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Aviation Daily - March 31, 2014

VOL. 395 NO. 60 March 31, 2014

Airports

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Airports: Study: High ‘Extras,’ Not Fares, Driving Canadians To U.S. Airports

Mar 31, 2014
Taxes and airport surcharges are costing Canadian airports an estimated five million passengers a year--and Canada itself C$2.4 billion ($2.2 billion) in economic value--because Canadians cross the U.S. border and fly on lower-priced airline tickets out of nearby U.S. airports, a Montreal-based think tank’s study concludes.

Airlines

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Lufthansa Pilots Set Three-Day Strike

Mar 31, 2014
Lufthansa is moving closer a highly disruptive pilots strike after their union, Vereinigung Cockpit (VC), declared that further talks with management have failed to bring the parties together. VC wants its members to go on strike for three full days next week (April 2-4).
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WestJet Increases Q400 Commitments To 25

Mar 31, 2014
Canada’s WestJet has converted five Bombardier Q400 options to keep feeding its growing Encore subsidiary, boosting the regional carrier’s planned…
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Aeromexico Adds Tokyo, Shanghai Frequencies

Mar 31, 2014
Aeromexico is adding additional weekly flights between Mexico City and Asian gateways Tokyo and Shanghai, the carrier announced. The fourth weekly…
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Southern MH370 Search Shifts To New Area

Mar 31, 2014
The hunt for missing flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean is essentially starting from scratch, after new data analysis revealed that the search…

MRO

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Air France-KLM Opts For GEnx Engines For 787 Fleet

Mar 31, 2014
Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance (AFI KLM E&M) is strengthening its already broad MRO capabilities with General Electric engines and will add the GEnx-1B type to its portfolio, following Air France-KLM’s decision to power its future Boeing 787-9 fleet with GEnx engines. In December 2011, Air France-KLM placed a firm order for 25 787-9s with Boeing, with another 25 on option. The airline now has revealed it simultaneously signed an agreement with ILFC for a further 12 787-9s on lease.

Airframers/Suppliers

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Rockwell Collins Targets April For Boeing 757, 767 STC

Mar 31, 2014
Rockwell Collins reports that its launch customer for a large display cockpit retrofit for the Boeing 767 completed a successful first flight of the…
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GE Reveals Indiana Assembly Line For Leap-1 Engine

Mar 31, 2014
General Electric will develop a new $100 million assembly site for the CFM Leap-1 engine in Lafayette, Ind., as it continues pushing jet engine…

Calendar

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Upcoming Events

Mar 31, 2014
Apr. 1-2 — SpeedNews 2nd Annual SpeedNews Aerospace Manufacturing Conference, Mobile, Ala., www.speednews.com/all/conferences Apr. 1-6, 2014 — Sun ‘n…

Conferences and Exhibitions

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AviationWeek Conferences & Exhibitions

Mar 31, 2014
Apr. 8-10 — MRO Americas 2014, Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix, Ariz. Apr. 9 — MRO Military 2014, Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix, Ariz. June…