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NewsAirbus’s Scherer: SARS outbreak illustrated industry’s resilience
Airbus chief commercial officer Christian Scherer is uncertain whether the air transport impact from the coronavirus outbreak will translate into an effect on the airframer. Speaking during the A4E aviation summit in Brussels, Scherer pointed out that the aircraft manufacturing business “operates to longer cycles”. Source: Ed Telling ...
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NewsLockheed delivers 500th F-35
Lockheed Martin has delivered the 500th F-35 fighter, with the fleet also surpassing the 250,000 flight hour mark. The 500th example delivered is an F-35A that will serve with the Vermont Air National Guard, says Lockheed. An image of the jet shows it bears the registration number AF5343. ...
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NewsGama Aviation sets sights on expansion of helicopter services portfolio
UK-headquartered Gama Aviation believes it can become a new force in rotary-wing operations as it nears the launch of helicopter air ambulance services in Scotland.
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NewsAirbus aims for short test campaign on 251t A330-900
Airbus is expecting a relatively short approval campaign for the higher-weight version of the A330-900, amounting to just 30-40h of testing. While Airbus carried out the first flight of the aircraft on 28 February, it had already conducted a number of tests with the previous variant of the -900 specially ...
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NewsCoronavirus ‘no excuse’ for state aid to failing carriers: Walsh
IAG chief Willie Walsh is firmly rejecting any notion that airlines which were struggling before the coronavirus outbreak should be granted state aid to help cope with its impact. He told the A4E aviation summit in Brussels on 3 March that the outbreak was “not an excuse” for such carriers ...
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Airline BusinessWhy strong Ryanair and Wizz February traffic offers few clues to coronavirus impact
Monthly traffic figures for February released by Ryanair and Wizz Air today offer little indication of the impact on air travel demand of the spread of the coronavirus into Europe.
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NewsIncomplete single EU aviation market costing €37bn annually
Europe’s much-vaunted single aviation market remains an incomplete initiative, costing airlines €37 billion ($41 billion) per year in terms of disunity in legislation and application of regulations, according to an independent air transport research group. Half of this figure – some €17.4 billion – could be saved by implementing an ...
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NewsSAS pulls full-year financial guidance amid coronavirus uncertainty
Scandinavian carrier SAS has withdrawn its full-year financial guidance amid uncertainty around the impact on air travel demand of the coronavirus outbreak.
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NewsAirline failures loom as outbreak spreads: ISTAT panelists
Global airline capacity in 2020 has declined by nearly 3% as of 2 March compared to the same period in 2019, Rob Morris, global head of Ascend by Cirium, disclosed at an ISTAT event today. Through the week ended 1 March, global capacity had declined by 2% year-over-year, Cirium schedules ...
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NewsSaab announces team for Canada Gripen E campaign
Saab has announced a slate of partners who will participate in its Gripen E campaign for Ottowa’s requirement for 88 new fighters. The company says that the “Gripen for Canada Team” will comprise IMP Aerospace & Defence, CAE, Peraton Canada, and GE Aviation. “Over the past two years, Saab and ...
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NewsAeroflot weighs options for long-haul fleet
Aeroflot Group is in the process of reviewing options for expanding its long-haul fleet, as well as how planned short-haul growth can be maintained despite uncertainty on the Boeing 737 Max family’s return to service.
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NewsLufthansa to cut short-haul operations by up to a quarter to counter coronavirus
Lufthansa Group is to cut its short and medium-haul operations by up to 25% in the coming weeks as it moves to counteract the air travel impact of the coronavirus.
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NewsWizz Air applies for AOC for new Abu Dhabi carrier
Central European budget carrier Wizz Air has reached a firm agreement to establish a new operator in Abu Dhabi, which will commence services in autumn this year. The airline is tying up with Abu Dhabi Developmental Holding Company to set up the Middle Eastern operation. It states that it has ...
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NewsAmerican, Delta suspend flights to Italy
American Airlines and Delta Air Lines cancelled their flights to northern Italy as passengers become increasingly skittish about traveling to areas where the coronavirus, also known as Covid-19, has rapidly spread in the past few days.
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NewsEuropean regulators open new state aid probe into Alitalia loan
European Commission competition regulators have opened an in-depth state aid investigation into a €400 million ($438 mlllion) loan granted by the Italian state to Alitalia.
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NewsRolls-Royce shrugs off defections from Trent 1000 to GEnx
Rolls-Royce insists the Trent 1000 remains a competitive powerplant despite the technical problems, and the defection of high-profile customers to the rival General Electric GEnx. Japan’s All Nippon Airways has opted for the GEnx, rather than the incumbent Trent, for its latest batch of Boeing 787s. Air New Zealand also ...
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Airline BusinessEuropean carriers hunker down for tough times from coronavirus outbreak
Any doubts as to whether the impact of the coronavirus outbreak would spread beyond Asia to European airlines has been answered by a slew of cost-savings measures, capacity cuts and warnings of potential earnings hits in the past few days.
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NewsRolls-Royce could choose not to break-even on A350-1000 engine
While the Trent XWB-84 engine for the Airbus A350-900 is set to break even this year, Rolls-Royce is not guaranteeing a similar achievement on the higher-thrust XWB-97 for the A350-1000. Chief executive Warren East, speaking at a 28 February briefing, said the company would ship its first break-even XWB-84 in ...
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NewsAeroflot takes first A350 and confirmed as behind previously undisclosed order
Aeroflot has taken delivery of the first of 22 on-order Airbus A350-900s, which will be used to replace its A330 fleet.
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NewsAirbus carries out first flight of 251t A330neo
Airbus has commenced test flights with the first A330-900 with the higher maximum take-off weight of 251t. The airframer confirms that aircraft MSN1967 – bearing the test registration F-WWCE – lifted off from Toulouse at 12:27 local time on 28 February (below). Source: Airbus Airbus has been ...