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Airbus Wins 910 Orders, January-October
Airbus won 910 aircraft orders in the first 10 months of the year, boosted by China Aviation Supplies' decision to firm up an order for 30 A330-300s in October. Net orders were 850 aircraft in the period from January to October, Airbus said on its website.
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Airbus Expects More A380 Orders This Year
Airbus expects to sell more A380s this year, but a potential deal may not be completed until early 2016, chief executive Fabrice Bregier said. Asked whether Airbus still aimed to win a new order in 2015 for the double-decker, Fabrice Bregier told Reuters news agency, "I think so, yes... and if it slips into next year this is not a drama. I think we will have some new customers."
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Boeing: Middle East airlines will need 3,180 new aircraft by 2034
Airlines based in the Middle East will need 3,180 new commercial aircraft over the next 20 years, according to Boeing’s latest Current Market Outlook report. Total market value of the new aircraft is estimated at $730 billion. “Traffic growth in the Middle East … is expected to grow 6.2% annually during the next 20 years,” Boeing Commercial Airplanes VP-marketing Randy Tinseth said.
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Bombardier Sees CS100 Certification By Year-end
Bombardier said it is on track to certify the CS100 regional jet, which is making its Middle Eastern debut at the Dubai Airshow this week, before a planned entry into service next year. Fred Cromer, president of Bombardier Commercial Aircraft, told reporters the company's CSeries was progressing well, and was seeing demand from an array of customers, including some in the Gulf region.
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Airlines

