Singapore Airlines "quietly" retires the first A380. This expression seen on several websites appears to characterize this as an under the radar surprise. It was not (removed quietly or noisily). The aircraft was removed from service weeks ago in June for lease return maintenance, in line with well known and detailed plans announced almost a year ago. The fate of this and another four that SIA will retire is indeed subject to speculation. As there is no current market for new or used A380s, a likely scenario is scrapping / part out.
Breaking...HiFly (Portugal) may be a customer for two 560 seat A380s...according to two websites (CH Aviation and AeroTelegraph)...so my prediction above may be wrong. Good scoop guys. We'll see...
The death of hubs...as reported by Bloomberg and others, in response to Qantas' plans to operate ultra long haul 787 service from Perth next year, and issuing a challenge to Airbus and Boeing to create an aircraft capable of non-stop Sydney to London and New York service (an up to 22 hour flight!). No, it won't be the death of hubs anytime soon, if at all.
Mitsubishi MRJ test fleet grounded after an inflight engine (P&W GTF) failure. This troubled program keeps slipping to the right...
WOW Air (Iceland) to add service from Reykjavik to Cleveland, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Detroit...yeah really!
Cathay Pacific ordered (mou) up to 32 A321 NEOs for Cathay Dragon
Delta Air Lines CSeries aircraft to be based in New York (LGA?) and Los Angeles.
United Airlines to start service from Paine Field (Everett), north of Seattle to it's Denver and San Francisco hubs. Alaska Airlines will follow suit in Fall 2018 with service to various west coast destinations.
British Airways will commence A380 service to Chicago this fall. It will also launch new 787 service to Nashville, TN.
The first US (Mobile, AL) built A320 will be delivered to Spirit Airlines soon. Only A321s have been delivered from the facility to date.
American Airlines legacy fleets of MD-80s and 757s dip below 50 at 47 and 44 remaining in service respectively. 30 767-300ERs remain in service (out of 58 delivered).
Air France flight attendants plan an indefinite strike re: AFR's planned low cost carrier Joon. This is not a surprise...I gave Joon a 'poor' label of it's prospects in a previous post...I downgrade that to almost zero at this point. It will happen...but at what cost?
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