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Aviation Daily, October 14, 2014

VOL. 399 NO. 7 October 14, 2014
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Airlines

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Mongolia’s MIAT Eyes Expansion

Oct 14, 2014
With the official launch of its first flights to Singapore, MIAT Mongolian Airlines has signaled its intention to significantly extend its east-west route network—potentially to the U.S. and Australia. The Mongolian flag carrier’s network also serves Japan, China, and Korea to the east, and Berlin and Moscow to the west, from its base at Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
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Philippine Airlines May Alter Airbus Order

Oct 14, 2014
Philippine Airlines (PAL) has signaled it may defer an order with Airbus for at least some of the 46 aircraft it has on order from the manufacturer. “We have to discuss with Airbus,” PAL Executive VP and GM Jaime Bautista said. Bautista noted that any deferment would “entail cost,” but did not elaborate on the potential scale or scope of any changes. According to Airbus’s latest delivery schedule, PAL’s 46 outstanding orders include 25 A321ceos, 18 A321neos and 3 A330-300s.
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Garuda Places Order For 50 Boeing 737 MAXs

Oct 14, 2014
Indonesian flag carrier Garuda Indonesia has placed an order for 50 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. The contract is for 50 737 MAX-8s and includes a conversion of Garuda’s outstanding order for four 737-800s to the new aircraft type. Deliveries will start in the third quarter of 2017. The decision to confirm such a significant order may be part of CEO Emirsyah Satar’s drive to cut operating costs.
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U.S. Airlines Are Monitoring Argentine Peso Situation

Oct 14, 2014
While American Airlines continues to limit some tickets purchased from Argentina because of concern over the future value of the country’s pesos, United Airlines and Delta Air Lines continue to operate normally from Argentina, the airlines tell Aviation Week.
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Air France-KLM Plots New Low-Cost Subsidiary In France

Oct 14, 2014
The head of Air France-KLM is not giving up on his strategy to participate in the growth of low-cost carriers (LCCs) and confirmed plans to set up a new subsidiary in France if pilots do not agree to expand Transavia France. The new airline will use “new aircraft that are arriving in the coming months,” according to Air France-KLM Chairman and CEO Alexandre de Juniac.

In Brief

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Southwest, Virgin America Take Off At Love Field

Oct 14, 2014
Southwest and Virgin America marked Monday’s end to the Wright Amendment at Love Field by launching services on 10 total routes, including two—Los Angeles and Washington Reagan—that pit the carriers against each other. Southwest will grow its seven destinations to 17 by early January. Virgin America, swapping one gate at Dallas/Fort Worth for two at Love Field, also serves San Francisco and will add New York LaGuardia later this month. Both airports are in Southwest’s Love Field plans.

Air Traffic Management

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Controllers Return To Work At FAA’s Chicago Center

Oct 14, 2014
FAA’s Chicago En Route Center came back online early Monday morning, ending a 17-day outage that required creative approaches such as the use of adjacent facilities to maintain traffic flow and led FAA to stand up a review of air traffic center interruption-contingency plans.

MRO

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MROs Need New Approaches To Thrive, Executives Say

Oct 14, 2014
MADRID—MRO providers must rethink how they do business both with competitors and airlines, even if it means seemingly counter-intuitive moves like taking on more financial risk and cooperating with traditional rivals, several senior industry executives said during a panel at MRO Europe. “In the past, a lot of financial risk was taken by the operator,” TAP Maintenance & Engineering Vice President-Marketing and Sales Carlos Rulvo said. “Today, an MRO organization has to be willing to accept more of that themselves.”
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GE Aviation Steps Up Its Predictive Maintenance Efforts

Oct 14, 2014
MADRID—GE Aviation is increasing its investment in big data analytics to flag potential engine performance trouble spots and has used some of this learning to revamp its engine support portal, company executives said. Speaking at MRO Europe in Madrid, GE Aviation General Manager-Services Marketing Bill Dwyer said the company’s focus is now on prognostics, or using data to turn unscheduled events into scheduled maintenance.
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Views Diverge On Bonded Repairs To Primary Composite Structures

Oct 14, 2014
MADRID—Executives from Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance (AFI KLM E&M) and Bombardier Aerospace agreed there is still some way to go before bonded repairs will be accepted on primary composite structures. Regulators only allow bolt-on metal repairs to primary composite structures on the latest generation of aircraft—just like standard metallic-build versions—because of concerns over the strength, quality and durability of manually bonded repairs.

Industry Data

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Airport Profile - George Bush Intercontinental/Houston (IAH)

Oct 14, 2014
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