Investigators are focusing on an unspecified turbine failure as a possible cause of the inflight shut down of a GE90-115B powering an Air Canada Boeing 777-300ER.
The consolidation of Brazil’s air transport sector, if approved, will leave all but a minuscule amount of the country’s domestic capacity in the hands of four airlines. Using the Brazilian civil aviation authority’s most recent data, the airlines involved commanded 99.2% of total domestic capacity and traffic in April, almost one-half of a percentage point gain on an already dominant position in the same month in 2011.
The FAA must expedite the incentives and provide flexible loan-guarantee programs to persuade the aviation industry to make the large investments in aircraft equipment needed for NextGen, industry leaders told FAA officials yesterday. The agency held the first of a series of meetings on possible incentives for commercial and general aviation operators.
An Air China deal to enter into 12-year-long agreements with Air Lease Corp. for 13 narrowbodies reflects a resurgence among Chinese operators for western jets. Data culled from Aviation Week Intelligence Network’s fleet database shows that Chinese carriers took delivery of 86 western jets in 2006, but only 34 in 2008 and 41 in 2009. The figure climbed back up, however, to 67 in 2010 and 62 in 2011.
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Jose Antonio Filippo on June 4 will become Embraer’s CFO, filling a position vacated in April with the departure of Paulo Pinto Marques to a previous employer just months after taking the role. Filippo, who Embraer notes is an engineer by training, joins the manufacturer from Brazilian retailer Pao de Acucar where he was CFO. “Filippo is a great addition to our team. His expertise and experience will be of real value to the process of growth and development of the company,” says, Embraer President and CEO Frederico Fleury Curado.
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The enhanced interline agreements recently developed for Great Lakes Aviation and Silver Airways to feed Delta Air Lines’ network could become a model for providing independently branded services from small communities to major airlines at their hubs, say the leaders of those U.S. regional carriers.
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AMR Corp.’s American Airlines and its three unions are headed into court-supervised mediation this week in an effort to reach deals before bankruptcy judge Sean Lane calls the parties back into court for a ruling on June 22.
Regulatory approval for a merger between Brazil’s Azul Linhas Aereas Brasileiras and rival Trip Linhas Aereas could come as soon as the beginning of next year, Aviation Week has learned. The merger agreement, which was announced May 28, intends to form the third-largest airline in Brazil, behind Grupo TAM and Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes, serving about 15% of the domestic market.
By Capt. Lee Moak, President, Air Line Pilots Association In a move that should baffle everyone in the U.S. airline industry, the U.S. government is now considering funding and operating a Customs and Border Protection preclearance facility at Abu Dhabi International Airport. Since no U.S. airlines serve Abu Dhabi with their own planes, installing this facility would use U.S. taxpayers’ money to enhance the flying experience for passengers of a foreign airline, giving state-owned Etihad Airways an unfair marketplace advantage over U.S. carriers.
Mexican low-cost carrier Volaris is expanding its U.S. routes just as bankrupt Mexicana de Aviacion prepares to return to service. Volaris’s latest move into the U.S., which includes services from Mexico City to Denver and San Francisco and from Culiacan and Uruapan to Los Angeles, forms part of a broader network expansion that includes the addition of six Airbus narrowbodies to the 35 currently operated by the airline, Chief Commercial Officer Holger Blankenstein tells Aviation Week.
