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EGYPTAIR News 12 july 2016

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12 ٤٣2016

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رـبدس إعجب٤ب ك٢ ىش٣وب وبشح( 2عالس إجبظ )ايبئشح

أهؼذ ىبئشح رؼ ثبيبهخ اؾغ٤خ كوو ثغال عة إعجب٤ب ك٢ هذ جش

٣ االص٤ ك٢ اؾيخ هج األخ٤شح أ سؽخ ع٣خ ؽ اؼب د

اؽذحاعزخذا هيشح هد

0420راد اوؼذ ااؽذ أؽج٤٤خ اغبػخ ( 2عالس إجبظ )ؿبدسد ايبئشح

50ثزه٤ذ عش٣زؼ ك٢ ىش٣وب إ٠ اوبشح ك٢ سؽخ ازهغ أ رغزـشم

س٣زشصده٤وخ ثؾغت 30عبػخ

أق خ٤خ 17ؾشبد ايبئشح األسثؼخ ثيبهخ غزذح أضش رذاس

٣ض٣ذ ى عبؽ٢ ايبئشح ػ ىبئشاد ث٣ظ ؽغ٤خ ضجزخ ػ٠ اغبؽ٤

٢ قػخ أ٤بف اشث اخل٤ق ـب٣خ ٣ؼبد صب اإلعب٢ 747

( زش 8500)أق هذ 28ثوذسب أ رؾن ػ٠ اسرلبع ص ع٤بسح

٤زشا ك٢ اغبػخ 70ثغشػخ رق إ٠ ؾ

٣زجبد اي٤بسا اغ٣غش٣ب ثشرشاذ ث٤بسد أذس٣ ثسؽجشط ه٤بدح ايبئشح

ك٢ سؽزب ؽ اؼب از٢ ثذأد أثظج٢ رز٢ بى

٣ز٠ ثسؽجشط ه٤بدح ايبئشح إ٠ اوبشح ٢ اشؽخ اغبدعخ ػؾشح

اشؽخ اوشس أ رؼجش ك٤ب ايبئشح اجؾش ازعو كم اغب اغ١

رظ اغضائش بيب إ٣يب٤ب ا٤ب هج أ رؾو ك٢ قش

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ىبئشح رؼ ثبيبهخ اؾغ٤خ رـبدس إعجب٤ب ك٢ ىش٣وب وبشح

0420راد اوؼذ ااؽذ أؽج٤٤خ اغبػخ ( 2عالس إجبظ )ؿبدسد

ده٤وخ 30عبػخ 50ثزه٤ذ ؿش٣زؼ ك٢ سؽخ ازهغ أ رغزـشم

اف يبس اوبشح اذ٢ اعزؼذادار العزوجب أ ىبئشح رؼ ثبيبهخ

اوشس فب األسثؼبء اوج هبدخ 2عالس اجبظ اؾغ٤خ

إعجب٤ب ك٢ إىبس عزب ؽ اؼب از٢ ثذأرب اخ٤ظ اؼشث٠ ك٢ بسط

اؼب ابم٠ ذػ زع٤ب ايبهخ اظ٤لخ

٢ قػخ أ٤بف ٣747ض٣ذ ى عبؽ٢ ايبئشح ػ ىبئشاد ث٣ظ

اشث اخل٤ق ـب٣خ ٣ؼبد صب اإلعب٢ ص ع٤بسح

٣زبة ثسؽجشؽ ص٤ ثشرشا ث٤بس ػ٠ ه٤بدح ايبئشح از٢ رزغغ ؾخـ

اؽذ كوو

أؽبسد إ٠ أ ايبئشح عززبثغ اؾشم كم يوخ األشابد هج جىب

ايبئشح ٢ األ٠ از٢ رؼ ثبيبهخ اؾغ٤خ ثذ اجؼبصبد ثذ هد

ك٢ إىبس سؽالرب ازغش٣ج٤خ ؽ اؼب

أهؼذ ايبئشح ا٤ االص٤ ذ٣خ إؽج٤٤خ األعجب٤خ ك٢ ىش٣وب قش

ايوذ ايبئشح أثظج٢ ثبرغب غوو 2015بسط ك٢ ازبعغ آراس

ص ا٠ اؽذ اثبد كشابع٢ ك٢ اذ بذاال١ ك٢ ثسب ص ؽـزؾ٤ؾ

ب٤ ك٢ اق٤ ب إ٠ بؿ٣ب ك٢ ا٤بثب هج االزوب إ٠ با١

كب٤لس٤ب ص اؾشم اال٤ش٢ ا٠ ٣٤سى ك٢ اـشة ك٢ ؾيبد

ػذح ص ػجشد اؾ٤و االىغ٢ ا٠ اعجب٤ب

ػبب 12عش ازخي٤و ؾشع سؽخ ايبئشح ؽ اؼب ز أضش

ثذف ص٣بدح ازػ٤خ ثظبشح ازـ٤ش ابخ٠ ىشػ ؽ ايبهخ اقذ٣وخ

ج٤ئخ

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ى٤شا االبساد اضبضخ ػب٤ب ك٠ اؾؾ اغ أ٣برب

وذ ؾ laquo ى٤شا اإلبسادraquo ثأ ؽشخ (أ٣برب)أكبد االرؾبد اذ٢ و اغ١

زؾ ك٢ اشض اضبش ٤2015 ى اؾؾبد اغ٣خ خال ػب 25

laquo٣ ث٢ إطraquo laquoك٤ذظraquoػب٤ب ثؼذ ؽشز٢

رش االرؾبد ك٢ روش٣ش ػ أداء هيبع او اغ١ أ ؽشبد اي٤شا ك٢ اؾشم

ثغجخ ثـذ ٤2015 غبكش ك٢ ػب 1882األعو اعزيبػذ و

ؾ٤شح إ٠ أ ؽقخ ابهالد اغ٣خ ك٢ اؾشم 2014وبسخ ثؼب 81

53األعو إعب٢ أػذاد اغبكش٣ ؽ اؼب فذ إ٠

laquoى٤شا اإلبسادraquo كوب ج٤ببد اقبدسح ػ ؽشبد اي٤شا اى٤خ

كئ اؾشبد األسثغ laquoاؼشث٤خ ي٤شاraquo laquoكال١ دث٢raquo laquoاالرؾبد ي٤شاraquo

ػ اؼب 155ث غجز ٤2015 غبكش خال ػب 853وذ ؾ

إعب٢ اغبكش٣ ك٢ يوخ اؾشم األعو 45اغبثن زغزؾر ػ٠

ك٢ روش٣ش أ اذ رقذسد أضش أعام اغلش ا ك٢ أػذاد laquo أ٣بربraquoأمؼ

ك٢ أػذاد اغبكش٣ داخ 188اشبة اؾ٤٤ ثؼذ أ عغذ ا ثغجخ

٤ غبكش زغبصح اغم 80ثأضش 2014عهب اؾ٤خ وبسخ ثؼب

٤ غبكش 47ؾ 119اشع٤خ از٢ ؽذ صب٤ب ث

هب اذ٣ش اؼب اشئ٤ظ ازل٤ز١ الرؾبد اذ٢ و اغ١ ر٢ رب٣ش إ

٤بساد سات خال اؼب 36ؽشبد اي٤شا وذ ثأب ب غػ raquo

٤ ى 522 عب األسك ب وذ 48ابم٢ أ١ ب ٣ؼبد

ؾ٤شا إ٠ أ laquoاؾؾ اغ١ ثو٤خ رق إ٠ ؾ عزخ رش٤٣بد دالس

ظ٤لخ٤ 63اويبع ٣غ ك٢ دػ raquo

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اؼشث٤خ ي٤شا رغ٤ش سؽالرب ا٠ ثبر٢ ثغسع٤ب

أ أجش ؽشخ ى٤شا اهزقبد١ ك٢ يوخ اؼشث٤خ ي٤شاثذأد اغخاؾبسهخ

اؾشم األعو ؽب إكش٣و٤ب سؽالرب إ٠ ذ٣خ ثبر٢ صب٢ أجش ذ٣خ ك٢ عسع٤ب

سؽالرب إ٠ اذ٣خ شر٤ ك٢ األعجع ٢٣ اخ٤ظ اغجذ اؼشث٤خ ي٤شارغ٤ش

ايالهب وشب اشئ٤غ٢ ك٢ يبس اؾبسهخ اذ٢ ؽ٤ش روغ سؽالد ازبة ػذ اغبػخ

ثبزه٤ذ 1640ثزه٤ذ اؾبسهخ زق إ٠ يبس ثبر٢ اذ٢ ػذ اغبػخ 1315

اؾ٢

زق إ٠ يبس اؾبسهخ اذ٢ 1730أب سؽالد اؼدح كزين ثبر٢ ػذ اغبػخ

2050ك٢ اغبػخ

هذ روغ ثبر٢ ػ٠ ؽاىئ اجؾش األعد رز٤ض ثزبس٣خب اؼش٣ن ىج٤ؼزب األخبرح

اؽزشد اذ٣خ عخ آخ راد أعؼبس اهزقبد٣خ ب ٣غؼب رغزويت اغبكش٣ اجبؽض٤

روذ ثبر٢ ضاسب غػخ اقشػ ػ ب أضش غشد ع٤بؽخ رو٤ذ٣خ

ؼب اذ٣خ ازبس٣خ٤خ ض االع٤٤خ از٢ رؼد إ٠ اوش ازبعغ ػؾش از٢ رؾ

ازبؽق ااهغ ازبس٣خ٤خ اشاض اضوبك٤خ

هذ عبذ ب رؼشف ذ٣خ ثبر٢ ثؾاىئب اغ٤خ ؽذائوب اخالثخ عبؽبرب الغ٤ؾخ

اض٣بدح ك٢ غجخ اغ٤بػ از٣ رغزوج اذ٣خ خال اؼوذ األخ٤ش ك٢ ص٣بدح ػذد اجب٢

اؾذ٣ضخ ض البدم الخخ كئخ اخظ غ ازغؼبد اؼب٤خ از٢ رزبؿ ثزق٤ب

غ ز اذ٣خ اؼش٣وخ زؾ بكزح ري ػ٠ ربس٣خ ثبر٢ اـ٢

رؾظ٠ ثبر٢ ثأ٤خ اؼشث٤خ ي٤شاهب ػبد اؼ٢ اشئ٤ظ ازل٤ز١ غػخ

ؾ عؼذاء ثجذء سؽالرب ا٠ زب٤خ عخ ع٤بؽ٤خ ز٤ضح خبفخ خال أؽش اق٤ق

٣غشب خال اىالم ز اشؽالد ز اذ٣ رع٤غ ؽجخ عبرب م عسع٤ب

اغذ٣ذح ؼ اغبكش٣ غ اؼشث٤خ ي٤شا عاء ثـشك ازشك٤ أ األػب أؾبء

ايوخ اؼشث٤خ الشفخ ض٣بسح ز اعخ ا٤ضح ثبالمبكخ ا٠ اغبخ الؼبخ ك٢

هيبع اغ٤بؽخ االهزقبد اؾ٢

ثزغ٤٤ش سؽالد ٤٣خ إ٠ اؼبفخ رج٤غ٢ أجش ذ عسع٤ب از٢ اؼشث٤خ ي٤شارو

ثشصد ثغشػخ ك٢ اؾذ اغ٤بؽ٢ ك٢ أسثب ؽ٤ش أظش روش٣ش ظخ اغ٤بؽخ اؼب٤خ ؼب

أ عسع٤ب عغذ ص٣بدح ك٢ أػذاد اضائش٣ اذ٤٤ ثغجخ أجش أ١ ثذ أسث٢ 2014

آخش

ثذا ك٢ اؾشم 33عخ ك٢ 120رغ٤ش اؼشث٤خ ي٤شا سؽالرب ا٤ إ٠ أضش

األعو آع٤ب إكش٣و٤ب أسثب

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ب 990رظ سؽالد داخ٤خ رجذأ قش ي٤شا ع٤

ي٤شا زذؽ٤ أ أجش ؽالرب ازؾ٤ي٤خ خال اع قشرغزؼذ

رؾذ سػب٣خ ؽش٣ق كزؾ٢ ص٣ش قش ك٢إعبصري اق٤ل٢ اؾب٢ ثؼا

اذاخ٤خ اغ٤بؽخاي٤شا اذ٠ ثذف رؾ٤و دػ

إغجش٣ظ اغ٣خاشي اخيه غ٤بؽخريشػ ؽشبد قش ي٤شا

ثبزؼب غ ثؼل البدم اجش ثشبغب ع٤بؽ٤ب زبب ذح أسثؼخ أ٣ب

ع٤ب قش٣ب لبدم صالس غ 990 ثأعؼبس ربكغ٤خ رجذأ (صالس ٤ب)

ك٢ع٤ب لبدم خظ غ 1350ع٤ب لبدم أسثغ غ 1095

اـشدهخ األهقش ؽبخ رزاش اي٤شا اإلهبخ اؾ٤خ ؽش

أذ فلد غ سئ٤ظ غظ إداسح اؾشخ اوبثنخ قش ي٤شا

اؾ٤خرشر٤ت رظ٤ ز اجشاظ اغ٤بؽ٤خ جبؽشح غ البدم ثؾش

اوج رغزش اخ٤ظاـشدهخ األهقش اوشس أ رجذأ اػزجبسا

ؽز٠ اخبظ عجزجش ثؾ٤ش ٣غزي٤غ اؼالء االعزلغبس ؽغض اجشبظ

أ االرقب اشياوذ خال ص٣بسح كشع قش ي٤شا غ٤بؽخ

العززبع ثونبء 16175اخذخ از٤ل٤خ ازبثغ ب ػ٠ سه شضػ٠

ػيالر ك٢ ري اذ اغ٤بؽ٤خ اغبؽشح

أمبف أ قش ي٤شا رزا ػ روذ٣ اض٣ذ اؼشك ؼالئب

اشا داخ قش خبسعب خبفخ اؼشك ازش٣غ٤خ بىن اغزة

اغ٤بؽ٠ ثبجالد دػب ب ؾشخ اغ٤بؽخ

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ذ 3رين ثشبغب زؾ٤و اغ٤بؽخ اذاخ٤خ ثـ قش ي٤شا اخ٤ظ

زذؽ٤ أ أجش ؽالرب ازؾ٤ي٤خ خال اع اق٤ل٢ قش ي٤شارغزؼذ ؽشخ

ثشػب٣خ ؽش٣ق كزؾ٢ ص٣ش اي٤شا اذ٢إعبصري ك٢ قشاؾب٢ رؾذ ؽؼبس

إ ين قش ي٤شاهب فلد غ سئ٤ظ غظ إداسح اؾشخ اوبثنخ ـ

ؽشؿ اؾشخ ػ٠ أداء غؤ٤زب رغب اى ك٢ غب رؾ٤و دػ اغ٤بؽخ اذاخ٤خ إ٠

بىن اغزة اغ٤بؽ٢ اقش٣خ ريشػ ؽشبرب غ٤بؽخ اشي اخيه اغ٣خ

3أ٣ب ثـ 4إغجش٣ظ ثبزؼب غ ثؼل البدم اجش ثشبغب ع٤بؽ٤ب زبال ذح

4ع٤ب لبدم 1095غ 3 ع٤ب لبدم ٤990ب ثأعؼبس ربكغ٤خ رجذأ

غ ك٢ ؽش اؾ٤خ اـشدهخ األهقش ؽبخ رزاش 5ع٤ب لبدم 1350غ

اي٤شا اإلهبخ

رشرت رظ ز اجشاظ قش ي٤شاأمبف غ ك٢ ث٤ب فؾل٢ ا٤ أ

اغ٤بؽ٤خ جبؽشح غ البدم ثؾش اؾ٤خ اـشدهخ األهقش ؾ٤شا إ٠ أ اوشس أ

عجزجش اوج ؾ٤شا إ٠ أ 5رجذأ اشؽالد اػزجبسا اخ٤ظ اوج رغزش ؽز٠

قش اؼالء ثوذس االعزلغبس ؽغض اجشبظ اوذ خال ص٣بسح كشع ؽشخ

غ٤بؽخ اشي أ االرقب ػ٠ شض اخذخ از٤ل٤خ ازبثغ ب ػ٠ سه ي٤شا

العززبع ثونبء ػيالر ك٢ ري اذ اغ٤بؽ٤خ اغبؽشح16175

ربثغ أ اؾشخ رزا٠ ػ روذ٣ اض٣ذ اؼشك ؼالئب اشا داخ قش

خبسعب خبفخ اؼشك ازش٣غ٤خ بىن اغزة اغ٤بؽ٢ دػب ب ؾشخ اغ٤بؽخ

عز ؾق قذس ثصاسح اغ٤بؽخ أ اصاسح رذػ ري اجبدساد از٢ رذف إ٠

رؾ٤و ؽشخ اغ٤بؽخ اذاخ٤خ رؼ ػ٠ إؼبػ البدم اعزشاس اؼ ثب خبفخ ك٢

ب٣ ابم٢ قش ك٢ هثباذ اغ٤بؽ٤خ ب ثأ ثؼذ ازبء اؼ ثجبدسح

اعخ زؾ٤و اغ٤بؽخ اذاخ٤خ ؼذ عد خققبد ب٤خ غت اإلؽـب ثزي اذ

ك٢ رشاعغ غزش اؼذ٣ذ البدم أؿوذ أثاثب ب ثأ اصاسح رذػ أ١ جبدساد

ززؾ٤و اؾشخ اغ٤بؽ٤خ ااكذح إ٠ اذ اقش٣خ عاء ع٤بؽخ داخ٤خ أ غزغجخ

اخبسط

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اغخ ال٤خ عزقذس زبئظ عذ٣ذح ؽ ايبئشح اثخ خال ص٣ش اي٤شا

أعبث٤غ

أذ ؽش٣ق كزؾ٠ ص٣ش اي٤شا أ ازؾ٤الد ال٤خ ثؾأ ايبئشح اقش٣خ

اثخ بصاذ عبس٣خ عبس ؽب٤ب اشثو ث٤ اؼبد أعضح ازغغ٤

اخزلخ ؾ٤شا إ٠ أ خال األعبث٤غ اوجخ عزقذس اغخ ث٤بب ؽ ثؼل

بصب غزش٣ ك٠ اجؾش ازبئظ از٠ عززف ب ز٤غخ زا اشثو ن٤لب

ػ أؽالء انؾب٣ب هب ثذ اؼ ثغل٤خ اجؾش ضب٠ شح عؼب يبم

اجؾش شر٤ ؽز٠ ٣ م٤شب شربؽب زشى أ٣خ اؽالء ألب غئ٤خ

أؽذاس أمبف ص٣ش اي٤شا خال ذاخخ برل٤خ غ ثشبظ أخاله٤خ

ػذب ؾخ وق ا٤ االص٤ ابسازاع ػ٠ كنبئ٤خ ابس

مؾب أ ايبئشح وب ري ٤ظ ب٣خ اؼب كبى د ض٤شح رلؼ ري

أ ؽشخ قش ي٤شا أعشد 100خشعذ بب ثزوش٣ش ك٠

هج اقؼد أ٣ ا٠ ص ب هب ازبةاق٤بخ ػ٠ أ ع ثؼ٠

إ٠ أب اعزيؼب إثشا ارلبه٤بد كزؾ٠أؽبس د عبثن ألا ؽق كم

غ كبدم ثؾش اؾ٤خ اـشدهخ زؾ٤و اغ٤بؽخ غزض األهقش أعا

مؾب أ اخيح اوبدخ ع٤ رؾ٤و إعبصري ك٠ قش ثشبظ

أذ ص٣ش اي٤شا أ اغ٤بؽخ اخبسط اجشبظ ؽب٤ب ثبألعؼبس اؾ٤خ

غزشح ثؼذ اق٤ق أب هب ثبجبدسح دػب إعبصري ك٠ قشجبدسح

غ٤بؽخ ثؼ٤ذا ػ اشثؼ أع رؾش٣ي ا٤ب اشاذح رؾ٤و اغ٤بؽخ

إ ؽبء اذاخ٤خ ؾ٤شا إ٠ أ قش ي٤شا رغزخذ إب٤برب به هبئال

أ٠ خياد ازؾ٤و ثبزؼب غ صاسح إعبصري ك٠ قشاهلل عف ر

اغ٤بؽخ

wwwalbawabhnewscom

قش ي٤شاؽش روالد ثبخذبد اغ٣خ ك٢

اوبثنخ قش ي٤شا هشاسا اؾشخأفذس فلد غ سئ٤ظ

قش ي٤شا ثؾشخثؾش روالد رشه٤بد داخ٤خ عذ٣ذح

ك٢ أع ري٣ش اؼ إؽال دبء ؽبثخ اغ٣خخذبد

اهغ ه٤بد٣خ ػذ٣ذح

قت غبػذ سئ٤ظ غظ إداسح اخذبد دعه٠ر٠ ىبسم

٤بص سأكذ سئ٤ظ هيبع ازؾـ٤ خلب ثؼذ أ ب اغ٣خ

٣ؾـ قت ذ٣ش ػب اؾشػبد اخبص

ذ٣ش ػب ازخي٤و قت ذ٣ش ػب إداسح اؾ٤خب ر٠ ىبسم

اخبص ث٤ب ر٠ ؽبص ػجذ اشؽ ذ٣ش إداسح اؼ٤بد

قت ذ٣ش إداسح از٣ ؽـ ؽه٠ اؾؾبد قت ذ٣ش

ثؼذ أ ب ٣ؾـ قت ذ٣ش إداسح إلزبطاإلداسح اؼب

از٣ ثبؾشخ

httpwwwheavyliftpficom

Qatar Airways flying high

July 11 - Qatar Airways Cargo has reported a record

2016 fiscal year growing to the third-largest cargo

operator in the word and increasing its freighter

destinations to 54

Qatar Airways Cargo added Dallas Budapest Prague

Ho Chi Minh City and New York to its network in the

period ending March 31 2016 increasing its available

tonnage worldwide Its fleet is expected to grow to 22

aircraft by 2017

Overall Qatar Airways Group posted an operating

profit of QAR3 billion (USD823 million) for the 2016

fiscal year - nearly three times higher than its 2015

fiscal year profit

httpwwwdallasnewscom

United Airlines plane blows two tires when pilot halts takeoff in Houston

A United Airlines plane blew out two of its tires

when a pilot abruptly stopped its takeoff from a

Houston airport due to concerns about a

possible mechanical problem

Airport officials say the Boeing 737 was taking

off from Bush Intercontinental Airport to Denver

at around 6 am Monday when the planes crew

spotted a possible mechanical malfunction and

the pilot slammed the brakes

Two of the planes tires blew out as the aircraft

came to a stop

No injuries were reported among the 164

passengers and six crew members

Passengers got off the plane were taken back

to a terminal and later boarded another aircraft

that left for Denver

It was not immediately known what mechanical

problem the plane might have experienced

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Max in place of Airbus CEO says737 Qatar Airways considering Boeing

purchasing a Qatar Airways says it is in talks about

Max aircraft 737 ) 61+BAof Boeing (large number

amid a dispute with Airbus

over unresolved ) OTCPKEADSYOTCPKEADSF(

faults with its A320neo model

The airline which has canceled delivery of one

A320neo due to glitches with engines made by Pratt

until the will continue rejecting the planeamp Whitney

issues are fixed CEO Akbar Al Baker said today at

the Farnborough International Airshow

The airline CEO also is concerned about delivery

rates of Airbusrsquos A350 wide-body and says he is not

sure that Airbus will be able to meet its target of

handing more than 50 of the model to customers this

year

httpwwwbloombergcom

neos320s in Place of A737Boeing 30 Qatar Airways Looks at Up to

Qatar Airways is in discussions about purchasing as many as

30 Boeing Co 737 airliners amid a dispute with Airbus Group

SE over unresolved faults with its A320neo model

The carrier which has canceled delivery of one A320neo due to

glitches with engines made by Pratt amp Whitney will continue

rejecting the plane until the issues are fixed Chief Executive

Officer Akbar Al Baker said Monday at the Farnborough

International Airshow outside London The No 2 Persian Gulf

airline is focusing on potentially switching planes and hasnrsquot

made progress on talks about swapping to the A320neorsquos

alternative engine made by the CFM venture of General Electric

Co and Safran SA he said

Qatar Airways is looking at both the NG and the upcoming

Max versions of the single-aisle 737 Al Baker said The

Max scheduled to enter service in 2017 will be Boeingrsquos

direct rival to the A320neo and any inroads by the US

planemaker would be a coup Airbus has said that United

Technologies Corprsquos Pratt has begun supplying engines that

have fixed the cooling flaws and will begin delivering planes

equipped with those powerplants this month

The airline is also concerned about delivery rates of Airbusrsquos

A350 wide-body Al Baker said adding that he isnrsquot sure the

European manufacturer will be able to meet its target of

handing over 50 of the model to customers this year Qatar

Airways has only received one A350 out of 10 scheduled to

be delivered this year

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A Qatar Airways flight bound to Doha from Oslo

Norway made an emergency landing in the

Romanian capital of Bucharest yesterday (July

9 )due to a fault in one of its engines said a

report

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner which was carrying

some 254 passengers was forced to change

course one hour into the flight and was diverted

to Bucharests Henri Coanda International

Airport Doha Newsreported

A replacement aircraft was dispatched to

Bucharest and the flight resumed its course

following an almost 12-hour delay

The new plane also a 787 landed in Doha at

425am this morning the report said

Qatar Business

Qatar Airways flight makes emergency landing in

Romania

atnaero

nd IATA AGM and World Air Transport Summit72

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) opened its 72nd

Annual General Meeting (AGM) and World Air Transport Summit in

Dublin Ireland

―Ireland is a great aviation country and the perfect location for the

industryrsquos leaders to meet Aviation is a force for good This year

airlines will safely transport 38 billion passengers and 52 million

tonnes of cargo That will stimulate economies and spread prosperity

But aviation faces challenges in providing the safe secure efficient

and sustainable connectivity that the world depends on The next two

days are an opportunity to work together as an industry to make flying

even better said Tony Tyler IATArsquos Director General and CEO

In his keynote address Dr Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu President of the

Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) said

―IATA and ICAO have enjoyed several decades of productive colla

boration

More recently wersquove been engaged on a number of important priorities

including among others

bullFlight tracking procedures

bullConflict zone risk management

bullThe safe integration of remotely-piloted and suborbital flight

operations

bullCybersecurity preparedness

bullIncreased airspace capacity and operational efficiency

bullThe safe carriage of lithium batteries

bullAnd of course the environment

1

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IATA has been a great ally in ICAOrsquos efforts to ensure that the decisions

of our Member States are forward-looking and in

line with the current and future needs of the industry

Report of Tony Tyler on the Air Transport Industry

―International civil aviation can greatly help to create and preserve

friendship and understanding among the nations and peoples of the

world

From the beginning both governments and industry conceived aviation

as a force for good

Aviation makes our world a better place In doing so it supports 63

million jobs and underpins 35 of global GDP

Airlines are engines of prosperity But they have long struggled to turn a

profit and reward investors That is beginning to change

This year we expect a collective net profit of $394 billion It will be only

the second year in our historymdashand the second in a rowmdashin which

airlines will make an aggregate return in excess of the cost of capital

After decades of capital destruction thatrsquos a significant achievement

But it is still just the minimum performance that investors expect

On average airlines will make $1042 for each passenger carried

Overall despite generally adverse economic conditions it is a good

time for the air transport industry

-Consumers are getting great deals and lots of choice

-Investors are beginning to see reasonable rewards for the capital

they risk

-And airlines are able to make critical investments and shore-up their

resilience by paying down debtmdashalthough it will take several years of

solid profitability to fix most balance sheets properly

2

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Our success as an industry rests on areas where we work together

the foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability Each is strong but not without challenges

In bringing my remarks to a close I want to reflect on the power of

partnership

Partnership is essential for the continuous reinforcement of the

foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability

Itrsquos also important for our 264 members and the entire value chain to

work together Because together we can send a proud message that

aviation is a force for good And we can do more good when tax

burdens and infrastructure constraints are removed and when the

principles of Smarter Regulation are applied properly

The framework for our modern industry was built by governments and

airlines with a common vision that safe regular and economical air

transport would benefit the peoples of the world by creating and

preserving friendships and understanding With more than 100 years

of history behind us we can confidently say that aviation has made the

world a better place

We have done that by unleashing an irreversible and ever-more

accessible capability to explore the world in which we live to improve

our lives with unprecedented mobility and to grow prosperity by doing

business globally

People are thirsty for the opportunities that aviation makes possible

Every day we safely transport ten million people and 140000 tonnes of

cargo We are not just connecting people and shifting goods our

work is building a better future for the peoples of the world

Aviationrsquos potential has never been more inspiring We are privileged

to lead an industry that is a force for good

3

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At the CEO Panel Insight Debate discussion moderated by Richard Quest the

following CEOs participated Bernard Gustin CEO Brussels Airlines (BG) Ed

Bastian CEO Delta Air Lines (ED) Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group and Charamporn Jotikasthira

President of Thai Airways the issue of the security and aircraft tracking was

discussed in the view of the Brussels terrorist attack and the Egyptair 804 flight

going down into the water

The Brussels Airlines CEO said that the Brussels disaster which came after a

very good year for the airlines gave him the opportunity to experience the

amazing reaction of the airlinersquo s staff and the importance of aviation as

Brussels remained 12 days without an airport Being members of the Lufthansa

group they were able to put the long haul to Zurich and Frankfurt and useδ

provincial airport in Liege and Antwerp for local traffic When asked whether

security needs to be readdressed he answered that the risk arose before

security checks and this has to be solved with the Intelligence systems They

imposed after the disaster some extremely strong measures only to realize after

a few days that they were not appropriate He added that they need to continue

to analyze the security process and do risk analysis but have pertinent

measures and apply them consistently across the board

In the US on the other hand the situation is different the security procedures

imposed by the TSA make passengers be delayed or misconnected The

problem has taken such extent that many airports are considering replacing or

supplanting TSA When asked Ed Bastian CEO for Delta Air Lines said that

they have realized the problem and that they will deal with that and added that

they as an airline did a lot to manage the issue they innovated queuing process

in Atlanta that they paid for themselves which is going to have 50 reduction

in how long it takes travelers to get through checkpoints

As the question of security in Asia has again been raised in terms of its being

efficient and effective or not Charamporn Jotikasthira President of Thai

Airways agreed that there is a need to improve over time as there are ways to

hack systems there is a need for a system that can detect faster more

accurately with more quality

Jayne Hrdlicka CEO of Jetstar Group answered questions related to the

investment of low-cost airlines in security She answered that it is the airlinersquos

job to ensure that the security that is provided for in the airports they operate

meets the standards that we have set for ourselves Since in several of the

airports they are operating in the situation is not to these standards they take

responsibility for the safety and security of their people and customers to make

sure that the standards are consistent across the network

4

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Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline in his turn when expressing

his view on about aviation security in general he said that the industry

is not doing enough although there have been so many wake up calls in

the last couple of years He said that it is easy for government agencies

and organizations to blame on austerity their inability to fund the

security apparatus and the systems and procedures but the aviation

industry has to come up with a new set of protocols that ensure

security for the travelling public and consumers The industry has to

cooperate with governmental agencies to identify the possibilities of

people actually doing such attacks He added that industry has to adopt

far more readily the technological advances that are being made

available to streamline the processes but at the same time increase the

level of scrutiny He stressed the need for flow of information between

countries so as to have a more homogeneous intelligence service

When asked about airline tracking he admitted that the fact that the

problems in trying to locate an aircraft that has had a major incidence

―is a disgrace― These incidents impose on the industry a need to be

able to track aircraft at every point on their journey which as he said

Emirates does anyway within 15-20 minutes they know where all the

airlinersquos aircraft are where they fly or on the ground at the same

time He added that the manufacturers too need to come up with the

data records both CVR and cockpit voice recorders and flight data

recorders that have to be far more robust able to survive intact and

with much more power to develop beacons and locating systems in

very remote areas on the sea or in the river

When faced with the remark that six years have passed since the flight

370 incident and still the industry is unable to locate missing aircraft

and many experts argue that the airlines are reluctant to spend the

money on tracking and streaming of data they all agreed that it is not a

financial issue and the only question is a question of governance The

industry has to come to a consensus and agree on common standards

for example at what frequency the aircraft will be sending it out tracking

information the industry is waiting for an ICAO solution that everyone

is going to adopt They all agreed though that irrespective of the cost it

has to be done because as Sir Tim Clark put it ―Not to do it is

delinquency

5

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When Richard Quest asked them about results and yields because airlines seem to

be that making good money they all claim the yield is under pressure and to

comment on the influence of the lower fuel price Ed Bastian said that capacity has

grown over the last few years driven by the dramatic reduction in oil prices The

pressure seen on yield is a reflection of the growing capacity He commented he

does not focus only on yield but looks at other aspects and metrics to understand

the underlying health of the industry demand is very strong especially in the US and

fuel prices are stabilizing and the airline making record margins

Bernard Gustin said when fuel prices gets up again the airlines will not be able to put

it back in the yield so they need to keep a business plan both with the current fuel

price as well as with the old fuel price especially in their case since their competitors

in Brussels are low cost carriers such as Ryanair and Easyjet

When Jetstarrsquos CEO was asked whether there is unconstrained growth of capacity

she answered that the growth of capacity ahead of underlying demand is not

irrational when margins are attractive and costs well managed and strong return in

invested capital

Sir Tim Clark said that the true causes behind yield suppression need to be

examined The lowering of the fuel prices was good news but they failed to foresee

that the corporate sectors that drive many of the upper echelons of the yield will go

with the oil prices That brought us some difficulties Then there was a currency

issue the strength of the US as the airline generates a large part of income on

currencies that move south of the dollar that affected the yield too Third the

addition of capacity means extension of the revenue of greater distances which

causes yield dilution On the other hand while there is flat line projection for global

economy demand for airtravel is increasing at 6 7 8 in several areas including the

Middle East there is also an explosion of growth in the US domestic market This

means the airline backfills inventory with more passengers because demand is there

Their airline needs to adjust its business to the practical long-term change and this is

low yield the airline can do it He announced that Emirates will 14 more A380s to

their fleet of 79

Thai Airwaysrsquos President said that their problem was of a different nature as they

unable to fill the aircraft as much as the others and their load factors were 4-5

lower than the average they will first fix that and and then deal with the other

problems

When the discussion turned to the question whether there will more manufactures of

aircraft and more choice in the future Ed Bastian supported Deltarsquos decision to buy

CS100s Bombardier and commented that they have been long time customers of

their small and larger regional jets because they technologically and engine-wise

efficient and reliable and they were given good financial terms He also predicted that

more airlines will consider acquiring Bombardier C-series aircraft

6

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As Emirates are mostly wide body operator Sir Tim Clark said

they already have good choice between Boeing and Airbus

which answer their needs with regard to the mission and the

type of product the airline wants to offer He wished ―good

luck to any manufacturer wishing to enter the market them if

they get over the barriers to entry

Jane Hrdlicka said she expects see innovation coming in in the

form of technology of the airframe and a strong Chinese

manufacturer which means there will be more choice in two

decades from now than today

Then Richard Quest asked questions each airline individually

He asked whether Brussels Airlines will be around in two years

from now Bernand Gustin the airline will be there and will have

the same operation model but more powerful with the power of

a major aviation group Lufthansa group behind it In the past

airlines had to choose to be point-to-point or connecting Low

cost or service airline bur Brussels airline We tries to reconcile

those dimensions and they have positioned themselves a

hybrid airline People do not want to pay but they want a level

of service and even the low cost carriers are investing now in

service As for the name of airline he said that the airline will be

called what has value for the customer as it has been proven

with the airlinersquos Africa routes The airline played a crucial role

during the Ebola crisis and has gained its value as a brand in

Africa that it did not have before when it was Sabena He

stressed that a brand is something that responds to a customer

need a brand name that responds best to the Belgian customer

the European customer and the African customer and the US

customers which are the markets the airlines serves

7

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Thai Airwaysrsquo president was asked about the airlinersquos strategy to deal with

their problems He answered that they have a two-year reform programme

they have already achieved a profit margin 12 on sales so they are on track

reform plan They intend to remain a full service carrier with a major very

efficient hub He added that they realised after following the developments of

the last years that the ecosystem has been changing a lot as all demand

coming into Thailand has been point-to-point to secondary cities They

operate in one the fastest growing regions in terms of demand near India

and China but the demand is becoming point-to-point which means that the

model that the airline was following in the past has to be changed When

asked whether they will need a partner and more particularly a Gulf partner to

do your long haul European routes he answered that if the market is India

China and Asia and there is going to be more and more point-to-point service

they will have to be bigger They may need partners of some sort some form

of alliance but I this alliance will not be as the ones of the past In the past a

big airline in Europe a big airline in Japan could connect throughout the

world but this area is a non-united area there are many states there is

Myanmar Thailand Vietnam so the partnership will most probably be

bilateral

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group was asked how Qantas managed so

successfully to incorporate a low-cost or a low-fare branch as some call it

She answered that they did it by really understanding their customers and

recognising that there is a part of the market that is hungry for full service and

is prepared to pay a premium to get it but there is an equal part of the market

that was not able to travel because the fares were too high and would prefer

choice on how they travel and be able to pay for what they use What they

have done is effectively build a new brand that focuses squarely on that

customer group and have protected the integrity by not trying to blur the line

and keeping them very separate operationally commercially and

strategically

Bernand Gustin was asked again whether Lufthansa has considered an

arrangement with an LCC for feed and he answered that first the airline needs

to substantially reduce its cost to be price competitive and this what they

have done There is no choice about that But as they come from a service

heritage airline and given that they will never be a cost leader they try to keep

a differentiation on service a service that really people want So they have

played on connectivity on the network and on the Belgian brand There is a

wish to have a specific brand As there are other very strong brands within the

Lufthansa group if they want to go further they need to have the power of the

group to be able to further reduce the cost to get the commercial critical

mass outside of Belgium Thatrsquos where the right mix needs to be found

8

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Deltarsquos CEO was asked How a giant airline accommodates the new reality

of all those LCCs Ot which he answered that they do it through

segmentation within the aircraft they have introduced a product called

―basic economy for price sensitive types of travelling within the US

They are still experimenting with it as it is relatively new and the

technology solution on it is complicated Within the two they have to

accommodate the low fare end and the highly sensitive business

traveller that is willing to pay a premium and a couple of stages between

the two But it a much wider question the airline needs to find who he

wants to be so they have moved upscale they are not a commodity

player and they generated a 10 premium in relation to the other US

carriers He stressed that ―If we were to be a commodity player we would

not be around today He admits that they have to accommodate a

commodity component for the travel sector but they are not a

commodity As the carry two million passengers a year that pay a 10

premium on average they have proven our point

Jetstarrsquos CEP pointed that both fares are not commoditised any more

Airlines have to look at what customers want choice is definitely

important for all customers and choice for people who are looking for

value matters a lot She said that their airline also extracts a relative 15

premium in relation to competition because they do not view themselves

as a commodity product They invest heavily in the brand in the

experience in ways that the customers value and are prepared to pay for

it and give them the choice to custom design their experience

The Brussels Airlinesrsquos CEO added that segmentation and differentiation

is key When their airline starts with a start price of 39 euros one way and

has a very vocal pure low cost competitor at 21 euro for the same thing

the solution is to claim that it offers service as there is a whole heritage

that exists besides While the price is key people say ―I want to know

what I choose The pure commodity product that happened a few years

is going away but when there is a heritage of service that can help you

differentiate yourself then there is potential to make the difference

Brussels has all the LCCs of the world but Brussels Airlines grew by 30

more in the last two years

9

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Richard Quest then turned to Emirates CEO and asked him how they

accomodate with the LCCs that can offer feed from them into their long

haul services Sir Tim Clark answered that LCCs are here to stay they

continue to grow their business they have been a significant player in

the way civil aviation has developed in the last years giving consumers

a very good choice As long as the air industry business keeps the

consumers at the heart of the business and it does what they are

guiding to do then there is place for everybody The

differentiation whether it is between low cost and full service long haul

or short haul is something the industry has to adapt to accept and

encourage It is part of civil aviation After all it is the travelling public

who benefits from LCC existence The legacy carriers as they are

called have to adapt and work with them In terms of establishing a

lower cost arm for Emirates he answered ―no but he added that they

would work with them and they do They have very good relationships

with the Low Cost operators because they bring lots more people into

the market the whole principle was tapping incipient demand that

could not afford the levels of fares that were available prior to their

existence What they did is that they brought efficiency fleet efficiency

technological efficiency distribution efficiency and suddenly a new

branch of air transport industry was found ―To not work with makes no

sense

When asked about what new things they can offer to the upper end of

the market they all agreed that it is the soft goods that matter after all

Everyone can buy the hard goods but the airlines invest now in

relationship building Delta said its CEO can boast on its relationship

with corporate travelers and the fact they have one of the lowest

maintenance cancellation records They give the business traveler what

he needs dependability reliability quality to arrive on time with their

bags he added that there is a lot of technology and process behind it

but more than that a lot of willpower and culture

10

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Jetstarrsquos CEO said that invest a lot in their people both in full service

and in low cost training helping them to build skills relationships with

the customer Jetstar wants to enable customers to enjoy the ability of

pick and choose both to bundle and to unbundle

Emiratesrsquo CEO said that the airline spends an awful lot of time and

money on our premium product and the public knows about it and they

have always done that and they will continue to do it As soon as

things mature they will change to make things more interesting they

will be raising the bar for the consumers the business community

because ―we can do it

Panel discussion on Cyber Security

The panelists were Major General Linda Urrutia-Varhall the Assistant

Deputy Chief of Staff Director of National Intelligence for Aviation

Security in the US Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance the

Pentagon Washington DC Anja Kaspersen Head of International

Security for the World Economic Forum Alan Pellegrini CEO and

President of Thales USA Matthew Finn Managing Director of

Augmentiq Calin Rovinescu President and CEO of Air Canada and

Kurt Pipal FBI Assistant Legal Attache for US Embassy in the UK

They all agreed that aviation being a symbol of globalisation remains

an aspirational target for terrorists The interconnected nature of the

industry and interconnectibility of IT systems from baggage

movement to ticket kiosk and flight systems represent an ever growing

list of vulnerabilities and a whole brand new horizon of threats It is

however practically technologically and financially impossible to

address all the issues In the words of General Urrutia-Varhall the

interaction between actors threats and vulnerabilities can be viewed as

an ecosystem of forces in which ―we are as strong as our weakest link

No entity can go alone against these threats Airline industry

govenments domestic and international Intelligence community private

and public sectors should come together gather and share information

to characterise assess threats prioritise them and then act

appropriately

11

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Calin Rovinescu mentioned the ―very scary number that experts

estimate is the amount of damage caused last year by cyber hacks

was in the vicinity of US$500 million world wide and that 94

of global airlines had some form of cyber security breaches These

incidents were ―a real wake-up call for the industry Many of these

attacks were dealt with because airlines had good technology

protection but still these numbers make clear that as the industry

moves towards more automation seeking the interconnectiveness that

makes ir more efficient attack surfaces expand exponentially

Matthew Finn said businesses should look at security in a holistic way

He said there is currently a downward trend of documentation fraud

but an upward trend regarding identity theft

Alan Pellegrini said that the industy has seen recently an increasing

number of high profile hacks hacks in the wi-fi connectivity simply to

steal passenger information that is flowing over those networks a

hack into the ground systems of an airline to steal financial

transactions and information to collect the money the airline was

supposed to collect The threat is very real and although it has not

resulted to serious safety related issues it is resulting into serious

disrupting The fact that there has been no serious incident means

though that the industry is getting a lot of it right

Airlines now connect passengers to Wi-Fi on aircraft they add

connectivity to crews aircraft operations are connected on the

ground some are experimenting with cloud-based avionics controlling

aircraft operations The move towards more automation is inescepable

so the protection from cyber attackes To build such protection

requires a

a multi-year plan with responsibility at the highest level and

collaboration and information exchange between the aviation industry

and governments

12

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There are many technoloty tools Thales is working on to better protect

the connected aircraft but there is no ―silver bullet there is no one

piece of technology that is going to solve all the industry problems

because security is a process the same way threats are not static they

continue to evolve ―Technology is not done it continues monitoring

security operations centres are required to identify threats as they start

to materialize and to mitigate them and then go ahead and implement

addtional technology that is going to deal with new potential threats so

it is a continuous process

According to Calin Rovinescu ―No matter how complex and good

systems a company may have problems are not solved overnight and

aviation must develop a capability to respond and recover He pointed

out that aviation industry must look at and work with other industries

that have more maturity with cyber threats such as financial

institutions technology companies

The industry is very encouraged by the fact IATA is taking on this topic

to prevent serious disruption and perhaps safety issues later

Anja Kaspersen admitted that the threat is real but she added that there

is also ―fear mongering because of the commercial interests invested

in cyber security She stressed that the combination of ―ignorance and

unsubstantiated fear is dangerous and hampers preparedness She

cautioned airlines not to underestimate the psychological effect

should as as they live off their reputation Airlines have to respond to

customer expectations for security concerns

She added that aviation should work on the assumption that they

receiving both physical and cyber attacks and and therefore work on

how to protect the systems with more advanced software and develop

some translation tools to compare traditional and new risks

13

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Kurt Pipal pointed as airline companies possess and deal with huge

amounts of data they become by definition a target for industrial

espionage He cautioned companies to be very careful about

subcontractors which do necessarily rely on the same system

resilience He stressed the importance of sharing intelligence

information in the industry Build awareness and do not have a silo

approach Identify your vulnerabilities and make the assumption that

you are going to be hacked Participate in a 247 securities operation

centre and called the aviation to Occasionally even use a so-called

dark agent - a hacker to test your system Companies do fire drills so

why do they not do cyber security drills toolaquo

The Panel on the Climate Change Goals brought together

representatives from industry academia and NGOs to discuss the

progress on the climate change goals the aviation industry faces and

what is needed to reach them The industry has to achieve a goal of

climate neutral growth from 2020 but also the long-term target of cutting

net CO2 emissions by half by 2050 compared to 2005 levels

The panelists were Angela Gittens Director General of Airports Council

International Alan Joyce Qantas CEO Patrick de Castelbajac CEO of

aircraft manufacturer ATR John-Paul Clarke professor at Georgia

Institute of Technology and Tim Johnson of the International Coalition

for Sustainable Aviation

2050 might seeem a long way off but due to industry time lags therersquos

only around 10 years left to figure out how to reach the goal according

to John-Paul Clarke

They all agreed that the industry in all its supply chain-manufacturers

airports infrastructure airlines- must come together to work in a

concerted way to achieve how to go about achieveing these goals A

holistic perspective is needed as the industry stakeholders all are in

direct dependency and the example od a fuel efficient aircraft that

cannot operate efficiently because the air traffic management is not

efficient They stressed that sustainable development is not a question

of being politically correct any more but a condition of the future

existence of the industry ―there is no other way than being

environmentally respectful said Patrick de Castelbajac

14

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He added that aircraft manufacturers do consider now the

environmental impact of their aircraft at every stage from design

through to the eventual end-of-life disposal ―There is also a greater

convergence between economic and environmental interests which we

can see clearly on fuel burn he said

New technology and new management must be both environmentally

and economically sustainable

The panelists agreed that passengers are passsionate about it and do

want to offset the environmental impact of their flight Alan Joyce

said that one passenger every minute selects a voluntary offset

program

Angela Gittens said that Airports have adopted the Carbon

Accreditation Programme a programme that provides airports with a

common framework for active carbon management with measurable

goal-postsand 20 airports are already carbon neutral She added ICAO

and IATA should undertake the role of coordinating bodies which will

monitor assess and pace the progress It is necessary because ―If you

canrsquot measure it you canrsquot manage it

Continuous transparent monitoring of what is been done by an

independent entity would bring credibility according to John-

Paul Clarke

The panelists also agreed that ICAO and IATA will have to meet the

challenge of balancing the different levels of maturity in terms

of environmental measures around the globe in other words those that

move more quickly with those that have been left behind

15

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Joyce said the new ICAO aircraft CO2 standard would drive

advances in aircraft and engine technology He complained

that although there had been advances in navigation

technology and procedures - such as the traffic control

satellite navigation approaches to airports that saved his

airline up to 60000 tons of fuel - progress had been slow in

improving Air Traffic management and developing ATC

infrastructure

He insisted though on the role of biofuels He stressed that

more studies should be undertaken on biofuels to make sure

that they are produced in environmentally friendly way

―Biofuels are the only way we are going to get to our 2050

target Itrsquos a question of how we as an industry can cooperate

and how we can get governments interested enough to put a

policy framework in place to make that happen Their

development and insertion in the value chain will require RampD

and help from governments and other industrial sectors

He called his government to support the local alternative

fuels industry that creates new jobs and brings

environmental benefits

16

atnaero

Tim Johnson cautioned that it should not become

an ―accountancy exercise where we see one

gallon of biofuel uplifted to an aircraft or a tonne

of CO2 offset as the way we measure progress

adding it was important to move beyond

quantification and just emissions and consider

the wider sustainable development agenda

Investment decisions needed to be taken now to

reach the industryrsquos 2050 target he suggested

and clarity was needed on what should happen

and by when ICAO market-based measure is

perfoming well but there must be emphasis on the

other three pillars required for aviation emissions

reductions ndash aircraft technology operations and

infrastructure

17

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powered aircraft leaves Seville for Cairo-Solar

MADRID July 11 (Xinhua) -- The aircraft Solar Impulse

II powered completely by solar energy on Monday left

the Spanish city of Seville to attempt to land in

on WednesdayEgyptCairo

The route will be between 48 and 72 hours long

depending on weather conditions This will be the

penultimate flight of the plane that will travel to Abu

Dhabi afterwards

Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard who have

been working on the aircraft for more than a decade

will pilot the aircraft Borschberg will pilot the plane

from Seville to Cairo crossing seven countries after

which Piccard will fly to Abu Dhabi

Borschberg said that the trip was meaningful as it is

my last flight in this round-the-world epic I am happy

that were close to the end but also prudent knowing

that it is not done yet I have to stay really focused

SpainThe aircraft had been in Seville in the south of

for two weeks after successfully crossing the Atlantic

Ocean

Solar Impulse II is able to fly night and day without any

fossil fuel It travels at between 45 and 55 kmhour

reaching an altitude of 8500 meters The plane is wider

than a 747 jumbo jet and weighs 23 tons

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Russias New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

A grand unveiling of the Irkut MC-21-300 on June 8

established a relatively firm project timeline for the

160- to 212-seat narrowbody and marked a measure

of vindication for what many in the West have

disparaged as a fringe project In attendance at the

ceremony Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

spoke of the prestige the program has brought to

the country as well as its importance to helping

move its economy forward He also congratulated

Irkutrsquos employees for their role in shaping the future

of Russiarsquos return to prominence in commercial

aircraft manufacturing

Expecting the MC-21 to gain Russian certification in

2018 United Aircraft subsidiary Irkut had hoped to

fly the first airplane by the end of this year

However during the rollout ceremony Medvedev

referenced plans for first flight ―within a year

and UAC officials acknowledged that a previously

quoted target might prove optimistic unless all goes

exactly to plan Rather that milestone appears most

likely to happen in or around February 2017

according to aUAC spokesman

1

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Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

2

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Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

3

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While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

4

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Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

5

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Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

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رشرت رظ ز اجشاظ قش ي٤شاأمبف غ ك٢ ث٤ب فؾل٢ ا٤ أ

اغ٤بؽ٤خ جبؽشح غ البدم ثؾش اؾ٤خ اـشدهخ األهقش ؾ٤شا إ٠ أ اوشس أ

عجزجش اوج ؾ٤شا إ٠ أ 5رجذأ اشؽالد اػزجبسا اخ٤ظ اوج رغزش ؽز٠

قش اؼالء ثوذس االعزلغبس ؽغض اجشبظ اوذ خال ص٣بسح كشع ؽشخ

غ٤بؽخ اشي أ االرقب ػ٠ شض اخذخ از٤ل٤خ ازبثغ ب ػ٠ سه ي٤شا

العززبع ثونبء ػيالر ك٢ ري اذ اغ٤بؽ٤خ اغبؽشح16175

ربثغ أ اؾشخ رزا٠ ػ روذ٣ اض٣ذ اؼشك ؼالئب اشا داخ قش

خبسعب خبفخ اؼشك ازش٣غ٤خ بىن اغزة اغ٤بؽ٢ دػب ب ؾشخ اغ٤بؽخ

عز ؾق قذس ثصاسح اغ٤بؽخ أ اصاسح رذػ ري اجبدساد از٢ رذف إ٠

رؾ٤و ؽشخ اغ٤بؽخ اذاخ٤خ رؼ ػ٠ إؼبػ البدم اعزشاس اؼ ثب خبفخ ك٢

ب٣ ابم٢ قش ك٢ هثباذ اغ٤بؽ٤خ ب ثأ ثؼذ ازبء اؼ ثجبدسح

اعخ زؾ٤و اغ٤بؽخ اذاخ٤خ ؼذ عد خققبد ب٤خ غت اإلؽـب ثزي اذ

ك٢ رشاعغ غزش اؼذ٣ذ البدم أؿوذ أثاثب ب ثأ اصاسح رذػ أ١ جبدساد

ززؾ٤و اؾشخ اغ٤بؽ٤خ ااكذح إ٠ اذ اقش٣خ عاء ع٤بؽخ داخ٤خ أ غزغجخ

اخبسط

httpwwwyoum7com

اغخ ال٤خ عزقذس زبئظ عذ٣ذح ؽ ايبئشح اثخ خال ص٣ش اي٤شا

أعبث٤غ

أذ ؽش٣ق كزؾ٠ ص٣ش اي٤شا أ ازؾ٤الد ال٤خ ثؾأ ايبئشح اقش٣خ

اثخ بصاذ عبس٣خ عبس ؽب٤ب اشثو ث٤ اؼبد أعضح ازغغ٤

اخزلخ ؾ٤شا إ٠ أ خال األعبث٤غ اوجخ عزقذس اغخ ث٤بب ؽ ثؼل

بصب غزش٣ ك٠ اجؾش ازبئظ از٠ عززف ب ز٤غخ زا اشثو ن٤لب

ػ أؽالء انؾب٣ب هب ثذ اؼ ثغل٤خ اجؾش ضب٠ شح عؼب يبم

اجؾش شر٤ ؽز٠ ٣ م٤شب شربؽب زشى أ٣خ اؽالء ألب غئ٤خ

أؽذاس أمبف ص٣ش اي٤شا خال ذاخخ برل٤خ غ ثشبظ أخاله٤خ

ػذب ؾخ وق ا٤ االص٤ ابسازاع ػ٠ كنبئ٤خ ابس

مؾب أ ايبئشح وب ري ٤ظ ب٣خ اؼب كبى د ض٤شح رلؼ ري

أ ؽشخ قش ي٤شا أعشد 100خشعذ بب ثزوش٣ش ك٠

هج اقؼد أ٣ ا٠ ص ب هب ازبةاق٤بخ ػ٠ أ ع ثؼ٠

إ٠ أب اعزيؼب إثشا ارلبه٤بد كزؾ٠أؽبس د عبثن ألا ؽق كم

غ كبدم ثؾش اؾ٤خ اـشدهخ زؾ٤و اغ٤بؽخ غزض األهقش أعا

مؾب أ اخيح اوبدخ ع٤ رؾ٤و إعبصري ك٠ قش ثشبظ

أذ ص٣ش اي٤شا أ اغ٤بؽخ اخبسط اجشبظ ؽب٤ب ثبألعؼبس اؾ٤خ

غزشح ثؼذ اق٤ق أب هب ثبجبدسح دػب إعبصري ك٠ قشجبدسح

غ٤بؽخ ثؼ٤ذا ػ اشثؼ أع رؾش٣ي ا٤ب اشاذح رؾ٤و اغ٤بؽخ

إ ؽبء اذاخ٤خ ؾ٤شا إ٠ أ قش ي٤شا رغزخذ إب٤برب به هبئال

أ٠ خياد ازؾ٤و ثبزؼب غ صاسح إعبصري ك٠ قشاهلل عف ر

اغ٤بؽخ

wwwalbawabhnewscom

قش ي٤شاؽش روالد ثبخذبد اغ٣خ ك٢

اوبثنخ قش ي٤شا هشاسا اؾشخأفذس فلد غ سئ٤ظ

قش ي٤شا ثؾشخثؾش روالد رشه٤بد داخ٤خ عذ٣ذح

ك٢ أع ري٣ش اؼ إؽال دبء ؽبثخ اغ٣خخذبد

اهغ ه٤بد٣خ ػذ٣ذح

قت غبػذ سئ٤ظ غظ إداسح اخذبد دعه٠ر٠ ىبسم

٤بص سأكذ سئ٤ظ هيبع ازؾـ٤ خلب ثؼذ أ ب اغ٣خ

٣ؾـ قت ذ٣ش ػب اؾشػبد اخبص

ذ٣ش ػب ازخي٤و قت ذ٣ش ػب إداسح اؾ٤خب ر٠ ىبسم

اخبص ث٤ب ر٠ ؽبص ػجذ اشؽ ذ٣ش إداسح اؼ٤بد

قت ذ٣ش إداسح از٣ ؽـ ؽه٠ اؾؾبد قت ذ٣ش

ثؼذ أ ب ٣ؾـ قت ذ٣ش إداسح إلزبطاإلداسح اؼب

از٣ ثبؾشخ

httpwwwheavyliftpficom

Qatar Airways flying high

July 11 - Qatar Airways Cargo has reported a record

2016 fiscal year growing to the third-largest cargo

operator in the word and increasing its freighter

destinations to 54

Qatar Airways Cargo added Dallas Budapest Prague

Ho Chi Minh City and New York to its network in the

period ending March 31 2016 increasing its available

tonnage worldwide Its fleet is expected to grow to 22

aircraft by 2017

Overall Qatar Airways Group posted an operating

profit of QAR3 billion (USD823 million) for the 2016

fiscal year - nearly three times higher than its 2015

fiscal year profit

httpwwwdallasnewscom

United Airlines plane blows two tires when pilot halts takeoff in Houston

A United Airlines plane blew out two of its tires

when a pilot abruptly stopped its takeoff from a

Houston airport due to concerns about a

possible mechanical problem

Airport officials say the Boeing 737 was taking

off from Bush Intercontinental Airport to Denver

at around 6 am Monday when the planes crew

spotted a possible mechanical malfunction and

the pilot slammed the brakes

Two of the planes tires blew out as the aircraft

came to a stop

No injuries were reported among the 164

passengers and six crew members

Passengers got off the plane were taken back

to a terminal and later boarded another aircraft

that left for Denver

It was not immediately known what mechanical

problem the plane might have experienced

httpseekingalphacom

Max in place of Airbus CEO says737 Qatar Airways considering Boeing

purchasing a Qatar Airways says it is in talks about

Max aircraft 737 ) 61+BAof Boeing (large number

amid a dispute with Airbus

over unresolved ) OTCPKEADSYOTCPKEADSF(

faults with its A320neo model

The airline which has canceled delivery of one

A320neo due to glitches with engines made by Pratt

until the will continue rejecting the planeamp Whitney

issues are fixed CEO Akbar Al Baker said today at

the Farnborough International Airshow

The airline CEO also is concerned about delivery

rates of Airbusrsquos A350 wide-body and says he is not

sure that Airbus will be able to meet its target of

handing more than 50 of the model to customers this

year

httpwwwbloombergcom

neos320s in Place of A737Boeing 30 Qatar Airways Looks at Up to

Qatar Airways is in discussions about purchasing as many as

30 Boeing Co 737 airliners amid a dispute with Airbus Group

SE over unresolved faults with its A320neo model

The carrier which has canceled delivery of one A320neo due to

glitches with engines made by Pratt amp Whitney will continue

rejecting the plane until the issues are fixed Chief Executive

Officer Akbar Al Baker said Monday at the Farnborough

International Airshow outside London The No 2 Persian Gulf

airline is focusing on potentially switching planes and hasnrsquot

made progress on talks about swapping to the A320neorsquos

alternative engine made by the CFM venture of General Electric

Co and Safran SA he said

Qatar Airways is looking at both the NG and the upcoming

Max versions of the single-aisle 737 Al Baker said The

Max scheduled to enter service in 2017 will be Boeingrsquos

direct rival to the A320neo and any inroads by the US

planemaker would be a coup Airbus has said that United

Technologies Corprsquos Pratt has begun supplying engines that

have fixed the cooling flaws and will begin delivering planes

equipped with those powerplants this month

The airline is also concerned about delivery rates of Airbusrsquos

A350 wide-body Al Baker said adding that he isnrsquot sure the

European manufacturer will be able to meet its target of

handing over 50 of the model to customers this year Qatar

Airways has only received one A350 out of 10 scheduled to

be delivered this year

httpmgdnonlinecom

A Qatar Airways flight bound to Doha from Oslo

Norway made an emergency landing in the

Romanian capital of Bucharest yesterday (July

9 )due to a fault in one of its engines said a

report

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner which was carrying

some 254 passengers was forced to change

course one hour into the flight and was diverted

to Bucharests Henri Coanda International

Airport Doha Newsreported

A replacement aircraft was dispatched to

Bucharest and the flight resumed its course

following an almost 12-hour delay

The new plane also a 787 landed in Doha at

425am this morning the report said

Qatar Business

Qatar Airways flight makes emergency landing in

Romania

atnaero

nd IATA AGM and World Air Transport Summit72

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) opened its 72nd

Annual General Meeting (AGM) and World Air Transport Summit in

Dublin Ireland

―Ireland is a great aviation country and the perfect location for the

industryrsquos leaders to meet Aviation is a force for good This year

airlines will safely transport 38 billion passengers and 52 million

tonnes of cargo That will stimulate economies and spread prosperity

But aviation faces challenges in providing the safe secure efficient

and sustainable connectivity that the world depends on The next two

days are an opportunity to work together as an industry to make flying

even better said Tony Tyler IATArsquos Director General and CEO

In his keynote address Dr Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu President of the

Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) said

―IATA and ICAO have enjoyed several decades of productive colla

boration

More recently wersquove been engaged on a number of important priorities

including among others

bullFlight tracking procedures

bullConflict zone risk management

bullThe safe integration of remotely-piloted and suborbital flight

operations

bullCybersecurity preparedness

bullIncreased airspace capacity and operational efficiency

bullThe safe carriage of lithium batteries

bullAnd of course the environment

1

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IATA has been a great ally in ICAOrsquos efforts to ensure that the decisions

of our Member States are forward-looking and in

line with the current and future needs of the industry

Report of Tony Tyler on the Air Transport Industry

―International civil aviation can greatly help to create and preserve

friendship and understanding among the nations and peoples of the

world

From the beginning both governments and industry conceived aviation

as a force for good

Aviation makes our world a better place In doing so it supports 63

million jobs and underpins 35 of global GDP

Airlines are engines of prosperity But they have long struggled to turn a

profit and reward investors That is beginning to change

This year we expect a collective net profit of $394 billion It will be only

the second year in our historymdashand the second in a rowmdashin which

airlines will make an aggregate return in excess of the cost of capital

After decades of capital destruction thatrsquos a significant achievement

But it is still just the minimum performance that investors expect

On average airlines will make $1042 for each passenger carried

Overall despite generally adverse economic conditions it is a good

time for the air transport industry

-Consumers are getting great deals and lots of choice

-Investors are beginning to see reasonable rewards for the capital

they risk

-And airlines are able to make critical investments and shore-up their

resilience by paying down debtmdashalthough it will take several years of

solid profitability to fix most balance sheets properly

2

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Our success as an industry rests on areas where we work together

the foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability Each is strong but not without challenges

In bringing my remarks to a close I want to reflect on the power of

partnership

Partnership is essential for the continuous reinforcement of the

foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability

Itrsquos also important for our 264 members and the entire value chain to

work together Because together we can send a proud message that

aviation is a force for good And we can do more good when tax

burdens and infrastructure constraints are removed and when the

principles of Smarter Regulation are applied properly

The framework for our modern industry was built by governments and

airlines with a common vision that safe regular and economical air

transport would benefit the peoples of the world by creating and

preserving friendships and understanding With more than 100 years

of history behind us we can confidently say that aviation has made the

world a better place

We have done that by unleashing an irreversible and ever-more

accessible capability to explore the world in which we live to improve

our lives with unprecedented mobility and to grow prosperity by doing

business globally

People are thirsty for the opportunities that aviation makes possible

Every day we safely transport ten million people and 140000 tonnes of

cargo We are not just connecting people and shifting goods our

work is building a better future for the peoples of the world

Aviationrsquos potential has never been more inspiring We are privileged

to lead an industry that is a force for good

3

atnaero

At the CEO Panel Insight Debate discussion moderated by Richard Quest the

following CEOs participated Bernard Gustin CEO Brussels Airlines (BG) Ed

Bastian CEO Delta Air Lines (ED) Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group and Charamporn Jotikasthira

