Japan Airlines (JAL) has announced today, following its board of directors meeting, the decision to introduce a total of 21 Airbus A350-900 aircraft from Airbus, along with 11 A321neo aircraft, and 10 Boeing 787-9 aircraft from The Boeing Company, as part of its fleet renewal plan. On internation...

Türkiye’s national flag carrier, Turkish Airlines, has announced a new order for 10 additional A350-900 aircraft, taking its total for the type to 40. This latest agreement is in addition to one announced in August for four A350-900s. Turkish Airlines already operates a fleet of 14 A350-900s. ...

Rolls-Royce announced today that the Trent XWB-84, which powers the Airbus A350-900, has now accumulated more than 10 million engine flying hours, achieving another impressive milestone for the engine programme. Following its entry into service in 2015, the Trent XWB-84 has reached this landmark ...

Fiji Airways, Fiji's national airline, has announced that flights to the South Pacific paradise will officially resume for fully vaccinated international travellers from 1st December 2021, with the first commercial flight from the United States to Fiji since March 2020 scheduled to depart ...

By Edward Robertson The first ever in-flight emissions study using 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) on a widebody commercial passenger aircraft has been launched. Airbus has joined forces with German research centre DLR, Rolls Royce and SAF producer Neste in the Emission and Climate Impact...

Lufthansa will be departing on the longest passenger flight in the history of its company, marking one of the most unique flights the airline has ever carried out. On behalf of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven, the Lufthansa Group's mo...

Singapore Airlines (SIA) announced today that the Company has successfully raised an additional $750 million through long term loans secured on some of its Airbus A350-900 and Boeing 787-10 aircraft. With the completion of these transactions, SIA has now raised a total of $1.65 billion from secur...

South African Airways (SAA), a Skytrax 4-Star rated carrier, has introduced the most technology-advanced aircraft available for international ultra-long- haul travel with the launch of its new Airbus A350-900 on nonstop flights between New York John F. Kennedy International Airport to Johannesburg ...

JOHANNESBURG. 24 December 2019. South African Airways (SAA) has begun operating its first Airbus A350-900 aircraft for the first time commercially in the domestic market. The aircraft is one of four new Airbus A350-900 jets in SAA’s fleet, which is set to improve the airline’s customer offer...

Qatar Airways will start a new route to Osaka from 6 April 2020, the airline’s third connection into Japan from Doha. The service will be operated by an Airbus A350-900 aircraft, and initially begin with a five times weekly service, increasing the route to daily from 23 June 2020. Qatar Air...

Singapore Airlines (SIA) today started a new connection from Singapore Changi Airport to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport utilising an Airbus A350-900 aircraft. Seattle is the fourth US destination flown from Singapore by SIA, adding to routes already operated to Los Angeles, New York (Newar...

South African Airways (SAA) is to introduce new Airbus A350-900 on nonstop flights between New York JFK International Airport and Johannesburg O.R. Tambo International Airport. The new A350-900 will be delivered to SAA in the second half of 2019 and replace the A340-600 aircraft that are current...

China Southern Airlines has taken delivery of its first of 20 Airbus A350-900 long-range widebody aircraft. The Guangzhou-based carrier's A350-900 aircraft features a three-class cabin layout of 314 seats: 28 business, 24 premium economy and 262 economy. China Southern Airlines will initial...

The first A350-900 for Japan Airlines (JAL) has successfully completed its maiden flight in Toulouse, France. The A350-900 is the first aircraft to be produced by Airbus for the airline and features a special A350 logo on the fuselage. The aircraft will now enter the final phase of productio...

Qatar Airways has today taken delivery of its 250th aircraft - an Airbus A350-900 - from the French aircraft manufacturer's factory in Toulouse, France. This landmark comes just 22 years after the carrier began operations, and it joins the airline’s state-of-the-art fleet, where the average age...