ISSN 1718-7966 JULy 24, 2017/ VOL. 600 WEEKLY AVIATION HEADLINES Read by thousands of aviation professionals and technical decision-makers every week www.avitrader.com WORLD NEWS Primera Air to start US sched- uled service in S18 Primera Air announced the opening of three new bases in Europe: Lon- don (Stansted, STN), Paris (Charles de Gaulle, CDG) and Birmingham (BHX) for starting flights to New york (EWR airport) and Boston Lo- gan (BOS airport) in April 2018. Two more transatlantic routes from the new bases will be announced by the end of summer 2017. Flights to the US will commence in April 2018 and will be year-round. Primera Air will offer daily flights to New york easyJet will (EWR) and four weekly flights to phase the Boston from all three bases. re-registering of the remaining Lufthansa expands European aircraft. winter network Photo: Airbus Lufthansa is launching seven new winter destinations starting at the end of October: Pamplona, Genoa, easyJet Europe takes off Bari and Catania are the new des- First Austrian-registered aircraft now flying tinations available from Frankfurt. Low cost carrier easyJet has con- As the most exposed UK airline to of the remaining aircraft, around The offer from Munich will be ex- firmed that it has been awarded a single European aviation market 110 planes that are required for its tended to include Nantes, Glasgow an Air Operator Certificate (AOC) (ex UK), easyJet is right not to sit EU based operations into easyJet and Santiago de Compostela as by Austro Control and an airline around waiting for regulatory clar- Europe over the next two winters. further attractive city connections. operating licence by Austria’s Fed- ity. Other airlines are also showing This process will be completed in Due to high demand, Lufthansa eral Ministry for Transport, Innova- some signs of unease about the advance of the UK leaving the EU. will also fly to Nantes, Glasgow and Santiago de Compostela from Mu- tion and Technology (bmvit) which continued uncertainty. As CAPA re- easyJet Europe’s principal place of nich for the first time in winter. means that easyJet Europe is now ports, IAG has questioned the EU’s operational. ownership and control rules and business will be in Vienna and the Delta links Atlanta and Shanghai management Delta Air Lines is expanding in Asia On July 14 “This will ensure easyJet can continue to operate of easyJet Eu- with a new service between Harts- 2017 easyJet rope will have field-Jackson Atlanta International said that it flights both across Europe and domestically within full opera- Airport and Shanghai Pudong In- hoped to re- European countries after the UK has left the EU.” tional control ternational Airport starting in July ceive an Aus- and financial 2018.The new Atlanta flight will trian AOC “in Carolyn McCall, easyJet CEO oversight of be Delta’s fourth U.S. gateway to the near fu- the compa- Shanghai, complementing existing ture” for a new subsidiary – easyJet Ryanair has mused over how to ny. Thomas Haagensen, currently service from Detroit, Seattle and Europe – to ensure intra-EU traffic maintain EU majority control if UK easyJet’s Country Director for Ger- Los Angeles. The flight will pro- rights post Brexit. Around half of shareholders are excluded from the many, Austria and Switzerland has vide convenient one-stop access easyJet’s passengers come from definition. Wizz Air is even looking been appointed to the role of Man- to more than 150 destinations in the EU27 (the 27 countries of the at a UK licence. aging Director for easyJet Europe. the U.S. and Latin America from EU once the UK leaves) and around Shanghai. 30% fly on intra-EU27 routes. easyJet will phase the re-registering Continued on page 3 USING ANY MEANS WHEREVER, WHENEVER, NECESSARY. WE DELIVER. WWW.AVTRADE.COM/MISSION-MONGOLIA WWW.AVTRADE.COM/MISSION-MONGOLIA www.aeroset.co.uk Aeroset © Copyright 2017 - All Rights Reserved 3 WEEKLY AVIATION HEADLINES ...continued from page 1 Carolyn McCall, easyJet CEO said: “This announcement is the result of an extensive and thorough regulatory process in Austria and I am pleased to confirm that easyJet Europe is now flying with its first flight touching down in its new headquarters of Vienna. “easyJet Europe has a strong management team in place, led by Thom- as Haagensen, who will oversee the transfer of the planes and people to the airline. This will ensure easyJet can continue to operate