Indonesia's Lion Air has committed to buying an undisclosed number of Boeing 787 Dreamliners, the airframer announced on Friday. The new planes will be used by Batik Air, a new full-service carrier to be launched by Lion in 2013.
The first Boeing 787 Dreamliner ever produced in South Carolina emerged from a Texas paint hangar on Thursday wearing the full colors of its soon-to-be owner, Air India.
Certain reports could have led one to believe that Emirates Flight 241was in peril due to a low fuel emergency on June 1, but the truth was far less titillating.
US Airways may ask federal regulators to examine the antitrust hurdles of a bid for bankrupt American Airlines as soon as July in an effort to relieve uncertainty among creditors, according to a Reuters report.