TurbineAero announced the groundbreaking ceremony for a new building in the Free Zone of the AMATA CITY Industrial Estate, Chonburi, Thailand, outside of Bangkok. The 80,000 ft² new facility will house up to 250 employees and will handle high technological testing, maintenance, repair and overhaul activities for aircraft components and systems for its worldwide customers, […]
WestJet announced September 2018 traffic results with a load factor of 79.2%, a decrease of 1.2 points year over year. Traffic increased 9.7% year over year, while capacity grew 11.3% over the same period. WestJet welcomed an additional 137,000 guests in September, a year-over-year increase of 7.1%. Year-to-date traffic growth continues to outpace capacity additions.
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Environmental Tectonics Corporation has released its financial results for the thirteen week period ended August 24, 2018 (2019 second quarter). Net income attributable to ETC was US$0.4 million in both the 2019 second quarter and the 2018 second quarter. Although most items contributing to net income attributable to ETC remained flat quarter over quarter, there
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Lufthansa Technik has performed the first major connectivity modifications on Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft of an undisclosed customer. The aircraft were modified at Lufthansa Technik Budapest. The airline customer is currently enlarging its all-Boeing 737 fleet with the newest member of this aircraft family and was looking for a partner to equip the fleet
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Skyworld Aviation is undergoing a re-organisation following Peter Greensmith’s recent decision to step back from “day to day” operations of the company and play more of a project management role. Juliet Hewitt is stepping up to the role of Marketing Director and will become significantly more involved in the day to day running of the
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In September, Finnair carried 1,159,400 passengers, 7.8% more than in the corresponding period of 2017. The number of passengers grew in Asian traffic 5.5%, in European traffic 10.0% and in domestic 3.1%, while it decreased in North American traffic by 1.0%. Finnair’s overall capacity increased in September by 13.2% year-on-year. Traffic grew by 7.2%, while
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Driven by natural departures and significant growth in Air France, Joon and Transavia capacity, Air France now needs to recruit 250 pilots per year. The company has therefore decided to reopen its cadet pilot programme 8 years after it was suspended. The first trainee pilots started at ENAC (French Civil Aviation School) this summer with
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The Board of Directors of Airbus has selected Guillaume Faury as future Airbus Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Faury who currently serves as President Airbus Commercial Aircraft, will succeed Tom Enders who remains CEO until the Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 10 April 2019, when the appointment of Faury as executive member of the Board will
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Japan Airlines (JAL) has filed an application with Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) seeking immunity from antitrust laws to create a joint venture (JV) with China Eastern Airlines. If approved, the carriers` will jointly feature over 50 cities in Japan and over 80 on China`s domestic routes, providing countless advantages for
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Air France’s new Chief Executive, Ben Smith, has wasted no time in tackling the wage negotiation problem that has beleaguered the French carrier and seen the downfall of its previous Chief Executive, Jean-Marc Janaillac, who resigned back in May. Having previously worked with Air Canada, Smith has proposed a two percent pay raise backdated to
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