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Aircraft manufacturers await delayed seats from Zodiac
Airbus and Boeing are taking steps to address delays in seat production from Zodiac Aerospace. "With our suppliers we always take a collaborative approach. Regarding Zodiac, we are sending seat engineers and try to identify solutions, helping them to transform and recover," said Klaus Richter, executive vice president for procurement at Airbus.
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Airlines
Aeromexico Will Connect Mexico City And Monterrey With Its Boeing 787 Dreamliner
Aeromexico announces that it will begin offering four weekly flights in April connecting Mexico City and Monterrey with the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, widely considered one of the world's most modern aircraft.
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Air Lease Corporation Announces the Lease Placement of Two New Boeing 777-300ERs with Air Austral
Air Lease Corporation announced long-term lease agreements with Air Austral for two new Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. Both aircraft are from ALC’s order book with Boeing and are scheduled to deliver in the fall of 2016. “We are delighted to lease two more new 777-300ERs to Air Austral, a long-time customer of ALC. Our management team has a great relationship with Air Austral and we are happy to support the renewal of their twin-aisle fleet with the addition of these modern, fuel-efficient aircraft,” said Marc Baer, Executive Vice President of Air Lease Corporation.
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Alaska to debut nonstop flights from Boise to Spokane
Alaska Airlines announced that it will begin new twice-daily non-stop flights between Boise, Idaho and Spokane, Washington on August 24. The flights will be operated by Horizon Air, using Bombardier Q400 aircraft equipped with 76 seats.
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Delta, United design notification apps for Apple Watch
Delta Air Lines and United Airlines will soon release Apple Watch applications that air travelers can use to keep track of flight times, gates, where to collect checked luggage and more.
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Finnair: the Sale and Leaseback of Three Embraer 190 Aircraft Finalised
Finnair signed on 17 December 2014 a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with GOAL German Operating Aircraft Leasing GmbH & Co. KG (GOAL) for the sale and leaseback of three Embraer 190 aircraft. The transaction has now been concluded. The value of the transaction was approximately 60 million euros at current market value and the transaction will not have a significant impact on Finnair’s 2015 operating result.
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Lufthansa Pilot Strike Spreads To Long-Haul
Lufthansa pilots started a walkout on the airline's long-haul flights on Thursday, the second of three days of strike action, aiming to pressure management in a row over early retirement benefits and cost-cutting efforts. Lufthansa has cancelled 84 of its planned 153 long-haul flights for Thursday, affecting 18,000 passengers, a spokesman said.
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Silver Airways Starts Flights From Panama City, Florida to Orlando and Tampa
Silver Airways is continuing to add service for Florida visitors and residents. The airline today started daily nonstop service from Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport (ECP) in Panama City, Florida to both Orlando International Airport (MCO) and Tampa International Airport (TPA). The two new routes were not previously being serviced from Panama City.
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Silver Airways Starts Flights From Charleston, SC to Orlando and Tampa
Silver Airways is now providing a convenient air service link between Charleston, South Carolina and Central Florida. The airline today started daily nonstop service from Charleston International Airport (CHS) to Orlando International Airport (MCO) and Tampa International Airport (TPA).
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Airports
BWI airport to upgrade airport with $105 million expansion
BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport plans to build a new security checkpoint for both international and domestic travelers as part of a $105 million expansion. Other upgrades will include two new international gates, as well as a connector between two concourses.
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Orlando airport begins renovation projects
Orlando International Airport in Florida has embarked on a project to renovate the main check-in lobby, improve the baggage handling system and enlarge the Customs entry point. The airport is the second-busiest in the state, serving 35.7 million passengers in 2014. Work should be completed on the expansion by 2018.
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Military
Airbus promotes A400M as humanitarian workhorse
Airbus Defence & Space has highlighted the suitability of the A400M tactical transport as a humanitarian relief aircraft. In a presentation at the LIMA show, representatives from Airbus and the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) and Red Crescent Societies discussed the nature of airborne disaster relief missions, and the role air-lifted relief plays in disaster response.
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French navy NH90s receive ASW approval
France’s navy has declared initial operating capability for its NH Industries NH90 Caïman helicopters operating in the anti-submarine warfare role. Deliveries of the NFH naval variants of the 10.6t rotorcraft to the French navy began in 2010 and since then the type has seen a progressive program of capability enhancement.
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KC-46 tanker likely will miss planned April first flight
The first Boeing KC-46A configured as an aerial refueling tanker will likely miss its planned April first flight because of issues with integration of military-specific components and systems, service officials say. Engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) aircraft number one flew for the first time in late 2014, but was not equipped with systems required to test the aircraft’s refueling capability. EMD-2, the first fully outfitted KC-46A, was scheduled to take flight in April.
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Aviation Quote
Fighter pilot is an attitude. It is cockiness. It is aggressiveness. It is self-confidence. It is a streak of rebelliousness, and it is competitiveness. But there's something else - there's a spark. There's a desire to be good. To do well; In the eyes of your peers, and in your own mind.
I think it is love of that blue vault of sky that becomes your playground if, and only if, you are a fighter pilot. You don't understand it if you fly from A to B in straight and level, and merely climb and descend. You're moving through the basement of that bolt of blue.
A fighter pilot is a man in love with flying. A fighter pilot sees not a cloud but beauty. Not the ground but something remote from him, something that he doesn't belong to as long as he is airborne. He's a man who wants to be second-best to no one.
— Brigadier General Robin Olds, USAF.
On This Date
---In 141... 6th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
--In 1345…Saturn/Jupiter/Mars-conjunction: thought "cause of plague epidemic."
---In 1727…Isaac Newton, English physicist/astronomer, dies in London age 84.
---In 1920... Two South African pilots complete the first flight from Britain to South Africa after a flying time of four days, 13 hours, 30 minutes.
---In 1922... The CV-1 Langley, America’s first aircraft carrier, is commissioned into the U. S. Navy at Norfolk, Virginia under the command of Comdr. Kenneth Whiting.
---In 1932... The airship Graf Zeppelin begins a series of flights between Germany and Brazil. Several round-trips are planned per year, embarkation being at Friedrichshafen bound for Recife and later to Rio de Janeiro.
---In 1937... An attempted round-the-world flight by leading US woman aviator Amelia Earhart ends dramatically when the starboard tire of her Lockheed Electra airliner bursts during take-off from Honolulu, Hawaii. Because of damage, the expedition is temporary abandoned. The first leg from Oakland, California to Honolulu on March 17 was made in 16 hours, an east/west record.
---In 1964…ESRO established, European Space Research Organization.
---In 1979…Columbia flies on Shuttle carrier aircraft to Kennedy Space Center.
---In 1987…NASA launches Palapa B2P.
---In 2011…First flight of Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental in Everett, Washington.
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