ISSN 1718-7966 JUNE 2, 2014 / VOL. 441 WEEKLY AVIATION HEADLINES Read by thousands of aviation professionals and technical decision-makers every week www.avitrader.com WORLD NEWS Having CSeries engine setback dominated A Bombardier CSeries test aircraft the domestic suffered major engine failure in market with one of its two Pratt & Whitney its low-cost model, the engines during a ground test late Philippines’ last week. The two companies are Cebu Pacific investigating the incident. has turned its sights on MH370 search goes on the long-haul sector The search for missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 will move to a different area after Australian au- Cebu Pacific thorities discounted the 850km² zone searched on the basis of No-frills long-haul carriers pose next big challenge ‘ping’ transmissions thought to have come from the aircraft’s Upstart budget airlines threaten status quo on profitable long-haul routes black box. A new search will be- The launch of a range of new long- The next frontier: Low-cost long haul gin in August. Meanwhile, Malay- haul routes by discount airlines sia Airlines’ workers union called this year is expected to challenge Airline Routes Launch Scandinavia to USA, Bangkok In operation for CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya the dominance of legacy airlines Norwegian and other senior managers to and the fast-growing Gulf carriers London Gatwick to USA July 2014 step down in a bid to turn the on their most profitable long-haul Ryanair Europe to USA Within 5 years struggling airline around. routes to Europe and Asia. Scoot’s S$400m boost In Europe, Norwegian will launch Singapore Airlines (SIA) bought a new London to Los Angeles Cebu Pacific Manila to Dubai In operation shares worth S$400m ($318m) in route in early July, followed by Kuala Lumpur to Japan In operation its budget-unit Scoot to help it pay flights to New York and Florida, AirAsiaX Bali to Hong Kong, Australia, Japan End 2014 for the first of the 20 Boeing 787 with fares as low as £149 ($250) Asia to Europe 2015 Dreamliners that it has on order. one-way. Irish budget carrier Rya- Scoot Singapore to Sydney, Japan, Korea In operation nair, meanwhile, is planning to of- The new fuel-efficient long-haul Jetstar Sydney to Japan, Honolulu In operation jets will help SIA compete against fer flights to the US from Europe the budget carriers that represent at a base price, excluding taxes Thai AirAsiaX Thailand to Japan, Korea Summer 2014 half of all seats in and out of Sin- and fees, of $10. NokScoot Thailand to Japan, Korea End 2014 gapore (see main story). In Asia, low-cost carriers ranging Azul Brazil to USA 2015 Air Asia India launch from the Philippines’ Cebu Pacific Source: Companies, various to Malaysia’s AirAsiaX, Singapore’s Air Asia India, the Indian arm of Scoot and Australia’s Jetstar are the budget Malaysian carrier, will but previous attempts to offer dis- part due to high fuel prices. already plying long-haul routes begin commercial flights from count flights from Asia and North across Asia, threatening the viability But the new generation of fuel- June 12th, with ticket sales having America to Europe have not ended on those routes of established full- efficient long-haul aircraft like opened last week. The new car- well. The first trans-Atlantic dis- service carriers. Emirates, for one, the Boeing 787 and Airbus A350 rier aims to win customers by un- count venture, offered by Laker discontinued flights from Dubai to are expected to make the dis- dercutting fares offered by existing Airways in the early 1980s, and count long-haul model viable. Manila earlier this year, in large part Indian budget airlines, which exec- then Canada’s Zoom Airways both Scoot, for one, is expecting de- due to the launch of Cebu Pacific utives believe could add to mount- folded, brought down by a combi- livery of the first of its 20 787s, flights on the same route, accord- ing losses in the sector. Air Asia ation of recession and price-cutting while AirAsiaX, which has out- ing to The Wall Street Journal. won its licence to operate in India from legacy carriers. More recently, standing orders for 39 A330s, is after restrictions governing foreign The low-cost model has been ex- AirAsiaX scrapped its long-haul pushing Airbus to develop a new ownership were eased in 2012. traordinarily successful worldwide, routes from Malyasia to the UK, in engine option for the model. CONFIDENCE WHEN YOU NEED IT MOST WWW.GATELESIS.COM GA Telesis Engine Services (GATES) is a leading provider of commercial jet engine maintenance for GE, CFMI and Pratt & Whitney engines 3 AviTrader WEEKLY AVIATION HEADLINES AIRCRAFT & ENGINE NEWS MTU’s low-pressure turbine for A320neo engine passes milestone The high-speed low-pressure turbine for Pratt & Whitney’s PurePower Geared Turbofan Air Lease Corporation takes delivery of first 777-300ER (GTF) engine to power the A320neo has passed the mandatory stress tests with flying colors. These extremely complex telemetry runs, an official certification requirement for Air Lease Corporation took direct delivery of this module made by MTU, are the first of 15 777-300ERs (Extended Range) considered one of the biggest from its existing order pipeline with Boeing. challenges in engine testing. This 777-300ER, the eighth 777 in ALC’s fleet, They serve to measure the vi- is one of two delivering to British Airways on brational stresses acting on the long-term lease from the lessor. The second blades, along with the thermal 777-300ER for British Airways is scheduled to load and temperature distri- deliver from Boeing in July 2014. bution. In a laborious manual process that took a couple of Montenegro Airlines takes delivery months, MTU’s high-speed low- of new Embraer E190LR from GECAS pressure turbine was fitted with some 400 special measurement GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) deliv- sensors. During 20 hours of test- ered a new Embraer E190LR aircraft to Mon- ing, the propulsion system was The new PW1135G-JM will power the Airbus A321neo MTU tenegro Airlines to expand the carrier’s fleet. put through its paces, also at The aircraft is from GECAS’ existing order overspeed conditions. The PW1100G-JM will enter into service on the Airbus A320neo book with Embraer. Montenegro Airlines cur- next year. To date the PurePower engine family has completed more than 9,000 hours of rently operates a fleet of nine aircraft to des- testing, including more than 1,200 hours of flight test hours. Pratt & Whitney has more tinations in Europe. than 5,500 PurePower engine orders and commitments, including options. Boeing receives 330-minute ETOPS certification for 787s paths, which can save thousands of pounds ing’s aircraft in the Belavia’s fleet. 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