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From Bloomberg News | Japan’s All Nippon Airways Co. said it plans to start to start flying the Boeing 787 on overseas routes in March. It is considering flights to Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Paris, Frankfurt and Munich as well as China on the new plane it expects to be delivered in November.
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Associated Press | United Airlines plans to demonstrate new
fuel-saving methods on two flights between the U.S. and Europe on
Saturday. The airline says it expects to save about 940 gallons of
fuel, about 3 percent of the fuel it would usually burn, on the
flights. The testing includes a trip from Frankfurt to Chicago on a
United 777, and a return trip on the same plane. Both are regular
flights with paying passengers.
Reuters | U.S. aircraft and defense firm Boeing said on Friday
it expects to boost its international sales to compensate for a
slowdown in its home market as the U.S. government tries to rein in
defense spending.
Dennis Muilenburg, President and CEO of Boeing Defense, Space and
Security, told reporters in Singapore that international sales would
grow to 20-25 percent of total revenue in the next five years from 16
percent in 2009.
Associated Press | United Airlines said Thursday it has equipped all of its planes with Microsoft Corp.’s Zune digital audio service. The airline said passengers can listen to up to 21 different playlists programmed by Zune, from classic rock to classical music and soundtracks.
Airlines are busy adding diversions to keep passengers entertained and, in the case of wireless Internet access, make more money. Southwest and other carriers are experimenting with charges to see how much passengers will pay to surf the Web or read e-mail at 30,000 feet.
Dow Jones Newswires | Boeing Co. (BA) said Thursday that its
subcontracting team won a U.S. research and development support contract
valued at up to $1.7 billion for upgrading the nation’s air traffic
management system.
Altogether the Federal Aviation Administration has handed out about $4.4
billion in contracts to install a satellite-based traffic management
system in the next decade. Two more contracts are expected to be awarded
under the Next Generation Air Transportation System program, or
NextGen, which has a $7 billion ceiling, making it the largest set of
awards in FAA history.
An American Airlines passenger checks the departure board for flight delays and cancellations at O’Hare International Airport. (AP Photo/Jim Prisching, File)
Associated Press | U.S. airlines operated more flights on-time in April and far fewer passengers were stuck in long tarmac delays, the government said Thursday.
The 18 airlines that report statistics to the Transportation Department were on-time 85.3 percent of the time in April, compared with a rate of 79.1 percent a year earlier and 80 percent in March. Most delays were caused by late-arriving aircraft and aviation system delays, which include bad weather, heavy traffic, or airport and air traffic system slowdowns.
Associated Press | An Ohio roller derby skater who used the team name “Sadistic Sadie” has admitted in federal court to illegally obtaining more than $400,000 in airline tickets while working for United Airlines. Mercedes Stafford, 34, of Cincinnati pleaded guilty to wire fraud Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Covington, Ky., according to court documents.
Associated Press | The aviation industry could recover within
two years from the global economic downturn, as growth in the U.S. and
Asia offsets weaker demand in Europe, the head of the International Air
Transport Association said Thursday.
The industry saw revenues drop some 15 percent in 2009 amid the
economic crisis, and IATA initially believed three years or more would
be needed to recover, said Giovanni Bisignani, the association’s chief.
By Julie Johnsson |
Consumers frustrated with deteriorating airline service and rising
fees may soon have their revenge.
Airlines would have to pay up to $1,300 to passengers bumped from overbooked flights and would be required to prominently disclose fees under new passenger-centric rules proposed by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
From Bloomberg News | Shares in US Airways and UAL rose Wednesday after a strong showing in monthly unit revenue by Continental Airlines. UAL stock was up 11 percent in afternoon trading, and that helped lift the Bloomberg U.S. Airlines Index of 12 carriers to a five-week high.
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From Bloomberg | Shares of US Airways Group Inc. and United Airlines parent UAL Corp. were higher on Wednesday after Continental Airlines beat analysts’ estimates for monthly unit revenue. The Bloomberg U.S. Airlines Index of 12 carriers climbed as much as 4.2 percent to its highest intraday value since April 26.
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Reuters | U.S. aircraft maker Boeing has won an order from a
Russian state company for up to 65 planes, nearly half its net order
for 2009, beating European rival Airbus and a Russian manufacturer.
Reuters | Explosive economic growth in China and massive
government investment in its transportation systems will generate
thousands of airplane orders for Boeing Co, but also may expose the
company to new competition and an overheated economy.
These are risks that Boeing, the world’s second-largest plane-maker, is
willing to take as other nations and their struggling airlines recover
from an economic downturn.
Reuters | The U.S. House of Representatives approved a
Boeing-backed bill that would force consideration of illegal subsidies
in the multibillion-dollar race between Boeing and Europe’s EADS to
sell refueling aircraft to the U.S. Air Force.
The lopsided 410 to 8 vote marked a victory for Chicago-based Boeing
Co. in its drive for a deal to build an initial 179 tanker aircraft
potentially worth up to $50 billion. Boeing and EADS, the corporate parent of Boeing’s commercial archrival,
Airbus, are locked in an increasingly bitter race over the U.S. Air
Force deal.
From The Detroit Free Press | The woman who was left sleeping on a United Express flight for more than three hours after it landed is now suing United, according to the Detroit Free Press. Ginger McGuire, 36, is suing for false imprisonment, infliction of emotional distress and negligence, her attorney said this morning.
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