American Airlines delays its 777-300ER launch

American Airlines has delayed there commercial launch of its 777-300ER from December 13 to January 31, 2012. This delay that is happening is because of production issues with the first class suites for the aircraft. The company that is manufacturing the first class seats is also manufacturing seats for American's business class. American Airlines will us the 777-300ER to fly from Dallas to Sao Paulo. They will start service using this aircraft on January 31, 2012. For now they will us the 777-200 to fly from Dallas to Sao Paulo. American Airlines will use this aircraft to fly from Dallas, Sao Paulo, London Heathrow, Los Angeles, and New York's John F. Kennedy. American has orders for 14 777-300ERs

This Day in Aviation History: A380

This day in aviation history Singapore Airlines was the first customer to have the A380 entered into service. The A380 for Singapore Airlines is registered as 9V-SKA. Singapore Airlines first flight was from Singapore to Sydney. The flight number of this flight was SQ380. Before the first inaugural flight with the A380 the passengers bought seats in a charity online auction. The price for the tickets were from $560 up to $100,380.

Airbus flies its first sharklet-equipped A321

Airbus has performed its first flight of the sharklet-equipped A321 as it begins its test campaign of the wing-tip modification on the A321. The A321 is the largest member of its narrow-body family. The aircraft performed its first ferry flight from Airbus's Hamburg facility to its main plant in Toulouse on October 23. Flight testing on the modified A320 has been completed. In November, Airbus will begin its tests on the CFM International CFM56-powered variant certified by EASA. Airbus will begin its test on the International Aero Engines V2500-powered A320 in December. The air framer expects certification of the fuel-saving modification on the A321 in mid-2013, with the smaller A319 following later next year. The approximate cost of the A321 will be around U.S.$113.3 million. The launch customer of the plane will be ILFC.

Bombardier starts its final assembly on the Cseries

Bombardier is staring the final assembly on the first Cseries flight test vehicle. Plus they are starting to put the wings to the static air frame.The Cseries program is getting closer in achieving its first flight with only 12 weeks left in 2012. After completing assembly of the CAST it will allow the flight test vehicle to enter the wing-to-body join position. Bombardier also intends to complete assembly of the 4 remaining flight test vehicle in 1 month intervals. Bombardier has reported that its is continuing to perform tests on what they call Aircraft 0. This is a ground-based rig for integrated systems and certification testing. This rig also includes the same fly-by-wire controls, hydraulics power, flight deck and landing gear as the flight test aircraft. This allows Bombardier to perform simulated flights for which it hopes to receive certification credit.

Qatar Airways gets its first 787

Qatar Airways has finally accepted its first Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner registered as A7-BCB on October. This is the first of 30 General Electric GEnx- powered 787's that are on firm order. Qatar Airways has an additional 30 options and intends to operate the 787-8's and the 787-9's. The 787 has at least another month before it arrives at Doha. Qatar expected its first 787 to be delivered in August right after the Farnborough Airshow in July. The 787 had some unspecified technical issues before its delivery. The configuration of the 787 for Qatar is 22 seats in Business Class and 232 seats in Economy Class. 

Gol orders 60 737 Max 8

Gol airlines, a Brazilian low-cost carrier has placed an order of 60 737 Max 8 aircraft. These aircraft should be delivered from 2018. The new aircraft will help the airline renew its whole entire fleet. Gol will be the launch costumer in South America for the 737 Max. Gol is currently an all-operator of the 737. This order of the 737 Max will sustain Gol's competitive advantage in the future. This decision to order the 737 Max is to keep the fleet in a modern and safe fleet for the future. The new aircraft will have one of the best cost-benefit ratio in the whole entire market. Gol which has no relationship with Boeing is currently working with the air framer to launch a 737 Max short field performance aircraft. This airline has previously worked with Boeing to develop a 737-800NG to operate in short runways. In 2006, Gol was the first to receive the 737-800NG. Gol currently has 130 aircraft in there fleet with 60 orders on the 737 Max and  88 in the 737-800NG.