Emirates today announced orders for 8 additional Airbus A350-900 aircraft, powered by Rolls-Royce Trent XWB84 engines, at the Dubai Airshow 2025. Worth US$ 3.4 billion at list prices, this top-up order will boost the airline’s A350-900 fleet to a total of 73 units when all deliveries are comple...

Ethiopian Airlines has placed a firm order for 6 additional Airbus A350-900 aircraft, further strengthening its position as the largest A350 customer in Africa. This agreement was signed at the Dubai Airshow by Mr. Mesfin Tasew, Ethiopian Airlines Group CEO and Benoît de Saint-Exupéry, Airbus E...

Ethiopian Airlines has placed a firm order for six Airbus A350-900 aircraft, further strengthening its position as the largest A350 customer in Africa. This agreement was signed at the Dubai Airshow by Mr. Mesfin Tasew, Ethiopian Airlines Group CEO and Benoît de Saint-Exupéry, Airbus EVP Sales ...

Wright International, acquired by the global MRO group FL Technics back in 2020, has officially received approval from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAAF) of Fiji and launched a partnership with Fiji Airways. Under the agreement Wright International provides line maintenance services for Fiji Air...

Cathay Pacific announces the return of its non-stop flights to Seattle from 30 March 2026, reconnecting Hong Kong with one of the most vibrant cities on the west coast of the United States. Seattle marks the airline’s ninth passenger destination in North America, further enhancing the global co...

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...