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Aviation Daily, October 28, 2015

VOL. 403 NO. 18 October 28, 2015

Labor

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Republic Airways Pilots Finally Ratify Contract

Oct 27, 2015
Pilots at Republic Airways Holdings ratified a new three-year labor deal on Oct. 27, ending a contentious and sometimes nasty eight-year battle between the company and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT).

Airlines

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JetBlue Sees Fare Options Beat Expectations

Oct 27, 2015
JetBlue’s new fare-options program is exceeding financial expectations, management said on the carrier’s Oct. 27 third-quarter earnings call.
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Spirit Airlines May Take Utilization Down

Oct 27, 2015
Spirit Airlines, continuing to observe a “challenging revenue environment,” likely will ramp down utilization slightly next year in an attempt to improve operational reliability, executives said on Oct. 27.
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Xiamen Airlines Plans Two More 787-9s, NY Service

Oct 27, 2015
Xiamen Airlines plans to add two Boeing 787-9s—possibly leased—to four that it has on order, while applying for a low-frequency service to New York as an initial intercontinental route for the aircraft.
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Garuda To Boost Fleet Total By Year-End

Oct 27, 2015
Garuda Indonesia plans to progress its fleet-modernization program in the fourth quarter, adding new widebodies, narrowbodies and turboprops as older types are retired.
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Capital Airlines Plans Madrid, Melbourne Flights

Oct 23, 2015
Broadening its business beyond domestic narrowbody operations to embrace international widebody services, Beijing-based Capital Airlines has applied to begin flying intercontinental routes from Chinese secondary cities.

Intelligence

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Delta To Depart A4A; ATC Policy Differences Cited

Oct 27, 2015
The move by the world’s and U.S.’s second largest airline in terms of revenue, which will take effect April 26, 2016, is a blow to A4A’s mission of presenting a united front of U.S. carriers as it lobbies Congress and the White House on major industry issues.

Suppliers

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GE Unveils CMC Production Ramp-Up Plan

Oct 27, 2015
General Electric will develop Huntsville, Alabama-based production facilities dedicated to making materials for the ceramic matrix composites (CMC) that will feature in the new generation of CFM Leap and GE9X engines.

Airframers/Suppliers

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Do The Beaudoins Want Out Of Bombardier?

Oct 27, 2015
Maybe the Bombardier/Beaudoin family wants out of the troubled Canadian aerospace manufacturer after all—and maybe it’s not a bad thing.

MRO

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Delta Becomes First Independent Rolls-Royce Maintenance Center

Oct 27, 2015
Before Delta Air Lines signed a $5 billion contract with Rolls-Royce last year to supply Trent engines to power 25 Airbus A350s and 25 A330neos, it had also sought gaining maintenance approval for those engines as part of the “ancillary support that comes with those selections,” Delta TechOps MRO Services President Jack Arehart said.

Forecasts/Industry Data

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Leisure and Business Fares: Week of October 19

Oct 28, 2015
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