Aviation Daily

By Adrian Schofield
Ceasing A330 operations was among the first measures announced following Skymark’s Jan.28 filing for bankruptcy protection.

By Graham Warwick
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.

By Maxim Pyadushkin
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.

The new configuration would allow United to install 364 seats on each aircraft, nearly 100 more than the airline has on many of its three-class 777s.
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By Adrian Schofield
Malaysian carrier AirAsia X will suspend trading of its shares on Jan. 30, due to what is expected to be the announcement of a new share-rights offer

/site-files/aviationweek.com/files/uploads/2015/01/avd_01_30_2015_fuelw.pdf Global Jet Fuel Prices (midpoint)* As of January 28, 2015, compared with previous week and previous year cts/gal prev. week prev. year NY Jet Barges 155.38 -2.66 -148.57 Chicago Jet 153.38 2.84 -136.4 West Coast (LA) Jet 148.88 -1.16 -144.15 Europe: Rotterdam Jet (Barges) 157.00 1.81 -138.74

/site-files/aviationweek.com/files/uploads/2015/01/avd_01_30_2015_cht1.pdf Mishandled Baggage Reports - U.S. Airlines October 2014 Rank Airline Total Baggage

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.

To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected] . (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) Feb. 2- —MRO Middle East, Dubai World Trade Center, Dubai, UAE, www.aviationweek.com/events Feb. 3-6—National Business Aviation Association Schedulers and Dispatchers Conference, San Jose, California, www.nbaa.org/events/sdc/2015/

For a complete list of Aviation Week’s upcoming events, and to register, visit www.aviationweek.com/events Feb. 2-3—MRO Middle East, Dubai World Trade Center, Dubai, UAE Mar. 5—Laureate Awards, Washington, D.C.

By Adrian Schofield
The new orders comprise three Boeing 787-10s, five 737-800s, four Airbus A321ceos, and three A321neos.

By Sean Broderick
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.

Oakland now has five weekly nonstop flights to New York operated by JetBlue Airways, and Southwest Airlines operates a daily flight to Baltimore.

By Jens Flottau
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.

By Adrian Schofield
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.

By Guy Norris, Bradley Perrett, Maxim Pyadushkin
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.

The major driver was a new price-optimization system that allows JetBlue to set fees for the product by seat and by flight.

By Tony Osborne
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.

By Mark Nensel
According to the carrier, this marked the best full-year performance since 2010, when the company posted a net profit of $110.3 million.

By Tony Osborne
Two Tu-95MS Russian bombers carried out a long-range probing flight around the U.K. coastline on Jan. 28.

/site-files/aviationweek.com/files/uploads/2015/01/avd_01_29_2015_dataw.pdf U.S. Airlines, Ranked by January-September 2014 Systemwide (Domestic and International) Scheduled Enplanements Jan-Sep 2014 Rank Carrier

The CEOs of American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines are huddling with Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and Commerce Secretary

/site-files/aviationweek.com/files/uploads/2015/01/avd_01_29_2015_cht1.pdf U.S. Airlines, Ranked by January-September 2014 Systemwide (Domestic and

In a letter to the secretaries of State, Commerce and Transportation obtained by The DAILY, Hayes expresses JetBlue’s “unwavering support” for the open skies regime.
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