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Mega Maldives Airlines plans to lease more aircraft over the next two years to aid its international expansion. “We’re looking to get one or two aircraft this year and two next year,” Mega Maldives CEO George Weinmann tells Aviation Week. “It will most likely be GE-powered 767s, but I wouldn’t rule out the 757.” Mega Maldives currently operates two General Electric-engined Boeing 767-300ERs and one Rolls-Royce-powered Boeing 757-200, according to the Aviation Week Intelligence Network fleets database.
A 45-year industry veteran who has taken command of California Pacific Airlines—a years-long startup based in Carlsbad, Calif.—says his operation could benefit from service cuts by larger airlines to medium-size and small communities. “There are other cities that I think are similarly situated,” says John Selvaggio, president and CEO. “There are several cities out there that are looking for service and have lost service that would probably benefit from this operation.”
The FAA says it will identify technical, political, legal and operational methods to protect aviation users from intentional spoofing and jamming of GPS signals in a report to be issued in September. Results of the one-year study, initiated by the FAA in September 2012 and carried out by a government/industry team, are critical to the agency’s planned reliance on GPS as the navigation and surveillance backbone of the next-generation air transportation system (NextGen) program.
South America’s Latam Airlines Group is cutting capacity on long-haul operations and across its Brazilian network to mitigate declining yields in both sectors.
The arrival of Air Pacific’s first Airbus A330-200 marks the start of a year of significant changes for the Fijian carrier’s fleet. By the end of 2013, Air Pacific expects to have returned both leased Boeing 747-400s, introduced three A330s, and upgraded and repainted its Boeing 737-800s and one 737-700. The airline also is rebranding itself as Fiji Airways.
Las Vegas-based low-cost carrier Allegiant Air still intends to return to New York, and could launch flights in 2014 or 2015, but the operator has to decide the appropriate airport to serve, the company’s top executive tells Aviation Week.
The U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) is accusing Italian airports of charging U.S. airlines discriminatory fees and is threatening to retaliate by prohibiting Alitalia from interlining or code-sharing on flights between Italy and the U.S.
Regional carrier American Eagle Airlines is working with two U.S. flight schools to ensure it maintains a pipeline of new pilots when higher minimum flight time requirements take effect later this year. Applicants to American Eagle’s new Pipeline Instructor Program will be employed by the airline as flight instructors at either the U.S. Aviation Academy near Dallas or the TransPac Aviation Academy near Phoenix while they accumulate the minimum required flight hours.
Ryanair today surprised many industry observers by opting for Boeing’s current family of aircraft, rather than the airframer’s re-engined MAX range when placing a commitment to order 175 aircraft.
International Airlines Group (IAG) CEO Willie Walsh says it is highly likely his company will place an order for the proposed Boeing 777X. “Based on what I have seen, it is almost inevitable that it is an aircraft that we will have in our fleet at some stage,” Walsh told Aviation Week during a March 18 interview. “It looks like a perfect fit for some of what British Airways [BA] would require.”
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American Airlines and US Airways should not have to divest any slots at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) because of their merger, the chief executives of the two carriers yesterday told the Senate’s antitrust subcommittee. However, the justifications they gave for keeping all of the slots include one argument that the Justice Department (DOJ) has previously rejected.
Changing their stance from a month ago, technical workers represented by the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace have voted overwhelmingly to accept a four-year contract offer from Boeing.
The fate of three-quarters of the contract tower program remains uncertain after Senate leaders blocked Sen. Jerry Moran’s (R-Kan.) amendment from coming up for a vote. The measure, which Moran had hoped to attach to the continuing resolution (CR) short-term government-wide spending bill (H.R.933), would have limited the cuts FAA could make to the tower program, but give FAA more funding flexibility to help pay for the program. Supporters believed that if the amendment had come up for a vote, it would have passed.
Larry Lawson, a former F-35 fighter program manager at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, has been named president and CEO of Spirit AeroSystems, succeeding Jeff Turner, who will retire at month’s end. Lawson will take the reins at the Wichita-based aerostructures company on April 6.
Airbus could buy Spirit Aerosystems facility in Saint Nazaire, France, to gain better control of the Airbus A350 supply chain, company sources tells Aviation Week.
Boeing has completed three key tests of the redesigned 787 battery system and could complete its evaluation of the system, including a final check-out flight test, by month-end. Updating the status of the testing and providing new detail of the redesigned battery system, 787-8 Engineering VP Ron Hinderberger says the company is confident of achieving so much in a relatively short time because of the large amount of engineering development test work already conducted in ground labs at Boeing.
Hawaiian Airlines is unlikely to add any more destinations this year beyond the ones already announced, says CEO Mark Dunkerley. The carrier has “pretty much taken care of potential growth” in 2013 with the introduction of a new route to Auckland, New Zealand, and the planned start of service to Taipei, Taiwan, and Sendai, Japan, Dunkerley tells Aviation Week at the launch of the Auckland route.
