Air Canada has appointed Lucie Guillemette, previously Senior Vice President, Revenue Optimization, as Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer. Ms. Guillemette is based at the airline’s Montreal headquarters, joins the Executive Committee and continues to report to Benjamin Smith , President, Passenger Airlines.
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Bombardier has delivered the first of three Q400 turboprops ordered by Irish leasing company Elix Aviation Capital. The aircraft, which was delivered in a 78-seat configuration, is scheduled to enter service with Hawaii Island Air (Island Air) in early 2017. Island Air is Hawaii’s alternative regional airline and second oldest carrier. The Q400 aircraft features
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The Lufthansa Group, Airbus’ largest airline customer and operator, has taken delivery of its first A350 XWB. The aircraft is the first of 25 A350-900s that Lufthansa has on order. Lufthansa will deploy their first A350s on long-haul routes from Munich to Delhi and Munich to Boston. Powered by Rolls-Royce engines, Lufthansa’s A350 XWB will
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CTT Systems AB (CTT), a market leader in aircraft humidity control systems, has received a Zonal Drying order for 16 Boeing 737NG-800s to be line retrofitted from April 2017. Peter Landquist, VP Sales & Marketing, CTT Systems AB, comments: “We are privileged to receive this order from Pobeda Airlines, our first customer in Russia for
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FedEx reported earnings of US$2.59 per diluted share (US$2.80 per diluted share on an adjusted basis) for the second quarter ended November 30, compared to earnings of US$2.44 per diluted share a year ago (US$2.58 per diluted share last year on an adjusted basis). Operating income rose compared to last year primarily due to the
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Embraer has named Arjan Meijer as Chief Commercial Officer, Embraer Commercial Aviation, reporting directly to John Slattery, President & CEO, Embraer Commercial Aviation. Prior to joining Embraer, in April 2016, Meijer spent 15 years at KLM on the engineering, technical services and fleet development aspects of the company. His last role was Managing Director of
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Airlink, southern Africa’s largest independent regional airline, is adding 11 Embraer ERJ 140 jets to its fleet. This will bring the number of Embraer regional jets the airline operates to 30. The airline has also extended its existing Flight Hour Pool Program contract for another eight years and expanded it to include the ERJ 140s.
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Boeing and partner Saab completed the first flight of their all-new T-X aircraft, which is designed specifically for the U.S. Air Force’s training requirements. During the 55-minute flight, lead T-X Test Pilots validated key aspects of the single-engine jet and demonstrated the performance of the low-risk design. Both pilots trained for the flight using the
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In May this year, the Brazilian government was mulling over the possibility of filing a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) relating to unfair Canadian government subsidies provided to the struggling Canadian company, Bombardier. On Monday of this week it was announced that CAMEX, the Council of Ministers of Brazilian Foreign Trade Chamber and
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Chorus Aviation will establish a new regional aircraft leasing subsidiary, Chorus Aviation Capital, and has entered into an agreement pursuant to which Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited and certain of its subsidiaries will invest CAD$200m in Chorus through a private placement of 200,000 convertible debt units. In recent years, Chorus has steadily grown its aircraft leasing
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