Turkish Airlines confirmed a sizeable order of 60 widebody Boeing and Airbus planes today. The Istanbul-based carrier will reconstruct its long-haul fleet with the addition of 30 Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners and 30 Airbus A350-900s.The airline will start receiving its first six planes next year, following with 14 in 2020, 10 in 2021, 12 in 2022, 11 in 2023, and 7 in 2024. This large order of widebody planes comes after Turkish Airlines signed two memorandums of understanding (MoU) last year with bot...
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The US Marine Corps is pressing forward with a fleet-wide maintenance reset of the Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion as it awaits delivery of the CH-53K King Stallion replacement, which has flown for the first time with an external load. Speaking at a congressional hearing on 20 April, USMC deputy commandant for aviation Jon Davis said the E-model has “probably the worst” readiness rate in the service’s aviation inventory....
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Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) is projected to declare fiscal fourth quarter financial results right before the stock market’s official open on January 25, 2017. The stock added about 30 percent in price since last results when it was at $38.07 a share. Based on the most relevant past-periods data, there is an 64.29 percent probability for this firm’s share price to go up following next quarterly results....
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Dutch national airline KLM is heading for a showdown with labour unions after the carrier said on Wednesday (Nov 2) it will file an urgent court order to force unions to the negotiating table. But union negotiators say they refuse to attend talks to agree a pay deal, following KLM's recent decision to cut the number of cabin crew members on many of the airline's long-haul flights....
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American Airlines and Qantas have told the United States government their current level of codesharing is akin to “keeping the lights on” as they await a decision from the Department of Transportation (DoT) on a proposed alliance. The remark was included in the pair’s latest submission to the DoT following the department’s request for more information in June on the expanded alliance and joint-business agreement (JBA). The two carriers are making a second attempt to forge...
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Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed joined officials from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Delta Air Lines on May 25, to reopen the South Security Checkpoint at ATL. The checkpoint was closed May 4 for installation of automated screening equipment. The new equipment will include automated bins, equipped with RFID technology, which are designed to free up TSA screeners from having to manually recirculate the bins. Additionally, the ...
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