LHTMES could announce a letter of intent this week for a space that could be ready in a little more than a year, according to Ziad Faisal Al Hazmi, CEO of the Dubai-based company.
The CEOs met with Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and Commerce Secretary Penny Prtizker, along with senior members of the White House economic team, last week to make these requests (Aviation DAILY, Jan. 30).
Las Vegas is a top destination for Japanese tourists, but almost all of them arrive via a West Coast-gateway city such as Los Angeles or San Francisco, Chris Jones, a spokesman for McCarran, said.
The sharp drop in fuel prices, to under $2 per gallon of jet fuel, is too recent to effect change, and airlines are continuing to make their network and fleet plans based on crude oil prices of $100 per barrel, where they were for the bulk of last year.
The program will increase the 50-seat Dash 8-300 turboprop’s service life by about 15 years, to 120,000 flight cycles from the original 80,000, and is part of a fleet rationalization under Jazz’s new capacity purchase agreement (CPA) with Air Canada.
According to the preliminary data provided by Russia’s Transport Clearing House, local airlines carried 93 million passengers last year, a 10% increase over 2013.
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American Airlines’ pilots, represented by the Allied Pilots Association (APA), approved a five-year contract, and thus avoided binding arbitration stipulated by the American-US Airways merger agreement. Management and the union hammered out the new contract, which includes a 23% pay raise, in late December, and union leadership submitted the contract for a vote by members earlier this month. With the deal, all American and US Airways pilots will be governed by the same contract.
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Contrary to established norms, however, that focus should be less on their few top priorities and more on finding common ground with other industry stakeholders, so FAA funding can be de-politicized, loosening Washington’s grip on the aviation industry, consultancy IFC International argues.
In what is by far the most high-profile investment made by any of the three Gulf carriers, Qatar Airways has bought a 9.99% stake in International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG), the parent of British Airways, Iberia and Vueling.
Kamarudin Meranun, AirAsia co-founder, has been appointed to the new role of AirAsia X Group CEO, where he will spearhead development of the “overarching strategy” for the carrier and its new joint venture affiliates in Thailand and Indonesia.
Still, UAC has more experience in major composite structures than the Chinese industry has, although Avic, Comac’s airframe supplier, owns Austrian composites-specialist FACC.
A new management team, led by CEO Andrew Swaffield, overhauled the 47-year-old airline’s cost base in order to prepare the airline for new ownership after several years of losses.
