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Aboard the Skywest Express Maximize Your Crew’S Intelligence Low-Fare & Regional Airlines Vol 34 No 6 December 2017/January 2018 www.laranews.net CRJ Series Silver linings MRO – customer support Suite solutions SkyWest All aboard the SkyWest express Maximize your Crew’s Intelligence AID+ upgrade available now Activate your cockpit connectivity on 10,000+ aircraft and enhance your flight performance GroundLink AID+ provides instant and secure access to a wider range of in-flight information that the flight crew can leverage to improve navigation, plane performance, and fuel consumption. The AID+ upgrade is readily available on over 10,000 Airbus and Boeing aircraft already equipped with Teledyne’s GroundLink system. teledynecontrols.com 1.310.765.3600 3 IN THIS ISSUE Low-Fare & Regional Airlines Vol 34 No 6 December 2017/January 2018 www.laranews.net 14 CRJ Series Silver linings Maximize your MRO – customer support Suite solutions Crew’s Intelligence SkyWest All aboard the SkyWest express COVER SKYWEST Tails that tell a tale – a line-up of SkyWest Inc.’s All aboard the SkyWest express airline partners Alaska, United, Delta and American. It may be the world’s largest regional airline, but it only gets four wire transfers a week – a fact that anchors the US carrier in its primary strategy, according to president Chip Childs. NEWS & FEATURES 4 COMMENT 31 ERA 2017 AIRPORT FOCUS 2017 has been an attritional year for some Greek gathering no tragedy 45 AARHUS AIRPORT low-fare and regional carriers, especially Where better to vote on some of the Aarhus has 1,200 years of Viking history, in Europe, but the growth plans of others commercial aviation sector’s biggest but the future is what’s driving the airport’s remain compelling. issues than in Athens, the recognised strategic development. cradle of Western democratic society? 6 NEWS 47 FIVE QUESTIONS TO… $114bn cash splash in Dubai; Riding the 35 MRO EUROPE … Liebherr-Aerospace & Transportation digital wave; Cape of good hope for Italy's easyJet’s winter wonderland Nicolas Bonleux, managing director and Tecnam. With a busy winter maintenance chief sales officer at Liebherr-Aerospace & programme, a major AOC transition Transportation, outlines its latest activities. 19 CRJ SERIES process, and an ongoing fleet expansion Silver linings and upgrade, easyJet remains a low-fare 48 AERO-TECH TRENDS Bombardier has rightly been celebrating giant still hungry to get bigger. More innovative solutions in the spotlight, the CRJ’s silver jubilee, marking its entry from Airbus’s BLADE and Lufthansa into service with Lufthansa CityLine in 1992, 37 FUEL MANAGEMENT Technik’s CAIRE robot, to AFI KLM E&M’s an arrival essentially heralding the advent Catching up with fuel efficiency APU solution and EDM’s door trainer app. of the 50-seat regional jet. Fuel efficiency platforms offer reduced costs but some operators are slow on the 50 NEW APPOINTMENTS AND EVENTS DIARY 24 RAA CONVENTION 2017 uptake. Including flybe, Lufthansa Technik, Air The calm before the storm Industries Group, Aircraft Propeller Service, America’s regional airline leaders gathered 40 AVIONICS AND SYSTEMS GKN Aerospace, ERA, MTU Maintenance AID+ upgrade available now Activate your cockpit connectivity unscathed in the immediate aftermath A visionary upgrade for avionics Lease Services, AerCap and KLM UK of Hurricane Irma but with their sunny As aircraft are fitted for the new traffic Engineering. Plus upcoming aero events. on 10,000+ aircraft and enhance your flight performance dispositions threatened by storm clouds management environment, now may be a on the industry’s horizon. good time to upgrade avionics equipment GroundLink AID+ provides instant and secure access to a wider range of in-flight in other ways too. IN THE NEXT ISSUE information that the flight crew can leverage to improve navigation, plane 28 MAINTENANCE TRAINING l Airports Special performance, and fuel consumption. The AID+ upgrade is readily available on over AMT shortage challenges in the spotlight 42 MRO – CUSTOMER SUPPORT l Aircraft connectivity l 10,000 Airbus and Boeing aircraft already equipped with Teledyne’s GroundLink system. While much has been written about the Suite solutions Component overhaul/repairs pilot shortage, of equal concern to MROs Packaged maintenance support l Flight planning systems is the acute upcoming shortage of aviation programmes are evolving rapidly in l Seating technology maintenance technicians (AMTs). response to customer demands. l Regional focus – Asia-Pacific teledynecontrols.com laranews.net December 2017/January 2018 LARA 1.310.765.3600 4 COMMENT Attritional aviation As the year ends, it’s often publishing tradition to reflect upon events of the past 12 months – but in this industry, too much EDITORIAL happens in just eight weeks to tread that path. tel: +44 1252 545993 Editor: Mark Thomas Let me elucidate. Since the last issue of LARA, we’ve had some [email protected] major happenings. Bombardier’s big move mid-October