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Aviation Daily, August 13, 2014

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Safety

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FAA, Wildlife Experts Pitching New Bird Strike Risk Metric

Aug 13, 2014
ATLANTA—Wildlife mitigation experts are working with FAA to develop a new basic standard for calculating bird-strike risk at airports that would replace the decades-old measurement of strikes per 10,000 movements.

Airlines

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Nauru Airlines Grows Fleet Thanks To Refugee Center Traffic

Aug 13, 2014
SYDNEY—Nauru Airlines is adding more narrowbody aircraft to its fleet as the carrier enjoys a remarkable revival with Nauru’s status as an offshore processing point for refugees trying to enter Australia.
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Tata-SIA’s Vistara May Take Off In October

Aug 13, 2014
NEW DELHI—Tata-SIA Airlines Limited (TSAL), the aviation joint venture of Tata Group and Singapore Airline, has branded its new airline as Vistara, which is expected to start operations by October. The airline will take delivery of its first aircraft, an Airbus A320-200, in September.
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Monarch Group Undertakes Strategic Review

Aug 13, 2014
Monarch Group has launched a strategic review of its capital structure and business, less than one month after committing to an order for 30 Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft and options on a further 15 aircraft. The privately held U.K.-based group said the review covers all areas of the business, from operations to ownership and financing, “with the objective of determining the optimum structure to realize the significant opportunity to build on the respected Monarch brand and distinctive offer to its customers in the budget airline market.”
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JetBlue Remains Committed To Point-to-Point Model

Aug 13, 2014
Even as JetBlue Airways expands into the Caribbean and Latin America and develops focus cities along the U.S. East Coast, it continues thinking of itself as a point-to-point low-cost carrier (LCC), CEO Dave Barger said.
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MAS: Airlines Face Serious Information Sharing Challenges

Aug 13, 2014
Malaysia Airlines (MAS)’s Chief Commercial Officer Hugh Dunleavy underlined the need for the industry to improve information sharing about where it is safe to fly and where it isn’t.

Airports

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IATA Seeks To Eliminate Check-In Process

Aug 13, 2014
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has launched a project to evaluate whether the check-in process is redundant, although it acknowledges the change won’t be easy to implement. “We are working on a process called ‘no more check-in.’ It’s gone; it’s history,” IATA head of passenger experience Paul Behan said. IATA is aiming to revamp the process so passengers can book and confirm flights, select seats and receive boarding passes in one transaction at the start of the process, similar to a cinema booking.
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Frankfurt Airports Gets Terminal 3 Approval

Aug 13, 2014
Frankfurt airport has received regulatory approval to build a third passenger terminal, but the project is unlikely to be finished before 2021. Construction could begin as early as next year, but depends on the agreement of the regional coalition government, which has opposing views on the airport’s development.

Air Traffic Management

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Italy’s ENAV Selects Nav Canada Tower ATC System

Aug 13, 2014
Nav Canada has secured a significant new customer for its tower air-traffic control system, with Italian air navigation service provider (ANSP) ENAV purchasing it for use at six major airports. Nav Canada is one of a handful of ANSPs that are successfully marketing air-traffic control (ATC) products based on technology they have developed for their own use. The Canadian company has previously sold its tower systems to ANSPs in the U.K., Australia, Dubai, Denmark and Hong Kong.

Airframers/Suppliers

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MHI Raises Production of 787 Wing Box

Aug 13, 2014
BEIJING—Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) will increase production of Boeing 787 outer-wing boxes from 2016 to support Boeing’s plan to build the aircraft at a rate of 14 a month by the end of the decade. MHI is one of three major Japanese suppliers of 787 structure. It will expand product facilities at its Shimonoseki Shipyard & Machinery Works and Nagoya Aerospace Systems Works, with an investment program to begin in October.