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Lessors hail progress on digitalized aircraft records
Lessors AerCap, GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) and IBA Group are seeing concrete advances in the acceptance of digital aircraft records, which is one of several factors hampering smooth aircraft-lease transitions.
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Safran reboots Silvercrest certification for Hemisphere
Safran has relaunched the certification process for its Silvercrest turbofan as momentum builds around the Textron Aviation Cessna Citation Hemisphere programme that the engine will power.
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PICTURES: Dassault exhibits 6X cabin at NBAA
Dassault Aviation is exhibiting the Falcon 6X cabin mock-up at NBAA, having adapted the unit originally produced for the now-defunct 5X.
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Leonardo still waiting on launch customer for AW189K
Leonardo Helicopters is certain it will secure a launch customer for the K-model variant of the AW189 super-medium-twin to enable service entry in 2020.
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Software update to address 787 AC power glitch
US regulators are instructing Boeing 787 operators to install new software for the generator control unit, intended to address an issue relating to an electrical power glitch.
Analysis of the aircraft’s systems found that a 787 powered continuously for 248 days could lose all alternating current electrical power as a result of the control units simultaneously entering fail-safe mode.
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United 3Q net income up 29% on increased hub-flow traffic
United Airlines rode a double-digit revenue increase and declining non-fuel unit costs to deliver a third-quarter (3Q) net income of $836 million, a 29% year-over-year (YOY) improvement.
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Norwegian Air Argentina starts domestic 737 operations
Norwegian Air Argentina began domestic cabotage operations Oct. 16, with a Boeing 737-800 flight from Buenos Aires’s Aeroparque Jorge Newbery Airport to Cordoba’s Ingeniero Ambrosio Taravella International Airport.
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Air New Zealand inks autonomous air taxi partnership
Air New Zealand aims to help develop the autonomous air taxi concept by partnering with Zephyr Airworks—a company testing such an aircraft in New Zealand.
The two companies have signed an agreement to “work collaboratively on bringing the world’s first autonomous electric air taxi service to market in New Zealand.”
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Scotland’s Loganair to increase jet fleet
Scottish regional carrier Loganair plans to increase the use of jets in coming years, as existing turboprop aircraft are retired.
Its current fleet consists of a single Embraer ERJ145, 13 Saab 340s and five Saab 2000s, plus three Dornier 328s, three Twin Otters and two Britten-Norman Islanders.
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Yakutia Airline appoints new general director
Russia’s Yakutia Airlines has named Vladimir Gorbunov as new general director, the regional Ministry of Transport said in a statement Oct. 15.
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American breaks ground on $1.6bn LAX remodel
American Airlines broke ground on its $1.6 billion bet on Los Angeles International airport on 17 October, a renovation project that aims to modernise and merge terminals 4 and 5, and position the West Coast hub as its gateway to Asia.
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ANALYSIS: Aeromexico axes network and fleet after tough Q3
Faced with a net loss of Ps1.23 billion ($65.3 million) for the first nine months of 2018, Aeromexico is cutting several routes, phasing out five aircraft and launching a cost reduction programme.
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Qatar begins transpacific freighter flights
Qatar Airways has started operating freighter flights from Doha to Macau and onward to Los Angeles and Mexico City.
Macau becomes the fourth Chinese city to which the Oneworld carrier operates freighter flights. Its cargo network already includes Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Shanghai.
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Munich Airport third runway may see significant delays
Germany’s Munich Airport will likely see a significant delay—if not an outright stop—of plans to build a third runway following regional elections in Bavaria Oct. 14.
Following state elections, ruling conservative party CSU lost its absolute majority in parliament and now must form a coalition.
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Austrian court rejects complaints against Vienna Airport’s third runway
Austria’s Constitutional Court has dismissed citizen complaints against Vienna Airport’s third runway and has referred further action to the Administrative Court.
In March 2018, the Federal Administrative Court gave the go-ahead for runway construction.
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I believe they're all fvcking Toyota Corollas.
- Michael O’Leary, Ryanair CEO, regards the technical differences between Airbus, Boeing & Comac airliners. Fortune magazine article, 18 November 2013Daily Video
Editor's ChoiceTrivia
Airlines And Airways
1. What was Fiji Airways known as before May 2012?
Air Pacific
Pacific Airlines
Air Fiji
Fiji Airlines
2. Air New Zealand makes which major New Zealand city its "home base"?
Auckland
Wellington
Christchurch
Sydney
3. Magda Szubanski starred in which Australian low budget airline's commercials from 2004-2008?
Jetstar
Qantas
Tiger Airways
Air Australia
4. What is the name of the corporation that owns American Airlines?
AMR Corportation
Applied Industrial Technologies
American Transportation Corporation
Bucyrus International
5. Which airline was created with the backing of the Dubai royal family?
Gulf Air
Air Arabia
Emirates
Middle Eastern Airways
6. Singapore Airlines uses their iconic flight attendants as a successful marketing tool. What are the flight attendants known as?
Geisha Girls
Singapore Beauties
Asian Beauties
Singapore Girls
7. What airline is colloquially known as "The flying kangaroo"?
Emirates
QANTAS
Virgin
Air Canada
8. In 2011, Richard Branson's Australian airline became known as what?
Virgin Australia
Virgin Down Under
Virgin Oceania
Virgin Blue
9. If I was to fly to a regional center in Australia, what airline would I chose?
Regional Express
Emirates
Jetstar
Virgin Australia
10. Air Canada's predecessor was Trans-Canada Airlines, which was created in 1936. Which year was their first passenger flight?
1937
1932
1948
1955
