Air Tracker January 24, 2018 Vol1 Ep7 Natasha Sidhu

In deliveries, three Boeing 737-800s were delivered to Aeroflot, Ryanair, and Shangdong Airlines. One A321-200 was delivered to VietJetAir. Boeing has announced the completion of flight tests for the 787-10 Dreamliner with Rolls Royce engines. Testing with GE engines has not yet concluded. Boeing has acknowledged that the blade issues on the Rolls Royce Trent 1000 for the 787-9 has been present across all carriers, rather than isolated to those with publisized flight disruptions due to groundings, such as Air New Zealand. Lockheed Martin has filed for a $212 Million Governement Reimbursement for restructuring costs of helicopter manufacturer Sikorsky Aircraft, which it aquired for $9 billion USD in 2015. An $840 million class action suit has been brought against the FAA due to privacy concerns with regards to the drone registration database created by the National Defence Authorization Act passed into law in December Airlines for America, the primary US airline lobbyist group, spent a total of $8.59 million in 2017, a 34% increase from the previous year. According to a study by the London School of Economics, in-flight broadband is expected to expand to a $130 billion global market by 2035, which equates to an additional $3.21 in per passenger revenue. According to its financial statements, Quatar Airways has aquired, unannounced, an additional 0.33% equity holding in Cathay Pacific since its initial share acquisition in November HNA announced today that it has cleared due-diligene checks for JP Morgan, UBS, Creid Suisse, and others in the past few months, mitigating the concern of collapse. China Development Bank, which is highly exposed to the company, has announced its intent to support the company, as its collapse would not be in the general interest. The Civil Aviation Administration of China has contracted US companies Jeppesen and Honeywell to address the 72% of the country's civil airports that are not currently in the administation's aviation navigation database. Taiwan has denied Chinese Airlines China Eastern and Xiamen traffic rights during Chinese new year due to China's opening of four routes near the disputed martime border earlier this month. The Australian Government has launched its second probe into airline fares in response to citizen concerns over the significantly higher price tag of rural flights compared to hub-to-hub trips.