President of Thai Airways the issue of the security and aircraft tracking was

discussed in the view of the Brussels terrorist attack and the Egyptair 804 flight

going down into the water

The Brussels Airlines CEO said that the Brussels disaster which came after a

very good year for the airlines gave him the opportunity to experience the

amazing reaction of the airlinersquo s staff and the importance of aviation as

Brussels remained 12 days without an airport Being members of the Lufthansa

group they were able to put the long haul to Zurich and Frankfurt and useδ

provincial airport in Liege and Antwerp for local traffic When asked whether

security needs to be readdressed he answered that the risk arose before

security checks and this has to be solved with the Intelligence systems They

imposed after the disaster some extremely strong measures only to realize after

a few days that they were not appropriate He added that they need to continue

to analyze the security process and do risk analysis but have pertinent

measures and apply them consistently across the board

In the US on the other hand the situation is different the security procedures

imposed by the TSA make passengers be delayed or misconnected The

problem has taken such extent that many airports are considering replacing or

supplanting TSA When asked Ed Bastian CEO for Delta Air Lines said that

they have realized the problem and that they will deal with that and added that

they as an airline did a lot to manage the issue they innovated queuing process

in Atlanta that they paid for themselves which is going to have 50 reduction

in how long it takes travelers to get through checkpoints

As the question of security in Asia has again been raised in terms of its being

efficient and effective or not Charamporn Jotikasthira President of Thai

Airways agreed that there is a need to improve over time as there are ways to

hack systems there is a need for a system that can detect faster more

accurately with more quality

Jayne Hrdlicka CEO of Jetstar Group answered questions related to the

investment of low-cost airlines in security She answered that it is the airlinersquos

job to ensure that the security that is provided for in the airports they operate

meets the standards that we have set for ourselves Since in several of the

airports they are operating in the situation is not to these standards they take

responsibility for the safety and security of their people and customers to make

sure that the standards are consistent across the network

4

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Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline in his turn when expressing

his view on about aviation security in general he said that the industry

is not doing enough although there have been so many wake up calls in

the last couple of years He said that it is easy for government agencies

and organizations to blame on austerity their inability to fund the

security apparatus and the systems and procedures but the aviation

industry has to come up with a new set of protocols that ensure

security for the travelling public and consumers The industry has to

cooperate with governmental agencies to identify the possibilities of

people actually doing such attacks He added that industry has to adopt

far more readily the technological advances that are being made

available to streamline the processes but at the same time increase the

level of scrutiny He stressed the need for flow of information between

countries so as to have a more homogeneous intelligence service

When asked about airline tracking he admitted that the fact that the

problems in trying to locate an aircraft that has had a major incidence

―is a disgrace― These incidents impose on the industry a need to be

able to track aircraft at every point on their journey which as he said

Emirates does anyway within 15-20 minutes they know where all the

airlinersquos aircraft are where they fly or on the ground at the same

time He added that the manufacturers too need to come up with the

data records both CVR and cockpit voice recorders and flight data

recorders that have to be far more robust able to survive intact and

with much more power to develop beacons and locating systems in

very remote areas on the sea or in the river

When faced with the remark that six years have passed since the flight

370 incident and still the industry is unable to locate missing aircraft

and many experts argue that the airlines are reluctant to spend the

money on tracking and streaming of data they all agreed that it is not a

financial issue and the only question is a question of governance The

industry has to come to a consensus and agree on common standards

for example at what frequency the aircraft will be sending it out tracking

information the industry is waiting for an ICAO solution that everyone

is going to adopt They all agreed though that irrespective of the cost it

has to be done because as Sir Tim Clark put it ―Not to do it is

delinquency

5

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When Richard Quest asked them about results and yields because airlines seem to

be that making good money they all claim the yield is under pressure and to

comment on the influence of the lower fuel price Ed Bastian said that capacity has

grown over the last few years driven by the dramatic reduction in oil prices The

pressure seen on yield is a reflection of the growing capacity He commented he

does not focus only on yield but looks at other aspects and metrics to understand

the underlying health of the industry demand is very strong especially in the US and

fuel prices are stabilizing and the airline making record margins

Bernard Gustin said when fuel prices gets up again the airlines will not be able to put

it back in the yield so they need to keep a business plan both with the current fuel

price as well as with the old fuel price especially in their case since their competitors

in Brussels are low cost carriers such as Ryanair and Easyjet

When Jetstarrsquos CEO was asked whether there is unconstrained growth of capacity

she answered that the growth of capacity ahead of underlying demand is not

irrational when margins are attractive and costs well managed and strong return in

invested capital

Sir Tim Clark said that the true causes behind yield suppression need to be

examined The lowering of the fuel prices was good news but they failed to foresee

that the corporate sectors that drive many of the upper echelons of the yield will go

with the oil prices That brought us some difficulties Then there was a currency

issue the strength of the US as the airline generates a large part of income on

currencies that move south of the dollar that affected the yield too Third the

addition of capacity means extension of the revenue of greater distances which

causes yield dilution On the other hand while there is flat line projection for global

economy demand for airtravel is increasing at 6 7 8 in several areas including the

Middle East there is also an explosion of growth in the US domestic market This

means the airline backfills inventory with more passengers because demand is there

Their airline needs to adjust its business to the practical long-term change and this is

low yield the airline can do it He announced that Emirates will 14 more A380s to

their fleet of 79

Thai Airwaysrsquos President said that their problem was of a different nature as they

unable to fill the aircraft as much as the others and their load factors were 4-5

lower than the average they will first fix that and and then deal with the other

problems

When the discussion turned to the question whether there will more manufactures of

aircraft and more choice in the future Ed Bastian supported Deltarsquos decision to buy

CS100s Bombardier and commented that they have been long time customers of

their small and larger regional jets because they technologically and engine-wise

efficient and reliable and they were given good financial terms He also predicted that

more airlines will consider acquiring Bombardier C-series aircraft

6

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As Emirates are mostly wide body operator Sir Tim Clark said

they already have good choice between Boeing and Airbus

which answer their needs with regard to the mission and the

type of product the airline wants to offer He wished ―good

luck to any manufacturer wishing to enter the market them if

they get over the barriers to entry

Jane Hrdlicka said she expects see innovation coming in in the

form of technology of the airframe and a strong Chinese

manufacturer which means there will be more choice in two

decades from now than today

Then Richard Quest asked questions each airline individually

He asked whether Brussels Airlines will be around in two years

from now Bernand Gustin the airline will be there and will have

the same operation model but more powerful with the power of

a major aviation group Lufthansa group behind it In the past

airlines had to choose to be point-to-point or connecting Low

cost or service airline bur Brussels airline We tries to reconcile

those dimensions and they have positioned themselves a

hybrid airline People do not want to pay but they want a level

of service and even the low cost carriers are investing now in

service As for the name of airline he said that the airline will be

called what has value for the customer as it has been proven

with the airlinersquos Africa routes The airline played a crucial role

during the Ebola crisis and has gained its value as a brand in

Africa that it did not have before when it was Sabena He

stressed that a brand is something that responds to a customer

need a brand name that responds best to the Belgian customer

the European customer and the African customer and the US

customers which are the markets the airlines serves

7

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Thai Airwaysrsquo president was asked about the airlinersquos strategy to deal with

their problems He answered that they have a two-year reform programme

they have already achieved a profit margin 12 on sales so they are on track

reform plan They intend to remain a full service carrier with a major very

efficient hub He added that they realised after following the developments of

the last years that the ecosystem has been changing a lot as all demand

coming into Thailand has been point-to-point to secondary cities They

operate in one the fastest growing regions in terms of demand near India

and China but the demand is becoming point-to-point which means that the

model that the airline was following in the past has to be changed When

asked whether they will need a partner and more particularly a Gulf partner to

do your long haul European routes he answered that if the market is India

China and Asia and there is going to be more and more point-to-point service

they will have to be bigger They may need partners of some sort some form

of alliance but I this alliance will not be as the ones of the past In the past a

big airline in Europe a big airline in Japan could connect throughout the

world but this area is a non-united area there are many states there is

Myanmar Thailand Vietnam so the partnership will most probably be

bilateral

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group was asked how Qantas managed so

successfully to incorporate a low-cost or a low-fare branch as some call it

She answered that they did it by really understanding their customers and

recognising that there is a part of the market that is hungry for full service and

is prepared to pay a premium to get it but there is an equal part of the market

that was not able to travel because the fares were too high and would prefer

choice on how they travel and be able to pay for what they use What they

have done is effectively build a new brand that focuses squarely on that

customer group and have protected the integrity by not trying to blur the line

and keeping them very separate operationally commercially and

strategically

Bernand Gustin was asked again whether Lufthansa has considered an

arrangement with an LCC for feed and he answered that first the airline needs

to substantially reduce its cost to be price competitive and this what they

have done There is no choice about that But as they come from a service

heritage airline and given that they will never be a cost leader they try to keep

a differentiation on service a service that really people want So they have

played on connectivity on the network and on the Belgian brand There is a

wish to have a specific brand As there are other very strong brands within the

Lufthansa group if they want to go further they need to have the power of the

group to be able to further reduce the cost to get the commercial critical

mass outside of Belgium Thatrsquos where the right mix needs to be found

8

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Deltarsquos CEO was asked How a giant airline accommodates the new reality

of all those LCCs Ot which he answered that they do it through

segmentation within the aircraft they have introduced a product called

―basic economy for price sensitive types of travelling within the US

They are still experimenting with it as it is relatively new and the

technology solution on it is complicated Within the two they have to

accommodate the low fare end and the highly sensitive business

traveller that is willing to pay a premium and a couple of stages between

the two But it a much wider question the airline needs to find who he

wants to be so they have moved upscale they are not a commodity

player and they generated a 10 premium in relation to the other US

carriers He stressed that ―If we were to be a commodity player we would

not be around today He admits that they have to accommodate a

commodity component for the travel sector but they are not a

commodity As the carry two million passengers a year that pay a 10

premium on average they have proven our point

Jetstarrsquos CEP pointed that both fares are not commoditised any more

Airlines have to look at what customers want choice is definitely

important for all customers and choice for people who are looking for

value matters a lot She said that their airline also extracts a relative 15

premium in relation to competition because they do not view themselves

as a commodity product They invest heavily in the brand in the

experience in ways that the customers value and are prepared to pay for

it and give them the choice to custom design their experience

The Brussels Airlinesrsquos CEO added that segmentation and differentiation

is key When their airline starts with a start price of 39 euros one way and

has a very vocal pure low cost competitor at 21 euro for the same thing

the solution is to claim that it offers service as there is a whole heritage

that exists besides While the price is key people say ―I want to know

what I choose The pure commodity product that happened a few years

is going away but when there is a heritage of service that can help you

differentiate yourself then there is potential to make the difference

Brussels has all the LCCs of the world but Brussels Airlines grew by 30

more in the last two years

9

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Richard Quest then turned to Emirates CEO and asked him how they

accomodate with the LCCs that can offer feed from them into their long

haul services Sir Tim Clark answered that LCCs are here to stay they

continue to grow their business they have been a significant player in

the way civil aviation has developed in the last years giving consumers

a very good choice As long as the air industry business keeps the

consumers at the heart of the business and it does what they are

guiding to do then there is place for everybody The

differentiation whether it is between low cost and full service long haul

or short haul is something the industry has to adapt to accept and

encourage It is part of civil aviation After all it is the travelling public

who benefits from LCC existence The legacy carriers as they are

called have to adapt and work with them In terms of establishing a

lower cost arm for Emirates he answered ―no but he added that they

would work with them and they do They have very good relationships

with the Low Cost operators because they bring lots more people into

the market the whole principle was tapping incipient demand that

could not afford the levels of fares that were available prior to their

existence What they did is that they brought efficiency fleet efficiency

technological efficiency distribution efficiency and suddenly a new

branch of air transport industry was found ―To not work with makes no

sense

When asked about what new things they can offer to the upper end of

the market they all agreed that it is the soft goods that matter after all

Everyone can buy the hard goods but the airlines invest now in

relationship building Delta said its CEO can boast on its relationship

with corporate travelers and the fact they have one of the lowest

maintenance cancellation records They give the business traveler what

he needs dependability reliability quality to arrive on time with their

bags he added that there is a lot of technology and process behind it

but more than that a lot of willpower and culture

10

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Jetstarrsquos CEO said that invest a lot in their people both in full service

and in low cost training helping them to build skills relationships with

the customer Jetstar wants to enable customers to enjoy the ability of

pick and choose both to bundle and to unbundle

Emiratesrsquo CEO said that the airline spends an awful lot of time and

money on our premium product and the public knows about it and they

have always done that and they will continue to do it As soon as

things mature they will change to make things more interesting they

will be raising the bar for the consumers the business community

because ―we can do it

Panel discussion on Cyber Security

The panelists were Major General Linda Urrutia-Varhall the Assistant

Deputy Chief of Staff Director of National Intelligence for Aviation

Security in the US Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance the

Pentagon Washington DC Anja Kaspersen Head of International

Security for the World Economic Forum Alan Pellegrini CEO and

President of Thales USA Matthew Finn Managing Director of

Augmentiq Calin Rovinescu President and CEO of Air Canada and

Kurt Pipal FBI Assistant Legal Attache for US Embassy in the UK

They all agreed that aviation being a symbol of globalisation remains

an aspirational target for terrorists The interconnected nature of the

industry and interconnectibility of IT systems from baggage

movement to ticket kiosk and flight systems represent an ever growing

list of vulnerabilities and a whole brand new horizon of threats It is

however practically technologically and financially impossible to

address all the issues In the words of General Urrutia-Varhall the

interaction between actors threats and vulnerabilities can be viewed as

an ecosystem of forces in which ―we are as strong as our weakest link

No entity can go alone against these threats Airline industry

govenments domestic and international Intelligence community private

and public sectors should come together gather and share information

to characterise assess threats prioritise them and then act

appropriately

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Calin Rovinescu mentioned the ―very scary number that experts

estimate is the amount of damage caused last year by cyber hacks

was in the vicinity of US$500 million world wide and that 94

of global airlines had some form of cyber security breaches These

incidents were ―a real wake-up call for the industry Many of these

attacks were dealt with because airlines had good technology

protection but still these numbers make clear that as the industry

moves towards more automation seeking the interconnectiveness that

makes ir more efficient attack surfaces expand exponentially

Matthew Finn said businesses should look at security in a holistic way

He said there is currently a downward trend of documentation fraud

but an upward trend regarding identity theft

Alan Pellegrini said that the industy has seen recently an increasing

number of high profile hacks hacks in the wi-fi connectivity simply to

steal passenger information that is flowing over those networks a

hack into the ground systems of an airline to steal financial

transactions and information to collect the money the airline was

supposed to collect The threat is very real and although it has not

resulted to serious safety related issues it is resulting into serious

disrupting The fact that there has been no serious incident means

though that the industry is getting a lot of it right

Airlines now connect passengers to Wi-Fi on aircraft they add

connectivity to crews aircraft operations are connected on the

ground some are experimenting with cloud-based avionics controlling

aircraft operations The move towards more automation is inescepable

so the protection from cyber attackes To build such protection

requires a

a multi-year plan with responsibility at the highest level and

collaboration and information exchange between the aviation industry

and governments

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There are many technoloty tools Thales is working on to better protect

the connected aircraft but there is no ―silver bullet there is no one

piece of technology that is going to solve all the industry problems

because security is a process the same way threats are not static they

continue to evolve ―Technology is not done it continues monitoring

security operations centres are required to identify threats as they start

to materialize and to mitigate them and then go ahead and implement

addtional technology that is going to deal with new potential threats so

it is a continuous process

According to Calin Rovinescu ―No matter how complex and good

systems a company may have problems are not solved overnight and

aviation must develop a capability to respond and recover He pointed

out that aviation industry must look at and work with other industries

that have more maturity with cyber threats such as financial

institutions technology companies

The industry is very encouraged by the fact IATA is taking on this topic

to prevent serious disruption and perhaps safety issues later

Anja Kaspersen admitted that the threat is real but she added that there

is also ―fear mongering because of the commercial interests invested

in cyber security She stressed that the combination of ―ignorance and

unsubstantiated fear is dangerous and hampers preparedness She

cautioned airlines not to underestimate the psychological effect

should as as they live off their reputation Airlines have to respond to

customer expectations for security concerns

She added that aviation should work on the assumption that they

receiving both physical and cyber attacks and and therefore work on

how to protect the systems with more advanced software and develop

some translation tools to compare traditional and new risks

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Kurt Pipal pointed as airline companies possess and deal with huge

amounts of data they become by definition a target for industrial

espionage He cautioned companies to be very careful about

subcontractors which do necessarily rely on the same system

resilience He stressed the importance of sharing intelligence

information in the industry Build awareness and do not have a silo

approach Identify your vulnerabilities and make the assumption that

you are going to be hacked Participate in a 247 securities operation

centre and called the aviation to Occasionally even use a so-called

dark agent - a hacker to test your system Companies do fire drills so

why do they not do cyber security drills toolaquo

The Panel on the Climate Change Goals brought together

representatives from industry academia and NGOs to discuss the

progress on the climate change goals the aviation industry faces and

what is needed to reach them The industry has to achieve a goal of

climate neutral growth from 2020 but also the long-term target of cutting

net CO2 emissions by half by 2050 compared to 2005 levels

The panelists were Angela Gittens Director General of Airports Council

International Alan Joyce Qantas CEO Patrick de Castelbajac CEO of

aircraft manufacturer ATR John-Paul Clarke professor at Georgia

Institute of Technology and Tim Johnson of the International Coalition

for Sustainable Aviation

2050 might seeem a long way off but due to industry time lags therersquos

only around 10 years left to figure out how to reach the goal according

to John-Paul Clarke

They all agreed that the industry in all its supply chain-manufacturers

airports infrastructure airlines- must come together to work in a

concerted way to achieve how to go about achieveing these goals A

holistic perspective is needed as the industry stakeholders all are in

direct dependency and the example od a fuel efficient aircraft that

cannot operate efficiently because the air traffic management is not

efficient They stressed that sustainable development is not a question

of being politically correct any more but a condition of the future

existence of the industry ―there is no other way than being

environmentally respectful said Patrick de Castelbajac

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He added that aircraft manufacturers do consider now the

environmental impact of their aircraft at every stage from design

through to the eventual end-of-life disposal ―There is also a greater

convergence between economic and environmental interests which we

can see clearly on fuel burn he said

New technology and new management must be both environmentally

and economically sustainable

The panelists agreed that passengers are passsionate about it and do

want to offset the environmental impact of their flight Alan Joyce

said that one passenger every minute selects a voluntary offset

program

Angela Gittens said that Airports have adopted the Carbon

Accreditation Programme a programme that provides airports with a

common framework for active carbon management with measurable

goal-postsand 20 airports are already carbon neutral She added ICAO

and IATA should undertake the role of coordinating bodies which will

monitor assess and pace the progress It is necessary because ―If you

canrsquot measure it you canrsquot manage it

Continuous transparent monitoring of what is been done by an

independent entity would bring credibility according to John-

Paul Clarke

The panelists also agreed that ICAO and IATA will have to meet the

challenge of balancing the different levels of maturity in terms

of environmental measures around the globe in other words those that

move more quickly with those that have been left behind

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Joyce said the new ICAO aircraft CO2 standard would drive

advances in aircraft and engine technology He complained

that although there had been advances in navigation

technology and procedures - such as the traffic control

satellite navigation approaches to airports that saved his

airline up to 60000 tons of fuel - progress had been slow in

improving Air Traffic management and developing ATC

infrastructure

He insisted though on the role of biofuels He stressed that

more studies should be undertaken on biofuels to make sure

that they are produced in environmentally friendly way

―Biofuels are the only way we are going to get to our 2050

target Itrsquos a question of how we as an industry can cooperate

and how we can get governments interested enough to put a

policy framework in place to make that happen Their

development and insertion in the value chain will require RampD

and help from governments and other industrial sectors

He called his government to support the local alternative

fuels industry that creates new jobs and brings

environmental benefits

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Tim Johnson cautioned that it should not become

an ―accountancy exercise where we see one

gallon of biofuel uplifted to an aircraft or a tonne

of CO2 offset as the way we measure progress

adding it was important to move beyond

quantification and just emissions and consider

the wider sustainable development agenda

Investment decisions needed to be taken now to

reach the industryrsquos 2050 target he suggested

and clarity was needed on what should happen

and by when ICAO market-based measure is

perfoming well but there must be emphasis on the

other three pillars required for aviation emissions

reductions ndash aircraft technology operations and

infrastructure

17

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powered aircraft leaves Seville for Cairo-Solar

MADRID July 11 (Xinhua) -- The aircraft Solar Impulse

II powered completely by solar energy on Monday left

the Spanish city of Seville to attempt to land in

on WednesdayEgyptCairo

The route will be between 48 and 72 hours long

depending on weather conditions This will be the

penultimate flight of the plane that will travel to Abu

Dhabi afterwards

Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard who have

been working on the aircraft for more than a decade

will pilot the aircraft Borschberg will pilot the plane

from Seville to Cairo crossing seven countries after

which Piccard will fly to Abu Dhabi

Borschberg said that the trip was meaningful as it is

my last flight in this round-the-world epic I am happy

that were close to the end but also prudent knowing

that it is not done yet I have to stay really focused

SpainThe aircraft had been in Seville in the south of

for two weeks after successfully crossing the Atlantic

Ocean

Solar Impulse II is able to fly night and day without any

fossil fuel It travels at between 45 and 55 kmhour

reaching an altitude of 8500 meters The plane is wider

than a 747 jumbo jet and weighs 23 tons

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Russias New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

A grand unveiling of the Irkut MC-21-300 on June 8

established a relatively firm project timeline for the

160- to 212-seat narrowbody and marked a measure

of vindication for what many in the West have

disparaged as a fringe project In attendance at the

ceremony Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

spoke of the prestige the program has brought to

the country as well as its importance to helping

move its economy forward He also congratulated

Irkutrsquos employees for their role in shaping the future

of Russiarsquos return to prominence in commercial

aircraft manufacturing

Expecting the MC-21 to gain Russian certification in

2018 United Aircraft subsidiary Irkut had hoped to

fly the first airplane by the end of this year

However during the rollout ceremony Medvedev

referenced plans for first flight ―within a year

and UAC officials acknowledged that a previously

quoted target might prove optimistic unless all goes

exactly to plan Rather that milestone appears most

likely to happen in or around February 2017

according to aUAC spokesman

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Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

2

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Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

3

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While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

4

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Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

5

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Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

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هيبع اغ٤بؽخ االهزقبد اؾ٢

ثزغ٤٤ش سؽالد ٤٣خ إ٠ اؼبفخ رج٤غ٢ أجش ذ عسع٤ب از٢ اؼشث٤خ ي٤شارو

ثشصد ثغشػخ ك٢ اؾذ اغ٤بؽ٢ ك٢ أسثب ؽ٤ش أظش روش٣ش ظخ اغ٤بؽخ اؼب٤خ ؼب

أ عسع٤ب عغذ ص٣بدح ك٢ أػذاد اضائش٣ اذ٤٤ ثغجخ أجش أ١ ثذ أسث٢ 2014

آخش

ثذا ك٢ اؾشم 33عخ ك٢ 120رغ٤ش اؼشث٤خ ي٤شا سؽالرب ا٤ إ٠ أضش

األعو آع٤ب إكش٣و٤ب أسثب

wwwalbawabhnewscom

ب 990رظ سؽالد داخ٤خ رجذأ قش ي٤شا ع٤

ي٤شا زذؽ٤ أ أجش ؽالرب ازؾ٤ي٤خ خال اع قشرغزؼذ

رؾذ سػب٣خ ؽش٣ق كزؾ٢ ص٣ش قش ك٢إعبصري اق٤ل٢ اؾب٢ ثؼا

اذاخ٤خ اغ٤بؽخاي٤شا اذ٠ ثذف رؾ٤و دػ

إغجش٣ظ اغ٣خاشي اخيه غ٤بؽخريشػ ؽشبد قش ي٤شا

ثبزؼب غ ثؼل البدم اجش ثشبغب ع٤بؽ٤ب زبب ذح أسثؼخ أ٣ب

ع٤ب قش٣ب لبدم صالس غ 990 ثأعؼبس ربكغ٤خ رجذأ (صالس ٤ب)

ك٢ع٤ب لبدم خظ غ 1350ع٤ب لبدم أسثغ غ 1095

اـشدهخ األهقش ؽبخ رزاش اي٤شا اإلهبخ اؾ٤خ ؽش

أذ فلد غ سئ٤ظ غظ إداسح اؾشخ اوبثنخ قش ي٤شا

اؾ٤خرشر٤ت رظ٤ ز اجشاظ اغ٤بؽ٤خ جبؽشح غ البدم ثؾش

اوج رغزش اخ٤ظاـشدهخ األهقش اوشس أ رجذأ اػزجبسا

ؽز٠ اخبظ عجزجش ثؾ٤ش ٣غزي٤غ اؼالء االعزلغبس ؽغض اجشبظ

أ االرقب اشياوذ خال ص٣بسح كشع قش ي٤شا غ٤بؽخ

العززبع ثونبء 16175اخذخ از٤ل٤خ ازبثغ ب ػ٠ سه شضػ٠

ػيالر ك٢ ري اذ اغ٤بؽ٤خ اغبؽشح

أمبف أ قش ي٤شا رزا ػ روذ٣ اض٣ذ اؼشك ؼالئب

اشا داخ قش خبسعب خبفخ اؼشك ازش٣غ٤خ بىن اغزة

اغ٤بؽ٠ ثبجالد دػب ب ؾشخ اغ٤بؽخ

httpwwwelwatannewscom

ذ 3رين ثشبغب زؾ٤و اغ٤بؽخ اذاخ٤خ ثـ قش ي٤شا اخ٤ظ

زذؽ٤ أ أجش ؽالرب ازؾ٤ي٤خ خال اع اق٤ل٢ قش ي٤شارغزؼذ ؽشخ

ثشػب٣خ ؽش٣ق كزؾ٢ ص٣ش اي٤شا اذ٢إعبصري ك٢ قشاؾب٢ رؾذ ؽؼبس

إ ين قش ي٤شاهب فلد غ سئ٤ظ غظ إداسح اؾشخ اوبثنخ ـ

ؽشؿ اؾشخ ػ٠ أداء غؤ٤زب رغب اى ك٢ غب رؾ٤و دػ اغ٤بؽخ اذاخ٤خ إ٠

بىن اغزة اغ٤بؽ٢ اقش٣خ ريشػ ؽشبرب غ٤بؽخ اشي اخيه اغ٣خ

3أ٣ب ثـ 4إغجش٣ظ ثبزؼب غ ثؼل البدم اجش ثشبغب ع٤بؽ٤ب زبال ذح

4ع٤ب لبدم 1095غ 3 ع٤ب لبدم ٤990ب ثأعؼبس ربكغ٤خ رجذأ

غ ك٢ ؽش اؾ٤خ اـشدهخ األهقش ؽبخ رزاش 5ع٤ب لبدم 1350غ

اي٤شا اإلهبخ

رشرت رظ ز اجشاظ قش ي٤شاأمبف غ ك٢ ث٤ب فؾل٢ ا٤ أ

اغ٤بؽ٤خ جبؽشح غ البدم ثؾش اؾ٤خ اـشدهخ األهقش ؾ٤شا إ٠ أ اوشس أ

عجزجش اوج ؾ٤شا إ٠ أ 5رجذأ اشؽالد اػزجبسا اخ٤ظ اوج رغزش ؽز٠

قش اؼالء ثوذس االعزلغبس ؽغض اجشبظ اوذ خال ص٣بسح كشع ؽشخ

غ٤بؽخ اشي أ االرقب ػ٠ شض اخذخ از٤ل٤خ ازبثغ ب ػ٠ سه ي٤شا

العززبع ثونبء ػيالر ك٢ ري اذ اغ٤بؽ٤خ اغبؽشح16175

ربثغ أ اؾشخ رزا٠ ػ روذ٣ اض٣ذ اؼشك ؼالئب اشا داخ قش

خبسعب خبفخ اؼشك ازش٣غ٤خ بىن اغزة اغ٤بؽ٢ دػب ب ؾشخ اغ٤بؽخ

عز ؾق قذس ثصاسح اغ٤بؽخ أ اصاسح رذػ ري اجبدساد از٢ رذف إ٠

رؾ٤و ؽشخ اغ٤بؽخ اذاخ٤خ رؼ ػ٠ إؼبػ البدم اعزشاس اؼ ثب خبفخ ك٢

ب٣ ابم٢ قش ك٢ هثباذ اغ٤بؽ٤خ ب ثأ ثؼذ ازبء اؼ ثجبدسح

اعخ زؾ٤و اغ٤بؽخ اذاخ٤خ ؼذ عد خققبد ب٤خ غت اإلؽـب ثزي اذ

ك٢ رشاعغ غزش اؼذ٣ذ البدم أؿوذ أثاثب ب ثأ اصاسح رذػ أ١ جبدساد

ززؾ٤و اؾشخ اغ٤بؽ٤خ ااكذح إ٠ اذ اقش٣خ عاء ع٤بؽخ داخ٤خ أ غزغجخ

اخبسط

httpwwwyoum7com

اغخ ال٤خ عزقذس زبئظ عذ٣ذح ؽ ايبئشح اثخ خال ص٣ش اي٤شا

أعبث٤غ

أذ ؽش٣ق كزؾ٠ ص٣ش اي٤شا أ ازؾ٤الد ال٤خ ثؾأ ايبئشح اقش٣خ

اثخ بصاذ عبس٣خ عبس ؽب٤ب اشثو ث٤ اؼبد أعضح ازغغ٤

اخزلخ ؾ٤شا إ٠ أ خال األعبث٤غ اوجخ عزقذس اغخ ث٤بب ؽ ثؼل

بصب غزش٣ ك٠ اجؾش ازبئظ از٠ عززف ب ز٤غخ زا اشثو ن٤لب

ػ أؽالء انؾب٣ب هب ثذ اؼ ثغل٤خ اجؾش ضب٠ شح عؼب يبم

اجؾش شر٤ ؽز٠ ٣ م٤شب شربؽب زشى أ٣خ اؽالء ألب غئ٤خ

أؽذاس أمبف ص٣ش اي٤شا خال ذاخخ برل٤خ غ ثشبظ أخاله٤خ

ػذب ؾخ وق ا٤ االص٤ ابسازاع ػ٠ كنبئ٤خ ابس

مؾب أ ايبئشح وب ري ٤ظ ب٣خ اؼب كبى د ض٤شح رلؼ ري

أ ؽشخ قش ي٤شا أعشد 100خشعذ بب ثزوش٣ش ك٠

هج اقؼد أ٣ ا٠ ص ب هب ازبةاق٤بخ ػ٠ أ ع ثؼ٠

إ٠ أب اعزيؼب إثشا ارلبه٤بد كزؾ٠أؽبس د عبثن ألا ؽق كم

غ كبدم ثؾش اؾ٤خ اـشدهخ زؾ٤و اغ٤بؽخ غزض األهقش أعا

مؾب أ اخيح اوبدخ ع٤ رؾ٤و إعبصري ك٠ قش ثشبظ

أذ ص٣ش اي٤شا أ اغ٤بؽخ اخبسط اجشبظ ؽب٤ب ثبألعؼبس اؾ٤خ

غزشح ثؼذ اق٤ق أب هب ثبجبدسح دػب إعبصري ك٠ قشجبدسح

غ٤بؽخ ثؼ٤ذا ػ اشثؼ أع رؾش٣ي ا٤ب اشاذح رؾ٤و اغ٤بؽخ

إ ؽبء اذاخ٤خ ؾ٤شا إ٠ أ قش ي٤شا رغزخذ إب٤برب به هبئال

أ٠ خياد ازؾ٤و ثبزؼب غ صاسح إعبصري ك٠ قشاهلل عف ر

اغ٤بؽخ

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قش ي٤شاؽش روالد ثبخذبد اغ٣خ ك٢

اوبثنخ قش ي٤شا هشاسا اؾشخأفذس فلد غ سئ٤ظ

قش ي٤شا ثؾشخثؾش روالد رشه٤بد داخ٤خ عذ٣ذح

ك٢ أع ري٣ش اؼ إؽال دبء ؽبثخ اغ٣خخذبد

اهغ ه٤بد٣خ ػذ٣ذح

قت غبػذ سئ٤ظ غظ إداسح اخذبد دعه٠ر٠ ىبسم

٤بص سأكذ سئ٤ظ هيبع ازؾـ٤ خلب ثؼذ أ ب اغ٣خ

٣ؾـ قت ذ٣ش ػب اؾشػبد اخبص

ذ٣ش ػب ازخي٤و قت ذ٣ش ػب إداسح اؾ٤خب ر٠ ىبسم

اخبص ث٤ب ر٠ ؽبص ػجذ اشؽ ذ٣ش إداسح اؼ٤بد

قت ذ٣ش إداسح از٣ ؽـ ؽه٠ اؾؾبد قت ذ٣ش

ثؼذ أ ب ٣ؾـ قت ذ٣ش إداسح إلزبطاإلداسح اؼب

از٣ ثبؾشخ

httpwwwheavyliftpficom

Qatar Airways flying high

July 11 - Qatar Airways Cargo has reported a record

2016 fiscal year growing to the third-largest cargo

operator in the word and increasing its freighter

destinations to 54

Qatar Airways Cargo added Dallas Budapest Prague

Ho Chi Minh City and New York to its network in the

period ending March 31 2016 increasing its available

tonnage worldwide Its fleet is expected to grow to 22

aircraft by 2017

Overall Qatar Airways Group posted an operating

profit of QAR3 billion (USD823 million) for the 2016

fiscal year - nearly three times higher than its 2015

fiscal year profit

httpwwwdallasnewscom

United Airlines plane blows two tires when pilot halts takeoff in Houston

A United Airlines plane blew out two of its tires

when a pilot abruptly stopped its takeoff from a

Houston airport due to concerns about a

possible mechanical problem

Airport officials say the Boeing 737 was taking

off from Bush Intercontinental Airport to Denver

at around 6 am Monday when the planes crew

spotted a possible mechanical malfunction and

the pilot slammed the brakes

Two of the planes tires blew out as the aircraft

came to a stop

No injuries were reported among the 164

passengers and six crew members

Passengers got off the plane were taken back

to a terminal and later boarded another aircraft

that left for Denver

It was not immediately known what mechanical

problem the plane might have experienced

httpseekingalphacom

Max in place of Airbus CEO says737 Qatar Airways considering Boeing

purchasing a Qatar Airways says it is in talks about

Max aircraft 737 ) 61+BAof Boeing (large number

amid a dispute with Airbus

over unresolved ) OTCPKEADSYOTCPKEADSF(

faults with its A320neo model

The airline which has canceled delivery of one

A320neo due to glitches with engines made by Pratt

until the will continue rejecting the planeamp Whitney

issues are fixed CEO Akbar Al Baker said today at

the Farnborough International Airshow

The airline CEO also is concerned about delivery

rates of Airbusrsquos A350 wide-body and says he is not

sure that Airbus will be able to meet its target of

handing more than 50 of the model to customers this

year

httpwwwbloombergcom

neos320s in Place of A737Boeing 30 Qatar Airways Looks at Up to

Qatar Airways is in discussions about purchasing as many as

30 Boeing Co 737 airliners amid a dispute with Airbus Group

SE over unresolved faults with its A320neo model

The carrier which has canceled delivery of one A320neo due to

glitches with engines made by Pratt amp Whitney will continue

rejecting the plane until the issues are fixed Chief Executive

Officer Akbar Al Baker said Monday at the Farnborough

International Airshow outside London The No 2 Persian Gulf

airline is focusing on potentially switching planes and hasnrsquot

made progress on talks about swapping to the A320neorsquos

alternative engine made by the CFM venture of General Electric

Co and Safran SA he said

Qatar Airways is looking at both the NG and the upcoming

Max versions of the single-aisle 737 Al Baker said The

Max scheduled to enter service in 2017 will be Boeingrsquos

direct rival to the A320neo and any inroads by the US

planemaker would be a coup Airbus has said that United

Technologies Corprsquos Pratt has begun supplying engines that

have fixed the cooling flaws and will begin delivering planes

equipped with those powerplants this month

The airline is also concerned about delivery rates of Airbusrsquos

A350 wide-body Al Baker said adding that he isnrsquot sure the

European manufacturer will be able to meet its target of

handing over 50 of the model to customers this year Qatar

Airways has only received one A350 out of 10 scheduled to

be delivered this year

httpmgdnonlinecom

A Qatar Airways flight bound to Doha from Oslo

Norway made an emergency landing in the

Romanian capital of Bucharest yesterday (July

9 )due to a fault in one of its engines said a

report

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner which was carrying

some 254 passengers was forced to change

course one hour into the flight and was diverted

to Bucharests Henri Coanda International

Airport Doha Newsreported

A replacement aircraft was dispatched to

Bucharest and the flight resumed its course

following an almost 12-hour delay

The new plane also a 787 landed in Doha at

425am this morning the report said

Qatar Business

Qatar Airways flight makes emergency landing in

Romania

atnaero

nd IATA AGM and World Air Transport Summit72

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) opened its 72nd

Annual General Meeting (AGM) and World Air Transport Summit in

Dublin Ireland

―Ireland is a great aviation country and the perfect location for the

industryrsquos leaders to meet Aviation is a force for good This year

airlines will safely transport 38 billion passengers and 52 million

tonnes of cargo That will stimulate economies and spread prosperity

But aviation faces challenges in providing the safe secure efficient

and sustainable connectivity that the world depends on The next two

days are an opportunity to work together as an industry to make flying

even better said Tony Tyler IATArsquos Director General and CEO

In his keynote address Dr Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu President of the

Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) said

―IATA and ICAO have enjoyed several decades of productive colla

boration

More recently wersquove been engaged on a number of important priorities

including among others

bullFlight tracking procedures

bullConflict zone risk management

bullThe safe integration of remotely-piloted and suborbital flight

operations

bullCybersecurity preparedness

bullIncreased airspace capacity and operational efficiency

bullThe safe carriage of lithium batteries

bullAnd of course the environment

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IATA has been a great ally in ICAOrsquos efforts to ensure that the decisions

of our Member States are forward-looking and in

line with the current and future needs of the industry

Report of Tony Tyler on the Air Transport Industry

―International civil aviation can greatly help to create and preserve

friendship and understanding among the nations and peoples of the

world

From the beginning both governments and industry conceived aviation

as a force for good

Aviation makes our world a better place In doing so it supports 63

million jobs and underpins 35 of global GDP

Airlines are engines of prosperity But they have long struggled to turn a

profit and reward investors That is beginning to change

This year we expect a collective net profit of $394 billion It will be only

the second year in our historymdashand the second in a rowmdashin which

airlines will make an aggregate return in excess of the cost of capital

After decades of capital destruction thatrsquos a significant achievement

But it is still just the minimum performance that investors expect

On average airlines will make $1042 for each passenger carried

Overall despite generally adverse economic conditions it is a good

time for the air transport industry

-Consumers are getting great deals and lots of choice

-Investors are beginning to see reasonable rewards for the capital

they risk

-And airlines are able to make critical investments and shore-up their

resilience by paying down debtmdashalthough it will take several years of

solid profitability to fix most balance sheets properly

2

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Our success as an industry rests on areas where we work together

the foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability Each is strong but not without challenges

In bringing my remarks to a close I want to reflect on the power of

partnership

Partnership is essential for the continuous reinforcement of the

foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability

Itrsquos also important for our 264 members and the entire value chain to

work together Because together we can send a proud message that

aviation is a force for good And we can do more good when tax

burdens and infrastructure constraints are removed and when the

principles of Smarter Regulation are applied properly

The framework for our modern industry was built by governments and

airlines with a common vision that safe regular and economical air

transport would benefit the peoples of the world by creating and

preserving friendships and understanding With more than 100 years

of history behind us we can confidently say that aviation has made the

world a better place

We have done that by unleashing an irreversible and ever-more

accessible capability to explore the world in which we live to improve

our lives with unprecedented mobility and to grow prosperity by doing

business globally

People are thirsty for the opportunities that aviation makes possible

Every day we safely transport ten million people and 140000 tonnes of

cargo We are not just connecting people and shifting goods our

work is building a better future for the peoples of the world

Aviationrsquos potential has never been more inspiring We are privileged

to lead an industry that is a force for good

3

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At the CEO Panel Insight Debate discussion moderated by Richard Quest the

following CEOs participated Bernard Gustin CEO Brussels Airlines (BG) Ed

Bastian CEO Delta Air Lines (ED) Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group and Charamporn Jotikasthira

President of Thai Airways the issue of the security and aircraft tracking was

discussed in the view of the Brussels terrorist attack and the Egyptair 804 flight

going down into the water

The Brussels Airlines CEO said that the Brussels disaster which came after a

very good year for the airlines gave him the opportunity to experience the

amazing reaction of the airlinersquo s staff and the importance of aviation as

Brussels remained 12 days without an airport Being members of the Lufthansa

group they were able to put the long haul to Zurich and Frankfurt and useδ

provincial airport in Liege and Antwerp for local traffic When asked whether

security needs to be readdressed he answered that the risk arose before

security checks and this has to be solved with the Intelligence systems They

imposed after the disaster some extremely strong measures only to realize after

a few days that they were not appropriate He added that they need to continue

to analyze the security process and do risk analysis but have pertinent

measures and apply them consistently across the board

In the US on the other hand the situation is different the security procedures

imposed by the TSA make passengers be delayed or misconnected The

problem has taken such extent that many airports are considering replacing or

supplanting TSA When asked Ed Bastian CEO for Delta Air Lines said that

they have realized the problem and that they will deal with that and added that

they as an airline did a lot to manage the issue they innovated queuing process

in Atlanta that they paid for themselves which is going to have 50 reduction

in how long it takes travelers to get through checkpoints

As the question of security in Asia has again been raised in terms of its being

efficient and effective or not Charamporn Jotikasthira President of Thai

Airways agreed that there is a need to improve over time as there are ways to

hack systems there is a need for a system that can detect faster more

accurately with more quality

Jayne Hrdlicka CEO of Jetstar Group answered questions related to the

investment of low-cost airlines in security She answered that it is the airlinersquos

job to ensure that the security that is provided for in the airports they operate

meets the standards that we have set for ourselves Since in several of the

airports they are operating in the situation is not to these standards they take

responsibility for the safety and security of their people and customers to make

sure that the standards are consistent across the network

4

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Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline in his turn when expressing

his view on about aviation security in general he said that the industry

is not doing enough although there have been so many wake up calls in

the last couple of years He said that it is easy for government agencies

and organizations to blame on austerity their inability to fund the

security apparatus and the systems and procedures but the aviation

industry has to come up with a new set of protocols that ensure

security for the travelling public and consumers The industry has to

cooperate with governmental agencies to identify the possibilities of

people actually doing such attacks He added that industry has to adopt

far more readily the technological advances that are being made

available to streamline the processes but at the same time increase the

level of scrutiny He stressed the need for flow of information between

countries so as to have a more homogeneous intelligence service

When asked about airline tracking he admitted that the fact that the

problems in trying to locate an aircraft that has had a major incidence

―is a disgrace― These incidents impose on the industry a need to be

able to track aircraft at every point on their journey which as he said

Emirates does anyway within 15-20 minutes they know where all the

airlinersquos aircraft are where they fly or on the ground at the same

time He added that the manufacturers too need to come up with the

data records both CVR and cockpit voice recorders and flight data

recorders that have to be far more robust able to survive intact and

with much more power to develop beacons and locating systems in

very remote areas on the sea or in the river

When faced with the remark that six years have passed since the flight

370 incident and still the industry is unable to locate missing aircraft

and many experts argue that the airlines are reluctant to spend the

money on tracking and streaming of data they all agreed that it is not a

financial issue and the only question is a question of governance The

industry has to come to a consensus and agree on common standards

for example at what frequency the aircraft will be sending it out tracking

information the industry is waiting for an ICAO solution that everyone

is going to adopt They all agreed though that irrespective of the cost it

has to be done because as Sir Tim Clark put it ―Not to do it is

delinquency

5

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When Richard Quest asked them about results and yields because airlines seem to

be that making good money they all claim the yield is under pressure and to

comment on the influence of the lower fuel price Ed Bastian said that capacity has

grown over the last few years driven by the dramatic reduction in oil prices The

pressure seen on yield is a reflection of the growing capacity He commented he

does not focus only on yield but looks at other aspects and metrics to understand

the underlying health of the industry demand is very strong especially in the US and

fuel prices are stabilizing and the airline making record margins

Bernard Gustin said when fuel prices gets up again the airlines will not be able to put

it back in the yield so they need to keep a business plan both with the current fuel

price as well as with the old fuel price especially in their case since their competitors

in Brussels are low cost carriers such as Ryanair and Easyjet

When Jetstarrsquos CEO was asked whether there is unconstrained growth of capacity

she answered that the growth of capacity ahead of underlying demand is not

irrational when margins are attractive and costs well managed and strong return in

invested capital

Sir Tim Clark said that the true causes behind yield suppression need to be

examined The lowering of the fuel prices was good news but they failed to foresee

that the corporate sectors that drive many of the upper echelons of the yield will go

with the oil prices That brought us some difficulties Then there was a currency

issue the strength of the US as the airline generates a large part of income on

currencies that move south of the dollar that affected the yield too Third the

addition of capacity means extension of the revenue of greater distances which

causes yield dilution On the other hand while there is flat line projection for global

economy demand for airtravel is increasing at 6 7 8 in several areas including the

Middle East there is also an explosion of growth in the US domestic market This

means the airline backfills inventory with more passengers because demand is there

Their airline needs to adjust its business to the practical long-term change and this is

low yield the airline can do it He announced that Emirates will 14 more A380s to

their fleet of 79

Thai Airwaysrsquos President said that their problem was of a different nature as they

unable to fill the aircraft as much as the others and their load factors were 4-5

lower than the average they will first fix that and and then deal with the other

problems

When the discussion turned to the question whether there will more manufactures of

aircraft and more choice in the future Ed Bastian supported Deltarsquos decision to buy

CS100s Bombardier and commented that they have been long time customers of

their small and larger regional jets because they technologically and engine-wise

efficient and reliable and they were given good financial terms He also predicted that

more airlines will consider acquiring Bombardier C-series aircraft

6

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As Emirates are mostly wide body operator Sir Tim Clark said

they already have good choice between Boeing and Airbus

which answer their needs with regard to the mission and the

type of product the airline wants to offer He wished ―good

luck to any manufacturer wishing to enter the market them if

they get over the barriers to entry

Jane Hrdlicka said she expects see innovation coming in in the

form of technology of the airframe and a strong Chinese

manufacturer which means there will be more choice in two

decades from now than today

Then Richard Quest asked questions each airline individually

He asked whether Brussels Airlines will be around in two years

from now Bernand Gustin the airline will be there and will have

the same operation model but more powerful with the power of

a major aviation group Lufthansa group behind it In the past

airlines had to choose to be point-to-point or connecting Low

cost or service airline bur Brussels airline We tries to reconcile

those dimensions and they have positioned themselves a

hybrid airline People do not want to pay but they want a level

of service and even the low cost carriers are investing now in

service As for the name of airline he said that the airline will be

called what has value for the customer as it has been proven

with the airlinersquos Africa routes The airline played a crucial role

during the Ebola crisis and has gained its value as a brand in

Africa that it did not have before when it was Sabena He

stressed that a brand is something that responds to a customer

need a brand name that responds best to the Belgian customer

the European customer and the African customer and the US

customers which are the markets the airlines serves

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Thai Airwaysrsquo president was asked about the airlinersquos strategy to deal with

their problems He answered that they have a two-year reform programme

they have already achieved a profit margin 12 on sales so they are on track

reform plan They intend to remain a full service carrier with a major very

efficient hub He added that they realised after following the developments of

the last years that the ecosystem has been changing a lot as all demand

coming into Thailand has been point-to-point to secondary cities They

operate in one the fastest growing regions in terms of demand near India

and China but the demand is becoming point-to-point which means that the

model that the airline was following in the past has to be changed When

asked whether they will need a partner and more particularly a Gulf partner to

do your long haul European routes he answered that if the market is India

China and Asia and there is going to be more and more point-to-point service

they will have to be bigger They may need partners of some sort some form

of alliance but I this alliance will not be as the ones of the past In the past a

big airline in Europe a big airline in Japan could connect throughout the

world but this area is a non-united area there are many states there is

Myanmar Thailand Vietnam so the partnership will most probably be

bilateral

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group was asked how Qantas managed so

successfully to incorporate a low-cost or a low-fare branch as some call it

She answered that they did it by really understanding their customers and

recognising that there is a part of the market that is hungry for full service and

is prepared to pay a premium to get it but there is an equal part of the market

that was not able to travel because the fares were too high and would prefer

choice on how they travel and be able to pay for what they use What they

have done is effectively build a new brand that focuses squarely on that

customer group and have protected the integrity by not trying to blur the line

and keeping them very separate operationally commercially and

strategically

Bernand Gustin was asked again whether Lufthansa has considered an

arrangement with an LCC for feed and he answered that first the airline needs

to substantially reduce its cost to be price competitive and this what they

have done There is no choice about that But as they come from a service

heritage airline and given that they will never be a cost leader they try to keep

a differentiation on service a service that really people want So they have

played on connectivity on the network and on the Belgian brand There is a

wish to have a specific brand As there are other very strong brands within the

Lufthansa group if they want to go further they need to have the power of the

group to be able to further reduce the cost to get the commercial critical

mass outside of Belgium Thatrsquos where the right mix needs to be found

8

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Deltarsquos CEO was asked How a giant airline accommodates the new reality

of all those LCCs Ot which he answered that they do it through

segmentation within the aircraft they have introduced a product called

―basic economy for price sensitive types of travelling within the US

They are still experimenting with it as it is relatively new and the

technology solution on it is complicated Within the two they have to

accommodate the low fare end and the highly sensitive business

traveller that is willing to pay a premium and a couple of stages between

the two But it a much wider question the airline needs to find who he

wants to be so they have moved upscale they are not a commodity

player and they generated a 10 premium in relation to the other US

carriers He stressed that ―If we were to be a commodity player we would

not be around today He admits that they have to accommodate a

commodity component for the travel sector but they are not a

commodity As the carry two million passengers a year that pay a 10

premium on average they have proven our point

Jetstarrsquos CEP pointed that both fares are not commoditised any more

Airlines have to look at what customers want choice is definitely

important for all customers and choice for people who are looking for

value matters a lot She said that their airline also extracts a relative 15

premium in relation to competition because they do not view themselves

as a commodity product They invest heavily in the brand in the

experience in ways that the customers value and are prepared to pay for

it and give them the choice to custom design their experience

The Brussels Airlinesrsquos CEO added that segmentation and differentiation

is key When their airline starts with a start price of 39 euros one way and

has a very vocal pure low cost competitor at 21 euro for the same thing

the solution is to claim that it offers service as there is a whole heritage

that exists besides While the price is key people say ―I want to know

what I choose The pure commodity product that happened a few years

is going away but when there is a heritage of service that can help you

differentiate yourself then there is potential to make the difference

Brussels has all the LCCs of the world but Brussels Airlines grew by 30

more in the last two years

9

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Richard Quest then turned to Emirates CEO and asked him how they

accomodate with the LCCs that can offer feed from them into their long

haul services Sir Tim Clark answered that LCCs are here to stay they

continue to grow their business they have been a significant player in

the way civil aviation has developed in the last years giving consumers

a very good choice As long as the air industry business keeps the

consumers at the heart of the business and it does what they are

guiding to do then there is place for everybody The

differentiation whether it is between low cost and full service long haul

or short haul is something the industry has to adapt to accept and

encourage It is part of civil aviation After all it is the travelling public

who benefits from LCC existence The legacy carriers as they are

called have to adapt and work with them In terms of establishing a

lower cost arm for Emirates he answered ―no but he added that they

would work with them and they do They have very good relationships

with the Low Cost operators because they bring lots more people into

the market the whole principle was tapping incipient demand that

could not afford the levels of fares that were available prior to their

existence What they did is that they brought efficiency fleet efficiency

technological efficiency distribution efficiency and suddenly a new

branch of air transport industry was found ―To not work with makes no

sense

When asked about what new things they can offer to the upper end of

the market they all agreed that it is the soft goods that matter after all

Everyone can buy the hard goods but the airlines invest now in

relationship building Delta said its CEO can boast on its relationship

with corporate travelers and the fact they have one of the lowest

maintenance cancellation records They give the business traveler what

he needs dependability reliability quality to arrive on time with their

bags he added that there is a lot of technology and process behind it

but more than that a lot of willpower and culture

10

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Jetstarrsquos CEO said that invest a lot in their people both in full service

and in low cost training helping them to build skills relationships with

the customer Jetstar wants to enable customers to enjoy the ability of

pick and choose both to bundle and to unbundle

Emiratesrsquo CEO said that the airline spends an awful lot of time and

money on our premium product and the public knows about it and they

have always done that and they will continue to do it As soon as

things mature they will change to make things more interesting they

will be raising the bar for the consumers the business community

because ―we can do it

Panel discussion on Cyber Security

The panelists were Major General Linda Urrutia-Varhall the Assistant

Deputy Chief of Staff Director of National Intelligence for Aviation

Security in the US Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance the

Pentagon Washington DC Anja Kaspersen Head of International

Security for the World Economic Forum Alan Pellegrini CEO and

President of Thales USA Matthew Finn Managing Director of

Augmentiq Calin Rovinescu President and CEO of Air Canada and

Kurt Pipal FBI Assistant Legal Attache for US Embassy in the UK

They all agreed that aviation being a symbol of globalisation remains

an aspirational target for terrorists The interconnected nature of the

industry and interconnectibility of IT systems from baggage

movement to ticket kiosk and flight systems represent an ever growing

list of vulnerabilities and a whole brand new horizon of threats It is

however practically technologically and financially impossible to

address all the issues In the words of General Urrutia-Varhall the

interaction between actors threats and vulnerabilities can be viewed as

an ecosystem of forces in which ―we are as strong as our weakest link

No entity can go alone against these threats Airline industry

govenments domestic and international Intelligence community private

and public sectors should come together gather and share information

to characterise assess threats prioritise them and then act

appropriately

11

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Calin Rovinescu mentioned the ―very scary number that experts

estimate is the amount of damage caused last year by cyber hacks

was in the vicinity of US$500 million world wide and that 94

of global airlines had some form of cyber security breaches These

incidents were ―a real wake-up call for the industry Many of these

attacks were dealt with because airlines had good technology

protection but still these numbers make clear that as the industry

moves towards more automation seeking the interconnectiveness that

makes ir more efficient attack surfaces expand exponentially

Matthew Finn said businesses should look at security in a holistic way

He said there is currently a downward trend of documentation fraud

but an upward trend regarding identity theft

Alan Pellegrini said that the industy has seen recently an increasing

number of high profile hacks hacks in the wi-fi connectivity simply to

steal passenger information that is flowing over those networks a

hack into the ground systems of an airline to steal financial

transactions and information to collect the money the airline was

supposed to collect The threat is very real and although it has not

resulted to serious safety related issues it is resulting into serious

disrupting The fact that there has been no serious incident means

though that the industry is getting a lot of it right

Airlines now connect passengers to Wi-Fi on aircraft they add

connectivity to crews aircraft operations are connected on the

ground some are experimenting with cloud-based avionics controlling

aircraft operations The move towards more automation is inescepable

so the protection from cyber attackes To build such protection

requires a

a multi-year plan with responsibility at the highest level and

collaboration and information exchange between the aviation industry

and governments

12

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There are many technoloty tools Thales is working on to better protect

the connected aircraft but there is no ―silver bullet there is no one

piece of technology that is going to solve all the industry problems

because security is a process the same way threats are not static they

continue to evolve ―Technology is not done it continues monitoring

security operations centres are required to identify threats as they start

to materialize and to mitigate them and then go ahead and implement

addtional technology that is going to deal with new potential threats so

it is a continuous process

According to Calin Rovinescu ―No matter how complex and good

systems a company may have problems are not solved overnight and

aviation must develop a capability to respond and recover He pointed

out that aviation industry must look at and work with other industries

that have more maturity with cyber threats such as financial

institutions technology companies

The industry is very encouraged by the fact IATA is taking on this topic

to prevent serious disruption and perhaps safety issues later

Anja Kaspersen admitted that the threat is real but she added that there

is also ―fear mongering because of the commercial interests invested

in cyber security She stressed that the combination of ―ignorance and

unsubstantiated fear is dangerous and hampers preparedness She

cautioned airlines not to underestimate the psychological effect

should as as they live off their reputation Airlines have to respond to

customer expectations for security concerns

She added that aviation should work on the assumption that they

receiving both physical and cyber attacks and and therefore work on

how to protect the systems with more advanced software and develop

some translation tools to compare traditional and new risks

13

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Kurt Pipal pointed as airline companies possess and deal with huge

amounts of data they become by definition a target for industrial

espionage He cautioned companies to be very careful about

subcontractors which do necessarily rely on the same system

resilience He stressed the importance of sharing intelligence

information in the industry Build awareness and do not have a silo

approach Identify your vulnerabilities and make the assumption that

you are going to be hacked Participate in a 247 securities operation

centre and called the aviation to Occasionally even use a so-called

dark agent - a hacker to test your system Companies do fire drills so

why do they not do cyber security drills toolaquo

The Panel on the Climate Change Goals brought together

representatives from industry academia and NGOs to discuss the

progress on the climate change goals the aviation industry faces and

what is needed to reach them The industry has to achieve a goal of

climate neutral growth from 2020 but also the long-term target of cutting

net CO2 emissions by half by 2050 compared to 2005 levels

The panelists were Angela Gittens Director General of Airports Council

International Alan Joyce Qantas CEO Patrick de Castelbajac CEO of

aircraft manufacturer ATR John-Paul Clarke professor at Georgia

Institute of Technology and Tim Johnson of the International Coalition

for Sustainable Aviation

2050 might seeem a long way off but due to industry time lags therersquos

only around 10 years left to figure out how to reach the goal according

to John-Paul Clarke

They all agreed that the industry in all its supply chain-manufacturers

airports infrastructure airlines- must come together to work in a

concerted way to achieve how to go about achieveing these goals A

holistic perspective is needed as the industry stakeholders all are in

direct dependency and the example od a fuel efficient aircraft that

cannot operate efficiently because the air traffic management is not

efficient They stressed that sustainable development is not a question

of being politically correct any more but a condition of the future

existence of the industry ―there is no other way than being

environmentally respectful said Patrick de Castelbajac

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He added that aircraft manufacturers do consider now the

environmental impact of their aircraft at every stage from design

through to the eventual end-of-life disposal ―There is also a greater

convergence between economic and environmental interests which we

can see clearly on fuel burn he said

New technology and new management must be both environmentally

and economically sustainable

The panelists agreed that passengers are passsionate about it and do

want to offset the environmental impact of their flight Alan Joyce

said that one passenger every minute selects a voluntary offset

program

Angela Gittens said that Airports have adopted the Carbon

Accreditation Programme a programme that provides airports with a

common framework for active carbon management with measurable

goal-postsand 20 airports are already carbon neutral She added ICAO

and IATA should undertake the role of coordinating bodies which will

monitor assess and pace the progress It is necessary because ―If you

canrsquot measure it you canrsquot manage it

Continuous transparent monitoring of what is been done by an

independent entity would bring credibility according to John-

Paul Clarke

The panelists also agreed that ICAO and IATA will have to meet the

challenge of balancing the different levels of maturity in terms

of environmental measures around the globe in other words those that

move more quickly with those that have been left behind

15

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Joyce said the new ICAO aircraft CO2 standard would drive

advances in aircraft and engine technology He complained

that although there had been advances in navigation

technology and procedures - such as the traffic control

satellite navigation approaches to airports that saved his

airline up to 60000 tons of fuel - progress had been slow in

improving Air Traffic management and developing ATC

infrastructure

He insisted though on the role of biofuels He stressed that

more studies should be undertaken on biofuels to make sure

that they are produced in environmentally friendly way

―Biofuels are the only way we are going to get to our 2050

target Itrsquos a question of how we as an industry can cooperate

and how we can get governments interested enough to put a

policy framework in place to make that happen Their

development and insertion in the value chain will require RampD

and help from governments and other industrial sectors

He called his government to support the local alternative

fuels industry that creates new jobs and brings

environmental benefits

16

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Tim Johnson cautioned that it should not become

an ―accountancy exercise where we see one

gallon of biofuel uplifted to an aircraft or a tonne

of CO2 offset as the way we measure progress

adding it was important to move beyond

quantification and just emissions and consider

the wider sustainable development agenda

Investment decisions needed to be taken now to

reach the industryrsquos 2050 target he suggested

and clarity was needed on what should happen

and by when ICAO market-based measure is

perfoming well but there must be emphasis on the

other three pillars required for aviation emissions

reductions ndash aircraft technology operations and

infrastructure

17

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powered aircraft leaves Seville for Cairo-Solar

MADRID July 11 (Xinhua) -- The aircraft Solar Impulse

II powered completely by solar energy on Monday left

the Spanish city of Seville to attempt to land in

on WednesdayEgyptCairo

The route will be between 48 and 72 hours long

depending on weather conditions This will be the

penultimate flight of the plane that will travel to Abu

Dhabi afterwards

Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard who have

been working on the aircraft for more than a decade

will pilot the aircraft Borschberg will pilot the plane

from Seville to Cairo crossing seven countries after

which Piccard will fly to Abu Dhabi

Borschberg said that the trip was meaningful as it is

my last flight in this round-the-world epic I am happy

that were close to the end but also prudent knowing

that it is not done yet I have to stay really focused

SpainThe aircraft had been in Seville in the south of

for two weeks after successfully crossing the Atlantic

Ocean

Solar Impulse II is able to fly night and day without any

fossil fuel It travels at between 45 and 55 kmhour

reaching an altitude of 8500 meters The plane is wider

than a 747 jumbo jet and weighs 23 tons

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Russias New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

A grand unveiling of the Irkut MC-21-300 on June 8

established a relatively firm project timeline for the

160- to 212-seat narrowbody and marked a measure

of vindication for what many in the West have

disparaged as a fringe project In attendance at the

ceremony Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

spoke of the prestige the program has brought to

the country as well as its importance to helping

move its economy forward He also congratulated

Irkutrsquos employees for their role in shaping the future

of Russiarsquos return to prominence in commercial

aircraft manufacturing

Expecting the MC-21 to gain Russian certification in

2018 United Aircraft subsidiary Irkut had hoped to

fly the first airplane by the end of this year

However during the rollout ceremony Medvedev

referenced plans for first flight ―within a year

and UAC officials acknowledged that a previously

quoted target might prove optimistic unless all goes

exactly to plan Rather that milestone appears most

likely to happen in or around February 2017

according to aUAC spokesman

1

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Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

2

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Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

3

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While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

4

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Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

5

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Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

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هذ عبذ ب رؼشف ذ٣خ ثبر٢ ثؾاىئب اغ٤خ ؽذائوب اخالثخ عبؽبرب الغ٤ؾخ

اض٣بدح ك٢ غجخ اغ٤بػ از٣ رغزوج اذ٣خ خال اؼوذ األخ٤ش ك٢ ص٣بدح ػذد اجب٢

اؾذ٣ضخ ض البدم الخخ كئخ اخظ غ ازغؼبد اؼب٤خ از٢ رزبؿ ثزق٤ب

غ ز اذ٣خ اؼش٣وخ زؾ بكزح ري ػ٠ ربس٣خ ثبر٢ اـ٢

رؾظ٠ ثبر٢ ثأ٤خ اؼشث٤خ ي٤شاهب ػبد اؼ٢ اشئ٤ظ ازل٤ز١ غػخ

ؾ عؼذاء ثجذء سؽالرب ا٠ زب٤خ عخ ع٤بؽ٤خ ز٤ضح خبفخ خال أؽش اق٤ق

٣غشب خال اىالم ز اشؽالد ز اذ٣ رع٤غ ؽجخ عبرب م عسع٤ب

اغذ٣ذح ؼ اغبكش٣ غ اؼشث٤خ ي٤شا عاء ثـشك ازشك٤ أ األػب أؾبء

ايوخ اؼشث٤خ الشفخ ض٣بسح ز اعخ ا٤ضح ثبالمبكخ ا٠ اغبخ الؼبخ ك٢

هيبع اغ٤بؽخ االهزقبد اؾ٢

ثزغ٤٤ش سؽالد ٤٣خ إ٠ اؼبفخ رج٤غ٢ أجش ذ عسع٤ب از٢ اؼشث٤خ ي٤شارو

ثشصد ثغشػخ ك٢ اؾذ اغ٤بؽ٢ ك٢ أسثب ؽ٤ش أظش روش٣ش ظخ اغ٤بؽخ اؼب٤خ ؼب

أ عسع٤ب عغذ ص٣بدح ك٢ أػذاد اضائش٣ اذ٤٤ ثغجخ أجش أ١ ثذ أسث٢ 2014

آخش

ثذا ك٢ اؾشم 33عخ ك٢ 120رغ٤ش اؼشث٤خ ي٤شا سؽالرب ا٤ إ٠ أضش

األعو آع٤ب إكش٣و٤ب أسثب

wwwalbawabhnewscom

ب 990رظ سؽالد داخ٤خ رجذأ قش ي٤شا ع٤

ي٤شا زذؽ٤ أ أجش ؽالرب ازؾ٤ي٤خ خال اع قشرغزؼذ

رؾذ سػب٣خ ؽش٣ق كزؾ٢ ص٣ش قش ك٢إعبصري اق٤ل٢ اؾب٢ ثؼا

اذاخ٤خ اغ٤بؽخاي٤شا اذ٠ ثذف رؾ٤و دػ

إغجش٣ظ اغ٣خاشي اخيه غ٤بؽخريشػ ؽشبد قش ي٤شا

ثبزؼب غ ثؼل البدم اجش ثشبغب ع٤بؽ٤ب زبب ذح أسثؼخ أ٣ب

ع٤ب قش٣ب لبدم صالس غ 990 ثأعؼبس ربكغ٤خ رجذأ (صالس ٤ب)

