All articles by Murdo Morrison – Page 24
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EBACE: Stobart aims to make Southend key London gateway
Stobart Aviation is vowing to make its new Stobart Jet Centre at Southend airport one of the main business aviation gateways to London, and to launch a network of FBOs throughout Europe.
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EBACE: Longer hours attracting business at Biggin Hill
Biggin Hill insists its extended opening hours – among the longest of any business aviation airport in London – and investment in infrastructure are helping it pull ahead in the capital's ultra-competitive market for VIP traffic.
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EBACE: Jetex to help power up electric aircraft developer
A US start-up hoping to develop the world's first electric-powered business aircraft has received a boost from fixed-base operator Jetex. The Dubai-based private company is investing in Wright Electric's project and has committed to install charging infrastructure across its 30-strong airport network.
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AIX: FACC signs stowage bin deal with Austrian and launches aftermarket business
Austrian interiors and aerostructures company FACC yesterday unveiled a new aftermarket division, and signed a deal with Austrian Airlines to launch its new A320 stowage bin retrofit.
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AIX: AMAC debuts at AIX as it looks to build commercial MRO
Swiss business aircraft completions house AMAC Aerospace is making its AIX debut as it looks to diversify into the commercial maintenance and cabin refurbishment market.
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AIX: Acro wins A320 seat deal with Viva Air
UK seat maker Acro is to supply its Series 3 ST seat to Viva Air for the Latin American low-cost airline group’s 50-strong Airbus A320 order. It is Chinese-owned Acro’s first deal in the region and significant in that it is another line-fit contract for a company that has for ...
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AIX: K+N launches targeted logistics service for interiors sector
Transport and distribution giant Kuehne + Nagel has launched at AIX what it calls the “first end-to-end logistics solution” for interiors manufacturers, airlines and maintenance, repair and overhaul organisation working on aircraft refurbishments.
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AIX: STG wins first two Boeing retrofit deals for lighting system
Aircraft lighting specialist STG Aerospace is launching a version of its LiTeMood LED ambient lighting system for the Airbus A320 and A330, after achieving success on the retrofit market for Boeing narrowbodies.
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AIX: Adient and Boeing reveal first fruits of collaboration
Almost three months after announcing their planned partnership, Adient and Boeing are today unveiling two prototype seats they intend to contribute to Adient Aerospace, their recently-proposed cabin seating joint venture.
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AIX: AIM Altitude reveals integrated front row monument for Vantage XL seat
AIM Altitude has collaborated with sister company Thompson Aero Seating to develop a front row monument that complements the Northern Irish manufacturer’s Vantage XL business class range and can be customised by the customer to “reflect its brand”, according to the AVIC-owned interiors specialist.
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AIX: Bombardier switches focus to CRJ
After making its AIX debut last year with a production-standard cabin mock-up of the newly in-service CSeries, Bombardier is back at Hamburg, but this time the emphasis is on its CRJ family and the Atmosphere cabin it unveiled last year. It comes as the Canadian manufacturer expects an upswing in ...
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AIX: FACC gears up to deliver first Airspace luggage bins for A320
FACC is showing at Hamburg a mock-up of the overhead stowage compartments it will supply for the new Airspace-themed cabin on Airbus A320s as it gears up for series production of the larger units in the last quarter of 2018. The Austrian manufacturer is also looking at the potential for ...
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AIX: Chinese ownership gives Acro new momentum
A Chinese factory and a move into one of the most lucrative airline markets in the world, line-fit approval from Boeing, and designing its first business-class product. All these are in the near-term sights of UK seating manufacturer Acro as part of an expansion strategy initiated by its £55 million ...
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AIX: How perception plays role in passenger comfort for Boeing
More than 10,000 examples may have been built, but the Boeing 737’s cabin dimensions – save for changes in fuselage length as variants and new-generation families arrived – have not altered since the narrowbody entered service 50 years ago. That original Lufthansa 737-100 from 1968 shares the same 3.54m cabin ...
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ANALYSIS: How Mirus found its comfort zone in aircraft seating
Aircraft seating has notoriously high barriers to entry, so when two years ago a new name emerged at Aircraft Interiors in Hamburg, complete with a prize 60,000-unit launch order from one of the fastest-growing carriers in Asia, people sat up and took notice. Mirus Aircraft Seating marked its debut at ...
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Qantas chief defends premium pricing on Perth-London route
Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce believes the airline can go on charging more than its rivals for its new 17h Perth to London Heathrow service because premium passengers in particular will pay to avoid a stop.
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Qantas promises 'new level of service' on ultra-long-haul routes
Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce says the new ultra-long-range aircraft he expects to be flying from Australia's big east-coast cities to London by 2022 will "take passenger experience to the next level".
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ANALYSIS: How business aviation boosts Europe's economy
Critics may decry it as a perk for a wealthy elite, but business aviation is a bulwark of Europe's economy, supporting 374,000 jobs and contributing €32 billion ($40 billion), or just under 0.2% of the total value of goods and services produced in the region each year. That is according ...
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ANALYSIS: Aero Vodochody gets back in training with L-39NG
Half a century since its first flight and almost two decades after production ended, the latest iteration of one of the most ubiquitous Cold War jet trainers is set to take to the skies. Thousands of pilots for Warsaw Pact air forces and other Soviet allies learned their combat aviation ...
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Lord secures breakthrough 737 Max deal
Lord is marking its biggest contract in its 94-year history and breakthrough into the Boeing commercial market with the deal to design and build the auto throttle for the 737 Max.