After an exhaustive year-long evaluation, Southwest Airlines is to add blended winglets to its in-service fleet of 133 Boeing 737-700s, as well as to a further 36 aircraft still to be delivered. The ...

Aviation Partners Boeing (APB) obtained US Federal Aviation Administration certification of its blended winglet retrofit for the Boeing 737-700 at the end of August following the installation of an ...

Southwest expects to complete the retrofitting of blended winglets on its entire Boeing 737-700 fleet by March 2005, cutting fuel consumption by 3%. The airline to date retrofitted 137 of this fleet, ...

AirTran said last week it will add blended winglets to its Boeing 737-700 fleet, which the carrier expects will save about 90,000 gallons of fuel per aircraft per year. The carrier ordered 15 winglet ...

Winglets are devices installed at the end of an aircraft's wings. They have become a popular addition for most modern commercial aircraft as they greatly increase an aircraft's efficiency. By reducing ...

At the Paris Air Show in 1997, Boeing's Borge Boeskov approached Joe Clark of Aviation Partners about possibly putting the small Seattle company's very big blended winglets on the planned Boeing ...

LE BOURGET, France -- At the Paris Air Show in 1997, Borge Boeskov approached Joe Clark of Aviation Partners about putting the small Seattle company's very big blended winglets on the planned Boeing ...

SEATTLE, WA – Aviation Partners Boeing (APB) announced today that Aerovias de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. (Aeromexico) has ordered Split Scimitar Winglets for its Boeing Next-Generation 737-800 aircraft.

As aircraft manufacturers and airlines alike look to make the aviation industry more sustainable, fuel burn is one key factor ...

In one of the most famous "Twilight Zone" stories, an airline passenger looks out the window of a commercial plane and is horrified to see a monstrous gremlin on the wing. If you were to do the same ...