ك٢ع٤ب لبدم خظ غ 1350ع٤ب لبدم أسثغ غ 1095

اـشدهخ األهقش ؽبخ رزاش اي٤شا اإلهبخ اؾ٤خ ؽش

أذ فلد غ سئ٤ظ غظ إداسح اؾشخ اوبثنخ قش ي٤شا

اؾ٤خرشر٤ت رظ٤ ز اجشاظ اغ٤بؽ٤خ جبؽشح غ البدم ثؾش

اوج رغزش اخ٤ظاـشدهخ األهقش اوشس أ رجذأ اػزجبسا

ؽز٠ اخبظ عجزجش ثؾ٤ش ٣غزي٤غ اؼالء االعزلغبس ؽغض اجشبظ

أ االرقب اشياوذ خال ص٣بسح كشع قش ي٤شا غ٤بؽخ

العززبع ثونبء 16175اخذخ از٤ل٤خ ازبثغ ب ػ٠ سه شضػ٠

ػيالر ك٢ ري اذ اغ٤بؽ٤خ اغبؽشح

أمبف أ قش ي٤شا رزا ػ روذ٣ اض٣ذ اؼشك ؼالئب

اشا داخ قش خبسعب خبفخ اؼشك ازش٣غ٤خ بىن اغزة

اغ٤بؽ٠ ثبجالد دػب ب ؾشخ اغ٤بؽخ

httpwwwelwatannewscom

ذ 3رين ثشبغب زؾ٤و اغ٤بؽخ اذاخ٤خ ثـ قش ي٤شا اخ٤ظ

زذؽ٤ أ أجش ؽالرب ازؾ٤ي٤خ خال اع اق٤ل٢ قش ي٤شارغزؼذ ؽشخ

ثشػب٣خ ؽش٣ق كزؾ٢ ص٣ش اي٤شا اذ٢إعبصري ك٢ قشاؾب٢ رؾذ ؽؼبس

إ ين قش ي٤شاهب فلد غ سئ٤ظ غظ إداسح اؾشخ اوبثنخ ـ

ؽشؿ اؾشخ ػ٠ أداء غؤ٤زب رغب اى ك٢ غب رؾ٤و دػ اغ٤بؽخ اذاخ٤خ إ٠

بىن اغزة اغ٤بؽ٢ اقش٣خ ريشػ ؽشبرب غ٤بؽخ اشي اخيه اغ٣خ

3أ٣ب ثـ 4إغجش٣ظ ثبزؼب غ ثؼل البدم اجش ثشبغب ع٤بؽ٤ب زبال ذح

4ع٤ب لبدم 1095غ 3 ع٤ب لبدم ٤990ب ثأعؼبس ربكغ٤خ رجذأ

غ ك٢ ؽش اؾ٤خ اـشدهخ األهقش ؽبخ رزاش 5ع٤ب لبدم 1350غ

اي٤شا اإلهبخ

رشرت رظ ز اجشاظ قش ي٤شاأمبف غ ك٢ ث٤ب فؾل٢ ا٤ أ

اغ٤بؽ٤خ جبؽشح غ البدم ثؾش اؾ٤خ اـشدهخ األهقش ؾ٤شا إ٠ أ اوشس أ

عجزجش اوج ؾ٤شا إ٠ أ 5رجذأ اشؽالد اػزجبسا اخ٤ظ اوج رغزش ؽز٠

قش اؼالء ثوذس االعزلغبس ؽغض اجشبظ اوذ خال ص٣بسح كشع ؽشخ

غ٤بؽخ اشي أ االرقب ػ٠ شض اخذخ از٤ل٤خ ازبثغ ب ػ٠ سه ي٤شا

العززبع ثونبء ػيالر ك٢ ري اذ اغ٤بؽ٤خ اغبؽشح16175

ربثغ أ اؾشخ رزا٠ ػ روذ٣ اض٣ذ اؼشك ؼالئب اشا داخ قش

خبسعب خبفخ اؼشك ازش٣غ٤خ بىن اغزة اغ٤بؽ٢ دػب ب ؾشخ اغ٤بؽخ

عز ؾق قذس ثصاسح اغ٤بؽخ أ اصاسح رذػ ري اجبدساد از٢ رذف إ٠

رؾ٤و ؽشخ اغ٤بؽخ اذاخ٤خ رؼ ػ٠ إؼبػ البدم اعزشاس اؼ ثب خبفخ ك٢

ب٣ ابم٢ قش ك٢ هثباذ اغ٤بؽ٤خ ب ثأ ثؼذ ازبء اؼ ثجبدسح

اعخ زؾ٤و اغ٤بؽخ اذاخ٤خ ؼذ عد خققبد ب٤خ غت اإلؽـب ثزي اذ

ك٢ رشاعغ غزش اؼذ٣ذ البدم أؿوذ أثاثب ب ثأ اصاسح رذػ أ١ جبدساد

ززؾ٤و اؾشخ اغ٤بؽ٤خ ااكذح إ٠ اذ اقش٣خ عاء ع٤بؽخ داخ٤خ أ غزغجخ

اخبسط

httpwwwyoum7com

اغخ ال٤خ عزقذس زبئظ عذ٣ذح ؽ ايبئشح اثخ خال ص٣ش اي٤شا

أعبث٤غ

أذ ؽش٣ق كزؾ٠ ص٣ش اي٤شا أ ازؾ٤الد ال٤خ ثؾأ ايبئشح اقش٣خ

اثخ بصاذ عبس٣خ عبس ؽب٤ب اشثو ث٤ اؼبد أعضح ازغغ٤

اخزلخ ؾ٤شا إ٠ أ خال األعبث٤غ اوجخ عزقذس اغخ ث٤بب ؽ ثؼل

بصب غزش٣ ك٠ اجؾش ازبئظ از٠ عززف ب ز٤غخ زا اشثو ن٤لب

ػ أؽالء انؾب٣ب هب ثذ اؼ ثغل٤خ اجؾش ضب٠ شح عؼب يبم

اجؾش شر٤ ؽز٠ ٣ م٤شب شربؽب زشى أ٣خ اؽالء ألب غئ٤خ

أؽذاس أمبف ص٣ش اي٤شا خال ذاخخ برل٤خ غ ثشبظ أخاله٤خ

ػذب ؾخ وق ا٤ االص٤ ابسازاع ػ٠ كنبئ٤خ ابس

مؾب أ ايبئشح وب ري ٤ظ ب٣خ اؼب كبى د ض٤شح رلؼ ري

أ ؽشخ قش ي٤شا أعشد 100خشعذ بب ثزوش٣ش ك٠

هج اقؼد أ٣ ا٠ ص ب هب ازبةاق٤بخ ػ٠ أ ع ثؼ٠

إ٠ أب اعزيؼب إثشا ارلبه٤بد كزؾ٠أؽبس د عبثن ألا ؽق كم

غ كبدم ثؾش اؾ٤خ اـشدهخ زؾ٤و اغ٤بؽخ غزض األهقش أعا

مؾب أ اخيح اوبدخ ع٤ رؾ٤و إعبصري ك٠ قش ثشبظ

أذ ص٣ش اي٤شا أ اغ٤بؽخ اخبسط اجشبظ ؽب٤ب ثبألعؼبس اؾ٤خ

غزشح ثؼذ اق٤ق أب هب ثبجبدسح دػب إعبصري ك٠ قشجبدسح

غ٤بؽخ ثؼ٤ذا ػ اشثؼ أع رؾش٣ي ا٤ب اشاذح رؾ٤و اغ٤بؽخ

إ ؽبء اذاخ٤خ ؾ٤شا إ٠ أ قش ي٤شا رغزخذ إب٤برب به هبئال

أ٠ خياد ازؾ٤و ثبزؼب غ صاسح إعبصري ك٠ قشاهلل عف ر

اغ٤بؽخ

wwwalbawabhnewscom

قش ي٤شاؽش روالد ثبخذبد اغ٣خ ك٢

اوبثنخ قش ي٤شا هشاسا اؾشخأفذس فلد غ سئ٤ظ

قش ي٤شا ثؾشخثؾش روالد رشه٤بد داخ٤خ عذ٣ذح

ك٢ أع ري٣ش اؼ إؽال دبء ؽبثخ اغ٣خخذبد

اهغ ه٤بد٣خ ػذ٣ذح

قت غبػذ سئ٤ظ غظ إداسح اخذبد دعه٠ر٠ ىبسم

٤بص سأكذ سئ٤ظ هيبع ازؾـ٤ خلب ثؼذ أ ب اغ٣خ

٣ؾـ قت ذ٣ش ػب اؾشػبد اخبص

ذ٣ش ػب ازخي٤و قت ذ٣ش ػب إداسح اؾ٤خب ر٠ ىبسم

اخبص ث٤ب ر٠ ؽبص ػجذ اشؽ ذ٣ش إداسح اؼ٤بد

قت ذ٣ش إداسح از٣ ؽـ ؽه٠ اؾؾبد قت ذ٣ش

ثؼذ أ ب ٣ؾـ قت ذ٣ش إداسح إلزبطاإلداسح اؼب

از٣ ثبؾشخ

httpwwwheavyliftpficom

Qatar Airways flying high

July 11 - Qatar Airways Cargo has reported a record

2016 fiscal year growing to the third-largest cargo

operator in the word and increasing its freighter

destinations to 54

Qatar Airways Cargo added Dallas Budapest Prague

Ho Chi Minh City and New York to its network in the

period ending March 31 2016 increasing its available

tonnage worldwide Its fleet is expected to grow to 22

aircraft by 2017

Overall Qatar Airways Group posted an operating

profit of QAR3 billion (USD823 million) for the 2016

fiscal year - nearly three times higher than its 2015

fiscal year profit

httpwwwdallasnewscom

United Airlines plane blows two tires when pilot halts takeoff in Houston

A United Airlines plane blew out two of its tires

when a pilot abruptly stopped its takeoff from a

Houston airport due to concerns about a

possible mechanical problem

Airport officials say the Boeing 737 was taking

off from Bush Intercontinental Airport to Denver

at around 6 am Monday when the planes crew

spotted a possible mechanical malfunction and

the pilot slammed the brakes

Two of the planes tires blew out as the aircraft

came to a stop

No injuries were reported among the 164

passengers and six crew members

Passengers got off the plane were taken back

to a terminal and later boarded another aircraft

that left for Denver

It was not immediately known what mechanical

problem the plane might have experienced

httpseekingalphacom

Max in place of Airbus CEO says737 Qatar Airways considering Boeing

purchasing a Qatar Airways says it is in talks about

Max aircraft 737 ) 61+BAof Boeing (large number

amid a dispute with Airbus

over unresolved ) OTCPKEADSYOTCPKEADSF(

faults with its A320neo model

The airline which has canceled delivery of one

A320neo due to glitches with engines made by Pratt

until the will continue rejecting the planeamp Whitney

issues are fixed CEO Akbar Al Baker said today at

the Farnborough International Airshow

The airline CEO also is concerned about delivery

rates of Airbusrsquos A350 wide-body and says he is not

sure that Airbus will be able to meet its target of

handing more than 50 of the model to customers this

year

httpwwwbloombergcom

neos320s in Place of A737Boeing 30 Qatar Airways Looks at Up to

Qatar Airways is in discussions about purchasing as many as

30 Boeing Co 737 airliners amid a dispute with Airbus Group

SE over unresolved faults with its A320neo model

The carrier which has canceled delivery of one A320neo due to

glitches with engines made by Pratt amp Whitney will continue

rejecting the plane until the issues are fixed Chief Executive

Officer Akbar Al Baker said Monday at the Farnborough

International Airshow outside London The No 2 Persian Gulf

airline is focusing on potentially switching planes and hasnrsquot

made progress on talks about swapping to the A320neorsquos

alternative engine made by the CFM venture of General Electric

Co and Safran SA he said

Qatar Airways is looking at both the NG and the upcoming

Max versions of the single-aisle 737 Al Baker said The

Max scheduled to enter service in 2017 will be Boeingrsquos

direct rival to the A320neo and any inroads by the US

planemaker would be a coup Airbus has said that United

Technologies Corprsquos Pratt has begun supplying engines that

have fixed the cooling flaws and will begin delivering planes

equipped with those powerplants this month

The airline is also concerned about delivery rates of Airbusrsquos

A350 wide-body Al Baker said adding that he isnrsquot sure the

European manufacturer will be able to meet its target of

handing over 50 of the model to customers this year Qatar

Airways has only received one A350 out of 10 scheduled to

be delivered this year

httpmgdnonlinecom

A Qatar Airways flight bound to Doha from Oslo

Norway made an emergency landing in the

Romanian capital of Bucharest yesterday (July

9 )due to a fault in one of its engines said a

report

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner which was carrying

some 254 passengers was forced to change

course one hour into the flight and was diverted

to Bucharests Henri Coanda International

Airport Doha Newsreported

A replacement aircraft was dispatched to

Bucharest and the flight resumed its course

following an almost 12-hour delay

The new plane also a 787 landed in Doha at

425am this morning the report said

Qatar Business

Qatar Airways flight makes emergency landing in

Romania

atnaero

nd IATA AGM and World Air Transport Summit72

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) opened its 72nd

Annual General Meeting (AGM) and World Air Transport Summit in

Dublin Ireland

―Ireland is a great aviation country and the perfect location for the

industryrsquos leaders to meet Aviation is a force for good This year

airlines will safely transport 38 billion passengers and 52 million

tonnes of cargo That will stimulate economies and spread prosperity

But aviation faces challenges in providing the safe secure efficient

and sustainable connectivity that the world depends on The next two

days are an opportunity to work together as an industry to make flying

even better said Tony Tyler IATArsquos Director General and CEO

In his keynote address Dr Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu President of the

Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) said

―IATA and ICAO have enjoyed several decades of productive colla

boration

More recently wersquove been engaged on a number of important priorities

including among others

bullFlight tracking procedures

bullConflict zone risk management

bullThe safe integration of remotely-piloted and suborbital flight

operations

bullCybersecurity preparedness

bullIncreased airspace capacity and operational efficiency

bullThe safe carriage of lithium batteries

bullAnd of course the environment

1

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IATA has been a great ally in ICAOrsquos efforts to ensure that the decisions

of our Member States are forward-looking and in

line with the current and future needs of the industry

Report of Tony Tyler on the Air Transport Industry

―International civil aviation can greatly help to create and preserve

friendship and understanding among the nations and peoples of the

world

From the beginning both governments and industry conceived aviation

as a force for good

Aviation makes our world a better place In doing so it supports 63

million jobs and underpins 35 of global GDP

Airlines are engines of prosperity But they have long struggled to turn a

profit and reward investors That is beginning to change

This year we expect a collective net profit of $394 billion It will be only

the second year in our historymdashand the second in a rowmdashin which

airlines will make an aggregate return in excess of the cost of capital

After decades of capital destruction thatrsquos a significant achievement

But it is still just the minimum performance that investors expect

On average airlines will make $1042 for each passenger carried

Overall despite generally adverse economic conditions it is a good

time for the air transport industry

-Consumers are getting great deals and lots of choice

-Investors are beginning to see reasonable rewards for the capital

they risk

-And airlines are able to make critical investments and shore-up their

resilience by paying down debtmdashalthough it will take several years of

solid profitability to fix most balance sheets properly

2

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Our success as an industry rests on areas where we work together

the foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability Each is strong but not without challenges

In bringing my remarks to a close I want to reflect on the power of

partnership

Partnership is essential for the continuous reinforcement of the

foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability

Itrsquos also important for our 264 members and the entire value chain to

work together Because together we can send a proud message that

aviation is a force for good And we can do more good when tax

burdens and infrastructure constraints are removed and when the

principles of Smarter Regulation are applied properly

The framework for our modern industry was built by governments and

airlines with a common vision that safe regular and economical air

transport would benefit the peoples of the world by creating and

preserving friendships and understanding With more than 100 years

of history behind us we can confidently say that aviation has made the

world a better place

We have done that by unleashing an irreversible and ever-more

accessible capability to explore the world in which we live to improve

our lives with unprecedented mobility and to grow prosperity by doing

business globally

People are thirsty for the opportunities that aviation makes possible

Every day we safely transport ten million people and 140000 tonnes of

cargo We are not just connecting people and shifting goods our

work is building a better future for the peoples of the world

Aviationrsquos potential has never been more inspiring We are privileged

to lead an industry that is a force for good

3

atnaero

At the CEO Panel Insight Debate discussion moderated by Richard Quest the

following CEOs participated Bernard Gustin CEO Brussels Airlines (BG) Ed

Bastian CEO Delta Air Lines (ED) Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group and Charamporn Jotikasthira

President of Thai Airways the issue of the security and aircraft tracking was

discussed in the view of the Brussels terrorist attack and the Egyptair 804 flight

going down into the water

The Brussels Airlines CEO said that the Brussels disaster which came after a

very good year for the airlines gave him the opportunity to experience the

amazing reaction of the airlinersquo s staff and the importance of aviation as

Brussels remained 12 days without an airport Being members of the Lufthansa

group they were able to put the long haul to Zurich and Frankfurt and useδ

provincial airport in Liege and Antwerp for local traffic When asked whether

security needs to be readdressed he answered that the risk arose before

security checks and this has to be solved with the Intelligence systems They

imposed after the disaster some extremely strong measures only to realize after

a few days that they were not appropriate He added that they need to continue

to analyze the security process and do risk analysis but have pertinent

measures and apply them consistently across the board

In the US on the other hand the situation is different the security procedures

imposed by the TSA make passengers be delayed or misconnected The

problem has taken such extent that many airports are considering replacing or

supplanting TSA When asked Ed Bastian CEO for Delta Air Lines said that

they have realized the problem and that they will deal with that and added that

they as an airline did a lot to manage the issue they innovated queuing process

in Atlanta that they paid for themselves which is going to have 50 reduction

in how long it takes travelers to get through checkpoints

As the question of security in Asia has again been raised in terms of its being

efficient and effective or not Charamporn Jotikasthira President of Thai

Airways agreed that there is a need to improve over time as there are ways to

hack systems there is a need for a system that can detect faster more

accurately with more quality

Jayne Hrdlicka CEO of Jetstar Group answered questions related to the

investment of low-cost airlines in security She answered that it is the airlinersquos

job to ensure that the security that is provided for in the airports they operate

meets the standards that we have set for ourselves Since in several of the

airports they are operating in the situation is not to these standards they take

responsibility for the safety and security of their people and customers to make

sure that the standards are consistent across the network

4

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Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline in his turn when expressing

his view on about aviation security in general he said that the industry

is not doing enough although there have been so many wake up calls in

the last couple of years He said that it is easy for government agencies

and organizations to blame on austerity their inability to fund the

security apparatus and the systems and procedures but the aviation

industry has to come up with a new set of protocols that ensure

security for the travelling public and consumers The industry has to

cooperate with governmental agencies to identify the possibilities of

people actually doing such attacks He added that industry has to adopt

far more readily the technological advances that are being made

available to streamline the processes but at the same time increase the

level of scrutiny He stressed the need for flow of information between

countries so as to have a more homogeneous intelligence service

When asked about airline tracking he admitted that the fact that the

problems in trying to locate an aircraft that has had a major incidence

―is a disgrace― These incidents impose on the industry a need to be

able to track aircraft at every point on their journey which as he said

Emirates does anyway within 15-20 minutes they know where all the

airlinersquos aircraft are where they fly or on the ground at the same

time He added that the manufacturers too need to come up with the

data records both CVR and cockpit voice recorders and flight data

recorders that have to be far more robust able to survive intact and

with much more power to develop beacons and locating systems in

very remote areas on the sea or in the river

When faced with the remark that six years have passed since the flight

370 incident and still the industry is unable to locate missing aircraft

and many experts argue that the airlines are reluctant to spend the

money on tracking and streaming of data they all agreed that it is not a

financial issue and the only question is a question of governance The

industry has to come to a consensus and agree on common standards

for example at what frequency the aircraft will be sending it out tracking

information the industry is waiting for an ICAO solution that everyone

is going to adopt They all agreed though that irrespective of the cost it

has to be done because as Sir Tim Clark put it ―Not to do it is

delinquency

5

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When Richard Quest asked them about results and yields because airlines seem to

be that making good money they all claim the yield is under pressure and to

comment on the influence of the lower fuel price Ed Bastian said that capacity has

grown over the last few years driven by the dramatic reduction in oil prices The

pressure seen on yield is a reflection of the growing capacity He commented he

does not focus only on yield but looks at other aspects and metrics to understand

the underlying health of the industry demand is very strong especially in the US and

fuel prices are stabilizing and the airline making record margins

Bernard Gustin said when fuel prices gets up again the airlines will not be able to put

it back in the yield so they need to keep a business plan both with the current fuel

price as well as with the old fuel price especially in their case since their competitors

in Brussels are low cost carriers such as Ryanair and Easyjet

When Jetstarrsquos CEO was asked whether there is unconstrained growth of capacity

she answered that the growth of capacity ahead of underlying demand is not

irrational when margins are attractive and costs well managed and strong return in

invested capital

Sir Tim Clark said that the true causes behind yield suppression need to be

examined The lowering of the fuel prices was good news but they failed to foresee

that the corporate sectors that drive many of the upper echelons of the yield will go

with the oil prices That brought us some difficulties Then there was a currency

issue the strength of the US as the airline generates a large part of income on

currencies that move south of the dollar that affected the yield too Third the

addition of capacity means extension of the revenue of greater distances which

causes yield dilution On the other hand while there is flat line projection for global

economy demand for airtravel is increasing at 6 7 8 in several areas including the

Middle East there is also an explosion of growth in the US domestic market This

means the airline backfills inventory with more passengers because demand is there

Their airline needs to adjust its business to the practical long-term change and this is

low yield the airline can do it He announced that Emirates will 14 more A380s to

their fleet of 79

Thai Airwaysrsquos President said that their problem was of a different nature as they

unable to fill the aircraft as much as the others and their load factors were 4-5

lower than the average they will first fix that and and then deal with the other

problems

When the discussion turned to the question whether there will more manufactures of

aircraft and more choice in the future Ed Bastian supported Deltarsquos decision to buy

CS100s Bombardier and commented that they have been long time customers of

their small and larger regional jets because they technologically and engine-wise

efficient and reliable and they were given good financial terms He also predicted that

more airlines will consider acquiring Bombardier C-series aircraft

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As Emirates are mostly wide body operator Sir Tim Clark said

they already have good choice between Boeing and Airbus

which answer their needs with regard to the mission and the

type of product the airline wants to offer He wished ―good

luck to any manufacturer wishing to enter the market them if

they get over the barriers to entry

Jane Hrdlicka said she expects see innovation coming in in the

form of technology of the airframe and a strong Chinese

manufacturer which means there will be more choice in two

decades from now than today

Then Richard Quest asked questions each airline individually

He asked whether Brussels Airlines will be around in two years

from now Bernand Gustin the airline will be there and will have

the same operation model but more powerful with the power of

a major aviation group Lufthansa group behind it In the past

airlines had to choose to be point-to-point or connecting Low

cost or service airline bur Brussels airline We tries to reconcile

those dimensions and they have positioned themselves a

hybrid airline People do not want to pay but they want a level

of service and even the low cost carriers are investing now in

service As for the name of airline he said that the airline will be

called what has value for the customer as it has been proven

with the airlinersquos Africa routes The airline played a crucial role

during the Ebola crisis and has gained its value as a brand in

Africa that it did not have before when it was Sabena He

stressed that a brand is something that responds to a customer

need a brand name that responds best to the Belgian customer

the European customer and the African customer and the US

customers which are the markets the airlines serves

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Thai Airwaysrsquo president was asked about the airlinersquos strategy to deal with

their problems He answered that they have a two-year reform programme

they have already achieved a profit margin 12 on sales so they are on track

reform plan They intend to remain a full service carrier with a major very

efficient hub He added that they realised after following the developments of

the last years that the ecosystem has been changing a lot as all demand

coming into Thailand has been point-to-point to secondary cities They

operate in one the fastest growing regions in terms of demand near India

and China but the demand is becoming point-to-point which means that the

model that the airline was following in the past has to be changed When

asked whether they will need a partner and more particularly a Gulf partner to

do your long haul European routes he answered that if the market is India

China and Asia and there is going to be more and more point-to-point service

they will have to be bigger They may need partners of some sort some form

of alliance but I this alliance will not be as the ones of the past In the past a

big airline in Europe a big airline in Japan could connect throughout the

world but this area is a non-united area there are many states there is

Myanmar Thailand Vietnam so the partnership will most probably be

bilateral

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group was asked how Qantas managed so

successfully to incorporate a low-cost or a low-fare branch as some call it

She answered that they did it by really understanding their customers and

recognising that there is a part of the market that is hungry for full service and

is prepared to pay a premium to get it but there is an equal part of the market

that was not able to travel because the fares were too high and would prefer

choice on how they travel and be able to pay for what they use What they

have done is effectively build a new brand that focuses squarely on that

customer group and have protected the integrity by not trying to blur the line

and keeping them very separate operationally commercially and

strategically

Bernand Gustin was asked again whether Lufthansa has considered an

arrangement with an LCC for feed and he answered that first the airline needs

to substantially reduce its cost to be price competitive and this what they

have done There is no choice about that But as they come from a service

heritage airline and given that they will never be a cost leader they try to keep

a differentiation on service a service that really people want So they have

played on connectivity on the network and on the Belgian brand There is a

wish to have a specific brand As there are other very strong brands within the

Lufthansa group if they want to go further they need to have the power of the

group to be able to further reduce the cost to get the commercial critical

mass outside of Belgium Thatrsquos where the right mix needs to be found

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Deltarsquos CEO was asked How a giant airline accommodates the new reality

of all those LCCs Ot which he answered that they do it through

segmentation within the aircraft they have introduced a product called

―basic economy for price sensitive types of travelling within the US

They are still experimenting with it as it is relatively new and the

technology solution on it is complicated Within the two they have to

accommodate the low fare end and the highly sensitive business

traveller that is willing to pay a premium and a couple of stages between

the two But it a much wider question the airline needs to find who he

wants to be so they have moved upscale they are not a commodity

player and they generated a 10 premium in relation to the other US

carriers He stressed that ―If we were to be a commodity player we would

not be around today He admits that they have to accommodate a

commodity component for the travel sector but they are not a

commodity As the carry two million passengers a year that pay a 10

premium on average they have proven our point

Jetstarrsquos CEP pointed that both fares are not commoditised any more

Airlines have to look at what customers want choice is definitely

important for all customers and choice for people who are looking for

value matters a lot She said that their airline also extracts a relative 15

premium in relation to competition because they do not view themselves

as a commodity product They invest heavily in the brand in the

experience in ways that the customers value and are prepared to pay for

it and give them the choice to custom design their experience

The Brussels Airlinesrsquos CEO added that segmentation and differentiation

is key When their airline starts with a start price of 39 euros one way and

has a very vocal pure low cost competitor at 21 euro for the same thing

the solution is to claim that it offers service as there is a whole heritage

that exists besides While the price is key people say ―I want to know

what I choose The pure commodity product that happened a few years

is going away but when there is a heritage of service that can help you

differentiate yourself then there is potential to make the difference

Brussels has all the LCCs of the world but Brussels Airlines grew by 30

more in the last two years

9

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Richard Quest then turned to Emirates CEO and asked him how they

accomodate with the LCCs that can offer feed from them into their long

haul services Sir Tim Clark answered that LCCs are here to stay they

continue to grow their business they have been a significant player in

the way civil aviation has developed in the last years giving consumers

a very good choice As long as the air industry business keeps the

consumers at the heart of the business and it does what they are

guiding to do then there is place for everybody The

differentiation whether it is between low cost and full service long haul

or short haul is something the industry has to adapt to accept and

encourage It is part of civil aviation After all it is the travelling public

who benefits from LCC existence The legacy carriers as they are

called have to adapt and work with them In terms of establishing a

lower cost arm for Emirates he answered ―no but he added that they

would work with them and they do They have very good relationships

with the Low Cost operators because they bring lots more people into

the market the whole principle was tapping incipient demand that

could not afford the levels of fares that were available prior to their

existence What they did is that they brought efficiency fleet efficiency

technological efficiency distribution efficiency and suddenly a new

branch of air transport industry was found ―To not work with makes no

sense

When asked about what new things they can offer to the upper end of

the market they all agreed that it is the soft goods that matter after all

Everyone can buy the hard goods but the airlines invest now in

relationship building Delta said its CEO can boast on its relationship

with corporate travelers and the fact they have one of the lowest

maintenance cancellation records They give the business traveler what

he needs dependability reliability quality to arrive on time with their

bags he added that there is a lot of technology and process behind it

but more than that a lot of willpower and culture

10

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Jetstarrsquos CEO said that invest a lot in their people both in full service

and in low cost training helping them to build skills relationships with

the customer Jetstar wants to enable customers to enjoy the ability of

pick and choose both to bundle and to unbundle

Emiratesrsquo CEO said that the airline spends an awful lot of time and

money on our premium product and the public knows about it and they

have always done that and they will continue to do it As soon as

things mature they will change to make things more interesting they

will be raising the bar for the consumers the business community

because ―we can do it

Panel discussion on Cyber Security

The panelists were Major General Linda Urrutia-Varhall the Assistant

Deputy Chief of Staff Director of National Intelligence for Aviation

Security in the US Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance the

Pentagon Washington DC Anja Kaspersen Head of International

Security for the World Economic Forum Alan Pellegrini CEO and

President of Thales USA Matthew Finn Managing Director of

Augmentiq Calin Rovinescu President and CEO of Air Canada and

Kurt Pipal FBI Assistant Legal Attache for US Embassy in the UK

They all agreed that aviation being a symbol of globalisation remains

an aspirational target for terrorists The interconnected nature of the

industry and interconnectibility of IT systems from baggage

movement to ticket kiosk and flight systems represent an ever growing

list of vulnerabilities and a whole brand new horizon of threats It is

however practically technologically and financially impossible to

address all the issues In the words of General Urrutia-Varhall the

interaction between actors threats and vulnerabilities can be viewed as

an ecosystem of forces in which ―we are as strong as our weakest link

No entity can go alone against these threats Airline industry

govenments domestic and international Intelligence community private

and public sectors should come together gather and share information

to characterise assess threats prioritise them and then act

appropriately

11

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Calin Rovinescu mentioned the ―very scary number that experts

estimate is the amount of damage caused last year by cyber hacks

was in the vicinity of US$500 million world wide and that 94

of global airlines had some form of cyber security breaches These

incidents were ―a real wake-up call for the industry Many of these

attacks were dealt with because airlines had good technology

protection but still these numbers make clear that as the industry

moves towards more automation seeking the interconnectiveness that

makes ir more efficient attack surfaces expand exponentially

Matthew Finn said businesses should look at security in a holistic way

He said there is currently a downward trend of documentation fraud

but an upward trend regarding identity theft

Alan Pellegrini said that the industy has seen recently an increasing

number of high profile hacks hacks in the wi-fi connectivity simply to

steal passenger information that is flowing over those networks a

hack into the ground systems of an airline to steal financial

transactions and information to collect the money the airline was

supposed to collect The threat is very real and although it has not

resulted to serious safety related issues it is resulting into serious

disrupting The fact that there has been no serious incident means

though that the industry is getting a lot of it right

Airlines now connect passengers to Wi-Fi on aircraft they add

connectivity to crews aircraft operations are connected on the

ground some are experimenting with cloud-based avionics controlling

aircraft operations The move towards more automation is inescepable

so the protection from cyber attackes To build such protection

requires a

a multi-year plan with responsibility at the highest level and

collaboration and information exchange between the aviation industry

and governments

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There are many technoloty tools Thales is working on to better protect

the connected aircraft but there is no ―silver bullet there is no one

piece of technology that is going to solve all the industry problems

because security is a process the same way threats are not static they

continue to evolve ―Technology is not done it continues monitoring

security operations centres are required to identify threats as they start

to materialize and to mitigate them and then go ahead and implement

addtional technology that is going to deal with new potential threats so

it is a continuous process

According to Calin Rovinescu ―No matter how complex and good

systems a company may have problems are not solved overnight and

aviation must develop a capability to respond and recover He pointed

out that aviation industry must look at and work with other industries

that have more maturity with cyber threats such as financial

institutions technology companies

The industry is very encouraged by the fact IATA is taking on this topic

to prevent serious disruption and perhaps safety issues later

Anja Kaspersen admitted that the threat is real but she added that there

is also ―fear mongering because of the commercial interests invested

in cyber security She stressed that the combination of ―ignorance and

unsubstantiated fear is dangerous and hampers preparedness She

cautioned airlines not to underestimate the psychological effect

should as as they live off their reputation Airlines have to respond to

customer expectations for security concerns

She added that aviation should work on the assumption that they

receiving both physical and cyber attacks and and therefore work on

how to protect the systems with more advanced software and develop

some translation tools to compare traditional and new risks

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Kurt Pipal pointed as airline companies possess and deal with huge

amounts of data they become by definition a target for industrial

espionage He cautioned companies to be very careful about

subcontractors which do necessarily rely on the same system

resilience He stressed the importance of sharing intelligence

information in the industry Build awareness and do not have a silo

approach Identify your vulnerabilities and make the assumption that

you are going to be hacked Participate in a 247 securities operation

centre and called the aviation to Occasionally even use a so-called

dark agent - a hacker to test your system Companies do fire drills so

why do they not do cyber security drills toolaquo

The Panel on the Climate Change Goals brought together

representatives from industry academia and NGOs to discuss the

progress on the climate change goals the aviation industry faces and

what is needed to reach them The industry has to achieve a goal of

climate neutral growth from 2020 but also the long-term target of cutting

net CO2 emissions by half by 2050 compared to 2005 levels

The panelists were Angela Gittens Director General of Airports Council

International Alan Joyce Qantas CEO Patrick de Castelbajac CEO of

aircraft manufacturer ATR John-Paul Clarke professor at Georgia

Institute of Technology and Tim Johnson of the International Coalition

for Sustainable Aviation

2050 might seeem a long way off but due to industry time lags therersquos

only around 10 years left to figure out how to reach the goal according

to John-Paul Clarke

They all agreed that the industry in all its supply chain-manufacturers

airports infrastructure airlines- must come together to work in a

concerted way to achieve how to go about achieveing these goals A

holistic perspective is needed as the industry stakeholders all are in

direct dependency and the example od a fuel efficient aircraft that

cannot operate efficiently because the air traffic management is not

efficient They stressed that sustainable development is not a question

of being politically correct any more but a condition of the future

existence of the industry ―there is no other way than being

environmentally respectful said Patrick de Castelbajac

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He added that aircraft manufacturers do consider now the

environmental impact of their aircraft at every stage from design

through to the eventual end-of-life disposal ―There is also a greater

convergence between economic and environmental interests which we

can see clearly on fuel burn he said

New technology and new management must be both environmentally

and economically sustainable

The panelists agreed that passengers are passsionate about it and do

want to offset the environmental impact of their flight Alan Joyce

said that one passenger every minute selects a voluntary offset

program

Angela Gittens said that Airports have adopted the Carbon

Accreditation Programme a programme that provides airports with a

common framework for active carbon management with measurable

goal-postsand 20 airports are already carbon neutral She added ICAO

and IATA should undertake the role of coordinating bodies which will

monitor assess and pace the progress It is necessary because ―If you

canrsquot measure it you canrsquot manage it

Continuous transparent monitoring of what is been done by an

independent entity would bring credibility according to John-

Paul Clarke

The panelists also agreed that ICAO and IATA will have to meet the

challenge of balancing the different levels of maturity in terms

of environmental measures around the globe in other words those that

move more quickly with those that have been left behind

15

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Joyce said the new ICAO aircraft CO2 standard would drive

advances in aircraft and engine technology He complained

that although there had been advances in navigation

technology and procedures - such as the traffic control

satellite navigation approaches to airports that saved his

airline up to 60000 tons of fuel - progress had been slow in

improving Air Traffic management and developing ATC

infrastructure

He insisted though on the role of biofuels He stressed that

more studies should be undertaken on biofuels to make sure

that they are produced in environmentally friendly way

―Biofuels are the only way we are going to get to our 2050

target Itrsquos a question of how we as an industry can cooperate

and how we can get governments interested enough to put a

policy framework in place to make that happen Their

development and insertion in the value chain will require RampD

and help from governments and other industrial sectors

He called his government to support the local alternative

fuels industry that creates new jobs and brings

environmental benefits

16

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Tim Johnson cautioned that it should not become

an ―accountancy exercise where we see one

gallon of biofuel uplifted to an aircraft or a tonne

of CO2 offset as the way we measure progress

adding it was important to move beyond

quantification and just emissions and consider

the wider sustainable development agenda

Investment decisions needed to be taken now to

reach the industryrsquos 2050 target he suggested

and clarity was needed on what should happen

and by when ICAO market-based measure is

perfoming well but there must be emphasis on the

other three pillars required for aviation emissions

reductions ndash aircraft technology operations and

infrastructure

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powered aircraft leaves Seville for Cairo-Solar

MADRID July 11 (Xinhua) -- The aircraft Solar Impulse

II powered completely by solar energy on Monday left

the Spanish city of Seville to attempt to land in

on WednesdayEgyptCairo

The route will be between 48 and 72 hours long

depending on weather conditions This will be the

penultimate flight of the plane that will travel to Abu

Dhabi afterwards

Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard who have

been working on the aircraft for more than a decade

will pilot the aircraft Borschberg will pilot the plane

from Seville to Cairo crossing seven countries after

which Piccard will fly to Abu Dhabi

Borschberg said that the trip was meaningful as it is

my last flight in this round-the-world epic I am happy

that were close to the end but also prudent knowing

that it is not done yet I have to stay really focused

SpainThe aircraft had been in Seville in the south of

for two weeks after successfully crossing the Atlantic

Ocean

Solar Impulse II is able to fly night and day without any

fossil fuel It travels at between 45 and 55 kmhour

reaching an altitude of 8500 meters The plane is wider

than a 747 jumbo jet and weighs 23 tons

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Russias New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

A grand unveiling of the Irkut MC-21-300 on June 8

established a relatively firm project timeline for the

160- to 212-seat narrowbody and marked a measure

of vindication for what many in the West have

disparaged as a fringe project In attendance at the

ceremony Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

spoke of the prestige the program has brought to

the country as well as its importance to helping

move its economy forward He also congratulated

Irkutrsquos employees for their role in shaping the future

of Russiarsquos return to prominence in commercial

aircraft manufacturing

Expecting the MC-21 to gain Russian certification in

2018 United Aircraft subsidiary Irkut had hoped to

fly the first airplane by the end of this year

However during the rollout ceremony Medvedev

referenced plans for first flight ―within a year

and UAC officials acknowledged that a previously

quoted target might prove optimistic unless all goes

exactly to plan Rather that milestone appears most

likely to happen in or around February 2017

according to aUAC spokesman

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Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

2

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Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

3

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While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

4

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Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

5

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Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

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غ ز اذ٣خ اؼش٣وخ زؾ بكزح ري ػ٠ ربس٣خ ثبر٢ اـ٢

رؾظ٠ ثبر٢ ثأ٤خ اؼشث٤خ ي٤شاهب ػبد اؼ٢ اشئ٤ظ ازل٤ز١ غػخ

ؾ عؼذاء ثجذء سؽالرب ا٠ زب٤خ عخ ع٤بؽ٤خ ز٤ضح خبفخ خال أؽش اق٤ق

٣غشب خال اىالم ز اشؽالد ز اذ٣ رع٤غ ؽجخ عبرب م عسع٤ب

اغذ٣ذح ؼ اغبكش٣ غ اؼشث٤خ ي٤شا عاء ثـشك ازشك٤ أ األػب أؾبء

ايوخ اؼشث٤خ الشفخ ض٣بسح ز اعخ ا٤ضح ثبالمبكخ ا٠ اغبخ الؼبخ ك٢

هيبع اغ٤بؽخ االهزقبد اؾ٢

ثزغ٤٤ش سؽالد ٤٣خ إ٠ اؼبفخ رج٤غ٢ أجش ذ عسع٤ب از٢ اؼشث٤خ ي٤شارو

ثشصد ثغشػخ ك٢ اؾذ اغ٤بؽ٢ ك٢ أسثب ؽ٤ش أظش روش٣ش ظخ اغ٤بؽخ اؼب٤خ ؼب

أ عسع٤ب عغذ ص٣بدح ك٢ أػذاد اضائش٣ اذ٤٤ ثغجخ أجش أ١ ثذ أسث٢ 2014

آخش

ثذا ك٢ اؾشم 33عخ ك٢ 120رغ٤ش اؼشث٤خ ي٤شا سؽالرب ا٤ إ٠ أضش

األعو آع٤ب إكش٣و٤ب أسثب

wwwalbawabhnewscom

ب 990رظ سؽالد داخ٤خ رجذأ قش ي٤شا ع٤

ي٤شا زذؽ٤ أ أجش ؽالرب ازؾ٤ي٤خ خال اع قشرغزؼذ

رؾذ سػب٣خ ؽش٣ق كزؾ٢ ص٣ش قش ك٢إعبصري اق٤ل٢ اؾب٢ ثؼا

اذاخ٤خ اغ٤بؽخاي٤شا اذ٠ ثذف رؾ٤و دػ

إغجش٣ظ اغ٣خاشي اخيه غ٤بؽخريشػ ؽشبد قش ي٤شا

ثبزؼب غ ثؼل البدم اجش ثشبغب ع٤بؽ٤ب زبب ذح أسثؼخ أ٣ب

ع٤ب قش٣ب لبدم صالس غ 990 ثأعؼبس ربكغ٤خ رجذأ (صالس ٤ب)

ك٢ع٤ب لبدم خظ غ 1350ع٤ب لبدم أسثغ غ 1095

اـشدهخ األهقش ؽبخ رزاش اي٤شا اإلهبخ اؾ٤خ ؽش

أذ فلد غ سئ٤ظ غظ إداسح اؾشخ اوبثنخ قش ي٤شا

اؾ٤خرشر٤ت رظ٤ ز اجشاظ اغ٤بؽ٤خ جبؽشح غ البدم ثؾش

اوج رغزش اخ٤ظاـشدهخ األهقش اوشس أ رجذأ اػزجبسا

ؽز٠ اخبظ عجزجش ثؾ٤ش ٣غزي٤غ اؼالء االعزلغبس ؽغض اجشبظ

أ االرقب اشياوذ خال ص٣بسح كشع قش ي٤شا غ٤بؽخ

العززبع ثونبء 16175اخذخ از٤ل٤خ ازبثغ ب ػ٠ سه شضػ٠

ػيالر ك٢ ري اذ اغ٤بؽ٤خ اغبؽشح

أمبف أ قش ي٤شا رزا ػ روذ٣ اض٣ذ اؼشك ؼالئب

اشا داخ قش خبسعب خبفخ اؼشك ازش٣غ٤خ بىن اغزة

اغ٤بؽ٠ ثبجالد دػب ب ؾشخ اغ٤بؽخ

httpwwwelwatannewscom

ذ 3رين ثشبغب زؾ٤و اغ٤بؽخ اذاخ٤خ ثـ قش ي٤شا اخ٤ظ

زذؽ٤ أ أجش ؽالرب ازؾ٤ي٤خ خال اع اق٤ل٢ قش ي٤شارغزؼذ ؽشخ

ثشػب٣خ ؽش٣ق كزؾ٢ ص٣ش اي٤شا اذ٢إعبصري ك٢ قشاؾب٢ رؾذ ؽؼبس

إ ين قش ي٤شاهب فلد غ سئ٤ظ غظ إداسح اؾشخ اوبثنخ ـ

ؽشؿ اؾشخ ػ٠ أداء غؤ٤زب رغب اى ك٢ غب رؾ٤و دػ اغ٤بؽخ اذاخ٤خ إ٠

بىن اغزة اغ٤بؽ٢ اقش٣خ ريشػ ؽشبرب غ٤بؽخ اشي اخيه اغ٣خ

3أ٣ب ثـ 4إغجش٣ظ ثبزؼب غ ثؼل البدم اجش ثشبغب ع٤بؽ٤ب زبال ذح

4ع٤ب لبدم 1095غ 3 ع٤ب لبدم ٤990ب ثأعؼبس ربكغ٤خ رجذأ

غ ك٢ ؽش اؾ٤خ اـشدهخ األهقش ؽبخ رزاش 5ع٤ب لبدم 1350غ

اي٤شا اإلهبخ

رشرت رظ ز اجشاظ قش ي٤شاأمبف غ ك٢ ث٤ب فؾل٢ ا٤ أ

اغ٤بؽ٤خ جبؽشح غ البدم ثؾش اؾ٤خ اـشدهخ األهقش ؾ٤شا إ٠ أ اوشس أ

عجزجش اوج ؾ٤شا إ٠ أ 5رجذأ اشؽالد اػزجبسا اخ٤ظ اوج رغزش ؽز٠

قش اؼالء ثوذس االعزلغبس ؽغض اجشبظ اوذ خال ص٣بسح كشع ؽشخ

غ٤بؽخ اشي أ االرقب ػ٠ شض اخذخ از٤ل٤خ ازبثغ ب ػ٠ سه ي٤شا

العززبع ثونبء ػيالر ك٢ ري اذ اغ٤بؽ٤خ اغبؽشح16175

ربثغ أ اؾشخ رزا٠ ػ روذ٣ اض٣ذ اؼشك ؼالئب اشا داخ قش

خبسعب خبفخ اؼشك ازش٣غ٤خ بىن اغزة اغ٤بؽ٢ دػب ب ؾشخ اغ٤بؽخ

عز ؾق قذس ثصاسح اغ٤بؽخ أ اصاسح رذػ ري اجبدساد از٢ رذف إ٠

رؾ٤و ؽشخ اغ٤بؽخ اذاخ٤خ رؼ ػ٠ إؼبػ البدم اعزشاس اؼ ثب خبفخ ك٢

ب٣ ابم٢ قش ك٢ هثباذ اغ٤بؽ٤خ ب ثأ ثؼذ ازبء اؼ ثجبدسح

اعخ زؾ٤و اغ٤بؽخ اذاخ٤خ ؼذ عد خققبد ب٤خ غت اإلؽـب ثزي اذ

ك٢ رشاعغ غزش اؼذ٣ذ البدم أؿوذ أثاثب ب ثأ اصاسح رذػ أ١ جبدساد

ززؾ٤و اؾشخ اغ٤بؽ٤خ ااكذح إ٠ اذ اقش٣خ عاء ع٤بؽخ داخ٤خ أ غزغجخ

اخبسط

httpwwwyoum7com

اغخ ال٤خ عزقذس زبئظ عذ٣ذح ؽ ايبئشح اثخ خال ص٣ش اي٤شا

أعبث٤غ

أذ ؽش٣ق كزؾ٠ ص٣ش اي٤شا أ ازؾ٤الد ال٤خ ثؾأ ايبئشح اقش٣خ

اثخ بصاذ عبس٣خ عبس ؽب٤ب اشثو ث٤ اؼبد أعضح ازغغ٤

اخزلخ ؾ٤شا إ٠ أ خال األعبث٤غ اوجخ عزقذس اغخ ث٤بب ؽ ثؼل

بصب غزش٣ ك٠ اجؾش ازبئظ از٠ عززف ب ز٤غخ زا اشثو ن٤لب

ػ أؽالء انؾب٣ب هب ثذ اؼ ثغل٤خ اجؾش ضب٠ شح عؼب يبم

اجؾش شر٤ ؽز٠ ٣ م٤شب شربؽب زشى أ٣خ اؽالء ألب غئ٤خ

أؽذاس أمبف ص٣ش اي٤شا خال ذاخخ برل٤خ غ ثشبظ أخاله٤خ

ػذب ؾخ وق ا٤ االص٤ ابسازاع ػ٠ كنبئ٤خ ابس

مؾب أ ايبئشح وب ري ٤ظ ب٣خ اؼب كبى د ض٤شح رلؼ ري

أ ؽشخ قش ي٤شا أعشد 100خشعذ بب ثزوش٣ش ك٠

هج اقؼد أ٣ ا٠ ص ب هب ازبةاق٤بخ ػ٠ أ ع ثؼ٠

إ٠ أب اعزيؼب إثشا ارلبه٤بد كزؾ٠أؽبس د عبثن ألا ؽق كم

غ كبدم ثؾش اؾ٤خ اـشدهخ زؾ٤و اغ٤بؽخ غزض األهقش أعا

مؾب أ اخيح اوبدخ ع٤ رؾ٤و إعبصري ك٠ قش ثشبظ

أذ ص٣ش اي٤شا أ اغ٤بؽخ اخبسط اجشبظ ؽب٤ب ثبألعؼبس اؾ٤خ

غزشح ثؼذ اق٤ق أب هب ثبجبدسح دػب إعبصري ك٠ قشجبدسح

غ٤بؽخ ثؼ٤ذا ػ اشثؼ أع رؾش٣ي ا٤ب اشاذح رؾ٤و اغ٤بؽخ

إ ؽبء اذاخ٤خ ؾ٤شا إ٠ أ قش ي٤شا رغزخذ إب٤برب به هبئال

أ٠ خياد ازؾ٤و ثبزؼب غ صاسح إعبصري ك٠ قشاهلل عف ر

اغ٤بؽخ

wwwalbawabhnewscom

قش ي٤شاؽش روالد ثبخذبد اغ٣خ ك٢

اوبثنخ قش ي٤شا هشاسا اؾشخأفذس فلد غ سئ٤ظ

قش ي٤شا ثؾشخثؾش روالد رشه٤بد داخ٤خ عذ٣ذح

ك٢ أع ري٣ش اؼ إؽال دبء ؽبثخ اغ٣خخذبد

اهغ ه٤بد٣خ ػذ٣ذح

قت غبػذ سئ٤ظ غظ إداسح اخذبد دعه٠ر٠ ىبسم

٤بص سأكذ سئ٤ظ هيبع ازؾـ٤ خلب ثؼذ أ ب اغ٣خ

٣ؾـ قت ذ٣ش ػب اؾشػبد اخبص

ذ٣ش ػب ازخي٤و قت ذ٣ش ػب إداسح اؾ٤خب ر٠ ىبسم

اخبص ث٤ب ر٠ ؽبص ػجذ اشؽ ذ٣ش إداسح اؼ٤بد

قت ذ٣ش إداسح از٣ ؽـ ؽه٠ اؾؾبد قت ذ٣ش

ثؼذ أ ب ٣ؾـ قت ذ٣ش إداسح إلزبطاإلداسح اؼب

از٣ ثبؾشخ

httpwwwheavyliftpficom

Qatar Airways flying high

July 11 - Qatar Airways Cargo has reported a record

2016 fiscal year growing to the third-largest cargo

operator in the word and increasing its freighter

destinations to 54

Qatar Airways Cargo added Dallas Budapest Prague

Ho Chi Minh City and New York to its network in the

period ending March 31 2016 increasing its available

tonnage worldwide Its fleet is expected to grow to 22

aircraft by 2017

Overall Qatar Airways Group posted an operating

profit of QAR3 billion (USD823 million) for the 2016

fiscal year - nearly three times higher than its 2015

fiscal year profit

httpwwwdallasnewscom

United Airlines plane blows two tires when pilot halts takeoff in Houston

A United Airlines plane blew out two of its tires

when a pilot abruptly stopped its takeoff from a

Houston airport due to concerns about a

possible mechanical problem

Airport officials say the Boeing 737 was taking

off from Bush Intercontinental Airport to Denver

at around 6 am Monday when the planes crew

spotted a possible mechanical malfunction and

the pilot slammed the brakes

Two of the planes tires blew out as the aircraft

came to a stop

No injuries were reported among the 164

passengers and six crew members

Passengers got off the plane were taken back

to a terminal and later boarded another aircraft

that left for Denver

It was not immediately known what mechanical

problem the plane might have experienced

httpseekingalphacom

Max in place of Airbus CEO says737 Qatar Airways considering Boeing

purchasing a Qatar Airways says it is in talks about

Max aircraft 737 ) 61+BAof Boeing (large number

amid a dispute with Airbus

over unresolved ) OTCPKEADSYOTCPKEADSF(

faults with its A320neo model

The airline which has canceled delivery of one

A320neo due to glitches with engines made by Pratt

until the will continue rejecting the planeamp Whitney

issues are fixed CEO Akbar Al Baker said today at

the Farnborough International Airshow

The airline CEO also is concerned about delivery

rates of Airbusrsquos A350 wide-body and says he is not

sure that Airbus will be able to meet its target of

handing more than 50 of the model to customers this

year

httpwwwbloombergcom

neos320s in Place of A737Boeing 30 Qatar Airways Looks at Up to

Qatar Airways is in discussions about purchasing as many as

30 Boeing Co 737 airliners amid a dispute with Airbus Group

SE over unresolved faults with its A320neo model

The carrier which has canceled delivery of one A320neo due to

glitches with engines made by Pratt amp Whitney will continue

rejecting the plane until the issues are fixed Chief Executive

Officer Akbar Al Baker said Monday at the Farnborough

International Airshow outside London The No 2 Persian Gulf

airline is focusing on potentially switching planes and hasnrsquot

made progress on talks about swapping to the A320neorsquos

alternative engine made by the CFM venture of General Electric

Co and Safran SA he said

Qatar Airways is looking at both the NG and the upcoming

Max versions of the single-aisle 737 Al Baker said The

Max scheduled to enter service in 2017 will be Boeingrsquos

direct rival to the A320neo and any inroads by the US

planemaker would be a coup Airbus has said that United

Technologies Corprsquos Pratt has begun supplying engines that

have fixed the cooling flaws and will begin delivering planes

equipped with those powerplants this month

The airline is also concerned about delivery rates of Airbusrsquos

A350 wide-body Al Baker said adding that he isnrsquot sure the

European manufacturer will be able to meet its target of

handing over 50 of the model to customers this year Qatar

Airways has only received one A350 out of 10 scheduled to

be delivered this year

httpmgdnonlinecom

A Qatar Airways flight bound to Doha from Oslo

Norway made an emergency landing in the

Romanian capital of Bucharest yesterday (July

9 )due to a fault in one of its engines said a

report

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner which was carrying

some 254 passengers was forced to change

course one hour into the flight and was diverted

to Bucharests Henri Coanda International

Airport Doha Newsreported

A replacement aircraft was dispatched to

Bucharest and the flight resumed its course

following an almost 12-hour delay

The new plane also a 787 landed in Doha at

425am this morning the report said

Qatar Business

Qatar Airways flight makes emergency landing in

Romania

atnaero

nd IATA AGM and World Air Transport Summit72

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) opened its 72nd

Annual General Meeting (AGM) and World Air Transport Summit in

Dublin Ireland

―Ireland is a great aviation country and the perfect location for the

industryrsquos leaders to meet Aviation is a force for good This year

airlines will safely transport 38 billion passengers and 52 million

tonnes of cargo That will stimulate economies and spread prosperity

But aviation faces challenges in providing the safe secure efficient

and sustainable connectivity that the world depends on The next two

days are an opportunity to work together as an industry to make flying

even better said Tony Tyler IATArsquos Director General and CEO

In his keynote address Dr Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu President of the

Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) said

―IATA and ICAO have enjoyed several decades of productive colla

boration

More recently wersquove been engaged on a number of important priorities

including among others

bullFlight tracking procedures

bullConflict zone risk management

bullThe safe integration of remotely-piloted and suborbital flight

operations

bullCybersecurity preparedness

bullIncreased airspace capacity and operational efficiency

bullThe safe carriage of lithium batteries

bullAnd of course the environment

1

atnaero

IATA has been a great ally in ICAOrsquos efforts to ensure that the decisions

of our Member States are forward-looking and in

line with the current and future needs of the industry

Report of Tony Tyler on the Air Transport Industry

―International civil aviation can greatly help to create and preserve

friendship and understanding among the nations and peoples of the

world

From the beginning both governments and industry conceived aviation

as a force for good

Aviation makes our world a better place In doing so it supports 63

million jobs and underpins 35 of global GDP

Airlines are engines of prosperity But they have long struggled to turn a

profit and reward investors That is beginning to change

This year we expect a collective net profit of $394 billion It will be only

the second year in our historymdashand the second in a rowmdashin which

airlines will make an aggregate return in excess of the cost of capital

After decades of capital destruction thatrsquos a significant achievement

But it is still just the minimum performance that investors expect

On average airlines will make $1042 for each passenger carried

Overall despite generally adverse economic conditions it is a good

time for the air transport industry

-Consumers are getting great deals and lots of choice

-Investors are beginning to see reasonable rewards for the capital

they risk

-And airlines are able to make critical investments and shore-up their

resilience by paying down debtmdashalthough it will take several years of

solid profitability to fix most balance sheets properly

2

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Our success as an industry rests on areas where we work together

the foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability Each is strong but not without challenges

In bringing my remarks to a close I want to reflect on the power of

partnership

Partnership is essential for the continuous reinforcement of the

foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability

Itrsquos also important for our 264 members and the entire value chain to

work together Because together we can send a proud message that

aviation is a force for good And we can do more good when tax

burdens and infrastructure constraints are removed and when the

principles of Smarter Regulation are applied properly

The framework for our modern industry was built by governments and

airlines with a common vision that safe regular and economical air

transport would benefit the peoples of the world by creating and

preserving friendships and understanding With more than 100 years

of history behind us we can confidently say that aviation has made the

world a better place

We have done that by unleashing an irreversible and ever-more

accessible capability to explore the world in which we live to improve

our lives with unprecedented mobility and to grow prosperity by doing

business globally

People are thirsty for the opportunities that aviation makes possible

Every day we safely transport ten million people and 140000 tonnes of

cargo We are not just connecting people and shifting goods our

work is building a better future for the peoples of the world

Aviationrsquos potential has never been more inspiring We are privileged

to lead an industry that is a force for good

3

atnaero

At the CEO Panel Insight Debate discussion moderated by Richard Quest the

following CEOs participated Bernard Gustin CEO Brussels Airlines (BG) Ed

Bastian CEO Delta Air Lines (ED) Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group and Charamporn Jotikasthira

President of Thai Airways the issue of the security and aircraft tracking was

discussed in the view of the Brussels terrorist attack and the Egyptair 804 flight

going down into the water

The Brussels Airlines CEO said that the Brussels disaster which came after a

very good year for the airlines gave him the opportunity to experience the

amazing reaction of the airlinersquo s staff and the importance of aviation as

Brussels remained 12 days without an airport Being members of the Lufthansa

group they were able to put the long haul to Zurich and Frankfurt and useδ

provincial airport in Liege and Antwerp for local traffic When asked whether

security needs to be readdressed he answered that the risk arose before

security checks and this has to be solved with the Intelligence systems They

imposed after the disaster some extremely strong measures only to realize after

a few days that they were not appropriate He added that they need to continue

to analyze the security process and do risk analysis but have pertinent

measures and apply them consistently across the board

In the US on the other hand the situation is different the security procedures

imposed by the TSA make passengers be delayed or misconnected The

problem has taken such extent that many airports are considering replacing or

supplanting TSA When asked Ed Bastian CEO for Delta Air Lines said that

they have realized the problem and that they will deal with that and added that

they as an airline did a lot to manage the issue they innovated queuing process

in Atlanta that they paid for themselves which is going to have 50 reduction

in how long it takes travelers to get through checkpoints

As the question of security in Asia has again been raised in terms of its being

efficient and effective or not Charamporn Jotikasthira President of Thai

Airways agreed that there is a need to improve over time as there are ways to

hack systems there is a need for a system that can detect faster more

accurately with more quality

Jayne Hrdlicka CEO of Jetstar Group answered questions related to the

investment of low-cost airlines in security She answered that it is the airlinersquos

job to ensure that the security that is provided for in the airports they operate

meets the standards that we have set for ourselves Since in several of the

airports they are operating in the situation is not to these standards they take

responsibility for the safety and security of their people and customers to make

sure that the standards are consistent across the network

4

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Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline in his turn when expressing

his view on about aviation security in general he said that the industry

is not doing enough although there have been so many wake up calls in

the last couple of years He said that it is easy for government agencies

and organizations to blame on austerity their inability to fund the

security apparatus and the systems and procedures but the aviation

industry has to come up with a new set of protocols that ensure

security for the travelling public and consumers The industry has to

cooperate with governmental agencies to identify the possibilities of

people actually doing such attacks He added that industry has to adopt

far more readily the technological advances that are being made

available to streamline the processes but at the same time increase the

level of scrutiny He stressed the need for flow of information between

countries so as to have a more homogeneous intelligence service

When asked about airline tracking he admitted that the fact that the

problems in trying to locate an aircraft that has had a major incidence

―is a disgrace― These incidents impose on the industry a need to be

able to track aircraft at every point on their journey which as he said

Emirates does anyway within 15-20 minutes they know where all the

airlinersquos aircraft are where they fly or on the ground at the same

time He added that the manufacturers too need to come up with the

data records both CVR and cockpit voice recorders and flight data

recorders that have to be far more robust able to survive intact and

with much more power to develop beacons and locating systems in

very remote areas on the sea or in the river

When faced with the remark that six years have passed since the flight

370 incident and still the industry is unable to locate missing aircraft

and many experts argue that the airlines are reluctant to spend the

money on tracking and streaming of data they all agreed that it is not a

financial issue and the only question is a question of governance The

industry has to come to a consensus and agree on common standards

for example at what frequency the aircraft will be sending it out tracking

information the industry is waiting for an ICAO solution that everyone

is going to adopt They all agreed though that irrespective of the cost it

has to be done because as Sir Tim Clark put it ―Not to do it is

delinquency

5

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When Richard Quest asked them about results and yields because airlines seem to

be that making good money they all claim the yield is under pressure and to

comment on the influence of the lower fuel price Ed Bastian said that capacity has

grown over the last few years driven by the dramatic reduction in oil prices The

pressure seen on yield is a reflection of the growing capacity He commented he

does not focus only on yield but looks at other aspects and metrics to understand

the underlying health of the industry demand is very strong especially in the US and

fuel prices are stabilizing and the airline making record margins

Bernard Gustin said when fuel prices gets up again the airlines will not be able to put

it back in the yield so they need to keep a business plan both with the current fuel

price as well as with the old fuel price especially in their case since their competitors

in Brussels are low cost carriers such as Ryanair and Easyjet

When Jetstarrsquos CEO was asked whether there is unconstrained growth of capacity

she answered that the growth of capacity ahead of underlying demand is not

irrational when margins are attractive and costs well managed and strong return in

invested capital

Sir Tim Clark said that the true causes behind yield suppression need to be

examined The lowering of the fuel prices was good news but they failed to foresee

that the corporate sectors that drive many of the upper echelons of the yield will go

with the oil prices That brought us some difficulties Then there was a currency

issue the strength of the US as the airline generates a large part of income on

currencies that move south of the dollar that affected the yield too Third the

addition of capacity means extension of the revenue of greater distances which

causes yield dilution On the other hand while there is flat line projection for global

economy demand for airtravel is increasing at 6 7 8 in several areas including the

Middle East there is also an explosion of growth in the US domestic market This

means the airline backfills inventory with more passengers because demand is there

Their airline needs to adjust its business to the practical long-term change and this is

low yield the airline can do it He announced that Emirates will 14 more A380s to

their fleet of 79

Thai Airwaysrsquos President said that their problem was of a different nature as they

unable to fill the aircraft as much as the others and their load factors were 4-5

lower than the average they will first fix that and and then deal with the other

problems

When the discussion turned to the question whether there will more manufactures of

aircraft and more choice in the future Ed Bastian supported Deltarsquos decision to buy