AirAsia Philippines delays IPO
Filipino low-cost carrier (LCC) Air Asia Philippines will delay a projected $200 million initial public offering (IPO) by 24 months to 1Q 2018, until the carrier has further consolidated its business in the local market. The original IPO date, set for 2016, “will definitely happen, (but) I think we will have to defer that to 2018, first quarter,” Philippines AirAsia CEO Joy Caneba said.
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American Airlines boosts seasonal service to Mexico city
American Airlines is boosting service to Cancun, Mexico, by adding routes from four US cities. The seasonal Saturday service will begin in March from: Pittsburgh; Kansas City, Mo.; Nashville, Tenn.; and Raleigh-Durham, N.C. "The addition of these four new routes gives our customers 12 locations to fly nonstop to Cancun," said Art Torno, senior vice president of international and cargo at American.
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Vueling chief named as next British Airways CEO
International Airlines Group (IAG) has named Vueling CEO Alex Cruz as the next chairman and CEO of British Airways (BA), succeeding Keith Williams who will retire April 2016. Cruz started his career with American Airlines and remained with the US carrier for 10 years, before moving into management consultancy. In 2006, he founded the Spanish airline Clickair, which merged with Vueling in 2009. Cruz took leadership of the combined airline and Vueling was subsequently acquired by IAG in 2013.
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Delta may create overseas subsidiary
Delta Air Lines could potentially set up a non-US subsidiary housing its international operations and joint ventures (JVs) to reduce the amount of US taxes it pays, according to a Wall Street analyst report. In a report issued Nov. 6 by New York-based Wolfe Research, the firm says Delta senior management has several times hinted in analyst calls that it was working on a tax strategy and Wolfe believes it will announce that plan in December.
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Flybe concludes redeployment of E195 fleet
UK regional carrier Flybe has completed its search for new uses for its surplus Embraer E195s. Finding roles for Flybe’s 14 original regional jets has been described as the last remaining legacy issue for the carrier, which has undergone major changes in recent times, bringing in new management and shedding its unprofitable Finnish operations.
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InterSky ceases operations
Austrian regional InterSky ceased operations Thursday evening after talks with a potential German investor failed. “Our long, ongoing negotiations with possible investors have all failed. We have done everything possible to find an investor—our last option collapsed. We have to declare insolvency on Monday,” InterSky founder Renate Moser confirmed.
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JetBlue to offer new service from JFK to Caribbean
JetBlue Airways plans to debut service from John F. Kennedy International Airport to Antigua and Barbuda in the Caribbean. The route will be served by Airbus A320 aircraft. "Antigua and Barbuda offers another opportunity to grow our network in high-value geographies and strengthen JetBlue's position as the leading brand for Caribbean travel," said Umang Gupta, director of getaways and leisure sales for Jetblue.
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Jetstar commits to Asian expansion
Australia-based low-cost carrier (LCC) Jetstar has outlined ongoing expansion plans for its subsidiaries in Southeast Asia including both fleet and route additions in the coming months. Singapore-based Jetstar Asia will begin a new 3X-weekly route connecting Singapore’s Changi Airport and Sultan Syarif Kasim II airport in Pekanbaru, Indonesia from December 2015.
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Lufthansa To Cancel 929 Flights On Monday
Lufthansa will cancel 929 flights on Monday, affecting 113,000 passengers, after a cabin crew union announced a walk-out at three of the German airline's major airports for almost the entire day. The strike is part of a week of action by cabin crew union UFO to push demands in a long-running row over early retirement benefits and pensions.
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Lufthansa cancels 290 flights on day 1 of week-long cabin crew strike
Lufthansa has canceled 290 out of 3,000 flights—including 15 intercontinental services—on the first day of a week-long strike by its cabin crew, which is represented by the UFO union. According to Lufthansa, 37,000 passengers have been affected. UFO called for the strike in Frankfurt and Düsseldorf after long-running (December 2013) talks over pay, retirement benefits and working conditions failed this week.
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Investigators "90 Percent Sure" Bomb Downed Russian Plane
Investigators of the Russian plane crash in Egypt are "90 percent sure" the noise heard in the final second of a cockpit recording was an explosion caused by a bomb, a member of the investigation team said. The Airbus A321 crashed 23 minutes after taking off from the Sharm al-Sheikh tourist resort eight days ago, killing all 224 passengers and crew. Islamic State militants fighting Egyptian security forces in Sinai said they brought it down.
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Qatar Airways Chief Would Consider A380neos
Qatar Airways' chief executive Akbar Al Baker said the airline would consider replacing some of its Airbus A380s with the upgraded A380neo if the newer plane performed better. "If Airbus produces a (plane) which is head and shoulders above what they produce today we would look at them for replacements," Akbar Al Baker said when asked about interest in the A380neo.
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United empowers employees for enhanced customer service
In September, United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz wrote a public letter acknowledging that the carrier wasn't exactly giving fliers the treatment they deserved, and pledged changes were coming. United spokesman Rahsaan Johnson said, "As we focus more on listening to customers and employees, we decided to remind airport coworkers of their tools and provide more guidance on how to address issues in the moment to better serve our customers."
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Munoz announces return to United in 2016
Oscar Munoz, the CEO of United Airlines, plans to return to the helm of the carrier next year. "My time away will be a little longer than I would like, but based upon discussion with my doctors I will be back in the first quarter," Munoz wrote in a letter to employees.
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Vietnam Airlines adds new London 787 service
Vietnam Airlines has added a new Ho Chi Minh-London service to its existing two direct flights on the route, from the end of October. The extra service uses Vietnamese flag carrier’s new Boeing 787-9 aircraft on 3X-weekly service from Tan Son Nhat International Airport, Ho Chi Minh City, to Heathrow Airport, UK. The new schedule gives the carrier six direct flights a week from Vietnam to Heathrow, using 787s. It had already operated a 3X-weekly Noi Bai International Airport, Hanoi-Heathrow services and is the only airline offering direct flights between the UK and Vietnam.
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WOW Air launches US West Coast services, acquires A330-300s
Icelandic low-cost carrier (LCC) WOW Air plans to acquire three Airbus A330-300s to launch services from Reykjavik Keflavik to Los Angeles and San Francisco from summer 2016. The 340-seat aircraft will offer an all-economy configuration. Keflavik-Los Angeles service will operate 4X-weekly; Keflavik-San Francisco route will operate 5X-weekly.
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UK Airline Refused Permission To Fly To Egypt
Attempts to return thousands of British tourists stranded in the Red Sea resort of Sharm al-Sheikh were thrown into chaos on Friday when easyJet said it had been refused permission to fly some of its planes to Egypt. Prime Minister David Cameron halted flights to and from the Egyptian resort on concerns that a bomb planted by Islamic State militants downed a Russian plane which had left Sharm al-Sheikh on October 31, killing all 224 people on board.
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US To Seek Airport Security Enhancements After Egypt Crash
The United States will boost security checks overseas for US-bound flights as a precaution following the recent Russian passenger jet crash in Egypt, including asking foreign airports to tighten screening of items before they are taken on board aircraft. Jeh Johnson, the US Homeland Security Secretary, said in a statement that he and the head of the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA), "out of an abundance of caution, have identified a series of interim, precautionary enhancements to aviation security with respect to commercial flights bound for the United States from certain foreign airports in the region."
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Airports

