Daily Aviation Brief – 23/01/2019

Acumen Aviation Newsletters 21 January:

Acumen Announces 2018 Operational Review: http://bit.ly/2MmM0OG

China Aviation Industry Newsletter 21 January: http://bit.ly/2R7a2Op

India Aviation Industry Newsletter 21 January: http://bit.ly/2WdM3B5

Irish Aircraft Leasing Newsletter 21 January: http://bit.ly/2TZOxAS

Irish Commercial Aircraft Update 21 January: http://bit.ly/2TZOxAS

USA Aviation Industry Newsletter 21 January: http://bit.ly/2MoLWxW

Aircraft Update:

N758MA Boeing 737-8K5 c/n 37247 Miami Air

XA-DRA Boeing 737-852 c/n 35114 AeroMéxico Ferried Mexico City-Los Angeles-Mexico 09-17/01/19 for re-registration ex EI-DRA.

XA-DRC Boeing 737-852 c/n 35116 AeroMéxico Ferried Mexico City-Los Angeles-Mexico 09-17/01/19 for re-registration ex EI-DRC.

Global Aviation News:

Airbus A220 Is The New ‘It’ Plane, And It Could Be As Game-Changing As The 787

British Airways reveals “iconic” BOAC Boeing 747 design

Chinese carriers seek rights to Europe, Southeast Asia

Fly the Fashionable Skies

Germania Fluggesellschaft mbH: Successful Financing Negotiations

Lack of customers forces Russia’s IrAero Airlines to ground its B777 China project

Now Airline Caterers Are Stockpiling Meals Before Brexit

2018 sees biggest net rise in airline seats between Europe and China this decade; 30 new routes added last year; two new airline players for 2019

Irish Aviation News:

Council eyes 2020 take-off for Waterford Airport

Hainan Airlines is launching a second direct route from Ireland to China

IAG won’t get into bidding war for Norwegian Air’ – Willie Walsh

Ryanair: Brexit won’t ground flights

Ryanair hopes its frailest rivals will die soon – but they keep clinging on for dear life

Travel Extra’s Sunday Supplement: A whiter shade of green

Tweet Picks:

@Airlineroute From Shenzhen, Hainan Airlines to operate 2 weekly flights each to Dublin from 25FEB19 and Tel Aviv from 22FEB19, with Boeing 787-9.

@e_russell “We are going to continue to mine this mid-continent hub strategy. And we think we have a long way to go,” said $UAL commercial chief Andrew Nocella. In other words: more domestic connectivity via #DEN, #IAH and #ORD to come.

@Oliver__Clark Aer Lingus to completely roll out new brand by 2021 says director of marketing Dara McMahon.

@RunwayGirl WestJet’s new Boeing 787 raises the bar for long-haul, low-cost travel, with a premium economy product filling the “comfort canyon” between herringbone business and the narrow 3-3-3 Dreamliner economy product down back..

@theAPEXassoc .@AerLingus partnered with @Lippincottbrand on its new brand identity. “A darker shade of green represents strength, while a lighter shade represents modernity,” says Dara McMahon, Aer Lingus’ director of Marketing & Digital Experience. #PaxEx #AvGeek.

Video Picks:

Holiday World Belfast January 2019

https://youtu.be/WLw0SZdVhgg

Revealing a new-look Aer Lingus

https://youtu.be/oHLzQ4d6Wcg

United Airlines Passengers Stuck On Tarmac In Canada For 15 Hours

https://youtu.be/H3TDUMBizqk

Willie Walsh Dublin does not need another terminal

https://youtu.be/TFTAmG2aHV0

Willie Walsh IAG plans for Level

https://youtu.be/7J5va5u0zL8

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