AIRLINE BRIEFS NEWS FROM AROUND
Azul’s founder David
Neeleman, will be the guest
speaker at the JFK Airport
Chamber of Commerce to be
held May 30 on May 30th at
the TWA Hotel at JFK Airport
following the upcoming
May 15th hotel opening.
Neeleman was the founder
of JetBlue, Brazil’s successful
Azul, co-owner of Portugal’s
TAP airline and in the
process of starting another
U.S.. airline currently know
as Moxy. This name is likely
to change but is believed to
reflect Neeleman’s disruptor
role in the airline industry
which is envied by many in
the aviation industry.
JetBlue plans to cross
the pond. New York’s Hometown
Airline® and the largest
airline in Boston, announced
it intends to launch multiple
daily flights from both cities
to London in 2021 as the carrier’s
first European destination.
The new routes will
be served by Airbus A321LR
single-aisle aircraft with a
reimagined version of Mint.
JetBlue is evaluating which
London airports it will serve.
“Twenty years ago, our founders
had a simple formula for
choosing a new market – it
had to be overpriced, underserved,
or both,” The fares
being charged today by airlines
on these routes, specifically
on the premium end, are
enough to make you blush.”
said Joanna Geraghty, president
and chief operating officer,
JetBlue.
United Airlines. United
has released the design of its
new livery, aircraft design
moving away from the gold it
inherited from its Continental
merger to three shades of
blue. United said the changes
feature three blues, Rhapsody
Blue and Sky Blue in addition
to the existing United
Blue. The globe tail logo remains
but is now presented in
a gradient. The engines and
wing tips are painted in the
airline’s traditional United
Blue, and the body now features
a Rhapsody Blue swoop
The new blue branding is
used throughout the design
“in a way that pays respect to
United’s heritage while bringing
a more modern energy,”
the airline said.
Avianca Brasil (separate
company from Avianca) filed
for bankruptcy in December
after failing to pay leases on
its aircraft. On April 1, the
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airline canceled several international
routes from Sao
Paulo to New York, Miami
and Santiago, Chile. Avianca
Brasil canceled more than
1,045 domestic flights in April
because it has to return 18
aircraft to leasing agencies.
Boeing 737 Max software
issue hurt Norwegian Airline’s
schedules flying out of
Stewart International Airport
in NY. Because of the
grounding of the Max 8, the
airline has been forced to reduce
flights from Stewart to
Dublin, delayed additional
flights to Shannon, not renewing
its seasonal flights to
Oslo and disrupting their ambitious
plans to expand this
high travel season. Said Anders
Lindstrom, a Norwegian
spokesman ““We are fully
aware this creates a hassle ...
for which we are truly sorry,
but this is an extraordinary
situation.″ Through no-fault
of Norwegian, this curtailed
service will disappoint many
value oriented travelers.
Asiana Airlines is having
financial difficulties. The
airline flies out of JFK, but
news is that it is cutting out
the Chicago to Seoul Incheon
flights. This cancellation follows
financial difficulty resulted
from accounting questions.
The carrier’s parent
company, Kumho Asiana
Group, is seeking financial
support from its biggest creditor.
The bad financial news
follows an accounting stumble
that caused their credit
rating to be downgraded and
the resignation of its co-CEO
Park Sam-koo,
Spice Girls? No, actually
SpiceJets. Budget carrier
SpiceJet has partnered with
Gulf-based Emirates for codeshare
partnership, a move
that will give wider connectivity
to its passengers on the
Emirates network across the
US, Europe, Africa and Middle
East.
As quid-pro-quo, Emirates’
passengers will enjoy
unhindered access to Spice-
Jet’s 51 domestic destinations,
both direct connections
and connecting flights
according to the airline.
Air Italy’s new routes to
San Francisco and Los Angeles
from Milan allegedly
fly in the face of “OpenSkies”
agreement according to Delta
Air Lines, American Airlines,
and United Airlines.
They oppose this route under
the impression that Qatar
is sneaking into the agreement
with its 49% ownership
of Air Italy and therefore is
not part of the European-US
skies agreement. Qatar totally
disagrees with this opposition
and its ownership
predates the 2018 agreement.
On the other hand, several
U.S. carriers agree with Qatar.
A coalition led by JetBlue
Airways, cargo operator Atlas
Air, and FedEx — which
operates a large cargo hub in
Dubai — say Air Italy is a “legally
certified European carrier”
and therefore has every
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right to expand in the U.S.
Carlyle Group and Schneider
Electric, a company that
focuses on energy management
and automation, have
formed a joint venture called
AlphaStruxure that aims to
build smart infrastructure.
The two companies are
partnering already on infrastructure
projects such as
JFK Airport Terminal One
Redevelopment and Lone
Star Ports Harbor Island
Crude Export Terminal. The
AlphaStruxure effort aims
to combine Schneider Electric’s
analytics, intelligent
edge and power management
know how with Carlyle’s infrastructure
investment expertise.
For instance, the JFK
Airport Terminal One Redevelopment
aims to cut energy
use by as much as 30 percent
and hit 100 percent renewable
energy usage within a decade
via a microgrid. A microgrid
is a localized group of electricity
sources that is connected
to the broader grid, but can
disconnect and function autonomously.
The Department
of Energy has helped deploy
a series of microgrids across
the U.S.
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