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A380s with Rolls engines ordered for special spacer checks
All A380 aircraft fitted with Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines are to undertake special inspections following EASA's decision to order the checks for a missing spacer on an oil pipe in the low-pressure turbine following a partial engine failure on the type.
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AirAsia X leases six A330s
AirAsia X (D7) has signed a letter of intent with International Lease Finance Corporation to lease six Airbus A330-300s over 10 years. The aircraft will be configured 12 flatbeds and 365 economy seats - the same as those D7 purchased directly from Airbus – and have Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engines. They are scheduled for delivery between 2013 and 2014.
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Emirates inks 777 deal with GECAS
Emirates Airline (EK) has signed a sale and leaseback contract with GE Capital Aviation Services for three Boeing 777-300ERs, plus seven spare engines. The first aircraft was delivered May 30. The remaining two are scheduled to be delivered later this year.
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Hong Kong Airlines cuts flights to London
Just five months after it inaugurated the service, Hong Kong Airlines (HX) has announced it will suspend its all-business class service between Hong Kong and London Gatwick from Sept. 10.
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DOT: Delays down, complaints on the rise
The 15 largest US airlines set a record for on-time arrival performance during the first half of 2012, also reporting the lowest rates of canceled flights, mishandled baggage and tarmac delays, according to the US Department of Transportation (DOT) Air Travel Consumer Report.
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Boeing Completes X-48C Test Flight
Boeing completed a successful test flight of their remotely piloted X-48C blended wing body aircraft on Tuesday at Edwards Air Force Base in California’s Mojave Desert.
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Aviation Partners seeks injunction on sharklet A320 sales
Aviation Partners has escalated a patent dispute with Airbus by asking a US court in Seattle to slap an injunction on all new sales of sharklet-equipped Airbus A320s. In response, Airbus has asked US District judge James Robart to order both parties to handle the Aviation Partners complaint outside the court using arbitration.
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Bell loses 525R testbed in crash
Bell Helicopter lost the testbed aircraft for the transmission system of the company's new 525R Relentless in a crash on 7 August in Avalon, Texas.
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Fraport freight fall
Fraport bosses blame night ban and slow market for ‘plummeting’ cargo traffic. German owned airport group Fraport shipped 111,000 fewer tonnes so far in 2012 compared to last year – a fall of 9.9 per cent.
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Other News
Volaris will launch weekly Uruapan–Los Angeles service Oct. 2.
Emirates will launch daily Dubai-Phuket service Dec. 10.
Cebu Pacific will launch Cebu-Busuanga (3X-weekly) and Tacloban-Legazpi (3X-weekly) ATR 72-500 service Oct. 4 as well as 4X-weekly Davao service to Butuan and Dipolog and 3X-weekly Tacloban-Iloilo ATR 72-500 service Oct. 5. It will also launch 3X-weekly Zamboanga-Cagayan de Oro A319 service Oct. 20.
LOT Polish Airlines will launch 5X-weekly Warsaw-Hannover service Oct. 1.
Silver Airways launched Atlanta service to Gainesville, Fla. (6X-weekly) and Lewisburg, W. Va. (LWB) (daily). It also launched service from Washington Dulles to Beckley (12X-weekly), Clarksburg (18X-weekly), LWB (daily) and Morgantown (18X-weekly) in West Virginia as well as to Altoona (18X-weekly) and Johnstown (18X-weekly) in Pennsylvania and Shenandoah Valley (18X-weekly) in Virginia. It will operate the routes as United Express under its existing codeshare agreement with United Airlines.
Southwest Airlines will launch 2X-daily Washington Reagan-Lambert-St. Louis service Sept. 30.
Qatar Airways launched daily Doha-Dar es Salaam-Kilimanjaro service.
Frontier Airlines will launch daily Denver-Phoenix A319 service Nov. 15.
Aviation Quote
It was my view that no kill was worth the life of a wingman. . . . Pilots in my unit who lost wingmen on this basis were prohibited from leading a [section]. The were made to fly as wingman, instead.
— Colonel Erich 'Bubi' Hartmann, GAF.
On This Date
---In 1840... American Louis Lauriat, whose balloon flies at 21 mph in New Brunswick, makes the first manned balloon flight in Canada.
--- In 1910... Claude Grahame-White attempts to fly the first airmail in the world to be carried on a powered airplane when he takes off from Squires Gate near Blackpool, England heading for Southport. The attempt in his little Blériot monoplane fails and he is forced to land.
---In 1912... Englishman Francis K. McClean becomes the first pilot to fly under bridges spanning the Thames River when he takes off from Harty Ferry, Eastchurch in his Short biplane S. 33.
---In 1947…A Douglas Skystreak hits 640mph, setting a new world airspeed record.
---In 1947…BEA begins the world's first regular cargo-only airline service.
---In 1997…US Airways files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
---In 2006…A plot to denonate several airliners over the Atlantic Ocean is foiled. Tightened security measures in the UK and USA and flight cancellations which happened afterwards caused severe chaos at several London airports.
---In 2010…A de Havilland Canada DHC-3T Turbo Otter crashes near Aleknagik, United States killing former Senator Ted Stevens. Former NASA Administrator and current EADS North America CEO Sean O'Keefe is amongst the survivors.
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airtrainer wrote:Any info on the type used for the DXB-HKT service on EK ?
