Turkish Airlines is adding to its substantial order book for narrowbodies with another major purchase. The fast-growing carrier revealed in a note to the Istanbul stock exchange that it will order 95 Boeing 737s—20 737-800s, 65 737-8 MAX and 10 737-9 MAX. The order complements a previous one for 82 Airbus A320-family aircraft, among them 53 A321NEOs, four A320NEOs and 25 A321s.
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The growth of Jetstar’s New Zealand domestic operation is likely to continue, with a senior airline executive acknowledging the carrier is considering bringing in additional aircraft to boost market share. Jetstar has nine Airbus A320s based in New Zealand and has captured 22% of the domestic market, says David Hall, who heads Jetstar’s Australian and New Zealand operations. Hall tells Aviation Week he would like to see this share grow to 30%, which would be a “good position” in a market dominated by an incumbent national carrier like Air New Zealand.
Ecuadorian airline TAME will enter the widebody and long-haul market with the introduction of its first Airbus A330-200 in July. TAME plans to operate the aircraft on the Quito-New York route exclusively, TAME CEO Rafael Farias told Aviation Week. The aircraft is on a six-year lease.
MTU Aero Engines CFO Rainer Winkler will replace CEO Egon Behle by the end of the year. MTU said Behle, 57, decided not to extend his contract, which will expire at the end of the year. Behle and MTU both cited personal reasons for the decision.
Lufthansa Cargo is in talks with undisclosed Asian carriers about possibly forming a joint venture that will enable the European carrier to tap intra-Asian traffic.“We are talking to various partners about collaborating on the network side,” says Lufthansa Cargo VP-Asia Pacific Helge Kruger-Lorenzen, adding that “maybe we will end up collaborating with someone from Star Alliance.” Four Star Alliance carriers operate in Asia: All Nippon Airways, China Airlines, Singapore Airlines and Thai Airways International.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) will spend the next 12 months creating a dedicated aircraft rescue firefighting (ARFF) force at the four New York-area airports it owns and operates—John F. Kennedy (JFK), Teterboro, LaGuardia, and Newark Liberty International—after acknowledging lapses including allowing untrained Port Authority police officers to serve on active ARFF duty.
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One night last February, a single-engine light aircraft skidded to a stop on the main runway at the Salisbury-Wicomico County Airport after its gear collapsed on landing. Leaving the aircraft on the runway, the pilot got out, shut off the lights and walked to a nearby facility for help.
Saab says a virtual tower system operating in Norway has successfully passed acceptance site testing, clearing the way for certification trials. The milestone comes two months after Saab successfully completed acceptance site testing for another remote tower (r-TWR) system prototype, operating at the Sundsvall and Ornskoldsvik airports in Sweden.
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Boeing April 5 completed the final certification test for the modified 787 battery system during a demonstration flight for the FAA, using LN86, a production aircraft destined for LOT Polish Airlines.
As Boeing celebrates the opening of a new home for deliveries from its widebody aircraft factory at Everett, north of Seattle, the FAA says it may close the control tower at the airport the airframer uses to make those deliveries. The agency already is set to close the tower near Boeing’s other big factory, in Renton, Wash.
Finnair has looked again outside the airline industry for a chief executive with the appointment of Pekka Vauramo, effective June 1. Vauramo currently is chief operating officer of the Hong Kong-based MacGregor business unit of Cargotec, a Finnish cargo and load handling services company for the shipping industry. He will succeed Mika Vehvilainen, who resigned at the end of February to head Cargotec as president and CEO. Before joining Finnair in 2010, Vehvilainen worked for Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks.
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The FAA has mandated a Boeing-recommended fix to install new elevator components on all 737 Next Generation aircraft that addresses a problem linked to at least two instances of inflight elevator vibrations. The airworthiness directive (AD 2013-06-05), based on a Boeing service bulletin issued in April 2012, gives operators 60 months to replace left and right elevator tab control mechanisms with pieces with modified attach lugs, or modifying the lug assemblies alone.
