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Bombardier denies near-term plan for CS500
Despite reports to the contrary, Bombardier has no immediate interest in developing a larger version of the CSeries family, often called the CS500. “There is no CS500 in sight,” says Colin Bole, senior vice-president of sales and marketing for Bombardier Commercial Aircraft, speaking to Flightglobal in an interview at the Regional Airline Association’s annual convention.
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Rolls-Royce delivers first Trent 900 engines for Emirates A380
Rolls-Royce has delivered the first shipset of Trent 900s to Airbus for the first A380s on order by Dubai-based Emirates Airline. According to a company statement, the Trent 900 engines left the Rolls-Royce site at Derby, UK, where they were assembled for Airbus in Toulouse, France, where they will be fitted to an A380 aircraft.
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Airlines

Air Canada teams up with Avianca Brasil ahead of Olympic Games
Air Canada and Avianca Brasil entered into a codeshare agreement ahead of the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.. Air Canada offers flights from Toronto to two cities in Brazil: Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
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Air France Airbus A320 tail torn by Boeing 777
Two Air France aircraft have been involved in a taxiing collision at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, after the wing of a Boeing 777 struck and tore the tail of an Airbus A320. Images posted on Twitter by French aviation enthusiast @JeanCesarCaron show a large, straight, horizontal tear to the rudder of the A320, registered F-GKXJ. It is unclear what damage was sustained by the 777, a SkyTeam-liveried aircraft registered F-GZNT.
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Air New Zealand settles US price fixing suit for $35 million
Air New Zealand has agreed to a settlement in a US class-action lawsuit against several airlines accused of price fixing in their cargo operations. Under the settlement terms, the airline will pay $35 million. Air New Zealand has not admitted liability, and it said it agreed to settle “rather than take the risk of a potentially very material commercial liability by continuing to defend its position.”
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Alaska Air to join S&P 500 this week
Alaska Air Group will join the S&P 500 index on Thursday, replacing SanDisk Corp. Alaska is currently part of the S&P MidCap 400 index.
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EasyJet still weighing A321 as higher-density A320s arrive
EasyJet is expecting to take delivery of its first higher-density Airbus A320 this month, but is still weighing the possibility of acquiring the larger A321. The UK budget carrier disclosed during a half-year financial briefing that the shift in its fleet balance away from the A319 towards the A320 had generated a £0.38 ($0.55) benefit in cost per seat.
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JetBlue Adds FLL-NAS Service
Travelers will soon have even more options when seeking an easy escape to Nassau Paradise Island with the addition of two daily nonstop flights from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport (FLL) to Nassau’s Lynden Pindling International Airport (NAS). Less than an hour flight from FLL, the white sand beaches, crystal clear blue water and world-class resorts of Nassau Paradise Island will be more accessible than ever before.
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CAAC slams Orient Thai for 737 landing without wheel
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has penalised Orient Thai Airlines for an incident where one of its Boeing 737-300s landed at Nanning with a missing wheel. The aircraft was operating flight 0X616 from Phuket to Nanning on 11 April, says the Administration in a statement. After the aircraft landed, it was discovered that the left front wheel was missing. It is not clear what happened with the aircraft's wheel.
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SkyWest, Trans States continue waiting out MRJ delays
The two largest customers for the Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. MRJ are sticking with the Japanese company despite repeated program delays and concerns over scope clause restrictions, but the two US regional airline operators could be forced to begin making decisions on altering their orders as soon as next year.
Utah-based SkyWest Inc., parent of regionals SkyWest Airlines and ExpressJet Airlines, and St. Louis-based Trans States Holdings, parent of regionals Compass Airlines, GoJet Airlines and Trans States Airlines, together hold 150 of the 223 firm orders for the MRJ. All of the orders (100 for SkyWest and 50 for Trans States) are for the MRJ90, which is currently in flight testing. But the MRJ90 is too heavy to be operated under contract for a major US airline because of pilot labor contract scope clauses.
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SriLankan Airlines To Sell Four New Airbus A350s
SriLankan Airlines will sell four new Airbus A350s, a government minister said, two weeks after cancelling an order for four of the aircraft. The state-owned carrier had already sold one of the four planes for a "reasonably good price" to a leasing company and is in talks with airlines over the other three, Deputy State Enterprise Minister Eran Wickramaratne said.
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United 757 upset underlines need for 'startle' training
Irish investigators probing a United Airlines Boeing 757-200 in-flight upset have advised the carrier to review its guidance on training for startle effects. The inquiry into the 20 October 2013 incident, during descent into Dublin, occurred after the first officer mistakenly believed – as a result of a spurious low-airspeed reading – the aircraft was approaching a stall, and sharply pitched the jet nose-down.
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Airports

Passport kiosks reduce wait times at Hawaii airport
Average wait times for foreign travelers arriving at Hawaii's Honolulu International Airport have dropped to about 10 minutes since the airport installed passport scanning kiosks in February. About 7,000 international travelers arrive at the airport daily; 43% of them use the kiosks.
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IAG’s Walsh: ‘I will fight’ current Heathrow third runway plan
The current proposal to build a third runway at London Heathrow Airport is “indefensible” from a cost point of view and the head of British Airways’ parent company will fight it. International Airlines Group (IAG) CEO Willie Walsh (above), speaking as a panelist May 11 at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Aviation Symposium, said he was worried about the current Heathrow proposal because there was now “desperation by the airport to get a third runway and they are willing to do anything to get it.”
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Military

Draft US spending bill funds 11 more F-35s and 14 F/A-18s
The Lockheed Martin F-35 and Boeing F/A-18E/F has received strong support from lawmakers in the US House of Representatives, with the defence appropriations subcommittee voting today on a draft spending bill that would buy 11 more Lightning IIs and 14 more Super Hornets than requested by the Pentagon for fiscal year 2017. The committee has recommended $8.3 billion for 74 F-35 aircraft compared to the 63 requested by the US Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. The navy and the air force listed five F-35As and two carrier-based F-35Cs on their respective "unfunded priority" lists to Congress in March.
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Aviation Quote

"If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades."
— Freeman Dyson, Raw Science interview, 26 November 2014.





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