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Aviation Daily, November 18, 2014

VOL. 399 NO. 32 November 18, 2014
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Airlines

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Airlines Still Seeking $3.6 Billion Trapped In Venezuela

Nov 18, 2014
NASSAU, Bahamas —Copa Airlines CEO Pedro Heilbron said Venezuela appears to be slowly moving toward repatriating money owed to airlines. The situation is “not getting worse,” Heilbron said at the Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA) Airline Leaders Forum here. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) estimated in July that $4.1 billion was owed to airlines operating to/from Venezuela (Aviation DAILY, July 29).
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Qantas Buoyant On Early Results From ‘Transformation Plan’

Nov 18, 2014
SEATTLE—Australian carrier Qantas says it is seeing better-than-expected initial results from its recently invoked, company-wide cost-savings plan to stem losses and return the airline to profitability.
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EC Clears Etihad’s Alitalia Investment

Nov 18, 2014
he European Commission (EC) has cleared Etihad Airways’ partial takeover of Alitalia after the airlines agreed to surrender slots on the Rome Fiumicino-Belgrade, Serbia route.
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Emirates A350 Talks Still Stalled After Cancellation

Nov 18, 2014
Emirates is still waiting to hear back from Airbus to resume talks about a possible new order for the A350, airline CEO Tim Clark said. “I have expressed a wish talk about the A350 again, but there has not been a great take-up yet,” Clark said during a recent visit to Berlin. But Clark added he hopes, “that we will talk with them in the next few months.”
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KLM Retrofits Its Boeing 777-200ER Fleet

Nov 18, 2014
KLM has received the first fully-renovated Boeing 777-200ER it will use to meet Air France-KLM Group’s new long-haul strategy designed to compete with long-haul products offered by other airlines, especially rival Gulf carriers. The aircraft was re-integrated into KLM’s fleet 10 days earlier than planned, due to quicker-than-anticipated certification of the overhaul. The refurbished aircraft (registered as PH-BQB) was put in operation on its service from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport to Fukuoka, Japan on Friday, Nov. 14.
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Little Red Demise To Free Up Nine Heathrow Slots

Nov 18, 2014
Virgin Atlantic may be forced to give up nine of the 12 London Heathrow slots it is using for its U.K. short-haul arm, Little Red, when the operation closes next year. Little Red launched services in March 2014, using remedy slots from British Airways’ (BA) acquisition of bmi, an airline Virgin itself had been courting for years for its short-haul feed potential. Little Red’s flights are operated by Irish carrier Aer Lingus, on behalf of Virgin Atlantic, which does not have its own short-haul fleet.
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JetBlue To Stay The Course In Latin America

Nov 18, 2014
JetBlue Airways plans to continue expanding into the Caribbean and Latin America even as competitive pressures push fares in the markets downward, an executive said in an interview. “We are looking as deep as the fleet will take us,” JetBlue Vice President-Network Planning Dave Clark said. ”I am pretty confident JetBlue will add new routes in 2015.”

Airframers/Suppliers

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Avic Sees 7.6% Annual China Traffic Growth To 2033

Nov 18, 2014
ZHUHAI, China—Air traffic in China will grow by an average of 7.6% annually until 2033, Avic says. The figure calculated for the next 20 years is somewhat less than the annual average rate of 13.2% in the preceding 20 years, says the state manufacturer, which builds parts for Airbus, Boeing and Comac and makes its own regional turboprop aircraft. Avic is notably more bullish on Chinese commercial aviation than is Boeing, which forecasts 6.9% annual average growth for the 20 years to 2033.
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Airbus Launches New Beluga Version

Nov 18, 2014
Airbus has decided to launch the second-generation of the Beluga, 20 years after the first flight of the first-generation outsize-cargo aircraft.

Safety

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MH17 Wreckage Moved To The Netherlands

Nov 18, 2014
Dutch air accident investigators started moving the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 to the Netherlands, where a section of the Boeing 777-200ER will be reconstructed. The Dutch Safety Board began recovery of the mangled aircraft on Sunday. The process is subject to “safety conditions and other factors,” but could finish in about five days. According to the latest update, the recovery is going according to plan and will resume on Tuesday.

Industry Data

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Airport Profile - Detroit Metro Wayne County (DTW)

Nov 18, 2014
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