Boeing’s biggest 787 customer today confirmed plans to keep all 74 aircraft currently on order and disclosed new interest to potentially place more orders for the next-generation widebody later this year.
The vote of confidence by International Lease Finance Corp. chairman and CEO Steven Udvar-Hazy – emailed to ATI affiliate Commercial Aviation Online – come […]

FlightGlobal.com affiliate FlightBlogger today reports that an attempt to reduce the weight of the Boeing 787 has caused a costly redesign for the centre wing box.

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Middle Eastern carrier Emirates is claiming to have enabled the first authorised in-flight mobile phone call on a commercial service, following installation of technology developed by AeroMobile.
The first call took place today on flight EK751, an Airbus A340-300 operating between Dubai and Casablanca. Passengers were granted permission to make and receive voice calls and […]