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Aviation Daily, August 25, 2014

VOL. 397 NO. 38 August 25, 2014

Airlines

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SAS Concludes Sale And Leaseback For New A330s

Aug 25, 2014
SAS has secured financing for four Airbus A330-300Es, which are part of its planned widebody fleet renewal and growth. The Scandinavian airline group signed of a sale-and-leaseback agreement with the Chinese bank Bocomm for the four aircraft. This is SAS’s first large agreement with a Chinese counterpart. “Bocomm will become a very good partner for SAS,” SAS Group Executive Vice President and CFO, Göran Jansson, said.
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Austrian Chief Commercial Officer To Leave

Aug 25, 2014
Karsten Benz, chief commercial officer at Austrian Airlines, is leaving his post to return to parent Lufthansa. He will take over the newly created position of chief infrastructure officer for the group, combining functions that were previously split between the airline and the parent organization. Benz will report to Karl-Ulrich Garnadt, CEO of the airline division and member of the group executive board.
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Fernandes Predicts Improvement For AirAsia Affiliates

Aug 25, 2014
Malaysia-based AirAsia is confident it can reverse the decline in economic performance of its off-shore franchises that is dragging down the group’s profitability.
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Porter Airlines Will Add Weekend-Only Frequencies on Seven Routes

Aug 25, 2014
Porter Airlines will add weekend flights on seven routes from its Toronto hub starting next month, including Chicago, Ottawa and Newark, New Jersey.
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Ryanair Ups Competitive Pressure On Aer Lingus

Aug 25, 2014
Ryanair is stepping up direct competition with Aer Lingus, in which it still holds a near 30% stake, and will start operating a multiple daily return from Dublin to Brussels Airport (BRU). Aer Lingus is currently the only operator on the route.
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Houston Asks U.S. And Mexico To Liberalize Air Treaty

Aug 25, 2014
In an attempt to ensure United Airlines and Southwest Airlines eventually can fly the same routes, Houston has asked the U.S. government to seek a new bilateral agreement with Mexico by the end of 2014. The filing with the U.S. Department of Transportation comes as United and Southwest jockey for route authorities between Houston and large Mexican cities. The current agreement between the two countries allows only two carriers to serve most routes, with several exceptions, mainly to Mexican beach destinations.
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Pegasus Reports Loss As It Fends Off Competition

Aug 25, 2014
Pegasus Airlines expects to continue its high-passenger growth both in the international and domestic markets, but the profitability of Turkey’s largest privately-owned airline has deteriorated and the first-half through June was loss-making. The aggressive network expansion and increased competition of rival Turkish Airlines at Pegasus’s main hub of Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen airport put pressure on Pegasus’s fares.
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Delta Strikes Back On Ex-Im

Aug 25, 2014
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) is reviewing another letter from Delta Air Lines calling for reform of the Export-Import Bank of the U.S. (Ex-Im). In the latest salvo between Delta and Boeing, the Atlanta-based carrier refutes point-by-point claims Boeing made in a letter it sent to Hensarling earlier this month. Andrea Newman, Delta senior vice president-government affairs, seeks to counter “the inaccurate and incomplete statements in that letter.”
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Norwegian Opens Gatwick Long-Haul Base

Aug 25, 2014
Budget carrier Norwegian has opened a new long-haul base at London Gatwick Airport, supporting its Boeing 787 routes to Los Angeles, New York and Fort Lauderdale. Norwegian is already well-established at Gatwick. It opened a short-haul base at the airport in 2013, which has since expanded to 90 pilots and 200 cabin crew, and this has now been joined by a long-haul base.

Analysis

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Better Bilaterals Would Boost African Airline Fortunes, Study Finds

Aug 25, 2014
The trend of soaring global airline profits is threatening to leave Africa behind, and a study suggests that the lack of liberalized air service agreements between African nations is playing a major role in suppressing the region’s markets.

Airframers/Suppliers

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Management Shakeup Continues At Bombardier

Aug 25, 2014
Bombardier has replaced its head of marketing for commercial aircraft, including the slow-selling and still-grounded CSeries airliner, as it continues a corporate restructuring and downsizing. Ross Mitchell, previously in both business and commercial aircraft sales at Bombardier, has replaced vice president of commercial aircraft marketing Philippe Poutissou with immediate effect.

Industry Data

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Delta Air Lines Fuel Cost and Consumption

Aug 25, 2014
View the PDF January 2013 - March 2014
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Alaska Airlines Fuel Cost and Consumption

Aug 25, 2014
View the PDF January 2013 - March 2014

Calendar of Events

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Upcoming Events

Aug 25, 2014
To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected]. (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) Sept. 7-10—2014 ACI-NA Annual Conference & Exhibition, Atlanta, Georgia, http://annual.aci-na.org/ Sept. 10-11—TRAM Aerospoace Conference, Chicago, Illinois, www.tram-conference.com

Aviation Week Conference & Exhibits

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AviationWeek Conferences & Exhibitions

Aug 25, 2014
You can now register online for Aviation Week events. Go to www.aviationweek.com/conferences or contact: Lydia Janow, 212-904-3225 or 800-240-7645 ext. 5 (U.S. and Canada only) Sept. 23-24—Brazing Symposium, Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort & Spa, Phoenix, Arizona Oct. 7-9—MRO Europe, Madrid Spain Nov. 4-6—MRO Asia, Singapore EXPO Convention and Exhibition Centre, Singapore