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A321neo performs maiden test flight
Airbus has started test flights with the A321neo, the largest member of its re-engined single-aisle family. The aircraft (D-AVXB), fitted with CFM International Leap-1A engines, took off on its maiden sortie from Airbus's Finkenwerder plant in Hamburg today.
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GE9X engine final assembly ‘well underway’
GE Aviation said final assembly is well underway on the first full GE9X engine that will test in the first half of 2016, four years before the GE9X engine enters service on a Boeing 777X aircraft. “Assembly of the first full GE9X engine is on track and coming together very nicely,” GE Aviation general manager-GE90/GE9X engine program Bill Millhaem said.
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Airlines

American to add more flights from JFK to Bermuda
American Airlines plans to expand its service between John F.. Kennedy International Airport and Bermuda this month. "Our business and leisure travelers have expressed a desire for more options during the winter, and we believe this new service offers that," said Shawn Crockwell, minister of tourism development and transport for the Bahamas.
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American to offer daily Louisville-NYC service
American Airlines will begin offering daily, nonstop service between Louisville and New York's LaGuardia Airport on June 2. The Louisville Regional Airport Authority said the airline will offer one, daily flight on a 50-seat Canadair regional jet.
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EasyJet founder seeks consistent dividends
The easyGroup private investment company, owned by easyJet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou, is once again at odds with the airline’s management team. Stelios has had long-running arguments over the way in which the low-cost carrier (LCC) is run, notably over its fleet expansion policy.
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Germania 737 aborted take-off on closed runway
Spanish investigators are looking into an incident involving a Germania Boeing 737-700 which was cleared to depart from a closed runway at Las Palmas. The aircraft (D-ABLB) had been authorised for take-off from runway 03R at the Canary Islands airport on 7 January.
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Ryanair to close Italian bases over tax increase
Low-cost carrier (LCC) Ryanair will close two bases in Italy and stop services to another Italian destination completely over an increase in the country’s municipal tax. The Ireland-based LCC intends to close its bases at Alghero at Pescara from September, as well as cease services to Crotone, over a Jan. 1 rise in the tax from €6.50 to €9 ($7.3 to $10) for each passenger departing Italy.
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Spirit Air Profit Up On Lower Fuel Costs
Low-cost US carrier Spirit Airlines reported stronger quarterly revenue and profit, helped by lower fuel costs and an increase in flights. The company's net income rose to USD$74.4 million in the three months to December 31, from USD$55.9 million a year earlier.
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TUI Looks To New Destinations As Turkey Slumps
Tour operator TUI Group reported a 40 percent drop in bookings to Turkey this summer due to safety concerns and said it was investing in Cape Verde and Bulgaria as alternatives to security-threatened North Africa. Turkey is especially popular with German tourists, but has seen demand slump after a suicide bomber killed 10 Germans in a busy Istanbul square in January. Russians have been told to stay away by Moscow following the shooting down of a military jet last year.
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United to fly Boeing 777 on select transcontinental routes
United Airlines plans to deploy Boeing 777-200ER aircraft on select p.s. transcontinental routes between Newark, N.J., and California. The aircraft is configured with lie-flat seats in both first and business class. A United spokesman said the aircraft will be used on a "temporary" basis until May 5.
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United posted uptick in traffic for Jan.
United Airlines reported that its January consolidated traffic increased 0.1 percent and capacity decreased 0.1 percent, from last year. January consolidated load factor increased 0.2 points compared to January 2015.
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Airports

BA To Go Head To Head With Ryanair At Stansted
British Airways will begin flying from Stansted Airport, establishing a presence at London's No.3 airport for the first time and bringing it into direct competition with budget carrier Ryanair on leisure routes. BA, owned by IAG, said on Tuesday that from May it would fly to Faro in Portugal, and Ibiza, Malaga and Palma in Spain, from GBP£49 (USD$71) one way.
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Military

Singapore sizes up Super Puma replacement
The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) is somewhat unique in operating the vertical lift assets used by sister services, the army and navy. That said, Singapore’s balanced, realistic approach to defence procurement means helicopter assets are not neglected at the expense of other priorities. Indeed, one of Singapore’s biggest requirements concerns the replacement of its Airbus Helicopters AS332/532 Super Puma/Cougars.
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Regulatory

ICAO Agrees Aircraft CO2 Emissions Standards
Global aviation leaders agreed on Monday to the world's first carbon dioxide emissions standards for new and existing aircraft starting in 2020, two people familiar with the matter said. The new standards, aimed at makers of small and large aircraft alike, were agreed to at ICAO in Montreal, amid a rift between Europe and the United States over how high to set the bar on efficiency.
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Aviation Quote

A fierce and monkish art; a castigation of the flesh. You must cut out your imagination and not fly an airplane but regulate a half-dozen instruments . . . .At first, the conflicts between animal sense and engineering brain are irresistibly strong.

— Wolfgang Langewiesche, describing flying on instruments, A Flier's world, 1943.

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