CS100s Bombardier and commented that they have been long time customers of

their small and larger regional jets because they technologically and engine-wise

efficient and reliable and they were given good financial terms He also predicted that

more airlines will consider acquiring Bombardier C-series aircraft

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As Emirates are mostly wide body operator Sir Tim Clark said

they already have good choice between Boeing and Airbus

which answer their needs with regard to the mission and the

type of product the airline wants to offer He wished ―good

luck to any manufacturer wishing to enter the market them if

they get over the barriers to entry

Jane Hrdlicka said she expects see innovation coming in in the

form of technology of the airframe and a strong Chinese

manufacturer which means there will be more choice in two

decades from now than today

Then Richard Quest asked questions each airline individually

He asked whether Brussels Airlines will be around in two years

from now Bernand Gustin the airline will be there and will have

the same operation model but more powerful with the power of

a major aviation group Lufthansa group behind it In the past

airlines had to choose to be point-to-point or connecting Low

cost or service airline bur Brussels airline We tries to reconcile

those dimensions and they have positioned themselves a

hybrid airline People do not want to pay but they want a level

of service and even the low cost carriers are investing now in

service As for the name of airline he said that the airline will be

called what has value for the customer as it has been proven

with the airlinersquos Africa routes The airline played a crucial role

during the Ebola crisis and has gained its value as a brand in

Africa that it did not have before when it was Sabena He

stressed that a brand is something that responds to a customer

need a brand name that responds best to the Belgian customer

the European customer and the African customer and the US

customers which are the markets the airlines serves

7

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Thai Airwaysrsquo president was asked about the airlinersquos strategy to deal with

their problems He answered that they have a two-year reform programme

they have already achieved a profit margin 12 on sales so they are on track

reform plan They intend to remain a full service carrier with a major very

efficient hub He added that they realised after following the developments of

the last years that the ecosystem has been changing a lot as all demand

coming into Thailand has been point-to-point to secondary cities They

operate in one the fastest growing regions in terms of demand near India

and China but the demand is becoming point-to-point which means that the

model that the airline was following in the past has to be changed When

asked whether they will need a partner and more particularly a Gulf partner to

do your long haul European routes he answered that if the market is India

China and Asia and there is going to be more and more point-to-point service

they will have to be bigger They may need partners of some sort some form

of alliance but I this alliance will not be as the ones of the past In the past a

big airline in Europe a big airline in Japan could connect throughout the

world but this area is a non-united area there are many states there is

Myanmar Thailand Vietnam so the partnership will most probably be

bilateral

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group was asked how Qantas managed so

successfully to incorporate a low-cost or a low-fare branch as some call it

She answered that they did it by really understanding their customers and

recognising that there is a part of the market that is hungry for full service and

is prepared to pay a premium to get it but there is an equal part of the market

that was not able to travel because the fares were too high and would prefer

choice on how they travel and be able to pay for what they use What they

have done is effectively build a new brand that focuses squarely on that

customer group and have protected the integrity by not trying to blur the line

and keeping them very separate operationally commercially and

strategically

Bernand Gustin was asked again whether Lufthansa has considered an

arrangement with an LCC for feed and he answered that first the airline needs

to substantially reduce its cost to be price competitive and this what they

have done There is no choice about that But as they come from a service

heritage airline and given that they will never be a cost leader they try to keep

a differentiation on service a service that really people want So they have

played on connectivity on the network and on the Belgian brand There is a

wish to have a specific brand As there are other very strong brands within the

Lufthansa group if they want to go further they need to have the power of the

group to be able to further reduce the cost to get the commercial critical

mass outside of Belgium Thatrsquos where the right mix needs to be found

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Deltarsquos CEO was asked How a giant airline accommodates the new reality

of all those LCCs Ot which he answered that they do it through

segmentation within the aircraft they have introduced a product called

―basic economy for price sensitive types of travelling within the US

They are still experimenting with it as it is relatively new and the

technology solution on it is complicated Within the two they have to

accommodate the low fare end and the highly sensitive business

traveller that is willing to pay a premium and a couple of stages between

the two But it a much wider question the airline needs to find who he

wants to be so they have moved upscale they are not a commodity

player and they generated a 10 premium in relation to the other US

carriers He stressed that ―If we were to be a commodity player we would

not be around today He admits that they have to accommodate a

commodity component for the travel sector but they are not a

commodity As the carry two million passengers a year that pay a 10

premium on average they have proven our point

Jetstarrsquos CEP pointed that both fares are not commoditised any more

Airlines have to look at what customers want choice is definitely

important for all customers and choice for people who are looking for

value matters a lot She said that their airline also extracts a relative 15

premium in relation to competition because they do not view themselves

as a commodity product They invest heavily in the brand in the

experience in ways that the customers value and are prepared to pay for

it and give them the choice to custom design their experience

The Brussels Airlinesrsquos CEO added that segmentation and differentiation

is key When their airline starts with a start price of 39 euros one way and

has a very vocal pure low cost competitor at 21 euro for the same thing

the solution is to claim that it offers service as there is a whole heritage

that exists besides While the price is key people say ―I want to know

what I choose The pure commodity product that happened a few years

is going away but when there is a heritage of service that can help you

differentiate yourself then there is potential to make the difference

Brussels has all the LCCs of the world but Brussels Airlines grew by 30

more in the last two years

9

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Richard Quest then turned to Emirates CEO and asked him how they

accomodate with the LCCs that can offer feed from them into their long

haul services Sir Tim Clark answered that LCCs are here to stay they

continue to grow their business they have been a significant player in

the way civil aviation has developed in the last years giving consumers

a very good choice As long as the air industry business keeps the

consumers at the heart of the business and it does what they are

guiding to do then there is place for everybody The

differentiation whether it is between low cost and full service long haul

or short haul is something the industry has to adapt to accept and

encourage It is part of civil aviation After all it is the travelling public

who benefits from LCC existence The legacy carriers as they are

called have to adapt and work with them In terms of establishing a

lower cost arm for Emirates he answered ―no but he added that they

would work with them and they do They have very good relationships

with the Low Cost operators because they bring lots more people into

the market the whole principle was tapping incipient demand that

could not afford the levels of fares that were available prior to their

existence What they did is that they brought efficiency fleet efficiency

technological efficiency distribution efficiency and suddenly a new

branch of air transport industry was found ―To not work with makes no

sense

When asked about what new things they can offer to the upper end of

the market they all agreed that it is the soft goods that matter after all

Everyone can buy the hard goods but the airlines invest now in

relationship building Delta said its CEO can boast on its relationship

with corporate travelers and the fact they have one of the lowest

maintenance cancellation records They give the business traveler what

he needs dependability reliability quality to arrive on time with their

bags he added that there is a lot of technology and process behind it

but more than that a lot of willpower and culture

10

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Jetstarrsquos CEO said that invest a lot in their people both in full service

and in low cost training helping them to build skills relationships with

the customer Jetstar wants to enable customers to enjoy the ability of

pick and choose both to bundle and to unbundle

Emiratesrsquo CEO said that the airline spends an awful lot of time and

money on our premium product and the public knows about it and they

have always done that and they will continue to do it As soon as

things mature they will change to make things more interesting they

will be raising the bar for the consumers the business community

because ―we can do it

Panel discussion on Cyber Security

The panelists were Major General Linda Urrutia-Varhall the Assistant

Deputy Chief of Staff Director of National Intelligence for Aviation

Security in the US Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance the

Pentagon Washington DC Anja Kaspersen Head of International

Security for the World Economic Forum Alan Pellegrini CEO and

President of Thales USA Matthew Finn Managing Director of

Augmentiq Calin Rovinescu President and CEO of Air Canada and

Kurt Pipal FBI Assistant Legal Attache for US Embassy in the UK

They all agreed that aviation being a symbol of globalisation remains

an aspirational target for terrorists The interconnected nature of the

industry and interconnectibility of IT systems from baggage

movement to ticket kiosk and flight systems represent an ever growing

list of vulnerabilities and a whole brand new horizon of threats It is

however practically technologically and financially impossible to

address all the issues In the words of General Urrutia-Varhall the

interaction between actors threats and vulnerabilities can be viewed as

an ecosystem of forces in which ―we are as strong as our weakest link

No entity can go alone against these threats Airline industry

govenments domestic and international Intelligence community private

and public sectors should come together gather and share information

to characterise assess threats prioritise them and then act

appropriately

11

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Calin Rovinescu mentioned the ―very scary number that experts

estimate is the amount of damage caused last year by cyber hacks

was in the vicinity of US$500 million world wide and that 94

of global airlines had some form of cyber security breaches These

incidents were ―a real wake-up call for the industry Many of these

attacks were dealt with because airlines had good technology

protection but still these numbers make clear that as the industry

moves towards more automation seeking the interconnectiveness that

makes ir more efficient attack surfaces expand exponentially

Matthew Finn said businesses should look at security in a holistic way

He said there is currently a downward trend of documentation fraud

but an upward trend regarding identity theft

Alan Pellegrini said that the industy has seen recently an increasing

number of high profile hacks hacks in the wi-fi connectivity simply to

steal passenger information that is flowing over those networks a

hack into the ground systems of an airline to steal financial

transactions and information to collect the money the airline was

supposed to collect The threat is very real and although it has not

resulted to serious safety related issues it is resulting into serious

disrupting The fact that there has been no serious incident means

though that the industry is getting a lot of it right

Airlines now connect passengers to Wi-Fi on aircraft they add

connectivity to crews aircraft operations are connected on the

ground some are experimenting with cloud-based avionics controlling

aircraft operations The move towards more automation is inescepable

so the protection from cyber attackes To build such protection

requires a

a multi-year plan with responsibility at the highest level and

collaboration and information exchange between the aviation industry

and governments

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There are many technoloty tools Thales is working on to better protect

the connected aircraft but there is no ―silver bullet there is no one

piece of technology that is going to solve all the industry problems

because security is a process the same way threats are not static they

continue to evolve ―Technology is not done it continues monitoring

security operations centres are required to identify threats as they start

to materialize and to mitigate them and then go ahead and implement

addtional technology that is going to deal with new potential threats so

it is a continuous process

According to Calin Rovinescu ―No matter how complex and good

systems a company may have problems are not solved overnight and

aviation must develop a capability to respond and recover He pointed

out that aviation industry must look at and work with other industries

that have more maturity with cyber threats such as financial

institutions technology companies

The industry is very encouraged by the fact IATA is taking on this topic

to prevent serious disruption and perhaps safety issues later

Anja Kaspersen admitted that the threat is real but she added that there

is also ―fear mongering because of the commercial interests invested

in cyber security She stressed that the combination of ―ignorance and

unsubstantiated fear is dangerous and hampers preparedness She

cautioned airlines not to underestimate the psychological effect

should as as they live off their reputation Airlines have to respond to

customer expectations for security concerns

She added that aviation should work on the assumption that they

receiving both physical and cyber attacks and and therefore work on

how to protect the systems with more advanced software and develop

some translation tools to compare traditional and new risks

13

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Kurt Pipal pointed as airline companies possess and deal with huge

amounts of data they become by definition a target for industrial

espionage He cautioned companies to be very careful about

subcontractors which do necessarily rely on the same system

resilience He stressed the importance of sharing intelligence

information in the industry Build awareness and do not have a silo

approach Identify your vulnerabilities and make the assumption that

you are going to be hacked Participate in a 247 securities operation

centre and called the aviation to Occasionally even use a so-called

dark agent - a hacker to test your system Companies do fire drills so

why do they not do cyber security drills toolaquo

The Panel on the Climate Change Goals brought together

representatives from industry academia and NGOs to discuss the

progress on the climate change goals the aviation industry faces and

what is needed to reach them The industry has to achieve a goal of

climate neutral growth from 2020 but also the long-term target of cutting

net CO2 emissions by half by 2050 compared to 2005 levels

The panelists were Angela Gittens Director General of Airports Council

International Alan Joyce Qantas CEO Patrick de Castelbajac CEO of

aircraft manufacturer ATR John-Paul Clarke professor at Georgia

Institute of Technology and Tim Johnson of the International Coalition

for Sustainable Aviation

2050 might seeem a long way off but due to industry time lags therersquos

only around 10 years left to figure out how to reach the goal according

to John-Paul Clarke

They all agreed that the industry in all its supply chain-manufacturers

airports infrastructure airlines- must come together to work in a

concerted way to achieve how to go about achieveing these goals A

holistic perspective is needed as the industry stakeholders all are in

direct dependency and the example od a fuel efficient aircraft that

cannot operate efficiently because the air traffic management is not

efficient They stressed that sustainable development is not a question

of being politically correct any more but a condition of the future

existence of the industry ―there is no other way than being

environmentally respectful said Patrick de Castelbajac

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He added that aircraft manufacturers do consider now the

environmental impact of their aircraft at every stage from design

through to the eventual end-of-life disposal ―There is also a greater

convergence between economic and environmental interests which we

can see clearly on fuel burn he said

New technology and new management must be both environmentally

and economically sustainable

The panelists agreed that passengers are passsionate about it and do

want to offset the environmental impact of their flight Alan Joyce

said that one passenger every minute selects a voluntary offset

program

Angela Gittens said that Airports have adopted the Carbon

Accreditation Programme a programme that provides airports with a

common framework for active carbon management with measurable

goal-postsand 20 airports are already carbon neutral She added ICAO

and IATA should undertake the role of coordinating bodies which will

monitor assess and pace the progress It is necessary because ―If you

canrsquot measure it you canrsquot manage it

Continuous transparent monitoring of what is been done by an

independent entity would bring credibility according to John-

Paul Clarke

The panelists also agreed that ICAO and IATA will have to meet the

challenge of balancing the different levels of maturity in terms

of environmental measures around the globe in other words those that

move more quickly with those that have been left behind

15

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Joyce said the new ICAO aircraft CO2 standard would drive

advances in aircraft and engine technology He complained

that although there had been advances in navigation

technology and procedures - such as the traffic control

satellite navigation approaches to airports that saved his

airline up to 60000 tons of fuel - progress had been slow in

improving Air Traffic management and developing ATC

infrastructure

He insisted though on the role of biofuels He stressed that

more studies should be undertaken on biofuels to make sure

that they are produced in environmentally friendly way

―Biofuels are the only way we are going to get to our 2050

target Itrsquos a question of how we as an industry can cooperate

and how we can get governments interested enough to put a

policy framework in place to make that happen Their

development and insertion in the value chain will require RampD

and help from governments and other industrial sectors

He called his government to support the local alternative

fuels industry that creates new jobs and brings

environmental benefits

16

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Tim Johnson cautioned that it should not become

an ―accountancy exercise where we see one

gallon of biofuel uplifted to an aircraft or a tonne

of CO2 offset as the way we measure progress

adding it was important to move beyond

quantification and just emissions and consider

the wider sustainable development agenda

Investment decisions needed to be taken now to

reach the industryrsquos 2050 target he suggested

and clarity was needed on what should happen

and by when ICAO market-based measure is

perfoming well but there must be emphasis on the

other three pillars required for aviation emissions

reductions ndash aircraft technology operations and

infrastructure

17

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powered aircraft leaves Seville for Cairo-Solar

MADRID July 11 (Xinhua) -- The aircraft Solar Impulse

II powered completely by solar energy on Monday left

the Spanish city of Seville to attempt to land in

on WednesdayEgyptCairo

The route will be between 48 and 72 hours long

depending on weather conditions This will be the

penultimate flight of the plane that will travel to Abu

Dhabi afterwards

Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard who have

been working on the aircraft for more than a decade

will pilot the aircraft Borschberg will pilot the plane

from Seville to Cairo crossing seven countries after

which Piccard will fly to Abu Dhabi

Borschberg said that the trip was meaningful as it is

my last flight in this round-the-world epic I am happy

that were close to the end but also prudent knowing

that it is not done yet I have to stay really focused

SpainThe aircraft had been in Seville in the south of

for two weeks after successfully crossing the Atlantic

Ocean

Solar Impulse II is able to fly night and day without any

fossil fuel It travels at between 45 and 55 kmhour

reaching an altitude of 8500 meters The plane is wider

than a 747 jumbo jet and weighs 23 tons

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Russias New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

A grand unveiling of the Irkut MC-21-300 on June 8

established a relatively firm project timeline for the

160- to 212-seat narrowbody and marked a measure

of vindication for what many in the West have

disparaged as a fringe project In attendance at the

ceremony Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

spoke of the prestige the program has brought to

the country as well as its importance to helping

move its economy forward He also congratulated

Irkutrsquos employees for their role in shaping the future

of Russiarsquos return to prominence in commercial

aircraft manufacturing

Expecting the MC-21 to gain Russian certification in

2018 United Aircraft subsidiary Irkut had hoped to

fly the first airplane by the end of this year

However during the rollout ceremony Medvedev

referenced plans for first flight ―within a year

and UAC officials acknowledged that a previously

quoted target might prove optimistic unless all goes

exactly to plan Rather that milestone appears most

likely to happen in or around February 2017

according to aUAC spokesman

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Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

2

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Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

3

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While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

4

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Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

5

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Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

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بىن اغزة اغ٤بؽ٢ اقش٣خ ريشػ ؽشبرب غ٤بؽخ اشي اخيه اغ٣خ

3أ٣ب ثـ 4إغجش٣ظ ثبزؼب غ ثؼل البدم اجش ثشبغب ع٤بؽ٤ب زبال ذح

4ع٤ب لبدم 1095غ 3 ع٤ب لبدم ٤990ب ثأعؼبس ربكغ٤خ رجذأ

غ ك٢ ؽش اؾ٤خ اـشدهخ األهقش ؽبخ رزاش 5ع٤ب لبدم 1350غ

اي٤شا اإلهبخ

رشرت رظ ز اجشاظ قش ي٤شاأمبف غ ك٢ ث٤ب فؾل٢ ا٤ أ

اغ٤بؽ٤خ جبؽشح غ البدم ثؾش اؾ٤خ اـشدهخ األهقش ؾ٤شا إ٠ أ اوشس أ

عجزجش اوج ؾ٤شا إ٠ أ 5رجذأ اشؽالد اػزجبسا اخ٤ظ اوج رغزش ؽز٠

قش اؼالء ثوذس االعزلغبس ؽغض اجشبظ اوذ خال ص٣بسح كشع ؽشخ

غ٤بؽخ اشي أ االرقب ػ٠ شض اخذخ از٤ل٤خ ازبثغ ب ػ٠ سه ي٤شا

العززبع ثونبء ػيالر ك٢ ري اذ اغ٤بؽ٤خ اغبؽشح16175

ربثغ أ اؾشخ رزا٠ ػ روذ٣ اض٣ذ اؼشك ؼالئب اشا داخ قش

خبسعب خبفخ اؼشك ازش٣غ٤خ بىن اغزة اغ٤بؽ٢ دػب ب ؾشخ اغ٤بؽخ

عز ؾق قذس ثصاسح اغ٤بؽخ أ اصاسح رذػ ري اجبدساد از٢ رذف إ٠

رؾ٤و ؽشخ اغ٤بؽخ اذاخ٤خ رؼ ػ٠ إؼبػ البدم اعزشاس اؼ ثب خبفخ ك٢

ب٣ ابم٢ قش ك٢ هثباذ اغ٤بؽ٤خ ب ثأ ثؼذ ازبء اؼ ثجبدسح

اعخ زؾ٤و اغ٤بؽخ اذاخ٤خ ؼذ عد خققبد ب٤خ غت اإلؽـب ثزي اذ

ك٢ رشاعغ غزش اؼذ٣ذ البدم أؿوذ أثاثب ب ثأ اصاسح رذػ أ١ جبدساد

ززؾ٤و اؾشخ اغ٤بؽ٤خ ااكذح إ٠ اذ اقش٣خ عاء ع٤بؽخ داخ٤خ أ غزغجخ

اخبسط

httpwwwyoum7com

اغخ ال٤خ عزقذس زبئظ عذ٣ذح ؽ ايبئشح اثخ خال ص٣ش اي٤شا

أعبث٤غ

أذ ؽش٣ق كزؾ٠ ص٣ش اي٤شا أ ازؾ٤الد ال٤خ ثؾأ ايبئشح اقش٣خ

اثخ بصاذ عبس٣خ عبس ؽب٤ب اشثو ث٤ اؼبد أعضح ازغغ٤

اخزلخ ؾ٤شا إ٠ أ خال األعبث٤غ اوجخ عزقذس اغخ ث٤بب ؽ ثؼل

بصب غزش٣ ك٠ اجؾش ازبئظ از٠ عززف ب ز٤غخ زا اشثو ن٤لب

ػ أؽالء انؾب٣ب هب ثذ اؼ ثغل٤خ اجؾش ضب٠ شح عؼب يبم

اجؾش شر٤ ؽز٠ ٣ م٤شب شربؽب زشى أ٣خ اؽالء ألب غئ٤خ

أؽذاس أمبف ص٣ش اي٤شا خال ذاخخ برل٤خ غ ثشبظ أخاله٤خ

ػذب ؾخ وق ا٤ االص٤ ابسازاع ػ٠ كنبئ٤خ ابس

مؾب أ ايبئشح وب ري ٤ظ ب٣خ اؼب كبى د ض٤شح رلؼ ري

أ ؽشخ قش ي٤شا أعشد 100خشعذ بب ثزوش٣ش ك٠

هج اقؼد أ٣ ا٠ ص ب هب ازبةاق٤بخ ػ٠ أ ع ثؼ٠

إ٠ أب اعزيؼب إثشا ارلبه٤بد كزؾ٠أؽبس د عبثن ألا ؽق كم

غ كبدم ثؾش اؾ٤خ اـشدهخ زؾ٤و اغ٤بؽخ غزض األهقش أعا

مؾب أ اخيح اوبدخ ع٤ رؾ٤و إعبصري ك٠ قش ثشبظ

أذ ص٣ش اي٤شا أ اغ٤بؽخ اخبسط اجشبظ ؽب٤ب ثبألعؼبس اؾ٤خ

غزشح ثؼذ اق٤ق أب هب ثبجبدسح دػب إعبصري ك٠ قشجبدسح

غ٤بؽخ ثؼ٤ذا ػ اشثؼ أع رؾش٣ي ا٤ب اشاذح رؾ٤و اغ٤بؽخ

إ ؽبء اذاخ٤خ ؾ٤شا إ٠ أ قش ي٤شا رغزخذ إب٤برب به هبئال

أ٠ خياد ازؾ٤و ثبزؼب غ صاسح إعبصري ك٠ قشاهلل عف ر

اغ٤بؽخ

wwwalbawabhnewscom

قش ي٤شاؽش روالد ثبخذبد اغ٣خ ك٢

اوبثنخ قش ي٤شا هشاسا اؾشخأفذس فلد غ سئ٤ظ

قش ي٤شا ثؾشخثؾش روالد رشه٤بد داخ٤خ عذ٣ذح

ك٢ أع ري٣ش اؼ إؽال دبء ؽبثخ اغ٣خخذبد

اهغ ه٤بد٣خ ػذ٣ذح

قت غبػذ سئ٤ظ غظ إداسح اخذبد دعه٠ر٠ ىبسم

٤بص سأكذ سئ٤ظ هيبع ازؾـ٤ خلب ثؼذ أ ب اغ٣خ

٣ؾـ قت ذ٣ش ػب اؾشػبد اخبص

ذ٣ش ػب ازخي٤و قت ذ٣ش ػب إداسح اؾ٤خب ر٠ ىبسم

اخبص ث٤ب ر٠ ؽبص ػجذ اشؽ ذ٣ش إداسح اؼ٤بد

قت ذ٣ش إداسح از٣ ؽـ ؽه٠ اؾؾبد قت ذ٣ش

ثؼذ أ ب ٣ؾـ قت ذ٣ش إداسح إلزبطاإلداسح اؼب

از٣ ثبؾشخ

httpwwwheavyliftpficom

Qatar Airways flying high

July 11 - Qatar Airways Cargo has reported a record

2016 fiscal year growing to the third-largest cargo

operator in the word and increasing its freighter

destinations to 54

Qatar Airways Cargo added Dallas Budapest Prague

Ho Chi Minh City and New York to its network in the

period ending March 31 2016 increasing its available

tonnage worldwide Its fleet is expected to grow to 22

aircraft by 2017

Overall Qatar Airways Group posted an operating

profit of QAR3 billion (USD823 million) for the 2016

fiscal year - nearly three times higher than its 2015

fiscal year profit

httpwwwdallasnewscom

United Airlines plane blows two tires when pilot halts takeoff in Houston

A United Airlines plane blew out two of its tires

when a pilot abruptly stopped its takeoff from a

Houston airport due to concerns about a

possible mechanical problem

Airport officials say the Boeing 737 was taking

off from Bush Intercontinental Airport to Denver

at around 6 am Monday when the planes crew

spotted a possible mechanical malfunction and

the pilot slammed the brakes

Two of the planes tires blew out as the aircraft

came to a stop

No injuries were reported among the 164

passengers and six crew members

Passengers got off the plane were taken back

to a terminal and later boarded another aircraft

that left for Denver

It was not immediately known what mechanical

problem the plane might have experienced

httpseekingalphacom

Max in place of Airbus CEO says737 Qatar Airways considering Boeing

purchasing a Qatar Airways says it is in talks about

Max aircraft 737 ) 61+BAof Boeing (large number

amid a dispute with Airbus

over unresolved ) OTCPKEADSYOTCPKEADSF(

faults with its A320neo model

The airline which has canceled delivery of one

A320neo due to glitches with engines made by Pratt

until the will continue rejecting the planeamp Whitney

issues are fixed CEO Akbar Al Baker said today at

the Farnborough International Airshow

The airline CEO also is concerned about delivery

rates of Airbusrsquos A350 wide-body and says he is not

sure that Airbus will be able to meet its target of

handing more than 50 of the model to customers this

year

httpwwwbloombergcom

neos320s in Place of A737Boeing 30 Qatar Airways Looks at Up to

Qatar Airways is in discussions about purchasing as many as

30 Boeing Co 737 airliners amid a dispute with Airbus Group

SE over unresolved faults with its A320neo model

The carrier which has canceled delivery of one A320neo due to

glitches with engines made by Pratt amp Whitney will continue

rejecting the plane until the issues are fixed Chief Executive

Officer Akbar Al Baker said Monday at the Farnborough

International Airshow outside London The No 2 Persian Gulf

airline is focusing on potentially switching planes and hasnrsquot

made progress on talks about swapping to the A320neorsquos

alternative engine made by the CFM venture of General Electric

Co and Safran SA he said

Qatar Airways is looking at both the NG and the upcoming

Max versions of the single-aisle 737 Al Baker said The

Max scheduled to enter service in 2017 will be Boeingrsquos

direct rival to the A320neo and any inroads by the US

planemaker would be a coup Airbus has said that United

Technologies Corprsquos Pratt has begun supplying engines that

have fixed the cooling flaws and will begin delivering planes

equipped with those powerplants this month

The airline is also concerned about delivery rates of Airbusrsquos

A350 wide-body Al Baker said adding that he isnrsquot sure the

European manufacturer will be able to meet its target of

handing over 50 of the model to customers this year Qatar

Airways has only received one A350 out of 10 scheduled to

be delivered this year

httpmgdnonlinecom

A Qatar Airways flight bound to Doha from Oslo

Norway made an emergency landing in the

Romanian capital of Bucharest yesterday (July

9 )due to a fault in one of its engines said a

report

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner which was carrying

some 254 passengers was forced to change

course one hour into the flight and was diverted

to Bucharests Henri Coanda International

Airport Doha Newsreported

A replacement aircraft was dispatched to

Bucharest and the flight resumed its course

following an almost 12-hour delay

The new plane also a 787 landed in Doha at

425am this morning the report said

Qatar Business

Qatar Airways flight makes emergency landing in

Romania

atnaero

nd IATA AGM and World Air Transport Summit72

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) opened its 72nd

Annual General Meeting (AGM) and World Air Transport Summit in

Dublin Ireland

―Ireland is a great aviation country and the perfect location for the

industryrsquos leaders to meet Aviation is a force for good This year

airlines will safely transport 38 billion passengers and 52 million

tonnes of cargo That will stimulate economies and spread prosperity

But aviation faces challenges in providing the safe secure efficient

and sustainable connectivity that the world depends on The next two

days are an opportunity to work together as an industry to make flying

even better said Tony Tyler IATArsquos Director General and CEO

In his keynote address Dr Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu President of the

Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) said

―IATA and ICAO have enjoyed several decades of productive colla

boration

More recently wersquove been engaged on a number of important priorities

including among others

bullFlight tracking procedures

bullConflict zone risk management

bullThe safe integration of remotely-piloted and suborbital flight

operations

bullCybersecurity preparedness

bullIncreased airspace capacity and operational efficiency

bullThe safe carriage of lithium batteries

bullAnd of course the environment

1

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IATA has been a great ally in ICAOrsquos efforts to ensure that the decisions

of our Member States are forward-looking and in

line with the current and future needs of the industry

Report of Tony Tyler on the Air Transport Industry

―International civil aviation can greatly help to create and preserve

friendship and understanding among the nations and peoples of the

world

From the beginning both governments and industry conceived aviation

as a force for good

Aviation makes our world a better place In doing so it supports 63

million jobs and underpins 35 of global GDP

Airlines are engines of prosperity But they have long struggled to turn a

profit and reward investors That is beginning to change

This year we expect a collective net profit of $394 billion It will be only

the second year in our historymdashand the second in a rowmdashin which

airlines will make an aggregate return in excess of the cost of capital

After decades of capital destruction thatrsquos a significant achievement

But it is still just the minimum performance that investors expect

On average airlines will make $1042 for each passenger carried

Overall despite generally adverse economic conditions it is a good

time for the air transport industry

-Consumers are getting great deals and lots of choice

-Investors are beginning to see reasonable rewards for the capital

they risk

-And airlines are able to make critical investments and shore-up their

resilience by paying down debtmdashalthough it will take several years of

solid profitability to fix most balance sheets properly

2

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Our success as an industry rests on areas where we work together

the foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability Each is strong but not without challenges

In bringing my remarks to a close I want to reflect on the power of

partnership

Partnership is essential for the continuous reinforcement of the

foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability

Itrsquos also important for our 264 members and the entire value chain to

work together Because together we can send a proud message that

aviation is a force for good And we can do more good when tax

burdens and infrastructure constraints are removed and when the

principles of Smarter Regulation are applied properly

The framework for our modern industry was built by governments and

airlines with a common vision that safe regular and economical air

transport would benefit the peoples of the world by creating and

preserving friendships and understanding With more than 100 years

of history behind us we can confidently say that aviation has made the

world a better place

We have done that by unleashing an irreversible and ever-more

accessible capability to explore the world in which we live to improve

our lives with unprecedented mobility and to grow prosperity by doing

business globally

People are thirsty for the opportunities that aviation makes possible

Every day we safely transport ten million people and 140000 tonnes of

cargo We are not just connecting people and shifting goods our

work is building a better future for the peoples of the world

Aviationrsquos potential has never been more inspiring We are privileged

to lead an industry that is a force for good

3

atnaero

At the CEO Panel Insight Debate discussion moderated by Richard Quest the

following CEOs participated Bernard Gustin CEO Brussels Airlines (BG) Ed

Bastian CEO Delta Air Lines (ED) Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group and Charamporn Jotikasthira

President of Thai Airways the issue of the security and aircraft tracking was

discussed in the view of the Brussels terrorist attack and the Egyptair 804 flight

going down into the water

The Brussels Airlines CEO said that the Brussels disaster which came after a

very good year for the airlines gave him the opportunity to experience the

amazing reaction of the airlinersquo s staff and the importance of aviation as

Brussels remained 12 days without an airport Being members of the Lufthansa

group they were able to put the long haul to Zurich and Frankfurt and useδ

provincial airport in Liege and Antwerp for local traffic When asked whether

security needs to be readdressed he answered that the risk arose before

security checks and this has to be solved with the Intelligence systems They

imposed after the disaster some extremely strong measures only to realize after

a few days that they were not appropriate He added that they need to continue

to analyze the security process and do risk analysis but have pertinent

measures and apply them consistently across the board

In the US on the other hand the situation is different the security procedures

imposed by the TSA make passengers be delayed or misconnected The

problem has taken such extent that many airports are considering replacing or

supplanting TSA When asked Ed Bastian CEO for Delta Air Lines said that

they have realized the problem and that they will deal with that and added that

they as an airline did a lot to manage the issue they innovated queuing process

in Atlanta that they paid for themselves which is going to have 50 reduction

in how long it takes travelers to get through checkpoints

As the question of security in Asia has again been raised in terms of its being

efficient and effective or not Charamporn Jotikasthira President of Thai

Airways agreed that there is a need to improve over time as there are ways to

hack systems there is a need for a system that can detect faster more

accurately with more quality

Jayne Hrdlicka CEO of Jetstar Group answered questions related to the

investment of low-cost airlines in security She answered that it is the airlinersquos

job to ensure that the security that is provided for in the airports they operate

meets the standards that we have set for ourselves Since in several of the

airports they are operating in the situation is not to these standards they take

responsibility for the safety and security of their people and customers to make

sure that the standards are consistent across the network

4

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Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline in his turn when expressing

his view on about aviation security in general he said that the industry

is not doing enough although there have been so many wake up calls in

the last couple of years He said that it is easy for government agencies

and organizations to blame on austerity their inability to fund the

security apparatus and the systems and procedures but the aviation

industry has to come up with a new set of protocols that ensure

security for the travelling public and consumers The industry has to

cooperate with governmental agencies to identify the possibilities of

people actually doing such attacks He added that industry has to adopt

far more readily the technological advances that are being made

available to streamline the processes but at the same time increase the

level of scrutiny He stressed the need for flow of information between

countries so as to have a more homogeneous intelligence service

When asked about airline tracking he admitted that the fact that the

problems in trying to locate an aircraft that has had a major incidence

―is a disgrace― These incidents impose on the industry a need to be

able to track aircraft at every point on their journey which as he said

Emirates does anyway within 15-20 minutes they know where all the

airlinersquos aircraft are where they fly or on the ground at the same

time He added that the manufacturers too need to come up with the

data records both CVR and cockpit voice recorders and flight data

recorders that have to be far more robust able to survive intact and

with much more power to develop beacons and locating systems in

very remote areas on the sea or in the river

When faced with the remark that six years have passed since the flight

370 incident and still the industry is unable to locate missing aircraft

and many experts argue that the airlines are reluctant to spend the

money on tracking and streaming of data they all agreed that it is not a

financial issue and the only question is a question of governance The

industry has to come to a consensus and agree on common standards

for example at what frequency the aircraft will be sending it out tracking

information the industry is waiting for an ICAO solution that everyone

is going to adopt They all agreed though that irrespective of the cost it

has to be done because as Sir Tim Clark put it ―Not to do it is

delinquency

5

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When Richard Quest asked them about results and yields because airlines seem to

be that making good money they all claim the yield is under pressure and to

comment on the influence of the lower fuel price Ed Bastian said that capacity has

grown over the last few years driven by the dramatic reduction in oil prices The

pressure seen on yield is a reflection of the growing capacity He commented he

does not focus only on yield but looks at other aspects and metrics to understand

the underlying health of the industry demand is very strong especially in the US and

fuel prices are stabilizing and the airline making record margins

Bernard Gustin said when fuel prices gets up again the airlines will not be able to put

it back in the yield so they need to keep a business plan both with the current fuel

price as well as with the old fuel price especially in their case since their competitors

in Brussels are low cost carriers such as Ryanair and Easyjet

When Jetstarrsquos CEO was asked whether there is unconstrained growth of capacity

she answered that the growth of capacity ahead of underlying demand is not

irrational when margins are attractive and costs well managed and strong return in

invested capital

Sir Tim Clark said that the true causes behind yield suppression need to be

examined The lowering of the fuel prices was good news but they failed to foresee

that the corporate sectors that drive many of the upper echelons of the yield will go

with the oil prices That brought us some difficulties Then there was a currency

issue the strength of the US as the airline generates a large part of income on

currencies that move south of the dollar that affected the yield too Third the

addition of capacity means extension of the revenue of greater distances which

causes yield dilution On the other hand while there is flat line projection for global

economy demand for airtravel is increasing at 6 7 8 in several areas including the

Middle East there is also an explosion of growth in the US domestic market This

means the airline backfills inventory with more passengers because demand is there

Their airline needs to adjust its business to the practical long-term change and this is

low yield the airline can do it He announced that Emirates will 14 more A380s to

their fleet of 79

Thai Airwaysrsquos President said that their problem was of a different nature as they

unable to fill the aircraft as much as the others and their load factors were 4-5

lower than the average they will first fix that and and then deal with the other

problems

When the discussion turned to the question whether there will more manufactures of

aircraft and more choice in the future Ed Bastian supported Deltarsquos decision to buy

CS100s Bombardier and commented that they have been long time customers of

their small and larger regional jets because they technologically and engine-wise

efficient and reliable and they were given good financial terms He also predicted that

more airlines will consider acquiring Bombardier C-series aircraft

6

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As Emirates are mostly wide body operator Sir Tim Clark said

they already have good choice between Boeing and Airbus

which answer their needs with regard to the mission and the

type of product the airline wants to offer He wished ―good

luck to any manufacturer wishing to enter the market them if

they get over the barriers to entry

Jane Hrdlicka said she expects see innovation coming in in the

form of technology of the airframe and a strong Chinese

manufacturer which means there will be more choice in two

decades from now than today

Then Richard Quest asked questions each airline individually

He asked whether Brussels Airlines will be around in two years

from now Bernand Gustin the airline will be there and will have

the same operation model but more powerful with the power of

a major aviation group Lufthansa group behind it In the past

airlines had to choose to be point-to-point or connecting Low

cost or service airline bur Brussels airline We tries to reconcile

those dimensions and they have positioned themselves a

hybrid airline People do not want to pay but they want a level

of service and even the low cost carriers are investing now in

service As for the name of airline he said that the airline will be

called what has value for the customer as it has been proven

with the airlinersquos Africa routes The airline played a crucial role

during the Ebola crisis and has gained its value as a brand in

Africa that it did not have before when it was Sabena He

stressed that a brand is something that responds to a customer

need a brand name that responds best to the Belgian customer

the European customer and the African customer and the US

customers which are the markets the airlines serves

7

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Thai Airwaysrsquo president was asked about the airlinersquos strategy to deal with

their problems He answered that they have a two-year reform programme

they have already achieved a profit margin 12 on sales so they are on track

reform plan They intend to remain a full service carrier with a major very

efficient hub He added that they realised after following the developments of

the last years that the ecosystem has been changing a lot as all demand

coming into Thailand has been point-to-point to secondary cities They

operate in one the fastest growing regions in terms of demand near India

and China but the demand is becoming point-to-point which means that the

model that the airline was following in the past has to be changed When

asked whether they will need a partner and more particularly a Gulf partner to

do your long haul European routes he answered that if the market is India

China and Asia and there is going to be more and more point-to-point service

they will have to be bigger They may need partners of some sort some form

of alliance but I this alliance will not be as the ones of the past In the past a

big airline in Europe a big airline in Japan could connect throughout the

world but this area is a non-united area there are many states there is

Myanmar Thailand Vietnam so the partnership will most probably be

bilateral

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group was asked how Qantas managed so

successfully to incorporate a low-cost or a low-fare branch as some call it

She answered that they did it by really understanding their customers and

recognising that there is a part of the market that is hungry for full service and

is prepared to pay a premium to get it but there is an equal part of the market

that was not able to travel because the fares were too high and would prefer

choice on how they travel and be able to pay for what they use What they

have done is effectively build a new brand that focuses squarely on that

customer group and have protected the integrity by not trying to blur the line

and keeping them very separate operationally commercially and

strategically

Bernand Gustin was asked again whether Lufthansa has considered an

arrangement with an LCC for feed and he answered that first the airline needs

to substantially reduce its cost to be price competitive and this what they

have done There is no choice about that But as they come from a service

heritage airline and given that they will never be a cost leader they try to keep

a differentiation on service a service that really people want So they have

played on connectivity on the network and on the Belgian brand There is a

wish to have a specific brand As there are other very strong brands within the

Lufthansa group if they want to go further they need to have the power of the

group to be able to further reduce the cost to get the commercial critical

mass outside of Belgium Thatrsquos where the right mix needs to be found

8

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Deltarsquos CEO was asked How a giant airline accommodates the new reality

of all those LCCs Ot which he answered that they do it through

segmentation within the aircraft they have introduced a product called

―basic economy for price sensitive types of travelling within the US

They are still experimenting with it as it is relatively new and the

technology solution on it is complicated Within the two they have to

accommodate the low fare end and the highly sensitive business

traveller that is willing to pay a premium and a couple of stages between

the two But it a much wider question the airline needs to find who he

wants to be so they have moved upscale they are not a commodity

player and they generated a 10 premium in relation to the other US

carriers He stressed that ―If we were to be a commodity player we would

not be around today He admits that they have to accommodate a

commodity component for the travel sector but they are not a

commodity As the carry two million passengers a year that pay a 10

premium on average they have proven our point

Jetstarrsquos CEP pointed that both fares are not commoditised any more

Airlines have to look at what customers want choice is definitely

important for all customers and choice for people who are looking for

value matters a lot She said that their airline also extracts a relative 15

premium in relation to competition because they do not view themselves

as a commodity product They invest heavily in the brand in the

experience in ways that the customers value and are prepared to pay for

it and give them the choice to custom design their experience

The Brussels Airlinesrsquos CEO added that segmentation and differentiation

is key When their airline starts with a start price of 39 euros one way and

has a very vocal pure low cost competitor at 21 euro for the same thing

the solution is to claim that it offers service as there is a whole heritage

that exists besides While the price is key people say ―I want to know

what I choose The pure commodity product that happened a few years

is going away but when there is a heritage of service that can help you

differentiate yourself then there is potential to make the difference

Brussels has all the LCCs of the world but Brussels Airlines grew by 30

more in the last two years

9

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Richard Quest then turned to Emirates CEO and asked him how they

accomodate with the LCCs that can offer feed from them into their long

haul services Sir Tim Clark answered that LCCs are here to stay they

continue to grow their business they have been a significant player in

the way civil aviation has developed in the last years giving consumers

a very good choice As long as the air industry business keeps the

consumers at the heart of the business and it does what they are

guiding to do then there is place for everybody The

differentiation whether it is between low cost and full service long haul

or short haul is something the industry has to adapt to accept and

encourage It is part of civil aviation After all it is the travelling public

who benefits from LCC existence The legacy carriers as they are

called have to adapt and work with them In terms of establishing a

lower cost arm for Emirates he answered ―no but he added that they

would work with them and they do They have very good relationships

with the Low Cost operators because they bring lots more people into

the market the whole principle was tapping incipient demand that

could not afford the levels of fares that were available prior to their

existence What they did is that they brought efficiency fleet efficiency

technological efficiency distribution efficiency and suddenly a new

branch of air transport industry was found ―To not work with makes no

sense

When asked about what new things they can offer to the upper end of

the market they all agreed that it is the soft goods that matter after all

Everyone can buy the hard goods but the airlines invest now in

relationship building Delta said its CEO can boast on its relationship

with corporate travelers and the fact they have one of the lowest

maintenance cancellation records They give the business traveler what

he needs dependability reliability quality to arrive on time with their

bags he added that there is a lot of technology and process behind it

but more than that a lot of willpower and culture

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Jetstarrsquos CEO said that invest a lot in their people both in full service

and in low cost training helping them to build skills relationships with

the customer Jetstar wants to enable customers to enjoy the ability of

pick and choose both to bundle and to unbundle

Emiratesrsquo CEO said that the airline spends an awful lot of time and

money on our premium product and the public knows about it and they

have always done that and they will continue to do it As soon as

things mature they will change to make things more interesting they

will be raising the bar for the consumers the business community

because ―we can do it

Panel discussion on Cyber Security

The panelists were Major General Linda Urrutia-Varhall the Assistant

Deputy Chief of Staff Director of National Intelligence for Aviation

Security in the US Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance the

Pentagon Washington DC Anja Kaspersen Head of International

Security for the World Economic Forum Alan Pellegrini CEO and

President of Thales USA Matthew Finn Managing Director of

Augmentiq Calin Rovinescu President and CEO of Air Canada and

Kurt Pipal FBI Assistant Legal Attache for US Embassy in the UK

They all agreed that aviation being a symbol of globalisation remains

an aspirational target for terrorists The interconnected nature of the

industry and interconnectibility of IT systems from baggage

movement to ticket kiosk and flight systems represent an ever growing

list of vulnerabilities and a whole brand new horizon of threats It is

however practically technologically and financially impossible to

address all the issues In the words of General Urrutia-Varhall the

interaction between actors threats and vulnerabilities can be viewed as

an ecosystem of forces in which ―we are as strong as our weakest link

No entity can go alone against these threats Airline industry

govenments domestic and international Intelligence community private

and public sectors should come together gather and share information

to characterise assess threats prioritise them and then act

appropriately

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Calin Rovinescu mentioned the ―very scary number that experts

estimate is the amount of damage caused last year by cyber hacks

was in the vicinity of US$500 million world wide and that 94

of global airlines had some form of cyber security breaches These

incidents were ―a real wake-up call for the industry Many of these

attacks were dealt with because airlines had good technology

protection but still these numbers make clear that as the industry

moves towards more automation seeking the interconnectiveness that

makes ir more efficient attack surfaces expand exponentially

Matthew Finn said businesses should look at security in a holistic way

He said there is currently a downward trend of documentation fraud

but an upward trend regarding identity theft

Alan Pellegrini said that the industy has seen recently an increasing

number of high profile hacks hacks in the wi-fi connectivity simply to

steal passenger information that is flowing over those networks a

hack into the ground systems of an airline to steal financial

transactions and information to collect the money the airline was

supposed to collect The threat is very real and although it has not

resulted to serious safety related issues it is resulting into serious

disrupting The fact that there has been no serious incident means

though that the industry is getting a lot of it right

Airlines now connect passengers to Wi-Fi on aircraft they add

connectivity to crews aircraft operations are connected on the

ground some are experimenting with cloud-based avionics controlling

aircraft operations The move towards more automation is inescepable

so the protection from cyber attackes To build such protection

requires a

a multi-year plan with responsibility at the highest level and

collaboration and information exchange between the aviation industry

and governments

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There are many technoloty tools Thales is working on to better protect

the connected aircraft but there is no ―silver bullet there is no one

piece of technology that is going to solve all the industry problems

because security is a process the same way threats are not static they

continue to evolve ―Technology is not done it continues monitoring

security operations centres are required to identify threats as they start

to materialize and to mitigate them and then go ahead and implement

addtional technology that is going to deal with new potential threats so

it is a continuous process

According to Calin Rovinescu ―No matter how complex and good

systems a company may have problems are not solved overnight and

aviation must develop a capability to respond and recover He pointed

out that aviation industry must look at and work with other industries

that have more maturity with cyber threats such as financial

institutions technology companies

The industry is very encouraged by the fact IATA is taking on this topic

to prevent serious disruption and perhaps safety issues later

Anja Kaspersen admitted that the threat is real but she added that there

is also ―fear mongering because of the commercial interests invested

in cyber security She stressed that the combination of ―ignorance and

unsubstantiated fear is dangerous and hampers preparedness She

cautioned airlines not to underestimate the psychological effect

should as as they live off their reputation Airlines have to respond to

customer expectations for security concerns

She added that aviation should work on the assumption that they

receiving both physical and cyber attacks and and therefore work on

how to protect the systems with more advanced software and develop

some translation tools to compare traditional and new risks

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Kurt Pipal pointed as airline companies possess and deal with huge

amounts of data they become by definition a target for industrial

espionage He cautioned companies to be very careful about

subcontractors which do necessarily rely on the same system

resilience He stressed the importance of sharing intelligence

information in the industry Build awareness and do not have a silo

approach Identify your vulnerabilities and make the assumption that

you are going to be hacked Participate in a 247 securities operation

centre and called the aviation to Occasionally even use a so-called

dark agent - a hacker to test your system Companies do fire drills so

why do they not do cyber security drills toolaquo

The Panel on the Climate Change Goals brought together

representatives from industry academia and NGOs to discuss the

progress on the climate change goals the aviation industry faces and

what is needed to reach them The industry has to achieve a goal of

climate neutral growth from 2020 but also the long-term target of cutting

net CO2 emissions by half by 2050 compared to 2005 levels

The panelists were Angela Gittens Director General of Airports Council

International Alan Joyce Qantas CEO Patrick de Castelbajac CEO of

aircraft manufacturer ATR John-Paul Clarke professor at Georgia

Institute of Technology and Tim Johnson of the International Coalition

for Sustainable Aviation

2050 might seeem a long way off but due to industry time lags therersquos

only around 10 years left to figure out how to reach the goal according

to John-Paul Clarke

They all agreed that the industry in all its supply chain-manufacturers

airports infrastructure airlines- must come together to work in a

concerted way to achieve how to go about achieveing these goals A

holistic perspective is needed as the industry stakeholders all are in

direct dependency and the example od a fuel efficient aircraft that

cannot operate efficiently because the air traffic management is not

efficient They stressed that sustainable development is not a question

of being politically correct any more but a condition of the future

existence of the industry ―there is no other way than being

environmentally respectful said Patrick de Castelbajac

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He added that aircraft manufacturers do consider now the

environmental impact of their aircraft at every stage from design

through to the eventual end-of-life disposal ―There is also a greater

convergence between economic and environmental interests which we

can see clearly on fuel burn he said

New technology and new management must be both environmentally

and economically sustainable

The panelists agreed that passengers are passsionate about it and do

want to offset the environmental impact of their flight Alan Joyce

said that one passenger every minute selects a voluntary offset

program

Angela Gittens said that Airports have adopted the Carbon

Accreditation Programme a programme that provides airports with a

common framework for active carbon management with measurable

goal-postsand 20 airports are already carbon neutral She added ICAO

and IATA should undertake the role of coordinating bodies which will

monitor assess and pace the progress It is necessary because ―If you

canrsquot measure it you canrsquot manage it

Continuous transparent monitoring of what is been done by an

independent entity would bring credibility according to John-

Paul Clarke

The panelists also agreed that ICAO and IATA will have to meet the

challenge of balancing the different levels of maturity in terms

of environmental measures around the globe in other words those that

move more quickly with those that have been left behind

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Joyce said the new ICAO aircraft CO2 standard would drive

advances in aircraft and engine technology He complained

that although there had been advances in navigation

technology and procedures - such as the traffic control

satellite navigation approaches to airports that saved his

airline up to 60000 tons of fuel - progress had been slow in

improving Air Traffic management and developing ATC

infrastructure

He insisted though on the role of biofuels He stressed that

more studies should be undertaken on biofuels to make sure

that they are produced in environmentally friendly way

―Biofuels are the only way we are going to get to our 2050

target Itrsquos a question of how we as an industry can cooperate

and how we can get governments interested enough to put a

policy framework in place to make that happen Their

development and insertion in the value chain will require RampD

and help from governments and other industrial sectors

He called his government to support the local alternative

fuels industry that creates new jobs and brings

environmental benefits

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Tim Johnson cautioned that it should not become

an ―accountancy exercise where we see one

gallon of biofuel uplifted to an aircraft or a tonne

of CO2 offset as the way we measure progress

adding it was important to move beyond

quantification and just emissions and consider

the wider sustainable development agenda

Investment decisions needed to be taken now to

reach the industryrsquos 2050 target he suggested

and clarity was needed on what should happen

and by when ICAO market-based measure is

perfoming well but there must be emphasis on the

other three pillars required for aviation emissions

reductions ndash aircraft technology operations and

infrastructure

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powered aircraft leaves Seville for Cairo-Solar

MADRID July 11 (Xinhua) -- The aircraft Solar Impulse

II powered completely by solar energy on Monday left

the Spanish city of Seville to attempt to land in

on WednesdayEgyptCairo

The route will be between 48 and 72 hours long

depending on weather conditions This will be the

penultimate flight of the plane that will travel to Abu

Dhabi afterwards

Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard who have

been working on the aircraft for more than a decade

will pilot the aircraft Borschberg will pilot the plane

from Seville to Cairo crossing seven countries after

which Piccard will fly to Abu Dhabi

Borschberg said that the trip was meaningful as it is

my last flight in this round-the-world epic I am happy

that were close to the end but also prudent knowing

that it is not done yet I have to stay really focused

SpainThe aircraft had been in Seville in the south of

for two weeks after successfully crossing the Atlantic

Ocean

Solar Impulse II is able to fly night and day without any

fossil fuel It travels at between 45 and 55 kmhour

reaching an altitude of 8500 meters The plane is wider

than a 747 jumbo jet and weighs 23 tons

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Russias New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

A grand unveiling of the Irkut MC-21-300 on June 8

established a relatively firm project timeline for the

160- to 212-seat narrowbody and marked a measure

of vindication for what many in the West have

disparaged as a fringe project In attendance at the

ceremony Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

spoke of the prestige the program has brought to

the country as well as its importance to helping

move its economy forward He also congratulated

Irkutrsquos employees for their role in shaping the future

of Russiarsquos return to prominence in commercial

aircraft manufacturing

Expecting the MC-21 to gain Russian certification in

2018 United Aircraft subsidiary Irkut had hoped to

fly the first airplane by the end of this year

However during the rollout ceremony Medvedev

referenced plans for first flight ―within a year

and UAC officials acknowledged that a previously

quoted target might prove optimistic unless all goes

exactly to plan Rather that milestone appears most

likely to happen in or around February 2017

according to aUAC spokesman

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Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

2

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Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

3

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While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

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Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

5

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Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

الشركة القابضة -ادارة العالقات العامة

لمصر للطيران

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ذ 3رين ثشبغب زؾ٤و اغ٤بؽخ اذاخ٤خ ثـ قش ي٤شا اخ٤ظ

زذؽ٤ أ أجش ؽالرب ازؾ٤ي٤خ خال اع اق٤ل٢ قش ي٤شارغزؼذ ؽشخ

ثشػب٣خ ؽش٣ق كزؾ٢ ص٣ش اي٤شا اذ٢إعبصري ك٢ قشاؾب٢ رؾذ ؽؼبس

إ ين قش ي٤شاهب فلد غ سئ٤ظ غظ إداسح اؾشخ اوبثنخ ـ

ؽشؿ اؾشخ ػ٠ أداء غؤ٤زب رغب اى ك٢ غب رؾ٤و دػ اغ٤بؽخ اذاخ٤خ إ٠

بىن اغزة اغ٤بؽ٢ اقش٣خ ريشػ ؽشبرب غ٤بؽخ اشي اخيه اغ٣خ

3أ٣ب ثـ 4إغجش٣ظ ثبزؼب غ ثؼل البدم اجش ثشبغب ع٤بؽ٤ب زبال ذح

4ع٤ب لبدم 1095غ 3 ع٤ب لبدم ٤990ب ثأعؼبس ربكغ٤خ رجذأ

غ ك٢ ؽش اؾ٤خ اـشدهخ األهقش ؽبخ رزاش 5ع٤ب لبدم 1350غ

اي٤شا اإلهبخ

رشرت رظ ز اجشاظ قش ي٤شاأمبف غ ك٢ ث٤ب فؾل٢ ا٤ أ

اغ٤بؽ٤خ جبؽشح غ البدم ثؾش اؾ٤خ اـشدهخ األهقش ؾ٤شا إ٠ أ اوشس أ

عجزجش اوج ؾ٤شا إ٠ أ 5رجذأ اشؽالد اػزجبسا اخ٤ظ اوج رغزش ؽز٠

قش اؼالء ثوذس االعزلغبس ؽغض اجشبظ اوذ خال ص٣بسح كشع ؽشخ

غ٤بؽخ اشي أ االرقب ػ٠ شض اخذخ از٤ل٤خ ازبثغ ب ػ٠ سه ي٤شا

العززبع ثونبء ػيالر ك٢ ري اذ اغ٤بؽ٤خ اغبؽشح16175

ربثغ أ اؾشخ رزا٠ ػ روذ٣ اض٣ذ اؼشك ؼالئب اشا داخ قش

خبسعب خبفخ اؼشك ازش٣غ٤خ بىن اغزة اغ٤بؽ٢ دػب ب ؾشخ اغ٤بؽخ

عز ؾق قذس ثصاسح اغ٤بؽخ أ اصاسح رذػ ري اجبدساد از٢ رذف إ٠

رؾ٤و ؽشخ اغ٤بؽخ اذاخ٤خ رؼ ػ٠ إؼبػ البدم اعزشاس اؼ ثب خبفخ ك٢

ب٣ ابم٢ قش ك٢ هثباذ اغ٤بؽ٤خ ب ثأ ثؼذ ازبء اؼ ثجبدسح

اعخ زؾ٤و اغ٤بؽخ اذاخ٤خ ؼذ عد خققبد ب٤خ غت اإلؽـب ثزي اذ

ك٢ رشاعغ غزش اؼذ٣ذ البدم أؿوذ أثاثب ب ثأ اصاسح رذػ أ١ جبدساد

ززؾ٤و اؾشخ اغ٤بؽ٤خ ااكذح إ٠ اذ اقش٣خ عاء ع٤بؽخ داخ٤خ أ غزغجخ

اخبسط

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اغخ ال٤خ عزقذس زبئظ عذ٣ذح ؽ ايبئشح اثخ خال ص٣ش اي٤شا

أعبث٤غ

أذ ؽش٣ق كزؾ٠ ص٣ش اي٤شا أ ازؾ٤الد ال٤خ ثؾأ ايبئشح اقش٣خ

اثخ بصاذ عبس٣خ عبس ؽب٤ب اشثو ث٤ اؼبد أعضح ازغغ٤

اخزلخ ؾ٤شا إ٠ أ خال األعبث٤غ اوجخ عزقذس اغخ ث٤بب ؽ ثؼل

بصب غزش٣ ك٠ اجؾش ازبئظ از٠ عززف ب ز٤غخ زا اشثو ن٤لب

ػ أؽالء انؾب٣ب هب ثذ اؼ ثغل٤خ اجؾش ضب٠ شح عؼب يبم

اجؾش شر٤ ؽز٠ ٣ م٤شب شربؽب زشى أ٣خ اؽالء ألب غئ٤خ

أؽذاس أمبف ص٣ش اي٤شا خال ذاخخ برل٤خ غ ثشبظ أخاله٤خ

ػذب ؾخ وق ا٤ االص٤ ابسازاع ػ٠ كنبئ٤خ ابس

مؾب أ ايبئشح وب ري ٤ظ ب٣خ اؼب كبى د ض٤شح رلؼ ري

أ ؽشخ قش ي٤شا أعشد 100خشعذ بب ثزوش٣ش ك٠

هج اقؼد أ٣ ا٠ ص ب هب ازبةاق٤بخ ػ٠ أ ع ثؼ٠

إ٠ أب اعزيؼب إثشا ارلبه٤بد كزؾ٠أؽبس د عبثن ألا ؽق كم

غ كبدم ثؾش اؾ٤خ اـشدهخ زؾ٤و اغ٤بؽخ غزض األهقش أعا

مؾب أ اخيح اوبدخ ع٤ رؾ٤و إعبصري ك٠ قش ثشبظ

أذ ص٣ش اي٤شا أ اغ٤بؽخ اخبسط اجشبظ ؽب٤ب ثبألعؼبس اؾ٤خ

غزشح ثؼذ اق٤ق أب هب ثبجبدسح دػب إعبصري ك٠ قشجبدسح

غ٤بؽخ ثؼ٤ذا ػ اشثؼ أع رؾش٣ي ا٤ب اشاذح رؾ٤و اغ٤بؽخ

إ ؽبء اذاخ٤خ ؾ٤شا إ٠ أ قش ي٤شا رغزخذ إب٤برب به هبئال

أ٠ خياد ازؾ٤و ثبزؼب غ صاسح إعبصري ك٠ قشاهلل عف ر

اغ٤بؽخ

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قش ي٤شاؽش روالد ثبخذبد اغ٣خ ك٢

اوبثنخ قش ي٤شا هشاسا اؾشخأفذس فلد غ سئ٤ظ

قش ي٤شا ثؾشخثؾش روالد رشه٤بد داخ٤خ عذ٣ذح

ك٢ أع ري٣ش اؼ إؽال دبء ؽبثخ اغ٣خخذبد

اهغ ه٤بد٣خ ػذ٣ذح

قت غبػذ سئ٤ظ غظ إداسح اخذبد دعه٠ر٠ ىبسم

٤بص سأكذ سئ٤ظ هيبع ازؾـ٤ خلب ثؼذ أ ب اغ٣خ

٣ؾـ قت ذ٣ش ػب اؾشػبد اخبص

ذ٣ش ػب ازخي٤و قت ذ٣ش ػب إداسح اؾ٤خب ر٠ ىبسم

اخبص ث٤ب ر٠ ؽبص ػجذ اشؽ ذ٣ش إداسح اؼ٤بد

قت ذ٣ش إداسح از٣ ؽـ ؽه٠ اؾؾبد قت ذ٣ش

ثؼذ أ ب ٣ؾـ قت ذ٣ش إداسح إلزبطاإلداسح اؼب

از٣ ثبؾشخ

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Qatar Airways flying high

July 11 - Qatar Airways Cargo has reported a record

2016 fiscal year growing to the third-largest cargo

operator in the word and increasing its freighter

destinations to 54

Qatar Airways Cargo added Dallas Budapest Prague

Ho Chi Minh City and New York to its network in the

period ending March 31 2016 increasing its available

tonnage worldwide Its fleet is expected to grow to 22

aircraft by 2017

Overall Qatar Airways Group posted an operating

profit of QAR3 billion (USD823 million) for the 2016

fiscal year - nearly three times higher than its 2015

fiscal year profit

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United Airlines plane blows two tires when pilot halts takeoff in Houston

A United Airlines plane blew out two of its tires

when a pilot abruptly stopped its takeoff from a

Houston airport due to concerns about a

possible mechanical problem

Airport officials say the Boeing 737 was taking

off from Bush Intercontinental Airport to Denver

at around 6 am Monday when the planes crew

spotted a possible mechanical malfunction and

the pilot slammed the brakes

Two of the planes tires blew out as the aircraft

came to a stop

No injuries were reported among the 164

passengers and six crew members

Passengers got off the plane were taken back

to a terminal and later boarded another aircraft

that left for Denver

It was not immediately known what mechanical

problem the plane might have experienced

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Max in place of Airbus CEO says737 Qatar Airways considering Boeing

purchasing a Qatar Airways says it is in talks about

Max aircraft 737 ) 61+BAof Boeing (large number

amid a dispute with Airbus

over unresolved ) OTCPKEADSYOTCPKEADSF(

faults with its A320neo model

The airline which has canceled delivery of one

A320neo due to glitches with engines made by Pratt

until the will continue rejecting the planeamp Whitney

issues are fixed CEO Akbar Al Baker said today at

the Farnborough International Airshow

The airline CEO also is concerned about delivery

rates of Airbusrsquos A350 wide-body and says he is not

sure that Airbus will be able to meet its target of

handing more than 50 of the model to customers this

year

httpwwwbloombergcom

neos320s in Place of A737Boeing 30 Qatar Airways Looks at Up to

Qatar Airways is in discussions about purchasing as many as

30 Boeing Co 737 airliners amid a dispute with Airbus Group

SE over unresolved faults with its A320neo model

The carrier which has canceled delivery of one A320neo due to

glitches with engines made by Pratt amp Whitney will continue

rejecting the plane until the issues are fixed Chief Executive

Officer Akbar Al Baker said Monday at the Farnborough

International Airshow outside London The No 2 Persian Gulf

airline is focusing on potentially switching planes and hasnrsquot

made progress on talks about swapping to the A320neorsquos

alternative engine made by the CFM venture of General Electric

Co and Safran SA he said

Qatar Airways is looking at both the NG and the upcoming

Max versions of the single-aisle 737 Al Baker said The

Max scheduled to enter service in 2017 will be Boeingrsquos

direct rival to the A320neo and any inroads by the US

planemaker would be a coup Airbus has said that United

Technologies Corprsquos Pratt has begun supplying engines that

have fixed the cooling flaws and will begin delivering planes

equipped with those powerplants this month

The airline is also concerned about delivery rates of Airbusrsquos

A350 wide-body Al Baker said adding that he isnrsquot sure the

European manufacturer will be able to meet its target of

handing over 50 of the model to customers this year Qatar

Airways has only received one A350 out of 10 scheduled to

be delivered this year

httpmgdnonlinecom

A Qatar Airways flight bound to Doha from Oslo

Norway made an emergency landing in the

Romanian capital of Bucharest yesterday (July

9 )due to a fault in one of its engines said a

report

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner which was carrying

some 254 passengers was forced to change

course one hour into the flight and was diverted

to Bucharests Henri Coanda International

Airport Doha Newsreported

A replacement aircraft was dispatched to

Bucharest and the flight resumed its course

following an almost 12-hour delay

The new plane also a 787 landed in Doha at

425am this morning the report said

Qatar Business

Qatar Airways flight makes emergency landing in

Romania

atnaero

nd IATA AGM and World Air Transport Summit72

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) opened its 72nd

Annual General Meeting (AGM) and World Air Transport Summit in

Dublin Ireland

―Ireland is a great aviation country and the perfect location for the

industryrsquos leaders to meet Aviation is a force for good This year

airlines will safely transport 38 billion passengers and 52 million

tonnes of cargo That will stimulate economies and spread prosperity

But aviation faces challenges in providing the safe secure efficient

and sustainable connectivity that the world depends on The next two

days are an opportunity to work together as an industry to make flying

even better said Tony Tyler IATArsquos Director General and CEO

In his keynote address Dr Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu President of the

Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) said

―IATA and ICAO have enjoyed several decades of productive colla

boration

More recently wersquove been engaged on a number of important priorities

including among others

bullFlight tracking procedures

bullConflict zone risk management

bullThe safe integration of remotely-piloted and suborbital flight

operations

bullCybersecurity preparedness

bullIncreased airspace capacity and operational efficiency

bullThe safe carriage of lithium batteries

bullAnd of course the environment

1

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IATA has been a great ally in ICAOrsquos efforts to ensure that the decisions

of our Member States are forward-looking and in

line with the current and future needs of the industry

Report of Tony Tyler on the Air Transport Industry

―International civil aviation can greatly help to create and preserve

friendship and understanding among the nations and peoples of the

world

From the beginning both governments and industry conceived aviation

as a force for good

Aviation makes our world a better place In doing so it supports 63

million jobs and underpins 35 of global GDP

Airlines are engines of prosperity But they have long struggled to turn a

profit and reward investors That is beginning to change

This year we expect a collective net profit of $394 billion It will be only

the second year in our historymdashand the second in a rowmdashin which

airlines will make an aggregate return in excess of the cost of capital

After decades of capital destruction thatrsquos a significant achievement

But it is still just the minimum performance that investors expect

On average airlines will make $1042 for each passenger carried

Overall despite generally adverse economic conditions it is a good

time for the air transport industry

-Consumers are getting great deals and lots of choice

-Investors are beginning to see reasonable rewards for the capital

they risk

-And airlines are able to make critical investments and shore-up their

resilience by paying down debtmdashalthough it will take several years of

solid profitability to fix most balance sheets properly

2

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Our success as an industry rests on areas where we work together

the foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability Each is strong but not without challenges

In bringing my remarks to a close I want to reflect on the power of

partnership

Partnership is essential for the continuous reinforcement of the

foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability

Itrsquos also important for our 264 members and the entire value chain to

work together Because together we can send a proud message that

aviation is a force for good And we can do more good when tax

burdens and infrastructure constraints are removed and when the

principles of Smarter Regulation are applied properly

The framework for our modern industry was built by governments and

airlines with a common vision that safe regular and economical air

transport would benefit the peoples of the world by creating and

preserving friendships and understanding With more than 100 years

of history behind us we can confidently say that aviation has made the

world a better place

We have done that by unleashing an irreversible and ever-more

accessible capability to explore the world in which we live to improve

our lives with unprecedented mobility and to grow prosperity by doing

business globally

People are thirsty for the opportunities that aviation makes possible

Every day we safely transport ten million people and 140000 tonnes of

cargo We are not just connecting people and shifting goods our

work is building a better future for the peoples of the world

Aviationrsquos potential has never been more inspiring We are privileged

to lead an industry that is a force for good

3

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At the CEO Panel Insight Debate discussion moderated by Richard Quest the

following CEOs participated Bernard Gustin CEO Brussels Airlines (BG) Ed

Bastian CEO Delta Air Lines (ED) Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group and Charamporn Jotikasthira

President of Thai Airways the issue of the security and aircraft tracking was

discussed in the view of the Brussels terrorist attack and the Egyptair 804 flight

going down into the water

The Brussels Airlines CEO said that the Brussels disaster which came after a

very good year for the airlines gave him the opportunity to experience the

amazing reaction of the airlinersquo s staff and the importance of aviation as

Brussels remained 12 days without an airport Being members of the Lufthansa

group they were able to put the long haul to Zurich and Frankfurt and useδ

provincial airport in Liege and Antwerp for local traffic When asked whether

security needs to be readdressed he answered that the risk arose before

security checks and this has to be solved with the Intelligence systems They

imposed after the disaster some extremely strong measures only to realize after

a few days that they were not appropriate He added that they need to continue

to analyze the security process and do risk analysis but have pertinent

measures and apply them consistently across the board

In the US on the other hand the situation is different the security procedures

imposed by the TSA make passengers be delayed or misconnected The

problem has taken such extent that many airports are considering replacing or

supplanting TSA When asked Ed Bastian CEO for Delta Air Lines said that

they have realized the problem and that they will deal with that and added that

they as an airline did a lot to manage the issue they innovated queuing process

in Atlanta that they paid for themselves which is going to have 50 reduction

in how long it takes travelers to get through checkpoints

As the question of security in Asia has again been raised in terms of its being

efficient and effective or not Charamporn Jotikasthira President of Thai

Airways agreed that there is a need to improve over time as there are ways to

hack systems there is a need for a system that can detect faster more

accurately with more quality

Jayne Hrdlicka CEO of Jetstar Group answered questions related to the

investment of low-cost airlines in security She answered that it is the airlinersquos

job to ensure that the security that is provided for in the airports they operate

meets the standards that we have set for ourselves Since in several of the

airports they are operating in the situation is not to these standards they take

responsibility for the safety and security of their people and customers to make

sure that the standards are consistent across the network

4

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Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline in his turn when expressing

his view on about aviation security in general he said that the industry

is not doing enough although there have been so many wake up calls in

the last couple of years He said that it is easy for government agencies

and organizations to blame on austerity their inability to fund the

security apparatus and the systems and procedures but the aviation

industry has to come up with a new set of protocols that ensure

security for the travelling public and consumers The industry has to

cooperate with governmental agencies to identify the possibilities of

people actually doing such attacks He added that industry has to adopt

far more readily the technological advances that are being made

available to streamline the processes but at the same time increase the

level of scrutiny He stressed the need for flow of information between

countries so as to have a more homogeneous intelligence service

When asked about airline tracking he admitted that the fact that the

problems in trying to locate an aircraft that has had a major incidence

―is a disgrace― These incidents impose on the industry a need to be

able to track aircraft at every point on their journey which as he said

Emirates does anyway within 15-20 minutes they know where all the

airlinersquos aircraft are where they fly or on the ground at the same

time He added that the manufacturers too need to come up with the

data records both CVR and cockpit voice recorders and flight data

recorders that have to be far more robust able to survive intact and

with much more power to develop beacons and locating systems in

very remote areas on the sea or in the river

When faced with the remark that six years have passed since the flight

370 incident and still the industry is unable to locate missing aircraft

and many experts argue that the airlines are reluctant to spend the

money on tracking and streaming of data they all agreed that it is not a

financial issue and the only question is a question of governance The

industry has to come to a consensus and agree on common standards

for example at what frequency the aircraft will be sending it out tracking

information the industry is waiting for an ICAO solution that everyone

is going to adopt They all agreed though that irrespective of the cost it

has to be done because as Sir Tim Clark put it ―Not to do it is

delinquency

5

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When Richard Quest asked them about results and yields because airlines seem to

be that making good money they all claim the yield is under pressure and to

comment on the influence of the lower fuel price Ed Bastian said that capacity has

grown over the last few years driven by the dramatic reduction in oil prices The

pressure seen on yield is a reflection of the growing capacity He commented he

does not focus only on yield but looks at other aspects and metrics to understand

the underlying health of the industry demand is very strong especially in the US and

fuel prices are stabilizing and the airline making record margins

Bernard Gustin said when fuel prices gets up again the airlines will not be able to put

it back in the yield so they need to keep a business plan both with the current fuel

price as well as with the old fuel price especially in their case since their competitors

in Brussels are low cost carriers such as Ryanair and Easyjet

When Jetstarrsquos CEO was asked whether there is unconstrained growth of capacity

she answered that the growth of capacity ahead of underlying demand is not

irrational when margins are attractive and costs well managed and strong return in

invested capital

Sir Tim Clark said that the true causes behind yield suppression need to be

examined The lowering of the fuel prices was good news but they failed to foresee

that the corporate sectors that drive many of the upper echelons of the yield will go

with the oil prices That brought us some difficulties Then there was a currency

issue the strength of the US as the airline generates a large part of income on

currencies that move south of the dollar that affected the yield too Third the

addition of capacity means extension of the revenue of greater distances which

causes yield dilution On the other hand while there is flat line projection for global

economy demand for airtravel is increasing at 6 7 8 in several areas including the

Middle East there is also an explosion of growth in the US domestic market This

means the airline backfills inventory with more passengers because demand is there

Their airline needs to adjust its business to the practical long-term change and this is

low yield the airline can do it He announced that Emirates will 14 more A380s to

their fleet of 79

Thai Airwaysrsquos President said that their problem was of a different nature as they

unable to fill the aircraft as much as the others and their load factors were 4-5

lower than the average they will first fix that and and then deal with the other

problems

When the discussion turned to the question whether there will more manufactures of

aircraft and more choice in the future Ed Bastian supported Deltarsquos decision to buy

CS100s Bombardier and commented that they have been long time customers of

their small and larger regional jets because they technologically and engine-wise

efficient and reliable and they were given good financial terms He also predicted that

more airlines will consider acquiring Bombardier C-series aircraft

6

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As Emirates are mostly wide body operator Sir Tim Clark said

they already have good choice between Boeing and Airbus

which answer their needs with regard to the mission and the

type of product the airline wants to offer He wished ―good

luck to any manufacturer wishing to enter the market them if

they get over the barriers to entry

Jane Hrdlicka said she expects see innovation coming in in the

form of technology of the airframe and a strong Chinese

manufacturer which means there will be more choice in two

decades from now than today

Then Richard Quest asked questions each airline individually

He asked whether Brussels Airlines will be around in two years

from now Bernand Gustin the airline will be there and will have

the same operation model but more powerful with the power of

a major aviation group Lufthansa group behind it In the past

airlines had to choose to be point-to-point or connecting Low

cost or service airline bur Brussels airline We tries to reconcile

those dimensions and they have positioned themselves a

hybrid airline People do not want to pay but they want a level

of service and even the low cost carriers are investing now in

service As for the name of airline he said that the airline will be

called what has value for the customer as it has been proven

with the airlinersquos Africa routes The airline played a crucial role

during the Ebola crisis and has gained its value as a brand in

Africa that it did not have before when it was Sabena He

stressed that a brand is something that responds to a customer

need a brand name that responds best to the Belgian customer

the European customer and the African customer and the US

customers which are the markets the airlines serves

7

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Thai Airwaysrsquo president was asked about the airlinersquos strategy to deal with

their problems He answered that they have a two-year reform programme

they have already achieved a profit margin 12 on sales so they are on track

reform plan They intend to remain a full service carrier with a major very

efficient hub He added that they realised after following the developments of

the last years that the ecosystem has been changing a lot as all demand

coming into Thailand has been point-to-point to secondary cities They

operate in one the fastest growing regions in terms of demand near India

and China but the demand is becoming point-to-point which means that the

model that the airline was following in the past has to be changed When

asked whether they will need a partner and more particularly a Gulf partner to

do your long haul European routes he answered that if the market is India

China and Asia and there is going to be more and more point-to-point service

they will have to be bigger They may need partners of some sort some form

of alliance but I this alliance will not be as the ones of the past In the past a

big airline in Europe a big airline in Japan could connect throughout the

world but this area is a non-united area there are many states there is

Myanmar Thailand Vietnam so the partnership will most probably be

bilateral

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group was asked how Qantas managed so

successfully to incorporate a low-cost or a low-fare branch as some call it

She answered that they did it by really understanding their customers and

recognising that there is a part of the market that is hungry for full service and

is prepared to pay a premium to get it but there is an equal part of the market

that was not able to travel because the fares were too high and would prefer

choice on how they travel and be able to pay for what they use What they

have done is effectively build a new brand that focuses squarely on that

customer group and have protected the integrity by not trying to blur the line

and keeping them very separate operationally commercially and

strategically

Bernand Gustin was asked again whether Lufthansa has considered an

arrangement with an LCC for feed and he answered that first the airline needs

to substantially reduce its cost to be price competitive and this what they

have done There is no choice about that But as they come from a service

heritage airline and given that they will never be a cost leader they try to keep

a differentiation on service a service that really people want So they have

played on connectivity on the network and on the Belgian brand There is a

wish to have a specific brand As there are other very strong brands within the

Lufthansa group if they want to go further they need to have the power of the

group to be able to further reduce the cost to get the commercial critical

mass outside of Belgium Thatrsquos where the right mix needs to be found

8

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Deltarsquos CEO was asked How a giant airline accommodates the new reality

of all those LCCs Ot which he answered that they do it through

segmentation within the aircraft they have introduced a product called

―basic economy for price sensitive types of travelling within the US

They are still experimenting with it as it is relatively new and the

technology solution on it is complicated Within the two they have to

accommodate the low fare end and the highly sensitive business

traveller that is willing to pay a premium and a couple of stages between

the two But it a much wider question the airline needs to find who he

wants to be so they have moved upscale they are not a commodity

player and they generated a 10 premium in relation to the other US

carriers He stressed that ―If we were to be a commodity player we would

not be around today He admits that they have to accommodate a

commodity component for the travel sector but they are not a

commodity As the carry two million passengers a year that pay a 10

premium on average they have proven our point

Jetstarrsquos CEP pointed that both fares are not commoditised any more

Airlines have to look at what customers want choice is definitely

important for all customers and choice for people who are looking for

value matters a lot She said that their airline also extracts a relative 15

premium in relation to competition because they do not view themselves

as a commodity product They invest heavily in the brand in the

experience in ways that the customers value and are prepared to pay for

it and give them the choice to custom design their experience

The Brussels Airlinesrsquos CEO added that segmentation and differentiation

is key When their airline starts with a start price of 39 euros one way and

has a very vocal pure low cost competitor at 21 euro for the same thing

the solution is to claim that it offers service as there is a whole heritage

that exists besides While the price is key people say ―I want to know

what I choose The pure commodity product that happened a few years

is going away but when there is a heritage of service that can help you

differentiate yourself then there is potential to make the difference

Brussels has all the LCCs of the world but Brussels Airlines grew by 30

more in the last two years

9

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Richard Quest then turned to Emirates CEO and asked him how they

accomodate with the LCCs that can offer feed from them into their long

haul services Sir Tim Clark answered that LCCs are here to stay they

continue to grow their business they have been a significant player in

the way civil aviation has developed in the last years giving consumers

a very good choice As long as the air industry business keeps the

consumers at the heart of the business and it does what they are

guiding to do then there is place for everybody The

differentiation whether it is between low cost and full service long haul

or short haul is something the industry has to adapt to accept and

encourage It is part of civil aviation After all it is the travelling public

who benefits from LCC existence The legacy carriers as they are

called have to adapt and work with them In terms of establishing a

lower cost arm for Emirates he answered ―no but he added that they

would work with them and they do They have very good relationships

with the Low Cost operators because they bring lots more people into

the market the whole principle was tapping incipient demand that

could not afford the levels of fares that were available prior to their

existence What they did is that they brought efficiency fleet efficiency

technological efficiency distribution efficiency and suddenly a new

branch of air transport industry was found ―To not work with makes no

sense

When asked about what new things they can offer to the upper end of

the market they all agreed that it is the soft goods that matter after all

Everyone can buy the hard goods but the airlines invest now in

relationship building Delta said its CEO can boast on its relationship

with corporate travelers and the fact they have one of the lowest

maintenance cancellation records They give the business traveler what

he needs dependability reliability quality to arrive on time with their

bags he added that there is a lot of technology and process behind it

but more than that a lot of willpower and culture

10

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Jetstarrsquos CEO said that invest a lot in their people both in full service

and in low cost training helping them to build skills relationships with

the customer Jetstar wants to enable customers to enjoy the ability of

pick and choose both to bundle and to unbundle

Emiratesrsquo CEO said that the airline spends an awful lot of time and

money on our premium product and the public knows about it and they

have always done that and they will continue to do it As soon as

things mature they will change to make things more interesting they

will be raising the bar for the consumers the business community

because ―we can do it

Panel discussion on Cyber Security

The panelists were Major General Linda Urrutia-Varhall the Assistant

Deputy Chief of Staff Director of National Intelligence for Aviation

Security in the US Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance the

Pentagon Washington DC Anja Kaspersen Head of International

Security for the World Economic Forum Alan Pellegrini CEO and

President of Thales USA Matthew Finn Managing Director of

Augmentiq Calin Rovinescu President and CEO of Air Canada and

Kurt Pipal FBI Assistant Legal Attache for US Embassy in the UK

They all agreed that aviation being a symbol of globalisation remains

an aspirational target for terrorists The interconnected nature of the

industry and interconnectibility of IT systems from baggage

movement to ticket kiosk and flight systems represent an ever growing

list of vulnerabilities and a whole brand new horizon of threats It is

however practically technologically and financially impossible to

address all the issues In the words of General Urrutia-Varhall the

interaction between actors threats and vulnerabilities can be viewed as

an ecosystem of forces in which ―we are as strong as our weakest link

No entity can go alone against these threats Airline industry

govenments domestic and international Intelligence community private

and public sectors should come together gather and share information

to characterise assess threats prioritise them and then act

appropriately

11

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Calin Rovinescu mentioned the ―very scary number that experts

estimate is the amount of damage caused last year by cyber hacks

was in the vicinity of US$500 million world wide and that 94

of global airlines had some form of cyber security breaches These

incidents were ―a real wake-up call for the industry Many of these

attacks were dealt with because airlines had good technology

protection but still these numbers make clear that as the industry

moves towards more automation seeking the interconnectiveness that

makes ir more efficient attack surfaces expand exponentially

Matthew Finn said businesses should look at security in a holistic way

He said there is currently a downward trend of documentation fraud

but an upward trend regarding identity theft

Alan Pellegrini said that the industy has seen recently an increasing

number of high profile hacks hacks in the wi-fi connectivity simply to

steal passenger information that is flowing over those networks a

hack into the ground systems of an airline to steal financial

transactions and information to collect the money the airline was

supposed to collect The threat is very real and although it has not

resulted to serious safety related issues it is resulting into serious

disrupting The fact that there has been no serious incident means

though that the industry is getting a lot of it right

Airlines now connect passengers to Wi-Fi on aircraft they add

connectivity to crews aircraft operations are connected on the

ground some are experimenting with cloud-based avionics controlling

aircraft operations The move towards more automation is inescepable

so the protection from cyber attackes To build such protection

requires a

a multi-year plan with responsibility at the highest level and

collaboration and information exchange between the aviation industry

and governments

12

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There are many technoloty tools Thales is working on to better protect

the connected aircraft but there is no ―silver bullet there is no one

piece of technology that is going to solve all the industry problems

because security is a process the same way threats are not static they

continue to evolve ―Technology is not done it continues monitoring

security operations centres are required to identify threats as they start

to materialize and to mitigate them and then go ahead and implement

addtional technology that is going to deal with new potential threats so

it is a continuous process

According to Calin Rovinescu ―No matter how complex and good

systems a company may have problems are not solved overnight and

aviation must develop a capability to respond and recover He pointed

out that aviation industry must look at and work with other industries

that have more maturity with cyber threats such as financial

institutions technology companies

The industry is very encouraged by the fact IATA is taking on this topic

to prevent serious disruption and perhaps safety issues later

Anja Kaspersen admitted that the threat is real but she added that there

is also ―fear mongering because of the commercial interests invested

in cyber security She stressed that the combination of ―ignorance and

unsubstantiated fear is dangerous and hampers preparedness She

cautioned airlines not to underestimate the psychological effect

should as as they live off their reputation Airlines have to respond to

customer expectations for security concerns

She added that aviation should work on the assumption that they

receiving both physical and cyber attacks and and therefore work on

how to protect the systems with more advanced software and develop

some translation tools to compare traditional and new risks

13

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Kurt Pipal pointed as airline companies possess and deal with huge

amounts of data they become by definition a target for industrial

espionage He cautioned companies to be very careful about

subcontractors which do necessarily rely on the same system

resilience He stressed the importance of sharing intelligence

information in the industry Build awareness and do not have a silo

approach Identify your vulnerabilities and make the assumption that

you are going to be hacked Participate in a 247 securities operation

centre and called the aviation to Occasionally even use a so-called

dark agent - a hacker to test your system Companies do fire drills so

why do they not do cyber security drills toolaquo

The Panel on the Climate Change Goals brought together

representatives from industry academia and NGOs to discuss the

progress on the climate change goals the aviation industry faces and

what is needed to reach them The industry has to achieve a goal of

climate neutral growth from 2020 but also the long-term target of cutting

net CO2 emissions by half by 2050 compared to 2005 levels

The panelists were Angela Gittens Director General of Airports Council

International Alan Joyce Qantas CEO Patrick de Castelbajac CEO of

aircraft manufacturer ATR John-Paul Clarke professor at Georgia

Institute of Technology and Tim Johnson of the International Coalition

for Sustainable Aviation

2050 might seeem a long way off but due to industry time lags therersquos

only around 10 years left to figure out how to reach the goal according

to John-Paul Clarke

They all agreed that the industry in all its supply chain-manufacturers

airports infrastructure airlines- must come together to work in a

concerted way to achieve how to go about achieveing these goals A

holistic perspective is needed as the industry stakeholders all are in

direct dependency and the example od a fuel efficient aircraft that

cannot operate efficiently because the air traffic management is not

efficient They stressed that sustainable development is not a question

of being politically correct any more but a condition of the future

existence of the industry ―there is no other way than being

environmentally respectful said Patrick de Castelbajac

14

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He added that aircraft manufacturers do consider now the

environmental impact of their aircraft at every stage from design

through to the eventual end-of-life disposal ―There is also a greater

convergence between economic and environmental interests which we

can see clearly on fuel burn he said

New technology and new management must be both environmentally

and economically sustainable

The panelists agreed that passengers are passsionate about it and do

want to offset the environmental impact of their flight Alan Joyce

said that one passenger every minute selects a voluntary offset

program

Angela Gittens said that Airports have adopted the Carbon

Accreditation Programme a programme that provides airports with a

common framework for active carbon management with measurable

goal-postsand 20 airports are already carbon neutral She added ICAO

and IATA should undertake the role of coordinating bodies which will

monitor assess and pace the progress It is necessary because ―If you

canrsquot measure it you canrsquot manage it

Continuous transparent monitoring of what is been done by an

independent entity would bring credibility according to John-

Paul Clarke

The panelists also agreed that ICAO and IATA will have to meet the

challenge of balancing the different levels of maturity in terms

of environmental measures around the globe in other words those that

move more quickly with those that have been left behind

15

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Joyce said the new ICAO aircraft CO2 standard would drive

advances in aircraft and engine technology He complained

that although there had been advances in navigation

technology and procedures - such as the traffic control

satellite navigation approaches to airports that saved his

airline up to 60000 tons of fuel - progress had been slow in

improving Air Traffic management and developing ATC

infrastructure

He insisted though on the role of biofuels He stressed that

more studies should be undertaken on biofuels to make sure

that they are produced in environmentally friendly way

―Biofuels are the only way we are going to get to our 2050

target Itrsquos a question of how we as an industry can cooperate

and how we can get governments interested enough to put a

policy framework in place to make that happen Their

development and insertion in the value chain will require RampD

and help from governments and other industrial sectors

He called his government to support the local alternative

fuels industry that creates new jobs and brings

environmental benefits

16

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Tim Johnson cautioned that it should not become

an ―accountancy exercise where we see one

gallon of biofuel uplifted to an aircraft or a tonne

of CO2 offset as the way we measure progress

adding it was important to move beyond

quantification and just emissions and consider

the wider sustainable development agenda

Investment decisions needed to be taken now to

reach the industryrsquos 2050 target he suggested

and clarity was needed on what should happen

and by when ICAO market-based measure is

perfoming well but there must be emphasis on the

other three pillars required for aviation emissions

reductions ndash aircraft technology operations and

infrastructure

17

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powered aircraft leaves Seville for Cairo-Solar

MADRID July 11 (Xinhua) -- The aircraft Solar Impulse

II powered completely by solar energy on Monday left

the Spanish city of Seville to attempt to land in

on WednesdayEgyptCairo

The route will be between 48 and 72 hours long

depending on weather conditions This will be the

penultimate flight of the plane that will travel to Abu

Dhabi afterwards

Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard who have

been working on the aircraft for more than a decade

will pilot the aircraft Borschberg will pilot the plane

from Seville to Cairo crossing seven countries after

which Piccard will fly to Abu Dhabi

Borschberg said that the trip was meaningful as it is

my last flight in this round-the-world epic I am happy

that were close to the end but also prudent knowing

that it is not done yet I have to stay really focused

SpainThe aircraft had been in Seville in the south of

for two weeks after successfully crossing the Atlantic

Ocean

Solar Impulse II is able to fly night and day without any

fossil fuel It travels at between 45 and 55 kmhour

reaching an altitude of 8500 meters The plane is wider

than a 747 jumbo jet and weighs 23 tons

httpwwwainonlinecom

Russias New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

A grand unveiling of the Irkut MC-21-300 on June 8

established a relatively firm project timeline for the

160- to 212-seat narrowbody and marked a measure

of vindication for what many in the West have

disparaged as a fringe project In attendance at the

ceremony Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

spoke of the prestige the program has brought to

the country as well as its importance to helping

move its economy forward He also congratulated

Irkutrsquos employees for their role in shaping the future

of Russiarsquos return to prominence in commercial

aircraft manufacturing

Expecting the MC-21 to gain Russian certification in

2018 United Aircraft subsidiary Irkut had hoped to

fly the first airplane by the end of this year

However during the rollout ceremony Medvedev

referenced plans for first flight ―within a year

and UAC officials acknowledged that a previously

quoted target might prove optimistic unless all goes

exactly to plan Rather that milestone appears most

likely to happen in or around February 2017

according to aUAC spokesman

1

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Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

2

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Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

3

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While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

4

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Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

5

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Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

الشركة القابضة -ادارة العالقات العامة

لمصر للطيران

httpwwwyoum7com

اغخ ال٤خ عزقذس زبئظ عذ٣ذح ؽ ايبئشح اثخ خال ص٣ش اي٤شا

أعبث٤غ

أذ ؽش٣ق كزؾ٠ ص٣ش اي٤شا أ ازؾ٤الد ال٤خ ثؾأ ايبئشح اقش٣خ

اثخ بصاذ عبس٣خ عبس ؽب٤ب اشثو ث٤ اؼبد أعضح ازغغ٤

اخزلخ ؾ٤شا إ٠ أ خال األعبث٤غ اوجخ عزقذس اغخ ث٤بب ؽ ثؼل

بصب غزش٣ ك٠ اجؾش ازبئظ از٠ عززف ب ز٤غخ زا اشثو ن٤لب

ػ أؽالء انؾب٣ب هب ثذ اؼ ثغل٤خ اجؾش ضب٠ شح عؼب يبم

اجؾش شر٤ ؽز٠ ٣ م٤شب شربؽب زشى أ٣خ اؽالء ألب غئ٤خ

أؽذاس أمبف ص٣ش اي٤شا خال ذاخخ برل٤خ غ ثشبظ أخاله٤خ

ػذب ؾخ وق ا٤ االص٤ ابسازاع ػ٠ كنبئ٤خ ابس

مؾب أ ايبئشح وب ري ٤ظ ب٣خ اؼب كبى د ض٤شح رلؼ ري

أ ؽشخ قش ي٤شا أعشد 100خشعذ بب ثزوش٣ش ك٠

هج اقؼد أ٣ ا٠ ص ب هب ازبةاق٤بخ ػ٠ أ ع ثؼ٠

إ٠ أب اعزيؼب إثشا ارلبه٤بد كزؾ٠أؽبس د عبثن ألا ؽق كم

غ كبدم ثؾش اؾ٤خ اـشدهخ زؾ٤و اغ٤بؽخ غزض األهقش أعا

مؾب أ اخيح اوبدخ ع٤ رؾ٤و إعبصري ك٠ قش ثشبظ

أذ ص٣ش اي٤شا أ اغ٤بؽخ اخبسط اجشبظ ؽب٤ب ثبألعؼبس اؾ٤خ

غزشح ثؼذ اق٤ق أب هب ثبجبدسح دػب إعبصري ك٠ قشجبدسح

غ٤بؽخ ثؼ٤ذا ػ اشثؼ أع رؾش٣ي ا٤ب اشاذح رؾ٤و اغ٤بؽخ

إ ؽبء اذاخ٤خ ؾ٤شا إ٠ أ قش ي٤شا رغزخذ إب٤برب به هبئال

أ٠ خياد ازؾ٤و ثبزؼب غ صاسح إعبصري ك٠ قشاهلل عف ر

اغ٤بؽخ

wwwalbawabhnewscom

قش ي٤شاؽش روالد ثبخذبد اغ٣خ ك٢

اوبثنخ قش ي٤شا هشاسا اؾشخأفذس فلد غ سئ٤ظ

قش ي٤شا ثؾشخثؾش روالد رشه٤بد داخ٤خ عذ٣ذح

ك٢ أع ري٣ش اؼ إؽال دبء ؽبثخ اغ٣خخذبد

اهغ ه٤بد٣خ ػذ٣ذح

قت غبػذ سئ٤ظ غظ إداسح اخذبد دعه٠ر٠ ىبسم

٤بص سأكذ سئ٤ظ هيبع ازؾـ٤ خلب ثؼذ أ ب اغ٣خ

٣ؾـ قت ذ٣ش ػب اؾشػبد اخبص

ذ٣ش ػب ازخي٤و قت ذ٣ش ػب إداسح اؾ٤خب ر٠ ىبسم

اخبص ث٤ب ر٠ ؽبص ػجذ اشؽ ذ٣ش إداسح اؼ٤بد

قت ذ٣ش إداسح از٣ ؽـ ؽه٠ اؾؾبد قت ذ٣ش

ثؼذ أ ب ٣ؾـ قت ذ٣ش إداسح إلزبطاإلداسح اؼب

از٣ ثبؾشخ

httpwwwheavyliftpficom

Qatar Airways flying high

July 11 - Qatar Airways Cargo has reported a record

2016 fiscal year growing to the third-largest cargo

operator in the word and increasing its freighter

destinations to 54

Qatar Airways Cargo added Dallas Budapest Prague

Ho Chi Minh City and New York to its network in the

period ending March 31 2016 increasing its available

tonnage worldwide Its fleet is expected to grow to 22

aircraft by 2017

Overall Qatar Airways Group posted an operating

profit of QAR3 billion (USD823 million) for the 2016

fiscal year - nearly three times higher than its 2015

fiscal year profit

httpwwwdallasnewscom

United Airlines plane blows two tires when pilot halts takeoff in Houston

A United Airlines plane blew out two of its tires

when a pilot abruptly stopped its takeoff from a

Houston airport due to concerns about a

possible mechanical problem

Airport officials say the Boeing 737 was taking

off from Bush Intercontinental Airport to Denver

at around 6 am Monday when the planes crew

spotted a possible mechanical malfunction and

the pilot slammed the brakes

Two of the planes tires blew out as the aircraft

came to a stop

No injuries were reported among the 164

passengers and six crew members

Passengers got off the plane were taken back

to a terminal and later boarded another aircraft

that left for Denver

It was not immediately known what mechanical

problem the plane might have experienced

httpseekingalphacom

Max in place of Airbus CEO says737 Qatar Airways considering Boeing

purchasing a Qatar Airways says it is in talks about

Max aircraft 737 ) 61+BAof Boeing (large number

amid a dispute with Airbus

over unresolved ) OTCPKEADSYOTCPKEADSF(

faults with its A320neo model

The airline which has canceled delivery of one

A320neo due to glitches with engines made by Pratt

until the will continue rejecting the planeamp Whitney

issues are fixed CEO Akbar Al Baker said today at

the Farnborough International Airshow

The airline CEO also is concerned about delivery

rates of Airbusrsquos A350 wide-body and says he is not

sure that Airbus will be able to meet its target of

handing more than 50 of the model to customers this

year

httpwwwbloombergcom

neos320s in Place of A737Boeing 30 Qatar Airways Looks at Up to

Qatar Airways is in discussions about purchasing as many as

30 Boeing Co 737 airliners amid a dispute with Airbus Group

SE over unresolved faults with its A320neo model

The carrier which has canceled delivery of one A320neo due to

glitches with engines made by Pratt amp Whitney will continue

rejecting the plane until the issues are fixed Chief Executive

Officer Akbar Al Baker said Monday at the Farnborough

International Airshow outside London The No 2 Persian Gulf

airline is focusing on potentially switching planes and hasnrsquot

made progress on talks about swapping to the A320neorsquos

alternative engine made by the CFM venture of General Electric

Co and Safran SA he said

Qatar Airways is looking at both the NG and the upcoming

Max versions of the single-aisle 737 Al Baker said The

Max scheduled to enter service in 2017 will be Boeingrsquos

direct rival to the A320neo and any inroads by the US

planemaker would be a coup Airbus has said that United

Technologies Corprsquos Pratt has begun supplying engines that

have fixed the cooling flaws and will begin delivering planes

equipped with those powerplants this month

The airline is also concerned about delivery rates of Airbusrsquos

A350 wide-body Al Baker said adding that he isnrsquot sure the

European manufacturer will be able to meet its target of

handing over 50 of the model to customers this year Qatar

Airways has only received one A350 out of 10 scheduled to

be delivered this year

httpmgdnonlinecom

A Qatar Airways flight bound to Doha from Oslo

Norway made an emergency landing in the

Romanian capital of Bucharest yesterday (July

9 )due to a fault in one of its engines said a

report

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner which was carrying

some 254 passengers was forced to change

course one hour into the flight and was diverted

to Bucharests Henri Coanda International

Airport Doha Newsreported

A replacement aircraft was dispatched to

Bucharest and the flight resumed its course

following an almost 12-hour delay

The new plane also a 787 landed in Doha at

425am this morning the report said

Qatar Business

Qatar Airways flight makes emergency landing in

Romania

atnaero

nd IATA AGM and World Air Transport Summit72

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) opened its 72nd

Annual General Meeting (AGM) and World Air Transport Summit in

Dublin Ireland

―Ireland is a great aviation country and the perfect location for the

industryrsquos leaders to meet Aviation is a force for good This year

airlines will safely transport 38 billion passengers and 52 million

tonnes of cargo That will stimulate economies and spread prosperity

But aviation faces challenges in providing the safe secure efficient

and sustainable connectivity that the world depends on The next two

days are an opportunity to work together as an industry to make flying

even better said Tony Tyler IATArsquos Director General and CEO

In his keynote address Dr Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu President of the

Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) said

―IATA and ICAO have enjoyed several decades of productive colla

boration

More recently wersquove been engaged on a number of important priorities

including among others

bullFlight tracking procedures

bullConflict zone risk management

bullThe safe integration of remotely-piloted and suborbital flight

operations

bullCybersecurity preparedness

bullIncreased airspace capacity and operational efficiency

bullThe safe carriage of lithium batteries

bullAnd of course the environment

1

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IATA has been a great ally in ICAOrsquos efforts to ensure that the decisions

of our Member States are forward-looking and in

line with the current and future needs of the industry

Report of Tony Tyler on the Air Transport Industry

―International civil aviation can greatly help to create and preserve

friendship and understanding among the nations and peoples of the

world

From the beginning both governments and industry conceived aviation

as a force for good

Aviation makes our world a better place In doing so it supports 63

million jobs and underpins 35 of global GDP

Airlines are engines of prosperity But they have long struggled to turn a

profit and reward investors That is beginning to change

This year we expect a collective net profit of $394 billion It will be only

the second year in our historymdashand the second in a rowmdashin which

airlines will make an aggregate return in excess of the cost of capital

After decades of capital destruction thatrsquos a significant achievement

But it is still just the minimum performance that investors expect

On average airlines will make $1042 for each passenger carried

Overall despite generally adverse economic conditions it is a good

time for the air transport industry

-Consumers are getting great deals and lots of choice

-Investors are beginning to see reasonable rewards for the capital

they risk

-And airlines are able to make critical investments and shore-up their

resilience by paying down debtmdashalthough it will take several years of

solid profitability to fix most balance sheets properly

2

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Our success as an industry rests on areas where we work together

the foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability Each is strong but not without challenges

In bringing my remarks to a close I want to reflect on the power of

partnership

Partnership is essential for the continuous reinforcement of the

foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability

Itrsquos also important for our 264 members and the entire value chain to

work together Because together we can send a proud message that

aviation is a force for good And we can do more good when tax

burdens and infrastructure constraints are removed and when the

principles of Smarter Regulation are applied properly

The framework for our modern industry was built by governments and

airlines with a common vision that safe regular and economical air

transport would benefit the peoples of the world by creating and

preserving friendships and understanding With more than 100 years

of history behind us we can confidently say that aviation has made the

world a better place

We have done that by unleashing an irreversible and ever-more

accessible capability to explore the world in which we live to improve

our lives with unprecedented mobility and to grow prosperity by doing

business globally

People are thirsty for the opportunities that aviation makes possible

Every day we safely transport ten million people and 140000 tonnes of

cargo We are not just connecting people and shifting goods our

work is building a better future for the peoples of the world

Aviationrsquos potential has never been more inspiring We are privileged

to lead an industry that is a force for good

3

atnaero

At the CEO Panel Insight Debate discussion moderated by Richard Quest the

following CEOs participated Bernard Gustin CEO Brussels Airlines (BG) Ed

Bastian CEO Delta Air Lines (ED) Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group and Charamporn Jotikasthira

President of Thai Airways the issue of the security and aircraft tracking was

discussed in the view of the Brussels terrorist attack and the Egyptair 804 flight

going down into the water

The Brussels Airlines CEO said that the Brussels disaster which came after a

very good year for the airlines gave him the opportunity to experience the

amazing reaction of the airlinersquo s staff and the importance of aviation as

Brussels remained 12 days without an airport Being members of the Lufthansa

group they were able to put the long haul to Zurich and Frankfurt and useδ

provincial airport in Liege and Antwerp for local traffic When asked whether

security needs to be readdressed he answered that the risk arose before

security checks and this has to be solved with the Intelligence systems They

imposed after the disaster some extremely strong measures only to realize after

a few days that they were not appropriate He added that they need to continue

to analyze the security process and do risk analysis but have pertinent

measures and apply them consistently across the board

In the US on the other hand the situation is different the security procedures

imposed by the TSA make passengers be delayed or misconnected The

problem has taken such extent that many airports are considering replacing or

supplanting TSA When asked Ed Bastian CEO for Delta Air Lines said that

they have realized the problem and that they will deal with that and added that

they as an airline did a lot to manage the issue they innovated queuing process

in Atlanta that they paid for themselves which is going to have 50 reduction

in how long it takes travelers to get through checkpoints

As the question of security in Asia has again been raised in terms of its being

efficient and effective or not Charamporn Jotikasthira President of Thai

Airways agreed that there is a need to improve over time as there are ways to

hack systems there is a need for a system that can detect faster more

accurately with more quality

Jayne Hrdlicka CEO of Jetstar Group answered questions related to the

investment of low-cost airlines in security She answered that it is the airlinersquos

job to ensure that the security that is provided for in the airports they operate

meets the standards that we have set for ourselves Since in several of the

airports they are operating in the situation is not to these standards they take

responsibility for the safety and security of their people and customers to make

sure that the standards are consistent across the network

4

atnaero

Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline in his turn when expressing

his view on about aviation security in general he said that the industry

is not doing enough although there have been so many wake up calls in

the last couple of years He said that it is easy for government agencies

and organizations to blame on austerity their inability to fund the

security apparatus and the systems and procedures but the aviation

industry has to come up with a new set of protocols that ensure

security for the travelling public and consumers The industry has to

cooperate with governmental agencies to identify the possibilities of

people actually doing such attacks He added that industry has to adopt

far more readily the technological advances that are being made

available to streamline the processes but at the same time increase the

level of scrutiny He stressed the need for flow of information between

countries so as to have a more homogeneous intelligence service

When asked about airline tracking he admitted that the fact that the

problems in trying to locate an aircraft that has had a major incidence

―is a disgrace― These incidents impose on the industry a need to be

able to track aircraft at every point on their journey which as he said

Emirates does anyway within 15-20 minutes they know where all the

airlinersquos aircraft are where they fly or on the ground at the same

time He added that the manufacturers too need to come up with the

data records both CVR and cockpit voice recorders and flight data

recorders that have to be far more robust able to survive intact and

with much more power to develop beacons and locating systems in

very remote areas on the sea or in the river

When faced with the remark that six years have passed since the flight

370 incident and still the industry is unable to locate missing aircraft

and many experts argue that the airlines are reluctant to spend the

money on tracking and streaming of data they all agreed that it is not a

financial issue and the only question is a question of governance The

industry has to come to a consensus and agree on common standards

for example at what frequency the aircraft will be sending it out tracking

information the industry is waiting for an ICAO solution that everyone

is going to adopt They all agreed though that irrespective of the cost it

has to be done because as Sir Tim Clark put it ―Not to do it is

delinquency

5

atnaero

When Richard Quest asked them about results and yields because airlines seem to

be that making good money they all claim the yield is under pressure and to

comment on the influence of the lower fuel price Ed Bastian said that capacity has

grown over the last few years driven by the dramatic reduction in oil prices The

pressure seen on yield is a reflection of the growing capacity He commented he

does not focus only on yield but looks at other aspects and metrics to understand

the underlying health of the industry demand is very strong especially in the US and

fuel prices are stabilizing and the airline making record margins

Bernard Gustin said when fuel prices gets up again the airlines will not be able to put

it back in the yield so they need to keep a business plan both with the current fuel

price as well as with the old fuel price especially in their case since their competitors

in Brussels are low cost carriers such as Ryanair and Easyjet

When Jetstarrsquos CEO was asked whether there is unconstrained growth of capacity

she answered that the growth of capacity ahead of underlying demand is not

irrational when margins are attractive and costs well managed and strong return in

invested capital

Sir Tim Clark said that the true causes behind yield suppression need to be

examined The lowering of the fuel prices was good news but they failed to foresee

that the corporate sectors that drive many of the upper echelons of the yield will go

with the oil prices That brought us some difficulties Then there was a currency

issue the strength of the US as the airline generates a large part of income on

currencies that move south of the dollar that affected the yield too Third the

addition of capacity means extension of the revenue of greater distances which

causes yield dilution On the other hand while there is flat line projection for global

economy demand for airtravel is increasing at 6 7 8 in several areas including the

Middle East there is also an explosion of growth in the US domestic market This

means the airline backfills inventory with more passengers because demand is there

Their airline needs to adjust its business to the practical long-term change and this is

low yield the airline can do it He announced that Emirates will 14 more A380s to

their fleet of 79

Thai Airwaysrsquos President said that their problem was of a different nature as they

unable to fill the aircraft as much as the others and their load factors were 4-5

lower than the average they will first fix that and and then deal with the other

problems

When the discussion turned to the question whether there will more manufactures of

aircraft and more choice in the future Ed Bastian supported Deltarsquos decision to buy

CS100s Bombardier and commented that they have been long time customers of

their small and larger regional jets because they technologically and engine-wise

efficient and reliable and they were given good financial terms He also predicted that

more airlines will consider acquiring Bombardier C-series aircraft

6

atnaero

As Emirates are mostly wide body operator Sir Tim Clark said

they already have good choice between Boeing and Airbus

which answer their needs with regard to the mission and the

type of product the airline wants to offer He wished ―good

luck to any manufacturer wishing to enter the market them if

they get over the barriers to entry

Jane Hrdlicka said she expects see innovation coming in in the

form of technology of the airframe and a strong Chinese

manufacturer which means there will be more choice in two

decades from now than today

Then Richard Quest asked questions each airline individually

He asked whether Brussels Airlines will be around in two years

from now Bernand Gustin the airline will be there and will have

the same operation model but more powerful with the power of

a major aviation group Lufthansa group behind it In the past

airlines had to choose to be point-to-point or connecting Low

cost or service airline bur Brussels airline We tries to reconcile

those dimensions and they have positioned themselves a

hybrid airline People do not want to pay but they want a level

of service and even the low cost carriers are investing now in

service As for the name of airline he said that the airline will be

called what has value for the customer as it has been proven

with the airlinersquos Africa routes The airline played a crucial role

during the Ebola crisis and has gained its value as a brand in

Africa that it did not have before when it was Sabena He

stressed that a brand is something that responds to a customer

need a brand name that responds best to the Belgian customer

the European customer and the African customer and the US

customers which are the markets the airlines serves

7

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Thai Airwaysrsquo president was asked about the airlinersquos strategy to deal with

their problems He answered that they have a two-year reform programme

they have already achieved a profit margin 12 on sales so they are on track

reform plan They intend to remain a full service carrier with a major very

efficient hub He added that they realised after following the developments of

the last years that the ecosystem has been changing a lot as all demand

coming into Thailand has been point-to-point to secondary cities They

operate in one the fastest growing regions in terms of demand near India

and China but the demand is becoming point-to-point which means that the

model that the airline was following in the past has to be changed When

asked whether they will need a partner and more particularly a Gulf partner to

do your long haul European routes he answered that if the market is India

China and Asia and there is going to be more and more point-to-point service

they will have to be bigger They may need partners of some sort some form

of alliance but I this alliance will not be as the ones of the past In the past a

big airline in Europe a big airline in Japan could connect throughout the

world but this area is a non-united area there are many states there is

Myanmar Thailand Vietnam so the partnership will most probably be

bilateral

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group was asked how Qantas managed so

successfully to incorporate a low-cost or a low-fare branch as some call it

She answered that they did it by really understanding their customers and

recognising that there is a part of the market that is hungry for full service and

is prepared to pay a premium to get it but there is an equal part of the market

that was not able to travel because the fares were too high and would prefer

choice on how they travel and be able to pay for what they use What they

have done is effectively build a new brand that focuses squarely on that

customer group and have protected the integrity by not trying to blur the line

and keeping them very separate operationally commercially and

strategically

Bernand Gustin was asked again whether Lufthansa has considered an

arrangement with an LCC for feed and he answered that first the airline needs

to substantially reduce its cost to be price competitive and this what they

have done There is no choice about that But as they come from a service

heritage airline and given that they will never be a cost leader they try to keep

a differentiation on service a service that really people want So they have

played on connectivity on the network and on the Belgian brand There is a

wish to have a specific brand As there are other very strong brands within the

Lufthansa group if they want to go further they need to have the power of the

group to be able to further reduce the cost to get the commercial critical

mass outside of Belgium Thatrsquos where the right mix needs to be found

8

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Deltarsquos CEO was asked How a giant airline accommodates the new reality

of all those LCCs Ot which he answered that they do it through

segmentation within the aircraft they have introduced a product called

―basic economy for price sensitive types of travelling within the US

They are still experimenting with it as it is relatively new and the

technology solution on it is complicated Within the two they have to

accommodate the low fare end and the highly sensitive business

traveller that is willing to pay a premium and a couple of stages between

the two But it a much wider question the airline needs to find who he

wants to be so they have moved upscale they are not a commodity

player and they generated a 10 premium in relation to the other US

carriers He stressed that ―If we were to be a commodity player we would

not be around today He admits that they have to accommodate a

commodity component for the travel sector but they are not a

commodity As the carry two million passengers a year that pay a 10

premium on average they have proven our point

Jetstarrsquos CEP pointed that both fares are not commoditised any more

Airlines have to look at what customers want choice is definitely

important for all customers and choice for people who are looking for

value matters a lot She said that their airline also extracts a relative 15

premium in relation to competition because they do not view themselves

as a commodity product They invest heavily in the brand in the

experience in ways that the customers value and are prepared to pay for

it and give them the choice to custom design their experience

The Brussels Airlinesrsquos CEO added that segmentation and differentiation

is key When their airline starts with a start price of 39 euros one way and

has a very vocal pure low cost competitor at 21 euro for the same thing

the solution is to claim that it offers service as there is a whole heritage

that exists besides While the price is key people say ―I want to know

what I choose The pure commodity product that happened a few years

is going away but when there is a heritage of service that can help you

differentiate yourself then there is potential to make the difference

Brussels has all the LCCs of the world but Brussels Airlines grew by 30

more in the last two years

9

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Richard Quest then turned to Emirates CEO and asked him how they

accomodate with the LCCs that can offer feed from them into their long

haul services Sir Tim Clark answered that LCCs are here to stay they

continue to grow their business they have been a significant player in

the way civil aviation has developed in the last years giving consumers

a very good choice As long as the air industry business keeps the

consumers at the heart of the business and it does what they are

guiding to do then there is place for everybody The

differentiation whether it is between low cost and full service long haul

or short haul is something the industry has to adapt to accept and

encourage It is part of civil aviation After all it is the travelling public

who benefits from LCC existence The legacy carriers as they are

called have to adapt and work with them In terms of establishing a

lower cost arm for Emirates he answered ―no but he added that they

would work with them and they do They have very good relationships

with the Low Cost operators because they bring lots more people into

the market the whole principle was tapping incipient demand that

could not afford the levels of fares that were available prior to their

existence What they did is that they brought efficiency fleet efficiency

technological efficiency distribution efficiency and suddenly a new

branch of air transport industry was found ―To not work with makes no

sense

When asked about what new things they can offer to the upper end of

the market they all agreed that it is the soft goods that matter after all

Everyone can buy the hard goods but the airlines invest now in

relationship building Delta said its CEO can boast on its relationship

with corporate travelers and the fact they have one of the lowest

maintenance cancellation records They give the business traveler what

he needs dependability reliability quality to arrive on time with their

bags he added that there is a lot of technology and process behind it

but more than that a lot of willpower and culture

10

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Jetstarrsquos CEO said that invest a lot in their people both in full service

and in low cost training helping them to build skills relationships with

the customer Jetstar wants to enable customers to enjoy the ability of

pick and choose both to bundle and to unbundle

Emiratesrsquo CEO said that the airline spends an awful lot of time and

money on our premium product and the public knows about it and they

have always done that and they will continue to do it As soon as

things mature they will change to make things more interesting they

will be raising the bar for the consumers the business community

because ―we can do it

Panel discussion on Cyber Security

The panelists were Major General Linda Urrutia-Varhall the Assistant

Deputy Chief of Staff Director of National Intelligence for Aviation

Security in the US Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance the

Pentagon Washington DC Anja Kaspersen Head of International

Security for the World Economic Forum Alan Pellegrini CEO and

President of Thales USA Matthew Finn Managing Director of

Augmentiq Calin Rovinescu President and CEO of Air Canada and

Kurt Pipal FBI Assistant Legal Attache for US Embassy in the UK

They all agreed that aviation being a symbol of globalisation remains

an aspirational target for terrorists The interconnected nature of the

industry and interconnectibility of IT systems from baggage

movement to ticket kiosk and flight systems represent an ever growing

list of vulnerabilities and a whole brand new horizon of threats It is

however practically technologically and financially impossible to

address all the issues In the words of General Urrutia-Varhall the

interaction between actors threats and vulnerabilities can be viewed as

an ecosystem of forces in which ―we are as strong as our weakest link

No entity can go alone against these threats Airline industry

govenments domestic and international Intelligence community private

and public sectors should come together gather and share information

to characterise assess threats prioritise them and then act

appropriately

11

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Calin Rovinescu mentioned the ―very scary number that experts

estimate is the amount of damage caused last year by cyber hacks

was in the vicinity of US$500 million world wide and that 94

of global airlines had some form of cyber security breaches These

incidents were ―a real wake-up call for the industry Many of these

attacks were dealt with because airlines had good technology

protection but still these numbers make clear that as the industry

moves towards more automation seeking the interconnectiveness that

makes ir more efficient attack surfaces expand exponentially

Matthew Finn said businesses should look at security in a holistic way

He said there is currently a downward trend of documentation fraud

but an upward trend regarding identity theft

Alan Pellegrini said that the industy has seen recently an increasing

number of high profile hacks hacks in the wi-fi connectivity simply to

steal passenger information that is flowing over those networks a

hack into the ground systems of an airline to steal financial

transactions and information to collect the money the airline was

supposed to collect The threat is very real and although it has not

resulted to serious safety related issues it is resulting into serious

disrupting The fact that there has been no serious incident means

though that the industry is getting a lot of it right

Airlines now connect passengers to Wi-Fi on aircraft they add

connectivity to crews aircraft operations are connected on the

ground some are experimenting with cloud-based avionics controlling

aircraft operations The move towards more automation is inescepable

so the protection from cyber attackes To build such protection

requires a

a multi-year plan with responsibility at the highest level and

collaboration and information exchange between the aviation industry

and governments

12

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There are many technoloty tools Thales is working on to better protect

the connected aircraft but there is no ―silver bullet there is no one

piece of technology that is going to solve all the industry problems

because security is a process the same way threats are not static they

continue to evolve ―Technology is not done it continues monitoring

security operations centres are required to identify threats as they start

to materialize and to mitigate them and then go ahead and implement

addtional technology that is going to deal with new potential threats so

it is a continuous process

According to Calin Rovinescu ―No matter how complex and good

systems a company may have problems are not solved overnight and

aviation must develop a capability to respond and recover He pointed

out that aviation industry must look at and work with other industries

that have more maturity with cyber threats such as financial

institutions technology companies

The industry is very encouraged by the fact IATA is taking on this topic

to prevent serious disruption and perhaps safety issues later

Anja Kaspersen admitted that the threat is real but she added that there

is also ―fear mongering because of the commercial interests invested

in cyber security She stressed that the combination of ―ignorance and

unsubstantiated fear is dangerous and hampers preparedness She

cautioned airlines not to underestimate the psychological effect

should as as they live off their reputation Airlines have to respond to

customer expectations for security concerns

She added that aviation should work on the assumption that they

receiving both physical and cyber attacks and and therefore work on

how to protect the systems with more advanced software and develop

some translation tools to compare traditional and new risks

13

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Kurt Pipal pointed as airline companies possess and deal with huge

amounts of data they become by definition a target for industrial

espionage He cautioned companies to be very careful about

subcontractors which do necessarily rely on the same system

resilience He stressed the importance of sharing intelligence

information in the industry Build awareness and do not have a silo

approach Identify your vulnerabilities and make the assumption that

you are going to be hacked Participate in a 247 securities operation

centre and called the aviation to Occasionally even use a so-called

dark agent - a hacker to test your system Companies do fire drills so

why do they not do cyber security drills toolaquo

The Panel on the Climate Change Goals brought together

representatives from industry academia and NGOs to discuss the

progress on the climate change goals the aviation industry faces and

what is needed to reach them The industry has to achieve a goal of

climate neutral growth from 2020 but also the long-term target of cutting

net CO2 emissions by half by 2050 compared to 2005 levels

The panelists were Angela Gittens Director General of Airports Council

International Alan Joyce Qantas CEO Patrick de Castelbajac CEO of

aircraft manufacturer ATR John-Paul Clarke professor at Georgia

Institute of Technology and Tim Johnson of the International Coalition

for Sustainable Aviation

2050 might seeem a long way off but due to industry time lags therersquos

only around 10 years left to figure out how to reach the goal according

to John-Paul Clarke

They all agreed that the industry in all its supply chain-manufacturers

airports infrastructure airlines- must come together to work in a

concerted way to achieve how to go about achieveing these goals A

holistic perspective is needed as the industry stakeholders all are in

direct dependency and the example od a fuel efficient aircraft that

cannot operate efficiently because the air traffic management is not

efficient They stressed that sustainable development is not a question

of being politically correct any more but a condition of the future

existence of the industry ―there is no other way than being

environmentally respectful said Patrick de Castelbajac

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He added that aircraft manufacturers do consider now the

environmental impact of their aircraft at every stage from design

through to the eventual end-of-life disposal ―There is also a greater

convergence between economic and environmental interests which we

can see clearly on fuel burn he said

New technology and new management must be both environmentally

and economically sustainable

The panelists agreed that passengers are passsionate about it and do

want to offset the environmental impact of their flight Alan Joyce

said that one passenger every minute selects a voluntary offset

program

Angela Gittens said that Airports have adopted the Carbon

Accreditation Programme a programme that provides airports with a

common framework for active carbon management with measurable

goal-postsand 20 airports are already carbon neutral She added ICAO

and IATA should undertake the role of coordinating bodies which will

monitor assess and pace the progress It is necessary because ―If you

canrsquot measure it you canrsquot manage it

Continuous transparent monitoring of what is been done by an

independent entity would bring credibility according to John-

Paul Clarke

The panelists also agreed that ICAO and IATA will have to meet the

challenge of balancing the different levels of maturity in terms

of environmental measures around the globe in other words those that

move more quickly with those that have been left behind

15

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Joyce said the new ICAO aircraft CO2 standard would drive

advances in aircraft and engine technology He complained

that although there had been advances in navigation

technology and procedures - such as the traffic control

satellite navigation approaches to airports that saved his

airline up to 60000 tons of fuel - progress had been slow in

improving Air Traffic management and developing ATC

infrastructure

He insisted though on the role of biofuels He stressed that

more studies should be undertaken on biofuels to make sure

that they are produced in environmentally friendly way

―Biofuels are the only way we are going to get to our 2050

target Itrsquos a question of how we as an industry can cooperate

and how we can get governments interested enough to put a

policy framework in place to make that happen Their

development and insertion in the value chain will require RampD

and help from governments and other industrial sectors

He called his government to support the local alternative

fuels industry that creates new jobs and brings

environmental benefits

16

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Tim Johnson cautioned that it should not become

an ―accountancy exercise where we see one

gallon of biofuel uplifted to an aircraft or a tonne

of CO2 offset as the way we measure progress

adding it was important to move beyond

quantification and just emissions and consider

the wider sustainable development agenda

Investment decisions needed to be taken now to

reach the industryrsquos 2050 target he suggested

and clarity was needed on what should happen

and by when ICAO market-based measure is

perfoming well but there must be emphasis on the

other three pillars required for aviation emissions

reductions ndash aircraft technology operations and

infrastructure

17

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powered aircraft leaves Seville for Cairo-Solar

MADRID July 11 (Xinhua) -- The aircraft Solar Impulse

II powered completely by solar energy on Monday left

the Spanish city of Seville to attempt to land in

on WednesdayEgyptCairo

The route will be between 48 and 72 hours long

depending on weather conditions This will be the

penultimate flight of the plane that will travel to Abu

Dhabi afterwards

Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard who have

been working on the aircraft for more than a decade

will pilot the aircraft Borschberg will pilot the plane

from Seville to Cairo crossing seven countries after

which Piccard will fly to Abu Dhabi

Borschberg said that the trip was meaningful as it is

my last flight in this round-the-world epic I am happy

that were close to the end but also prudent knowing

that it is not done yet I have to stay really focused

SpainThe aircraft had been in Seville in the south of

for two weeks after successfully crossing the Atlantic

Ocean

Solar Impulse II is able to fly night and day without any

fossil fuel It travels at between 45 and 55 kmhour

reaching an altitude of 8500 meters The plane is wider

than a 747 jumbo jet and weighs 23 tons

httpwwwainonlinecom

Russias New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

A grand unveiling of the Irkut MC-21-300 on June 8

established a relatively firm project timeline for the

160- to 212-seat narrowbody and marked a measure

of vindication for what many in the West have

disparaged as a fringe project In attendance at the

ceremony Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

spoke of the prestige the program has brought to

the country as well as its importance to helping

move its economy forward He also congratulated

Irkutrsquos employees for their role in shaping the future

of Russiarsquos return to prominence in commercial

aircraft manufacturing

Expecting the MC-21 to gain Russian certification in

2018 United Aircraft subsidiary Irkut had hoped to

fly the first airplane by the end of this year

However during the rollout ceremony Medvedev

referenced plans for first flight ―within a year

and UAC officials acknowledged that a previously

quoted target might prove optimistic unless all goes

exactly to plan Rather that milestone appears most

likely to happen in or around February 2017

according to aUAC spokesman

1

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Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

2

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Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

3

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While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

4

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Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

5

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Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

الشركة القابضة -ادارة العالقات العامة

لمصر للطيران

wwwalbawabhnewscom

قش ي٤شاؽش روالد ثبخذبد اغ٣خ ك٢

اوبثنخ قش ي٤شا هشاسا اؾشخأفذس فلد غ سئ٤ظ

قش ي٤شا ثؾشخثؾش روالد رشه٤بد داخ٤خ عذ٣ذح

ك٢ أع ري٣ش اؼ إؽال دبء ؽبثخ اغ٣خخذبد

اهغ ه٤بد٣خ ػذ٣ذح

قت غبػذ سئ٤ظ غظ إداسح اخذبد دعه٠ر٠ ىبسم

٤بص سأكذ سئ٤ظ هيبع ازؾـ٤ خلب ثؼذ أ ب اغ٣خ

٣ؾـ قت ذ٣ش ػب اؾشػبد اخبص

ذ٣ش ػب ازخي٤و قت ذ٣ش ػب إداسح اؾ٤خب ر٠ ىبسم

اخبص ث٤ب ر٠ ؽبص ػجذ اشؽ ذ٣ش إداسح اؼ٤بد

قت ذ٣ش إداسح از٣ ؽـ ؽه٠ اؾؾبد قت ذ٣ش

ثؼذ أ ب ٣ؾـ قت ذ٣ش إداسح إلزبطاإلداسح اؼب

از٣ ثبؾشخ

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Qatar Airways flying high

July 11 - Qatar Airways Cargo has reported a record

2016 fiscal year growing to the third-largest cargo

operator in the word and increasing its freighter

destinations to 54

Qatar Airways Cargo added Dallas Budapest Prague

Ho Chi Minh City and New York to its network in the

period ending March 31 2016 increasing its available

tonnage worldwide Its fleet is expected to grow to 22

aircraft by 2017

Overall Qatar Airways Group posted an operating

profit of QAR3 billion (USD823 million) for the 2016

fiscal year - nearly three times higher than its 2015

fiscal year profit

httpwwwdallasnewscom

United Airlines plane blows two tires when pilot halts takeoff in Houston

A United Airlines plane blew out two of its tires

when a pilot abruptly stopped its takeoff from a

Houston airport due to concerns about a

possible mechanical problem

Airport officials say the Boeing 737 was taking

off from Bush Intercontinental Airport to Denver

at around 6 am Monday when the planes crew

spotted a possible mechanical malfunction and

the pilot slammed the brakes

Two of the planes tires blew out as the aircraft

came to a stop

No injuries were reported among the 164

passengers and six crew members

Passengers got off the plane were taken back

to a terminal and later boarded another aircraft

that left for Denver

It was not immediately known what mechanical

problem the plane might have experienced

httpseekingalphacom

Max in place of Airbus CEO says737 Qatar Airways considering Boeing

purchasing a Qatar Airways says it is in talks about

Max aircraft 737 ) 61+BAof Boeing (large number

amid a dispute with Airbus

over unresolved ) OTCPKEADSYOTCPKEADSF(

faults with its A320neo model

The airline which has canceled delivery of one

A320neo due to glitches with engines made by Pratt

until the will continue rejecting the planeamp Whitney

issues are fixed CEO Akbar Al Baker said today at

the Farnborough International Airshow

The airline CEO also is concerned about delivery

rates of Airbusrsquos A350 wide-body and says he is not

sure that Airbus will be able to meet its target of

handing more than 50 of the model to customers this

year

httpwwwbloombergcom

neos320s in Place of A737Boeing 30 Qatar Airways Looks at Up to

Qatar Airways is in discussions about purchasing as many as

30 Boeing Co 737 airliners amid a dispute with Airbus Group

SE over unresolved faults with its A320neo model

The carrier which has canceled delivery of one A320neo due to

glitches with engines made by Pratt amp Whitney will continue

rejecting the plane until the issues are fixed Chief Executive

Officer Akbar Al Baker said Monday at the Farnborough

International Airshow outside London The No 2 Persian Gulf

airline is focusing on potentially switching planes and hasnrsquot

made progress on talks about swapping to the A320neorsquos

alternative engine made by the CFM venture of General Electric

Co and Safran SA he said

Qatar Airways is looking at both the NG and the upcoming

Max versions of the single-aisle 737 Al Baker said The

Max scheduled to enter service in 2017 will be Boeingrsquos

direct rival to the A320neo and any inroads by the US

planemaker would be a coup Airbus has said that United

Technologies Corprsquos Pratt has begun supplying engines that

have fixed the cooling flaws and will begin delivering planes

equipped with those powerplants this month

The airline is also concerned about delivery rates of Airbusrsquos

A350 wide-body Al Baker said adding that he isnrsquot sure the

European manufacturer will be able to meet its target of

handing over 50 of the model to customers this year Qatar

Airways has only received one A350 out of 10 scheduled to

be delivered this year

httpmgdnonlinecom

A Qatar Airways flight bound to Doha from Oslo

Norway made an emergency landing in the

Romanian capital of Bucharest yesterday (July

9 )due to a fault in one of its engines said a

report

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner which was carrying

some 254 passengers was forced to change

course one hour into the flight and was diverted

to Bucharests Henri Coanda International

Airport Doha Newsreported

A replacement aircraft was dispatched to

Bucharest and the flight resumed its course

following an almost 12-hour delay

The new plane also a 787 landed in Doha at

425am this morning the report said

Qatar Business

Qatar Airways flight makes emergency landing in

Romania

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nd IATA AGM and World Air Transport Summit72

