Hawaiian Airlines’ February consolidated traffic increased 10.3% compared to February 2011, while capacity increased 13.1% year on year. The load factor dropped 2.1 points to 82.9%.
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UAL’s consolidated traffic in February 2012 increased 3.4% and consolidated capacity increased 5.4% versus February 2011 results. The company’s consolidated load factor in February 2012 decreased 1.4 points to 74.6% compared to February 2011.
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For the month of February 2012, Copa Holdings’ system-wide traffic increased 25.0%, while capacity increased 26.1%. System load factor for February 2012 was 76.1%, a 0.6 point decline when compared to February 2011.
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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted 330-minute extended-range, twin-engine operations (ETOPS) Approval to 14 CFR Part 33.201 for the GEnx-1B Performance Improvement Program (PIP) engine, which will power the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. This follows the 330-minute ETOPS approval that was granted to the GEnx-1B baseline engine late last year. The FAA approval
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IFE Services has been selected by Corsairfly as its inflight entertainment (IFE) provider. The agreement means that IFE Services will provide the French airline with a regularly updated package of entertainment content for passengers to enjoy across the fleet’s digital AVOD (audio and video on demand), overhead and portable handheld systems. Corsairfly operates scheduled flights
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Rolls-Royce has commemorated the start of construction for a new London Heathrow Service Centre with a ground breaking ceremony on March 8th. The new facility will provide specialist maintenance and support services for commercial aero engines. When fully operational, the new facility will employ up to 80 people, with 40 transferring from the existing Rolls-Royce
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DVB concluded 184 new transactions with an aggregate volume of €5.6bn and a risk-adequate average interest margin of 313 basis points (2010: 140 new transactions, €4.4bn, 327 basis points). Thanks to the higher new business originated and due to the sale of container boxes by a shipping investment fund managed by DVB, net interest income
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EADS’ revenues increased 7% to €49.1bn (FY 2010: €45.8bn). This growth is driven by volume and mix effects at Airbus and the increase of commercial activity at Eurocopter. EBIT before one-off (adjusted EBIT) stood at around €1.8bn (FY 2010: €1.3bn) for EADS and at around €0.5bn for Airbus (FY 2010: around €0.3bn). Net Income increased
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Silver Airways has reached an agreement with Saab Aircraft Leasing to purchase six additional Saab 340Bplus aircraft. Financial terms were not disclosed. This latest acquisition brings the total number of Saab 340’s to 12 in the Silver Airways fleet. Silver Airways will integrate all 12 Saab 340Bplus’ into its fleet by September 2012. Each aircraft
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Boeing has completed all flight tests expected to be required for type certification of the 787-8 Dreamliner with General Electric GEnx engines. This marks the end of all certification flight testing associated with the baseline model of the 787. Testing on engine and airframe improvements will continue as needed, as it does for all airplane
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