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GAMECO completes first A350 line maintenance
Guangzhou Aircraft Maintenance and Engineering (GAMECO) completed its first Airbus A350 line maintenance on 4 March.
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Interview
INTERVIEW: BOC Aviation goes into overdrive
After delivering a record profit for its first year as a listed company, BOC Aviation chief executive and managing director Robert Martin is looking for an even better performance in 2017 as the lessor focuses on bulking up its balance sheet.
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Virgin Atlantic profits shored-up by holidays division
UK operator Virgin Atlantic has slightly increased its full-year pre-tax profit to £23 million ($29 million) before exceptional items, despite a slip in revenues.
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Avianca countersues minority shareholder Kingsland
Latin American airline Avianca has countersued its minority shareholder Kingsland Holdings, asking a New York court to stop Kingsland from interfering with the airline’s partnership talks with United Airlines.
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Japan partners with UK to study future fighter
Japan and the UK have agreed to explore options for co-developing a future fighter aircraft, but Tokyo will also continue discussions on developing a next-generation combat jet with other countries, the Japanese Ministry of Defense says.
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GE acquires maintenance records company AirVault
GE Aviation has purchased maintenance records management company AirVault, further expanding GE's reach into the data-driven aviation maintenance sector, GE announces on 27 March.
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AIX: Inmarsat takes a quieter approach to connectivity
Inmarsat Aviation is confident its “measured” approach of adding satellite capacity where and when it is required to meet growing demand for in-flight connectivity will drown out the “noisier claims” made by some of its rivals.
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Heathrow foresees integrating LCCs without dedicated terminal
Heathrow airport's director of expansion Derek Provan expects the gateway to attract low-cost carriers when it opens its third runway and but does not foresee a need to accommodate them in a dedicated budget terminal.
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NewsGulfstream G500 certification effort making 'significant progress'
Gulfstream says its new large-cabin, long-range G500 is making “significant progress” towards its anticipated entry-into-service target of late 2017, with the five aircraft in the flight-test campaign having logged more than 2,600h to date in 600 sorties.
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Israel steps up UAV defences with Eitam update
The Israeli air force is using its Gulfstream G550-based Eitam airborne early warning aircraft with an added sensor to detect unmanned air vehicles attempting to enter the nation’s airspace.
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Cathay and Lufthansa agree codeshare deal
Cathay Pacific and Lufthansa have disclosed a codesharing agreement that will give the Hong Kong carrier access to a wider European network and allow the European group to offer passengers new destinations in Australia and New Zealand.
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FAA predicts mixed fortunes for US business and GA fleets
Business jets are set to outperform all other general aviation aircraft types in the USA over the next 20 years, according to a new forecast published by the Federal Aviation Administration.
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NewsBrazil's Caçador UAV clears testing hurdle
Brazil's Caçador unmanned air vehicle – an adapted version of the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) Heron 1 – has received approval from the nation's defence ministry as a so-called strategic defence product, following a series of flight tests conducted in different areas of its territory.
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Wow Air to serve Chicago
Icelandic low-cost carrier Wow Air is to add Chicago as its 10th North American destination.
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BirdEye wins South American border protection deal
Israel Aerospace Industries is to equip an undisclosed South American country with its BirdEye 650D small tactical unmanned air system, with the equipment to form part of a broader border protection capability.
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Leonardo to unveil unmanned Falco 48
Leonardo is to expand its tactical unmanned air vehicle offering with a further evolution of the Falco system.
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Autopilot logic kept 747 on fatal descent path: inquiry
Russian investigators are advising Boeing to consider amending autopilot logic to avoid the possibility of an aircraft’s automatically following a descent path incompatible with runway position.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How Ryanair grows at secondary airports
Ryanair on 28 March makes its most eye-catching move yet into more mainstream markets, starting to operate at Lufthansa's Frankfurt fortress, but its interest in bigger hubs does not necessarily signal that it is turning its back on secondary airports.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Opportunities open for smaller players in interiors
Many of the world’s airlines are making ongoing improvements to their onboard products in response to various economic and competitive pressures. But resulting demand for interior products such as seats is placing a growing strain on the relatively few manufacturers, resulting in new business opportunities for smaller, upstart providers, sources ...
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Opinion
OPINION: Is this Alitalia's final last chance?
As Alitalia faces yet another round of cost cutting, just how many last chances for salvation can one airline have?