Airbus looks set to finally catch up with Boeing in the Japanese market following a major deal for Airbus A350s from Japan Airlines (JAL). JAL yesterday announced a deal that includes a firm order for 18 A350-900s and 13 A350-1000s and options for a further 25 aircraft, with deliveries scheduled to start in 2019. The order is the first widebody commitment for Airbus aircraft by either Japan Airlines or All Nippon Airways, the dominant airlines in Japan. JAL inherited a fleet for Airbus A300s when it acquired Japan Air System.
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The construction of a new and much-larger MRO facility in Batam will allow Indonesia’s Lion Air to move into third-party maintenance work, as well as catering to the carrier’s own rapid fleet growth.
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The owners of London’s Heathrow Airport say they face a huge challenge in raising capital investment after the U.K. Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) put a halt to the airport’s plans to increase per-passenger charges.
Lufthansa has canceled orders for three Airbus A380s in an effort to contain long-haul growth. The latest Airbus orders and deliveries figures, released Oct. 4, list 14 firm orders for the carrier, compared to 17 in July; Lufthansa also confirms the decision. The airline currently operates 10 A380s.
Slovenia’s Adria Airways is developing a strategic plan that will see the airline double the number of passengers between now and 2020. The airline is aiming to carry two million passengers in 2020 by strengthening its share in the inbound tourism market and developing secondary bases in the region, CEO Mark Anzur told Aviation Week last week at the European Regions Airline Association annual general assembly in Salzburg, Austria.
European Union officials late last week welcomed a deal on a global system to limit aviation emissions, which was agreed Oct. 4 at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Assembly in Montreal, even though it bars the unilateral expansion of Europe’s Emissions Trading System (ETS) to include foreign airlines.
Among airlines, manufacturers and the finance community, news of yet another mid-life aircraft being harvested for parts will rekindle the debate about adjusting the useful life of an airframe.
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By Paul Rinaldi, President, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association Many people dismiss the effects of a government shutdown on the air traffic control system because controllers continue to work. But this is not the whole picture. No one should be under the illusion that it is business as usual for air traffic control under a shutdown. The air traffic control environment can be likened to a hospital’s operating room.
ATR’s largest customer, lessor Nordic Aviation Capital (NAC), wants the manufacturer to develop a proposed 90-seat turboprop. NAC Chairman Martin Moeller, speaking yesterday on the sidelines of the European Regions Airline Association (ERA) annual general assembly in Salzburg, Austria, said, “When we talk to airlines, we see a lot of demand [for such an aircraft]. It is about time.” Moeller added that ATR’s CEO Filippo Bagnato “is understating the demand for the 90-seater.”
The FAA yesterday ordered Boeing 767 operators to inspect main landing gear (MLG) components and revise maintenance programs after cracks and heat damage to pivot joint components were found during dozens of gear overhauls. The damaged components included pivot pins, truck beam lugs and inner cylinder lugs, all found in the center of the gear truck between the two sets of wheels. “Heat damage and cracks were found at the pivot joint location [and] caused by the truck pitching motion during normal airplane operations,” Boeing says in a service bulletin.
India’s cabinet has approved the sale of a 24% stake in Jet Airways to Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways, paving the way for the first deal between a local and a foreign carrier since last year’s change to the country’s airline ownership laws. The Indian government decided in September 2012 to allow foreign airlines to acquire up to 49% in domestic carriers.
