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Jazz Aviation and Air Canada have agreed to amend and extend their capacity-purchase agreement (CPA) for regional flying, and Jazz has reached a

The FAA is asking industry for advice on how to best mitigate a telecommunications technology-obsolescence issue that will increasingly become

By Victoria Moores
Finnair and South African Airways (SAA) have become the first two airlines to achieve the highest level of IATA Environmental Assessment (IEnvA)

By Sean Broderick
Any reduction in airliner order books due to low oil prices would emerge gradually as carriers hang on to delivery slots and make regular payments to

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By Bradley Perrett
BEIJING—Mitsubishi Aircraft ran an engine on the first flight-test aircraft for its MRJ regional-jet program on Jan. 13, and is working toward a first

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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 Jens Flottau
The union wrote in a memo to its members that “every single one should be aware of the dimension of this radical, structural change” for which Lufthansa’s management has been aiming.

By Adrian Schofield
Flights to London and other European cities will be an option when the carrier’s Airbus A330neo orders begin arriving, AirAsia X CEOAzran Osman-Rani tells Aviation Week.
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By Sean Broderick
The GAO analysis attempts to quantify what raising the PFC—which has been capped since 2000—would do to overall funding, factoring in any reduction in tax revenue caused by a reduction in air travel due to perceived higher fares.

The order, booked in December, was previously attributed to an unidentified customer on the Boeing orders and deliveries website.

Daniel Shurz, senior vice president of commercial, said in an interview that considerable guesswork went into Trenton because before Frontier began service in November 2012.

By Jay Menon
“We are proud to be the first Embraer operator in Indonesia and we look forward to enhancing our operations, especially in the Kalimantan area, with the introduction of these E195s,” Kalstar Aviation CEO Andi Masyhur says.

By Bradley Perrett
In its application to the U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) for the route, the Chinese carrier proposes to begin flying between Shanghai and Boston three times a week beginning in the second quarter of 2015.

Fatal landing accidents at San Francisco and Birmingham in 2013 as well as four non-fatal incidents—two runway excursions and two wrong-runway

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By Jens Flottau
“If we had known that the 787 was delayed so much we would not have ordered any,” Al Baker said after disembarking from the first scheduled A350 flight from Doha, Qatar to Frankfurt, Germany.

By Jens Flottau
The cabin modifications would be ready toward the end of the decade, according to Executive Vice-President Programs Didier Evrard, who is also still running the A350 program.

By Guy Norris
“Some of those freight customers are asking us for those systems today,” says John Tracy, chief technology officer and senior vice president of Engineering, Operations & Technology at Boeing.

By Guy Norris
The award is a key breakthrough for GKN, which has been working to build up its winglet work with Boeing.

The Belgian airline, a fully owned subsidiary of Europe’s largest tourism group, TUI Travel, will put the four aircraft on its air operator’s certificate (AOC) and also provide pilots and cabin crew.

The Indonesian government suspended Indonesia AirAsia from operating the Surabaya-Singapore route altogether in early January.

By Adrian Schofield
The carrier has promoted Shannon Okinaka to replace Topping.