Daily Aviation Brief – 09/08/2016
Aircraft Update:
HA-FAX Boeing 737-476(F) c/n 24437 ASL Airlines Hungary overshot runway at Milan Bergamo 05/08/16 reported as written off.
9K-AMA Airbus A300B4-605R c/n 673 Kuwait Airways Ferried Kuwait City-Shannon-Stewart International-Roswell International 06/08/16 for part-out & scrap.
9M-XAA Airbus A330-301 c/n 54 AirAsia X Ferried Kula Lumpur-Kansai/International-Honolulu 07/08/16 on return to lessor Kahala Aviation Leasing ex N54AN/EI-SHN.
Global Aviation News:
Air Canada: despite market weakness and its robust capacity growth, maintains a positive outlook
AirAsia’s resilient Fernandes eyes China to chart new expansion
Charleston’s airfares plummet 17.2% in 5 years
Read more: http://www.postandcourier.com/20160807/160809662/charlestons-airfares-plummet-172-in-5-years
Dubai International handles 40.5m passengers in first half
Emirates goes all A380 to Manchester
Read more: http://www.aviator.aero/press_releases/30377
Low-cost flights from Canberra could inject $17 million into ACT economy
Remove the differential in the passenger service charge at KLIA, KLIA2 – IATA
Scoot eyes Gold Coast-Europe flights in 2017
Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com.au/scoot-eyes-gold-coast-europe-flights-2017-1523987
Spirit Airlines feels sting of Southwest’s discounting. First signs emerge of changing network mix
Third Heathrow runway would push up air fares, say campaigners
Irish Aviation News:
ALAFCO acquires portfolio of nine modern passenger aircraft from GECAS
Read more: http://www.aviator.aero/press_releases/30367
DAA refutes pilot union claims on planned T2 bus facility
Dublin Airport seeks bids for new €320m runway
‘I was with the Irish army in Lebanon, but setting up a drone business is the hardest thing I’ve done’
Read more: http://www.thejournal.ie/green-aviation-oisin-green-2-2911708-Aug2016/
RAF tornado jets could shoot down hijacked planes in Irish airspace in event of terror attack
Ryanair expands Frankfurt Hahn service in W16
Ryanair expands Liverpool W16 network
Read more: http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/268256/ryanair-expands-liverpool-w16-network/
Ryanair staff to climb to 18,500
Read more: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/ireland/ryanair-staff-to-climb-to-18-500-xcm6l8gll
Senator and airport’s neighbours meet Ross
3 Aviation Events starting week of 22 August on Ascend Aero’s Complete Guide to Aerospace Conferences & Events
Read more: http://www.ascendaero.com/events/
Irish Aviation Research Institute Blog Posts:
To Be Updated 10 August
Tweets of the day:
@CAPA_Aviation .@BrisbaneAirport CEO/MD Julieanne Aloe says relationship with airlines is “profoundly about partnership” #CAPAsummit.
@CAPA_Aviation Concur: Business travellers are adopting mobile technology, however it is not replacing the web.Mobile access is a necessity now #capasummit.
@CAPA_Aviation .@Qantas Group CEO Alan Joyce notes 2015 profit greater than Air NZ, Etihad, Virgin, SIA combined 💰#CAPAsummit.
@CAPA_Aviation .@QatarAirways notes only place the carrier is not growing is Australia ‘but not by lack of desire’ due to lack of air access #CAPAsummit.
@jacquiwalshe No longer supply chain – rather Eco system of equally digitally intelligent partners – Ed Sims @AirwaysNZ #capasummit.
@winglets747 It appears that in 2018 Cathay will retire 777-200 B-HNL: Line #1. First 777 ever to fly, was Boeing prototype until Cathay needed capacity.
Today’s Videos Picks:
Aer Lingus In-Flight Entertainment Aug/Sept 16
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Etihad Airways E-BOX In-flight Entertainment August 2016
IJW2016 – Paratroopers Reinforce Bonds
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About the Author
Trevor Buckley Blogger Irish Aviation Research Institute/ FlI Commercial Aviation News Curator/ Voted 7th in #Avgeek100 2013/ Twitter @IrishAero
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