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U.S. Gulf Coast Kerosene-Type Jet Fuel Spot Price, showing the current week and comparisons to the same week for each year of the past decade. Figures are released every two weeks by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Airlines & Lessors

By Henry Canaday
Briefs from the April 23, 2014 issue of ATW’s MRO Digest
Maintenance & Training

By Henry Canaday
Ameco Beijing has provided line maintenance and releasing services for Hawaiian Airlines three times a week, coupled with A checks since Hawaiian’s first flight between Honolulu and Beijing opened April 16.
Maintenance & Training

By Henry Canaday
China Airlines has gone live with a full-fleet upgrade to the Mxi Technologies’ Maintenix version 8 MRO software.
Maintenance & Training

By Henry Canaday
STS Component Solutions, a division of STS Aviation Group, has entered into an agreement for parts distribution with Air Maintenance Estonia (AME).
Maintenance & Training

By Henry Canaday
MRO Velocity Aerospace Group has acquired EDN Aviation of Van Nuys, Calif., in a move that expands Velocity’s repair and overhaul capabilities into control panel services.
Maintenance & Training

By Henry Canaday
Trine Aerospace & Defense has earned FAA Part 145 approval as a certified repair station.
Maintenance & Training

Hawaiian Airlines parent Hawaiian Holdings incurred a first-quarter net loss of $5.1 million, narrowed from a net deficit of $17.2 million in the year-ago period.
Airlines & Lessors

By Linda Blachly
The National Mediation Board has announced that JetBlue Airways’ 2,529 pilots voted overwhelmingly to join the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA).
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Alan Dron
Doha’s long-delayed Hamad International Airport (HIA) will open April 30 with a “soft launch,” eventually switching 10 carriers to the new airport.
Airports & Networks

By Linda Blachly
Lufthansa has inked an agreement with Gevo Inc. to evaluate its renewable jet fuel with the goal of approving Gevo’s alcohol-to-jet fuel (ATJ) for commercial aviation use.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Utah-based SkyWest Inc., parent of regional carriers SkyWest Airlines and ExpressJet Airlines, warned that the negative consequences of severe weather during the first quarter will likely sink the company to a loss for the period.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
Kuwait’s Jazeera Airways posted a first-quarter profit of KD2.1 million ($7.4 million), down 41.8% compared to KD3.6 million in the year-ago period.
Airlines & Lessors

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport will transfer flights to Simferopol, Crimea, to the Federal zone of Terminal D starting April 25, where passengers will be registered on the counters of domestic airlines.
Airports & Networks

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Surgut-based Kolavia Airline, operating under the MetroJet brand, will merge with regional carrier Air Samara.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
STG Aerospace is hoping to certify its retrofit ambient lighting system for the Airbus A320 family and Boeing 757 by the end of this year, after securing Dutch charter airline Arkefly as its launch customer on the Boeing 737-800.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Turkish Airlines has launched 3X-weekly Istanbul-Stavropol service, its 247th destination and 10th Russian route.
Airports & Networks

Delta Air Lines has finished installing fully lie-flat seats in the business-class sections of its entire widebody international fleet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

MRO News
Maintenance & Training

Worldwide airlines ranked by available Passenger Load Factor percentage, high-to-low, year-to-date.
Airlines & Lessors

The latest available worldwide airport passenger traffic and aircraft movements by month and year-to-date.
Airlines & Lessors

Air China subsidiary Shandong Airlines has placed a firm order for 50 Boeing 737 aircraft, including 737NGs and 737 MAXs.
Aircraft & Propulsion

A 16-year-old boy has apparently survived flying more than five hours as a stowaway in the landing gear of a Hawaiian Airlines Boeing 767.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Linda Blachly
FAA has announced the first of six test sites chosen to perform unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) research is operational, more than two-and-a -half months ahead of a congressionally mandated deadline.
Maintenance & Training

By Joe Anselmo
US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) chairman Deborah Hersman said the enactment of rules to prohibit airline passengers from carrying children under two years of age in their laps is one of her biggest pieces of unfinished business as she prepares to leave the board after 10 years.
Safety, Ops & Regulation