BBA Aviation , Dallas, appointed Graham Evitt Rolls-Royce M250 regional sales manager at H+S Aviation, a BBA Aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul provider.
The government of India will talk to creditors and banks on behalf of cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines, but the country is not putting together any type of rescue package for the struggling carrier.
Boeing will work with Hawai'i BioEnergy to look at crops, including sorghum and eucalyptus, as renewable sources of aviation fuel. The memorandum of understanding to identify sources and technologies for producing sustainable jet fuel in Hawaii is the latest in a series of agreements that have given the island state a leading role in the development of biofuels.
The merger of British Airways and Iberia should yield greater financial benefits than previously projected, parent company International Airlines Group says.
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Heavy airframe maintenance hangers keep rising across China, and plenty more are on the drawing board. The problem is that wages also keep rising, faster than almost anywhere. In an economy that grows at 10% a year, industries are forever competing with each other for skills, and for eager young people to train. At some point, the Chinese economy will be too sophisticated to be competitive globally in the labor-intensive business of heavy airframe maintenance.
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) extended its Fast Travel program to a sixth airline and airport, Air China’s operations at Beijing, Tony Tyler, the association’s managing director, says. The Fast Travel pilot program is part of IATA’s efforts to “help airlines be more innovative in the way they do business.” The program is testing ways to make passenger flow through airports faster, but it does not address security, which IATA is studying through its Checkpoint of the Future initiative.
The U.S. Transportation Department last week cleared the way for American Airlines and Qantas to carry out a transpacific joint business agreement by giving its final approval to the deal, and American says the U.S. and Australian partners will begin implementing it on Jan. 2. Australian regulators granted their approval to the deal in late September (Aviation Daily, Sept. 30).
Allegiant Air is acquiring up to 13 MD-80 series aircraft from Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) for delivery by February 2013, but does not plan to put any of the aircraft into service, at least not for a while. “We don’t view the purchase as a fleet growth; the transaction for us is all about the engines,” a spokesman for the Las Vegas-based, low-cost carrier says. “The planes will go to the desert.”
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Los Angeles International Airport is expanding its residential soundproofing program, already one of the largest in the world covering nearly 7,000 residences. The Los Angeles Board of Airport Commissioners awarded a $1.35 million contract to NASA Construction Group of Tarzana for 57 dwellings. Typically, contractors install double-paneled windows, solid-core doors, fireplace doors and dampers, attic baffles, insulation and heating and air conditioning units.
The deadline for Qantas and three of its unions to reach contract agreements is fast approaching, and it appears that little progress has been made in reconciling labor-management differences.
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As Alaska Airlines begins the first campaign of biofuel revenue flights in the U.S., the government is working with industry to scale up production of biomass-derived jet fuel to commercial quantities, beginning in 2012. “U.S. Department of Agriculture [USDA] is working with the Department of Energy and the Navy to put together a package to commercialize drop-in biofuels,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says in an interview with Aviation Week.
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Qantas plans to deploy its next Airbus A380 deliveries on its Hong Kong route as the carrier continues to phase in A380s in its key international long-haul markets. The airline is due to receive its 11th and 12th A380s this year, enabling it to introduce the aircraft on the Sydney-Hong Kong route Jan. 15. The A380 will replace four of seven weekly Boeing 747-400 flights.
The Airbus A350-900’s entry into service has been delayed again, this time because of late arriving center fuselage panels. In its third-quarter 2011 earnings release, Airbus parent EADS confirmed that service entry of the aircraft now is scheduled in the first half of 2014. Airbus booked a €200 million ($273 million) charge for the program in the third quarter.
California’s Orange County Board of Supervisors has approved an incentive plan to entice airlines to start direct international flights from the newly expanded John Wayne Airport (JWA) to Mexico.
Starting this month, Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport will launch a $100 million expansion program aimed at easing the airport experience for passengers. Components include an expanded security checkpoint, a secure connector between concourses B and C, moving sidewalks, improved gate hold rooms and additional food and retail outlets. The nine-lane checkpoint will serve concourses A, B and C. An existing checkpoint at Concourse C will be decommissioned.
Boeing is starting work on the 1,000th 777, a Boeing 777-300ER destined for delivery to Dubai-based Emirates Airline in March 2012. Emirates is the largest 777 customer with 95 777s currently in its fleet, and the 1,000th aircraft will be the Middle East carrier’s 102nd.
