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Aviation Daily, June 24, 2015

VOL. 401 NO. 60 June 24, 2015

Airlines

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ICAO Safety Warning Prompts Route Cut By Thai Carrier

Jun 23, 2015
ICAO found oversight problems with Thailand’s Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) during a safety audit earlier this year, and as a result some countries—including Japan— have restricted new service by Thai airlines.
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British Airways To Quiet Down A320 Family

Jun 23, 2015
The company has confirmed it will install the vortex generators in front of the aircraft’s Fuel Over Pressure Protector cavities, which when left unmodified can produce a high-pitched whistling noise, generally recorded when the aircraft is around 10-25 mi. from touchdown.
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Premium Traffic Growth Continues At A Sluggish Pace

Jun 23, 2015
Year-over-year premium international traffic was up 4.9% in April, bettering March 4.6%, IATA notes. But bigger-picture trends continue to suggest the relative stagnation since mid-2014 is not going away anytime soon.
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Viljoen Confirmed As Fiji Airways CEO

Jun 23, 2015
The carrier’s previous CEO, Stefan Pichler, departed to lead Air Berlin in February, although he remained as a board member with Fiji Airways. The carrier confirmed it was interviewing three candidates in April, and Viljoen was believed to be one of them.

MRO

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Airbus To Acquire Air New Zealand MRO Subsidiary

Jun 22, 2015
Safe Air works extensively with military customers, but also performs some MRO work for Air New Zealand as well as for airlines in Australia and elsewhere.

Airframers/Suppliers

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Ex-Embraer Executive Leads Superjet Commercial Revamp

Jun 23, 2015
Eduardo Munhos de Campos, who was vice president for sales at Embraer until October last year, is heading efforts to establish a single, unified worldwide commercial structure for the Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100). Plans to bundle the commercial and marketing activities of Superjet Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company (SCAC) and its Italy-based affiliate, Superjet International (SJI), were made more than a year ago—but progress had been slow—partially due to the restructuring of Finmeccanica and management changes at United Aircraft Corporation (UAC).
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Airbus CEO: Aerospace Must Embrace Startup Tech, Culture

Jun 23, 2015
Aerospace must embrace the technology sector or risk its business being disrupted by the fast pace of development in other industries, says Airbus Group CEO Tom Enders, speaking at the AIAA Aviation 2015 forum here June 22.

Regulatory/Legislative

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Senate Overwhelmingly Confirms Neffenger As TSA Administrator

Jun 23, 2015
The Senate’s decision fills a void at the top of TSA that was created when former administrator John Pistole retired at the end of 2014.