The number of passengers traveling with SAS’s scheduled traffic increased slightly compared to January 2018. At the same time, the passenger load factor and unit revenue increased. Compared to January 2018, capacity was unchanged while the number of passengers increased, leading to a 0.9 point increase in the load factor to 64.9%.
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Swissport has agreed to increase its shareholding in Heathrow Cargo Handling (HCH) to 100% from 50%, which it held in a joint venture. Swissport will now fully own this cargo handling company at one of Europe’s busiest air cargo hubs. The HCH joint venture has been providing first class cargo handling services to the world’s leading
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Lufthansa Technik has received the approval from the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for maintenance services on aircraft registered in Saudi Arabia. In January 2019, a first A-Check on a corresponding Airbus A320 was already conducted by Lufthansa Technik Middle East mechanics in the hangar of DC Aviation
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Boeing Distribution Services (formerly KLX Aerospace Solutions) secured a long-term contract with Joramco at MRO Middle East 2019. The contract will provide the aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) company with aerospace hardware and chemical products and services. Birgitt Pohlkamp vice president of Europe, Middle East, Africa and India sales for Boeing Distribution Services said.
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Under European Union (EU) rules, airlines wishing to have flying rights in Europe must be at least 50% EU-owned. As a consequence, IAG, owner of British Airways, has blocked investors from outside the EU by setting a non-EU investor cap at 47.5%, a threshold which has already been reached. The move follows on from easyJet
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Fraport and Volocopter are pioneering mobility of the future. Together, they are developing concepts for ground infrastructure and operations required for air taxi services at airports. This cooperation focuses on smooth passenger handling and efficient integration into existing transport infrastructure. This will be examined using a so-called Volocopter Port. In the future, Volocopter Ports could
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IAG traffic in January increased by 7.9% versus the same period last year; while IAG capacity rose by 7.6% versus the same period last year. The Group load factor for January improved 0.2 points to 78.6%.
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BOSA has launched its first business in the Asia-Pacific region under the Royal Thai Government’s Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) initiative. BOSA-Thayaan Aircraft Service (BTAS), a joint venture (JV) between BOSA and Thailand-based Thayaan Aviation Consultants Group, will commence line maintenance operations at U-Tapao Airport (UTP). The EEC initiative is seeking to create a “Thailand 4.0”
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Spanish Airline Evelop has contracted Lufthansa Technik to provide Total Component Support for the airline’s future Airbus A350 aircraft. The ten-year contract covers two A350-900 that will enter Evelop’s fleet in March 2019 and 2020 respectively. Founded in 2013 as part of the Barceló Group, the Evelop fleet comprises a total of two Airbus A330-300,
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A total of 2,638,958 passengers chose to fly with Norwegian in January 305,026 (13%) more passengers than the same period last year. Total traffic increased by 18% and capacity increased by 27% when compared to January 2018. The load factor was 76.1% down 5.9 points from the previous year.
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