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Airbus Group is taking a €434 million extraordinary charge in its 2013 results for the A350 program as the company struggles with higher than expected recurring costs for the new widebody aircraft. CEO Tom Enders says he cannot guarantee that the charge will be the last related to the aircraft. He admits that “it is a sizeable charge”, but stresses that the A350 will “still be a competitive program.”
Facing major pricing pressures in some key markets, Volaris is banking on a revamped ancillary revenue strategy to deliver a revenue boost more in line with its traffic increase.
Indonesia’s flag carrier, PT Garuda Indonesia, will file for an initial public offering (IPO) this coming April. The carrier hopes to raise 1.6 trillion rupiah ($135 million) from a rights issue, according to its stock exchange filing. Garuda, which has undergone what it calls a “Quantum Leap” business transformation program over the last three years, will issue 3.2 billion shares through joint underwriters Bahana Securities, Mandiri Sekuritas and Danareksa.
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BRUSSELS — Kenya Airways is preparing for delivery of its first Boeing 787-8—its first of a firm order for nine of the type—in early April, about four years later than initially planned. The aircraft will enter commercial service with flights from the airline’s hub at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to Johannesburg O.R. Tambo International Airport in South Africa, a spokeswoman confirmed to Aviation Week. Intercontinental flights to Paris Charles de Gaulle with 787s will start in June, she says.
Royal Jordanian will suspend services to Alexandria, Egypt, in April and Colombo, Sri Lanka and Milan Malpensa in May, after passenger numbers declined, making the three routes unprofitable. Jordan’s national carrier, which was privatized in 2007 with the government retaining a 29% shareholding, says the move comes as part of regular reviews of its route network. The airline notes that the introduction of Boeing 787-8 aircraft in the coming months will create possibilities to “open promising markets.”
As Rolls-Royce focuses on development of the Trent XWB for the Airbus A350 and the next version of Trent 1000 TEN for the Boeing 787, the company has unveiled its strategic roadmap for a new generation of turbofans for 2020 and beyond.
Airbus is raising the production rate of its narrowbody line, boosting output from the current 42 aircraft per month to 46 by the second quarter of 2016. That move is to be preceded by an interim step up from 42 to 44 in the first quarter of 2016. The increase has been expected after Airbus CEO Fabrice Bregier said in January that single aisle output has “upside potential.”
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The end of the code share agreement between Qantas and South African Airways (SAA) will likely open the way for SAA to further extend its new relationship with Virgin Australia. The recent announcement that Qantas and SAA will terminate their partnership on important Australia-South Africa routes came soon after SAA struck a code share deal with Virgin to improve access to certain Australian cities. It has long been apparent that regulatory headaches had put the Qantas-SAA relationship in doubt.
Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic are modifying the interior of SpaceShipTwo (SS2) to accommodate the final configuration of the rocket motor that will be used to power the space vehicle to suborbital space later this year. The modifications also include fitting the interior and passenger seats for the first time. Completion work on the cabin, and the upgrades to install the full-duration-capable Sierra Nevada RM2 motor, are expected to take several months and will pave the way to the fourth powered test flight (PF04) around mid-year.
Garuda Indonesia will become a full member of SkyTeam on March 5, boosting the alliance’s presence in the Asia-Pacific region to seven airlines and growing the alliance group’s membership to 20 airlines globally. Garuda will be SkyTeam’s second member airline from Southeast Asia, after Vietnam Airlines.
Research commissioned by the Transportation Research Board’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) could help redefine the thresholds for homes and schools that qualify for government-funded soundproofing near large metropolitan airports.
The U.S. faces “an infrastructure deficit” that could have negative consequences for commercial aviation, U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said today. Speaking to the Aero Club of Washington DC, Foxx pointed out that civil aviation contributes $1.3 trillion to the U.S. economy annually. “The industry supports more jobs than exist in the whole state of New York,” he said.
Iberia management concluded an agreement in principle with representatives of four of five of its cabin crew unions on the terms of a new collective bargaining agreement through 2017, following a similar deal reached two weeks ago with the pilots’ union Sepla. Both agreements still need to be approved by a vote of the flight attendants who are members of the SITCPLA, CTA Vuelo, UGT, and CCOO unions, and by the pilots. The Stavla union, which represents 30% of the airline’s approximate 3,300 cabin staff, has not signed the agreement.
Even as some Asian flag carriers, such as Malaysian and Thai, are reporting lackluster performance and potential route cuts, Middle East carriers seem happy to continue their push into the regional Asian market. Qatar Airways, currently flying to only three Asia/China destinations—Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing—has signed a “strategic agreement” that will see the airline fly direct for the first time from its base at Doha International to Hong Kong International.
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AgustaWestland has begun the certification test phase for its AW609 commercial tiltrotor. The two AW609 prototypes, AC1 in the U.S. and AC2 in Italy, have flown almost 1,000 hr. between them, a third of which were flown in the last two years since AgustaWestland took full control of the program from Bell Helicopter, which was a partner until 2011.
