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India is currently undergoing an aviation boom, with a host of new players in the game.
Kingfisher Airlines, Indigo Blue, Deccan, Jet Airways, Spice Jet are among the relatively new entrants that are entering the fray with new aircraft, superior service and competitive prices.
The fleet of the merged Air India-Indian Airlines entity is aging and needs [...]

Here are some stunning photos from the Paris Airshow 2007.
These photographs are from Royisher’s collection at Flickr.
This is the Raytheon Hawker 4000 at the airshow.

The fabulous Airbus A380 flying at the Paris Airshow

The Alenia-C27J at the Paris Air Show

For all you aviation fans, I would encourage you to view Royi’s 2007 Paris – Le [...]

Here is a video of a fighter plane at the Paris Air Show.
It looks like an Euro fighter which according to Wikipedia “is a twin-engine multi-role canard-delta strike fighter aircraft, designed and built by a consortium of European aerospace manufacturers.”

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In order to cover the growing costs of materials and labor, Boeing announced today that it was increasing its list prices for all of its airplanes by 5.5%.
The price increases includes the 787 Dreamliner set to be introduced next month. The cost of a Dreamliner is expected to increase from $146M to around $200M by [...]

Airbus appears to have landed firm orders for 425 aircraft, with a further commitment of 303 aircraft at the Paris Air Show.
Boeing’s count for firm booking’s at this stage seems to be 66 jets.
Airbus secured agreements for 728 aircraft during the Paris Air Show after landing firm orders for 425 and commitments for a [...]

Here is a video of the Airbus A 380 at the Paris Air Show, from YouTube. Looks like the video was from a hand held camera.
The commentary in the background appears to be in French, I did not understand it.
Anyway, here is the video.

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China & India are the big emerging markets for aviation.
Air China and Aviation Partners Boeing have reached an agreement to assure Air China’s future deliveries of Boeing 737-800 aircraft will be equipped with Blended Winglets. The firm order for 25 shipsets scheduled to deliver from October of this year through 2010 provides Air China, the [...]

Boeing and Airbus continued on with a spree of orders being placed for their aircraft today.
Boeing reported on Wednesday it had won an order for 16 planes from Air France KLM. Air France put in an order of 9 Boeing 777-300 ER model wide bodied planes.
KLM put in an order of 7 of Boeing’s single [...]

A number of interesting announcements today.
Airbus said it is back in business today as it announced both of its flagship aircraft programmes were on track.
President and chief executive Louis Gallois said: ‘I can tell you with full confidence that Airbus is back.’
Gallois told a press conference at the Paris Air Show that Airbus is on [...]

GE Commercial Aviation has put in an order for six Boeing 777 aircraft.
Boeing said that the deal would be worth around $1.42 billion. The deal will provide GE Commercial Aviation Services with the flexible option to change the model of the aircraft to passenger models later, if necessary.
The first of the 777 Freighters will be [...]