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) opened its 72nd

Annual General Meeting (AGM) and World Air Transport Summit in

Dublin Ireland

―Ireland is a great aviation country and the perfect location for the

industryrsquos leaders to meet Aviation is a force for good This year

airlines will safely transport 38 billion passengers and 52 million

tonnes of cargo That will stimulate economies and spread prosperity

But aviation faces challenges in providing the safe secure efficient

and sustainable connectivity that the world depends on The next two

days are an opportunity to work together as an industry to make flying

even better said Tony Tyler IATArsquos Director General and CEO

In his keynote address Dr Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu President of the

Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) said

―IATA and ICAO have enjoyed several decades of productive colla

boration

More recently wersquove been engaged on a number of important priorities

including among others

bullFlight tracking procedures

bullConflict zone risk management

bullThe safe integration of remotely-piloted and suborbital flight

operations

bullCybersecurity preparedness

bullIncreased airspace capacity and operational efficiency

bullThe safe carriage of lithium batteries

bullAnd of course the environment

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IATA has been a great ally in ICAOrsquos efforts to ensure that the decisions

of our Member States are forward-looking and in

line with the current and future needs of the industry

Report of Tony Tyler on the Air Transport Industry

―International civil aviation can greatly help to create and preserve

friendship and understanding among the nations and peoples of the

world

From the beginning both governments and industry conceived aviation

as a force for good

Aviation makes our world a better place In doing so it supports 63

million jobs and underpins 35 of global GDP

Airlines are engines of prosperity But they have long struggled to turn a

profit and reward investors That is beginning to change

This year we expect a collective net profit of $394 billion It will be only

the second year in our historymdashand the second in a rowmdashin which

airlines will make an aggregate return in excess of the cost of capital

After decades of capital destruction thatrsquos a significant achievement

But it is still just the minimum performance that investors expect

On average airlines will make $1042 for each passenger carried

Overall despite generally adverse economic conditions it is a good

time for the air transport industry

-Consumers are getting great deals and lots of choice

-Investors are beginning to see reasonable rewards for the capital

they risk

-And airlines are able to make critical investments and shore-up their

resilience by paying down debtmdashalthough it will take several years of

solid profitability to fix most balance sheets properly

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Our success as an industry rests on areas where we work together

the foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability Each is strong but not without challenges

In bringing my remarks to a close I want to reflect on the power of

partnership

Partnership is essential for the continuous reinforcement of the

foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability

Itrsquos also important for our 264 members and the entire value chain to

work together Because together we can send a proud message that

aviation is a force for good And we can do more good when tax

burdens and infrastructure constraints are removed and when the

principles of Smarter Regulation are applied properly

The framework for our modern industry was built by governments and

airlines with a common vision that safe regular and economical air

transport would benefit the peoples of the world by creating and

preserving friendships and understanding With more than 100 years

of history behind us we can confidently say that aviation has made the

world a better place

We have done that by unleashing an irreversible and ever-more

accessible capability to explore the world in which we live to improve

our lives with unprecedented mobility and to grow prosperity by doing

business globally

People are thirsty for the opportunities that aviation makes possible

Every day we safely transport ten million people and 140000 tonnes of

cargo We are not just connecting people and shifting goods our

work is building a better future for the peoples of the world

Aviationrsquos potential has never been more inspiring We are privileged

to lead an industry that is a force for good

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At the CEO Panel Insight Debate discussion moderated by Richard Quest the

following CEOs participated Bernard Gustin CEO Brussels Airlines (BG) Ed

Bastian CEO Delta Air Lines (ED) Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group and Charamporn Jotikasthira

President of Thai Airways the issue of the security and aircraft tracking was

discussed in the view of the Brussels terrorist attack and the Egyptair 804 flight

going down into the water

The Brussels Airlines CEO said that the Brussels disaster which came after a

very good year for the airlines gave him the opportunity to experience the

amazing reaction of the airlinersquo s staff and the importance of aviation as

Brussels remained 12 days without an airport Being members of the Lufthansa

group they were able to put the long haul to Zurich and Frankfurt and useδ

provincial airport in Liege and Antwerp for local traffic When asked whether

security needs to be readdressed he answered that the risk arose before

security checks and this has to be solved with the Intelligence systems They

imposed after the disaster some extremely strong measures only to realize after

a few days that they were not appropriate He added that they need to continue

to analyze the security process and do risk analysis but have pertinent

measures and apply them consistently across the board

In the US on the other hand the situation is different the security procedures

imposed by the TSA make passengers be delayed or misconnected The

problem has taken such extent that many airports are considering replacing or

supplanting TSA When asked Ed Bastian CEO for Delta Air Lines said that

they have realized the problem and that they will deal with that and added that

they as an airline did a lot to manage the issue they innovated queuing process

in Atlanta that they paid for themselves which is going to have 50 reduction

in how long it takes travelers to get through checkpoints

As the question of security in Asia has again been raised in terms of its being

efficient and effective or not Charamporn Jotikasthira President of Thai

Airways agreed that there is a need to improve over time as there are ways to

hack systems there is a need for a system that can detect faster more

accurately with more quality

Jayne Hrdlicka CEO of Jetstar Group answered questions related to the

investment of low-cost airlines in security She answered that it is the airlinersquos

job to ensure that the security that is provided for in the airports they operate

meets the standards that we have set for ourselves Since in several of the

airports they are operating in the situation is not to these standards they take

responsibility for the safety and security of their people and customers to make

sure that the standards are consistent across the network

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Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline in his turn when expressing

his view on about aviation security in general he said that the industry

is not doing enough although there have been so many wake up calls in

the last couple of years He said that it is easy for government agencies

and organizations to blame on austerity their inability to fund the

security apparatus and the systems and procedures but the aviation

industry has to come up with a new set of protocols that ensure

security for the travelling public and consumers The industry has to

cooperate with governmental agencies to identify the possibilities of

people actually doing such attacks He added that industry has to adopt

far more readily the technological advances that are being made

available to streamline the processes but at the same time increase the

level of scrutiny He stressed the need for flow of information between

countries so as to have a more homogeneous intelligence service

When asked about airline tracking he admitted that the fact that the

problems in trying to locate an aircraft that has had a major incidence

―is a disgrace― These incidents impose on the industry a need to be

able to track aircraft at every point on their journey which as he said

Emirates does anyway within 15-20 minutes they know where all the

airlinersquos aircraft are where they fly or on the ground at the same

time He added that the manufacturers too need to come up with the

data records both CVR and cockpit voice recorders and flight data

recorders that have to be far more robust able to survive intact and

with much more power to develop beacons and locating systems in

very remote areas on the sea or in the river

When faced with the remark that six years have passed since the flight

370 incident and still the industry is unable to locate missing aircraft

and many experts argue that the airlines are reluctant to spend the

money on tracking and streaming of data they all agreed that it is not a

financial issue and the only question is a question of governance The

industry has to come to a consensus and agree on common standards

for example at what frequency the aircraft will be sending it out tracking

information the industry is waiting for an ICAO solution that everyone

is going to adopt They all agreed though that irrespective of the cost it

has to be done because as Sir Tim Clark put it ―Not to do it is

delinquency

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When Richard Quest asked them about results and yields because airlines seem to

be that making good money they all claim the yield is under pressure and to

comment on the influence of the lower fuel price Ed Bastian said that capacity has

grown over the last few years driven by the dramatic reduction in oil prices The

pressure seen on yield is a reflection of the growing capacity He commented he

does not focus only on yield but looks at other aspects and metrics to understand

the underlying health of the industry demand is very strong especially in the US and

fuel prices are stabilizing and the airline making record margins

Bernard Gustin said when fuel prices gets up again the airlines will not be able to put

it back in the yield so they need to keep a business plan both with the current fuel

price as well as with the old fuel price especially in their case since their competitors

in Brussels are low cost carriers such as Ryanair and Easyjet

When Jetstarrsquos CEO was asked whether there is unconstrained growth of capacity

she answered that the growth of capacity ahead of underlying demand is not

irrational when margins are attractive and costs well managed and strong return in

invested capital

Sir Tim Clark said that the true causes behind yield suppression need to be

examined The lowering of the fuel prices was good news but they failed to foresee

that the corporate sectors that drive many of the upper echelons of the yield will go

with the oil prices That brought us some difficulties Then there was a currency

issue the strength of the US as the airline generates a large part of income on

currencies that move south of the dollar that affected the yield too Third the

addition of capacity means extension of the revenue of greater distances which

causes yield dilution On the other hand while there is flat line projection for global

economy demand for airtravel is increasing at 6 7 8 in several areas including the

Middle East there is also an explosion of growth in the US domestic market This

means the airline backfills inventory with more passengers because demand is there

Their airline needs to adjust its business to the practical long-term change and this is

low yield the airline can do it He announced that Emirates will 14 more A380s to

their fleet of 79

Thai Airwaysrsquos President said that their problem was of a different nature as they

unable to fill the aircraft as much as the others and their load factors were 4-5

lower than the average they will first fix that and and then deal with the other

problems

When the discussion turned to the question whether there will more manufactures of

aircraft and more choice in the future Ed Bastian supported Deltarsquos decision to buy

CS100s Bombardier and commented that they have been long time customers of

their small and larger regional jets because they technologically and engine-wise

efficient and reliable and they were given good financial terms He also predicted that

more airlines will consider acquiring Bombardier C-series aircraft

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As Emirates are mostly wide body operator Sir Tim Clark said

they already have good choice between Boeing and Airbus

which answer their needs with regard to the mission and the

type of product the airline wants to offer He wished ―good

luck to any manufacturer wishing to enter the market them if

they get over the barriers to entry

Jane Hrdlicka said she expects see innovation coming in in the

form of technology of the airframe and a strong Chinese

manufacturer which means there will be more choice in two

decades from now than today

Then Richard Quest asked questions each airline individually

He asked whether Brussels Airlines will be around in two years

from now Bernand Gustin the airline will be there and will have

the same operation model but more powerful with the power of

a major aviation group Lufthansa group behind it In the past

airlines had to choose to be point-to-point or connecting Low

cost or service airline bur Brussels airline We tries to reconcile

those dimensions and they have positioned themselves a

hybrid airline People do not want to pay but they want a level

of service and even the low cost carriers are investing now in

service As for the name of airline he said that the airline will be

called what has value for the customer as it has been proven

with the airlinersquos Africa routes The airline played a crucial role

during the Ebola crisis and has gained its value as a brand in

Africa that it did not have before when it was Sabena He

stressed that a brand is something that responds to a customer

need a brand name that responds best to the Belgian customer

the European customer and the African customer and the US

customers which are the markets the airlines serves

7

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Thai Airwaysrsquo president was asked about the airlinersquos strategy to deal with

their problems He answered that they have a two-year reform programme

they have already achieved a profit margin 12 on sales so they are on track

reform plan They intend to remain a full service carrier with a major very

efficient hub He added that they realised after following the developments of

the last years that the ecosystem has been changing a lot as all demand

coming into Thailand has been point-to-point to secondary cities They

operate in one the fastest growing regions in terms of demand near India

and China but the demand is becoming point-to-point which means that the

model that the airline was following in the past has to be changed When

asked whether they will need a partner and more particularly a Gulf partner to

do your long haul European routes he answered that if the market is India

China and Asia and there is going to be more and more point-to-point service

they will have to be bigger They may need partners of some sort some form

of alliance but I this alliance will not be as the ones of the past In the past a

big airline in Europe a big airline in Japan could connect throughout the

world but this area is a non-united area there are many states there is

Myanmar Thailand Vietnam so the partnership will most probably be

bilateral

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group was asked how Qantas managed so

successfully to incorporate a low-cost or a low-fare branch as some call it

She answered that they did it by really understanding their customers and

recognising that there is a part of the market that is hungry for full service and

is prepared to pay a premium to get it but there is an equal part of the market

that was not able to travel because the fares were too high and would prefer

choice on how they travel and be able to pay for what they use What they

have done is effectively build a new brand that focuses squarely on that

customer group and have protected the integrity by not trying to blur the line

and keeping them very separate operationally commercially and

strategically

Bernand Gustin was asked again whether Lufthansa has considered an

arrangement with an LCC for feed and he answered that first the airline needs

to substantially reduce its cost to be price competitive and this what they

have done There is no choice about that But as they come from a service

heritage airline and given that they will never be a cost leader they try to keep

a differentiation on service a service that really people want So they have

played on connectivity on the network and on the Belgian brand There is a

wish to have a specific brand As there are other very strong brands within the

Lufthansa group if they want to go further they need to have the power of the

group to be able to further reduce the cost to get the commercial critical

mass outside of Belgium Thatrsquos where the right mix needs to be found

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Deltarsquos CEO was asked How a giant airline accommodates the new reality

of all those LCCs Ot which he answered that they do it through

segmentation within the aircraft they have introduced a product called

―basic economy for price sensitive types of travelling within the US

They are still experimenting with it as it is relatively new and the

technology solution on it is complicated Within the two they have to

accommodate the low fare end and the highly sensitive business

traveller that is willing to pay a premium and a couple of stages between

the two But it a much wider question the airline needs to find who he

wants to be so they have moved upscale they are not a commodity

player and they generated a 10 premium in relation to the other US

carriers He stressed that ―If we were to be a commodity player we would

not be around today He admits that they have to accommodate a

commodity component for the travel sector but they are not a

commodity As the carry two million passengers a year that pay a 10

premium on average they have proven our point

Jetstarrsquos CEP pointed that both fares are not commoditised any more

Airlines have to look at what customers want choice is definitely

important for all customers and choice for people who are looking for

value matters a lot She said that their airline also extracts a relative 15

premium in relation to competition because they do not view themselves

as a commodity product They invest heavily in the brand in the

experience in ways that the customers value and are prepared to pay for

it and give them the choice to custom design their experience

The Brussels Airlinesrsquos CEO added that segmentation and differentiation

is key When their airline starts with a start price of 39 euros one way and

has a very vocal pure low cost competitor at 21 euro for the same thing

the solution is to claim that it offers service as there is a whole heritage

that exists besides While the price is key people say ―I want to know

what I choose The pure commodity product that happened a few years

is going away but when there is a heritage of service that can help you

differentiate yourself then there is potential to make the difference

Brussels has all the LCCs of the world but Brussels Airlines grew by 30

more in the last two years

9

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Richard Quest then turned to Emirates CEO and asked him how they

accomodate with the LCCs that can offer feed from them into their long

haul services Sir Tim Clark answered that LCCs are here to stay they

continue to grow their business they have been a significant player in

the way civil aviation has developed in the last years giving consumers

a very good choice As long as the air industry business keeps the

consumers at the heart of the business and it does what they are

guiding to do then there is place for everybody The

differentiation whether it is between low cost and full service long haul

or short haul is something the industry has to adapt to accept and

encourage It is part of civil aviation After all it is the travelling public

who benefits from LCC existence The legacy carriers as they are

called have to adapt and work with them In terms of establishing a

lower cost arm for Emirates he answered ―no but he added that they

would work with them and they do They have very good relationships

with the Low Cost operators because they bring lots more people into

the market the whole principle was tapping incipient demand that

could not afford the levels of fares that were available prior to their

existence What they did is that they brought efficiency fleet efficiency

technological efficiency distribution efficiency and suddenly a new

branch of air transport industry was found ―To not work with makes no

sense

When asked about what new things they can offer to the upper end of

the market they all agreed that it is the soft goods that matter after all

Everyone can buy the hard goods but the airlines invest now in

relationship building Delta said its CEO can boast on its relationship

with corporate travelers and the fact they have one of the lowest

maintenance cancellation records They give the business traveler what

he needs dependability reliability quality to arrive on time with their

bags he added that there is a lot of technology and process behind it

but more than that a lot of willpower and culture

10

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Jetstarrsquos CEO said that invest a lot in their people both in full service

and in low cost training helping them to build skills relationships with

the customer Jetstar wants to enable customers to enjoy the ability of

pick and choose both to bundle and to unbundle

Emiratesrsquo CEO said that the airline spends an awful lot of time and

money on our premium product and the public knows about it and they

have always done that and they will continue to do it As soon as

things mature they will change to make things more interesting they

will be raising the bar for the consumers the business community

because ―we can do it

Panel discussion on Cyber Security

The panelists were Major General Linda Urrutia-Varhall the Assistant

Deputy Chief of Staff Director of National Intelligence for Aviation

Security in the US Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance the

Pentagon Washington DC Anja Kaspersen Head of International

Security for the World Economic Forum Alan Pellegrini CEO and

President of Thales USA Matthew Finn Managing Director of

Augmentiq Calin Rovinescu President and CEO of Air Canada and

Kurt Pipal FBI Assistant Legal Attache for US Embassy in the UK

They all agreed that aviation being a symbol of globalisation remains

an aspirational target for terrorists The interconnected nature of the

industry and interconnectibility of IT systems from baggage

movement to ticket kiosk and flight systems represent an ever growing

list of vulnerabilities and a whole brand new horizon of threats It is

however practically technologically and financially impossible to

address all the issues In the words of General Urrutia-Varhall the

interaction between actors threats and vulnerabilities can be viewed as

an ecosystem of forces in which ―we are as strong as our weakest link

No entity can go alone against these threats Airline industry

govenments domestic and international Intelligence community private

and public sectors should come together gather and share information

to characterise assess threats prioritise them and then act

appropriately

11

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Calin Rovinescu mentioned the ―very scary number that experts

estimate is the amount of damage caused last year by cyber hacks

was in the vicinity of US$500 million world wide and that 94

of global airlines had some form of cyber security breaches These

incidents were ―a real wake-up call for the industry Many of these

attacks were dealt with because airlines had good technology

protection but still these numbers make clear that as the industry

moves towards more automation seeking the interconnectiveness that

makes ir more efficient attack surfaces expand exponentially

Matthew Finn said businesses should look at security in a holistic way

He said there is currently a downward trend of documentation fraud

but an upward trend regarding identity theft

Alan Pellegrini said that the industy has seen recently an increasing

number of high profile hacks hacks in the wi-fi connectivity simply to

steal passenger information that is flowing over those networks a

hack into the ground systems of an airline to steal financial

transactions and information to collect the money the airline was

supposed to collect The threat is very real and although it has not

resulted to serious safety related issues it is resulting into serious

disrupting The fact that there has been no serious incident means

though that the industry is getting a lot of it right

Airlines now connect passengers to Wi-Fi on aircraft they add

connectivity to crews aircraft operations are connected on the

ground some are experimenting with cloud-based avionics controlling

aircraft operations The move towards more automation is inescepable

so the protection from cyber attackes To build such protection

requires a

a multi-year plan with responsibility at the highest level and

collaboration and information exchange between the aviation industry

and governments

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There are many technoloty tools Thales is working on to better protect

the connected aircraft but there is no ―silver bullet there is no one

piece of technology that is going to solve all the industry problems

because security is a process the same way threats are not static they

continue to evolve ―Technology is not done it continues monitoring

security operations centres are required to identify threats as they start

to materialize and to mitigate them and then go ahead and implement

addtional technology that is going to deal with new potential threats so

it is a continuous process

According to Calin Rovinescu ―No matter how complex and good

systems a company may have problems are not solved overnight and

aviation must develop a capability to respond and recover He pointed

out that aviation industry must look at and work with other industries

that have more maturity with cyber threats such as financial

institutions technology companies

The industry is very encouraged by the fact IATA is taking on this topic

to prevent serious disruption and perhaps safety issues later

Anja Kaspersen admitted that the threat is real but she added that there

is also ―fear mongering because of the commercial interests invested

in cyber security She stressed that the combination of ―ignorance and

unsubstantiated fear is dangerous and hampers preparedness She

cautioned airlines not to underestimate the psychological effect

should as as they live off their reputation Airlines have to respond to

customer expectations for security concerns

She added that aviation should work on the assumption that they

receiving both physical and cyber attacks and and therefore work on

how to protect the systems with more advanced software and develop

some translation tools to compare traditional and new risks

13

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Kurt Pipal pointed as airline companies possess and deal with huge

amounts of data they become by definition a target for industrial

espionage He cautioned companies to be very careful about

subcontractors which do necessarily rely on the same system

resilience He stressed the importance of sharing intelligence

information in the industry Build awareness and do not have a silo

approach Identify your vulnerabilities and make the assumption that

you are going to be hacked Participate in a 247 securities operation

centre and called the aviation to Occasionally even use a so-called

dark agent - a hacker to test your system Companies do fire drills so

why do they not do cyber security drills toolaquo

The Panel on the Climate Change Goals brought together

representatives from industry academia and NGOs to discuss the

progress on the climate change goals the aviation industry faces and

what is needed to reach them The industry has to achieve a goal of

climate neutral growth from 2020 but also the long-term target of cutting

net CO2 emissions by half by 2050 compared to 2005 levels

The panelists were Angela Gittens Director General of Airports Council

International Alan Joyce Qantas CEO Patrick de Castelbajac CEO of

aircraft manufacturer ATR John-Paul Clarke professor at Georgia

Institute of Technology and Tim Johnson of the International Coalition

for Sustainable Aviation

2050 might seeem a long way off but due to industry time lags therersquos

only around 10 years left to figure out how to reach the goal according

to John-Paul Clarke

They all agreed that the industry in all its supply chain-manufacturers

airports infrastructure airlines- must come together to work in a

concerted way to achieve how to go about achieveing these goals A

holistic perspective is needed as the industry stakeholders all are in

direct dependency and the example od a fuel efficient aircraft that

cannot operate efficiently because the air traffic management is not

efficient They stressed that sustainable development is not a question

of being politically correct any more but a condition of the future

existence of the industry ―there is no other way than being

environmentally respectful said Patrick de Castelbajac

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He added that aircraft manufacturers do consider now the

environmental impact of their aircraft at every stage from design

through to the eventual end-of-life disposal ―There is also a greater

convergence between economic and environmental interests which we

can see clearly on fuel burn he said

New technology and new management must be both environmentally

and economically sustainable

The panelists agreed that passengers are passsionate about it and do

want to offset the environmental impact of their flight Alan Joyce

said that one passenger every minute selects a voluntary offset

program

Angela Gittens said that Airports have adopted the Carbon

Accreditation Programme a programme that provides airports with a

common framework for active carbon management with measurable

goal-postsand 20 airports are already carbon neutral She added ICAO

and IATA should undertake the role of coordinating bodies which will

monitor assess and pace the progress It is necessary because ―If you

canrsquot measure it you canrsquot manage it

Continuous transparent monitoring of what is been done by an

independent entity would bring credibility according to John-

Paul Clarke

The panelists also agreed that ICAO and IATA will have to meet the

challenge of balancing the different levels of maturity in terms

of environmental measures around the globe in other words those that

move more quickly with those that have been left behind

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Joyce said the new ICAO aircraft CO2 standard would drive

advances in aircraft and engine technology He complained

that although there had been advances in navigation

technology and procedures - such as the traffic control

satellite navigation approaches to airports that saved his

airline up to 60000 tons of fuel - progress had been slow in

improving Air Traffic management and developing ATC

infrastructure

He insisted though on the role of biofuels He stressed that

more studies should be undertaken on biofuels to make sure

that they are produced in environmentally friendly way

―Biofuels are the only way we are going to get to our 2050

target Itrsquos a question of how we as an industry can cooperate

and how we can get governments interested enough to put a

policy framework in place to make that happen Their

development and insertion in the value chain will require RampD

and help from governments and other industrial sectors

He called his government to support the local alternative

fuels industry that creates new jobs and brings

environmental benefits

16

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Tim Johnson cautioned that it should not become

an ―accountancy exercise where we see one

gallon of biofuel uplifted to an aircraft or a tonne

of CO2 offset as the way we measure progress

adding it was important to move beyond

quantification and just emissions and consider

the wider sustainable development agenda

Investment decisions needed to be taken now to

reach the industryrsquos 2050 target he suggested

and clarity was needed on what should happen

and by when ICAO market-based measure is

perfoming well but there must be emphasis on the

other three pillars required for aviation emissions

reductions ndash aircraft technology operations and

infrastructure

17

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powered aircraft leaves Seville for Cairo-Solar

MADRID July 11 (Xinhua) -- The aircraft Solar Impulse

II powered completely by solar energy on Monday left

the Spanish city of Seville to attempt to land in

on WednesdayEgyptCairo

The route will be between 48 and 72 hours long

depending on weather conditions This will be the

penultimate flight of the plane that will travel to Abu

Dhabi afterwards

Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard who have

been working on the aircraft for more than a decade

will pilot the aircraft Borschberg will pilot the plane

from Seville to Cairo crossing seven countries after

which Piccard will fly to Abu Dhabi

Borschberg said that the trip was meaningful as it is

my last flight in this round-the-world epic I am happy

that were close to the end but also prudent knowing

that it is not done yet I have to stay really focused

SpainThe aircraft had been in Seville in the south of

for two weeks after successfully crossing the Atlantic

Ocean

Solar Impulse II is able to fly night and day without any

fossil fuel It travels at between 45 and 55 kmhour

reaching an altitude of 8500 meters The plane is wider

than a 747 jumbo jet and weighs 23 tons

httpwwwainonlinecom

Russias New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

A grand unveiling of the Irkut MC-21-300 on June 8

established a relatively firm project timeline for the

160- to 212-seat narrowbody and marked a measure

of vindication for what many in the West have

disparaged as a fringe project In attendance at the

ceremony Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

spoke of the prestige the program has brought to

the country as well as its importance to helping

move its economy forward He also congratulated

Irkutrsquos employees for their role in shaping the future

of Russiarsquos return to prominence in commercial

aircraft manufacturing

Expecting the MC-21 to gain Russian certification in

2018 United Aircraft subsidiary Irkut had hoped to

fly the first airplane by the end of this year

However during the rollout ceremony Medvedev

referenced plans for first flight ―within a year

and UAC officials acknowledged that a previously

quoted target might prove optimistic unless all goes

exactly to plan Rather that milestone appears most

likely to happen in or around February 2017

according to aUAC spokesman

1

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Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

2

httpwwwainonlinecom

Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

3

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While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

4

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Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

5

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Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

الشركة القابضة -ادارة العالقات العامة

لمصر للطيران

httpwwwheavyliftpficom

Qatar Airways flying high

July 11 - Qatar Airways Cargo has reported a record

2016 fiscal year growing to the third-largest cargo

operator in the word and increasing its freighter

destinations to 54

Qatar Airways Cargo added Dallas Budapest Prague

Ho Chi Minh City and New York to its network in the

period ending March 31 2016 increasing its available

tonnage worldwide Its fleet is expected to grow to 22

aircraft by 2017

Overall Qatar Airways Group posted an operating

profit of QAR3 billion (USD823 million) for the 2016

fiscal year - nearly three times higher than its 2015

fiscal year profit

httpwwwdallasnewscom

United Airlines plane blows two tires when pilot halts takeoff in Houston

A United Airlines plane blew out two of its tires

when a pilot abruptly stopped its takeoff from a

Houston airport due to concerns about a

possible mechanical problem

Airport officials say the Boeing 737 was taking

off from Bush Intercontinental Airport to Denver

at around 6 am Monday when the planes crew

spotted a possible mechanical malfunction and

the pilot slammed the brakes

Two of the planes tires blew out as the aircraft

came to a stop

No injuries were reported among the 164

passengers and six crew members

Passengers got off the plane were taken back

to a terminal and later boarded another aircraft

that left for Denver

It was not immediately known what mechanical

problem the plane might have experienced

httpseekingalphacom

Max in place of Airbus CEO says737 Qatar Airways considering Boeing

purchasing a Qatar Airways says it is in talks about

Max aircraft 737 ) 61+BAof Boeing (large number

amid a dispute with Airbus

over unresolved ) OTCPKEADSYOTCPKEADSF(

faults with its A320neo model

The airline which has canceled delivery of one

A320neo due to glitches with engines made by Pratt

until the will continue rejecting the planeamp Whitney

issues are fixed CEO Akbar Al Baker said today at

the Farnborough International Airshow

The airline CEO also is concerned about delivery

rates of Airbusrsquos A350 wide-body and says he is not

sure that Airbus will be able to meet its target of

handing more than 50 of the model to customers this

year

httpwwwbloombergcom

neos320s in Place of A737Boeing 30 Qatar Airways Looks at Up to

Qatar Airways is in discussions about purchasing as many as

30 Boeing Co 737 airliners amid a dispute with Airbus Group

SE over unresolved faults with its A320neo model

The carrier which has canceled delivery of one A320neo due to

glitches with engines made by Pratt amp Whitney will continue

rejecting the plane until the issues are fixed Chief Executive

Officer Akbar Al Baker said Monday at the Farnborough

International Airshow outside London The No 2 Persian Gulf

airline is focusing on potentially switching planes and hasnrsquot

made progress on talks about swapping to the A320neorsquos

alternative engine made by the CFM venture of General Electric

Co and Safran SA he said

Qatar Airways is looking at both the NG and the upcoming

Max versions of the single-aisle 737 Al Baker said The

Max scheduled to enter service in 2017 will be Boeingrsquos

direct rival to the A320neo and any inroads by the US

planemaker would be a coup Airbus has said that United

Technologies Corprsquos Pratt has begun supplying engines that

have fixed the cooling flaws and will begin delivering planes

equipped with those powerplants this month

The airline is also concerned about delivery rates of Airbusrsquos

A350 wide-body Al Baker said adding that he isnrsquot sure the

European manufacturer will be able to meet its target of

handing over 50 of the model to customers this year Qatar

Airways has only received one A350 out of 10 scheduled to

be delivered this year

httpmgdnonlinecom

A Qatar Airways flight bound to Doha from Oslo

Norway made an emergency landing in the

Romanian capital of Bucharest yesterday (July

9 )due to a fault in one of its engines said a

report

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner which was carrying

some 254 passengers was forced to change

course one hour into the flight and was diverted

to Bucharests Henri Coanda International

Airport Doha Newsreported

A replacement aircraft was dispatched to

Bucharest and the flight resumed its course

following an almost 12-hour delay

The new plane also a 787 landed in Doha at

425am this morning the report said

Qatar Business

Qatar Airways flight makes emergency landing in

Romania

atnaero

nd IATA AGM and World Air Transport Summit72

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) opened its 72nd

Annual General Meeting (AGM) and World Air Transport Summit in

Dublin Ireland

―Ireland is a great aviation country and the perfect location for the

industryrsquos leaders to meet Aviation is a force for good This year

airlines will safely transport 38 billion passengers and 52 million

tonnes of cargo That will stimulate economies and spread prosperity

But aviation faces challenges in providing the safe secure efficient

and sustainable connectivity that the world depends on The next two

days are an opportunity to work together as an industry to make flying

even better said Tony Tyler IATArsquos Director General and CEO

In his keynote address Dr Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu President of the

Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) said

―IATA and ICAO have enjoyed several decades of productive colla

boration

More recently wersquove been engaged on a number of important priorities

including among others

bullFlight tracking procedures

bullConflict zone risk management

bullThe safe integration of remotely-piloted and suborbital flight

operations

bullCybersecurity preparedness

bullIncreased airspace capacity and operational efficiency

bullThe safe carriage of lithium batteries

bullAnd of course the environment

1

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IATA has been a great ally in ICAOrsquos efforts to ensure that the decisions

of our Member States are forward-looking and in

line with the current and future needs of the industry

Report of Tony Tyler on the Air Transport Industry

―International civil aviation can greatly help to create and preserve

friendship and understanding among the nations and peoples of the

world

From the beginning both governments and industry conceived aviation

as a force for good

Aviation makes our world a better place In doing so it supports 63

million jobs and underpins 35 of global GDP

Airlines are engines of prosperity But they have long struggled to turn a

profit and reward investors That is beginning to change

This year we expect a collective net profit of $394 billion It will be only

the second year in our historymdashand the second in a rowmdashin which

airlines will make an aggregate return in excess of the cost of capital

After decades of capital destruction thatrsquos a significant achievement

But it is still just the minimum performance that investors expect

On average airlines will make $1042 for each passenger carried

Overall despite generally adverse economic conditions it is a good

time for the air transport industry

-Consumers are getting great deals and lots of choice

-Investors are beginning to see reasonable rewards for the capital

they risk

-And airlines are able to make critical investments and shore-up their

resilience by paying down debtmdashalthough it will take several years of

solid profitability to fix most balance sheets properly

2

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Our success as an industry rests on areas where we work together

the foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability Each is strong but not without challenges

In bringing my remarks to a close I want to reflect on the power of

partnership

Partnership is essential for the continuous reinforcement of the

foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability

Itrsquos also important for our 264 members and the entire value chain to

work together Because together we can send a proud message that

aviation is a force for good And we can do more good when tax

burdens and infrastructure constraints are removed and when the

principles of Smarter Regulation are applied properly

The framework for our modern industry was built by governments and

airlines with a common vision that safe regular and economical air

transport would benefit the peoples of the world by creating and

preserving friendships and understanding With more than 100 years

of history behind us we can confidently say that aviation has made the

world a better place

We have done that by unleashing an irreversible and ever-more

accessible capability to explore the world in which we live to improve

our lives with unprecedented mobility and to grow prosperity by doing

business globally

People are thirsty for the opportunities that aviation makes possible

Every day we safely transport ten million people and 140000 tonnes of

cargo We are not just connecting people and shifting goods our

work is building a better future for the peoples of the world

Aviationrsquos potential has never been more inspiring We are privileged

to lead an industry that is a force for good

3

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At the CEO Panel Insight Debate discussion moderated by Richard Quest the

following CEOs participated Bernard Gustin CEO Brussels Airlines (BG) Ed

Bastian CEO Delta Air Lines (ED) Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group and Charamporn Jotikasthira

President of Thai Airways the issue of the security and aircraft tracking was

discussed in the view of the Brussels terrorist attack and the Egyptair 804 flight

going down into the water

The Brussels Airlines CEO said that the Brussels disaster which came after a

very good year for the airlines gave him the opportunity to experience the

amazing reaction of the airlinersquo s staff and the importance of aviation as

Brussels remained 12 days without an airport Being members of the Lufthansa

group they were able to put the long haul to Zurich and Frankfurt and useδ

provincial airport in Liege and Antwerp for local traffic When asked whether

security needs to be readdressed he answered that the risk arose before

security checks and this has to be solved with the Intelligence systems They

imposed after the disaster some extremely strong measures only to realize after

a few days that they were not appropriate He added that they need to continue

to analyze the security process and do risk analysis but have pertinent

measures and apply them consistently across the board

In the US on the other hand the situation is different the security procedures

imposed by the TSA make passengers be delayed or misconnected The

problem has taken such extent that many airports are considering replacing or

supplanting TSA When asked Ed Bastian CEO for Delta Air Lines said that

they have realized the problem and that they will deal with that and added that

they as an airline did a lot to manage the issue they innovated queuing process

in Atlanta that they paid for themselves which is going to have 50 reduction

in how long it takes travelers to get through checkpoints

As the question of security in Asia has again been raised in terms of its being

efficient and effective or not Charamporn Jotikasthira President of Thai

Airways agreed that there is a need to improve over time as there are ways to

hack systems there is a need for a system that can detect faster more

accurately with more quality

Jayne Hrdlicka CEO of Jetstar Group answered questions related to the

investment of low-cost airlines in security She answered that it is the airlinersquos

job to ensure that the security that is provided for in the airports they operate

meets the standards that we have set for ourselves Since in several of the

airports they are operating in the situation is not to these standards they take

responsibility for the safety and security of their people and customers to make

sure that the standards are consistent across the network

4

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Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline in his turn when expressing

his view on about aviation security in general he said that the industry

is not doing enough although there have been so many wake up calls in

the last couple of years He said that it is easy for government agencies

and organizations to blame on austerity their inability to fund the

security apparatus and the systems and procedures but the aviation

industry has to come up with a new set of protocols that ensure

security for the travelling public and consumers The industry has to

cooperate with governmental agencies to identify the possibilities of

people actually doing such attacks He added that industry has to adopt

far more readily the technological advances that are being made

available to streamline the processes but at the same time increase the

level of scrutiny He stressed the need for flow of information between

countries so as to have a more homogeneous intelligence service

When asked about airline tracking he admitted that the fact that the

problems in trying to locate an aircraft that has had a major incidence

―is a disgrace― These incidents impose on the industry a need to be

able to track aircraft at every point on their journey which as he said

Emirates does anyway within 15-20 minutes they know where all the

airlinersquos aircraft are where they fly or on the ground at the same

time He added that the manufacturers too need to come up with the

data records both CVR and cockpit voice recorders and flight data

recorders that have to be far more robust able to survive intact and

with much more power to develop beacons and locating systems in

very remote areas on the sea or in the river

When faced with the remark that six years have passed since the flight

370 incident and still the industry is unable to locate missing aircraft

and many experts argue that the airlines are reluctant to spend the

money on tracking and streaming of data they all agreed that it is not a

financial issue and the only question is a question of governance The

industry has to come to a consensus and agree on common standards

for example at what frequency the aircraft will be sending it out tracking

information the industry is waiting for an ICAO solution that everyone

is going to adopt They all agreed though that irrespective of the cost it

has to be done because as Sir Tim Clark put it ―Not to do it is

delinquency

5

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When Richard Quest asked them about results and yields because airlines seem to

be that making good money they all claim the yield is under pressure and to

comment on the influence of the lower fuel price Ed Bastian said that capacity has

grown over the last few years driven by the dramatic reduction in oil prices The

pressure seen on yield is a reflection of the growing capacity He commented he

does not focus only on yield but looks at other aspects and metrics to understand

the underlying health of the industry demand is very strong especially in the US and

fuel prices are stabilizing and the airline making record margins

Bernard Gustin said when fuel prices gets up again the airlines will not be able to put

it back in the yield so they need to keep a business plan both with the current fuel

price as well as with the old fuel price especially in their case since their competitors

in Brussels are low cost carriers such as Ryanair and Easyjet

When Jetstarrsquos CEO was asked whether there is unconstrained growth of capacity

she answered that the growth of capacity ahead of underlying demand is not

irrational when margins are attractive and costs well managed and strong return in

invested capital

Sir Tim Clark said that the true causes behind yield suppression need to be

examined The lowering of the fuel prices was good news but they failed to foresee

that the corporate sectors that drive many of the upper echelons of the yield will go

with the oil prices That brought us some difficulties Then there was a currency

issue the strength of the US as the airline generates a large part of income on

currencies that move south of the dollar that affected the yield too Third the

addition of capacity means extension of the revenue of greater distances which

causes yield dilution On the other hand while there is flat line projection for global

economy demand for airtravel is increasing at 6 7 8 in several areas including the

Middle East there is also an explosion of growth in the US domestic market This

means the airline backfills inventory with more passengers because demand is there

Their airline needs to adjust its business to the practical long-term change and this is

low yield the airline can do it He announced that Emirates will 14 more A380s to

their fleet of 79

Thai Airwaysrsquos President said that their problem was of a different nature as they

unable to fill the aircraft as much as the others and their load factors were 4-5

lower than the average they will first fix that and and then deal with the other

problems

When the discussion turned to the question whether there will more manufactures of

aircraft and more choice in the future Ed Bastian supported Deltarsquos decision to buy

CS100s Bombardier and commented that they have been long time customers of

their small and larger regional jets because they technologically and engine-wise

efficient and reliable and they were given good financial terms He also predicted that

more airlines will consider acquiring Bombardier C-series aircraft

6

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As Emirates are mostly wide body operator Sir Tim Clark said

they already have good choice between Boeing and Airbus

which answer their needs with regard to the mission and the

type of product the airline wants to offer He wished ―good

luck to any manufacturer wishing to enter the market them if

they get over the barriers to entry

Jane Hrdlicka said she expects see innovation coming in in the

form of technology of the airframe and a strong Chinese

manufacturer which means there will be more choice in two

decades from now than today

Then Richard Quest asked questions each airline individually

He asked whether Brussels Airlines will be around in two years

from now Bernand Gustin the airline will be there and will have

the same operation model but more powerful with the power of

a major aviation group Lufthansa group behind it In the past

airlines had to choose to be point-to-point or connecting Low

cost or service airline bur Brussels airline We tries to reconcile

those dimensions and they have positioned themselves a

hybrid airline People do not want to pay but they want a level

of service and even the low cost carriers are investing now in

service As for the name of airline he said that the airline will be

called what has value for the customer as it has been proven

with the airlinersquos Africa routes The airline played a crucial role

during the Ebola crisis and has gained its value as a brand in

Africa that it did not have before when it was Sabena He

stressed that a brand is something that responds to a customer

need a brand name that responds best to the Belgian customer

the European customer and the African customer and the US

customers which are the markets the airlines serves

7

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Thai Airwaysrsquo president was asked about the airlinersquos strategy to deal with

their problems He answered that they have a two-year reform programme

they have already achieved a profit margin 12 on sales so they are on track

reform plan They intend to remain a full service carrier with a major very

efficient hub He added that they realised after following the developments of

the last years that the ecosystem has been changing a lot as all demand

coming into Thailand has been point-to-point to secondary cities They

operate in one the fastest growing regions in terms of demand near India

and China but the demand is becoming point-to-point which means that the

model that the airline was following in the past has to be changed When

asked whether they will need a partner and more particularly a Gulf partner to

do your long haul European routes he answered that if the market is India

China and Asia and there is going to be more and more point-to-point service

they will have to be bigger They may need partners of some sort some form

of alliance but I this alliance will not be as the ones of the past In the past a

big airline in Europe a big airline in Japan could connect throughout the

world but this area is a non-united area there are many states there is

Myanmar Thailand Vietnam so the partnership will most probably be

bilateral

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group was asked how Qantas managed so

successfully to incorporate a low-cost or a low-fare branch as some call it

She answered that they did it by really understanding their customers and

recognising that there is a part of the market that is hungry for full service and

is prepared to pay a premium to get it but there is an equal part of the market

that was not able to travel because the fares were too high and would prefer

choice on how they travel and be able to pay for what they use What they

have done is effectively build a new brand that focuses squarely on that

customer group and have protected the integrity by not trying to blur the line

and keeping them very separate operationally commercially and

strategically

Bernand Gustin was asked again whether Lufthansa has considered an

arrangement with an LCC for feed and he answered that first the airline needs

to substantially reduce its cost to be price competitive and this what they

have done There is no choice about that But as they come from a service

heritage airline and given that they will never be a cost leader they try to keep

a differentiation on service a service that really people want So they have

played on connectivity on the network and on the Belgian brand There is a

wish to have a specific brand As there are other very strong brands within the

Lufthansa group if they want to go further they need to have the power of the

group to be able to further reduce the cost to get the commercial critical

mass outside of Belgium Thatrsquos where the right mix needs to be found

8

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Deltarsquos CEO was asked How a giant airline accommodates the new reality

of all those LCCs Ot which he answered that they do it through

segmentation within the aircraft they have introduced a product called

―basic economy for price sensitive types of travelling within the US

They are still experimenting with it as it is relatively new and the

technology solution on it is complicated Within the two they have to

accommodate the low fare end and the highly sensitive business

traveller that is willing to pay a premium and a couple of stages between

the two But it a much wider question the airline needs to find who he

wants to be so they have moved upscale they are not a commodity

player and they generated a 10 premium in relation to the other US

carriers He stressed that ―If we were to be a commodity player we would

not be around today He admits that they have to accommodate a

commodity component for the travel sector but they are not a

commodity As the carry two million passengers a year that pay a 10

premium on average they have proven our point

Jetstarrsquos CEP pointed that both fares are not commoditised any more

Airlines have to look at what customers want choice is definitely

important for all customers and choice for people who are looking for

value matters a lot She said that their airline also extracts a relative 15

premium in relation to competition because they do not view themselves

as a commodity product They invest heavily in the brand in the

experience in ways that the customers value and are prepared to pay for

it and give them the choice to custom design their experience

The Brussels Airlinesrsquos CEO added that segmentation and differentiation

is key When their airline starts with a start price of 39 euros one way and

has a very vocal pure low cost competitor at 21 euro for the same thing

the solution is to claim that it offers service as there is a whole heritage

that exists besides While the price is key people say ―I want to know

what I choose The pure commodity product that happened a few years

is going away but when there is a heritage of service that can help you

differentiate yourself then there is potential to make the difference

Brussels has all the LCCs of the world but Brussels Airlines grew by 30

more in the last two years

9

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Richard Quest then turned to Emirates CEO and asked him how they

accomodate with the LCCs that can offer feed from them into their long

haul services Sir Tim Clark answered that LCCs are here to stay they

continue to grow their business they have been a significant player in

the way civil aviation has developed in the last years giving consumers

a very good choice As long as the air industry business keeps the

consumers at the heart of the business and it does what they are

guiding to do then there is place for everybody The

differentiation whether it is between low cost and full service long haul

or short haul is something the industry has to adapt to accept and

encourage It is part of civil aviation After all it is the travelling public

who benefits from LCC existence The legacy carriers as they are

called have to adapt and work with them In terms of establishing a

lower cost arm for Emirates he answered ―no but he added that they

would work with them and they do They have very good relationships

with the Low Cost operators because they bring lots more people into

the market the whole principle was tapping incipient demand that

could not afford the levels of fares that were available prior to their

existence What they did is that they brought efficiency fleet efficiency

technological efficiency distribution efficiency and suddenly a new

branch of air transport industry was found ―To not work with makes no

sense

When asked about what new things they can offer to the upper end of

the market they all agreed that it is the soft goods that matter after all

Everyone can buy the hard goods but the airlines invest now in

relationship building Delta said its CEO can boast on its relationship

with corporate travelers and the fact they have one of the lowest

maintenance cancellation records They give the business traveler what

he needs dependability reliability quality to arrive on time with their

bags he added that there is a lot of technology and process behind it

but more than that a lot of willpower and culture

10

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Jetstarrsquos CEO said that invest a lot in their people both in full service

and in low cost training helping them to build skills relationships with

the customer Jetstar wants to enable customers to enjoy the ability of

pick and choose both to bundle and to unbundle

Emiratesrsquo CEO said that the airline spends an awful lot of time and

money on our premium product and the public knows about it and they

have always done that and they will continue to do it As soon as

things mature they will change to make things more interesting they

will be raising the bar for the consumers the business community

because ―we can do it

Panel discussion on Cyber Security

The panelists were Major General Linda Urrutia-Varhall the Assistant

Deputy Chief of Staff Director of National Intelligence for Aviation

Security in the US Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance the

Pentagon Washington DC Anja Kaspersen Head of International

Security for the World Economic Forum Alan Pellegrini CEO and

President of Thales USA Matthew Finn Managing Director of

Augmentiq Calin Rovinescu President and CEO of Air Canada and

Kurt Pipal FBI Assistant Legal Attache for US Embassy in the UK

They all agreed that aviation being a symbol of globalisation remains

an aspirational target for terrorists The interconnected nature of the

industry and interconnectibility of IT systems from baggage

movement to ticket kiosk and flight systems represent an ever growing

list of vulnerabilities and a whole brand new horizon of threats It is

however practically technologically and financially impossible to

address all the issues In the words of General Urrutia-Varhall the

interaction between actors threats and vulnerabilities can be viewed as

an ecosystem of forces in which ―we are as strong as our weakest link

No entity can go alone against these threats Airline industry

govenments domestic and international Intelligence community private

and public sectors should come together gather and share information

to characterise assess threats prioritise them and then act

appropriately

11

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Calin Rovinescu mentioned the ―very scary number that experts

estimate is the amount of damage caused last year by cyber hacks

was in the vicinity of US$500 million world wide and that 94

of global airlines had some form of cyber security breaches These

incidents were ―a real wake-up call for the industry Many of these

attacks were dealt with because airlines had good technology

protection but still these numbers make clear that as the industry

moves towards more automation seeking the interconnectiveness that

makes ir more efficient attack surfaces expand exponentially

Matthew Finn said businesses should look at security in a holistic way

He said there is currently a downward trend of documentation fraud

but an upward trend regarding identity theft

Alan Pellegrini said that the industy has seen recently an increasing

number of high profile hacks hacks in the wi-fi connectivity simply to

steal passenger information that is flowing over those networks a

hack into the ground systems of an airline to steal financial

transactions and information to collect the money the airline was

supposed to collect The threat is very real and although it has not

resulted to serious safety related issues it is resulting into serious

disrupting The fact that there has been no serious incident means

though that the industry is getting a lot of it right

Airlines now connect passengers to Wi-Fi on aircraft they add

connectivity to crews aircraft operations are connected on the

ground some are experimenting with cloud-based avionics controlling

aircraft operations The move towards more automation is inescepable

so the protection from cyber attackes To build such protection

requires a

a multi-year plan with responsibility at the highest level and

collaboration and information exchange between the aviation industry

and governments

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There are many technoloty tools Thales is working on to better protect

the connected aircraft but there is no ―silver bullet there is no one

piece of technology that is going to solve all the industry problems

because security is a process the same way threats are not static they

continue to evolve ―Technology is not done it continues monitoring

security operations centres are required to identify threats as they start

to materialize and to mitigate them and then go ahead and implement

addtional technology that is going to deal with new potential threats so

it is a continuous process

According to Calin Rovinescu ―No matter how complex and good

systems a company may have problems are not solved overnight and

aviation must develop a capability to respond and recover He pointed

out that aviation industry must look at and work with other industries

that have more maturity with cyber threats such as financial

institutions technology companies

The industry is very encouraged by the fact IATA is taking on this topic

to prevent serious disruption and perhaps safety issues later

Anja Kaspersen admitted that the threat is real but she added that there

is also ―fear mongering because of the commercial interests invested

in cyber security She stressed that the combination of ―ignorance and

unsubstantiated fear is dangerous and hampers preparedness She

cautioned airlines not to underestimate the psychological effect

should as as they live off their reputation Airlines have to respond to

customer expectations for security concerns

She added that aviation should work on the assumption that they

receiving both physical and cyber attacks and and therefore work on

how to protect the systems with more advanced software and develop

some translation tools to compare traditional and new risks

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Kurt Pipal pointed as airline companies possess and deal with huge

amounts of data they become by definition a target for industrial

espionage He cautioned companies to be very careful about

subcontractors which do necessarily rely on the same system

resilience He stressed the importance of sharing intelligence

information in the industry Build awareness and do not have a silo

approach Identify your vulnerabilities and make the assumption that

you are going to be hacked Participate in a 247 securities operation

centre and called the aviation to Occasionally even use a so-called

dark agent - a hacker to test your system Companies do fire drills so

why do they not do cyber security drills toolaquo

The Panel on the Climate Change Goals brought together

representatives from industry academia and NGOs to discuss the

progress on the climate change goals the aviation industry faces and

what is needed to reach them The industry has to achieve a goal of

climate neutral growth from 2020 but also the long-term target of cutting

net CO2 emissions by half by 2050 compared to 2005 levels

The panelists were Angela Gittens Director General of Airports Council

International Alan Joyce Qantas CEO Patrick de Castelbajac CEO of

aircraft manufacturer ATR John-Paul Clarke professor at Georgia

Institute of Technology and Tim Johnson of the International Coalition

for Sustainable Aviation

2050 might seeem a long way off but due to industry time lags therersquos

only around 10 years left to figure out how to reach the goal according

to John-Paul Clarke

They all agreed that the industry in all its supply chain-manufacturers

airports infrastructure airlines- must come together to work in a

concerted way to achieve how to go about achieveing these goals A

holistic perspective is needed as the industry stakeholders all are in

direct dependency and the example od a fuel efficient aircraft that

cannot operate efficiently because the air traffic management is not

efficient They stressed that sustainable development is not a question

of being politically correct any more but a condition of the future

existence of the industry ―there is no other way than being

environmentally respectful said Patrick de Castelbajac

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He added that aircraft manufacturers do consider now the

environmental impact of their aircraft at every stage from design

through to the eventual end-of-life disposal ―There is also a greater

convergence between economic and environmental interests which we

can see clearly on fuel burn he said

New technology and new management must be both environmentally

and economically sustainable

The panelists agreed that passengers are passsionate about it and do

want to offset the environmental impact of their flight Alan Joyce

said that one passenger every minute selects a voluntary offset

program

Angela Gittens said that Airports have adopted the Carbon

Accreditation Programme a programme that provides airports with a

common framework for active carbon management with measurable

goal-postsand 20 airports are already carbon neutral She added ICAO

and IATA should undertake the role of coordinating bodies which will

monitor assess and pace the progress It is necessary because ―If you

canrsquot measure it you canrsquot manage it

Continuous transparent monitoring of what is been done by an

independent entity would bring credibility according to John-

Paul Clarke

The panelists also agreed that ICAO and IATA will have to meet the

challenge of balancing the different levels of maturity in terms

of environmental measures around the globe in other words those that

move more quickly with those that have been left behind

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Joyce said the new ICAO aircraft CO2 standard would drive

advances in aircraft and engine technology He complained

that although there had been advances in navigation

technology and procedures - such as the traffic control

satellite navigation approaches to airports that saved his

airline up to 60000 tons of fuel - progress had been slow in

improving Air Traffic management and developing ATC

infrastructure

He insisted though on the role of biofuels He stressed that

more studies should be undertaken on biofuels to make sure

that they are produced in environmentally friendly way

―Biofuels are the only way we are going to get to our 2050

target Itrsquos a question of how we as an industry can cooperate

and how we can get governments interested enough to put a

policy framework in place to make that happen Their

development and insertion in the value chain will require RampD

and help from governments and other industrial sectors

He called his government to support the local alternative

fuels industry that creates new jobs and brings

environmental benefits

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Tim Johnson cautioned that it should not become

an ―accountancy exercise where we see one

gallon of biofuel uplifted to an aircraft or a tonne

of CO2 offset as the way we measure progress

adding it was important to move beyond

quantification and just emissions and consider

the wider sustainable development agenda

Investment decisions needed to be taken now to

reach the industryrsquos 2050 target he suggested

and clarity was needed on what should happen

and by when ICAO market-based measure is

perfoming well but there must be emphasis on the

other three pillars required for aviation emissions

reductions ndash aircraft technology operations and

infrastructure

17

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powered aircraft leaves Seville for Cairo-Solar

MADRID July 11 (Xinhua) -- The aircraft Solar Impulse

II powered completely by solar energy on Monday left

the Spanish city of Seville to attempt to land in

on WednesdayEgyptCairo

The route will be between 48 and 72 hours long

depending on weather conditions This will be the

penultimate flight of the plane that will travel to Abu

Dhabi afterwards

Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard who have

been working on the aircraft for more than a decade

will pilot the aircraft Borschberg will pilot the plane

from Seville to Cairo crossing seven countries after

which Piccard will fly to Abu Dhabi

Borschberg said that the trip was meaningful as it is

my last flight in this round-the-world epic I am happy

that were close to the end but also prudent knowing

that it is not done yet I have to stay really focused

SpainThe aircraft had been in Seville in the south of

for two weeks after successfully crossing the Atlantic

Ocean

Solar Impulse II is able to fly night and day without any

fossil fuel It travels at between 45 and 55 kmhour

reaching an altitude of 8500 meters The plane is wider

than a 747 jumbo jet and weighs 23 tons

httpwwwainonlinecom

Russias New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

A grand unveiling of the Irkut MC-21-300 on June 8

established a relatively firm project timeline for the

160- to 212-seat narrowbody and marked a measure

of vindication for what many in the West have

disparaged as a fringe project In attendance at the

ceremony Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

spoke of the prestige the program has brought to

the country as well as its importance to helping

move its economy forward He also congratulated

Irkutrsquos employees for their role in shaping the future

of Russiarsquos return to prominence in commercial

aircraft manufacturing

Expecting the MC-21 to gain Russian certification in

2018 United Aircraft subsidiary Irkut had hoped to

fly the first airplane by the end of this year

However during the rollout ceremony Medvedev

referenced plans for first flight ―within a year

and UAC officials acknowledged that a previously

quoted target might prove optimistic unless all goes

exactly to plan Rather that milestone appears most

likely to happen in or around February 2017

according to aUAC spokesman

1

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Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

2

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Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

3

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While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

4

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Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

5

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Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

الشركة القابضة -ادارة العالقات العامة

لمصر للطيران

httpwwwdallasnewscom

United Airlines plane blows two tires when pilot halts takeoff in Houston

A United Airlines plane blew out two of its tires

when a pilot abruptly stopped its takeoff from a

Houston airport due to concerns about a

possible mechanical problem

Airport officials say the Boeing 737 was taking

off from Bush Intercontinental Airport to Denver

at around 6 am Monday when the planes crew

spotted a possible mechanical malfunction and

the pilot slammed the brakes

Two of the planes tires blew out as the aircraft

came to a stop

No injuries were reported among the 164

passengers and six crew members

Passengers got off the plane were taken back

to a terminal and later boarded another aircraft

that left for Denver

It was not immediately known what mechanical

problem the plane might have experienced

httpseekingalphacom

Max in place of Airbus CEO says737 Qatar Airways considering Boeing

purchasing a Qatar Airways says it is in talks about

Max aircraft 737 ) 61+BAof Boeing (large number

amid a dispute with Airbus

over unresolved ) OTCPKEADSYOTCPKEADSF(

faults with its A320neo model

The airline which has canceled delivery of one

A320neo due to glitches with engines made by Pratt

until the will continue rejecting the planeamp Whitney

issues are fixed CEO Akbar Al Baker said today at

the Farnborough International Airshow

The airline CEO also is concerned about delivery

rates of Airbusrsquos A350 wide-body and says he is not

sure that Airbus will be able to meet its target of

handing more than 50 of the model to customers this

year

httpwwwbloombergcom

neos320s in Place of A737Boeing 30 Qatar Airways Looks at Up to

Qatar Airways is in discussions about purchasing as many as

30 Boeing Co 737 airliners amid a dispute with Airbus Group

SE over unresolved faults with its A320neo model

The carrier which has canceled delivery of one A320neo due to

glitches with engines made by Pratt amp Whitney will continue

rejecting the plane until the issues are fixed Chief Executive

Officer Akbar Al Baker said Monday at the Farnborough

International Airshow outside London The No 2 Persian Gulf

airline is focusing on potentially switching planes and hasnrsquot

made progress on talks about swapping to the A320neorsquos

alternative engine made by the CFM venture of General Electric

Co and Safran SA he said

Qatar Airways is looking at both the NG and the upcoming

Max versions of the single-aisle 737 Al Baker said The

Max scheduled to enter service in 2017 will be Boeingrsquos

direct rival to the A320neo and any inroads by the US

planemaker would be a coup Airbus has said that United

Technologies Corprsquos Pratt has begun supplying engines that

have fixed the cooling flaws and will begin delivering planes

equipped with those powerplants this month

The airline is also concerned about delivery rates of Airbusrsquos

A350 wide-body Al Baker said adding that he isnrsquot sure the

European manufacturer will be able to meet its target of

handing over 50 of the model to customers this year Qatar

Airways has only received one A350 out of 10 scheduled to

be delivered this year

httpmgdnonlinecom

A Qatar Airways flight bound to Doha from Oslo

Norway made an emergency landing in the

Romanian capital of Bucharest yesterday (July

9 )due to a fault in one of its engines said a

report

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner which was carrying

some 254 passengers was forced to change

course one hour into the flight and was diverted

to Bucharests Henri Coanda International

Airport Doha Newsreported

A replacement aircraft was dispatched to

Bucharest and the flight resumed its course

following an almost 12-hour delay

The new plane also a 787 landed in Doha at

425am this morning the report said

Qatar Business

Qatar Airways flight makes emergency landing in

Romania

atnaero

nd IATA AGM and World Air Transport Summit72

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) opened its 72nd

Annual General Meeting (AGM) and World Air Transport Summit in

Dublin Ireland

―Ireland is a great aviation country and the perfect location for the

industryrsquos leaders to meet Aviation is a force for good This year

airlines will safely transport 38 billion passengers and 52 million

tonnes of cargo That will stimulate economies and spread prosperity

But aviation faces challenges in providing the safe secure efficient

and sustainable connectivity that the world depends on The next two

days are an opportunity to work together as an industry to make flying

even better said Tony Tyler IATArsquos Director General and CEO

In his keynote address Dr Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu President of the

Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) said

―IATA and ICAO have enjoyed several decades of productive colla

boration

More recently wersquove been engaged on a number of important priorities

including among others

bullFlight tracking procedures

bullConflict zone risk management

bullThe safe integration of remotely-piloted and suborbital flight

operations

bullCybersecurity preparedness

bullIncreased airspace capacity and operational efficiency

bullThe safe carriage of lithium batteries

bullAnd of course the environment

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IATA has been a great ally in ICAOrsquos efforts to ensure that the decisions

of our Member States are forward-looking and in

line with the current and future needs of the industry

Report of Tony Tyler on the Air Transport Industry

―International civil aviation can greatly help to create and preserve

friendship and understanding among the nations and peoples of the

world

From the beginning both governments and industry conceived aviation

as a force for good

Aviation makes our world a better place In doing so it supports 63

million jobs and underpins 35 of global GDP

Airlines are engines of prosperity But they have long struggled to turn a

profit and reward investors That is beginning to change

This year we expect a collective net profit of $394 billion It will be only

the second year in our historymdashand the second in a rowmdashin which

airlines will make an aggregate return in excess of the cost of capital

After decades of capital destruction thatrsquos a significant achievement

But it is still just the minimum performance that investors expect

On average airlines will make $1042 for each passenger carried

Overall despite generally adverse economic conditions it is a good

time for the air transport industry

-Consumers are getting great deals and lots of choice

-Investors are beginning to see reasonable rewards for the capital

they risk

-And airlines are able to make critical investments and shore-up their

resilience by paying down debtmdashalthough it will take several years of

solid profitability to fix most balance sheets properly

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Our success as an industry rests on areas where we work together

the foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability Each is strong but not without challenges

In bringing my remarks to a close I want to reflect on the power of

partnership

Partnership is essential for the continuous reinforcement of the

foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability

Itrsquos also important for our 264 members and the entire value chain to

work together Because together we can send a proud message that

aviation is a force for good And we can do more good when tax

burdens and infrastructure constraints are removed and when the

principles of Smarter Regulation are applied properly

The framework for our modern industry was built by governments and

airlines with a common vision that safe regular and economical air

transport would benefit the peoples of the world by creating and

preserving friendships and understanding With more than 100 years

of history behind us we can confidently say that aviation has made the

world a better place

We have done that by unleashing an irreversible and ever-more

accessible capability to explore the world in which we live to improve

our lives with unprecedented mobility and to grow prosperity by doing

business globally

People are thirsty for the opportunities that aviation makes possible

Every day we safely transport ten million people and 140000 tonnes of

cargo We are not just connecting people and shifting goods our

work is building a better future for the peoples of the world

Aviationrsquos potential has never been more inspiring We are privileged

to lead an industry that is a force for good

3

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At the CEO Panel Insight Debate discussion moderated by Richard Quest the

following CEOs participated Bernard Gustin CEO Brussels Airlines (BG) Ed

Bastian CEO Delta Air Lines (ED) Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group and Charamporn Jotikasthira

