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SriLankan Airlines is rebuilding its passenger network in line with its cargo operations, after the carrier experienced a near-total collapse of its tourism sales last year as a result of Covid-19, chief executive Vipula Gunatilleka has disclosed. SriLankan Airlines is rebuilding its passenger network in line with its cargo operations, after the carrier experienced a near-total collapse of its tourism sales last year as a result of Covid-19, chief executive...Continue Reading

Campbell Wilson’s second stint as chief executive of low-cost carrier Scoot has proven to be very different from his first. In early 2020 Singapore Airlines announced an executive rotation. One surprise announcement saw Wilson named as chief executive of Scoot. Having founded what was then SIA’s long-haul, low-cost arm in 2012, Wilson led a pioneering phase of growth at the carrier until 2016, when he returned to the parent company...Continue Reading

Boeing’s V-25B was snagged by coronavirus restrictions and a dispute with a supplier in the first quarter of 2021, causing the company to report a $318 million loss on the Presidential Aircraft Replacement programme. Boeing’s V-25B was snagged by coronavirus restrictions and a dispute with a supplier in the first quarter of 2021, causing the company to report a $318 million loss on the Presidential Aircraft Replacement programme. The VC-25B is popularly known...Continue Reading

Aerostructures manufacturer Spirit AeroSystems has acquired US composites MRO provider Applied Aerodynamics.  Aerostructures manufacturer Spirit AeroSystems has acquired US composites MRO provider Applied Aerodynamics. Spirit, which provides repairs for its nacelles and thrust reversers on Boeing 737s and 777s, says that the acquisition enables it to expand MRO activities to 747s, 757s, 767s, 787s, Airbus A320s, A321s, and other 737 equipment. Source: Spirit AeroSystems 787 fuselage sections made by Spirit AeroSystems Components covered by Farmer Branch, Texas-based Applied Aerodynamics’ MRO services include radomes,...Continue Reading

Boeing chief executive David Calhoun believes that the next generation of aircraft will distinguish themselves by the way they are engineered and constructed, rather than through increasingly efficient engines alone. Boeing chief executive David Calhoun believes that the next generation of aircraft will distinguish themselves by the way they are engineered and constructed, rather than through increasingly efficient engines alone. For example, Calhoun, speaking on the airframer’s quarterly earnings call...Continue Reading