NAS Daily 10 AUG 17

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News

Commercial

Business aircraft flying grows on back of bullish charter market
Business aircraft flight activity in North America continued its resurgence during the first six months of 2017, with the charter and fractional ownership segments making the greatest gains.
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New Jersey Institute of Tech Says ‘US Airports Need a Major Overhaul’
According to the New Jersey Institute of Technology, airports in the U.S. are not equipped to keep up with increasing passenger traffic or to comply with industry standards and regulations.
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Airlines

Al Baker: Qatar to take first A350-1000 by year-end
Qatar Airways will take delivery of its first Airbus A350-1000 by the end of 2017, the Gulf carrier’s CEO confirmed Aug. 9.
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SWISS to replace A319s with CSeries aircraft
Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) plans to replace its five remaining Airbus A319s with Bombardier CS100/300 aircraft in the spring of 2018, SWISS CSeries fleet chief Peter Koch told journalists in Zurich at the CS100 launch to London City Airport.
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Air Serbia sees 2016 profit drop on product investments
Air Serbia saw its net profit for 2016 drop sharply to €0.9 million ($1.1 million) compared to €3.9 million in 2015. It achieved the result on revenue up 5% at €320 million, compared to €305 million the previous year.
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US airlines making historic progress to reduce passenger bumping
US airlines have appeared to have gotten the message that passengers were unhappy with being involuntarily bumped from their flights.
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VIDEO: Swiss to grow CS100 operation at London City
CSeries launch operator Swiss intends to gradually increase the number of Bombardier CS100 flights to London City from the initial single rotation per day.
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Insufficient MRO led to hard-landing A321's return flight
Lack of maintenance support to assess a hard landing prompted an Airbus A321 crew to return to Dusseldorf, after which the aircraft was found to have sustained serious damage.
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Mexico to be CargoLogicAir’s first scheduled destination
CargoLogicAir (CLA), the only UK all-cargo airline, is to launch its first scheduled cargo route on 19 August, to Mexico. Twice-weekly Boeing 747-400 flights will depart from CLA’s London Stansted Airport base every Wednesday and Saturday to Mexico City International Airport via Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in the US.
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Airports

Biometric facial recognition comes to Las Vegas, Houston airports
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) continued its federally mandated implementation of facial recognition biometric exit technology at US airports this week with new deployments at Las Vegas’ McCarran International Airport (LAS) and Houston’s William P. Hobby International Airport (HOU).
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Delta breaks ground on $4bn New York LaGuardia terminal
Delta Air Lines has broken ground on the $4 billion redevelopment of its terminals at New York LaGuardia airport, its largest airport investment ever.
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Aviation Quote

And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?

- Benjamin Franklin