Air Lituanica this week launched scheduled operations with a six-weekly service from Vilnius Airport to Brussels Airport using an Embraer 170 wet-leased from Estonian Air. A second route, to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, will commence July 8, and a four-weekly service to Berlin Tegel Airport is scheduled to follow in August.
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Hainan Airlines is making a determined effort to set up a base in the western Chinese city of Chengdu, with two of its affiliates applying to set up branch companies there. The move increases pressure on Air China, which already is being challenged by China Eastern Airlines at its Chengdu hub. One of the Hainan Airlines divisions seeking expansion at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport is Lucky Air, which this week opened a third service to the city. All three routes go to Yunnan, the base province of Lucky Air.
The government of New Zealand is not taking a tough enough line on regulation of airport fees, resulting in high costs to airlines, says the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
“Numerous” close calls at airports with certain layouts and independent takeoff and landing operations have prompted the NTSB to ask the FAA for changes to certain air traffic control procedures. In a recommendation letter published July 1, the NTSB asks for new separation standards to set the procedures controllers use in situations in which an aircraft departs one runway and another aircraft is performing a go-around on a different, non-intersecting runway.
The Aeronautical Repair Station Association (ARSA), exasperated by the continued delay in the release of the congressionally mandated aircraft repair station security rule, is urging Congress to reverse course on the penalty it imposed in 2008 after the U.S. Transportation Security Administration failed to produce the rule. Congress nearly five years ago banned the FAA from certifying any new foreign repair station until the rule is released.
Engine manufacturers constantly trade claims over whose product performs best, traditionally comparing apples to apples, turbofan to turbofan. But as the battle to power the Airbus A320NEO intensifies, engine makers increasingly are exchanging fire over their technology choices. Pratt & Whitney’s success in winning five applications for its geared turbofan (GTF)—and defeating conventional turbofan offerings on four of them—has changed the tone of the engine war of words. No more apples to apples, it’s now architecture against architecture.
Nicholas Calio, president and CEO of Airlines for America (A4A), says airlines will be willing to support the FAA’s next-generation air transportation system (NextGen) programs if the agency can show economic or operational benefits, particularly in the near-term. “That hasn’t always been the case so far, and more often than not, it hasn’t” said Calio late last week in Washington at a one-day symposium held by the Air Line Pilots Association and National Air Traffic Controllers Union.
United Airlines is to issue a formal request for proposals (RFP) for renewable jet fuel as a follow-on to the Midwest Aviation Sustainable Biofuels Initiative (Masbi), which presented its recommendations late last week.
AirAsia Group is planning to add 10 Airbus aircraft each year to its recently approved Indian joint venture, which is expected to start operations by the end of the year. The joint venture, which includes Tata Group and Telestra Tradeplace as partners, already has permission from India’s Foreign Investment Promotion Board to invest 800 million rupees ($13.4 million) in the new airline, and is currently awaiting regulatory approval from the Ministry of Civil Aviation to begin operations.
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Delivery of British Airways’ (BA) first Boeing 787-8, registration G-ZBJA, was delayed due to technical problems and the aircraft celebrated as the carrier’s first delivery was in fact the second 787 to be built for the operator, Aviation Week has learned. This second aircraft, G-ZBJB, had always been scheduled to arrive at London Heathrow Airport June 27, while the first aircraft was due to be delivered June 26. However, G-ZBJA was pulled from delivery at Everett on June 25 due to a technical issue.
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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) in September will launch a second review of the interoperability of the Single European Sky ATM Research (Sesar) and FAA’s NextGen at the request of the U.S. House of Representatives aviation subcommittee. “Interoperability” refers to the ability for European and U.S. aircraft to use each other’s air traffic management systems as next-generation air traffic control systems come on line.
San Francisco-based Lam Aviation completed another round of flight tests using a Lancair Columbia fitted with its Lam Aileron, confirming a number of performance improvements that range from 30% improved fuel consumption to a 50% increase in rate of climb over the in-production aircraft, the company says.
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