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NEWS
Finnair, Germania commitments round out busy Berlin Air Show for Airbus Airbus completed a busy ILA Berlin Air Show with commitments from Finnair and Germania for five A321s and five A319s respectively, completing a three-day period that featured $15.3 billion in new business including Emirates' mega 32-unit A380 buy. Link
Ethiopian moves to broaden foothold in Africa Ethiopian Airlines is seeking to expand its African presence by creating airline startups across the continent. It launched Lome-based ASKY Airlines in January. CEO Girma Wake previously said that Ethiopian has a 25% stake in ASKY, which has a diverse ownership spread among individuals and institutions in 11 African countries. The carrier operates to 11 destinations and will take delivery of its third 737NG during the summer. "ASKY has become profitable already," Wake said this week on the sidelines of the IATA AGM in Berlin. Link
El Al posts $16.5 million first-quarter loss El Al reported a first-quarter net loss of $16.5 million, narrowed 59% from a $39.8 million loss in the year-ago period, on a 21% rise in revenue to $420.5 million. Link
Aer Lingus looking to join an alliance Aer Lingus, which left oneworld in 2007, wants to re-join an alliance and is considering all three global airline groupings. Link
Chile sets aside funds for C-130 upgrade Chile's air force has disclosed an allocation of $10 million to modernize its fleet of Lockheed Martin C-130 tactical transports. Link
Sun Country to offer digEplayers on new London service Sun Country Airlines has inked a deal with digEcor to distribute the firm's digEplayer XT portable in-flight entertainment units to passengers. Beginning this weekend with the launch of its inaugural flight between Minneapolis/St Paul and London Stansted airport, Sun Country will offer digEplayer XT devices free-of-charge to all first-class travelers and at a cost of $10 in coach class. Link
Other News
The strong recovery in air travel continued in May as ARC reported that ticket sales through participating travel agencies rose 25.7% compared to May 2009 to $7.08 billion. It marked the seventh consecutive month of improvement and an acceleration compared to the 21.6% year-over-year increase recorded for ticket sales for the January-May period. May credit card sales rose 26% to $6.31 billion. Total fares, excluding taxes and fees, jumped 27.1% to $6.01 billion. Domestic fares grew 22.1% to $3 billion on a 2.9% lift in transactions and international fares climbed 32.6% to $2.96 billion on a 10.3% increase in transactions.
Separately, ARC said it is developing a fraud prevention solution in cooperation with Accertify. "For carriers without effective fraud prevention solutions, rising 'card not present' fraud means either a disproportioned allocation of scarce resources or simply suffering the losses," said ARC Director-Risk Management Dottie Hogan.The ARC Sentinel solution "employs a shared adaptation of Accertify's Interceptas platform" and is targeted for availability in the coming year.
American Airlines named Executive VP-Marketing Daniel Garton president and CEO of regional affiliate American Eagle. He succeeds the retiring Peter Bowler, who held the post for 11 years. The role will not be entirely unfamiliar for Garton, who served as president of the unit in 1995-1998. He has held his current position at AA since 2002. "During Garton's tenure at American Eagle, he engineered the airline's transition from four separate carriers to one and introduced the regional airline to the jet age with the acquisition of its first jet aircraft," AA noted.
Chairman and CEO Gerard Arpey said, "Dan has remarkable talent and ability that, when coupled with his broad knowledge of the challenging airline industry and his insight from his time as president of American Eagle, make him uniquely qualified to lead American Eagle." Garton has been with AA since 1984. AMR Corp. announced its interest in divesting Eagle in 2007, but the process has not moved forward in the intervening years.
Air Canada said yesterday that that it has "received a commitment" from GE Japan Corp. for a senior secured term loan facility of "up to $170.5 million" that will allow it to finance "a portion of the purchase price" for 16 aircraft that it currently leases and operates. The leased aircraft comprise 12 A319s and four 767-300ERs. It said it plans to buy eight of the A319s and the 767s next year and four of the A319s in 2012.
