Aviall Services has entered into a Revenue Sharing Program (RSP) agreement with General Electric to exclusively supply a designated number of aftermarket parts for the life of the CF6 engine program including the in-production CF6-80C2. Aviall will manage 11 vendors for GE to fulfill the designated parts requirements for this RSP agreement and will utilize […]
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Continental Airlines reported a December consolidated (mainline plus regional) load factor of 77.7 percent, 1.2 points above last year’s December consolidated load factor. The carrier reported a mainline load factor of 78.0 percent, 0.7 points above the December 2004 mainline load factor, and a domestic mainline load factor of 79.7 percent, 2.6 points above December
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Southwest Airlines begins its Denver service with 13 daily nonstop flights to Chicago Midway, Las Vegas , and Phoenix. Beginning March 4, 2006, Southwest Airlines will offer new nonstop service between Denver and Baltimore/Washington and new nonstop service between Denver and Salt Lake City.
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United Airlines reported its preliminary traffic results for December 2005. The company reported its highest-ever December passenger load factor of 80 percent. Total scheduled revenue passenger miles (RPMs) increased in December by 0.5 percent on a capacity decrease of 2.3 percent in scheduled available seat miles (ASMs) compared to the same period in 2004.
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ExpressJet revenue passenger miles (RPMs) totaled 817.2 million, up 23.1 percent over December 2004, and available seat miles (ASMs) increased by 15.6 percent compared with December 2004. ExpressJet’s December load factor was 75.4 percent, a 4.6 point increase over December 2004. The company flew 75,312 block hours, compared with 65,881 block hours in December 2004,
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Avion Group, Iceland, signed a contract for the purchase of four 777 Freighters with Boeing. The airplanes are in addition to an order for four 777 Freighters that Avion Group placed with Boeing last September. The four new orders were previously posted as unidentified on Boeing’s Orders & Deliveries website. The new cargo planes will
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Bangkok Airways decided to acquire six Airbus A350s for operation on new long range services from Thailand to Europe commencing in 2012. The airline currently operates a fleet of seventeen jet and turboprop aircraft on a network of services to destinations in Thailand and across Asia. This decision by Bangkok Airways takes total firm orders
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Continental Airlines announced that it has given notice to withdraw 69 of 274 regional jet aircraft from its capacity purchase agreement with ExpressJet Holdings, Inc. and ExpressJet Airlines, Inc. ExpressJet is currently the exclusive operator of regional jet services for Continental Airlines. Continental will request proposals from numerous regional jet operators to provide regional jet
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Ethiopian Airlines has selected the General Electric GEnx engines to power its Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft due to enter service with the Airline from 2008. The order is for 20 engines to power the 10 aircraft and 3 spare engines.
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GOL will equip its new Boeing 737-800 aircraft with Blended Winglets. GOL and Aviation Boeing Partners signed a contract in November for the delivery of 60 Blended Winglet Systems.
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