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UNITED AIRLINES plans June 5 to begin daily San Francisco-Dublin, Ireland (787-8).
Air Transport

BERRY AVIATION (Acorn Growth Companies) opened 31,400 sq ft private aviation maintenance hangar in San Marcos, TX.
Business Aviation

BRITISH AIRWAYS plans June 1 to begin London Heathrow-Portland, OR (787); AMERICAN will codeshare.
Air Transport

SWISS plans in June to begin Geneva-Ponta Delgada/-Antalya/-Menorca/-Djerba/-Dubrovnik/-Rhodes (A220).
Air Transport

DELTA plans in 2020 to rejoin Airlines for America (A4A) industry trade organization, joining Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Atlas Air Worldwide
Air Transport

TITAN AVIATION (Atlas Air) and BAIN CAPITAL CREDIT agreed to form joint venture with $400m of available capital to develop a diversified freighter
Air Transport

BOMBARDIER plans Dec 27-29 to display full-size interior mock-up for Learjet 75 Liberty in Scottsdale, AZ for private viewing.
Business Aviation

SAFRAN was selected by Aerion to supply braking and landing gear systems, including wheels/brakes, and nacelles, including the engine inlets, fan cowl
Business Aviation

PULKOVO ST. PETERSBURG AIRPORT handled its 19 millionth pax in 2019, a record from 18.1m pax in 2018. It is Russia's fourth largest airport for pax.
Air Transport

SUN COUNTRY has 6-year Amazon contract to operate 10 737-800BCFs (being leased from GECAS) starting in April 2020.
Air Transport

AVTECH has Eurowings contract to provide Aventus Full Flight wind uplinks.
Air Transport

AEROGROUND FLUGHAFEN MÜNCHEN secured 7-year license to provide ramp-side ground handling services at Hamburg starting in August 2020.

HOKKAIDO AIR SYSTEM, Japan took delivery of first of two new ATR 42-600s to replace its Saab 340s. ATR estimates that about 900 30-to-50-seat aircraft
Air Transport

FEDEX EXPRESS earned $236m in second quarter ended November 30 (vs $630m a year ago) on 5.4% lower revenues, and announced plan to permanently retire
Air Transport

DELTA has agreed to purchase 10m gallons per year of advanced renewable biofuels (from inedible, industrial corn products, or no. 2 corn) from GEVO
Air Transport

JUNEYAO AIRLINES, Shanghai took delivery of its first GTF-powered A320neo (9189) at Airbus Tianjin Delivery Centre; aircraft is equipped with BL3530
Air Transport

BRITISH AIRWAYS and CHINA SOUTHERN AIRLINES signed joint business agreement for operations between UK and China (31 direct flights a week between
Air Transport

SWIFTAIR, Spain took delivery of first (24613; ex-American) of three PRECISION-converted 757-200PCFs on lease from Jetran; FLIGHTSTAR AIRCRAFT
Air Transport

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