Air Tracker February 21, 2018 Vol1 Ep26 David Tokoph

Hello and welcome to mba airtracker, I am your host for the day David Tokoph and will be providing you the daily naviation news roundup for for Wednesday 21st February 2018. Pratt & Whitney has released a revised configuration as a solution to the issue relating to a knife edge seal on the High Pressure Compressor (HPC) aft hub which affected a limited subpopulation of the PW1100G-JM engine that powers the Airbus A320neo aircraft. Air France will ground a significant number of flights Thursday because of a pay-related employee strike. This includes half of its long-haul flights from Paris, a quarter of its medium-haul flights and About 15% of shorter flights were expected to be grounded. Air Transport Services Group (US) still aims to receive type certification for its A321 converted freighter by 2019, with first A321-200PCF available to customers in 2H 2019. Speaking in Toulouse, France on Tuesday, Akbar Al Baker, CEO of Qatar Airways, announced his intention to create a large subsidiary in India with more than 100 aircraft. Airbus) said it was making good progress in resolving Pratt & Whitney engine snags that were holding up some A320neo narrowbody deliveries, and gave a fresh signal it was considering raising output of its larger A350 wide-body jet. Hawaiian Airlines (US) reportedly dropped its order for six A330-800neo and instead will place an order for B787-9s. Air New Zealand is preparing a formal request for proposals (RFP) for Boeing and Airbus for aircraft that could meet carrier’s ambition to fly nonstop from Auckland to the U.S. East Coast. Irkut has stated its intention to build a customization center for its MC-21 in Russia’s Ulyanovsk Oblast by late 2019.  Aeromexico reports 4Q 2017 total revenue up 12.1% to US$904.8 million, with net profit up 80.7% to $24.9 million. SunExpress (Turkey) reports 2017 revenue of US$1.4 billion, on back of passenger numbers up 10% to 8.8%. Load factor rose to 84%.  Flydubai (UAE) reports 2017 EBITDAR at 23.6% of revenue, up you from previous year’s figure of 21.1%. AirAsia X recorded a 116 per cent higher net profit in its fourth quarter of 2017 then the same corresponding quarter the year before Thai AirAsia X stated that fpor summer 2018 season it is sourcing additional A330-300s to support its routes from Bangkok signalling strength in its low cost network Willie Walsh, chief executive of IAG, British Airways’ parent company and the main operator at Heathrow, said parliament should not trust Heathrow and said he had “zero confidence” that a third runway would be delivered on time and budget.  This comes after airlines have told MP’s that the runway expansion was likely to cost “grossly” more that the 14.3Billion Pounds previously stated Norwegian takes delivery of its last 737NG a 737-800 Ryan Air also took delivery of one 737-800 Delta Air Lines (US) took delivery of one new A321-200, American Airlines (US) took delivery of one new B737 MAX 8 In the regional space Cebu Pacific took delivery of one ATR 72-600 That is the news for the day from mba air tracker. Thank you for listening and please log on to redbook.aero for detailed valuations and fleet information.