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Emirates, Boeing partner to advance aircraft maintenance

Emirates, Boeing partner to advance aircraft maintenance

The integration of drone technology for maintenance tasks represents a leap forward for the carrier and is expected to speed up exterior inspections

Dubai cements super-hub strategy with $50bn jet orders

Dubai cements super-hub strategy with $50bn jet orders

Emirates and sister airline flyDubai secured 125 Boeing wide-body jets at the opening of the Dubai Airshow

Flydubai inks US$11 billion deal for 30 Boeing 787 Dreamliners (Image: Supplied by flydubai)

Flydubai inks $11bn deal for 30 Boeing 787 Dreamliners

Deliveries from its first widebody aircraft order will commence in 2026

Emirates confirms US$52 billion widebody aircraft order (Image: Supplied by Emirates)

Emirates confirms $52bn widebody aircraft order

The deal for a total of 95 aircraft includes Boeing 777-9s, 777-8s, and 787s

Boeing business jets

Boeing posts billion-dollar loss, cuts 737 Max delivery forecast

The company delivered 70 737 aircraft in the third quarter, down 20 per cent

Etihad takes possession of Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner (Image: Supplied by Etihad)

Etihad takes possession of Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner

Three more 787 Dreamliners are scheduled to be delivered to the carrier this year

SpaceX

SpaceX launches Crew-7 to ISS, Sultan AlNeyadi scheduled to come back to Earth soon

SpaceX’s Crew-6 who have been living on the ISS since March, will spend the next week welcoming the Crew-7 astronauts before returning to Earth

Israel - Air India, Lufthansa cancel flights (Image: supplied by Boeing)

Aircraft mega-deals prompt bubble warning from industry veterans

Industry veterans warn that the aviation market is showing signs of overheating with record number of aircraft orders placed

Qatar see a surge in air travel

Qatar Airways sees robust travel demand amid capacity squeeze

The Doha-based carrier has seen leisure and business demand surge after travel restrictions were eased, but continues to be hamstrung by a lack of new planes

Boeing and Riyadh Air sign order agreement

Riyadh Air starts to build fleet, orders Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners

The first deliveries of the widebody aircraft are scheduled for early 2025

Abu Dhabi's Etihad Airways to increase flights to Frankfurt

Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways to increase flights to Frankfurt

The new services will increase the total number of weekly flights to the German destination to 11

Boeing 737 Max 7’s approval faces new tests from US regulators

The Federal Aviation Administration in an October 12 letter ordered the planemaker to study the impact of pilot performance on a broader range of potential failures

flydubai

UAE’s flydubai, Standard Chartered ink SLB deal for five Boeing aircraft

The deal was structured, financed and arranged exclusively by Standard Chartered

Boeing taps Amazon, Microsoft and Google for cloud mega-deal

The multiyear agreements are intended to upgrade the company’s current system of hosting and maintaining software applications

China Eastern

Boeing 737 crashes with 133 on board in China, state media reports

China Eastern flight MU5735 was traveling from Kunming to Guangzhou

Boeing is set to launch its first new jet in nearly five years with 50-plane Qatar deal

The multibillion-dollar deal would help showcase trade relations between the two nations

Airbus beats Boeing on deliveries, is set to lose on orders

The latter part of last year saw carriers take advantage of low prices to make landmark orders

Boeing bounces back at Dubai Show with $9bn India deal

With the deal, Boeing gains ground in Dubai after Airbus announced more than 400 orders or outline deals

Dubai’s Emirates bolsters cargo capacity with $1bn investment

Emirates SkyCargo operated more than 27,800 flights on its passenger freighters and mini-freighters in the one year period from March 2020

Saudia weighs bumper jetliner order to reach 250-strong fleet

The carrier is targeting a fleet of 250 aircraft by 2030

Emirates fleet rethink could boost Airbus at Boeing’s expense

The carrier narrowed losses to $1.6bn in the first-half through September, with revenue up 81 per cent

Amazon seeks used long-range cargo jets able to fly from China

The company is seeking 10 Airbus A330-300 aircraft, as well as crews to fly them

Cargo-jet boom spurs new Abu Dhabi site for converting Boeing 777s to freight

Israel Aerospace Industries will establish two conversion lines for Boeing 777-300ER wide-body planes at a maintenance facility run by Etihad Aviation Group

Boeing cuts 787 Dreamliners target, expands search for flaws

The Chicago-based planemaker now expects to hand over fewer than half of the 100 or so Dreamliners

Emirates could tap Dubai for support amid delayed recovery

Tim Clark said other options for state-owned Emirates include taking on more debt

Boeing’s Max gets fresh boost with order from leasing firm

The order for the Max 8 variant is worth about $1.8bn at list prices

Boeing faces checks on hundreds of Max jets for electrical flaw

About 450 Max planes built since early 2019 could potentially require repairs

Dubai’s Emirates ramps up flights to Maldives, Seychelles

Starting March 28, the airline will offer customers 28 weekly flights to Male, and seven weekly flights to Mahe

FAA tracking all 737 Max flights around world with satellites

The Max was grounded worldwide in March 2019 after a second fatal crash in less than five months

Emirates mulls swapping a third of Boeing 777X orders to 787

The carrier is seeking to switch between 30 and 40 of its 115 commitments for the 777X to the Dreamliner as it calibrates fleet plans