As installed bases age, and the pressures to cut fuel burn mount, engine makers are mining ever deeper into their technology stockpiles to develop new upgrades and keep existing customers on their side. For Rolls-Royce, the process of developing one-off enhancement performance (EP) packages has gradually morphed into a broader initiative of continuous improvements across the family lineup, ranging from out-of-production RB211-524s to the latest Trent 900/1000 and yet-to-be-fielded Trent XWB.
Mexican low-cost carrier Interjet on Nov. 15 will launch twice-weekly Mexico City-Las Vegas service and is eyeing new service to Chicago O’Hare International Airport and a second daily frequency to New York John F. Kennedy International Airport, CEO Jose Luis Garza tells Aviation Week.
United Airlines says efforts to improve its domestic on-time performance are reaping the airline benefits, even though its mainline service has ranked last in the U.S. Transportation Department’s (DOT’s) performance data for five straight months and its hub operations lagged behind competitors in August.
Air France is dividing its passenger business into three units as part of its ongoing reorganization, with the airline establishing separate divisions for long-haul flying; Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport-based, medium-haul traffic; and a third unit for Paris Orly Airport and regional airports. The reorganization is part of the Transform 2015 restructuring plan that aims to improve efficiency by 20%. The total Air France Group is split into eight divisions.
In 2001, the German telecommunications behemoth Deutsche Telekom purchased U.S.-based VoiceStream Communications and rebranded the domestic wireless provider as T-Mobile. Chrysler has had two foreign majority owners in the past 15 years: Germany’s Daimler-Benz and now Italy’s Fiat. Moreover, Venezuela’s state-owned petroleum company has been the parent of U.S. oil company Citgo for more than two decades.
Meetings at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) scheduled for Oct. 22-23 could bring the body one step closer to implementing market-based measures to mitigate aviation’s greenhouse gas emissions, sources close to the matter say. A meeting of ICAO’s Ad Hoc Working Group on Market-Based Measures in June outlined four possible greenhouse gas-mitigation efforts—mandatory offsetting, a global cap-and-trade system, global offsetting that would include revenue-generation and emissions trading through a baseline-and-credit model.
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Delta Air Lines believes several operational initiatives, alliances and joint ventures are paying off on its cargo services, with its monthly cargo volume running 4-6% higher year-over-year this summer and surpassing United Airlines’ volume for the first time since United acquired Continental Airlines in October 2010.
Garuda Indonesia will be using its new Bombardier CRJ1000s to develop nonstop connections between Indonesia’s secondary cities in an effort to free up slots at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport for international services. The airline Friday operated its inaugural CRJ1000 flight to Makassar, the eastern Indonesian city where the CRJ1000 fleet will be based.
Transact International President Thomas Anderson was honored by coalition supporters at the NATO base in Kandahar, Afghanistan, for providing a series of mission-critical air charters into the region.
Garuda Indonesia’s maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) company, GMF AeroAsia, in December expects to start construction of a fourth hangar at Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta International Airport. The company was hoping to lease a hangar at the airport, but now plans to appoint a contractor to build its own hangar, GMF AeroAsia President Director Richard Budihadianto told Aviation Week on the sidelines of a Garuda Indonesia event in Makassar Friday to mark the inaugural flight of the airline’s first Bombardier CRJ1000.
India’s Kingfisher Airlines, failing to resolve a dispute with pilots who have been on strike since Sept. 30 over non-payment of salaries, has extended its grounding until Oct. 20. “All flights across [Kingfisher’s] network will be canceled till Oct. 20 due to operational reasons,” an airline official says. The announcement comes one day after CEO Sanjay Aggarwal appealed to employees, who have not been paid for seven months, to return to work.
Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association named Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), ranking member on the Senate Commerce Committee's aviation subcommittee, the 2012 recipient of the Joseph B. "Doc" Hartranft Award and Jay White, former president and current general counsel of the California Pilots Association, the winner of AOPA's Joseph P. Crotti Award.
To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected] (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) Oct. 17-19—Latin America & Caribbean Engineering & MRO Summit, Sao Paulo, Brazil, www.ubmaviation.com/our-brands/UBM-Aviation-Events Oct. 22-24—SAFE Association 50th Annual Symposium, Grand Sierra Resort & Casino, Reno, Nev., www.safeassociation.org Oct. 28-29—NBAA Tax, Regulatory & Risk Management Conference, Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Fla., www.nbaa.org
AirAsia has scrapped a plan to buy Indonesia’s fourth-largest carrier, Batavia Air. Malaysia-based AirAsia in July announced that it and its Indonesian partner, Fersindo Nusaperkasa, planned to buy 100% of Batavia for $80 million, subject to due diligence. Under that plan, AirAsia was to complete the acquisition in May 2013 and merge Batavia with Indonesia AirAsia. The deal would have given Indonesia AirAsia extra slots at Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta International Airport and access to a larger pool of Indonesian travel agents.
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The bankruptcy judge overseeing Mexicana de Aviacion’s case has reopened bidding for the grounded airline after reviewing investment consortium Med Atlantica’s finances, Aviation Week has learned. Initial indications are that three groups may submit bids—investment group Avanza Capital, a consortium led by Ivan Barona and Grupo Fides. All three have been involved in previous takeover bids for the airline, and Grupo Fides even sought to join with Med Atlantica in recapitalizing the carrier in May.
A rate dispute between four airlines and a pipeline company transporting jet fuel to the three major New York-area airports is just one piece of a much broader, nationwide U.S. airline industry-pipeline company disagreement over when and how the rates are regulated.
