Warren East, former CEO of semi-conductor firm ARM Holdings, will replace John Rishton from July 2, the company announced on April 22, just days after it concluded its largest ever non-governmental order from Emirates Airline for Trent 900 engines worth $9.26 billion.
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.
“We see no future in a protectionist aviation policy in Europe,” Air Berlin CEO Stefan Pichler said. “The liberalization of bilateral agreements will promote further consolidation and new innovative business models, thereby benefiting all passengers."
Delta Air Lines CEO Richard Anderson, American Airlines CEO Doug Parker and United Airlines CEO Jeff Smisek wrote to the secretaries of State, Commerce and Transportation, expressing alarm that the Gulf carriers have added new flights to the U.S. in the 10 weeks since they first asked the government to investigate the subsidies case.
The Budapest 2.0 project is a two-year program to demonstrate both remote tower operations for the airport and arrival and departure procedures in Budapest terminal airspace, including continuous descent approaches.
The March 24 crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 into the French Alps, thought to be deliberately caused by the first officer, “might cause us to reconsider systems which would allow the control of aircraft to be taken over by personnel on the ground in emergency situations,” according to DFS CEO Klaus-Dieter Scheurle.
DFW is in discussion with a number of international airlines, and by the end of this year, up to two are likely to confirm they will launch service, DFW CEO Sean Donohue told Aviation Daily.
The currently 6-ft.-tall perimeter fence is being raised to 10 ft., topped by one foot of barbed wire, Rosemary Barnes, SJC public information manager, told Aviation Daily.
“Our No. 1 priority is DFW,” said Kelly Fredericks, president and CEO of the Rhode Island Airport Corp. “We are the largest market in the U.S. that does not have Texas service. We think there is a clear demand for it.”
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.
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.
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.
Premium—or non-economy—traffic on international routes has been largely flat since August 2014, “consistent with a lagged response to the waning business confidence” throughout the second half of last year, IATA says.
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.
Brazilian manufacturer Embraer delivered 20 commercial aviation aircraft in the first quarter of 2015, which is six more than it did in the 2014 March quarter and a 42.9% increase year-over-year. All of the delivered aircraft were Embraer 175 models, including nine to SkyWest, six to Republic Airlines, two each to American Airlines and United Airlines, and one to Japan’s Suzuyo Corp., parent of Fuji Dream Airlines.
/site-files/aviationweek.com/files/uploads/2015/04/avd_04_17_2015_fuelw.pdf Global Jet Fuel Prices (midpoint)* As of April 15, 2015, compared with previous week and previous year cts/gal prev. week prev. year NY Jet Barges 182.10 18.99 -110.81
Honeywell, Inmarsat and satcoms-technology specialist Kymeta are developing a Ka-band antenna for business and commercial aviation that should offer better broadband service and suit installation in smaller aircraft.
For a complete list of Aviation Week’s upcoming events, and to register, visit www.aviationweek.com/events May 5-6, 2015—MRO BEER (Baltics, Eastern Europe, Russia), Budapest, Hungary Jun. 17, 2015—Commercial Aerospace Manufacturing Briefing C0-located with the International Paris Air Show, Auditorium, (Conference Centre - Hall 2C), 9:00am-11:15am
