Aussie Carrier Orders Four 787-9 and Eight 787-10 Jets
Australian flag-carrier Qantas has selected Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner family to serve as the cornerstone of the air-carrier’s efforts to modernize its wide-body aircraft fleet. To that end, the airline—the name of which is an acronym connoting Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services—has placed an order for four 787-9 and eight 787-10 jets.
Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) and Air Nostrum Group have agreed to double the number of Airlander-10 airship reservations to a total of twenty aircraft. Under the initial agreement, announced in June 2022, Air Nostrum Group reserved ten Airlander-10 aircraft, with a one-hundred-passenger configuration. Under the new agreement, Air Nostrum Group has reserved a further ten Airlander aircraft for purpose of facilitating expansion of a planned airship network extending from Spain into the Mediterranean region, to include Malta.
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