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Jet Aviation secures completion contract for two BBJ 777-300ERs Boeing Business Jets has selected Jet Aviation to complete two BBJ 777-300ERs at its facility in Basel, Switzerland. Work on the widebody airliners, owned by an undisclosed Asian customer, will commence imminently and the project is expected to take over three years to complete. “We have invested heavily in process and product improvements for popular widebody platforms such as the 777, in order to bring VIP interiors to the next level of quality and precision,” says Jet Aviation Basel’s director, market development and completions sales, Matthew Woollaston. Link
Big Twin families: Who are the Top 10 Boeing 777 operators? As Boeing lines up some short-term 777 sales incentives in a bid to keep the assembly line running at full rate through transition to production of its 777X successor in 2018, we survey today’s biggest operators of Seattle’s twin-aisle flagship. 1. Emirates Airline. In service: 144. On order: 50. Clinnk the link for the rest. Link
Giant Oven Allows Boeing 787 Output Increase Kawasaki Heavy Industries has opened a plant with an oversized kiln to bake and harden carbon composite aircraft fuselage sections, giving it capacity to surpass Boeing's production targets for the 787 Dreamliner. Deputy Director of KHI's 787 manufacturing unit, Akira Inomata, said the plant in Nagoya, central Japan, had the capacity to go "beyond the 14" 787s that Boeing planned to build every month by 2020. Link
Airlines
American Airlines appoints executives for airport operations American Airlines has promoted two executives for its American Airlines and US Airways airport operations. Cedric Rockamore will serve as vice president of the carrier's operations at Philadelphia International Airport, while Patricia Hollinrake will take over operations at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. "These leaders bring a wealth of experience and talents to our team at American Airlines and represent the strong emphasis we’ve placed on operations performance and customer service in our hub markets and across our global network," said Doug Parker, chairman and CEO of American. Link
American Airlines announces the integration of US Airways miles members American Airlines has announced in a letter that the airline will soon "reach the next milestone on our path to integration by bringing [US Airways] Dividend Miles into the American Airlines AAdvantage program." Link
American Airlines exec to return to role as pilot John Hale, vice president of flight at American Airlines, is going back to full-time piloting. Tim Campbell, American’s senior vice president of air operations, told the flight operations people Wednesday that Kimball Stone, currently head of American’s integrated operations center, will replace Hale in May. Link
JetBlue rated a "buy" for multiple strengths TheStreet rated JetBlue Airways as a "buy" after the carrier reported robust traffic for February. "The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, revenue growth and attractive valuation levels," TheStreet Ratings Team writes. Link
United to begin re-banking O'Hare this month United Airlines will start re-banking its hub at Chicago O'Hare this month. "Re-banking allows us to shorten our connection times as well as improve directional flows in many of our hubs, and this is particularly important in our hubs that rely on East-West traffic flows," said Chief Financial Officer John Rainey. Link
Airports
Dallas airport sees a rise in international traffic for 2014 Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport handled 7.1 million international passengers in 2014, a 7% increase from 2013. American Airlines carries 80% of international traffic at the airport, and reported a 7.3% increase for 2014. American recently added routes to Shanghai and Hong Kong from the airport. Link
Kansai Airport Sale A Test For Japan After building an artificial island off Osaka to host a new airport in 1994, officials discovered it was sinking into the sea. More than 20 years later, the high-stakes deal to sell Kansai International Airport could be at risk of a similar fate, an embarrassing setback in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's drive to attract investment and cut its massive debt. Link
SFO is the best North American airport for customer service When you are weary after a long trip, sometimes a simple, “please,” or “thank you,” is like music to your ears. Apparently, enough customers at San Francisco International heard those words during their travels there because they voted the airport number one in customer service in the nation. Link
Uganda To Upgrade Entebbe Airport Uganda will spend USD$365 million over the next six years to upgrade Entebbe Airport to accommodate growing passenger numbers, a senior official said. Uganda is at various stages of implementing several multi-billion dollar infrastructure projects. Rama Makuza, the managing director of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), said the money to improve Entebbe Airport would come from internal savings and debt. It was not clear how or when the authority would issue the debt. Link
Regulatory
Senate confirms Christopher Hart as NTSB chairman The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Christopher Hart as the new chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board. Hart has served as acting chairman since April, when former Chairman Deborah Hersman resigned from the board. Link
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Man's mind and spirit grow with the space in which they are allowed to operate.
— Krafft A. Ehricke, rocket pioneer.
On This Date
---In 1905... S. H. Maloney, a professional balloon-parachute jumper, makes a first successful glide to earth in a tandem-wing glider built by John J. Montgomery (1858-1911), a professor at Santa Clara College in California.
---In 1907... Built for Leon Delagrange and pilot Charles Voisin, the Voisin-Delagrandge biplane makes its first flight from Bagatelle, France, achieving a height of 13ft. and a distance of 260ft.
---In 1911... The first certificate of airworthiness awarded to an airplane in Britain is signed by Mervyn O’Gorman, superintendent of the Balloon Factory at Farnborough, covering the Farman III Type Militaire purchased by the British Army during the second half of 1910.
---In 1947…Saudi Arabian Airlines begins regular international services.
---In 1960... KLM opens its first intercontinental jet service, by Douglas DC-8 from Amsterdam to New York.
---In 1962…1st launching of Titan 2-rocket.
---In 1966…Gemini 8 launched with Armstrong and Scott, aborted after 6.5 orbits.
---In 1967… Southwest Airlines is founded.
---In 1975…Mariner 10 flew past Mercury.
---In 1983... A Boeing 767 lands after a nonstop flight of 5,499 miles from Lisbon, Portugal to set a distance record for a twin-jet airliner in commercial service.
---In 2005… A Regional Airlines Antonov An-24 aircraft carrying oil workers to Varandey, Russia crashed five kilometers from the runway. A mixture of bad weather and pilot error caused the crash. Twenty-six of the 45 passengers died as well as two of the seven crew members.
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