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Aviation Daily, April 21, 2015

VOL. 401 NO. 15 April 21, 2015

Airlines

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TAP Pilots Set to Strike For 10 Days In May

Apr 20, 2015
Members of the Portuguese Civil Aviation Pilots’ Union (SPAC) will go on strike between May 1-10, grounding most scheduled flights, ahead of the May 15 deadline for interested parties to submit their bids for TAP Group’s part-privatization.
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DOT: Alaska Can Transfer LAX-Mexico City Authority To American

Apr 20, 2015
The decision will allow American to start double daily service between the two cities as soon as June 5, with Alaska placing its code on the flights.
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ANA’s Latest Moves Will Boost Transpacific Flow, Kunugi Says

Apr 20, 2015
The Houston-Tokyo Narita route—announced in December and launching June 12—will increase ANA’s passenger feed from the southern U.S. and South and Central American markets, newly appointed ANA Senior Vice President-Americas Hideki Kunugi said.
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United To Switch To 767s On Four Newark Transatlantic Routes

Apr 20, 2015
Beginning on Oct. 25, United will swap to widebody aircraft on flights to Hamburg, Berlin, Barcelona and Madrid.

MRO

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Ranger Invests In InTech Aerospace To Grow Interior Services

Apr 16, 2015
Often done to coincide with an aircraft down for a heavy check, an InTech team comes in and removes the interior, cleans and overhauls the components and then reinstalls the cabin as a turnkey service.

Avionics

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Honeywell Launches Uplink Weather Service

Apr 20, 2015
The Weather Information Service application, available for Window-based tablets and Apple iOS devices, overlays weather data from government meteorological sources onto the aircraft’s filed flight plan, helping crews and dispatchers make strategic inflight decisions about routes and altitudes.

Airframers/Suppliers

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MRJ Flight-Testing Rejig Protects Delivery Target

Apr 17, 2015
Ground-testing revealed a software bug and a need to change some of the MRJ structure, the company says.

Airports

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Drone Forces Manchester Airport To Halt Operations

Apr 20, 2015
Operations at the U.K.’s third-busiest airport were halted for 20 min. during the late morning of April 20, after a drone was spotted near one of the airport’s two runways.

Intelligence

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Jet Aviation Establishing Bizav MRO In Macau

Apr 21, 2015
SHANGHAI—Jet Aviation is establishing a maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility at Macau International Airport, after securing a 10-year concession from the airport authority. The airport has built a hangar to house the 4,000-sq.-meter (43,000-sq.-ft.) new maintenance shop, which is supposed to begin operating in August under the name Jet Aviation Macao. Apart from maintaining aircraft, it will clean them and provide parking services, says Jet Aviation, a subsidiary of General Dynamics.

Forecasts/Industry Data

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Airport Profile - Louis Armstrong New Orleans International (MSY)

Apr 21, 2015
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