Daily Aviation Brief – 24/11/2016
Aircraft Update:
EI-FBU Airbus A330-322 c/n 120 I-Fly Ferried Moscow Vnukovo-Teruel Airport 22/11/16 for storage.
EI-RUC Boeing 737-86R c/n 30494 Alafco Irish Aircraft Leasing Ferried Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen-Shannon-St Athan 23/11/16 for part-out & scrap.
EI-RUD Boeing 737-86R c/n 30495 Alafco Irish Aircraft Leasing Ferried Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen-Shannon-St Athan 23/11/16 for part-out & scrap.
2-ITLG Boeing 737-8K5 c/n 27983 AerCap Ferried Shannon-Tel Aviv 23/11/16 in Tailwind colours.
Global Aviation News:
Abu Dhabi Reports Surprise Drop In Airline Passenger Numbers
Airberlin to hire 500 additional flight attendants
Read more: http://atwonline.com/airlines/airberlin-hire-500-additional-flight-attendants
AirAsia X Profitable For Four Consecutive Quarters
Read more: http://www.aviator.aero/press_releases/31893
American Airlines’ $8.8M ERISA Deal Not Enough for Judge
Read more: http://www.bna.com/american-airlines-88m-n73014447575/
Barbados Gov’t defends LIAT
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Barbados-Gov-t-defends-LIAT
Chinese airlines face headwinds from weakening yuan
Etihad Looking At More Help For Air Berlin, Alitalia
Read more: http://aviationweek.com/awincommercial/etihad-looking-more-help-air-berlin-alitalia
Experts say grants for airline companies to facilitate tourist inflow growth to Russia
Read more: http://tass.com/tourism-in-russia/914044
Flight prices in Canada down 23% on routes served by low-cost carrier NewLeaf
Google’s Online Travel Adventure Upsets Its Biggest Advertisers
Iceland’s WOW air doubles revenues in one year
Key takeaways for travel from the Autumn Statement
Read more: https://www.ttgmedia.com/news/news/key-takeaways-for-travel-from-the-autumn-statement-7987
LATAM, Copa seek to get in front of Latin America’s low-cost trend
Read more: http://atwonline.com/airlines/latam-copa-seek-get-front-latin-america-s-low-cost-trend
LATAM Airlines deal with IAG, American threat to competition: Chile regulator
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-latam-airlines-antitrust-iag-american-idUSKBN13I00N
LOT To Launch A Direct Connection Between Kraków And Chicago
Read more: http://www.aviator.aero/press_releases/31892
Lufthansa Pilots Will Strike Until Friday as Pay Feud Escalates
Pilot Strike May Hurt Amazon’s Air Operation During Holidays
Reconnecting Europe with a ‘Mega-Hub’ airport: A crisitunity
SAS studies possible leisure-oriented offshoot
Read more: http://atwonline.com/airlines/sas-studies-possible-leisure-oriented-offshoot
TUI board approves plans for new leisure airline with Etihad
Read more: http://www.euronews.com/2016/11/23/tui-board-approves-plans-for-new-leisure-airline-with-etihad
UK market now biggest contributor to Cook’s profits
Read more: http://www.travelweekly.co.uk/articles/64081/uk-market-now-biggest-contributor-to-cooks-profits
United Airlines Part 1: New management declares ambitions to usher in a new competitive era
United’s President Says the Airline Must Fix Domestic Operations, Starting at Newark Airport
‘Zero chance’ that British Airways will restore flights from Heathrow to Newquay and Liverpool
Irish Aviation News:
Brexit deadlock could halt flights to Europe, warns Ryanair boss
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/nov/22/brexit-europe-ryanair-michael-oleary-eu
CityJet’s boss says striking pilots’ union is ‘a pain in my backside’
Read more: http://www.thejournal.ie/cityjet-strike-3090701-Nov2016/
CityJet to meet union Unite at WRC in bid to halt strike
Clune writes to US Department of Transport as Italian arbitrator is selected in the Norwegian case
Read more: http://westcorktimes.com/archives/995
Continuity in the skies at the IAA
Read more: http://www.inavateonthenet.net/case-studies/article/continuity-in-the-skies-at-the-iaa
IAG boss shocked to find out that third Heathrow runway will raze his HQ
IAG chief warns failing to reduce air passenger duty is ‘suicidal’
UK incoming tour operators get down to business with West Cork tourism trade
Read more: http://westcorktimes.com/archives/907
Ryanair revokes licence agreement with Momondo
SMBC Aviation Capital delivers A321-200 to Volaris
Read more: http://www.aviator.aero/press_releases/31896
SMBC Aviation Capital delivers another Boeing B737-800 to Ukraine International Airlines
Read more: http://www.aviator.aero/press_releases/31897
Stobart Air buys out its lessor
Read more: http://atwonline.com/airlines/stobart-air-buys-out-its-lessor
The Airport Up In Knock Episode 3
Read more: http://player.utv.ie/programme/the-airport-up-in-knock/493559
The Airport up in Knock set for VIP visit
Read more: http://utv.ie/Entertainment/2016/11/22/The-Airport-up-in-Knock-set-for-VIP-visit-63849
Walsh dismisses break-up of IAG under ‘hard Brexit’ scenario
Read more: https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/walsh-dismisses-break-up-of-iag-under-hard-brexit-431724/
Irish Aviation Research Institute Blog Posts:
Irish Aircraft Leasing Newsletter 21 November: http://bit.ly/2ga7oVX
Irish Commercial Aircraft Update 21 November: http://bit.ly/2fisW1R
Tweets of the day:
@bernardlavelle #AOAConf16 I plan to retire before R3 is built. But I don’t expect that to be until 2026 at the earliest. WW.
@DeloitteIreland Aidan Brogan, CEO of @Datalex ‘Datalex is focused on coping with the fast changing digital world’ #ceoforumireland.
@IntrepidNews The reconfiguration of the first Turkish Airlines A330 is well underway in Zurich and we are entering the homestretch toward delivery.
@JohnLStrickland #AOAConf16 #IAG Willie Walsh. Hugely successful expansion @AerLingus since acquisition.
@JohnLStrickland #AOAConf16 O’Leary: @Fly_Norwegian has been “treated shamefully” by U.S./Euro authorities on licensing…”imagine if we tried”…
Today’s Videos Picks:
Aero-TV: The Moneyball of Aviation – Passur Aerospace’s Jim Barry (Part1)
Aero-TV: The Moneyball of Aviation – Passur Aerospace’s Jim Barry (Part2)
Airborne 11.21.16: Bob Hoover Memorial, Ron Alexander Lost, Obama v Flytenow
Airborne 11.22.16: Karma Freebie, Bally Bomber Flies, Holloman AFB
GE is Changing Aviation History… Do you want to be a part of it?
New low-cost airlines making a mark in Canadian air travel
The Five Freedoms of Aviation
Thoughts of Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary on Brexit