole new Club World? Or pie in the sky?
With yet another potential British Airways next-generation Club World business class seat released into the wild via the patent application ... Continue Reading
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