Boeing B777 is the largest twinjet in the world. This design provides unparalled economy for short distance & high passenger amount routes, such as intra-Asia routes. This also explains why Boeing B777 is so popular in Asia. But the twin engine design of B777 makes its operation very constrictive due to ETOPS constraints. This making B777 ...

The news below is just imaginary, DO NOT think it is real. Rolls Royce buys Pratt Whitney Rolls Royce announced today (7 May 2010) it would buy Pratt Whitney large commercial engines division for US$500 million, because of low sales of Pratt Whitney large commercial engines & serious financial loss since 2004. The other divisions of Pratt ...

This is the 3rd article of the 'Widebody aircraft seating classes' series. There are some widebody aircrafts just used for short trips, like Dragonair A330. These aircrafts have less comfortable seats than those used for long trips. For example, Dragonair A330 has 7-abreast 40'' seat pitch Business class, and 6-abreast 60'' seat pitch First ...

Here is the 2nd part of 'Widebody aircraft seating classes' articles. It is not comfortable for passengers to sit in Economy class seats for over 10 hours, epsecially when the seat pitch is narrow, say 30''. So some airlines, like United & Virgin Atlantic, invented Economy Plus class of wider seat pitch. The Economy Plus seats have seat ...

I would like to have discussions on widebody aircraft seating classes. Widebody aircfrats generally have more comfortable seats than those of single aisles because of longer distance covered for widebodies. In 1980's standard the widebody aircraft First Class seats have seat pitch of 60'', width of 20-21'', that is, 5-abreast for B767, 6-abreast ...

I would like to have some discussion on single aisle aircraft seating classes. A single aisle aircraft in America is usually divided into First Class & Economy Class, with First class seat pitch of 36-40'' & width of 20-21''. The first class called in Amreica is called Business class in Asia, though the seats are the same. Meanwhile in ...

Here is to discuss the aircraft commonality of Airbus & Boing aircrafts. It is very obvious that Airbus has much better commonality among its aircrafts. Airbus A330s (twin engine) & A340s (4 engine) use the same airframe except for engines, and with wide capacity range from 253 persons to 380 persons (typical 3-class configuration), so ...

It is concluded that Airbus has far better aircarft interior designs than Boeing. Airbus uses only articulated bins instead of drop down in its cabin (except for upper deck side blocks of A380). This not only ensures safety of passengers sitting below when the bins are opened, but also ensures the amount of space under the bin the same at all ...

There are lots of low cost airlines in USA, like Jetblue & Southwest Airlines. They keep the cost low by flying only one family of aircrafts (A320 for Jetblue & B737 for Southwest), paperless ticketing (passengers would receive a confirmation number after booking via phone or online, no print tickets), providing only snacks free of charge ...

When was the first aircraft leasing business started (personal aircrafts, small commercial aircrafts, large commercial aircrafts)? Thanks.