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  Risk-based Repair Station Surveillance: From Wanted To Needed

  Posted by Sean.Broderick 12:39 PM on May 08, 2013

  This week's release of an updated audit on FAA's repair station oversight underscored numerous shortcomings that are keeping the agency's five-year-old risk-based surveillance prog... Read More >>

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  Monarch Looking For New Aircraft

  Posted by Lee Ann Tegtmeier 10:37 AM on Nov 30, 2012

  Monarch Airlines has achieved many good metrics in its financial year that ended Oct. 31, including ₤31.6 million in cost cuts and a ₤69.9 million increase in turnover.... Read More >>

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  Laureates Finalists Are....

  Posted by Lee Ann Tegtmeier 2:05 PM on Nov 06, 2012

  Aviation Week just announced the finalists for the 2013 Laureate Awards, which are like the Oscars of aviation. In commercial air transport category, winners come from Delta... Read More >>

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  FAA Bulletin Details Weber Seat-track Issue

  Posted by Sean.Broderick 10:29 AM on Nov 02, 2012

  FAA today released a Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin (SAIB) detailing the passenger seat-track issue that challenged American Airlines last month.  The bullet... Read More >>

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  Talented and Under 40?

  Posted by Lee Ann Tegtmeier 1:17 PM on Aug 15, 2012

  Aviation Week & Space Technology will feature the aerospace & defense industry’s best and brightest young professionals under 40 years old in an October issue, a... Read More >>

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  Money, Broken Promises & Results

  Posted by Lee Ann Tegtmeier 7:13 AM on Aug 09, 2012

  Michael Denis, VP InfoTrust, astutely summarizes and analyzes the last year of debate, and dilemmas, about how to use aircraft data more efficiently in his LinkedIn Aircraft L... Read More >>

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  Behind the Aeromexico Order

  Posted by Lee Ann Tegtmeier 8:26 AM on Jul 26, 2012

  Aeromexico's order to 100 aircraft, worth $11 billion at list prices (so maybe $5.5 billion actually?), interests me in many respects.  1. Aeromexico says it wants to shift i... Read More >>

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  AirAsia's Fuel Strategy

  Posted by Lee Ann Tegtmeier 10:14 AM on Jul 24, 2012

  In an effort to decrease its fuel consumption and carbon emissions, AirAsia, arguably one of the most lauded low-cost carriers in the world, has enlisted GE Aviation to identify an... Read More >>

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  LOT 787 Component Support To...

  Posted by Lee Ann Tegtmeier 8:35 AM on Jul 24, 2012

  LOT Polish Airlines is scheduled to deploy its first Boeing 787 in January, and as part of its entry-into-service preparations, it signed a component support agreement with AFI KLM... Read More >>

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  Star Alliance: Biggest Just Got Bigger

  Posted by Lee Ann Tegtmeier 9:47 AM on Jun 22, 2012

  With Avianca and TACA Airlines joining the Star Alliance on Thursday, the largest airline network, in terms of daily flights and number of members, just got bigger.  Star now... Read More >>

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