Air New Zealand to increase capacity on Auckland-Perth route

Air New Zealand (ANZ) will increase capacity on the Auckland (AKL)-Perth (PER) route by more than 20%, the company said in a statement.

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Ethiopian Airlines (ET) took delivery of its second Boeing 737-800NG, featuring the sky interior product. ET ordered 10 737-800s in December 2009.

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Chinese carriers shun EU ETS rules warning; signals retaliation

Chinese carriers are refusing to join European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) despite EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard’s warning Tuesday of their violation of new reporting rules.

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Gulf Air bailout plan rejected

Gulf Air (GF) is awaiting the result of deliberations in the upper house of Bahrain’s National Assembly after the lower house rejected a government proposal to recapitalize the beleaguered national carrier.

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Southwest defers delivery of 30 737-800s

Southwest Airlines (SWA) has deferred deliveries of 30 Boeing 737-800s from 2013-2014 to 2017-2018, as it focuses on hitting its profit target, the carrier confirmed to ATW.

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Flightworx Aviation Introduces Web-based Flight Support

Flight support solution provider Flightworx Aviation (Stand 2347) is launching a new web-based flight support platform, www.iView.aero, at this year’s EBACE show.

The iView.aero program allows pilots to interact with the company’s flight operations function to obtain information on flight bookings and progress in real time. Pilots can also retrieve instant fuel prices from [...]

CAE’s Dassault Simulators Train For Smoky Cockpits

Flight training provider CAE (Stand 468) recently completed the upgrade of its full-flight simulators for Dassault’s current models to include smoke-generation capability for use in its initial training curriculum.

The Falcon 900EX EASy/2000EX EASy simulator at the company’s Morristown, New Jersey training center received the smoke upgrade last month, the last of the type [...]

Concierge Aviation Launches at London’s Biggin Hill

London Biggin Hill airport has a new executive charter operator. Concierge Aviation is launching services with an eight-seat Hawker 750 business jet. Starting this week, Concierge is conducting its activities under a UK air operator’s certificate. The company has fleet expansion plans and is also offering aircraft management services. Managing director Glen Smith used [...]

Northrop Grumman AHRS On Board Cessna Latitude

Northrop Grumman (Stand 2321) announced here at EBACE that Cessna has chosen its navigation systems for the Citation Latitude business jet. One selection is the LCR-100 attitude and heading reference system, which uses both inertial navigation and GPS information.

The enhanced version, the LCR-100N Hybrid Navigator, is also being offered to Latitude buyers. The [...]

Asia’s ABACE Is Latest Triumph For EBACE Organizer NBAA

Show organizers from the U.S. National Business Aviation Association, which jointly promotes the EBACE show, came to Geneva flushed with success (but doubtless fatigued too) after the successful relaunch of the Asian Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (ABACE). The March 27-29 event in Shanghai was, by common consent, a resounding success–especially considering the many [...]

Business Aviation Forecasters Try To Look Beyond Europe’s Current Economic Woes

Lagging growth in Europe business aviation remains a concern, but encouragement is to be found in greater numbers of flights last year, according to Bombardier Aerospace in its current market forecast for 2011-30. Although utilization levels during 2011 were not back to pre-recession levels, business jet movements continued to improve, relative to the previous [...]

Know Your Catering Risks!

How could sending your dirty plates to the fixed base operation (FBO) after a flight to have them washed in a dishwasher be lethal? All too easily, according to catering safety expert Paula Kraft, principal of Atlanta, Georgia-based Aviation Catering Consultants. If the ground handler services the lavatory, then takes his gloves off and [...]

Electronics Lab Powers Ontic Expansion

BBA Aviation’s Ontic division is rapidly developing a new source of growth, the support of legacy electronics products. Ontic is an aerospace manufacturer that focuses on making parts and components that other original equipment manufacturer (OEMs) don’t want to make or can’t make efficiently anymore. The U.S. company also operates repair stations to support [...]

Embraer’s Phenom 100 Fleets Reaches 100k Hours

Three years after entering service, Embraer Executive Jets’ Phenom 100 has surpassed 100,000 total flight hours. “This is a significant milestone achieved in such a short time,” said Luciano Castro, vice president of programs, Embraer Executive Jets. With 240 in service worldwide, Castro attributes the aircraft’s success to “its flexibility in being able to [...]

Greenwich, ExecuJet Ally in China

Wichita-based Greenwich AeroGroup (Stand 1131) and ExecuJet Aviation Group of Zurich (Stand 136) announced at EBACE an expansion of their relationship to include ExecuJet Haite Aviation Services in mainland China. The agreement enables ExecuJet to represent Greenwich AeroGroup parts distribution and repair and overhaul services at all of its locations and positions both companies [...]

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