Aviation Daily Roundup: April 5, 2022

JetBlue Offers $3.6B To Acquire Spirit Airlines

JetBlue Airways is offering $3.6 billion to acquire Spirit Airlines, complicating plans by Frontier Airlines to merge with Spirit before the end of 2022. The all-cash offer from New York-based JetBlue amounts to $33 per share of Spirit stock, an approximately 50% premium over Spirit’s roughly $21 share price on April 4, and a 37% premium to the value implied by the Frontier proposal. Shares in Spirit spiked around 20% on April 5 after the deal’s announcement. Credit: Spirit Airlines

TSA Budget Proposal Includes 16% Hike, Workforce Pay Boost

The proposed baseline budget for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for fiscal 2023 would increase agency funding by nearly 16%, with a large chunk of the new money going toward greater pay and benefits for the agency’s nearly 50,000 employees. Budget documents released by the Department of Homeland Security include a bottom-line request for a $10.3 billion TSA budget in fiscal 2023, a roughly $2.3 billion increase, or around 16%, from the amount enacted in fiscal 2022. Credit: Scott Olson / Getty Images

FAA To Mandate PW1500, PW1900 Component Upgrades

The FAA is proposing mandatory upgrades to Pratt & Whitney PW1500G and PW1900G engines that incorporates a redesigned component developed to eliminate the risk of a condition linked to four inflight shutdowns. A draft airworthiness directive issued April 4 would require affected operators of the engines, which power Airbus A220s and Embraer E-Jet E2s, to install redesigned compressor intermediate case (CIC) assemblies during the next engine shop visit. Credit: Patrick Desrochers / Airbus

FAA Officially Dedicates New ATC Tower At Charlotte International

The FAA has dedicated a new air traffic control (ATC) tower at Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) that recently replaced the previous tower commissioned in 1979. Charlotte’s new tower became operational in late February. The estimated final cost of the project was $94 million. Credit: Charlotte Douglass International Airport

Daily Memo: Airbus Makes Progress In Regional Aircraft Technology Demonstration

A modified Airbus C295 military transport used as a technology demonstrator for regional and multi-mission aircraft has completed a first phase of flight trials, opening the door to new gains in fuel efficiency. Test data analysis is under way to assess how the refined control surfaces and flight control system can benefit regional aviation’s environmental performance. Credit: Maria Molina/Airbus

Hydrogen-Powered Dornier 328 Secures German Funding

Germany’s government has confirmed it is funding a project to modify a Dornier 328 regional turboprop into a flying testbed for zero-emission hydrogen-electric propulsion. The D328H2-FC project is being led by German aerospace center DLR in cooperation with H2Fly, Deutsche Aircraft and Diehl Aviation. Credit: DLR

British Airways, EasyJet Cancel Flights Citing Staff Illness, Shortages

UK carriers British Airways (BA) and easyJet faced further schedule disruption April 5 because of high staff sickness rates, driven by a national surge in COVID-19 cases. Credit: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images

Ryanair Adjusts To Loss Of Ukraine Traffic, Narrows Year-End Projections

Since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war, Ryanair Group has had to cancel 50 flights per day in and out of Ukraine. Speaking with Aviation Daily on the sidelines of the recent Airlines For Europe Summit in Brussels, Ryanair Group CEO Michael O´Leary said, “We canceled those flights from Feb. 24 until the end of the winter schedule … it cost us about 2,000 flights, 300,000 passengers were lost.” Credit: Boeing

Air France-KLM Negotiating With CFM For A320neo Family Engines

Air France-KLM’s board of directors has chosen to enter into exclusive negotiations with CFM International for the acquisition of Leap-1A engines to power its new fleet of Airbus A320neo and A321neo aircraft. In December 2021, the group announced an order for 100 A320neo family aircraft and purchase rights for 60 additional aircraft. Credit: Airbus / Rendering by Fixion / Photo by dreamstime - MMS

Indonesian Cargo Startup RGA-Black Stone Seeks A330s For Charters

Indonesian start-up cargo carrier RGA-Black Stone Airlines is looking to lease four Airbus A330 widebody aircraft as it pivots to passenger charters for Hajj and Umrah pilgrimage flights in the third quarter of 2022. Credit: RGA-Black Stone Airlines

JetBlue offers $3.6B to acquire Spirit Airlines, Indonesian cargo startup RGA-Black Stone seeks A330s for charters and more. Take a look at the daily roundup of air transport news.

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