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Icelandair selected the Boeing 737 MAX to renew its fleet and will start taking delivery of the new aircraft from the first half of 2018. The carrier’s parent company, Icelandair Group, and Boeing inked a memorandum of understanding for 12 MAX aircraft—comprising eight -8s and four -9s—and is taking purchase rights on another 12.
CSA Czech Airlines’ tentative privatization process has attracted interest from just two carriers, SkyTeam partners Korean Air and Qatar Airways, according to a Czech government official.
An International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) group charged with creating a framework for market-based measures (MBM) to mitigate aviation’s greenhouse gas emissions will have its first meeting next week in Montreal.
The CEO of Tiger Airways Australia, Andrew David, is leaving the carrier next year to head rival Jetstar’s long-haul operations. David is leaving Tiger soon after Virgin Australia announced it was purchasing a majority share in the carrier. He was previously the chief operating officer for Virgin Australia–then called Virgin Blue–from 2005 to 2010.
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EADS shareholders and the governments of France, Germany and Spain yesterday agreed a new ownership structure for Europe’s biggest aerospace group after five days of intense negotiations. The complex agreement sees France and Germany each holding stakes of 12% in EADS and Spain a further 4%, changing a structure that provides France 15% and Spain 5.6%.
Jet Airways plans to receive five 68-seat ATR 72-600 turboprops by March to replace 18 ATR 72-500 currently operated by the Indian airline. “The delivery of the first aircraft will begin this month and will be complete by March,” says a company spokesman. The short-haul aircraft will operate on the airline’s “domestic network” and “provide enhanced connectivity into the Tier II and III cities and towns across India.”
Airlines for America (A4A) is confident legislators will implement pieces of its proposed National Airline Policy in the coming year despite fiscal constraints. “The difference now is that we’ve been educating policy makers for about a year,” A4A President and CEO Nicholas Calio said at a Dec. 5 media event attended by CEOs from Alaska Airlines, Atlas Air, Hawaiian Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Southwest Airlines and US Airways.
Royal Brunei Airlines is hoping the opening of a new airport terminal at its home base of Bandar Seri Begawan, and the introduction of Boeing 787-8s, will transform its business. The Sultanate of Brunei’s flag carrier will be the first in Southeast Asia to operate the 787, says Deputy Chairman Dermot Mannion, who joined Royal Brunei in 2010. He has served as CEO of Aer Lingus and president of group services for Emirates Airline.
Buoyed by strong demand for civil aircraft, U.S. aerospace companies added 5,000 jobs this year, a result Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) President Marion Blakey says is “surprising.”
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Boeing has sent a team of engineers to inspect a United Airlines 787 that diverted to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport Dec. 4 after experiencing a suspected system malfunction during a flight from Houston to Newark Liberty International Airport.
Indonesia AirAsia next year is planning to increase capacity by close to 50% as part of an effort to capture a large share of the domestic market. The carrier intends to add 10 A320s in 2013, increasing its total fleet to 32. The carrier currently has 21 A320s and is due to receive one more by year-end. Indonesia AirAsia is the country’s largest international carrier but accounts for a minor part of domestic operations, which is dominated by Lion Air and Garuda Indonesia.
Etihad Airways plans to acquire Topbonus, Air Berlin’s frequent flyer program. Few details are being made available, although the deal has been confirmed by Air Berlin. The German airline also says the transaction is to be completed before the end of the year.
Boeing has delivered the 377th 737 of 2012 to United Airlines, marking the greatest number of a single commercial family ever delivered by the manufacturer in one year. The aircraft was a 737-900ER from the Continental Airlines backlog. The previous annual record for the 737 was in 2010, when 378 aircraft were delivered, and with almost a full month still to go before the end of the year, this new figure is likely to get close to 390.
Hurricane Sandy slowed production and efficiency levels at the refinery acquired by Delta Air Lines, with capacity temporarily reduced as a precautionary measure as the storm approached, the airline disclosed yesterday.
Airbus expects to reach a 36% market share in the commercial air transport market in 2012, according to a presentation at the EADS Global Investor Forum Monday in London. That figure is down from over 60% in 2011, a year that was heavily influenced by the launch of the A320NEO and strong orders for the A320NEO family.
The global aviation community appears to agree in principle to broad new equipage architectures for a next-generation air traffic management (ATM) system under an International Civil Aviation Organization plan that defines airborne and ground navigation infrastructure upgrades through 2028. Details of the Block 0-3 aviation system block upgrades (ASBU), and the specific modules within the blocks, were debated by delegates from 191 member countries as part of the 12th Air Navigation Conference (ANC) in Montreal late last month.
The European Commission (EC) on Tuesday said it will launch infringement procedures against EU member states that do not comply with the legal requirements to ensure nine Functional Airspace Blocks (FABs) are fully operational by the Dec. 4 deadline. The regional airspace blocks are a key element for the plans to create a single European airspace from a patchwork of 37 separate air navigation service providers. The initiative aims to eliminate national borders, triple European airspace capacity and halve air traffic control cost by 2020.