saw it Editorial Assistant: Kimberley Levey essentially hand Airbus the keys to the Canadian manufacturer’s [email protected] C Series programme on a plate – better a smaller slice of a larger pie Asia-Pacific Correspondent: Emma Kelly [email protected] than all of a much smaller one was the thinking. tel: +61 8 9291 9089 Involving Airbus appears to be paying off, with Bombardier announcing an LoI shortly after Contributors: Bernie Baldwin, Kathryn B Creedy and with a European customer for 31 C Series aircraft with options for 30 more, followed by Henry Canaday another six weeks later at the Dubai Airshow for 24 more for EgyptAir. ADVERTISING SALES & MARKETING The Dubai show also saw Airbus unveil its largest-ever single order, a US$50 billion deal tel: +44 1252 545993 from Indigo Partners for 430 A320neo aircraft for its budget carriers Wizz, Frontier, Volaris and Sales Manager: Toby Walton [email protected] JetSMART. The order was a major vote of confidence in the growth potential of these low-fare Media Sales Executive: Robert James operators and their business models. [email protected] Boeing joined in with its own $27 billion order from flydubai for 225 B737 MAX aircraft – Marketing and Communications Manager: Ross McSweeny more evidence of the LCC model working well. [email protected] These are highly encouraging, but it can go the other way. Since our last issue we also saw PRODUCTION & DESIGN the sad end of two historic European airlines – Air Berlin and Monarch. The warning signs had tel: +44 1252 545993 been there for some time, but their collapse was still sobering. Production Editor: Marina Blackburn [email protected] Approaching its 50th anniversary, Monarch suddenly became the UK’s largest-ever airline failure. This is not a unique occurrence in this business – more than 250 airlines globally have Graphic Designer: Paul Firth [email protected] gone bust in the last decade. But Monarch’s overnight demise in early October was a shock. CIRCULATION Less than four weeks later, Air Berlin, having finally filed for insolvency in August, was Subscription Enquiries: landing its last ever flight. It was Europe’s 10th-largest airline overall and had been operating [email protected] tel: +44 1252 545993 fax: +44 1252 408674 for 39 years. But when main shareholder Etihad pulled the financial plug, it was history. MANAGEMENT Their collapse, following Alitalia’s fall into insolvency in April, illustrates how ferociously [email protected] competitive the market is for short-haul carriers and regional players, especially in Europe, Managing Director: Mark Howells Director: Becky Howells which may now start necessarily moving towards more of a US regional model. Too much LARA is published six times per year – in February/March, April/May, capacity with not enough passengers is never a good formula where the margins are so thin. June/July, August/September, October/November and December/ January – by HMG Aerospace Ltd. Distribution of LARA is carefully There have been plenty of positive announcements about huge aircraft and engine orders controlled for industry-related individuals. Non-qualifiers can subscribe annually for £100. (well over $114 billion at the Dubai Airshow alone) and the continued growth of low-fare Articles and information contained in this publication are the players like easyJet, Wizz, Frontier, Volaris, flydubai et al. copyright of HMG Aerospace Ltd and may not be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the publishers. But it is vital to balance all that optimism against the operational challenges and cost Member of pressures that remain totally capable of killing off two fragile airlines with high cost bases almost overnight. What would happen if oil prices soared back to $120 per barrel for a year or Strategic partner two? It could be carnage. It’s been a lively end to 2017, in what has evolved into a year of attrition for airlines. I suspect the coming year will also be incident-packed, and at LARA we will continue to outline © HMG Aerospace Ltd 2017 ISSN 1753-0598 the trends as they emerge. And on that note, we wish all our readers best wishes for the festive season and a prosperous 2018. HMG Aerospace Ltd Mark Thomas – Editor 103 Mytchett Road, Mytchett, Surrey, GU16 6ES, United Kingdom Tel: +44 1252 545993 Fax: +44 1252 408674 www.hmgaerospace.com More at SSJ100RIGHTNOW.COM December 2017/January 2018 LARA @LARA_Editor ADV_SSJ_2017_LARA_205x273_3mm.indd 1 11/09/17 16:57 More at SSJ100RIGHTNOW.COM ADV_SSJ_2017_LARA_205x273_3mm.indd 1 11/09/17 16:57 6 NEWS The single-aisle order was split into 273 A320neos and 157 A321neos, with Hungary’s Wizz taking the largest share with 146 (72 A320neo, 74 A321neo), Frontier of the US second with 134 (100 A320neo, 34 A321neo), Volaris of Mexico taking 80 (46 A320neo, 34 A321neo) and Chile’s JetSMART a total of 70 (56 A320neo, 14 A321neo). The A320neo family has so far clocked up more than 5,200 orders from 95 customers since being launched in 2010.
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