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Byline: orderfelipe salles rio de janeiro Lisbon has started formal negotiations with Embraer to buy five examples of the KC-390 tanker/transport, with an option for a sixth, following an approval [...]

Byline: Stephen Trimble After nearly four years of fruitless negotiations with Boeing, Spirit AeroSystems executives are finally conceding that an agreement on pricing for billions of dollars of parts for [...]

Wichita, Kansas-based Hawker Beechcraft Corp. and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers have reentered negotiations after Gov. Mark Parkin announced the agreement on incentives package between Kansas and the company. However, the union will be hard pressed to reject any contract offer. Insights on Louisiana's offer are also given.

THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, SEVEN MANUFACTURers, with such storied names as Aerospatiale, Boeing, Douglas, Lockheed, De Havilland, Hawker Siddeley and Vickers competed in the world's commercial aircraft market. The Anglo-French supersonic […]

Byline: Arie Egozi Israel Aerospace Industries is in 'very advanced negotiations' with at least two air forces that want to purchase the company's upgraded Kfir fighter in its Block 60 [...]

Byline: Arie Egozi NEGOTIATIONS Arie Egozi Tel Aviv US Air Force Israel Aerospace Industries is in 'very advanced negotiations' with at least two air forces that want to purchase the [...]

Byline: procurement CRAIG Hoyle London Proposed law would also slow A400M transport and A330 multi-role tanker transport arrivals Deliveries of the Dassault Rafale fighter, Airbus Military A400M transport and A330 [...]

After weeks of being stalled, commercial negotiations for the medium multi-role combat aircraft (MMRCA) are back on track and in full flow, top sources confirm. Since March, negotiations had been [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2012 M2 COMMUNICATIONS Canada-based airframe structures provider Avcorp Industries Inc. (TSX: AVP) said it has received the determination of an appointed arbitration panel constituted to adjudicate outstanding issues [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2012 M2 COMMUNICATIONS A Nov. 1 ruling by an arbitrator said that employees of The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) who worked in Palmdale and Edwards Air Force Base, [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2012 M2 COMMUNICATIONS The International Brotherhood of Teamsters on Tuesday announced that Teamsters Local Union 1108 has terminated negotiations to obtain a Furlough Letter of Agreement for its [...]

India favours France's Dassault 'WE'VE been waiting for this day for 30 years,' said Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president, on the news this week that India had gone into exclusive negotiations [...]

combat aircraft STEPHEN TRIMBLE DUBAI A top United Arab Emirates military and political leader closed the Dubai air show by attacking Dassault for submitting 'unworkable' terms in an attempt to [...]

Byline: light aircraft German light aircraft firm makes promises but holds back on key supplier selection German light aircraft manufacturer Flight Design has revealed performance data for the C4 four-seat [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2011 M2 COMMUNICATIONS SPEEA, a representative of aerospace professionals, on Saturday said it proposed the use of binding binary interest arbitration between it and aircraft manufacturer Boeing (NYSE:BA). [...]

Byline: middle east DAVID KAMINSKI-MORROW loNDON Unrest is battering tourism revenues just as the carrier expands Crisis-hit carrier puts back launch of new transatlantic flights and talks possible postponement of [...]

Lockheed Martin is in talks to more than double the number of flight tests for the F-35 this year against the 410 sorties completed during 2010. Chief executive Robert Stevens [...]

fleet plans olivier bonnassies london Gulf Air is negotiating with Airbus and Boeing about its widebody aircraft orders. The carrier has 24 Boeing 787-8s as well as 20 Airbus A330-200s [...]

transports stephen trimble farnborough Croatia is in talks about joining an already 12-nation group of NATO and Partnership for Peace states using a shared fleet of three Boeing C-17 transports. [...]

Airbus agrees to consolidate assembly of new single-aisle in Hamburg as governments finalise XWB funding negotiations Airbus's long-running tussle over single-aisle assembly is set to be resolved with the A320's [...]

ADA outlines ambitious goals to follow Tejas work with fifth-generation stealth design India's Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) has begun talks with the Indian air force to involve the service in [...]

AVIC eyes Western light aircraft and business jet expertise China's national aerospace holding company plans to buy a Western general aviation firm to boost its presence in the sector, and [...]

Qantas a330 upset findings Posted 14 October by Kieran Daly Australian investigators have come out with their initial findings on the in-flight upset of the Qantas A330 last week. The [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher The second round of mediated talks between Boeing and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers adjourned Monday without an agreement. No new talks are [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Mediated talks held between Boeing (NYSE:BA) and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) have been adjourned without an agreement. The talks [...]

Cash-strapped partners could split production orders for combined 236 aircraft into two phases or sell on Typhoons Eurofighter partner nations could divide their Tranche 3 production orders for a combined [...]

Two-year-old MicroJetNetwork launched new services that not only matches buyers and sellers but pilots as well as aircraft management services and aircraft. Specializing in very light jets including the Embraer [...]

Aviation Technology Group's board is continuing to pursue negotiations with its strategic partner and various financial institutions, according to a recent announcement from the sports aircraft company. The company suspended [...]

Defence minister describes troubled programme as part of 'long list of inherited defence capability nightmares' Australia's new Labor government was due to start negotiations on legal and financial issues with [...]

Swiss aviation and defence firm RUAG is negotiating with the owners of the Dornier trademark to use the Dornier name on its 228 New Generation aircraft. The company meanwhile anticipates [...]

The EU and Ukraine officially opened this week negotiations on a Common Aviation Area agreement in Kiev. A mandate had been given to the European Commission a year ago, on [...]

Low-fare operator SkyEurope Airlines has sold two Boeing 737-700s ahead of delivery this year, and is trying to renegotiate lease terms with GE Commercial Aviation Services after failing to meet [...]