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Air New Zealand is set to receive its first ATR 72-600 this month, part of a seven-aircraft order that will boost its regional turboprop fleet. During the airline’s annual shareholder meeting, CEO Rob Fyfe said the first of the -600s will be handed over within the next few weeks. An airline spokeswoman notes the aircraft must be ferried to New Zealand, and will conduct certification flights there, so it probably will not enter service until November.
An FAA decision on privatizing Puerto Rico’s Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan could come as early as the first quarter of next year, one of the main bidders for the contract tells Aviation Week. The FAA opened the privatization project to public comment Sept. 18 and held the first hearing Sept. 28. The comment period ends Nov. 18, and the FAA’s decision is expected 30-60 days afterward, says Emmett McCann, managing director of Highstar Capital, which is an investor in the project.
United Airlines expects third-quarter mainline traffic to fall up to 2.5% year-on-year to about 49 billion revenue passenger miles (RPMs) as demand continues to decline on domestic and transatlantic routes, although improved traffic to Asia and Latin America and on regional services limits systemwide decreases to 1-2%. The carrier’s latest investor guidance shows that the Chicago-based carrier expects a 4.1-5.1% drop in transatlantic traffic to about 11 billion RPMs and a 2.8-3.8% fall in domestic mainline demand to about 25 billion RPMs.
Excluding retrofits or airworthiness-directive compliance, the worldwide market for overhauling Rolls-Royce Trent 700-series turbofans is projected at about $2 billion for the next three years, with Asian carriers accounting for the largest share of the work.
The years-long battle over aircraft subsidies continues with the EU asking the World Trade Organization (WTO) to penalize the U.S. $12 billion a year for allegedly maintaining illegal subsidies to Boeing. This claim mirrors a U.S. request placed last year seeking $10 billion in annual penalties against the EU for its own illegal subsidies to Airbus that the WTO is still reviewing.
Garuda Indonesia has decided that its low-cost carrier Citilink will operate turboprop aircraft it plans to order in November. According to Citilink CEO Arif Wibowo, Garuda’s board of directors has still to determine if the fleet will comprise ATR 72-600s or Bombardier Q400s. He says any deal will include 50 aircraft, but he declines to say how many will be firm orders and how many will be options.
Garuda Indonesia is contemplating new services to Russia after establishing its new Boeing 777-300ER fleet in Japan and the Middle East. The first of 10 777-300ERs destined for Garuda's fleet is expected mid-2013. A spokesman for the airline says the first two 777-300ERs will be used for services from Indonesia to Tokyo and to destinations in the Middle East. Garuda also has two Boeing 747-400s that it operates to Middle East destinations, such as Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, but it wants to phase them out.
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The acrimony between American Airlines and its pilots union continues to grow with the carrier threatening an injunction to stop what it claims is an illegal work action and the Allied Pilots Association (APA) accusing management of creating “an operational nightmare” that is causing flight cancellations.
Alaska Air Group’s decision to launch its largest share repurchase program signals that the carrier has no intention of merging with, or acquiring, another operation, the airline’s managing director for investor relations tells Aviation Week. “We want to grow organically and be a strong, independent company,” says Chris Berry. “If something compelling comes our way, we’re obligated to look at it,” he adds, although he notes that no potential merger or acquisition target recently has presented itself.
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San Miguel Corp., which owns 49% of Philippine Airlines Holdings, has given formal notification of its intention to develop a new international airport for Manila. In a statement to the Philippine stock exchange, San Miguel says it and LT Group are in discussions about working together to develop a new airport that would serve Philippine Airlines and its subsidiary, Air Philippines, known as Airphil Express. Billionaire Lucio Tan, who is another large shareholder in Philippine Airlines Holdings, controls LT Group.
NASA’s Langley Research Center, Mitre and several partners have completed the first in a series of inflight evaluations of cooperative automatic sense-and-avoid (SAA) algorithms for unmanned air systems (UAS), in large part to validate a new testbed that will be used for more advanced trials next year.
Four airlines operating out of the three New York area airports claim a fuel distributor overcharged them almost $18 million to transport jet fuel from Linden, N.J., to the airports over a two-year period starting in August 2010. According to an analysis commissioned by the airlines, Buckeye Pipe Line allegedly overcharged Delta Air Lines $6.34 million, United Airlines and Continental Airlines $7.72 million, JetBlue Airways $2.93 million and US Airways $550,000, the four carriers say in a filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
New commercial aircraft age restrictions imposed by Myanmar’s Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) have prompted Myanma Airways to introduce Embraer 190s to its fleet. The airline, which is owned by the Myanmar Ministry of Transport, has signed a lease with GE Capital Aviation Services (Gecas) for two E-190s for delivery in November and December. Managing Director Than Tun tells Aviation Week the E-190s from Gecas are three to four years old and will have a 100-seat, all-economy layout.
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Researchers from Europe and Japan are set to join forces on a study of a high-speed aircraft. The project, dubbed high-speed key technologies for future air transport research and innovation (Hikari), is co-founded by the European Commission and the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Aimed at “promoting effective cooperation between Europe and Japan in the field of conceptual design of a high-speed aircraft,” the plan intends to create a joint approach to perfecting key propulsion-related technologies.
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Aviation industry groups will seek congressional penalties against the Transportation Security Administration if the agency fails to release its foreign repair station security rule before the end of March.
