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Irish lessor Avolon owns the Lion Air Boeing 737-800 that crashed short of the runway at Denpassar-Ngurah BAli International Airport. A source at Lion Air involved in fleet management tells Aviation Week that the carrier recently completed a sale and leaseback deal with Avolon on six new 737-800s, one of which was PK-LKS, the aircrfat involved in the accident. That aircraft on April 13 landed in water just short of Runway 09. The aircraft then washed up on rocks about 50 meters from shore and broke into two.
If the U.S. Congress fails to approve the Obama administration’s requested plan for adjusting airport funding, the amount provided for airport grants will revert back to the status quo, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood tells lawmakers. The president’s budget request for fiscal 2014 reduces Airport Improvement Program (AIP) grants by about $450 million to $2.9 billion and increases passenger facility charges (PFCs) to $8 from $4.50.
The U.S. Transportation Department’s (DOT’s) fiscal 2014 budget request earmarks $225 million in off-budget money for a new-generation air traffic control facility in New York that would consolidate the New York Center and New York terminal radar approach control facilities. The plan to build a New York Integrated Control Facility (ICF)—a new type of center that serves both en route and terminal airspace—is not new. But the budgetary commitment is arguably the most significant signal yet that the FAA is ready to proceed with the project.
Aircastle is more than halfway to its target of investing $850 million in aircraft acquisitions this year when letters of intent are included in the total, the leaders of the Stamford, Conn.-based lessor say. The company is counting $279 million for closings or commitments in 2013 and early 2014 in its total, which suggests another $150 million attributable to the letters of intent.
NASA is planning full-scale ground and flight tests of an active flow control system that boosts rudder power, allowing an airliner’s vertical tail to be reduced in size, saving weight and drag. An aircraft’s vertical tail is hardly used in normal flight conditions, but its size is determined by one worst-case scenario: loss of an engine during takeoff, when maximum rudder deflection is needed to overcome the asymmetric thrust of the operating engine at full power and drag of the windmilling fan on the failed engine.
A chart in the April 15 issue of Aviation Daily detailing the FAA’s 2014 budget request should have specified that the Airports Grants total was $2.9 million.
Climate change will increase clear-air turbulence on transatlantic routes by the middle of this century, forcing longer detours, say U.K. researchers. Supercomputer simulations of the jet stream over the North Atlantic show both the frequency and strength of turbulence encounters will increase as the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rises.
United Airlines expects the first 15 gates of its new Terminal B south concourse at George Bush Intercontinental Airport to be fully operational by May 1 and that another 15 gates will be added by the end of the year. The $97-million 225,000 sq. ft. facility, which is dedicated to United Express regional flights, is almost four times the size of the previous south concourse. The concourse will handle a limited number of flights during the next two weeks.
Aegean Airlines has reiterated that it is imperative to form a larger Greek carrier to survive the protracted Greek recession and support the local economy. The airline’s warning follows indications by the European Commission (EC) that it will open a Phase II in-depth investigation into Aegean Airlines’ proposed acquisition of Olympic Air. Aegean offered to acquire its smaller competitor from Marfin Investment Group (MIG) in October for €72 million ($94 million).
Investigators are examining the actions of the pilots involved in a Lion Air crash on April 13, which was the result of a Boeing 737-800 landing short of the runway at Bali’s Denpasar-Ngurah Rai Bali International Airport. Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC) has questioned the pilots and they also have undergone drug and alcohol tests, which they have reportedly passed.
Air India and Caribbean Airlines in the next two months could begin negotiations to establish an interline agreement. The talks follow a visit to India by the Trinidad and Tobago-based airline’s Chairman Rabindra Moonan and CEO Robert Corbie. The two executives in a statement say Air India has agreed to start talks by mid-June to establish the interline accord with the intent to advance the relationship to a full code-share. Caribbean Airlines’ leadership also says the Indian government has committed “to seeing the initiative progress successfully.”
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Key U.S. lawmakers with oversight authority of the FAA continue to attack the agency over its sequestration-based decision to close 149 contract control towers on June 15. Leaders of the House Transportation and Infrastructure and Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation committees along with other lawmakers from both political parties on April 12 sent a letter to the FAA and to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood expressing “profound disappointment” with the closures, asserting that authorities still are unsure of the impact on aviation safety.
Qantas believes its first Boeing 787 delivery will be delayed up to two months by the battery issues that have grounded the 787 fleet, a senior airline executive says. The first delivery will occur after August, which was previously the target date for the 787’s arrival, says Simon Hickey, head of Qantas’s international operation. Hickey told reporters in Singapore that the latest delay is not expected to be more than “a couple of months.” A Qantas spokesman confirmed that media reports quoting Hickey’s comments were accurate.
Management at Thai Airways International’s new short-haul operation, Thai Smile, wants to double the operation’s fleet to 40 aircraft. “Twenty aircraft is still not enough capacity to ensure that Thai Smile adequately taps the intra-Asia opportunities,” particularly with Asia Pacific markets liberalizing, Managing Director Woranate Laprabang tells Aviation Week. “It has got to be 40 aircraft,” he continues, noting that a business plan for such a fleet has been sent to Thai Airways board of directors.
The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport Bi-County Board for Luzerne and Lackawanna counties is accepting Statements of Qualifications and Proposals from qualified Fixed Base Operators interested in performing Fixed Base Operator Services at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport. Statements of Qualifications and Proposals must be submitted by 1:30 p.m., Friday, May 10, 2013.
Malaysian carrier Malindo Air, which started operations in March and is 49% owned by Indonesia’s Lion Air, plans to operate ATR 72 turboprops out of Malaysia’s Subang Airport, says a source from Malaysia’s Department of Civil Aviation (DCA). “That is Malindo’s proposal. That’s their business plan. Yes, they want to fly turboprops out of Subang,” the source tells Aviation Week. The DCA however, has yet to grant the approval, the source adds.
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