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Airlines

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Mesa Airlines Not Ready For Embraer E2 Or Mitsubishi MRJ

May 14, 2015
Nearly all of the next-generation models from Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. and Embraer have two problems: too many seats and a maximum takeoff weight that is too heavy for most mainline union contracts governing regional jet size.
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Emirates Considers More Fifth-Freedom Flying From Europe

May 13, 2015
Any major push into fifth-freedom operations appears to be unlikely, however, because it would change an already highly successful business model.
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Qatar Airways CEO Fires Back At Anti-Gulf Carrier Campaign

May 14, 2015
Group CEO Akbar al Baker came to the District to give his first full response to the campaign—headed by American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines and some U.S. labor groups—alleging state-owned Qatar, Emirates Airline and Etihad Airways have benefited from government subsidies totaling $42 billion.
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EasyJet Swings To First-Half Profit, Steps Up Fleet Upgauging

May 14, 2015
All A320s delivered to the airline starting in May 2016 will be configured with 186 seats. The retrofit program of its existing A320 fleet, which adds six seats per aircraft, will start in winter 2016. The retrofit should be complete by summer 2018.
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Republic Continues To Weigh CSeries Plans

May 14, 2015
While analysts and journalists continue to ask how Republic could possibly take delivery of the jets given its current business model, Bedford stresses that the CS300 program is just getting off the ground, having made its first flight on Feb. 27.
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SIA Capacity To Remain Flat Despite New Deliveries

May 14, 2015
SIA expects a fleet size of 106 aircraft by the end of its fiscal year on March 31, just one more than its total at the end of March 2015.

Fuel Watch

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Global Jet Fuel Prices (midpoint)* As of May 15, 2015, compared with previous week and previous year

May 14, 2015
cts/gal prev. week prev. year NY Jet Barges 194.00 -2.29 -95.51 Chicago Jet 193.50 -0.04 -97.76 West Coast (LA) Jet 219.00 5.46 -80.26 Europe: Rotterdam Jet (Barges) 191.09 -2.41 -101.55

MRO

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Lufthansa Technik Nabs First A350 Component Deal

May 13, 2015
The Total Component Support deal includes spares-pool access and repair, LHT said. Finnair is slated to receive its first four A350s in the second half of this year. It has 19 on order, with deliveries slated to last through 2022.

Airports

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European Airports Post Healthy Traffic Growth

May 14, 2015
Several European countries and airports recorded double-digit passenger-traffic growth in the first quarter, while a select number of countries—Russia, Ukraine and Austria—reported traffic declines.

Departures

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Open Skies Policy Creates U.S. Jobs

May 14, 2015
Kevin Mitchell is founder of the Business Travel Coalition, and OpenSkies.travel, a broad coalition of global stakeholders whose mission is to promote Open Skies policies. Communities that have lost jobs and connectivity to global business and leisure destinations—because of consolidation engineered by the “Big Three” U.S. carriers (Delta Air Lines, American Airlines and United Airlines)—support open skies policy and foreign-carrier entry.

Industry Data

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U.S. Airlines Systemswide Seasonally-Adjusted Passenger Enplanements

May 14, 2015
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