All North America news – Page 517
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IATA: Adapting safety focus as operating environment changes
IATA has always taken safety and security seriously, but the emphasis has to alter subtly from time to time to take account of changes in the global operating environment. A quick glance at recent airline safety performance shows accidents are down, but disasters have still occurred and the terrorist threat ...
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IATA: Tyler corrals troops to champion carbon-offset deal
IATA director general Tony Tyler is delighted his members are congregating in Dublin this year, heralding Ireland as a great example of a country that embraces commercial aviation. And as he makes his last appearance as the association’s boss, Tyler acknowledges that 2016 is a crunch time for the world’s ...
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WestJet exercises nine Q400 options
WestJet has ordered nine Bombardier Q400 turboprops, exercising its remaining options for the aircraft.
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AnalysisIATA: New airline chief executives in the hot seat
This year’s IATA AGM in Dublin will see a number of new faces among the top tier of airlines, as several new and a few familiar ones have embarked on new roles.
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Opinion
OPINION: Business jet makers hit by values slump
Business aviation is not burdened by the uncompromising rules of economics in the way its commercial cousin is. While airline bosses fret about their equipment’s operating costs and depreciation rates, a business jet – especially a privately-owned, top-end model – is an aspirational product, where brand values may matter more ...
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Interview
INTERVIEW: Lt Michelle Leclerc US Coast Guard
Lt Junior Grade Michelle Leclerc is a Lockheed Martin C-130J pilot, flying on US Coast Guard missions such as search and rescue, drug interdiction, and ice operations
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AnalysisANALYSIS: The biggest LCCs by traffic and financials in 2015
When Ryanair ended the 2015 calendar year passing the 100 million passenger mark, it further underlined the huge growth the low-cost sector has continued to experience over recent years
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NewsIcon A5 production slowdown amid customer backlash
Icon Aircraft has slowed production for the A5 amphibian from 175 aircraft this year to 20 and revised a controversial purchase agreement after a backlash from customers.
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EBACE: GDC Technics undeterred by excess completions capacity
GDC Technics acknowledges that a slowdown in the number of VIP aircraft completions has resulted in excess capacity in the market, but believes its ability to engineer and install increasingly complicated solutions puts it among a small handful of companies that are up to the job.
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EBACE: Panasonic takes on business aviation rivals
Panasonic Avionics knows it is late to the party on entering the business aviation market, but its decision to team up with Astronics AeroSat rather than build its own tail mount antenna will give it a faster route into the sector.
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EBACE: Single-minded: Dogged determination propels turboprop-singles
The commercial single-engined turboprop (SETP) sector is one of the most enduring yet understated niches of the business aviation market.
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EBACE: Bombardier forecasts healthy decade of deliveries
Bombardier is predicting 8,300 business jet deliveries – in the markets it competes in – over the next decade.
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EBACE: Panasonic and Astronics talk up broadband partnership
Astronics AeroSat expects the in-flight connectivity service it is developing for the business aviation market through its new partnership with Panasonic Avionics to be certified for retrofit installation on the Gulfstream IV family of aircraft in September.
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EBACE: Inmarsat 'open for business' on Jet ConneX
Inmarsat is poised to announce the service entry of its Jet ConneX Ka-band broadband connectivity solution for the business aviation market, and hopes to be able to offer the solution as a linefit option on aircraft manufactured by all of the main OEMs by the end of the year.
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EBACE: Dassault to fit Falcon 8X with ViaSat broadband service
Dassault Aviation has become the third business jet OEM to add ViaSat’s Ku-band in-flight connectivity system to its catalogue as a linefit option, and the satellite company is “in discussions” with other business aviation manufacturers with a view to adding them to the fold.
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EBACE: IASO launches as new aviation services umbrella body
A new umbrella organisation for the world of aviation services was launched in Geneva last night.
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PICTURES: RAAF’s first P-8A conducts maiden flight
The first Boeing P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft due for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has completed its maiden sortie.
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EBACE: 'Tough decisive action' saves Bombardier
Bombardier says “tough decisive action last year to reduce production rates” has saved it from the worst of the collapse in new orders and residual values of large-cabin jets.
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EBACE: G500 stays home with eye on early delivery
Gulfstream ditched a plan to fly the G500 business jet to display at EBACE in order to focus on completing flight tests as quickly as possible, with an eye on delivering the first aircraft ahead of schedule, says chief executive Mark Burns.
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Opinion
OPINION: Is aviation close to environmental breakthrough?
As a solution to our energy and pollution crises, open-rotor aircraft engines have long been akin to nuclear fusion – promising, but 30 years away. But as our special environment report in this issue reveals, breakthroughs may be imminent.