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Riyadh Air to begin flights towards certification in September 2024  

Aerotime

Speaking at the Future Aviation Forum being held in Riyadh between May 20 and 22, 2024, the airline’s CEO, Tony Douglas, stated that it had already recruited its initial tranche of 38 pilots which includes several training captains. 2024, the airline’s order for narrowbody jets should be done “within the next weeks”.

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Delta Premium A321neos With Flat Beds: Coming Soon

One Mile at a Time

The airline has been taking delivery of these jets quickly, and Deltas A321neo fleet is now approaching 70 aircraft. Delta plans 148-seat Airbus A321neos with flat beds In March 2022, Airline Weekly broke the story about a fleet guide that Delta shared with pilots, outlining the carriers unique A321neo plans.

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Southwest’s Optimistic Plan To Reduce Turn Times, Speed Up Boarding

One Mile at a Time

The legacy carriers fly wide body aircraft, while airlines like Frontier and Spirit also fly some more densely configured narrow body aircraft. Hey, we’re going to increase efficiency, and it’ll be the equivalent of adding 16 aircraft to our fleet.”

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“Passengers are not mere numbers to us”: interview with Beond CEO Tero Taskila 

Aerotime

A few years ago, while working for one of the major aircraft makers, Beond’s co-founder Max Nilov realized that the arrival of a new generation of longer-range narrow-body aircraft would open up opportunities for the development of new business models. It has sort of a private jet feeling.

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Croatia Airlines Modernizing Fleet With Airbus A220s, Wi-Fi, New Branding

One Mile at a Time

The A220 is Airbus’ awesome jet that’s a bit smaller than the Airbus A320-family of aircraft. From a passenger experience standpoint , this is probably the most comfortable narrow body aircraft, given the 2-3 layout, the huge windows, and the wide seats. The plane is fuel efficient and long range.

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United Airlines Fleet

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Greater than 850 Aircraft, and that does not include any regional aircraft that work in the united airlines livery or system. Over half that are narrow body aircraft. Primarily Boeing 757 and Boeing 737 aircraft. United is planning on hiring 5000 more pilots by 2030. FAQ's Hydrogen electric engines.

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Developments in business aircraft engines

Professional Pilot

W hen we last looked into aircraft powerplant developments (Pro Pilot, Oct 2022, p 24), nearly all engine makers were introducing new products, and most were working on development programs we had not considered before. This was also true when we examined electric powerplants (Pro Pilot, Jan 2024, p 30). This could take a while.

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