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Two A320neos and one A350 delivered in January
Airbus’s two main ramp-up efforts had a quiet start to 2017, with only a single A350 and two A320neos being delivered. The January production figures disclosed by the airframer contrast with those of the previous month, December 2016, when Airbus delivered 15 A350s and 25 A320neos.
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Airlines trending toward enhanced Wi-Fi for IFE
Airlines are increasingly enhancing Wi-Fi connectivity for their passengers looking to stream more in-flight entertainment content on their personal devices.
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Airlines

China Southern to lease five 787-9s from Air Lease Corp.
Guangzhou-based China Southern Airlines has agreed to lease five Boeing 787-9s from Air Lease Corp. (ALC), the Los Angeles-based lessor said. The aircraft will be powered by GE Aviation GEnx engines. Deliveries of the leased 787-9s to China Southern will start in the 2019 first quarter. The airline will receive three of the 787-9s in 2019 and two in 2020, according to ALC.
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Hainan Airlines acquires 48% stake in Tianjin Airlines
HNA Group subsidiary Hainan Airlines has completed the acquisition of a 48.2% stake in Tianjin Airlines, also an HNA subsidiary. The deal makes Hainan Airlines the controlling stakeholder in the Tianjin-based carrier with an 87.3% stake. Hainan purchased a 39.1% stake in Tianjin in 2013 and 2014 through a cash investment in an effort to increase Tianjin’s competitiveness. In September 2016, Hainan collected more than CNY16.5 billion ($2.4 billion) by circulating nonpublic A shares on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, of which CNY5.6 billion was used to pay for the 48.2% stake.
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Tail-strike after bounced landing damaged Jet2 737
Portuguese investigators have detailed a bounced landing at Funchal in which a Jet2 Boeing 737-800 was substantially damaged by a tail-strike. The inquiry states that an “excessive” nose-up input on the control column after the bounce – during which the aircraft travelled about 300m at a height of 8ft – resulted in a sharp nose-up attitude of 9.15°.
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Lufthansa to operate A350 under triple type rating
Lufthansa's Airbus A350s will be operated by pilots who also fly its A330s and A340-600s. The German airline received its first A350-900 in December and will start regular passenger flights with the twinjet on 10 February. These will be operated from Lufthansa's secondary base in Munich.
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Mesa Airlines flight attendants to vote on strike action
Flight attendants for US regional operator Mesa Airlines have decided to vote on possible strike action against Mesa management following a breakdown in negotiations over wages, according to the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA), the union representing the flight attendants. The vote is scheduled for March 29. Phoenix, Arizona-based Mesa operates regional flights for American Airlines and United Airlines, as American Eagle and United Express, respectively. Mesa employs over 700 flight attendants.
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Ryanair cautious over full year as third-quarter profit falls
Budget carrier Ryanair is expecting a sharp decline in fourth-quarter yields, although it is maintaining its full-year forecast of a €1.3-1.35 billion profit. It gave the forecast as it disclosed an 8% fall in third-quarter after-tax profit to €95 million.
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Ryanair to expand Israel services
Irish low-cost carrier (LCC) Ryanair will expand Israel operations, as the airline heads east in search of new territories as competition increases on its more “traditional” routes in Western and Southern Europe. The LCC will add eight new routes from Israel’s Eilat Ovda and seven new routes from Tel Aviv, beginning with its winter 2017 schedule.
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West Africa’s Air Cote d’Ivoire gets connected
West African flag carrier Air Cote d’Ivoire has signed up for inflight passenger connectivity services from air transport IT specialist SITAONAIR. The agreement will see the airline’s new Airbus A320s being equipped with SITAONAIR’s Internet ONAIR and Mobile ONAIR systems.
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Airports

World's first private animal terminal opens at JFK Airport
New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport is home to the world's first private animal terminal, called the ARK at JFK, which offers round-the-clock service to passengers traveling with animals. The $65 million, 178,000-square-foot facility can handle a range of animal sizes.
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Military

The dwindling pool of T-X bidders
Back in October 1986, the US Air Force was faced with a difficult decision. It had received seven responses to a request for proposals to build two prototypes for the advanced tactical fighter competition that ultimately yielded the Lockheed Martin F-22. In the wake of later industry consolidation, the USAF, it seemed, would never again enjoy such a wealth of bids. Supposedly, the competition for the $16 billion T-X advanced pilot training system would be different. Lucrative enough to catch any defense contractor’s eye, yet basic enough to attract a diverse field of off-the-shelf and clean-sheet proposals, this seemed destined for a rare, multi-bid showdown. That is what happened from program launch in 2012 until the last week of January, when the field suddenly dwindled to two.
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Raytheon hits milestone for missile that changed air warfare
Raytheon will deliver the 20,000thcopy of the missile that three decades ago changed air-to-air combat in a 31 January ceremony inside the company’s factory in the desert on the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona. It is not quite the end of the road for the AIM-120 AMRAAM. Several thousand more of the radar-guided weapons will be delivered to the US Air Force until the program of record expires in 2024, with deliveries of hundreds likely to continue to foreign operators well into the distant future.
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Aviation Quote

We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.

- Buzz Aldrin

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