Aviation Daily, December 8, 2014

Surf Air, the all-you-can-fly startup airline operating within California, hopes to launch similar operations in Texas and Florida in the next year, and wants to eventually begin near-hourly service between the San Francisco and Los Angeles areas, executives said in interviews.

Christoph Mueller, who is now CEO of Aer Lingus, has been selected to helm Malaysia’s future national airline. Malaysia’s state investment fund, Khazanah Nasional, announced the decision on Dec. 5, following months of speculation regarding who may be hired to attempt the turn around of the airline. Mueller had previously been named as one of the candidates, but was in competition with internal executives.

Display electronics were the culprit in an airborne smoke emergency in April involving an evolutionary in-flight entertainment (IFE) system that uses fiber optics rather than copper wires to connect seatback screens in the cabin.

Germany’s government is leasing a converted Airbus A340 from Lufthansa to transport German aid workers who become infected with the deadly Ebola virus. The aircraft, an Airbus A340-300, has been fitted out by Lufthansa Technik with a special isolation unit and other facilities which would allow patents to be given more comprehensive care than was previously possible on the smaller aircraft types being used to transport patients. The German government has the aircraft on an initial six-month lease.

Display electronics were the culprit in an airborne smoke emergency in April involving an evolutionary in-flight entertainment (IFE) system that uses fiber optics rather than copper wires to connect seatback screens in the cabin.

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