Upstate N.Y. airport negotiates Southwest, JetBlue service until 2018
Southwest Airlines and JetBlue Airways will remain operating at the Greater Rochester International Airport until Dec. 31, 2018. Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks announced Thursday that the two airlines have a three-year lease extension to stay at the airport. The executive also said FedEx Express has signed a three-year extension and that American Airlines, Delta, United and Air Canada have expressed their intent to re-sign with ROC.
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Military

Archangel makes show debut
US firm Iomax joins a host of other light attack aircraft producers at the Dubai show, with its Archangel - a modified Thrush Aircraft S2R-T660 turboprop - on display in the static park. Operated by the United Arab Emirates air force, the example on show is one of a total of 24 Archangels ordered by the service.
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BAE prepares Hawk for big screen debut
BAE Systems is giving its Hawk the big screen treatment, with a cockpit demonstrator at the show revealing a future configuration with a single, large-area display (LAD) for the pilot. Already the subject of extensive development work by the UK company, the LAD would help to better prepare student pilots for operating advanced combat aircraft like the Eurofighter Typhoon and Lockheed Martin F-35. Sharing the single display philosophy as the latter type, the advance would enable a new pilot to view a range of information from multiple sensors, plus a moving map, in advance of flying the more sophisticated – and expensive – types.
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Debut for A-29 demonstrator
Embraer is giving a Duabi debut its newly built A-29 Super Tucano demonstrator aircraft, which will be on static display throughout the show. The company’s multi-mission KC-390 also looms large after the first prototype resumed flying testing after nine months of ground work. Despite Brazil’s economic turmoil, Embraer is pressing forward with KC-390 development and now anticipates entry into service for the Brazilian air force in mid-2018.
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Aviation Quote

One can get a proper insight into the practice of flying only by actual flying experiments. . . . The manner in which we have to meet the irregularities of the wind, when soaring in the air, can only be learnt by being in the air itself. . . . The only way which leads us to a quick development in human flight is a systematic and energetic practice in actual flying experiments.

— Otto Lilienthal, 1896.

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1. What is the most likely cause of an accident resulting from a climbing downwind turn (in a strong, steady-state wind) near the ground and shortly after takeoff?
a. The pilot failed to account for the increased stall speed unique to turning downwind.
b. An airplane tends to overbank more during a downwind turn than an upwind turn.
c. During a downwind turn, the headwind becomes a tailwind that causes a loss of airspeed.
d. The pilot reacts to a sense of increasing groundspeed.

2. With respect to encountering an increasing-tailwind type of wind shear, which of the following do/does not belong?
a. Airplane tends to sink.
b. Groundspeed increases.
c. Indicated airspeed increases.
d. Pitch attitude decreases.

3. True or false; Everything else being equal, a given airliner operated more efficiently when passengers were allowed to smoke en route than after 1988 when the smoking ban took effect.

4. True or false; As its name implies, an aircraft or automotive alternator produces alternating current (AC).

5. True or false; Upward-folding wing tips are an available option for purchasers of the Boeing 777. This enables the aircraft to fit in relatively small parking spaces.

6. True or false; A pilot pre-flighting an airplane notices that each rivet head has a circular indentation. This is caused by the device that drives the rivet.