The industry is under constant pressure to become more efficient and sustainable. Rising fuel costs and tighter environmental targets have pushed airlines to adopt innovations that cut fuel ...

American Airlines flew one of its Boeing 767s with blended winglets on 20 July after winglet manufacturer GKN Aerospace delivered a set to Aviation Partners Boeing for certification testing. The ...

The story of the Boeing 757 and its winglets isn’t about fixing a mistake. It’s about how a strong design adapted as the ...

Aviation Partners Boeing (APB) and Continental Airlines have launched the retrofit of the blended winglet on the Boeing 737-500 and the Seattle-based joint company plans to bring a second supplier ...

Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) maintenance, repair and overhaul subsidiary StandardAero Business Aviation, announced today its first installation of FAA-certified High-Mach Blended Winglet on a ...

FORT WORTH, Texas, April 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- American Airlines and Aviation Partners Boeing (APB) announced today that American will become the launch ...

American Airlines and Aviation Partners Boeing announced today that American will become the launch customer for APB's Blended Winglets for the Boeing 767-300ER, which will save airlines, at minimum, ...

American Airlines Flight No. 78 landed at London Heathrow Airport at 10:26 a.m. Monday, the first of the carrier's 58 Boeing 767-300 aircraft that will be retrofitted with fuel-saving winglets over ...

Guangzhou Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Co. (GAMECO) has signed an agreement with Aviation Partners Boeing to participate in a project involving retrofitting the winglet system on Boeing aircraft.

Boeing calls the odd-looking upturned wing tips on aircraft "blended winglets," Airbus calls them "sharklets" and Southwest Airlines, in ads, simply calls them "little doohickeys." Whatever the name, ...

HONOLULU, HI (September 15, 2008) – In conjunction with its ongoing effort to reduce fuel costs, Hawaiian Airlines has signed an agreement with Aviation Partners Boeing to purchase Blended Winglets fo ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of omaha.com stories. Cancel anytime. A United Airlines Boeing 737-800 is equipped with a new, split scimitar winglet that adds a downward foil to the vertical one.