On Wednesday June 6th, the Helsinki District Court granted the injunction to end the week-long strike of 1000 Finnair Technical Services workers, which began on June 5th. Union representatives said Thursday they planned to appeal the injunction.
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Ryanair reported that May 2012 traffic improved 5% compared to the same period a year ago, while the load factor was down 1.0 point to 81%.
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In May 2012, International Airlines Group (IAG) traffic rose by 6.6% versus May 2011, while Group capacity was up 5.9%. Group load factor was up 0.5 points to 78.6% compared to the previous year.
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Rolls-Royce has opened its first Customer Delivery Center (CDC) for defense engines in the United States, initially focusing on deliveries for the Lockheed Martin C-130J military transport aircraft. Through more than $1m investment in production advancements including automated inspection, dry-ice blast cleaning and electronic tool control, the CDC will enhance deliveries of AE 2100 engines,
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Southwest Airlines reported May 2012 consolidated traffic results for Southwest Airlines and AirTran. Traffic in May 2012 decreased 2.6% compared to May 2011, while capacity decreased 0.9%. The load factor for May 2012 was 81.3%, compared to 82.7% in May 2011.
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Indra delivered the first of two Airbus A320 simulators purchased by Hainan Airlines. The system is already providing service at the airline’s flight training centre in the city of Sanya on the island of Hainan. Indra will supply the second system later this year. The Indra simulator has entered into service after successfully passing its
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Tyrolean Airways and Lufthansa Technik AERO Alzey (LTAA) have signed a multi-year Spare Engine Pool Agreement to support Tyrolean’s fleet of 14ea. Bombardier Dash8-Q400 aircraft. As per the terms of the agreement, LTAA will provide PW150A spare engines for planned and unplanned engine removals. LTAA’s pooling concept also includes the management of Tyrolean’s spare engines.
For the month of May, Air Canada reported a system load factor of 81.6%, versus 82.2% in May 2011, a decrease of 0.6 percentage points. System traffic increased 1.8% on a system-wide capacity increase of 2.5%.
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AD Aerospace, part of AD Group, announced the signing of a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Shanghai Aero Measurement Controlling Research Institute (SAMRI) for the supply of security and safety video camera systems for the COMAC 919 aircraft, (SAMRI is an Enterprise of AVIC – Aviation Industry Corporation of China). AD Aerospace and SAMRI will
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Finnair traffic rose by 14.7% as the overall capacity grew 7.2% year‐on‐year. Passenger load factor improved by 4.9% points and was 74.4%.
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