President of Thai Airways the issue of the security and aircraft tracking was

discussed in the view of the Brussels terrorist attack and the Egyptair 804 flight

going down into the water

The Brussels Airlines CEO said that the Brussels disaster which came after a

very good year for the airlines gave him the opportunity to experience the

amazing reaction of the airlinersquo s staff and the importance of aviation as

Brussels remained 12 days without an airport Being members of the Lufthansa

group they were able to put the long haul to Zurich and Frankfurt and useδ

provincial airport in Liege and Antwerp for local traffic When asked whether

security needs to be readdressed he answered that the risk arose before

security checks and this has to be solved with the Intelligence systems They

imposed after the disaster some extremely strong measures only to realize after

a few days that they were not appropriate He added that they need to continue

to analyze the security process and do risk analysis but have pertinent

measures and apply them consistently across the board

In the US on the other hand the situation is different the security procedures

imposed by the TSA make passengers be delayed or misconnected The

problem has taken such extent that many airports are considering replacing or

supplanting TSA When asked Ed Bastian CEO for Delta Air Lines said that

they have realized the problem and that they will deal with that and added that

they as an airline did a lot to manage the issue they innovated queuing process

in Atlanta that they paid for themselves which is going to have 50 reduction

in how long it takes travelers to get through checkpoints

As the question of security in Asia has again been raised in terms of its being

efficient and effective or not Charamporn Jotikasthira President of Thai

Airways agreed that there is a need to improve over time as there are ways to

hack systems there is a need for a system that can detect faster more

accurately with more quality

Jayne Hrdlicka CEO of Jetstar Group answered questions related to the

investment of low-cost airlines in security She answered that it is the airlinersquos

job to ensure that the security that is provided for in the airports they operate

meets the standards that we have set for ourselves Since in several of the

airports they are operating in the situation is not to these standards they take

responsibility for the safety and security of their people and customers to make

sure that the standards are consistent across the network

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Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline in his turn when expressing

his view on about aviation security in general he said that the industry

is not doing enough although there have been so many wake up calls in

the last couple of years He said that it is easy for government agencies

and organizations to blame on austerity their inability to fund the

security apparatus and the systems and procedures but the aviation

industry has to come up with a new set of protocols that ensure

security for the travelling public and consumers The industry has to

cooperate with governmental agencies to identify the possibilities of

people actually doing such attacks He added that industry has to adopt

far more readily the technological advances that are being made

available to streamline the processes but at the same time increase the

level of scrutiny He stressed the need for flow of information between

countries so as to have a more homogeneous intelligence service

When asked about airline tracking he admitted that the fact that the

problems in trying to locate an aircraft that has had a major incidence

―is a disgrace― These incidents impose on the industry a need to be

able to track aircraft at every point on their journey which as he said

Emirates does anyway within 15-20 minutes they know where all the

airlinersquos aircraft are where they fly or on the ground at the same

time He added that the manufacturers too need to come up with the

data records both CVR and cockpit voice recorders and flight data

recorders that have to be far more robust able to survive intact and

with much more power to develop beacons and locating systems in

very remote areas on the sea or in the river

When faced with the remark that six years have passed since the flight

370 incident and still the industry is unable to locate missing aircraft

and many experts argue that the airlines are reluctant to spend the

money on tracking and streaming of data they all agreed that it is not a

financial issue and the only question is a question of governance The

industry has to come to a consensus and agree on common standards

for example at what frequency the aircraft will be sending it out tracking

information the industry is waiting for an ICAO solution that everyone

is going to adopt They all agreed though that irrespective of the cost it

has to be done because as Sir Tim Clark put it ―Not to do it is

delinquency

5

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When Richard Quest asked them about results and yields because airlines seem to

be that making good money they all claim the yield is under pressure and to

comment on the influence of the lower fuel price Ed Bastian said that capacity has

grown over the last few years driven by the dramatic reduction in oil prices The

pressure seen on yield is a reflection of the growing capacity He commented he

does not focus only on yield but looks at other aspects and metrics to understand

the underlying health of the industry demand is very strong especially in the US and

fuel prices are stabilizing and the airline making record margins

Bernard Gustin said when fuel prices gets up again the airlines will not be able to put

it back in the yield so they need to keep a business plan both with the current fuel

price as well as with the old fuel price especially in their case since their competitors

in Brussels are low cost carriers such as Ryanair and Easyjet

When Jetstarrsquos CEO was asked whether there is unconstrained growth of capacity

she answered that the growth of capacity ahead of underlying demand is not

irrational when margins are attractive and costs well managed and strong return in

invested capital

Sir Tim Clark said that the true causes behind yield suppression need to be

examined The lowering of the fuel prices was good news but they failed to foresee

that the corporate sectors that drive many of the upper echelons of the yield will go

with the oil prices That brought us some difficulties Then there was a currency

issue the strength of the US as the airline generates a large part of income on

currencies that move south of the dollar that affected the yield too Third the

addition of capacity means extension of the revenue of greater distances which

causes yield dilution On the other hand while there is flat line projection for global

economy demand for airtravel is increasing at 6 7 8 in several areas including the

Middle East there is also an explosion of growth in the US domestic market This

means the airline backfills inventory with more passengers because demand is there

Their airline needs to adjust its business to the practical long-term change and this is

low yield the airline can do it He announced that Emirates will 14 more A380s to

their fleet of 79

Thai Airwaysrsquos President said that their problem was of a different nature as they

unable to fill the aircraft as much as the others and their load factors were 4-5

lower than the average they will first fix that and and then deal with the other

problems

When the discussion turned to the question whether there will more manufactures of

aircraft and more choice in the future Ed Bastian supported Deltarsquos decision to buy

CS100s Bombardier and commented that they have been long time customers of

their small and larger regional jets because they technologically and engine-wise

efficient and reliable and they were given good financial terms He also predicted that

more airlines will consider acquiring Bombardier C-series aircraft

6

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As Emirates are mostly wide body operator Sir Tim Clark said

they already have good choice between Boeing and Airbus

which answer their needs with regard to the mission and the

type of product the airline wants to offer He wished ―good

luck to any manufacturer wishing to enter the market them if

they get over the barriers to entry

Jane Hrdlicka said she expects see innovation coming in in the

form of technology of the airframe and a strong Chinese

manufacturer which means there will be more choice in two

decades from now than today

Then Richard Quest asked questions each airline individually

He asked whether Brussels Airlines will be around in two years

from now Bernand Gustin the airline will be there and will have

the same operation model but more powerful with the power of

a major aviation group Lufthansa group behind it In the past

airlines had to choose to be point-to-point or connecting Low

cost or service airline bur Brussels airline We tries to reconcile

those dimensions and they have positioned themselves a

hybrid airline People do not want to pay but they want a level

of service and even the low cost carriers are investing now in

service As for the name of airline he said that the airline will be

called what has value for the customer as it has been proven

with the airlinersquos Africa routes The airline played a crucial role

during the Ebola crisis and has gained its value as a brand in

Africa that it did not have before when it was Sabena He

stressed that a brand is something that responds to a customer

need a brand name that responds best to the Belgian customer

the European customer and the African customer and the US

customers which are the markets the airlines serves

7

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Thai Airwaysrsquo president was asked about the airlinersquos strategy to deal with

their problems He answered that they have a two-year reform programme

they have already achieved a profit margin 12 on sales so they are on track

reform plan They intend to remain a full service carrier with a major very

efficient hub He added that they realised after following the developments of

the last years that the ecosystem has been changing a lot as all demand

coming into Thailand has been point-to-point to secondary cities They

operate in one the fastest growing regions in terms of demand near India

and China but the demand is becoming point-to-point which means that the

model that the airline was following in the past has to be changed When

asked whether they will need a partner and more particularly a Gulf partner to

do your long haul European routes he answered that if the market is India

China and Asia and there is going to be more and more point-to-point service

they will have to be bigger They may need partners of some sort some form

of alliance but I this alliance will not be as the ones of the past In the past a

big airline in Europe a big airline in Japan could connect throughout the

world but this area is a non-united area there are many states there is

Myanmar Thailand Vietnam so the partnership will most probably be

bilateral

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group was asked how Qantas managed so

successfully to incorporate a low-cost or a low-fare branch as some call it

She answered that they did it by really understanding their customers and

recognising that there is a part of the market that is hungry for full service and

is prepared to pay a premium to get it but there is an equal part of the market

that was not able to travel because the fares were too high and would prefer

choice on how they travel and be able to pay for what they use What they

have done is effectively build a new brand that focuses squarely on that

customer group and have protected the integrity by not trying to blur the line

and keeping them very separate operationally commercially and

strategically

Bernand Gustin was asked again whether Lufthansa has considered an

arrangement with an LCC for feed and he answered that first the airline needs

to substantially reduce its cost to be price competitive and this what they

have done There is no choice about that But as they come from a service

heritage airline and given that they will never be a cost leader they try to keep

a differentiation on service a service that really people want So they have

played on connectivity on the network and on the Belgian brand There is a

wish to have a specific brand As there are other very strong brands within the

Lufthansa group if they want to go further they need to have the power of the

group to be able to further reduce the cost to get the commercial critical

mass outside of Belgium Thatrsquos where the right mix needs to be found

8

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Deltarsquos CEO was asked How a giant airline accommodates the new reality

of all those LCCs Ot which he answered that they do it through

segmentation within the aircraft they have introduced a product called

―basic economy for price sensitive types of travelling within the US

They are still experimenting with it as it is relatively new and the

technology solution on it is complicated Within the two they have to

accommodate the low fare end and the highly sensitive business

traveller that is willing to pay a premium and a couple of stages between

the two But it a much wider question the airline needs to find who he

wants to be so they have moved upscale they are not a commodity

player and they generated a 10 premium in relation to the other US

carriers He stressed that ―If we were to be a commodity player we would

not be around today He admits that they have to accommodate a

commodity component for the travel sector but they are not a

commodity As the carry two million passengers a year that pay a 10

premium on average they have proven our point

Jetstarrsquos CEP pointed that both fares are not commoditised any more

Airlines have to look at what customers want choice is definitely

important for all customers and choice for people who are looking for

value matters a lot She said that their airline also extracts a relative 15

premium in relation to competition because they do not view themselves

as a commodity product They invest heavily in the brand in the

experience in ways that the customers value and are prepared to pay for

it and give them the choice to custom design their experience

The Brussels Airlinesrsquos CEO added that segmentation and differentiation

is key When their airline starts with a start price of 39 euros one way and

has a very vocal pure low cost competitor at 21 euro for the same thing

the solution is to claim that it offers service as there is a whole heritage

that exists besides While the price is key people say ―I want to know

what I choose The pure commodity product that happened a few years

is going away but when there is a heritage of service that can help you

differentiate yourself then there is potential to make the difference

Brussels has all the LCCs of the world but Brussels Airlines grew by 30

more in the last two years

9

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Richard Quest then turned to Emirates CEO and asked him how they

accomodate with the LCCs that can offer feed from them into their long

haul services Sir Tim Clark answered that LCCs are here to stay they

continue to grow their business they have been a significant player in

the way civil aviation has developed in the last years giving consumers

a very good choice As long as the air industry business keeps the

consumers at the heart of the business and it does what they are

guiding to do then there is place for everybody The

differentiation whether it is between low cost and full service long haul

or short haul is something the industry has to adapt to accept and

encourage It is part of civil aviation After all it is the travelling public

who benefits from LCC existence The legacy carriers as they are

called have to adapt and work with them In terms of establishing a

lower cost arm for Emirates he answered ―no but he added that they

would work with them and they do They have very good relationships

with the Low Cost operators because they bring lots more people into

the market the whole principle was tapping incipient demand that

could not afford the levels of fares that were available prior to their

existence What they did is that they brought efficiency fleet efficiency

technological efficiency distribution efficiency and suddenly a new

branch of air transport industry was found ―To not work with makes no

sense

When asked about what new things they can offer to the upper end of

the market they all agreed that it is the soft goods that matter after all

Everyone can buy the hard goods but the airlines invest now in

relationship building Delta said its CEO can boast on its relationship

with corporate travelers and the fact they have one of the lowest

maintenance cancellation records They give the business traveler what

he needs dependability reliability quality to arrive on time with their

bags he added that there is a lot of technology and process behind it

but more than that a lot of willpower and culture

10

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Jetstarrsquos CEO said that invest a lot in their people both in full service

and in low cost training helping them to build skills relationships with

the customer Jetstar wants to enable customers to enjoy the ability of

pick and choose both to bundle and to unbundle

Emiratesrsquo CEO said that the airline spends an awful lot of time and

money on our premium product and the public knows about it and they

have always done that and they will continue to do it As soon as

things mature they will change to make things more interesting they

will be raising the bar for the consumers the business community

because ―we can do it

Panel discussion on Cyber Security

The panelists were Major General Linda Urrutia-Varhall the Assistant

Deputy Chief of Staff Director of National Intelligence for Aviation

Security in the US Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance the

Pentagon Washington DC Anja Kaspersen Head of International

Security for the World Economic Forum Alan Pellegrini CEO and

President of Thales USA Matthew Finn Managing Director of

Augmentiq Calin Rovinescu President and CEO of Air Canada and

Kurt Pipal FBI Assistant Legal Attache for US Embassy in the UK

They all agreed that aviation being a symbol of globalisation remains

an aspirational target for terrorists The interconnected nature of the

industry and interconnectibility of IT systems from baggage

movement to ticket kiosk and flight systems represent an ever growing

list of vulnerabilities and a whole brand new horizon of threats It is

however practically technologically and financially impossible to

address all the issues In the words of General Urrutia-Varhall the

interaction between actors threats and vulnerabilities can be viewed as

an ecosystem of forces in which ―we are as strong as our weakest link

No entity can go alone against these threats Airline industry

govenments domestic and international Intelligence community private

and public sectors should come together gather and share information

to characterise assess threats prioritise them and then act

appropriately

11

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Calin Rovinescu mentioned the ―very scary number that experts

estimate is the amount of damage caused last year by cyber hacks

was in the vicinity of US$500 million world wide and that 94

of global airlines had some form of cyber security breaches These

incidents were ―a real wake-up call for the industry Many of these

attacks were dealt with because airlines had good technology

protection but still these numbers make clear that as the industry

moves towards more automation seeking the interconnectiveness that

makes ir more efficient attack surfaces expand exponentially

Matthew Finn said businesses should look at security in a holistic way

He said there is currently a downward trend of documentation fraud

but an upward trend regarding identity theft

Alan Pellegrini said that the industy has seen recently an increasing

number of high profile hacks hacks in the wi-fi connectivity simply to

steal passenger information that is flowing over those networks a

hack into the ground systems of an airline to steal financial

transactions and information to collect the money the airline was

supposed to collect The threat is very real and although it has not

resulted to serious safety related issues it is resulting into serious

disrupting The fact that there has been no serious incident means

though that the industry is getting a lot of it right

Airlines now connect passengers to Wi-Fi on aircraft they add

connectivity to crews aircraft operations are connected on the

ground some are experimenting with cloud-based avionics controlling

aircraft operations The move towards more automation is inescepable

so the protection from cyber attackes To build such protection

requires a

a multi-year plan with responsibility at the highest level and

collaboration and information exchange between the aviation industry

and governments

12

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There are many technoloty tools Thales is working on to better protect

the connected aircraft but there is no ―silver bullet there is no one

piece of technology that is going to solve all the industry problems

because security is a process the same way threats are not static they

continue to evolve ―Technology is not done it continues monitoring

security operations centres are required to identify threats as they start

to materialize and to mitigate them and then go ahead and implement

addtional technology that is going to deal with new potential threats so

it is a continuous process

According to Calin Rovinescu ―No matter how complex and good

systems a company may have problems are not solved overnight and

aviation must develop a capability to respond and recover He pointed

out that aviation industry must look at and work with other industries

that have more maturity with cyber threats such as financial

institutions technology companies

The industry is very encouraged by the fact IATA is taking on this topic

to prevent serious disruption and perhaps safety issues later

Anja Kaspersen admitted that the threat is real but she added that there

is also ―fear mongering because of the commercial interests invested

in cyber security She stressed that the combination of ―ignorance and

unsubstantiated fear is dangerous and hampers preparedness She

cautioned airlines not to underestimate the psychological effect

should as as they live off their reputation Airlines have to respond to

customer expectations for security concerns

She added that aviation should work on the assumption that they

receiving both physical and cyber attacks and and therefore work on

how to protect the systems with more advanced software and develop

some translation tools to compare traditional and new risks

13

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Kurt Pipal pointed as airline companies possess and deal with huge

amounts of data they become by definition a target for industrial

espionage He cautioned companies to be very careful about

subcontractors which do necessarily rely on the same system

resilience He stressed the importance of sharing intelligence

information in the industry Build awareness and do not have a silo

approach Identify your vulnerabilities and make the assumption that

you are going to be hacked Participate in a 247 securities operation

centre and called the aviation to Occasionally even use a so-called

dark agent - a hacker to test your system Companies do fire drills so

why do they not do cyber security drills toolaquo

The Panel on the Climate Change Goals brought together

representatives from industry academia and NGOs to discuss the

progress on the climate change goals the aviation industry faces and

what is needed to reach them The industry has to achieve a goal of

climate neutral growth from 2020 but also the long-term target of cutting

net CO2 emissions by half by 2050 compared to 2005 levels

The panelists were Angela Gittens Director General of Airports Council

International Alan Joyce Qantas CEO Patrick de Castelbajac CEO of

aircraft manufacturer ATR John-Paul Clarke professor at Georgia

Institute of Technology and Tim Johnson of the International Coalition

for Sustainable Aviation

2050 might seeem a long way off but due to industry time lags therersquos

only around 10 years left to figure out how to reach the goal according

to John-Paul Clarke

They all agreed that the industry in all its supply chain-manufacturers

airports infrastructure airlines- must come together to work in a

concerted way to achieve how to go about achieveing these goals A

holistic perspective is needed as the industry stakeholders all are in

direct dependency and the example od a fuel efficient aircraft that

cannot operate efficiently because the air traffic management is not

efficient They stressed that sustainable development is not a question

of being politically correct any more but a condition of the future

existence of the industry ―there is no other way than being

environmentally respectful said Patrick de Castelbajac

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He added that aircraft manufacturers do consider now the

environmental impact of their aircraft at every stage from design

through to the eventual end-of-life disposal ―There is also a greater

convergence between economic and environmental interests which we

can see clearly on fuel burn he said

New technology and new management must be both environmentally

and economically sustainable

The panelists agreed that passengers are passsionate about it and do

want to offset the environmental impact of their flight Alan Joyce

said that one passenger every minute selects a voluntary offset

program

Angela Gittens said that Airports have adopted the Carbon

Accreditation Programme a programme that provides airports with a

common framework for active carbon management with measurable

goal-postsand 20 airports are already carbon neutral She added ICAO

and IATA should undertake the role of coordinating bodies which will

monitor assess and pace the progress It is necessary because ―If you

canrsquot measure it you canrsquot manage it

Continuous transparent monitoring of what is been done by an

independent entity would bring credibility according to John-

Paul Clarke

The panelists also agreed that ICAO and IATA will have to meet the

challenge of balancing the different levels of maturity in terms

of environmental measures around the globe in other words those that

move more quickly with those that have been left behind

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Joyce said the new ICAO aircraft CO2 standard would drive

advances in aircraft and engine technology He complained

that although there had been advances in navigation

technology and procedures - such as the traffic control

satellite navigation approaches to airports that saved his

airline up to 60000 tons of fuel - progress had been slow in

improving Air Traffic management and developing ATC

infrastructure

He insisted though on the role of biofuels He stressed that

more studies should be undertaken on biofuels to make sure

that they are produced in environmentally friendly way

―Biofuels are the only way we are going to get to our 2050

target Itrsquos a question of how we as an industry can cooperate

and how we can get governments interested enough to put a

policy framework in place to make that happen Their

development and insertion in the value chain will require RampD

and help from governments and other industrial sectors

He called his government to support the local alternative

fuels industry that creates new jobs and brings

environmental benefits

16

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Tim Johnson cautioned that it should not become

an ―accountancy exercise where we see one

gallon of biofuel uplifted to an aircraft or a tonne

of CO2 offset as the way we measure progress

adding it was important to move beyond

quantification and just emissions and consider

the wider sustainable development agenda

Investment decisions needed to be taken now to

reach the industryrsquos 2050 target he suggested

and clarity was needed on what should happen

and by when ICAO market-based measure is

perfoming well but there must be emphasis on the

other three pillars required for aviation emissions

reductions ndash aircraft technology operations and

infrastructure

17

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powered aircraft leaves Seville for Cairo-Solar

MADRID July 11 (Xinhua) -- The aircraft Solar Impulse

II powered completely by solar energy on Monday left

the Spanish city of Seville to attempt to land in

on WednesdayEgyptCairo

The route will be between 48 and 72 hours long

depending on weather conditions This will be the

penultimate flight of the plane that will travel to Abu

Dhabi afterwards

Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard who have

been working on the aircraft for more than a decade

will pilot the aircraft Borschberg will pilot the plane

from Seville to Cairo crossing seven countries after

which Piccard will fly to Abu Dhabi

Borschberg said that the trip was meaningful as it is

my last flight in this round-the-world epic I am happy

that were close to the end but also prudent knowing

that it is not done yet I have to stay really focused

SpainThe aircraft had been in Seville in the south of

for two weeks after successfully crossing the Atlantic

Ocean

Solar Impulse II is able to fly night and day without any

fossil fuel It travels at between 45 and 55 kmhour

reaching an altitude of 8500 meters The plane is wider

than a 747 jumbo jet and weighs 23 tons

httpwwwainonlinecom

Russias New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

A grand unveiling of the Irkut MC-21-300 on June 8

established a relatively firm project timeline for the

160- to 212-seat narrowbody and marked a measure

of vindication for what many in the West have

disparaged as a fringe project In attendance at the

ceremony Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

spoke of the prestige the program has brought to

the country as well as its importance to helping

move its economy forward He also congratulated

Irkutrsquos employees for their role in shaping the future

of Russiarsquos return to prominence in commercial

aircraft manufacturing

Expecting the MC-21 to gain Russian certification in

2018 United Aircraft subsidiary Irkut had hoped to

fly the first airplane by the end of this year

However during the rollout ceremony Medvedev

referenced plans for first flight ―within a year

and UAC officials acknowledged that a previously

quoted target might prove optimistic unless all goes

exactly to plan Rather that milestone appears most

likely to happen in or around February 2017

according to aUAC spokesman

1

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Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

2

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Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

3

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While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

4

httpwwwainonlinecom

Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

5

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Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

الشركة القابضة -ادارة العالقات العامة

لمصر للطيران

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Max in place of Airbus CEO says737 Qatar Airways considering Boeing

purchasing a Qatar Airways says it is in talks about

Max aircraft 737 ) 61+BAof Boeing (large number

amid a dispute with Airbus

over unresolved ) OTCPKEADSYOTCPKEADSF(

faults with its A320neo model

The airline which has canceled delivery of one

A320neo due to glitches with engines made by Pratt

until the will continue rejecting the planeamp Whitney

issues are fixed CEO Akbar Al Baker said today at

the Farnborough International Airshow

The airline CEO also is concerned about delivery

rates of Airbusrsquos A350 wide-body and says he is not

sure that Airbus will be able to meet its target of

handing more than 50 of the model to customers this

year

httpwwwbloombergcom

neos320s in Place of A737Boeing 30 Qatar Airways Looks at Up to

Qatar Airways is in discussions about purchasing as many as

30 Boeing Co 737 airliners amid a dispute with Airbus Group

SE over unresolved faults with its A320neo model

The carrier which has canceled delivery of one A320neo due to

glitches with engines made by Pratt amp Whitney will continue

rejecting the plane until the issues are fixed Chief Executive

Officer Akbar Al Baker said Monday at the Farnborough

International Airshow outside London The No 2 Persian Gulf

airline is focusing on potentially switching planes and hasnrsquot

made progress on talks about swapping to the A320neorsquos

alternative engine made by the CFM venture of General Electric

Co and Safran SA he said

Qatar Airways is looking at both the NG and the upcoming

Max versions of the single-aisle 737 Al Baker said The

Max scheduled to enter service in 2017 will be Boeingrsquos

direct rival to the A320neo and any inroads by the US

planemaker would be a coup Airbus has said that United

Technologies Corprsquos Pratt has begun supplying engines that

have fixed the cooling flaws and will begin delivering planes

equipped with those powerplants this month

The airline is also concerned about delivery rates of Airbusrsquos

A350 wide-body Al Baker said adding that he isnrsquot sure the

European manufacturer will be able to meet its target of

handing over 50 of the model to customers this year Qatar

Airways has only received one A350 out of 10 scheduled to

be delivered this year

httpmgdnonlinecom

A Qatar Airways flight bound to Doha from Oslo

Norway made an emergency landing in the

Romanian capital of Bucharest yesterday (July

9 )due to a fault in one of its engines said a

report

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner which was carrying

some 254 passengers was forced to change

course one hour into the flight and was diverted

to Bucharests Henri Coanda International

Airport Doha Newsreported

A replacement aircraft was dispatched to

Bucharest and the flight resumed its course

following an almost 12-hour delay

The new plane also a 787 landed in Doha at

425am this morning the report said

Qatar Business

Qatar Airways flight makes emergency landing in

Romania

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nd IATA AGM and World Air Transport Summit72

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) opened its 72nd

Annual General Meeting (AGM) and World Air Transport Summit in

Dublin Ireland

―Ireland is a great aviation country and the perfect location for the

industryrsquos leaders to meet Aviation is a force for good This year

airlines will safely transport 38 billion passengers and 52 million

tonnes of cargo That will stimulate economies and spread prosperity

But aviation faces challenges in providing the safe secure efficient

and sustainable connectivity that the world depends on The next two

days are an opportunity to work together as an industry to make flying

even better said Tony Tyler IATArsquos Director General and CEO

In his keynote address Dr Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu President of the

Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) said

―IATA and ICAO have enjoyed several decades of productive colla

boration

More recently wersquove been engaged on a number of important priorities

including among others

bullFlight tracking procedures

bullConflict zone risk management

bullThe safe integration of remotely-piloted and suborbital flight

operations

bullCybersecurity preparedness

bullIncreased airspace capacity and operational efficiency

bullThe safe carriage of lithium batteries

bullAnd of course the environment

1

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IATA has been a great ally in ICAOrsquos efforts to ensure that the decisions

of our Member States are forward-looking and in

line with the current and future needs of the industry

Report of Tony Tyler on the Air Transport Industry

―International civil aviation can greatly help to create and preserve

friendship and understanding among the nations and peoples of the

world

From the beginning both governments and industry conceived aviation

as a force for good

Aviation makes our world a better place In doing so it supports 63

million jobs and underpins 35 of global GDP

Airlines are engines of prosperity But they have long struggled to turn a

profit and reward investors That is beginning to change

This year we expect a collective net profit of $394 billion It will be only

the second year in our historymdashand the second in a rowmdashin which

airlines will make an aggregate return in excess of the cost of capital

After decades of capital destruction thatrsquos a significant achievement

But it is still just the minimum performance that investors expect

On average airlines will make $1042 for each passenger carried

Overall despite generally adverse economic conditions it is a good

time for the air transport industry

-Consumers are getting great deals and lots of choice

-Investors are beginning to see reasonable rewards for the capital

they risk

-And airlines are able to make critical investments and shore-up their

resilience by paying down debtmdashalthough it will take several years of

solid profitability to fix most balance sheets properly

2

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Our success as an industry rests on areas where we work together

the foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability Each is strong but not without challenges

In bringing my remarks to a close I want to reflect on the power of

partnership

Partnership is essential for the continuous reinforcement of the

foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability

Itrsquos also important for our 264 members and the entire value chain to

work together Because together we can send a proud message that

aviation is a force for good And we can do more good when tax

burdens and infrastructure constraints are removed and when the

principles of Smarter Regulation are applied properly

The framework for our modern industry was built by governments and

airlines with a common vision that safe regular and economical air

transport would benefit the peoples of the world by creating and

preserving friendships and understanding With more than 100 years

of history behind us we can confidently say that aviation has made the

world a better place

We have done that by unleashing an irreversible and ever-more

accessible capability to explore the world in which we live to improve

our lives with unprecedented mobility and to grow prosperity by doing

business globally

People are thirsty for the opportunities that aviation makes possible

Every day we safely transport ten million people and 140000 tonnes of

cargo We are not just connecting people and shifting goods our

work is building a better future for the peoples of the world

Aviationrsquos potential has never been more inspiring We are privileged

to lead an industry that is a force for good

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At the CEO Panel Insight Debate discussion moderated by Richard Quest the

following CEOs participated Bernard Gustin CEO Brussels Airlines (BG) Ed

Bastian CEO Delta Air Lines (ED) Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group and Charamporn Jotikasthira

President of Thai Airways the issue of the security and aircraft tracking was

discussed in the view of the Brussels terrorist attack and the Egyptair 804 flight

going down into the water

The Brussels Airlines CEO said that the Brussels disaster which came after a

very good year for the airlines gave him the opportunity to experience the

amazing reaction of the airlinersquo s staff and the importance of aviation as

Brussels remained 12 days without an airport Being members of the Lufthansa

group they were able to put the long haul to Zurich and Frankfurt and useδ

provincial airport in Liege and Antwerp for local traffic When asked whether

security needs to be readdressed he answered that the risk arose before

security checks and this has to be solved with the Intelligence systems They

imposed after the disaster some extremely strong measures only to realize after

a few days that they were not appropriate He added that they need to continue

to analyze the security process and do risk analysis but have pertinent

measures and apply them consistently across the board

In the US on the other hand the situation is different the security procedures

imposed by the TSA make passengers be delayed or misconnected The

problem has taken such extent that many airports are considering replacing or

supplanting TSA When asked Ed Bastian CEO for Delta Air Lines said that

they have realized the problem and that they will deal with that and added that

they as an airline did a lot to manage the issue they innovated queuing process

in Atlanta that they paid for themselves which is going to have 50 reduction

in how long it takes travelers to get through checkpoints

As the question of security in Asia has again been raised in terms of its being

efficient and effective or not Charamporn Jotikasthira President of Thai

Airways agreed that there is a need to improve over time as there are ways to

hack systems there is a need for a system that can detect faster more

accurately with more quality

Jayne Hrdlicka CEO of Jetstar Group answered questions related to the

investment of low-cost airlines in security She answered that it is the airlinersquos

job to ensure that the security that is provided for in the airports they operate

meets the standards that we have set for ourselves Since in several of the

airports they are operating in the situation is not to these standards they take

responsibility for the safety and security of their people and customers to make

sure that the standards are consistent across the network

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Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline in his turn when expressing

his view on about aviation security in general he said that the industry

is not doing enough although there have been so many wake up calls in

the last couple of years He said that it is easy for government agencies

and organizations to blame on austerity their inability to fund the

security apparatus and the systems and procedures but the aviation

industry has to come up with a new set of protocols that ensure

security for the travelling public and consumers The industry has to

cooperate with governmental agencies to identify the possibilities of

people actually doing such attacks He added that industry has to adopt

far more readily the technological advances that are being made

available to streamline the processes but at the same time increase the

level of scrutiny He stressed the need for flow of information between

countries so as to have a more homogeneous intelligence service

When asked about airline tracking he admitted that the fact that the

problems in trying to locate an aircraft that has had a major incidence

―is a disgrace― These incidents impose on the industry a need to be

able to track aircraft at every point on their journey which as he said

Emirates does anyway within 15-20 minutes they know where all the

airlinersquos aircraft are where they fly or on the ground at the same

time He added that the manufacturers too need to come up with the

data records both CVR and cockpit voice recorders and flight data

recorders that have to be far more robust able to survive intact and

with much more power to develop beacons and locating systems in

very remote areas on the sea or in the river

When faced with the remark that six years have passed since the flight

370 incident and still the industry is unable to locate missing aircraft

and many experts argue that the airlines are reluctant to spend the

money on tracking and streaming of data they all agreed that it is not a

financial issue and the only question is a question of governance The

industry has to come to a consensus and agree on common standards

for example at what frequency the aircraft will be sending it out tracking

information the industry is waiting for an ICAO solution that everyone

is going to adopt They all agreed though that irrespective of the cost it

has to be done because as Sir Tim Clark put it ―Not to do it is

delinquency

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When Richard Quest asked them about results and yields because airlines seem to

be that making good money they all claim the yield is under pressure and to

comment on the influence of the lower fuel price Ed Bastian said that capacity has

grown over the last few years driven by the dramatic reduction in oil prices The

pressure seen on yield is a reflection of the growing capacity He commented he

does not focus only on yield but looks at other aspects and metrics to understand

the underlying health of the industry demand is very strong especially in the US and

fuel prices are stabilizing and the airline making record margins

Bernard Gustin said when fuel prices gets up again the airlines will not be able to put

it back in the yield so they need to keep a business plan both with the current fuel

price as well as with the old fuel price especially in their case since their competitors

in Brussels are low cost carriers such as Ryanair and Easyjet

When Jetstarrsquos CEO was asked whether there is unconstrained growth of capacity

she answered that the growth of capacity ahead of underlying demand is not

irrational when margins are attractive and costs well managed and strong return in

invested capital

Sir Tim Clark said that the true causes behind yield suppression need to be

examined The lowering of the fuel prices was good news but they failed to foresee

that the corporate sectors that drive many of the upper echelons of the yield will go

with the oil prices That brought us some difficulties Then there was a currency

issue the strength of the US as the airline generates a large part of income on

currencies that move south of the dollar that affected the yield too Third the

addition of capacity means extension of the revenue of greater distances which

causes yield dilution On the other hand while there is flat line projection for global

economy demand for airtravel is increasing at 6 7 8 in several areas including the

Middle East there is also an explosion of growth in the US domestic market This

means the airline backfills inventory with more passengers because demand is there

Their airline needs to adjust its business to the practical long-term change and this is

low yield the airline can do it He announced that Emirates will 14 more A380s to

their fleet of 79

Thai Airwaysrsquos President said that their problem was of a different nature as they

unable to fill the aircraft as much as the others and their load factors were 4-5

lower than the average they will first fix that and and then deal with the other

problems

When the discussion turned to the question whether there will more manufactures of

aircraft and more choice in the future Ed Bastian supported Deltarsquos decision to buy

CS100s Bombardier and commented that they have been long time customers of

their small and larger regional jets because they technologically and engine-wise

efficient and reliable and they were given good financial terms He also predicted that

more airlines will consider acquiring Bombardier C-series aircraft

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As Emirates are mostly wide body operator Sir Tim Clark said

they already have good choice between Boeing and Airbus

which answer their needs with regard to the mission and the

type of product the airline wants to offer He wished ―good

luck to any manufacturer wishing to enter the market them if

they get over the barriers to entry

Jane Hrdlicka said she expects see innovation coming in in the

form of technology of the airframe and a strong Chinese

manufacturer which means there will be more choice in two

decades from now than today

Then Richard Quest asked questions each airline individually

He asked whether Brussels Airlines will be around in two years

from now Bernand Gustin the airline will be there and will have

the same operation model but more powerful with the power of

a major aviation group Lufthansa group behind it In the past

airlines had to choose to be point-to-point or connecting Low

cost or service airline bur Brussels airline We tries to reconcile

those dimensions and they have positioned themselves a

hybrid airline People do not want to pay but they want a level

of service and even the low cost carriers are investing now in

service As for the name of airline he said that the airline will be

called what has value for the customer as it has been proven

with the airlinersquos Africa routes The airline played a crucial role

during the Ebola crisis and has gained its value as a brand in

Africa that it did not have before when it was Sabena He

stressed that a brand is something that responds to a customer

need a brand name that responds best to the Belgian customer

the European customer and the African customer and the US

customers which are the markets the airlines serves

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Thai Airwaysrsquo president was asked about the airlinersquos strategy to deal with

their problems He answered that they have a two-year reform programme

they have already achieved a profit margin 12 on sales so they are on track

reform plan They intend to remain a full service carrier with a major very

efficient hub He added that they realised after following the developments of

the last years that the ecosystem has been changing a lot as all demand

coming into Thailand has been point-to-point to secondary cities They

operate in one the fastest growing regions in terms of demand near India

and China but the demand is becoming point-to-point which means that the

model that the airline was following in the past has to be changed When

asked whether they will need a partner and more particularly a Gulf partner to

do your long haul European routes he answered that if the market is India

China and Asia and there is going to be more and more point-to-point service

they will have to be bigger They may need partners of some sort some form

of alliance but I this alliance will not be as the ones of the past In the past a

big airline in Europe a big airline in Japan could connect throughout the

world but this area is a non-united area there are many states there is

Myanmar Thailand Vietnam so the partnership will most probably be

bilateral

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group was asked how Qantas managed so

successfully to incorporate a low-cost or a low-fare branch as some call it

She answered that they did it by really understanding their customers and

recognising that there is a part of the market that is hungry for full service and

is prepared to pay a premium to get it but there is an equal part of the market

that was not able to travel because the fares were too high and would prefer

choice on how they travel and be able to pay for what they use What they

have done is effectively build a new brand that focuses squarely on that

customer group and have protected the integrity by not trying to blur the line

and keeping them very separate operationally commercially and

strategically

Bernand Gustin was asked again whether Lufthansa has considered an

arrangement with an LCC for feed and he answered that first the airline needs

to substantially reduce its cost to be price competitive and this what they

have done There is no choice about that But as they come from a service

heritage airline and given that they will never be a cost leader they try to keep

a differentiation on service a service that really people want So they have

played on connectivity on the network and on the Belgian brand There is a

wish to have a specific brand As there are other very strong brands within the

Lufthansa group if they want to go further they need to have the power of the

group to be able to further reduce the cost to get the commercial critical

mass outside of Belgium Thatrsquos where the right mix needs to be found

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Deltarsquos CEO was asked How a giant airline accommodates the new reality

of all those LCCs Ot which he answered that they do it through

segmentation within the aircraft they have introduced a product called

―basic economy for price sensitive types of travelling within the US

They are still experimenting with it as it is relatively new and the

technology solution on it is complicated Within the two they have to

accommodate the low fare end and the highly sensitive business

traveller that is willing to pay a premium and a couple of stages between

the two But it a much wider question the airline needs to find who he

wants to be so they have moved upscale they are not a commodity

player and they generated a 10 premium in relation to the other US

carriers He stressed that ―If we were to be a commodity player we would

not be around today He admits that they have to accommodate a

commodity component for the travel sector but they are not a

commodity As the carry two million passengers a year that pay a 10

premium on average they have proven our point

Jetstarrsquos CEP pointed that both fares are not commoditised any more

Airlines have to look at what customers want choice is definitely

important for all customers and choice for people who are looking for

value matters a lot She said that their airline also extracts a relative 15

premium in relation to competition because they do not view themselves

as a commodity product They invest heavily in the brand in the

experience in ways that the customers value and are prepared to pay for

it and give them the choice to custom design their experience

The Brussels Airlinesrsquos CEO added that segmentation and differentiation

is key When their airline starts with a start price of 39 euros one way and

has a very vocal pure low cost competitor at 21 euro for the same thing

the solution is to claim that it offers service as there is a whole heritage

that exists besides While the price is key people say ―I want to know

what I choose The pure commodity product that happened a few years

is going away but when there is a heritage of service that can help you

differentiate yourself then there is potential to make the difference

Brussels has all the LCCs of the world but Brussels Airlines grew by 30

more in the last two years

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Richard Quest then turned to Emirates CEO and asked him how they

accomodate with the LCCs that can offer feed from them into their long

haul services Sir Tim Clark answered that LCCs are here to stay they

continue to grow their business they have been a significant player in

the way civil aviation has developed in the last years giving consumers

a very good choice As long as the air industry business keeps the

consumers at the heart of the business and it does what they are

guiding to do then there is place for everybody The

differentiation whether it is between low cost and full service long haul

or short haul is something the industry has to adapt to accept and

encourage It is part of civil aviation After all it is the travelling public

who benefits from LCC existence The legacy carriers as they are

called have to adapt and work with them In terms of establishing a

lower cost arm for Emirates he answered ―no but he added that they

would work with them and they do They have very good relationships

with the Low Cost operators because they bring lots more people into

the market the whole principle was tapping incipient demand that

could not afford the levels of fares that were available prior to their

existence What they did is that they brought efficiency fleet efficiency

technological efficiency distribution efficiency and suddenly a new

branch of air transport industry was found ―To not work with makes no

sense

When asked about what new things they can offer to the upper end of

the market they all agreed that it is the soft goods that matter after all

Everyone can buy the hard goods but the airlines invest now in

relationship building Delta said its CEO can boast on its relationship

with corporate travelers and the fact they have one of the lowest

maintenance cancellation records They give the business traveler what

he needs dependability reliability quality to arrive on time with their

bags he added that there is a lot of technology and process behind it

but more than that a lot of willpower and culture

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Jetstarrsquos CEO said that invest a lot in their people both in full service

and in low cost training helping them to build skills relationships with

the customer Jetstar wants to enable customers to enjoy the ability of

pick and choose both to bundle and to unbundle

Emiratesrsquo CEO said that the airline spends an awful lot of time and

money on our premium product and the public knows about it and they

have always done that and they will continue to do it As soon as

things mature they will change to make things more interesting they

will be raising the bar for the consumers the business community

because ―we can do it

Panel discussion on Cyber Security

The panelists were Major General Linda Urrutia-Varhall the Assistant

Deputy Chief of Staff Director of National Intelligence for Aviation

Security in the US Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance the

Pentagon Washington DC Anja Kaspersen Head of International

Security for the World Economic Forum Alan Pellegrini CEO and

President of Thales USA Matthew Finn Managing Director of

Augmentiq Calin Rovinescu President and CEO of Air Canada and

Kurt Pipal FBI Assistant Legal Attache for US Embassy in the UK

They all agreed that aviation being a symbol of globalisation remains

an aspirational target for terrorists The interconnected nature of the

industry and interconnectibility of IT systems from baggage

movement to ticket kiosk and flight systems represent an ever growing

list of vulnerabilities and a whole brand new horizon of threats It is

however practically technologically and financially impossible to

address all the issues In the words of General Urrutia-Varhall the

interaction between actors threats and vulnerabilities can be viewed as

an ecosystem of forces in which ―we are as strong as our weakest link

No entity can go alone against these threats Airline industry

govenments domestic and international Intelligence community private

and public sectors should come together gather and share information

to characterise assess threats prioritise them and then act

appropriately

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Calin Rovinescu mentioned the ―very scary number that experts

estimate is the amount of damage caused last year by cyber hacks

was in the vicinity of US$500 million world wide and that 94

of global airlines had some form of cyber security breaches These

incidents were ―a real wake-up call for the industry Many of these

attacks were dealt with because airlines had good technology

protection but still these numbers make clear that as the industry

moves towards more automation seeking the interconnectiveness that

makes ir more efficient attack surfaces expand exponentially

Matthew Finn said businesses should look at security in a holistic way

He said there is currently a downward trend of documentation fraud

but an upward trend regarding identity theft

Alan Pellegrini said that the industy has seen recently an increasing

number of high profile hacks hacks in the wi-fi connectivity simply to

steal passenger information that is flowing over those networks a

hack into the ground systems of an airline to steal financial

transactions and information to collect the money the airline was

supposed to collect The threat is very real and although it has not

resulted to serious safety related issues it is resulting into serious

disrupting The fact that there has been no serious incident means

though that the industry is getting a lot of it right

Airlines now connect passengers to Wi-Fi on aircraft they add

connectivity to crews aircraft operations are connected on the

ground some are experimenting with cloud-based avionics controlling

aircraft operations The move towards more automation is inescepable

so the protection from cyber attackes To build such protection

requires a

a multi-year plan with responsibility at the highest level and

collaboration and information exchange between the aviation industry

and governments

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There are many technoloty tools Thales is working on to better protect

the connected aircraft but there is no ―silver bullet there is no one

piece of technology that is going to solve all the industry problems

because security is a process the same way threats are not static they

continue to evolve ―Technology is not done it continues monitoring

security operations centres are required to identify threats as they start

to materialize and to mitigate them and then go ahead and implement

addtional technology that is going to deal with new potential threats so

it is a continuous process

According to Calin Rovinescu ―No matter how complex and good

systems a company may have problems are not solved overnight and

aviation must develop a capability to respond and recover He pointed

out that aviation industry must look at and work with other industries

that have more maturity with cyber threats such as financial

institutions technology companies

The industry is very encouraged by the fact IATA is taking on this topic

to prevent serious disruption and perhaps safety issues later

Anja Kaspersen admitted that the threat is real but she added that there

is also ―fear mongering because of the commercial interests invested

in cyber security She stressed that the combination of ―ignorance and

unsubstantiated fear is dangerous and hampers preparedness She

cautioned airlines not to underestimate the psychological effect

should as as they live off their reputation Airlines have to respond to

customer expectations for security concerns

She added that aviation should work on the assumption that they

receiving both physical and cyber attacks and and therefore work on

how to protect the systems with more advanced software and develop

some translation tools to compare traditional and new risks

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Kurt Pipal pointed as airline companies possess and deal with huge

amounts of data they become by definition a target for industrial

espionage He cautioned companies to be very careful about

subcontractors which do necessarily rely on the same system

resilience He stressed the importance of sharing intelligence

information in the industry Build awareness and do not have a silo

approach Identify your vulnerabilities and make the assumption that

you are going to be hacked Participate in a 247 securities operation

centre and called the aviation to Occasionally even use a so-called

dark agent - a hacker to test your system Companies do fire drills so

why do they not do cyber security drills toolaquo

The Panel on the Climate Change Goals brought together

representatives from industry academia and NGOs to discuss the

progress on the climate change goals the aviation industry faces and

what is needed to reach them The industry has to achieve a goal of

climate neutral growth from 2020 but also the long-term target of cutting

net CO2 emissions by half by 2050 compared to 2005 levels

The panelists were Angela Gittens Director General of Airports Council

International Alan Joyce Qantas CEO Patrick de Castelbajac CEO of

aircraft manufacturer ATR John-Paul Clarke professor at Georgia

Institute of Technology and Tim Johnson of the International Coalition

for Sustainable Aviation

2050 might seeem a long way off but due to industry time lags therersquos

only around 10 years left to figure out how to reach the goal according

to John-Paul Clarke

They all agreed that the industry in all its supply chain-manufacturers

airports infrastructure airlines- must come together to work in a

concerted way to achieve how to go about achieveing these goals A

holistic perspective is needed as the industry stakeholders all are in

direct dependency and the example od a fuel efficient aircraft that

cannot operate efficiently because the air traffic management is not

efficient They stressed that sustainable development is not a question

of being politically correct any more but a condition of the future

existence of the industry ―there is no other way than being

environmentally respectful said Patrick de Castelbajac

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He added that aircraft manufacturers do consider now the

environmental impact of their aircraft at every stage from design

through to the eventual end-of-life disposal ―There is also a greater

convergence between economic and environmental interests which we

can see clearly on fuel burn he said

New technology and new management must be both environmentally

and economically sustainable

The panelists agreed that passengers are passsionate about it and do

want to offset the environmental impact of their flight Alan Joyce

said that one passenger every minute selects a voluntary offset

program

Angela Gittens said that Airports have adopted the Carbon

Accreditation Programme a programme that provides airports with a

common framework for active carbon management with measurable

goal-postsand 20 airports are already carbon neutral She added ICAO

and IATA should undertake the role of coordinating bodies which will

monitor assess and pace the progress It is necessary because ―If you

canrsquot measure it you canrsquot manage it

Continuous transparent monitoring of what is been done by an

independent entity would bring credibility according to John-

Paul Clarke

The panelists also agreed that ICAO and IATA will have to meet the

challenge of balancing the different levels of maturity in terms

of environmental measures around the globe in other words those that

move more quickly with those that have been left behind

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Joyce said the new ICAO aircraft CO2 standard would drive

advances in aircraft and engine technology He complained

that although there had been advances in navigation

technology and procedures - such as the traffic control

satellite navigation approaches to airports that saved his

airline up to 60000 tons of fuel - progress had been slow in

improving Air Traffic management and developing ATC

infrastructure

He insisted though on the role of biofuels He stressed that

more studies should be undertaken on biofuels to make sure

that they are produced in environmentally friendly way

―Biofuels are the only way we are going to get to our 2050

target Itrsquos a question of how we as an industry can cooperate

and how we can get governments interested enough to put a

policy framework in place to make that happen Their

development and insertion in the value chain will require RampD

and help from governments and other industrial sectors

He called his government to support the local alternative

fuels industry that creates new jobs and brings

environmental benefits

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Tim Johnson cautioned that it should not become

an ―accountancy exercise where we see one

gallon of biofuel uplifted to an aircraft or a tonne

of CO2 offset as the way we measure progress

adding it was important to move beyond

quantification and just emissions and consider

the wider sustainable development agenda

Investment decisions needed to be taken now to

reach the industryrsquos 2050 target he suggested

and clarity was needed on what should happen

and by when ICAO market-based measure is

perfoming well but there must be emphasis on the

other three pillars required for aviation emissions

reductions ndash aircraft technology operations and

infrastructure

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powered aircraft leaves Seville for Cairo-Solar

MADRID July 11 (Xinhua) -- The aircraft Solar Impulse

II powered completely by solar energy on Monday left

the Spanish city of Seville to attempt to land in

on WednesdayEgyptCairo

The route will be between 48 and 72 hours long

depending on weather conditions This will be the

penultimate flight of the plane that will travel to Abu

Dhabi afterwards

Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard who have

been working on the aircraft for more than a decade

will pilot the aircraft Borschberg will pilot the plane

from Seville to Cairo crossing seven countries after

which Piccard will fly to Abu Dhabi

Borschberg said that the trip was meaningful as it is

my last flight in this round-the-world epic I am happy

that were close to the end but also prudent knowing

that it is not done yet I have to stay really focused

SpainThe aircraft had been in Seville in the south of

for two weeks after successfully crossing the Atlantic

Ocean

Solar Impulse II is able to fly night and day without any

fossil fuel It travels at between 45 and 55 kmhour

reaching an altitude of 8500 meters The plane is wider

than a 747 jumbo jet and weighs 23 tons

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Russias New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

A grand unveiling of the Irkut MC-21-300 on June 8

established a relatively firm project timeline for the

160- to 212-seat narrowbody and marked a measure

of vindication for what many in the West have

disparaged as a fringe project In attendance at the

ceremony Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

spoke of the prestige the program has brought to

the country as well as its importance to helping

move its economy forward He also congratulated

Irkutrsquos employees for their role in shaping the future

of Russiarsquos return to prominence in commercial

aircraft manufacturing

Expecting the MC-21 to gain Russian certification in

2018 United Aircraft subsidiary Irkut had hoped to

fly the first airplane by the end of this year

However during the rollout ceremony Medvedev

referenced plans for first flight ―within a year

and UAC officials acknowledged that a previously

quoted target might prove optimistic unless all goes

exactly to plan Rather that milestone appears most

likely to happen in or around February 2017

according to aUAC spokesman

1

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Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

2

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Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

3

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While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

4

httpwwwainonlinecom

Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

5

httpwwwainonlinecom

Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

الشركة القابضة -ادارة العالقات العامة

لمصر للطيران

httpwwwbloombergcom

neos320s in Place of A737Boeing 30 Qatar Airways Looks at Up to

Qatar Airways is in discussions about purchasing as many as

30 Boeing Co 737 airliners amid a dispute with Airbus Group

SE over unresolved faults with its A320neo model

The carrier which has canceled delivery of one A320neo due to

glitches with engines made by Pratt amp Whitney will continue

rejecting the plane until the issues are fixed Chief Executive

Officer Akbar Al Baker said Monday at the Farnborough

International Airshow outside London The No 2 Persian Gulf

airline is focusing on potentially switching planes and hasnrsquot

made progress on talks about swapping to the A320neorsquos

alternative engine made by the CFM venture of General Electric

Co and Safran SA he said

Qatar Airways is looking at both the NG and the upcoming

Max versions of the single-aisle 737 Al Baker said The

Max scheduled to enter service in 2017 will be Boeingrsquos

direct rival to the A320neo and any inroads by the US

planemaker would be a coup Airbus has said that United

Technologies Corprsquos Pratt has begun supplying engines that

have fixed the cooling flaws and will begin delivering planes

equipped with those powerplants this month

The airline is also concerned about delivery rates of Airbusrsquos

A350 wide-body Al Baker said adding that he isnrsquot sure the

European manufacturer will be able to meet its target of

handing over 50 of the model to customers this year Qatar

Airways has only received one A350 out of 10 scheduled to

be delivered this year

httpmgdnonlinecom

A Qatar Airways flight bound to Doha from Oslo

Norway made an emergency landing in the

Romanian capital of Bucharest yesterday (July

9 )due to a fault in one of its engines said a

report

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner which was carrying

some 254 passengers was forced to change

course one hour into the flight and was diverted

to Bucharests Henri Coanda International

Airport Doha Newsreported

A replacement aircraft was dispatched to

Bucharest and the flight resumed its course

following an almost 12-hour delay

The new plane also a 787 landed in Doha at

425am this morning the report said

Qatar Business

Qatar Airways flight makes emergency landing in

Romania

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nd IATA AGM and World Air Transport Summit72

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) opened its 72nd

Annual General Meeting (AGM) and World Air Transport Summit in

Dublin Ireland

―Ireland is a great aviation country and the perfect location for the

industryrsquos leaders to meet Aviation is a force for good This year

airlines will safely transport 38 billion passengers and 52 million

tonnes of cargo That will stimulate economies and spread prosperity

But aviation faces challenges in providing the safe secure efficient

and sustainable connectivity that the world depends on The next two

days are an opportunity to work together as an industry to make flying

even better said Tony Tyler IATArsquos Director General and CEO

In his keynote address Dr Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu President of the

Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) said

―IATA and ICAO have enjoyed several decades of productive colla

boration

More recently wersquove been engaged on a number of important priorities

including among others

bullFlight tracking procedures

bullConflict zone risk management

bullThe safe integration of remotely-piloted and suborbital flight

operations

bullCybersecurity preparedness

bullIncreased airspace capacity and operational efficiency

bullThe safe carriage of lithium batteries

bullAnd of course the environment

1

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IATA has been a great ally in ICAOrsquos efforts to ensure that the decisions

of our Member States are forward-looking and in

line with the current and future needs of the industry

Report of Tony Tyler on the Air Transport Industry

―International civil aviation can greatly help to create and preserve

friendship and understanding among the nations and peoples of the

world

From the beginning both governments and industry conceived aviation

as a force for good

Aviation makes our world a better place In doing so it supports 63

million jobs and underpins 35 of global GDP

Airlines are engines of prosperity But they have long struggled to turn a

profit and reward investors That is beginning to change

This year we expect a collective net profit of $394 billion It will be only

the second year in our historymdashand the second in a rowmdashin which

airlines will make an aggregate return in excess of the cost of capital

After decades of capital destruction thatrsquos a significant achievement

But it is still just the minimum performance that investors expect

On average airlines will make $1042 for each passenger carried

Overall despite generally adverse economic conditions it is a good

time for the air transport industry

-Consumers are getting great deals and lots of choice

-Investors are beginning to see reasonable rewards for the capital

they risk

-And airlines are able to make critical investments and shore-up their

resilience by paying down debtmdashalthough it will take several years of

solid profitability to fix most balance sheets properly

2

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Our success as an industry rests on areas where we work together

the foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability Each is strong but not without challenges

In bringing my remarks to a close I want to reflect on the power of

partnership

Partnership is essential for the continuous reinforcement of the

foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability

Itrsquos also important for our 264 members and the entire value chain to

work together Because together we can send a proud message that

aviation is a force for good And we can do more good when tax

burdens and infrastructure constraints are removed and when the

principles of Smarter Regulation are applied properly

The framework for our modern industry was built by governments and

airlines with a common vision that safe regular and economical air

transport would benefit the peoples of the world by creating and

preserving friendships and understanding With more than 100 years

of history behind us we can confidently say that aviation has made the

world a better place

We have done that by unleashing an irreversible and ever-more

accessible capability to explore the world in which we live to improve

our lives with unprecedented mobility and to grow prosperity by doing

business globally

People are thirsty for the opportunities that aviation makes possible

Every day we safely transport ten million people and 140000 tonnes of

cargo We are not just connecting people and shifting goods our

work is building a better future for the peoples of the world

Aviationrsquos potential has never been more inspiring We are privileged

to lead an industry that is a force for good

3

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At the CEO Panel Insight Debate discussion moderated by Richard Quest the

following CEOs participated Bernard Gustin CEO Brussels Airlines (BG) Ed

Bastian CEO Delta Air Lines (ED) Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group and Charamporn Jotikasthira

President of Thai Airways the issue of the security and aircraft tracking was

discussed in the view of the Brussels terrorist attack and the Egyptair 804 flight

going down into the water

The Brussels Airlines CEO said that the Brussels disaster which came after a

very good year for the airlines gave him the opportunity to experience the

amazing reaction of the airlinersquo s staff and the importance of aviation as

Brussels remained 12 days without an airport Being members of the Lufthansa

group they were able to put the long haul to Zurich and Frankfurt and useδ

provincial airport in Liege and Antwerp for local traffic When asked whether

security needs to be readdressed he answered that the risk arose before

security checks and this has to be solved with the Intelligence systems They

imposed after the disaster some extremely strong measures only to realize after

a few days that they were not appropriate He added that they need to continue

to analyze the security process and do risk analysis but have pertinent

measures and apply them consistently across the board

In the US on the other hand the situation is different the security procedures

imposed by the TSA make passengers be delayed or misconnected The

problem has taken such extent that many airports are considering replacing or

supplanting TSA When asked Ed Bastian CEO for Delta Air Lines said that

they have realized the problem and that they will deal with that and added that

they as an airline did a lot to manage the issue they innovated queuing process

in Atlanta that they paid for themselves which is going to have 50 reduction

in how long it takes travelers to get through checkpoints

As the question of security in Asia has again been raised in terms of its being

efficient and effective or not Charamporn Jotikasthira President of Thai

Airways agreed that there is a need to improve over time as there are ways to

hack systems there is a need for a system that can detect faster more

accurately with more quality

Jayne Hrdlicka CEO of Jetstar Group answered questions related to the

investment of low-cost airlines in security She answered that it is the airlinersquos

job to ensure that the security that is provided for in the airports they operate

meets the standards that we have set for ourselves Since in several of the

airports they are operating in the situation is not to these standards they take

responsibility for the safety and security of their people and customers to make

sure that the standards are consistent across the network

4

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Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline in his turn when expressing

his view on about aviation security in general he said that the industry

is not doing enough although there have been so many wake up calls in

the last couple of years He said that it is easy for government agencies

and organizations to blame on austerity their inability to fund the

security apparatus and the systems and procedures but the aviation

industry has to come up with a new set of protocols that ensure

security for the travelling public and consumers The industry has to

cooperate with governmental agencies to identify the possibilities of

people actually doing such attacks He added that industry has to adopt

far more readily the technological advances that are being made

available to streamline the processes but at the same time increase the

level of scrutiny He stressed the need for flow of information between

countries so as to have a more homogeneous intelligence service

When asked about airline tracking he admitted that the fact that the

problems in trying to locate an aircraft that has had a major incidence

―is a disgrace― These incidents impose on the industry a need to be

able to track aircraft at every point on their journey which as he said

Emirates does anyway within 15-20 minutes they know where all the

airlinersquos aircraft are where they fly or on the ground at the same

time He added that the manufacturers too need to come up with the

data records both CVR and cockpit voice recorders and flight data

recorders that have to be far more robust able to survive intact and

with much more power to develop beacons and locating systems in

very remote areas on the sea or in the river

When faced with the remark that six years have passed since the flight

370 incident and still the industry is unable to locate missing aircraft

and many experts argue that the airlines are reluctant to spend the

money on tracking and streaming of data they all agreed that it is not a

financial issue and the only question is a question of governance The

industry has to come to a consensus and agree on common standards

for example at what frequency the aircraft will be sending it out tracking

information the industry is waiting for an ICAO solution that everyone

is going to adopt They all agreed though that irrespective of the cost it

has to be done because as Sir Tim Clark put it ―Not to do it is

delinquency

5

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When Richard Quest asked them about results and yields because airlines seem to

be that making good money they all claim the yield is under pressure and to

comment on the influence of the lower fuel price Ed Bastian said that capacity has

grown over the last few years driven by the dramatic reduction in oil prices The

pressure seen on yield is a reflection of the growing capacity He commented he

does not focus only on yield but looks at other aspects and metrics to understand

the underlying health of the industry demand is very strong especially in the US and

fuel prices are stabilizing and the airline making record margins

Bernard Gustin said when fuel prices gets up again the airlines will not be able to put

it back in the yield so they need to keep a business plan both with the current fuel

price as well as with the old fuel price especially in their case since their competitors

in Brussels are low cost carriers such as Ryanair and Easyjet

When Jetstarrsquos CEO was asked whether there is unconstrained growth of capacity

she answered that the growth of capacity ahead of underlying demand is not

irrational when margins are attractive and costs well managed and strong return in

invested capital

Sir Tim Clark said that the true causes behind yield suppression need to be

examined The lowering of the fuel prices was good news but they failed to foresee

that the corporate sectors that drive many of the upper echelons of the yield will go

with the oil prices That brought us some difficulties Then there was a currency

issue the strength of the US as the airline generates a large part of income on

currencies that move south of the dollar that affected the yield too Third the

addition of capacity means extension of the revenue of greater distances which

causes yield dilution On the other hand while there is flat line projection for global

economy demand for airtravel is increasing at 6 7 8 in several areas including the

Middle East there is also an explosion of growth in the US domestic market This

means the airline backfills inventory with more passengers because demand is there

Their airline needs to adjust its business to the practical long-term change and this is

low yield the airline can do it He announced that Emirates will 14 more A380s to

their fleet of 79

Thai Airwaysrsquos President said that their problem was of a different nature as they

unable to fill the aircraft as much as the others and their load factors were 4-5

lower than the average they will first fix that and and then deal with the other

problems

When the discussion turned to the question whether there will more manufactures of

aircraft and more choice in the future Ed Bastian supported Deltarsquos decision to buy

