Demand for Chinese domestic air travel is looking sickly. China Southern Airlines, reporting a surprisingly large 10% drop in passenger yield for the first half of 2013, complains that competition has become all the more fierce because of slowing demand, “rapidly increasing capacity of the airline industry” and expansion of the national high-speed rail network.
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Philippine carrier Cebu Pacific is preparing to launch its long-haul expansion with newly-arrived Airbus A330-300s, but will fly the aircraft on existing Asian routes first. The airline received its first A330 in June, and it has been used on routes from Manila to Singapore and Seoul. With the arrival of the second A330 on Sept. 5, the carrier will deploy A330s on select flights from Manila to domestic destination Cebu and to Hong Kong, between Sept. 16 and Oct. 4.
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Snecma is planning another series of open-rotor wind tunnel tests in the weeks ahead as it moves towards a ground demonstration of a full-scale engine in 2015 under Europe’s Clean Sky civil-aviation research program. The high-speed test of the 1/5th-scale model in French research agency Onera’s large S1MA tunnel at Modan, in the Rhone-Alps region, will focus on demonstrating the potential fuel-burn reduction with the counter-rotating open-rotor engine.
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Brazil’s air navigation service provider, Decea, over the next year will roll out public-use required navigation performance (RNP) procedures at 10 airports in the southeast portion of the country, in part to aid with the expected travel surges for the upcoming 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics. Based on GPS positioning, the RNP procedures deployed in multiple city-pairs at the 10 airports will shorten routes, saving fuel and reducing CO2 emissions.
Canadian operator Sky Regional now operates all 15 Embraer 175s previously included in Air Canada’s fleet, just two months later than initially planned when the transfer was unveiled in October 2012. The regional jets, which have been phased in since March, are operated under the Air Canada Express brand, as are five Bombardier Q400s also operated under contract by Sky Regional. Air Canada’s regional partners also include Jazz, Air Georgian and EVAS.
Cathay Pacific has filed its first official objection to Jetstar’s attempt to set up a low-cost carrier in Hong Kong. While Cathay has made no secret of its opposition to Jetstar Hong Kong, it now has launched its counter-attack through the regulatory process. The Jetstar application for an air transport license was published in the Hong Kong government gazette on Aug. 23, which began the public comment period. Cathay says it has “filed a formal objection.”
Three important merger activities should be completed this week at Kellstrom Materials, the company formed through Kellstrom Commercial Aerospace’s May 17 purchase of AirLiance Materials from Lufthansa Technic. The combined company will start using Kellstrom’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) system Phoenix, which will go live at the legacy AirLiance facility near Chicago O’Hare International Airport.
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Council has agreed to a compromise solution on the introduction of global market based measures (MBMs) to tackle aviation emissions. The council accepted the principle of regional emissions trading schemes and agreed to have a single global MBM for aviation to be implemented from 2020. The principles for a global MBM should be adopted at ICAO’s assembly in 2016.
Porter Airlines has submitted a second proposal to reduce noise as public consultations begin on its request to extend the runway at Toronto’s downtown island airport and allow it to operate Bombardier CSeries jets. The original plan, submitted in April when Porter placed a conditional order for up to 30 107-seat CS100s, is to extend the runway by 168 meters at each end. The new proposal would increase that to 200 meters at each end to allow a reduced-thrust departure to lower noise.
The aerospace unit of Fuji Heavy Industries (FHI) is aiming to cut costs by almost half, in an intensive, eight-year effort that began in fiscal 2008. The effort has two sides. One is to reduce labor expenditure by 30% by cutting non-value time, minutes that employees spend without working on the product—for example, by walking to fetch tools. Then the remaining labor is to be cut by a further 30% by reducing value time, meaning that less work must be applied directly in creating a component, such as a Boeing 777 or 787 center wingbox.
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Ryanair has warned investors that the airline’s full year results likely will end up at the lower end of its existing guidance. The airline currently predicts a €570-600 million ($750-790 million) net profit for the fiscal year.
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Boeing says a preliminary investigation of a Aug. 27 inflight shutdown of a CFM International CFM56-7B engine on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-700 indicates it was almost certainly a thrust instability event, most likely triggered by fuel contamination. The shutdown, which occurred after take-off on a flight from Los Angeles International Airport to Seattle–Tacoma International Airport, forced the crew to return to Los Angeles.
