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Air France Studies Stretched Airbus A220-500 For Future Medium Haul Fleet
The Air France-KLM group is today holding its 2019 investors day. Here the group announced that Air France could order the Airbus “A220-500” in the future. This would be used to develop its medium-haul fleet. (simpleflying.com) More...
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this will be a huge seller it will put the 220 right ware the bulk of 737 and 320 sales are, 220 advantage is that it will a much more modern and efficient aircraft .
Yess! The A220 will be a huge it world wide! It is the best airplane engeneering for airplane of this size in the world with the latest technology!
What the many orders within a year.
Boeing lost credibility from now on and for many years.
What the many orders within a year.
Boeing lost credibility from now on and for many years.
Off-topic, but I noticed something else in that slide: common type rating for A330, A340 and A350. I hadn't known that.
The A330/A340 commonality doesn't surprise me: they launched at the same time and are essentially two- and four-engine variants of the same airframe.
But the A350 came much later and was supposedly a clean-sheet design.
I ask those of you who know more than I about this - is this a problem waiting to happen, as some claim the "all generations" B737 type rating to be?
The A330/A340 commonality doesn't surprise me: they launched at the same time and are essentially two- and four-engine variants of the same airframe.
But the A350 came much later and was supposedly a clean-sheet design.
I ask those of you who know more than I about this - is this a problem waiting to happen, as some claim the "all generations" B737 type rating to be?
boeing's myopic board and executive officers let this aircraft slip away into the nuturing hands of Airbus, and that goof alone ought to make the company make the board walk the plank.
They had the chance to buy it, but they thought they could kill it. This helped Airbus to get it for literally nothing.
You must mean Boeing try to assassin the C Series and the Bombardier Air. Boeing brillantly lost the war again.
Well if the engine issues keep going the A220 wont go far. Airbus and Pratt and Whitney need to get on the ball and start fixing these engines before delivery.
They have two different motors from P&W to C Series (A220); in Swiss Air vs airBaltic.
So no more problems now.
So no more problems now.
No they do not. Both use the same Pratt & Whitney PW1500G engine.
BTW, as taught early on in technician training, an engine is an internal combustion unit such as an automobile engine or a jet engine and a motor is electrical drive.
BTW, as taught early on in technician training, an engine is an internal combustion unit such as an automobile engine or a jet engine and a motor is electrical drive.
