LAN Airlines S.A. and its subsidiaries reported its preliminary monthly traffic statistics for August 2011. System passenger traffic increased 14.1% as capacity rose 12.7%. As a result, the Company’s load factor for the month increased 0.9 points to 78.7%.
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Pratt & Whitney Global Service Partners’ Shanghai Engine Center recently delivered its first overhauled CFM56 engine to Vietnam’s first low-cost carrier Jetstar Pacific Airlines. The engine is the first the Shanghai Engine Center has delivered to an overseas customer in the Asia Pacific region. The engine was delivered with improved performance within 57 days.
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Porter Airlines has opened a crew base for pilots and flight attendants in Halifax, doubling its employees in the city to 80 by creating 40 local jobs. The new crew base, located at Halifax Stanfield International Airport, is the first to be added outside of Porter’s Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport headquarters. A result of
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Finnair traffic rose by 11.1% in August 2011, as the overall capacity grew by 13.3% compared with August 2010. Overall load factor for the month dropped 1.5 pts to 76.9%. Finnair’s Asian capacity grew by 28.7% and traffic increased by 20.3% compared to August 2010. The load factor reached 81.2%, down 5.7 pts.
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CAMO AIR SUPPORT has selected ADSOFTWARE’s aviation dedicated software AIRPACK to handle their airworthiness management services. This contract is the second one signed by a subsidiary of Jet Service Group with ADSOFTWARE. CAMO AIR SUPPORT is one of the first organisations excluding air transporters, to obtain EASA (European Aviation Safety Agency) part MG-1 certification in
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The Dalian Municipal Public Security Bureau in northeast China is acquiring two EC155 helicopters from Eurocopter for police missions, with the initial rotary-wing aircraft deployed during an upcoming meeting of the World Economic Forum. To be delivered early this month, the first EC155 will be utilized for VIP transport and security patrols during the World
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Spanish airline Vueling reported a 15.9% increase in traffic in August 2011 and a 13.7% increase in capacity compared to the same period in 2010. The company reached a load factor of. 83.7%, 1.6 points higher than last year.
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SkyWorks Holdings released that Klaus Heinemann, who retired as CEO of AerCap Holdings NV in May 2011, has joined its global advisory board. “Klaus’s career accomplishments are quite noteworthy in both the leasing and banking industries and will enable us to offer unique insight to clients worldwide” said Thomas W. Mahr, CEO of SkyWorks Holdings. Klaus
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Embraer announced that Robert Stangarone has joined the company as Vice President, Corporate Communications, for North America. He is based at the Company’s US headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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AirFrance KLM released that traffic rose by 7.6% in August 2011, while capacity was up by 6.1%.This resulted in a 1.2 point rise in load factor to 85.7%. The group carried 6.8 million passengers (+4.7%).
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