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Aviation Daily, April 7, 2015

VOL. 401 NO. 5 April 03, 2015
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Airlines

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Low Oil Prices Should Change Airlines’ Planning, Consultants Say

Apr 06, 2015
Most airline executives maintain that low oil prices are not a new normal but a temporary blip. This has led most airlines to say they will not be opening new markets or changing fleet and capacity plans despite oil being in the $50-per-barrel range.
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Spirit Airlines Must Get Creative To Increase Non-Ticket Revenues

Apr 06, 2015
In 2014, the average Spirit passenger paid $55.03 in fees, up by $1.19 from 2013, or about 2.2%. Non-ticket income per passenger jumped 4.8% in 2012-13, the year before last. Earlier year-over-year (YOY) increases, not surprisingly, were much greater.
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American, US Airways Merge Loyalty Programs

Apr 06, 2015
The US Airways Dividend Miles program has been folded into the AAdvantage loyalty program, and as of March 28, members of both programs belong to American’s frequent-flier system.
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Another Indian LCC Set To To Fly

Apr 06, 2015
Company management is expected to announce its first-flight date in the coming days. “We plan to start operations in two weeks,” an airline executive says.

Analysis

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Avolon Analysis Of Storage Trends Concludes 800 Parked Aircraft Likely To Fly Again

Apr 06, 2015
The flow of parked aircraft back into the fleet and potential deferrals should not disrupt the record backlogs at Airbus and Boeing, the lessor notes in “Aircraft Retirement and Storage Trends,” a study released late last month.

Intelligence

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WestJet Using 767s To Test Domestic Strategies?

Apr 06, 2015
WestJet’s decision to break in its Boeing 767s on the competitive Toronto-Calgary route could be more than just strategy to winning the ETOPS certification needed to operate overwater flights, analysts at Raymond James say. “If this increased frequency . . . is successful at attracting more passengers, especially in the corporate segment, it could become regular part of WestJet’s summer schedule as it transitions ‘sun destination’ capacity to the domestic market after the winter months,” a Raymond James research note says.

MRO

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North America Poised To Keep More Widebody MRO Work Home

Apr 06, 2015
“An examination of the flow of maintenance work among and between regions reveals that North America contracts more airframe maintenance to the rest of the world than it provides to other regions,” Cavok notes in is recently released 2015 MRO forecast.

Industry Data

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Airport Profile: Kansas City International (MCI)

Apr 06, 2015
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Funding & Policy

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Carter Begins Asian Tour

Apr 06, 2015
This week, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter kicks off the first of two planned trips to Asia “to affirm defense relationships with allies and build upon key initiatives of the rebalance to the region,” the Pentagon says. His first stops are Japan on April 7, and South Korea on April 9. Next month, on the second leg of the tour, he will address the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore and visit India. Meanwhile, in Washington on Tuesday, the Center for Strategic and International Studies hosts a discussion on next steps in U.S.

Programs

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F135 Fix Nears Completion As Production Ramps Up

Apr 06, 2015
Pratt & Whitney is ramping up retrofits to operational F135 engines with a fix to the problem that led to a catastrophic engine fire last year in the F-35A Joint Strike Fighter, and aims to modify the entire fleet by the first quarter of 2016.