Aviation News June 21

The Paris Airshow in Le Bourget 2019 ended with some aircraft sale surprises. Not a surprise was the statement of the Boeing CEO "the global pilot shortage is 'one of the biggest challenges' facing the airline industry." 

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AA and Qantas
Airbus A321XLR orders in Le Bourget came from Qantas, Jetstar, Aer Lingus, Iberia, Frontier, JetSMART, Wizz Air, and American Airlines. Qantas, in particular, is an airline that can hugely benefit from this plane. They can fly just about anywhere in Asia with the A321XLR.  XLR means "Extra Long Range".
https://onemileatatime.com/qantas-a321xlr/

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Boeing Wins First 737 Max Order Since Deadly Crashes
Boeing did announce General Electric’s aircraft leasing division will convert a previous order of 10 737-900 planes into freighter models.
By comparison, Airbus flew into Paris expecting to grab most of the new plane orders with the introduction of a new narrow-body plane, the A321XLR. That happened early Monday morning when Air Lease Corporation, which leases hundreds of planes to airlines around the world, places an $11 billion order for 100 Airbus planes, including 27 XLR’s.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/17/boeing-records-zero-new-plane-orders-as-paris-air-show-starts-slow.html

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KLM Bought 15 Embraer Jets
Of the smaller manufacturers, Brazilian firm Embraer saved the best until last with a Wednesday evening deal to sell 15 of its E195 E2 jets to KLM. The Dutch airline, who will use the planes on its sister airline “Cityhopper,” also has an option to buy 20 more.
Based on Embarer’s catalog pricing, the firm has taken orders of 78 aircraft, worth around $4.6 billion, during the Paris Air Show this week.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/20/heres-who-bought-what-at-this-years-paris-air-show.html

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The iStream Project
Optimizing the arrival flow at various airports. The results have been more than promising: After having performed Air Traffic Flow and Capacity Management (ATFCM) scenarios and tactical ATC routings, air traffic delays were reduced considerably.
https://wunderflug.com/magazine/the-istream-project-optimizing-the-arrival-flow-at-various-airports

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Eviation Aircraft
Making its mark at the Paris Air Show this week is Eviation's Alice, which is a light nine-seater all-electric plane designed to service regional areas.
The goal of electric aircraft makers like Israel's Eviation is not to replace long-haul commercial air travel, at least not yet. These aviation startups imagine light electric aircraft with their smaller range servicing shorter routes up to around 1,000 miles (1,600 km), something Eviation refers to as middle-mile aviation and a sweet spot for electric aircraft.
https://newatlas.com/eviation-alice-electric-plane/60179/

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New Supersonic Jets
Fifteen years after the last flight of the Concorde, there are new plans to build supersonic passenger jets.  And with advanced materials and technology, engineers say they could be cheaper and cleaner.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/06/paris-air-show-supersonic-plans-rival-concorde-190618183007985.html

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Boeing Wins First 737 Max Order Since Deadly Crashes
Boeing did announce General Electric’s aircraft leasing division, GECAS, will convert a previous order of 10 737-900 planes into freighter models.
By comparison, Airbus flew into Paris expecting to grab most of the new plane orders with the introduction of a new narrow-body plane, the A321XLR. That happened early Monday morning when Air Lease Corporation, which leases hundreds of planes to airlines around the world, places an $11 billion order for 100 Airbus planes, including 27 XLR’s.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/17/boeing-records-zero-new-plane-orders-as-paris-air-show-starts-slow.html
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Lilium Jet

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The Best News:
Airbus, Siemens, and Rolls-Royce are teaming up to develop a hybrid passenger plane that would use a single electric turbofan along with three conventional jet engines running on aviation fuel.

The number of planes in the sky could double in the next 20 years. The trouble is clean-aviation technologies aren't keeping up. Battery-powered airplanes, solar planes, hydrogen planes – jet makers are working on myriad ways to make flying less damaging to the planet. Yet clean flying on a mass scale remains decades away. That’s despite growing pressure from regulators and from a blossoming environmental movement to shun air travel altogether.

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