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Commercial

ANALYSIS: Three decades since first A320 delivery
Thirty years ago this week, Airbus delivered the first Airbus A320. This was in a landmark event in the European manufacturer's evolution from niche player to a truly global producer of airliners.
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EU outlines its approach to post-Brexit UK partnership
EU policymakers have issued guidelines to enable negotiation on a future relationship with the UK after Brexit, including details of the likely impact on aviation.
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Investigators detail Superjet unreliable airspeed incidents
Russian investigators have disclosed further details about a spate of unreliable airspeed incidents involving Sukhoi Superjet 100s at Moscow Sheremetyevo.
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Irkut Corp. assembles second MC-21-300 for test flights
Russia’s Irkut Corp. has completed the assembly of a second MC-21-300 flight test aircraft at Irkutsk Aviation Plant.
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ERA seeks more take up for EU-backed regional aircraft financing
The European Regions Airline Association (ERA) is calling on members to take advantage of European Investment Bank (EIB) funding for new aircraft purchases.
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Rolls-Royce tests lean-burn combustor in icing conditions
Rolls-Royce has conducted icing tests on a demonstrator engine equipped with a lean-burn combustor to be used in the manufacturer's Advance and UltraFan future powerplant programmes.
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Airbus Continues To Stretch A330 Capabilities
Airbus insists it is not discouraged by Hawaiian Airlines’s move to ditch its order for six A330-800s in favor of Boeing 787-9s, saying its aircraft—specifically the newly launched higher weight version—offers unbeatable benefits in terms of operational versatility, cabin comfort, range, and capital costs compared with the 787-9.
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Airlines

KLM-Kenya Airways joint venture adds Air France
Air France has joined the joint venture between its sister carrier KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Kenya Airways, consolidating the Air France-KLM group’s capacity in East Africa.
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Vietnamese startup Bamboo Airways commits to A321neo
Vietnamese startup Bamboo Airways has placed a tentative order for up to 24 Airbus A321neos.
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China Southern lifts 2017 net profit 17% as demand continues to grow
China Southern Airlines reported a 2017 net profit of CNY5.9 billion ($906 million), up 17% over net income of CNY5.1 billion in 2016, as market demand and exchange rates increase.
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Singapore Airlines set to put first 787-10 into service
Singapore Airlines (SIA) is set to put the first Boeing 787-10 into service next week and plans to operate a fleet of eight 787-10s by April 2019 on what the carrier terms “regional” routes.
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Ryanair to launch 15 routes to Ukraine in October
Irish LCC Ryanair will begin flights to Ukraine from October 2018 with 10 new routes from the capital Kiev and five new routes from Lviv.
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China Airlines transfers a LAX service to Ontario, California
Taiwan’s China Airlines has moved one of its two daily Los Angeles International Airport [LAX] services to Ontario, California, in the eastern part of the metropolitan area, to get closer to ethnically Chinese people living there.
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Urumqi Air to use E190s on far western China routes
HNA Group’s LCC Urumqi Air has begun flying the Embraer E190 on routes in its sparsely populated territory in far western China.
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Hainan Airlines sells two 737-400s to cargo affiliate
HNA Group’s Hainan Airlines said it will optimize its aircraft fleet structure by selling two Boeing 737-400 to affiliate Tianjin Cargo Airlines.
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PICTURE: Air China 737 radome damaged in bird strike
An Air China Boeing 737-800 had its radome damaged on 22 March following a bird strike. The aircraft was operating flight CA103 from Tianjin to Hong Kong when the incident happened.
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Airports

These are the world's top 10 airports for 2018
Singapore’s Changi Airport has been named the world’s best for the sixth year in a row in the annual World Airport Awards by Skytrax for 2018.
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Military

USAF researches bidders to deliver 22 AC-208 armed Caravans
The US Air Force plans to acquire 22 more Cessna AC-208s to provide to allied governments to use for lightly armed surveillance missions.
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US Navy completes fleet carrier qualifications for F-35C
The US has completed carrier qualifications for the Lockheed Martin F-35C Lightning II aboard the Nimitz-class USS Abraham Lincoln on the Atlantic Ocean from 17 March to 21 March.
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Leonardo steps up Typhoon pitch for Poland
With some sources suggesting that Poland could launch its “Harpia” fighter tender within the next few weeks, Italian airframer Leonardo is stepping up its promotion of the Eurofighter Typhoon.
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Aviation Quote

By far the greater number of aeroplane accidents are due to precisely the same circumstances that have caused previous accidents. A distressing feature of these accidents is the evidence they afford of the unwillingness, or the inability, of many pilots to profit from the experiences and mistakes of others.

- Gustav Hamel and Charles C. Turner, Flying: Some Practical Experiences. Published posthumously in 1914.