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Aviation Daily, September 15, 2016

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Airlines

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American Boosts Pay At Two Regional Subsidiaries

Sep 14, 2016
American Airlines has increased starting pay significantly at two of its three regional subsidiaries, Envoy Air and PSA Airlines.
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Complexity Makes IT Systems Vulnerable To Meltdown

Sep 13, 2016
Major information technology (IT) meltdowns—like those that occurred this summer at Delta Air Lines and Southwest Airlines, bringing down their entire reservations systems for days—are not indicative of underlying infrastructure problems, but are related to the necessary complexity of airline systems, the chairman and CEO of American Airlines said.
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Singapore Airlines Won’t Extend First Airbus A380 Lease

Sep 14, 2016
The decision is a major blow for Airbus, which has been desperately trying to promote the aircraft.

Airframers/Suppliers

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RFP Issued By Air Force For Air Force One Fleet

Sep 14, 2016
The U.S. Air Force has issued a request for proposals for the development of the next Air Force One fleet.
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Boeing CEO Reiterates Financial Guidance

Sep 14, 2016
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg says he expects his air transport OEM to show a book-to-bill ratio of new orders to deliveries of “around 1” when final 2016 financial results are provided next year.
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Comac Will Not Meet 2016 Target For C919 First Flight

Sep 14, 2016
The slippage implies a delay in the undisclosed target for first delivery, which in the first half of this year was 2019.

Security

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Kelly: TSA Checkpoint Wait Times Down

Sep 13, 2016
The crisis of extremely long lines at U.S. airport security checkpoints has largely been alleviated, Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly said.

Regulatory/Legislative

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Airlines: Scheduling Changes Mask Inefficiencies

Sep 13, 2016
The notion that U.S. airline flight-arrival times are becoming more reliable is misleading, because carriers are increasing schedule-block times to account for air traffic control (ATC) inefficiencies, the CEOs of American Airlines and JetBlue Airways said.

Airline Snapshot

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Airline Snapshot: International Airlines Group (IAG)

Sep 16, 2016
View the Airline Snapshot: International Airlines Group (IAG) chart in PDF format.