Highly sensitive Boeing documents detailing problems with the troubled 787 programme are being used by Airbus to craft its response to its rival’s widebody….

The Airbus document examines the Boeing 787-9 stretch variant that is due to enter service in 2012 with launch customer Air New Zealand.
Airbus believes Boeing will design significant performance improvements into the -9 that will then be incorporated into a major block point change around line number 100 for the baseline -8.
Airbus […]

Airbus believes that both the General Electric GEnx-1B and Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines are rumoured to have missed specific fuel consumption targets by 2-3% and 3-4%, respectively.
“We’ve continued to make tweaks to the engine and we will make fuel spec when we reach entry into service,” GE says.
R-R has been unavailable to comment. […]

As soon as economic recovery delivers the prospect of airline growth, struggling carriers will collide almost immediately with a barrier to expansion, according to analysis by the International Air Transport Association, Airbus, Boeing and the Flight Safety Foundation. That barrier will be the lack of expert personnel, including pilots, aviation mechanics and engineers, and air […]

Israeli carrier Arkia Airlines is to introduce an Embraer 195 on routes between Tel Aviv and European destinations, becoming the country’s first operator…