Qatar Airways has agreed to purchase as many as 100 Boeing airplanes for up to $18.6bn, the companies jointly announced on Friday.
The US green light for Boeing and Airbus sales to Iran has broken a taboo and opens the door to a potential boom in foreign financial dealings with Tehran, experts said.
Middle East will require 58,000 new pilots; 66,000 new technicians; 92,000 new cabin crew over the next 20 years, Boeing said in its outlook released on Tuesday.
Airbus sprinted towards deals worth $20 billion to seize the initiative at a rain-soaked Farnborough Airshow on Tuesday, but industry executives said the mostly lacklustre event confirmed a recent boom in aerospace orders was finally fizzling out.
Qatar Airways is in advanced talks with Boeing to buy up to 30 narrow body planes and will not rule out additional cancellations of delayed deliveries from rival Airbus, the airline's chief executive said on Monday.
Iran and US aerospace giant Boeing have reached an agreement for the purchase of 100 aircraft to renew the country's ageing fleet, the head of Tehran's civil aviation authority announced on Sunday.
Qatar Airways Cargo, currently the world’s third largest in the segment, plans to become a major player in three new markets – Transpacific, Australia and South America – in the next nine months.
Iran has reached a deal to buy jetliners from US plane maker Boeing, the country's minister of roads and urban development was quoted on Tuesday as saying.
Boeing is set to deliver its 30th 787 Dreamliner to Qatar Airways in the next few weeks, company’s senior vice-president (International sales) Martin A. Bentrott has said.
Qatar Airways Cargo, the world’s third largest international cargo carrier, recently celebrated 10 years of services in Kenya.
Two Indonesian passenger planes clipped wings as they were about to take off from Jakarta's main airport, an airline said on Tuesday, the latest accident in the country's beleaguered aviation sector.
US officials have ordered Boeing to fix engines on some of its 787 Dreamliner airplanes to avoid sudden failure in icy conditions, calling the problem an "urgent safety issue."