flights both across Europe and domestically within European countries after the UK has left the EU. “In addition, like all other European airlines, we continue to lobby for an EU UK aviation agreement which, as a minimum, will enable flights between the EU and the UK.” Outgoing CEO McCall says easyjet will continue to lobby for an EU UK aviation agreement. Photo: easyJet AIRCRAFT & ENGINE NEWS Orders and deliveries – Boeing and Airbus AWAS to lease two Airbus A320 Aircraft to Airbus v Boeing: Orders and Deliveries Air Guilin June 2017 yTD AWAS and Air Guilin have completed the lease Airbus Boeing agreements for two Airbus A320 aircraft. These Type Orders Deliveries Type Orders Deliveries modern, fuel-efficient planes will be delivered in 2018 and are part of a direct order AWAS has A320 Family 212 239 737 262 236 with Airbus. Both aircraft will come equipped A330 3 31 747 -5 4 with CFM 56-5B4/3 PIP engines. This latest ad- dition to the Air Guilin A320 family fleet will A340 0 0 767 15 5 assist the carrier as it looks to capitalize on A350 33 30 777 37 42 China’s increasing domestic demand for leisure A380 0 6 787 75 65 and business air travel. Air Guilin currently op- erates Airbus A319 and A320 airplanes and ex- Total 248 306 Total 384 352 pects to significantly increase their fleet size by Source: Airbus Source: Boeing the end of 2018. Airbus marked a busy June with 138 aircraft ordered from its A320 and A330 families by airlines and leasing companies – including high-profile announcements made at the Paris Air Show – while delivering 64 jetliners during the month in the A320, A330 and A350 XWB product range. Mandarin Airlines buys six ATR 72-600s In June, Boeing racked in 184 orders with the leasing industry taking a huge chunk of orders. 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In addition to the contract sign- ing, ATR is also willing to provide engineering and technical support to China Airlines and its subsidiaries to set up in-house capabilities for ATR heavy maintenance, up to C-checks. Aeroflot expands Sukhoi Superjet 100 fleet to 50 with new order for 20 jets The opening day of the MAKS-2017 International Air Show, July 18, saw the signing of a contract be- tween PJSC Aeroflot, VEB Leasing and JSC United Aircraft Corporation, for delivery of 20 Sukhoi FTV4 and FTV5 in pre-flight bay in Toronto, Canada Photo: Bombardier Superjet 100s to PJSC Aeroflot, the Russian flag- carrying airline. The contract is a follow-up to Bombardier Business Aircraft has released that its Global 7000 aircraft flight test program is the Memorandum of Understanding signed by progressing as planned and has surpassed the 500-hour milestone. With three flight test vehi- Aeroflot and Sukhoi Civil Aircraft in January 2015, cles (FTVs) in flight testing and two remaining FTVs to join shortly, the Global 7000 aircraft pro- while the first firm contract for the delivery of 30 gram is on track to meet the aircraft’s targeted entry-into-service in the second half of 2018. SSJ100s was completed in 2016. With the addi- Bombardier also confirmed that the first several customer aircraft are progressing smoothly tion of these 20 jets, Aeroflot’s fleet of SSJ100s through production, with four Global 7000 business jets currently in final assembly at the Bom- will rise to 50, as the airline continues to operate bardier facility in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In November 2016, Bombardier began flight test- one of the youngest fleets among the 20 larg- ing its state-of-the-art Global 7000 business jet with the maiden flight of first flight test vehicle est global airlines by available seat kilometers. 1 (FTV1). FTV1 came close to surpassing the speed of sound, reaching M 0.995 during a test The ordered jets have a two-class configuration: flight in March 2017 – the largest business jet to operate so close to the sound barrier. The sec- 12 seats in the business class compartment and ond flight test vehicle (FTV2) and third flight test vehicle (FTV3) joined the program in March 75 seats in economy class, as per the currently and May 2017, respectively. The comprehensive testing conducted using the three FTVs over configured jets. The new planes will be used on the course of the 500 flight hours has demonstrated the capability of the aircraft’s propulsion, domestic flights throughout Russia, on routes to avionics, electrical and mechanical systems.