American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) has filed a registration Form S-1 for a proposed initial public offering of its wholly-owned IFLC Holdings, Inc. subsidiary. IFLC is the aircraft leasing unit of…
After nearly a year of dithering around, Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) has apparently scrapped the idea of building an all new version of its best-selling 737 and chosen instead to put new…
Wikipedia/Public DomainDelta Air Lines Inc. (NYSE: DAL) has confirmed an order to Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) for 100 new 737-900ER aircraft. Word got out earlier this week that Delta would choose the…
Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) stopped making its 757 aircraft in 2004. The single-aisle, narrow-body plane can carry up to 193 passengers on flights of up to 3,900 miles. There is no other…
AMR Corp. (NYSE: AMR), parent of US carrier American Airlines, has reversed a 15-year single-source purchasing program with Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) and decided to split an order for 460 planes between…
From the ashes of a terrible 2009, the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co. NV, or EADS, (OTC: EADSY) posted a fourth-quarter and full-year profit for 2010 on the strength of sales…
The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) appears to have a little momentum coming off its big win over EADS (OTC: EADSY) for the new US Air Force tanker. The company has just revealed…
After a second do-over, Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) has once more bested Airbus maker EADS (OTC: EADSY) in the bidding war for a new US Air Force tanker. But the battle could…
When the Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) took the wraps off its new 747-8 Intercontinental last Sunday, the company harked back to the introduction of the first 747 some 42 years ago in…
In remarks to a meeting of airlines executives, International Air Transport Association head Giovanni Bisagnani said that air passenger traffic would grow by a third by 2014 and that cargo traffic would…
When Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) announces a delay for its long-awaited 787 Dreamliner, most of us check the date on the announcement to make sure we’re not reading a press release from…
India’s low-fare airline IndiGo has placed a $15.6 billion order with European Aeronautic Defence and Space NV (OTC: EADSY) for 180 new aircraft, including 150 of EADS’s re-modeled Airbus A320. The order…
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the OECD, which includes the US, the European Union, and several other developed countries, has reached an agreement on how airlines will be able to…
A process begun in 2000 might be coming to a close. European aircraft maker EADS (OTC: EADSY), builders of the Airbus planes, is readying its final bid to build a new tanker…
It’s probably too early to declare that there’s a new sheriff in town, but it’s not too early to keep an eye on a new Chinese aircraft maker. Commercial Aircraft Corp. of…
