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Tuesday March 10, 2009
Other News
Tuesday March 10, 2009
MexicanaClick, Mexicana's low-cost/regional subsidiary, will lease 25 717-200s from Boeing Capital Corp. Delivery will begin this month and aircraft will replace Click's F100s. The 717s will seat 20 in business class and 84 in economy.
Contract includes provision of training for flight crew, cabin staff and maintenance technicians, as well as spare parts, by Boeing's Commercial Aviation Services division.
UFO trade union representing Lufthansa flight attendants authorized open-ended strikes by a 96%-4% voting margin, according to a union statement cited by Reuters. Negotiations between UFO and LH failed late last month
American Airlines on Sunday operated the first revenue flight with an Aviation Partners Boeing blended winglet-equipped 767-300ER. AA Flight 78 left Dallas/Fort Worth Sunday evening and arrived at London Heathrow yesterday morning. AA plans to install winglets on each of its 58 -300ERs by 2011 and expects to save up to 500,000 gal. of fuel per aircraft each year, depending in mileage. Winglets were installed at AA's Kansas City maintenance base. The airline's 124 757s and 77 737s already fly with winglets.
Air New Zealand was expected to operate a "tailored arrival" into Los Angeles yesterday as part of a trial to prove the procedure's viability into one of the world's busiest airports. NZ Flight 2, a 777-200ER, was due to complete the tailored arrival at 3 p.m. local time. It is approximately 30 mi. shorter than the conventional arrival and features a customized, efficient descent from cruise to runway, eliminating a stepped approach and saving time and fuel.
"Given we operate 747s and 777s on 14 flights per week into Los Angeles from New Zealand, the potential fuel savings are substantial," ANZ Chief Pilot David Morgan said yesterday, estimating annual savings of at least 600,000 liters of fuel and 1,500 tons of CO2. "The results we have already achieved at San Francisco demonstrate the very real difference that efficient, highly automated air traffic control systems can make to airline operations." Last summer ANZ used a tailored arrival into SFO as part of the Asia and South Pacific Initiative to Reduce Emissions program. On that flight alone it saved 4,600 liters of fuel and 12 tons of CO2 .