AirBaltic and TAV Airports Holding signed an MOU to become joint venture partners for the possible development, construction and operation of a new passenger terminal at Riga International. The JV would be on a 50:50 shareholding basis. AirBaltic has lobbied for a new terminal able to handle 7 million passengers by 2014, which reportedly would require an investment of more than €92 million ($127.5 million) from the private sector.
JetBlue Airways said May RASM rose 13% from the year-ago month. It flew 2.3 billion RPMs, up 9.8%, while ASMs climbed 4.5% to 2.83 billion. Load factor increased 3.9 points to 81.3%.
Gol flew 2.19 billion RPKs in May, up 14.5% year-over-year. Capacity rose 13.6% to 3.74 billion ASKs and load factor increased 0.5 point to 58.4%.
Ryanair transported 6.44 million passengers in May, a 17% increase year-over-year. Load factor stayed flat at 81%.
EVA Air operated 2.08 billion RPKs in May, a 19.9% increase year-over-year. Capacity rose 2.98% to 2.62 billion ASKs while load factor jumped 11.2 points to 79.3%.
Finnair flew 1.47 billion RPKs in May, up 10.2% from the year-ago month as capacity climbed 7.7% to 2.09 billion ASKs. Load factor grew 1.6 points to 70.7%.
Pinnacle Airlines operated 378.5 million RPMs in May, down 5.3% from the year-ago month. Capacity fell 1.7% to 502.7 million ASMs and load factor dipped 2.9 points to 75.3%. Its Colgan Air subsidiary flew 57.7 million RPMs, up 5.1%, as capacity rose 1.8% to 91.3 million ASMs. Load factor grew 2 points to 63.2%.
Great Lakes Aviation operated 12.41 million RPMs in May, up 10.9% year-over-year, against an 8.3% cut in capacity to 31.62 million ASMs. Load factor rose 6.8 points to 39.3%.
Singapore Airlines will increase five-times-weekly Singapore-Munich-Manchester 777-300ER service to daily Sept. 1.
Alitalia launched four-times-weekly Rome Fiumicino-Amman service aboard an A320.
American Eagle will launch daily Chicago O'Hare-Manhattan, Kan., service Nov. 18 with ERJ-145s.
Ryanair will launch Dusseldorf Weeze service to Madrid (seven-times-weekly) and Marseille (thrice-weekly) in November.
Continental Airlines launched twice-weekly Houston Intercontinental-Tuxtla Gutierrez service using a Continental Express ERJ-145XR. It is the carrier's 30th Mexican destination.
Rockwell Collins was selected by Turkish Airlines to provide a suite of avionics including its MultiScan Hazard Detection system, TCAS, datalink system and sensors for 20 firm and 15 option 737s and 20 firm and 10 option A319s/A321s with deliveries beginning in 2011.
SITA reached an agreement with Garuda Indonesia to provide its Aircom Datalink Services across Garuda's fleet, which the carrier said is part of its "Quantum Leap" modernization plan focused on doubling the fleet to 116 aircraft over the next five years.
Lufthansa Systems said Jet2.com selected its Lido/RouteManual navigation charts in a "long-term" agreement.
Kale Consultants was contracted by Air Berlin to provide its passenger revenue accounting solution Revera.
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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
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1 Forgot 2 Fido Dido? 3 Flagon 4 Fine n Dandy ? 5 Fitter 6 Frogfoot 7 Fiddlesticks ? 8 Finding this tricky 9 Fudgepacker ?? 10 F*** this isnt going too well is it...
DAL764/forum/images/avatars/gallery/first/default.pngoffline11 Jun 10, 11:12
Y'know, in past trivias I have often agreed with your picks Cornish, but today, um, I think I'm better off picking my own .
And let's get one thing straight. There's a big difference between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician; the other is an artist in love with flight. — E. B. Jeppesen
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