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LATEST NEWS
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Wednesday, January 11th, 2023
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Europe’s Airbus has retained its top spot for the fourth year running as the world’s biggest jet manufacturer having delivered 663 jets throughout 2022, a rise of 8% when compared to 2021 deliveries.
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Airbus also managed to secure orders for 1,078 new jets throughout the year, which resulted in a net total of 820 after cancellations. On the other side of the Atlantic, Boeing managed to deliver 480 aircraft, while securing orders for 935 aircraft resulting in net orders for 774 aircraft after cancellations.
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Airbus had previously abandoned its target of delivering “around 700” aircraft as a direct consequence of supply chain issues, already lowered from an original target of “around 720 aircraft”. Airbus Chief Executive Guillaume Faury pointed the finger for the shortfall at the "complexity of the operating environment" while still confirming that Airbus would continue to ramp up production. "We continue our ramp-up trajectory to deliver on our backlog," he said in a statement.
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For the first time since 2017 the combined sales of both Airbus and Boeing topped the 2,000-unit mark, excluding cancellations.
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Collins Aerospace is expanding its longstanding support agreement for China Southern’s fleet of Boeing 787 aircraft. The extended agreement builds on the existing Dispatch(SM) flight hour support agreement for avionics onboard the airline’s aircraft. Collins Aerospace’s Dispatch avionics service programme provides high availability and maximum reliability at a predictable cost. This contract extension is likely to reduce China Southern’s operational risk and most importantly, keep its fleet flying.
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“This builds a strong foundation for future collaboration on the Dispatch programme and capability building with Collins Aerospace,” said Zeng Xiaoliang, the senior director for Material Management for China Southern.
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Tailored to each airline’s needs, Dispatch delivers critical on-site spares, access to global asset pools, OEM-quality maintenance and technical assistance for Collins avionics. Under the power-by-the-hour programme, Collins Aerospace will support China Southern's next-generation platforms, along with its existing aircraft.
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Aircraft Finance Germany (AFG) has released that Dr. Joerg Andriof has joined AFG as Chief Investment Officer.
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Dr. Andriof has more than 22 years of industry and leadership experience. Prior to joining Aircraft Finance Germany in 2023, he held senior leadership positions at Titan Aviation Leasing, most recently as Chief Operating Officer, where he was leading the day-to-day management and ongoing development of Titan Singapore’s activities including customer targeting, customer acquisition, aircraft acquisition and placement, financial planning and reporting and operations and strategic development. Earlier, he held senior level positions at DHL Express, Lufthansa and KPMG.
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Alaska Airlines (Alaska) plans to hire more than 3,500 new employees this year in a variety of roles and functions. As the airline continues to grow and bring dozens of new airplanes into its fleet, the carrier needs thousands of people to join the Alaska family.
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From maintenance technicians to contact centre agents, flight attendants to pilots, customer service agents to software engineers, the airline will have jobs available for anyone who wants to be part of its team.
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Most of the new jobs are based at Alaska's hubs in Seattle and Portland, as well as locations up and down the West Coast. Benefits like the ability to work from home and flexibility of schedules are also available with some roles. Many of the positions do not require previous airline experience, so it’s the perfect time to try a new career.
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StandardAero has appointed Dan Satterfield to serve as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Satterfield is responsible for StandardAero’s global financial strategies, day-to-day financial, accounting and tax operations, as well as performance, reporting and long-range business planning, including investor relations, treasury, controller and audit operations. He replaces Mike Scott, who is retiring after more than 33 years of dedicated service to StandardAero. Satterfield will be located at the company’s Scottsdale headquarters office.
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Satterfield joined StandardAero from Honeywell Aerospace, after serving the past four years as Chief Financial Officer for Honeywell’s US$12 billion aerospace portfolio of products and services. Prior to his service at Honeywell, he worked in senior executive financial leadership roles at Gates Corporation, Eaton, Cooper Industries and Siemens.
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A busy summer has gifted Munich Airport massive growth in all traffic figures in 2022: Passenger numbers rose by 19 million year-on-year to a total of 31.6 million. The airport has thus regained two-thirds of its record-breaking pre-pandemic result from 2019. The number of aircraft movements nearly doubled compared with 2021 to more than 285,000 take-offs and landings. The seat load factor of the aircraft in Munich equaled the record figure of 77.5% from 2018. With a total of 210 destinations in 63 countries, Bavaria’s aviation hub now has excellent links with the global route network once again.
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After a weak first-quarter, which was still influenced by the pandemic, demand for flights increased enormously. While only four million passengers were counted at Munich Airport over the first three months, the busiest third-quarter saw traffic of more than ten million travellers. The pent-up demand has been particularly noticeable in long-haul travel: since July, traffic between Munich and destinations in the U.S. has already been higher than the 2019 level. Since the flight schedule for winter 2022/2023 came into effect, this has also been true of traffic to destinations in India, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand.
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Air freight has also benefited from the boom in traffic at Munich Airport. In 2022, freight volume increased by 55% to a total of around 259,000 metric tonnes.
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SkySelect, a leading procurement services and technology provider, has integrated with Rotabull, the all-in-one sales tool for aircraft part sellers and MROs, to enhance suppliers' aircraft parts selling process.
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This new integration automates inventory sharing to ensure the supplier is contacted for parts in stock. As a result, suppliers eliminate unnecessary manual work and achieve greater efficiency.
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This integration automates the process of uploading inventory to the SkySelect platform. The catalogs feature allows buyers to expedite the procurement process and Rotabull allows suppliers to focus on more strategic tasks by automating the listings process.
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The second part of the integration focuses on quote automation and removing the need to input information in the SkySelect platform. Instead, a quote can be sent directly from Rotabull and instantly reflected in SkySelect.
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“Through this integration, we accomplish two primary benefits for our customers. Firstly, we make the quoting process more efficient. Secondly, we provide an additional distribution channel for parts to be sold,” said Evan Wang, Rotabull cofounder. “SkySelect is a great place to sell, so we’re excited to give our customers access to the platform.”
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This latest integration isn’t simply about helping buyers or suppliers but improving the entire supply chain.
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“We’re always looking for ways and adding features to make it easier and more efficient for the suppliers as well as the buyers, and this integration does exactly that,” said Craig Skilton, SkySelect’s Head of Supplier Development. “This partnership goes a long way to making a better supply chain for everyone.”
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