Westchester Aircraft Maintenance Association (WAMA) announced the election of Ron Velivis to its Board of Directors. Velivis’ background includes numerous leadership positions within aviation, among them Director of Field Service for Dassault Falcon Jet.
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LAN Airlines, one of the leading passenger and cargo airlines in Latin America, signed an 8-year Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) support contract with AFI KLM E&M, covering its fleet of 777 freighters. The APU repair services will be provided by EPCOR, the Group’s subsidiary specializing in maintaining APUs and pneumatic components, while pool access will
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Ryanair reported a Q3 profit of €15m compared to a Q3 loss of €10m last year. Revenues increased 13% to €844m as traffic fell 2% and ave. fares rose 17%. Unit costs rose 11% due to a 7% increase in sector lengths and an 18% increase in fuel costs. Excluding fuel, sector length adjusted unit costs
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Dublin based global aircraft lessor AWAS has delivered an A320 passenger aircraft to Virgin America. This is the first of two scheduled A320s to be delivered to the expanding U.S. based airline this quarter.
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Honeywell released that 4Q11 sales were up 8% to $9.5bn versus $8.7bn in 4Q10 – 7% organic growth reflected continued strength in most end markets and the contribution of new product launches and geographic expansion. Honeywell reported 4Q11 proforma earnings (excluding the impact of pension mark-to-market adjustments)of $1.05 per share, up 21% over $0.87 in 4Q10. 4Q11 earnings
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Constant Aviation announced the completion of the Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for Aircell’s Cabin Wireless Access Point (CWAP), which provides in-cabin Wi-Fi service for Gogo Biz Inflight Internet, in an EMB135LR aircraft. To date, Constant Aviation has completed the Gogo Biz Inflight Internet STC on the Gulfstream IV, the Embraer 600 and the EMB135 Corporate
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The Swedish Defence and Security Export Agency, FXM, confirmed that Sweden and Hungary have chosen to extend their Gripen partnership for a further 10 years. Negotiations have been taking place in recent months and on Monday, January 30th, the new contract was signed by FXM’s Director General, Ulf Hammarström, and Gyula Keszthelyi who is the
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Antonius Dortmans has been appointed Executive Vice President of KLM Engineering & Maintenance. He will take up his new duties on February 1st, succeeding Peter de Swert.
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Hannele Malin (MSc. Econ) has been appointed Vice President, Internal Auditing at Finnair as of March 18, 2012. She has worked in different auditing and internal auditing roles since 1999 at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Stockmann, Fortum, and most recently in Deloitte & Touche Oy. Malin succeeds Erkki Lehtinen, who is retiring from his position.
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GECAS reported the delivery of three new Boeing 737-800 aircraft to Royal Air Maroc. The aircraft come from GECAS’ existing order book with Boeing and were the third, fourth and fifth new aircraft delivered to the airline in 2011 to help them with fleet growth.
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