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Aviation Daily, February 3, 2015

VOL. 400 NO. 20 February 03, 2015

Airlines

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Flat FAA Budget Request Seeks To Balance Current Needs, NextGen

Feb 02, 2015
The overall budget, a slight decrease from FY15’s enacted level, includes requests of $9.9 billion for Operations, $2.85 billion for Facilities & Equipment, $166 million for Research, Engineering, & Development, and $2.9 billion in Airport Improvement Program grants.
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United Considering 10-Abreast 777 Retrofits

Feb 02, 2015
The new configuration would allow United to install 364 seats on each aircraft, nearly 100 more than the airline has on many of its three-class 777s.
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Osman-Rani Ousted From AirAsia X Leadership

Jan 30, 2015
Kamarudin Meranun, AirAsia co-founder, has been appointed to the new role of AirAsia X Group CEO, where he will spearhead development of the “overarching strategy” for the carrier and its new joint venture affiliates in Thailand and Indonesia.
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Disputes Over Open Skies Policy Take Shape

Feb 02, 2015
The CEOs met with Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and Commerce Secretary Penny Prtizker, along with senior members of the White House economic team, last week to make these requests (Aviation DAILY, Jan. 30).
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IAG Proposes Heathrow Guarantees For Aer Lingus

Feb 02, 2015
IAG said Feb. 2 that it would guarantee Aer Lingus’s 23 Heathrow slot pairs cannot be sold and instead will be used for Irish routes for five years.
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Monarch Targets Double-Digit Profits For 2015

Jan 30, 2015
A new management team, led by CEO Andrew Swaffield, overhauled the 47-year-old airline’s cost base in order to prepare the airline for new ownership after several years of losses.
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Skymark Negotiates Disposal Of Leased A330s

Feb 02, 2015
Ceasing A330 operations was among the first measures announced following Skymark’s Jan.28 filing for bankruptcy protection.
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IATA, Venezuela Resume Talks

Feb 03, 2015
DENVER—The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has resumed negotiations with Venezuela to repatriate the $3.6 billion the country owes the world’s airlines. The country ceased talking to IATA about this issue for nine months last year, and in that time, 27 airlines either drastically cut capacity or dropped service to Venezuela altogether, harming the ailing economy even further, Peter Cerda, IATA vice president-Americas, said.

Suppliers

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Airbus Qualifies Aleris’s Chinese Mill

Jan 23, 2015
Bombardier and Comac qualified the plant in 2014.

Airframers/Suppliers

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Russo-Chinese Widebody To Have Composite Wing

Jan 30, 2015
Still, UAC has more experience in major composite structures than the Chinese industry has, although Avic, Comac’s airframe supplier, owns Austrian composites-specialist FACC.

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Raytheon: ATC Training

Feb 03, 2015
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Industry Data

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Airport Profile - Honolulu International (HNL)

Feb 03, 2015
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