Boeing last month booked orders from undisclosed customers for eight 787-9s fitted with Rolls-Royce Trent 1000s – three years after it was last disclosed that such engines had been selected for newly ordered Dreamliners. Cirium fleets data indicates that the eight new orders were separately booked in batches of three and five aircraft. Boeing has declined to comment. Its data shows that the last time Trent selection was announced for a Dreamliner order was when Papua New Guinea's national carrier Air Niugini ordered two 787-8s in 2023. Air Niugini cancelled these orders in January 2026. The airframer booked 63 Dreamliner orders in 2024 and 382 last year. No engine selection was announced for 12 of the 2024 orders and 69 of the 2025 ones. Customers picked GE Aerospace GEnx engines for the other aircraft. Boeing lists a total of 1,109 on order 787s in its backlog. Trent selection has been disclosed for 35 of these aircraft: 16 bound for Lufthansa, three each for Air Astana, All Nippon Airways and Singapore Airlines, two for lessor AerCap, and the eight for undisclosed customers. No engine selection has been announced for 129 Dreamliners in the backlog. The other 945 are assigned to GE. Rolls-Royce has confirmed the new orders with Trent selection, highlighting its re-engineered high-pressure turbine blade for the engine. "Our ongoing transformation has enabled us to make significant improvements with our Trent 1000 XE engine, more than doubling time on wing. These orders are testament to the step-change in performance our investment is delivering for current and future customers," Rolls-Royce says.

Air New Zealand will on 18 May start selling sessions in its Economy Skynest bunk beds on the Auckland-New York route for travel starting in November. The six lie-flat sleep pods on new Boeing 787-9s – placed between the economy and premium-economy sections of the aircraft – will be available for passengers in any class to book for 4h sessions on the flights. Initially, two sessions will be offered on the New York flights. Personal storage and USB device charging are included. "It's a simple idea with a powerful impact: swap the headrest for bedrest, and arrive ready to go," states Air New Zealand chief executive Nikhil Ravishankar.

Air Canada, Lufthansa and Qantas are set to become launch operators of Airbus's upgraded A220 cabin interior this year. Delivery of A220s with the new cabin equipment will usher in a new era in which all of Airbus's in-production models feature its Airspace interior line, noted vice-president of cabin marketing Ingo Wuggetzer at the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg on 14 April. In 2023, the European manufacturer disclosed its intention to update the A220's cabin with larger luggage bins, new passenger service units and fresh lighting. Airbus says the new bins – supplied by Diehl Aviation – will have 20% more volume and hold 15% more baggage than the previous, Safran-supplied ones. As on A320-family jets, the new bins are fixed, and their lids open toward the ceiling. Wuggetzer says boarding and disembarkation will be easier than with the previous pivoted bins. Airbus has previously said the new bins will become line-fit standard and be available for retrofit. Cirium fleets data shows that Air Canada has 42 A220-300s and another 23 on order. Qantas has 11 A220-300s – operated by its subsidiary National Jet Systems under QantasLink branding – and a further 18 on order. Lufthansa is scheduled to receive this year the first of 40 A220-300s on order for its City Airlines subsidiary.