CS100s Bombardier and commented that they have been long time customers of

their small and larger regional jets because they technologically and engine-wise

efficient and reliable and they were given good financial terms He also predicted that

more airlines will consider acquiring Bombardier C-series aircraft

6

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As Emirates are mostly wide body operator Sir Tim Clark said

they already have good choice between Boeing and Airbus

which answer their needs with regard to the mission and the

type of product the airline wants to offer He wished ―good

luck to any manufacturer wishing to enter the market them if

they get over the barriers to entry

Jane Hrdlicka said she expects see innovation coming in in the

form of technology of the airframe and a strong Chinese

manufacturer which means there will be more choice in two

decades from now than today

Then Richard Quest asked questions each airline individually

He asked whether Brussels Airlines will be around in two years

from now Bernand Gustin the airline will be there and will have

the same operation model but more powerful with the power of

a major aviation group Lufthansa group behind it In the past

airlines had to choose to be point-to-point or connecting Low

cost or service airline bur Brussels airline We tries to reconcile

those dimensions and they have positioned themselves a

hybrid airline People do not want to pay but they want a level

of service and even the low cost carriers are investing now in

service As for the name of airline he said that the airline will be

called what has value for the customer as it has been proven

with the airlinersquos Africa routes The airline played a crucial role

during the Ebola crisis and has gained its value as a brand in

Africa that it did not have before when it was Sabena He

stressed that a brand is something that responds to a customer

need a brand name that responds best to the Belgian customer

the European customer and the African customer and the US

customers which are the markets the airlines serves

7

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Thai Airwaysrsquo president was asked about the airlinersquos strategy to deal with

their problems He answered that they have a two-year reform programme

they have already achieved a profit margin 12 on sales so they are on track

reform plan They intend to remain a full service carrier with a major very

efficient hub He added that they realised after following the developments of

the last years that the ecosystem has been changing a lot as all demand

coming into Thailand has been point-to-point to secondary cities They

operate in one the fastest growing regions in terms of demand near India

and China but the demand is becoming point-to-point which means that the

model that the airline was following in the past has to be changed When

asked whether they will need a partner and more particularly a Gulf partner to

do your long haul European routes he answered that if the market is India

China and Asia and there is going to be more and more point-to-point service

they will have to be bigger They may need partners of some sort some form

of alliance but I this alliance will not be as the ones of the past In the past a

big airline in Europe a big airline in Japan could connect throughout the

world but this area is a non-united area there are many states there is

Myanmar Thailand Vietnam so the partnership will most probably be

bilateral

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group was asked how Qantas managed so

successfully to incorporate a low-cost or a low-fare branch as some call it

She answered that they did it by really understanding their customers and

recognising that there is a part of the market that is hungry for full service and

is prepared to pay a premium to get it but there is an equal part of the market

that was not able to travel because the fares were too high and would prefer

choice on how they travel and be able to pay for what they use What they

have done is effectively build a new brand that focuses squarely on that

customer group and have protected the integrity by not trying to blur the line

and keeping them very separate operationally commercially and

strategically

Bernand Gustin was asked again whether Lufthansa has considered an

arrangement with an LCC for feed and he answered that first the airline needs

to substantially reduce its cost to be price competitive and this what they

have done There is no choice about that But as they come from a service

heritage airline and given that they will never be a cost leader they try to keep

a differentiation on service a service that really people want So they have

played on connectivity on the network and on the Belgian brand There is a

wish to have a specific brand As there are other very strong brands within the

Lufthansa group if they want to go further they need to have the power of the

group to be able to further reduce the cost to get the commercial critical

mass outside of Belgium Thatrsquos where the right mix needs to be found

8

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Deltarsquos CEO was asked How a giant airline accommodates the new reality

of all those LCCs Ot which he answered that they do it through

segmentation within the aircraft they have introduced a product called

―basic economy for price sensitive types of travelling within the US

They are still experimenting with it as it is relatively new and the

technology solution on it is complicated Within the two they have to

accommodate the low fare end and the highly sensitive business

traveller that is willing to pay a premium and a couple of stages between

the two But it a much wider question the airline needs to find who he

wants to be so they have moved upscale they are not a commodity

player and they generated a 10 premium in relation to the other US

carriers He stressed that ―If we were to be a commodity player we would

not be around today He admits that they have to accommodate a

commodity component for the travel sector but they are not a

commodity As the carry two million passengers a year that pay a 10

premium on average they have proven our point

Jetstarrsquos CEP pointed that both fares are not commoditised any more

Airlines have to look at what customers want choice is definitely

important for all customers and choice for people who are looking for

value matters a lot She said that their airline also extracts a relative 15

premium in relation to competition because they do not view themselves

as a commodity product They invest heavily in the brand in the

experience in ways that the customers value and are prepared to pay for

it and give them the choice to custom design their experience

The Brussels Airlinesrsquos CEO added that segmentation and differentiation

is key When their airline starts with a start price of 39 euros one way and

has a very vocal pure low cost competitor at 21 euro for the same thing

the solution is to claim that it offers service as there is a whole heritage

that exists besides While the price is key people say ―I want to know

what I choose The pure commodity product that happened a few years

is going away but when there is a heritage of service that can help you

differentiate yourself then there is potential to make the difference

Brussels has all the LCCs of the world but Brussels Airlines grew by 30

more in the last two years

9

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Richard Quest then turned to Emirates CEO and asked him how they

accomodate with the LCCs that can offer feed from them into their long

haul services Sir Tim Clark answered that LCCs are here to stay they

continue to grow their business they have been a significant player in

the way civil aviation has developed in the last years giving consumers

a very good choice As long as the air industry business keeps the

consumers at the heart of the business and it does what they are

guiding to do then there is place for everybody The

differentiation whether it is between low cost and full service long haul

or short haul is something the industry has to adapt to accept and

encourage It is part of civil aviation After all it is the travelling public

who benefits from LCC existence The legacy carriers as they are

called have to adapt and work with them In terms of establishing a

lower cost arm for Emirates he answered ―no but he added that they

would work with them and they do They have very good relationships

with the Low Cost operators because they bring lots more people into

the market the whole principle was tapping incipient demand that

could not afford the levels of fares that were available prior to their

existence What they did is that they brought efficiency fleet efficiency

technological efficiency distribution efficiency and suddenly a new

branch of air transport industry was found ―To not work with makes no

sense

When asked about what new things they can offer to the upper end of

the market they all agreed that it is the soft goods that matter after all

Everyone can buy the hard goods but the airlines invest now in

relationship building Delta said its CEO can boast on its relationship

with corporate travelers and the fact they have one of the lowest

maintenance cancellation records They give the business traveler what

he needs dependability reliability quality to arrive on time with their

bags he added that there is a lot of technology and process behind it

but more than that a lot of willpower and culture

10

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Jetstarrsquos CEO said that invest a lot in their people both in full service

and in low cost training helping them to build skills relationships with

the customer Jetstar wants to enable customers to enjoy the ability of

pick and choose both to bundle and to unbundle

Emiratesrsquo CEO said that the airline spends an awful lot of time and

money on our premium product and the public knows about it and they

have always done that and they will continue to do it As soon as

things mature they will change to make things more interesting they

will be raising the bar for the consumers the business community

because ―we can do it

Panel discussion on Cyber Security

The panelists were Major General Linda Urrutia-Varhall the Assistant

Deputy Chief of Staff Director of National Intelligence for Aviation

Security in the US Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance the

Pentagon Washington DC Anja Kaspersen Head of International

Security for the World Economic Forum Alan Pellegrini CEO and

President of Thales USA Matthew Finn Managing Director of

Augmentiq Calin Rovinescu President and CEO of Air Canada and

Kurt Pipal FBI Assistant Legal Attache for US Embassy in the UK

They all agreed that aviation being a symbol of globalisation remains

an aspirational target for terrorists The interconnected nature of the

industry and interconnectibility of IT systems from baggage

movement to ticket kiosk and flight systems represent an ever growing

list of vulnerabilities and a whole brand new horizon of threats It is

however practically technologically and financially impossible to

address all the issues In the words of General Urrutia-Varhall the

interaction between actors threats and vulnerabilities can be viewed as

an ecosystem of forces in which ―we are as strong as our weakest link

No entity can go alone against these threats Airline industry

govenments domestic and international Intelligence community private

and public sectors should come together gather and share information

to characterise assess threats prioritise them and then act

appropriately

11

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Calin Rovinescu mentioned the ―very scary number that experts

estimate is the amount of damage caused last year by cyber hacks

was in the vicinity of US$500 million world wide and that 94

of global airlines had some form of cyber security breaches These

incidents were ―a real wake-up call for the industry Many of these

attacks were dealt with because airlines had good technology

protection but still these numbers make clear that as the industry

moves towards more automation seeking the interconnectiveness that

makes ir more efficient attack surfaces expand exponentially

Matthew Finn said businesses should look at security in a holistic way

He said there is currently a downward trend of documentation fraud

but an upward trend regarding identity theft

Alan Pellegrini said that the industy has seen recently an increasing

number of high profile hacks hacks in the wi-fi connectivity simply to

steal passenger information that is flowing over those networks a

hack into the ground systems of an airline to steal financial

transactions and information to collect the money the airline was

supposed to collect The threat is very real and although it has not

resulted to serious safety related issues it is resulting into serious

disrupting The fact that there has been no serious incident means

though that the industry is getting a lot of it right

Airlines now connect passengers to Wi-Fi on aircraft they add

connectivity to crews aircraft operations are connected on the

ground some are experimenting with cloud-based avionics controlling

aircraft operations The move towards more automation is inescepable

so the protection from cyber attackes To build such protection

requires a

a multi-year plan with responsibility at the highest level and

collaboration and information exchange between the aviation industry

and governments

12

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There are many technoloty tools Thales is working on to better protect

the connected aircraft but there is no ―silver bullet there is no one

piece of technology that is going to solve all the industry problems

because security is a process the same way threats are not static they

continue to evolve ―Technology is not done it continues monitoring

security operations centres are required to identify threats as they start

to materialize and to mitigate them and then go ahead and implement

addtional technology that is going to deal with new potential threats so

it is a continuous process

According to Calin Rovinescu ―No matter how complex and good

systems a company may have problems are not solved overnight and

aviation must develop a capability to respond and recover He pointed

out that aviation industry must look at and work with other industries

that have more maturity with cyber threats such as financial

institutions technology companies

The industry is very encouraged by the fact IATA is taking on this topic

to prevent serious disruption and perhaps safety issues later

Anja Kaspersen admitted that the threat is real but she added that there

is also ―fear mongering because of the commercial interests invested

in cyber security She stressed that the combination of ―ignorance and

unsubstantiated fear is dangerous and hampers preparedness She

cautioned airlines not to underestimate the psychological effect

should as as they live off their reputation Airlines have to respond to

customer expectations for security concerns

She added that aviation should work on the assumption that they

receiving both physical and cyber attacks and and therefore work on

how to protect the systems with more advanced software and develop

some translation tools to compare traditional and new risks

13

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Kurt Pipal pointed as airline companies possess and deal with huge

amounts of data they become by definition a target for industrial

espionage He cautioned companies to be very careful about

subcontractors which do necessarily rely on the same system

resilience He stressed the importance of sharing intelligence

information in the industry Build awareness and do not have a silo

approach Identify your vulnerabilities and make the assumption that

you are going to be hacked Participate in a 247 securities operation

centre and called the aviation to Occasionally even use a so-called

dark agent - a hacker to test your system Companies do fire drills so

why do they not do cyber security drills toolaquo

The Panel on the Climate Change Goals brought together

representatives from industry academia and NGOs to discuss the

progress on the climate change goals the aviation industry faces and

what is needed to reach them The industry has to achieve a goal of

climate neutral growth from 2020 but also the long-term target of cutting

net CO2 emissions by half by 2050 compared to 2005 levels

The panelists were Angela Gittens Director General of Airports Council

International Alan Joyce Qantas CEO Patrick de Castelbajac CEO of

aircraft manufacturer ATR John-Paul Clarke professor at Georgia

Institute of Technology and Tim Johnson of the International Coalition

for Sustainable Aviation

2050 might seeem a long way off but due to industry time lags therersquos

only around 10 years left to figure out how to reach the goal according

to John-Paul Clarke

They all agreed that the industry in all its supply chain-manufacturers

airports infrastructure airlines- must come together to work in a

concerted way to achieve how to go about achieveing these goals A

holistic perspective is needed as the industry stakeholders all are in

direct dependency and the example od a fuel efficient aircraft that

cannot operate efficiently because the air traffic management is not

efficient They stressed that sustainable development is not a question

of being politically correct any more but a condition of the future

existence of the industry ―there is no other way than being

environmentally respectful said Patrick de Castelbajac

14

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He added that aircraft manufacturers do consider now the

environmental impact of their aircraft at every stage from design

through to the eventual end-of-life disposal ―There is also a greater

convergence between economic and environmental interests which we

can see clearly on fuel burn he said

New technology and new management must be both environmentally

and economically sustainable

The panelists agreed that passengers are passsionate about it and do

want to offset the environmental impact of their flight Alan Joyce

said that one passenger every minute selects a voluntary offset

program

Angela Gittens said that Airports have adopted the Carbon

Accreditation Programme a programme that provides airports with a

common framework for active carbon management with measurable

goal-postsand 20 airports are already carbon neutral She added ICAO

and IATA should undertake the role of coordinating bodies which will

monitor assess and pace the progress It is necessary because ―If you

canrsquot measure it you canrsquot manage it

Continuous transparent monitoring of what is been done by an

independent entity would bring credibility according to John-

Paul Clarke

The panelists also agreed that ICAO and IATA will have to meet the

challenge of balancing the different levels of maturity in terms

of environmental measures around the globe in other words those that

move more quickly with those that have been left behind

15

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Joyce said the new ICAO aircraft CO2 standard would drive

advances in aircraft and engine technology He complained

that although there had been advances in navigation

technology and procedures - such as the traffic control

satellite navigation approaches to airports that saved his

airline up to 60000 tons of fuel - progress had been slow in

improving Air Traffic management and developing ATC

infrastructure

He insisted though on the role of biofuels He stressed that

more studies should be undertaken on biofuels to make sure

that they are produced in environmentally friendly way

―Biofuels are the only way we are going to get to our 2050

target Itrsquos a question of how we as an industry can cooperate

and how we can get governments interested enough to put a

policy framework in place to make that happen Their

development and insertion in the value chain will require RampD

and help from governments and other industrial sectors

He called his government to support the local alternative

fuels industry that creates new jobs and brings

environmental benefits

16

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Tim Johnson cautioned that it should not become

an ―accountancy exercise where we see one

gallon of biofuel uplifted to an aircraft or a tonne

of CO2 offset as the way we measure progress

adding it was important to move beyond

quantification and just emissions and consider

the wider sustainable development agenda

Investment decisions needed to be taken now to

reach the industryrsquos 2050 target he suggested

and clarity was needed on what should happen

and by when ICAO market-based measure is

perfoming well but there must be emphasis on the

other three pillars required for aviation emissions

reductions ndash aircraft technology operations and

infrastructure

17

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powered aircraft leaves Seville for Cairo-Solar

MADRID July 11 (Xinhua) -- The aircraft Solar Impulse

II powered completely by solar energy on Monday left

the Spanish city of Seville to attempt to land in

on WednesdayEgyptCairo

The route will be between 48 and 72 hours long

depending on weather conditions This will be the

penultimate flight of the plane that will travel to Abu

Dhabi afterwards

Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard who have

been working on the aircraft for more than a decade

will pilot the aircraft Borschberg will pilot the plane

from Seville to Cairo crossing seven countries after

which Piccard will fly to Abu Dhabi

Borschberg said that the trip was meaningful as it is

my last flight in this round-the-world epic I am happy

that were close to the end but also prudent knowing

that it is not done yet I have to stay really focused

SpainThe aircraft had been in Seville in the south of

for two weeks after successfully crossing the Atlantic

Ocean

Solar Impulse II is able to fly night and day without any

fossil fuel It travels at between 45 and 55 kmhour

reaching an altitude of 8500 meters The plane is wider

than a 747 jumbo jet and weighs 23 tons

httpwwwainonlinecom

Russias New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

A grand unveiling of the Irkut MC-21-300 on June 8

established a relatively firm project timeline for the

160- to 212-seat narrowbody and marked a measure

of vindication for what many in the West have

disparaged as a fringe project In attendance at the

ceremony Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

spoke of the prestige the program has brought to

the country as well as its importance to helping

move its economy forward He also congratulated

Irkutrsquos employees for their role in shaping the future

of Russiarsquos return to prominence in commercial

aircraft manufacturing

Expecting the MC-21 to gain Russian certification in

2018 United Aircraft subsidiary Irkut had hoped to

fly the first airplane by the end of this year

However during the rollout ceremony Medvedev

referenced plans for first flight ―within a year

and UAC officials acknowledged that a previously

quoted target might prove optimistic unless all goes

exactly to plan Rather that milestone appears most

likely to happen in or around February 2017

according to aUAC spokesman

1

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Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

2

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Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

3

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While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

4

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Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

5

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Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

الشركة القابضة -ادارة العالقات العامة

لمصر للطيران

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A Qatar Airways flight bound to Doha from Oslo

Norway made an emergency landing in the

Romanian capital of Bucharest yesterday (July

9 )due to a fault in one of its engines said a

report

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner which was carrying

some 254 passengers was forced to change

course one hour into the flight and was diverted

to Bucharests Henri Coanda International

Airport Doha Newsreported

A replacement aircraft was dispatched to

Bucharest and the flight resumed its course

following an almost 12-hour delay

The new plane also a 787 landed in Doha at

425am this morning the report said

Qatar Business

Qatar Airways flight makes emergency landing in

Romania

atnaero

nd IATA AGM and World Air Transport Summit72

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) opened its 72nd

Annual General Meeting (AGM) and World Air Transport Summit in

Dublin Ireland

―Ireland is a great aviation country and the perfect location for the

industryrsquos leaders to meet Aviation is a force for good This year

airlines will safely transport 38 billion passengers and 52 million

tonnes of cargo That will stimulate economies and spread prosperity

But aviation faces challenges in providing the safe secure efficient

and sustainable connectivity that the world depends on The next two

days are an opportunity to work together as an industry to make flying

even better said Tony Tyler IATArsquos Director General and CEO

In his keynote address Dr Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu President of the

Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) said

―IATA and ICAO have enjoyed several decades of productive colla

boration

More recently wersquove been engaged on a number of important priorities

including among others

bullFlight tracking procedures

bullConflict zone risk management

bullThe safe integration of remotely-piloted and suborbital flight

operations

bullCybersecurity preparedness

bullIncreased airspace capacity and operational efficiency

bullThe safe carriage of lithium batteries

bullAnd of course the environment

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IATA has been a great ally in ICAOrsquos efforts to ensure that the decisions

of our Member States are forward-looking and in

line with the current and future needs of the industry

Report of Tony Tyler on the Air Transport Industry

―International civil aviation can greatly help to create and preserve

friendship and understanding among the nations and peoples of the

world

From the beginning both governments and industry conceived aviation

as a force for good

Aviation makes our world a better place In doing so it supports 63

million jobs and underpins 35 of global GDP

Airlines are engines of prosperity But they have long struggled to turn a

profit and reward investors That is beginning to change

This year we expect a collective net profit of $394 billion It will be only

the second year in our historymdashand the second in a rowmdashin which

airlines will make an aggregate return in excess of the cost of capital

After decades of capital destruction thatrsquos a significant achievement

But it is still just the minimum performance that investors expect

On average airlines will make $1042 for each passenger carried

Overall despite generally adverse economic conditions it is a good

time for the air transport industry

-Consumers are getting great deals and lots of choice

-Investors are beginning to see reasonable rewards for the capital

they risk

-And airlines are able to make critical investments and shore-up their

resilience by paying down debtmdashalthough it will take several years of

solid profitability to fix most balance sheets properly

2

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Our success as an industry rests on areas where we work together

the foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability Each is strong but not without challenges

In bringing my remarks to a close I want to reflect on the power of

partnership

Partnership is essential for the continuous reinforcement of the

foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability

Itrsquos also important for our 264 members and the entire value chain to

work together Because together we can send a proud message that

aviation is a force for good And we can do more good when tax

burdens and infrastructure constraints are removed and when the

principles of Smarter Regulation are applied properly

The framework for our modern industry was built by governments and

airlines with a common vision that safe regular and economical air

transport would benefit the peoples of the world by creating and

preserving friendships and understanding With more than 100 years

of history behind us we can confidently say that aviation has made the

world a better place

We have done that by unleashing an irreversible and ever-more

accessible capability to explore the world in which we live to improve

our lives with unprecedented mobility and to grow prosperity by doing

business globally

People are thirsty for the opportunities that aviation makes possible

Every day we safely transport ten million people and 140000 tonnes of

cargo We are not just connecting people and shifting goods our

work is building a better future for the peoples of the world

Aviationrsquos potential has never been more inspiring We are privileged

to lead an industry that is a force for good

3

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At the CEO Panel Insight Debate discussion moderated by Richard Quest the

following CEOs participated Bernard Gustin CEO Brussels Airlines (BG) Ed

Bastian CEO Delta Air Lines (ED) Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group and Charamporn Jotikasthira

President of Thai Airways the issue of the security and aircraft tracking was

discussed in the view of the Brussels terrorist attack and the Egyptair 804 flight

going down into the water

The Brussels Airlines CEO said that the Brussels disaster which came after a

very good year for the airlines gave him the opportunity to experience the

amazing reaction of the airlinersquo s staff and the importance of aviation as

Brussels remained 12 days without an airport Being members of the Lufthansa

group they were able to put the long haul to Zurich and Frankfurt and useδ

provincial airport in Liege and Antwerp for local traffic When asked whether

security needs to be readdressed he answered that the risk arose before

security checks and this has to be solved with the Intelligence systems They

imposed after the disaster some extremely strong measures only to realize after

a few days that they were not appropriate He added that they need to continue

to analyze the security process and do risk analysis but have pertinent

measures and apply them consistently across the board

In the US on the other hand the situation is different the security procedures

imposed by the TSA make passengers be delayed or misconnected The

problem has taken such extent that many airports are considering replacing or

supplanting TSA When asked Ed Bastian CEO for Delta Air Lines said that

they have realized the problem and that they will deal with that and added that

they as an airline did a lot to manage the issue they innovated queuing process

in Atlanta that they paid for themselves which is going to have 50 reduction

in how long it takes travelers to get through checkpoints

As the question of security in Asia has again been raised in terms of its being

efficient and effective or not Charamporn Jotikasthira President of Thai

Airways agreed that there is a need to improve over time as there are ways to

hack systems there is a need for a system that can detect faster more

accurately with more quality

Jayne Hrdlicka CEO of Jetstar Group answered questions related to the

investment of low-cost airlines in security She answered that it is the airlinersquos

job to ensure that the security that is provided for in the airports they operate

meets the standards that we have set for ourselves Since in several of the

airports they are operating in the situation is not to these standards they take

responsibility for the safety and security of their people and customers to make

sure that the standards are consistent across the network

4

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Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline in his turn when expressing

his view on about aviation security in general he said that the industry

is not doing enough although there have been so many wake up calls in

the last couple of years He said that it is easy for government agencies

and organizations to blame on austerity their inability to fund the

security apparatus and the systems and procedures but the aviation

industry has to come up with a new set of protocols that ensure

security for the travelling public and consumers The industry has to

cooperate with governmental agencies to identify the possibilities of

people actually doing such attacks He added that industry has to adopt

far more readily the technological advances that are being made

available to streamline the processes but at the same time increase the

level of scrutiny He stressed the need for flow of information between

countries so as to have a more homogeneous intelligence service

When asked about airline tracking he admitted that the fact that the

problems in trying to locate an aircraft that has had a major incidence

―is a disgrace― These incidents impose on the industry a need to be

able to track aircraft at every point on their journey which as he said

Emirates does anyway within 15-20 minutes they know where all the

airlinersquos aircraft are where they fly or on the ground at the same

time He added that the manufacturers too need to come up with the

data records both CVR and cockpit voice recorders and flight data

recorders that have to be far more robust able to survive intact and

with much more power to develop beacons and locating systems in

very remote areas on the sea or in the river

When faced with the remark that six years have passed since the flight

370 incident and still the industry is unable to locate missing aircraft

and many experts argue that the airlines are reluctant to spend the

money on tracking and streaming of data they all agreed that it is not a

financial issue and the only question is a question of governance The

industry has to come to a consensus and agree on common standards

for example at what frequency the aircraft will be sending it out tracking

information the industry is waiting for an ICAO solution that everyone

is going to adopt They all agreed though that irrespective of the cost it

has to be done because as Sir Tim Clark put it ―Not to do it is

delinquency

5

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When Richard Quest asked them about results and yields because airlines seem to

be that making good money they all claim the yield is under pressure and to

comment on the influence of the lower fuel price Ed Bastian said that capacity has

grown over the last few years driven by the dramatic reduction in oil prices The

pressure seen on yield is a reflection of the growing capacity He commented he

does not focus only on yield but looks at other aspects and metrics to understand

the underlying health of the industry demand is very strong especially in the US and

fuel prices are stabilizing and the airline making record margins

Bernard Gustin said when fuel prices gets up again the airlines will not be able to put

it back in the yield so they need to keep a business plan both with the current fuel

price as well as with the old fuel price especially in their case since their competitors

in Brussels are low cost carriers such as Ryanair and Easyjet

When Jetstarrsquos CEO was asked whether there is unconstrained growth of capacity

she answered that the growth of capacity ahead of underlying demand is not

irrational when margins are attractive and costs well managed and strong return in

invested capital

Sir Tim Clark said that the true causes behind yield suppression need to be

examined The lowering of the fuel prices was good news but they failed to foresee

that the corporate sectors that drive many of the upper echelons of the yield will go

with the oil prices That brought us some difficulties Then there was a currency

issue the strength of the US as the airline generates a large part of income on

currencies that move south of the dollar that affected the yield too Third the

addition of capacity means extension of the revenue of greater distances which

causes yield dilution On the other hand while there is flat line projection for global

economy demand for airtravel is increasing at 6 7 8 in several areas including the

Middle East there is also an explosion of growth in the US domestic market This

means the airline backfills inventory with more passengers because demand is there

Their airline needs to adjust its business to the practical long-term change and this is

low yield the airline can do it He announced that Emirates will 14 more A380s to

their fleet of 79

Thai Airwaysrsquos President said that their problem was of a different nature as they

unable to fill the aircraft as much as the others and their load factors were 4-5

lower than the average they will first fix that and and then deal with the other

problems

When the discussion turned to the question whether there will more manufactures of

aircraft and more choice in the future Ed Bastian supported Deltarsquos decision to buy

CS100s Bombardier and commented that they have been long time customers of

their small and larger regional jets because they technologically and engine-wise

efficient and reliable and they were given good financial terms He also predicted that

more airlines will consider acquiring Bombardier C-series aircraft

6

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As Emirates are mostly wide body operator Sir Tim Clark said

they already have good choice between Boeing and Airbus

which answer their needs with regard to the mission and the

type of product the airline wants to offer He wished ―good

luck to any manufacturer wishing to enter the market them if

they get over the barriers to entry

Jane Hrdlicka said she expects see innovation coming in in the

form of technology of the airframe and a strong Chinese

manufacturer which means there will be more choice in two

decades from now than today

Then Richard Quest asked questions each airline individually

He asked whether Brussels Airlines will be around in two years

from now Bernand Gustin the airline will be there and will have

the same operation model but more powerful with the power of

a major aviation group Lufthansa group behind it In the past

airlines had to choose to be point-to-point or connecting Low

cost or service airline bur Brussels airline We tries to reconcile

those dimensions and they have positioned themselves a

hybrid airline People do not want to pay but they want a level

of service and even the low cost carriers are investing now in

service As for the name of airline he said that the airline will be

called what has value for the customer as it has been proven

with the airlinersquos Africa routes The airline played a crucial role

during the Ebola crisis and has gained its value as a brand in

Africa that it did not have before when it was Sabena He

stressed that a brand is something that responds to a customer

need a brand name that responds best to the Belgian customer

the European customer and the African customer and the US

customers which are the markets the airlines serves

7

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Thai Airwaysrsquo president was asked about the airlinersquos strategy to deal with

their problems He answered that they have a two-year reform programme

they have already achieved a profit margin 12 on sales so they are on track

reform plan They intend to remain a full service carrier with a major very

efficient hub He added that they realised after following the developments of

the last years that the ecosystem has been changing a lot as all demand

coming into Thailand has been point-to-point to secondary cities They

operate in one the fastest growing regions in terms of demand near India

and China but the demand is becoming point-to-point which means that the

model that the airline was following in the past has to be changed When

asked whether they will need a partner and more particularly a Gulf partner to

do your long haul European routes he answered that if the market is India

China and Asia and there is going to be more and more point-to-point service

they will have to be bigger They may need partners of some sort some form

of alliance but I this alliance will not be as the ones of the past In the past a

big airline in Europe a big airline in Japan could connect throughout the

world but this area is a non-united area there are many states there is

Myanmar Thailand Vietnam so the partnership will most probably be

bilateral

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group was asked how Qantas managed so

successfully to incorporate a low-cost or a low-fare branch as some call it

She answered that they did it by really understanding their customers and

recognising that there is a part of the market that is hungry for full service and

is prepared to pay a premium to get it but there is an equal part of the market

that was not able to travel because the fares were too high and would prefer

choice on how they travel and be able to pay for what they use What they

have done is effectively build a new brand that focuses squarely on that

customer group and have protected the integrity by not trying to blur the line

and keeping them very separate operationally commercially and

strategically

Bernand Gustin was asked again whether Lufthansa has considered an

arrangement with an LCC for feed and he answered that first the airline needs

to substantially reduce its cost to be price competitive and this what they

have done There is no choice about that But as they come from a service

heritage airline and given that they will never be a cost leader they try to keep

a differentiation on service a service that really people want So they have

played on connectivity on the network and on the Belgian brand There is a

wish to have a specific brand As there are other very strong brands within the

Lufthansa group if they want to go further they need to have the power of the

group to be able to further reduce the cost to get the commercial critical

mass outside of Belgium Thatrsquos where the right mix needs to be found

8

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Deltarsquos CEO was asked How a giant airline accommodates the new reality

of all those LCCs Ot which he answered that they do it through

segmentation within the aircraft they have introduced a product called

―basic economy for price sensitive types of travelling within the US

They are still experimenting with it as it is relatively new and the

technology solution on it is complicated Within the two they have to

accommodate the low fare end and the highly sensitive business

traveller that is willing to pay a premium and a couple of stages between

the two But it a much wider question the airline needs to find who he

wants to be so they have moved upscale they are not a commodity

player and they generated a 10 premium in relation to the other US

carriers He stressed that ―If we were to be a commodity player we would

not be around today He admits that they have to accommodate a

commodity component for the travel sector but they are not a

commodity As the carry two million passengers a year that pay a 10

premium on average they have proven our point

Jetstarrsquos CEP pointed that both fares are not commoditised any more

Airlines have to look at what customers want choice is definitely

important for all customers and choice for people who are looking for

value matters a lot She said that their airline also extracts a relative 15

premium in relation to competition because they do not view themselves

as a commodity product They invest heavily in the brand in the

experience in ways that the customers value and are prepared to pay for

it and give them the choice to custom design their experience

The Brussels Airlinesrsquos CEO added that segmentation and differentiation

is key When their airline starts with a start price of 39 euros one way and

has a very vocal pure low cost competitor at 21 euro for the same thing

the solution is to claim that it offers service as there is a whole heritage

that exists besides While the price is key people say ―I want to know

what I choose The pure commodity product that happened a few years

is going away but when there is a heritage of service that can help you

differentiate yourself then there is potential to make the difference

Brussels has all the LCCs of the world but Brussels Airlines grew by 30

more in the last two years

9

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Richard Quest then turned to Emirates CEO and asked him how they

accomodate with the LCCs that can offer feed from them into their long

haul services Sir Tim Clark answered that LCCs are here to stay they

continue to grow their business they have been a significant player in

the way civil aviation has developed in the last years giving consumers

a very good choice As long as the air industry business keeps the

consumers at the heart of the business and it does what they are

guiding to do then there is place for everybody The

differentiation whether it is between low cost and full service long haul

or short haul is something the industry has to adapt to accept and

encourage It is part of civil aviation After all it is the travelling public

who benefits from LCC existence The legacy carriers as they are

called have to adapt and work with them In terms of establishing a

lower cost arm for Emirates he answered ―no but he added that they

would work with them and they do They have very good relationships

with the Low Cost operators because they bring lots more people into

the market the whole principle was tapping incipient demand that

could not afford the levels of fares that were available prior to their

existence What they did is that they brought efficiency fleet efficiency

technological efficiency distribution efficiency and suddenly a new

branch of air transport industry was found ―To not work with makes no

sense

When asked about what new things they can offer to the upper end of

the market they all agreed that it is the soft goods that matter after all

Everyone can buy the hard goods but the airlines invest now in

relationship building Delta said its CEO can boast on its relationship

with corporate travelers and the fact they have one of the lowest

maintenance cancellation records They give the business traveler what

he needs dependability reliability quality to arrive on time with their

bags he added that there is a lot of technology and process behind it

but more than that a lot of willpower and culture

10

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Jetstarrsquos CEO said that invest a lot in their people both in full service

and in low cost training helping them to build skills relationships with

the customer Jetstar wants to enable customers to enjoy the ability of

pick and choose both to bundle and to unbundle

Emiratesrsquo CEO said that the airline spends an awful lot of time and

money on our premium product and the public knows about it and they

have always done that and they will continue to do it As soon as

things mature they will change to make things more interesting they

will be raising the bar for the consumers the business community

because ―we can do it

Panel discussion on Cyber Security

The panelists were Major General Linda Urrutia-Varhall the Assistant

Deputy Chief of Staff Director of National Intelligence for Aviation

Security in the US Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance the

Pentagon Washington DC Anja Kaspersen Head of International

Security for the World Economic Forum Alan Pellegrini CEO and

President of Thales USA Matthew Finn Managing Director of

Augmentiq Calin Rovinescu President and CEO of Air Canada and

Kurt Pipal FBI Assistant Legal Attache for US Embassy in the UK

They all agreed that aviation being a symbol of globalisation remains

an aspirational target for terrorists The interconnected nature of the

industry and interconnectibility of IT systems from baggage

movement to ticket kiosk and flight systems represent an ever growing

list of vulnerabilities and a whole brand new horizon of threats It is

however practically technologically and financially impossible to

address all the issues In the words of General Urrutia-Varhall the

interaction between actors threats and vulnerabilities can be viewed as

an ecosystem of forces in which ―we are as strong as our weakest link

No entity can go alone against these threats Airline industry

govenments domestic and international Intelligence community private

and public sectors should come together gather and share information

to characterise assess threats prioritise them and then act

appropriately

11

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Calin Rovinescu mentioned the ―very scary number that experts

estimate is the amount of damage caused last year by cyber hacks

was in the vicinity of US$500 million world wide and that 94

of global airlines had some form of cyber security breaches These

incidents were ―a real wake-up call for the industry Many of these

attacks were dealt with because airlines had good technology

protection but still these numbers make clear that as the industry

moves towards more automation seeking the interconnectiveness that

makes ir more efficient attack surfaces expand exponentially

Matthew Finn said businesses should look at security in a holistic way

He said there is currently a downward trend of documentation fraud

but an upward trend regarding identity theft

Alan Pellegrini said that the industy has seen recently an increasing

number of high profile hacks hacks in the wi-fi connectivity simply to

steal passenger information that is flowing over those networks a

hack into the ground systems of an airline to steal financial

transactions and information to collect the money the airline was

supposed to collect The threat is very real and although it has not

resulted to serious safety related issues it is resulting into serious

disrupting The fact that there has been no serious incident means

though that the industry is getting a lot of it right

Airlines now connect passengers to Wi-Fi on aircraft they add

connectivity to crews aircraft operations are connected on the

ground some are experimenting with cloud-based avionics controlling

aircraft operations The move towards more automation is inescepable

so the protection from cyber attackes To build such protection

requires a

a multi-year plan with responsibility at the highest level and

collaboration and information exchange between the aviation industry

and governments

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There are many technoloty tools Thales is working on to better protect

the connected aircraft but there is no ―silver bullet there is no one

piece of technology that is going to solve all the industry problems

because security is a process the same way threats are not static they

continue to evolve ―Technology is not done it continues monitoring

security operations centres are required to identify threats as they start

to materialize and to mitigate them and then go ahead and implement

addtional technology that is going to deal with new potential threats so

it is a continuous process

According to Calin Rovinescu ―No matter how complex and good

systems a company may have problems are not solved overnight and

aviation must develop a capability to respond and recover He pointed

out that aviation industry must look at and work with other industries

that have more maturity with cyber threats such as financial

institutions technology companies

The industry is very encouraged by the fact IATA is taking on this topic

to prevent serious disruption and perhaps safety issues later

Anja Kaspersen admitted that the threat is real but she added that there

is also ―fear mongering because of the commercial interests invested

in cyber security She stressed that the combination of ―ignorance and

unsubstantiated fear is dangerous and hampers preparedness She

cautioned airlines not to underestimate the psychological effect

should as as they live off their reputation Airlines have to respond to

customer expectations for security concerns

She added that aviation should work on the assumption that they

receiving both physical and cyber attacks and and therefore work on

how to protect the systems with more advanced software and develop

some translation tools to compare traditional and new risks

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Kurt Pipal pointed as airline companies possess and deal with huge

amounts of data they become by definition a target for industrial

espionage He cautioned companies to be very careful about

subcontractors which do necessarily rely on the same system

resilience He stressed the importance of sharing intelligence

information in the industry Build awareness and do not have a silo

approach Identify your vulnerabilities and make the assumption that

you are going to be hacked Participate in a 247 securities operation

centre and called the aviation to Occasionally even use a so-called

dark agent - a hacker to test your system Companies do fire drills so

why do they not do cyber security drills toolaquo

The Panel on the Climate Change Goals brought together

representatives from industry academia and NGOs to discuss the

progress on the climate change goals the aviation industry faces and

what is needed to reach them The industry has to achieve a goal of

climate neutral growth from 2020 but also the long-term target of cutting

net CO2 emissions by half by 2050 compared to 2005 levels

The panelists were Angela Gittens Director General of Airports Council

International Alan Joyce Qantas CEO Patrick de Castelbajac CEO of

aircraft manufacturer ATR John-Paul Clarke professor at Georgia

Institute of Technology and Tim Johnson of the International Coalition

for Sustainable Aviation

2050 might seeem a long way off but due to industry time lags therersquos

only around 10 years left to figure out how to reach the goal according

to John-Paul Clarke

They all agreed that the industry in all its supply chain-manufacturers

airports infrastructure airlines- must come together to work in a

concerted way to achieve how to go about achieveing these goals A

holistic perspective is needed as the industry stakeholders all are in

direct dependency and the example od a fuel efficient aircraft that

cannot operate efficiently because the air traffic management is not

efficient They stressed that sustainable development is not a question

of being politically correct any more but a condition of the future

existence of the industry ―there is no other way than being

environmentally respectful said Patrick de Castelbajac

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He added that aircraft manufacturers do consider now the

environmental impact of their aircraft at every stage from design

through to the eventual end-of-life disposal ―There is also a greater

convergence between economic and environmental interests which we

can see clearly on fuel burn he said

New technology and new management must be both environmentally

and economically sustainable

The panelists agreed that passengers are passsionate about it and do

want to offset the environmental impact of their flight Alan Joyce

said that one passenger every minute selects a voluntary offset

program

Angela Gittens said that Airports have adopted the Carbon

Accreditation Programme a programme that provides airports with a

common framework for active carbon management with measurable

goal-postsand 20 airports are already carbon neutral She added ICAO

and IATA should undertake the role of coordinating bodies which will

monitor assess and pace the progress It is necessary because ―If you

canrsquot measure it you canrsquot manage it

Continuous transparent monitoring of what is been done by an

independent entity would bring credibility according to John-

Paul Clarke

The panelists also agreed that ICAO and IATA will have to meet the

challenge of balancing the different levels of maturity in terms

of environmental measures around the globe in other words those that

move more quickly with those that have been left behind

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Joyce said the new ICAO aircraft CO2 standard would drive

advances in aircraft and engine technology He complained

that although there had been advances in navigation

technology and procedures - such as the traffic control

satellite navigation approaches to airports that saved his

airline up to 60000 tons of fuel - progress had been slow in

improving Air Traffic management and developing ATC

infrastructure

He insisted though on the role of biofuels He stressed that

more studies should be undertaken on biofuels to make sure

that they are produced in environmentally friendly way

―Biofuels are the only way we are going to get to our 2050

target Itrsquos a question of how we as an industry can cooperate

and how we can get governments interested enough to put a

policy framework in place to make that happen Their

development and insertion in the value chain will require RampD

and help from governments and other industrial sectors

He called his government to support the local alternative

fuels industry that creates new jobs and brings

environmental benefits

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Tim Johnson cautioned that it should not become

an ―accountancy exercise where we see one

gallon of biofuel uplifted to an aircraft or a tonne

of CO2 offset as the way we measure progress

adding it was important to move beyond

quantification and just emissions and consider

the wider sustainable development agenda

Investment decisions needed to be taken now to

reach the industryrsquos 2050 target he suggested

and clarity was needed on what should happen

and by when ICAO market-based measure is

perfoming well but there must be emphasis on the

other three pillars required for aviation emissions

reductions ndash aircraft technology operations and

infrastructure

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powered aircraft leaves Seville for Cairo-Solar

MADRID July 11 (Xinhua) -- The aircraft Solar Impulse

II powered completely by solar energy on Monday left

the Spanish city of Seville to attempt to land in

on WednesdayEgyptCairo

The route will be between 48 and 72 hours long

depending on weather conditions This will be the

penultimate flight of the plane that will travel to Abu

Dhabi afterwards

Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard who have

been working on the aircraft for more than a decade

will pilot the aircraft Borschberg will pilot the plane

from Seville to Cairo crossing seven countries after

which Piccard will fly to Abu Dhabi

Borschberg said that the trip was meaningful as it is

my last flight in this round-the-world epic I am happy

that were close to the end but also prudent knowing

that it is not done yet I have to stay really focused

SpainThe aircraft had been in Seville in the south of

for two weeks after successfully crossing the Atlantic

Ocean

Solar Impulse II is able to fly night and day without any

fossil fuel It travels at between 45 and 55 kmhour

reaching an altitude of 8500 meters The plane is wider

than a 747 jumbo jet and weighs 23 tons

httpwwwainonlinecom

Russias New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

A grand unveiling of the Irkut MC-21-300 on June 8

established a relatively firm project timeline for the

160- to 212-seat narrowbody and marked a measure

of vindication for what many in the West have

disparaged as a fringe project In attendance at the

ceremony Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

spoke of the prestige the program has brought to

the country as well as its importance to helping

move its economy forward He also congratulated

Irkutrsquos employees for their role in shaping the future

of Russiarsquos return to prominence in commercial

aircraft manufacturing

Expecting the MC-21 to gain Russian certification in

2018 United Aircraft subsidiary Irkut had hoped to

fly the first airplane by the end of this year

However during the rollout ceremony Medvedev

referenced plans for first flight ―within a year

and UAC officials acknowledged that a previously

quoted target might prove optimistic unless all goes

exactly to plan Rather that milestone appears most

likely to happen in or around February 2017

according to aUAC spokesman

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Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

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Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

3

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While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

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Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

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Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

الشركة القابضة -ادارة العالقات العامة

لمصر للطيران

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nd IATA AGM and World Air Transport Summit72

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) opened its 72nd

Annual General Meeting (AGM) and World Air Transport Summit in

Dublin Ireland

―Ireland is a great aviation country and the perfect location for the

industryrsquos leaders to meet Aviation is a force for good This year

airlines will safely transport 38 billion passengers and 52 million

tonnes of cargo That will stimulate economies and spread prosperity

But aviation faces challenges in providing the safe secure efficient

and sustainable connectivity that the world depends on The next two

days are an opportunity to work together as an industry to make flying

even better said Tony Tyler IATArsquos Director General and CEO

In his keynote address Dr Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu President of the

Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) said

―IATA and ICAO have enjoyed several decades of productive colla

boration

More recently wersquove been engaged on a number of important priorities

including among others

bullFlight tracking procedures

bullConflict zone risk management

bullThe safe integration of remotely-piloted and suborbital flight

operations

bullCybersecurity preparedness

bullIncreased airspace capacity and operational efficiency

bullThe safe carriage of lithium batteries

bullAnd of course the environment

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IATA has been a great ally in ICAOrsquos efforts to ensure that the decisions

of our Member States are forward-looking and in

line with the current and future needs of the industry

Report of Tony Tyler on the Air Transport Industry

―International civil aviation can greatly help to create and preserve

friendship and understanding among the nations and peoples of the

world

From the beginning both governments and industry conceived aviation

as a force for good

Aviation makes our world a better place In doing so it supports 63

million jobs and underpins 35 of global GDP

Airlines are engines of prosperity But they have long struggled to turn a

profit and reward investors That is beginning to change

This year we expect a collective net profit of $394 billion It will be only

the second year in our historymdashand the second in a rowmdashin which

airlines will make an aggregate return in excess of the cost of capital

After decades of capital destruction thatrsquos a significant achievement

But it is still just the minimum performance that investors expect

On average airlines will make $1042 for each passenger carried

Overall despite generally adverse economic conditions it is a good

time for the air transport industry

-Consumers are getting great deals and lots of choice

-Investors are beginning to see reasonable rewards for the capital

they risk

-And airlines are able to make critical investments and shore-up their

resilience by paying down debtmdashalthough it will take several years of

solid profitability to fix most balance sheets properly

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Our success as an industry rests on areas where we work together

the foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability Each is strong but not without challenges

In bringing my remarks to a close I want to reflect on the power of

partnership

Partnership is essential for the continuous reinforcement of the

foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability

Itrsquos also important for our 264 members and the entire value chain to

work together Because together we can send a proud message that

aviation is a force for good And we can do more good when tax

burdens and infrastructure constraints are removed and when the

principles of Smarter Regulation are applied properly

The framework for our modern industry was built by governments and

airlines with a common vision that safe regular and economical air

transport would benefit the peoples of the world by creating and

preserving friendships and understanding With more than 100 years

of history behind us we can confidently say that aviation has made the

world a better place

We have done that by unleashing an irreversible and ever-more

accessible capability to explore the world in which we live to improve

our lives with unprecedented mobility and to grow prosperity by doing

business globally

People are thirsty for the opportunities that aviation makes possible

Every day we safely transport ten million people and 140000 tonnes of

cargo We are not just connecting people and shifting goods our

work is building a better future for the peoples of the world

Aviationrsquos potential has never been more inspiring We are privileged

to lead an industry that is a force for good

3

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At the CEO Panel Insight Debate discussion moderated by Richard Quest the

following CEOs participated Bernard Gustin CEO Brussels Airlines (BG) Ed

Bastian CEO Delta Air Lines (ED) Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group and Charamporn Jotikasthira

President of Thai Airways the issue of the security and aircraft tracking was

discussed in the view of the Brussels terrorist attack and the Egyptair 804 flight

going down into the water

The Brussels Airlines CEO said that the Brussels disaster which came after a

very good year for the airlines gave him the opportunity to experience the

amazing reaction of the airlinersquo s staff and the importance of aviation as

Brussels remained 12 days without an airport Being members of the Lufthansa

group they were able to put the long haul to Zurich and Frankfurt and useδ

provincial airport in Liege and Antwerp for local traffic When asked whether

security needs to be readdressed he answered that the risk arose before

security checks and this has to be solved with the Intelligence systems They

imposed after the disaster some extremely strong measures only to realize after

a few days that they were not appropriate He added that they need to continue

to analyze the security process and do risk analysis but have pertinent

measures and apply them consistently across the board

In the US on the other hand the situation is different the security procedures

imposed by the TSA make passengers be delayed or misconnected The

problem has taken such extent that many airports are considering replacing or

supplanting TSA When asked Ed Bastian CEO for Delta Air Lines said that

they have realized the problem and that they will deal with that and added that

they as an airline did a lot to manage the issue they innovated queuing process

in Atlanta that they paid for themselves which is going to have 50 reduction

in how long it takes travelers to get through checkpoints

As the question of security in Asia has again been raised in terms of its being

efficient and effective or not Charamporn Jotikasthira President of Thai

Airways agreed that there is a need to improve over time as there are ways to

hack systems there is a need for a system that can detect faster more

accurately with more quality

Jayne Hrdlicka CEO of Jetstar Group answered questions related to the

investment of low-cost airlines in security She answered that it is the airlinersquos

job to ensure that the security that is provided for in the airports they operate

meets the standards that we have set for ourselves Since in several of the

airports they are operating in the situation is not to these standards they take

responsibility for the safety and security of their people and customers to make

sure that the standards are consistent across the network

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Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline in his turn when expressing

his view on about aviation security in general he said that the industry

is not doing enough although there have been so many wake up calls in

the last couple of years He said that it is easy for government agencies

and organizations to blame on austerity their inability to fund the

security apparatus and the systems and procedures but the aviation

industry has to come up with a new set of protocols that ensure

security for the travelling public and consumers The industry has to

cooperate with governmental agencies to identify the possibilities of

people actually doing such attacks He added that industry has to adopt

far more readily the technological advances that are being made

available to streamline the processes but at the same time increase the

level of scrutiny He stressed the need for flow of information between

countries so as to have a more homogeneous intelligence service

When asked about airline tracking he admitted that the fact that the

problems in trying to locate an aircraft that has had a major incidence

―is a disgrace― These incidents impose on the industry a need to be

able to track aircraft at every point on their journey which as he said

Emirates does anyway within 15-20 minutes they know where all the

airlinersquos aircraft are where they fly or on the ground at the same

time He added that the manufacturers too need to come up with the

data records both CVR and cockpit voice recorders and flight data

recorders that have to be far more robust able to survive intact and

with much more power to develop beacons and locating systems in

very remote areas on the sea or in the river

When faced with the remark that six years have passed since the flight

370 incident and still the industry is unable to locate missing aircraft

and many experts argue that the airlines are reluctant to spend the

money on tracking and streaming of data they all agreed that it is not a

financial issue and the only question is a question of governance The

industry has to come to a consensus and agree on common standards

for example at what frequency the aircraft will be sending it out tracking

information the industry is waiting for an ICAO solution that everyone

is going to adopt They all agreed though that irrespective of the cost it

has to be done because as Sir Tim Clark put it ―Not to do it is

delinquency

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When Richard Quest asked them about results and yields because airlines seem to

be that making good money they all claim the yield is under pressure and to

comment on the influence of the lower fuel price Ed Bastian said that capacity has

grown over the last few years driven by the dramatic reduction in oil prices The

pressure seen on yield is a reflection of the growing capacity He commented he

does not focus only on yield but looks at other aspects and metrics to understand

the underlying health of the industry demand is very strong especially in the US and

fuel prices are stabilizing and the airline making record margins

Bernard Gustin said when fuel prices gets up again the airlines will not be able to put

it back in the yield so they need to keep a business plan both with the current fuel

price as well as with the old fuel price especially in their case since their competitors

in Brussels are low cost carriers such as Ryanair and Easyjet

When Jetstarrsquos CEO was asked whether there is unconstrained growth of capacity

she answered that the growth of capacity ahead of underlying demand is not

irrational when margins are attractive and costs well managed and strong return in

invested capital

Sir Tim Clark said that the true causes behind yield suppression need to be

examined The lowering of the fuel prices was good news but they failed to foresee

that the corporate sectors that drive many of the upper echelons of the yield will go

with the oil prices That brought us some difficulties Then there was a currency

issue the strength of the US as the airline generates a large part of income on

currencies that move south of the dollar that affected the yield too Third the

addition of capacity means extension of the revenue of greater distances which

causes yield dilution On the other hand while there is flat line projection for global

economy demand for airtravel is increasing at 6 7 8 in several areas including the

Middle East there is also an explosion of growth in the US domestic market This

means the airline backfills inventory with more passengers because demand is there

Their airline needs to adjust its business to the practical long-term change and this is

low yield the airline can do it He announced that Emirates will 14 more A380s to

their fleet of 79

Thai Airwaysrsquos President said that their problem was of a different nature as they

unable to fill the aircraft as much as the others and their load factors were 4-5

lower than the average they will first fix that and and then deal with the other

problems

When the discussion turned to the question whether there will more manufactures of

aircraft and more choice in the future Ed Bastian supported Deltarsquos decision to buy

CS100s Bombardier and commented that they have been long time customers of

their small and larger regional jets because they technologically and engine-wise

efficient and reliable and they were given good financial terms He also predicted that

more airlines will consider acquiring Bombardier C-series aircraft

6

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As Emirates are mostly wide body operator Sir Tim Clark said

they already have good choice between Boeing and Airbus

which answer their needs with regard to the mission and the

type of product the airline wants to offer He wished ―good

luck to any manufacturer wishing to enter the market them if

they get over the barriers to entry

Jane Hrdlicka said she expects see innovation coming in in the

form of technology of the airframe and a strong Chinese

manufacturer which means there will be more choice in two

decades from now than today

Then Richard Quest asked questions each airline individually

He asked whether Brussels Airlines will be around in two years

from now Bernand Gustin the airline will be there and will have

the same operation model but more powerful with the power of

a major aviation group Lufthansa group behind it In the past

airlines had to choose to be point-to-point or connecting Low

cost or service airline bur Brussels airline We tries to reconcile

those dimensions and they have positioned themselves a

hybrid airline People do not want to pay but they want a level

of service and even the low cost carriers are investing now in

service As for the name of airline he said that the airline will be

called what has value for the customer as it has been proven

with the airlinersquos Africa routes The airline played a crucial role

during the Ebola crisis and has gained its value as a brand in

Africa that it did not have before when it was Sabena He

stressed that a brand is something that responds to a customer

need a brand name that responds best to the Belgian customer

the European customer and the African customer and the US

customers which are the markets the airlines serves

7

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Thai Airwaysrsquo president was asked about the airlinersquos strategy to deal with

their problems He answered that they have a two-year reform programme

they have already achieved a profit margin 12 on sales so they are on track

reform plan They intend to remain a full service carrier with a major very

efficient hub He added that they realised after following the developments of

the last years that the ecosystem has been changing a lot as all demand

coming into Thailand has been point-to-point to secondary cities They

operate in one the fastest growing regions in terms of demand near India

and China but the demand is becoming point-to-point which means that the

model that the airline was following in the past has to be changed When

asked whether they will need a partner and more particularly a Gulf partner to

do your long haul European routes he answered that if the market is India

China and Asia and there is going to be more and more point-to-point service

they will have to be bigger They may need partners of some sort some form

of alliance but I this alliance will not be as the ones of the past In the past a

big airline in Europe a big airline in Japan could connect throughout the

world but this area is a non-united area there are many states there is

Myanmar Thailand Vietnam so the partnership will most probably be

bilateral

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group was asked how Qantas managed so

successfully to incorporate a low-cost or a low-fare branch as some call it

She answered that they did it by really understanding their customers and

recognising that there is a part of the market that is hungry for full service and

is prepared to pay a premium to get it but there is an equal part of the market

that was not able to travel because the fares were too high and would prefer

choice on how they travel and be able to pay for what they use What they

have done is effectively build a new brand that focuses squarely on that

customer group and have protected the integrity by not trying to blur the line

and keeping them very separate operationally commercially and

strategically

Bernand Gustin was asked again whether Lufthansa has considered an

arrangement with an LCC for feed and he answered that first the airline needs

to substantially reduce its cost to be price competitive and this what they

have done There is no choice about that But as they come from a service

heritage airline and given that they will never be a cost leader they try to keep

a differentiation on service a service that really people want So they have

played on connectivity on the network and on the Belgian brand There is a

wish to have a specific brand As there are other very strong brands within the

Lufthansa group if they want to go further they need to have the power of the

group to be able to further reduce the cost to get the commercial critical

mass outside of Belgium Thatrsquos where the right mix needs to be found

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Deltarsquos CEO was asked How a giant airline accommodates the new reality

of all those LCCs Ot which he answered that they do it through

segmentation within the aircraft they have introduced a product called

―basic economy for price sensitive types of travelling within the US

They are still experimenting with it as it is relatively new and the

technology solution on it is complicated Within the two they have to

accommodate the low fare end and the highly sensitive business

traveller that is willing to pay a premium and a couple of stages between

the two But it a much wider question the airline needs to find who he

wants to be so they have moved upscale they are not a commodity

player and they generated a 10 premium in relation to the other US

carriers He stressed that ―If we were to be a commodity player we would

not be around today He admits that they have to accommodate a

commodity component for the travel sector but they are not a

commodity As the carry two million passengers a year that pay a 10

premium on average they have proven our point

Jetstarrsquos CEP pointed that both fares are not commoditised any more

Airlines have to look at what customers want choice is definitely

important for all customers and choice for people who are looking for

value matters a lot She said that their airline also extracts a relative 15

premium in relation to competition because they do not view themselves

as a commodity product They invest heavily in the brand in the

experience in ways that the customers value and are prepared to pay for

it and give them the choice to custom design their experience

The Brussels Airlinesrsquos CEO added that segmentation and differentiation

is key When their airline starts with a start price of 39 euros one way and

has a very vocal pure low cost competitor at 21 euro for the same thing

the solution is to claim that it offers service as there is a whole heritage

that exists besides While the price is key people say ―I want to know

what I choose The pure commodity product that happened a few years

is going away but when there is a heritage of service that can help you

differentiate yourself then there is potential to make the difference

Brussels has all the LCCs of the world but Brussels Airlines grew by 30

more in the last two years

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Richard Quest then turned to Emirates CEO and asked him how they

accomodate with the LCCs that can offer feed from them into their long

haul services Sir Tim Clark answered that LCCs are here to stay they

continue to grow their business they have been a significant player in

the way civil aviation has developed in the last years giving consumers

a very good choice As long as the air industry business keeps the

consumers at the heart of the business and it does what they are

guiding to do then there is place for everybody The

differentiation whether it is between low cost and full service long haul

or short haul is something the industry has to adapt to accept and

encourage It is part of civil aviation After all it is the travelling public

who benefits from LCC existence The legacy carriers as they are

called have to adapt and work with them In terms of establishing a

lower cost arm for Emirates he answered ―no but he added that they

would work with them and they do They have very good relationships

with the Low Cost operators because they bring lots more people into

the market the whole principle was tapping incipient demand that

could not afford the levels of fares that were available prior to their

existence What they did is that they brought efficiency fleet efficiency

technological efficiency distribution efficiency and suddenly a new

branch of air transport industry was found ―To not work with makes no

sense

When asked about what new things they can offer to the upper end of

the market they all agreed that it is the soft goods that matter after all

Everyone can buy the hard goods but the airlines invest now in

relationship building Delta said its CEO can boast on its relationship

with corporate travelers and the fact they have one of the lowest

maintenance cancellation records They give the business traveler what

he needs dependability reliability quality to arrive on time with their

bags he added that there is a lot of technology and process behind it

but more than that a lot of willpower and culture

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Jetstarrsquos CEO said that invest a lot in their people both in full service

and in low cost training helping them to build skills relationships with

the customer Jetstar wants to enable customers to enjoy the ability of

pick and choose both to bundle and to unbundle

Emiratesrsquo CEO said that the airline spends an awful lot of time and

money on our premium product and the public knows about it and they

have always done that and they will continue to do it As soon as

things mature they will change to make things more interesting they

will be raising the bar for the consumers the business community

because ―we can do it

Panel discussion on Cyber Security

The panelists were Major General Linda Urrutia-Varhall the Assistant

Deputy Chief of Staff Director of National Intelligence for Aviation

Security in the US Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance the

Pentagon Washington DC Anja Kaspersen Head of International

Security for the World Economic Forum Alan Pellegrini CEO and

President of Thales USA Matthew Finn Managing Director of

Augmentiq Calin Rovinescu President and CEO of Air Canada and

Kurt Pipal FBI Assistant Legal Attache for US Embassy in the UK

They all agreed that aviation being a symbol of globalisation remains

an aspirational target for terrorists The interconnected nature of the

industry and interconnectibility of IT systems from baggage

movement to ticket kiosk and flight systems represent an ever growing

list of vulnerabilities and a whole brand new horizon of threats It is

however practically technologically and financially impossible to

address all the issues In the words of General Urrutia-Varhall the

interaction between actors threats and vulnerabilities can be viewed as

an ecosystem of forces in which ―we are as strong as our weakest link

No entity can go alone against these threats Airline industry

govenments domestic and international Intelligence community private

and public sectors should come together gather and share information

to characterise assess threats prioritise them and then act

appropriately

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Calin Rovinescu mentioned the ―very scary number that experts

estimate is the amount of damage caused last year by cyber hacks

was in the vicinity of US$500 million world wide and that 94

of global airlines had some form of cyber security breaches These

incidents were ―a real wake-up call for the industry Many of these

attacks were dealt with because airlines had good technology

protection but still these numbers make clear that as the industry

moves towards more automation seeking the interconnectiveness that

makes ir more efficient attack surfaces expand exponentially

Matthew Finn said businesses should look at security in a holistic way

He said there is currently a downward trend of documentation fraud

but an upward trend regarding identity theft

Alan Pellegrini said that the industy has seen recently an increasing

number of high profile hacks hacks in the wi-fi connectivity simply to

steal passenger information that is flowing over those networks a

hack into the ground systems of an airline to steal financial

transactions and information to collect the money the airline was

supposed to collect The threat is very real and although it has not

resulted to serious safety related issues it is resulting into serious

disrupting The fact that there has been no serious incident means

though that the industry is getting a lot of it right

Airlines now connect passengers to Wi-Fi on aircraft they add

connectivity to crews aircraft operations are connected on the

ground some are experimenting with cloud-based avionics controlling

aircraft operations The move towards more automation is inescepable

so the protection from cyber attackes To build such protection

requires a

a multi-year plan with responsibility at the highest level and

collaboration and information exchange between the aviation industry

and governments

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There are many technoloty tools Thales is working on to better protect

the connected aircraft but there is no ―silver bullet there is no one

piece of technology that is going to solve all the industry problems

because security is a process the same way threats are not static they

continue to evolve ―Technology is not done it continues monitoring

security operations centres are required to identify threats as they start

to materialize and to mitigate them and then go ahead and implement

addtional technology that is going to deal with new potential threats so

it is a continuous process

According to Calin Rovinescu ―No matter how complex and good

systems a company may have problems are not solved overnight and

aviation must develop a capability to respond and recover He pointed

out that aviation industry must look at and work with other industries

that have more maturity with cyber threats such as financial

institutions technology companies

The industry is very encouraged by the fact IATA is taking on this topic

to prevent serious disruption and perhaps safety issues later

Anja Kaspersen admitted that the threat is real but she added that there

is also ―fear mongering because of the commercial interests invested

in cyber security She stressed that the combination of ―ignorance and

unsubstantiated fear is dangerous and hampers preparedness She

cautioned airlines not to underestimate the psychological effect

should as as they live off their reputation Airlines have to respond to

customer expectations for security concerns

She added that aviation should work on the assumption that they

receiving both physical and cyber attacks and and therefore work on

how to protect the systems with more advanced software and develop

some translation tools to compare traditional and new risks

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Kurt Pipal pointed as airline companies possess and deal with huge

amounts of data they become by definition a target for industrial

espionage He cautioned companies to be very careful about

subcontractors which do necessarily rely on the same system

resilience He stressed the importance of sharing intelligence

information in the industry Build awareness and do not have a silo

approach Identify your vulnerabilities and make the assumption that

you are going to be hacked Participate in a 247 securities operation

centre and called the aviation to Occasionally even use a so-called

dark agent - a hacker to test your system Companies do fire drills so

why do they not do cyber security drills toolaquo

The Panel on the Climate Change Goals brought together

representatives from industry academia and NGOs to discuss the

progress on the climate change goals the aviation industry faces and

what is needed to reach them The industry has to achieve a goal of

climate neutral growth from 2020 but also the long-term target of cutting

net CO2 emissions by half by 2050 compared to 2005 levels

The panelists were Angela Gittens Director General of Airports Council

International Alan Joyce Qantas CEO Patrick de Castelbajac CEO of

aircraft manufacturer ATR John-Paul Clarke professor at Georgia

Institute of Technology and Tim Johnson of the International Coalition

for Sustainable Aviation

2050 might seeem a long way off but due to industry time lags therersquos

only around 10 years left to figure out how to reach the goal according

to John-Paul Clarke

They all agreed that the industry in all its supply chain-manufacturers

airports infrastructure airlines- must come together to work in a

concerted way to achieve how to go about achieveing these goals A

holistic perspective is needed as the industry stakeholders all are in

direct dependency and the example od a fuel efficient aircraft that

cannot operate efficiently because the air traffic management is not

efficient They stressed that sustainable development is not a question

of being politically correct any more but a condition of the future

existence of the industry ―there is no other way than being

environmentally respectful said Patrick de Castelbajac

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He added that aircraft manufacturers do consider now the

environmental impact of their aircraft at every stage from design

through to the eventual end-of-life disposal ―There is also a greater

convergence between economic and environmental interests which we

can see clearly on fuel burn he said

New technology and new management must be both environmentally

and economically sustainable

The panelists agreed that passengers are passsionate about it and do

want to offset the environmental impact of their flight Alan Joyce

said that one passenger every minute selects a voluntary offset

program

Angela Gittens said that Airports have adopted the Carbon

Accreditation Programme a programme that provides airports with a

common framework for active carbon management with measurable

goal-postsand 20 airports are already carbon neutral She added ICAO

and IATA should undertake the role of coordinating bodies which will

monitor assess and pace the progress It is necessary because ―If you

canrsquot measure it you canrsquot manage it

Continuous transparent monitoring of what is been done by an

independent entity would bring credibility according to John-

Paul Clarke

The panelists also agreed that ICAO and IATA will have to meet the

challenge of balancing the different levels of maturity in terms

of environmental measures around the globe in other words those that

move more quickly with those that have been left behind

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Joyce said the new ICAO aircraft CO2 standard would drive

advances in aircraft and engine technology He complained

that although there had been advances in navigation

technology and procedures - such as the traffic control

satellite navigation approaches to airports that saved his

airline up to 60000 tons of fuel - progress had been slow in

improving Air Traffic management and developing ATC

infrastructure

He insisted though on the role of biofuels He stressed that

more studies should be undertaken on biofuels to make sure

that they are produced in environmentally friendly way

―Biofuels are the only way we are going to get to our 2050

target Itrsquos a question of how we as an industry can cooperate

and how we can get governments interested enough to put a

policy framework in place to make that happen Their

development and insertion in the value chain will require RampD

and help from governments and other industrial sectors

He called his government to support the local alternative

fuels industry that creates new jobs and brings

environmental benefits

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Tim Johnson cautioned that it should not become

an ―accountancy exercise where we see one

gallon of biofuel uplifted to an aircraft or a tonne

of CO2 offset as the way we measure progress

adding it was important to move beyond

quantification and just emissions and consider

the wider sustainable development agenda

Investment decisions needed to be taken now to

reach the industryrsquos 2050 target he suggested

and clarity was needed on what should happen

and by when ICAO market-based measure is

perfoming well but there must be emphasis on the

other three pillars required for aviation emissions

reductions ndash aircraft technology operations and

infrastructure

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powered aircraft leaves Seville for Cairo-Solar

MADRID July 11 (Xinhua) -- The aircraft Solar Impulse

II powered completely by solar energy on Monday left

the Spanish city of Seville to attempt to land in

on WednesdayEgyptCairo

The route will be between 48 and 72 hours long

depending on weather conditions This will be the

penultimate flight of the plane that will travel to Abu

Dhabi afterwards

Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard who have

been working on the aircraft for more than a decade

will pilot the aircraft Borschberg will pilot the plane

from Seville to Cairo crossing seven countries after

which Piccard will fly to Abu Dhabi

Borschberg said that the trip was meaningful as it is

my last flight in this round-the-world epic I am happy

that were close to the end but also prudent knowing

that it is not done yet I have to stay really focused

SpainThe aircraft had been in Seville in the south of

for two weeks after successfully crossing the Atlantic

Ocean

Solar Impulse II is able to fly night and day without any

fossil fuel It travels at between 45 and 55 kmhour

reaching an altitude of 8500 meters The plane is wider

than a 747 jumbo jet and weighs 23 tons

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Russias New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

A grand unveiling of the Irkut MC-21-300 on June 8

established a relatively firm project timeline for the

160- to 212-seat narrowbody and marked a measure

of vindication for what many in the West have

disparaged as a fringe project In attendance at the

ceremony Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

spoke of the prestige the program has brought to

the country as well as its importance to helping

move its economy forward He also congratulated

Irkutrsquos employees for their role in shaping the future

of Russiarsquos return to prominence in commercial

aircraft manufacturing

Expecting the MC-21 to gain Russian certification in

2018 United Aircraft subsidiary Irkut had hoped to

fly the first airplane by the end of this year

However during the rollout ceremony Medvedev

referenced plans for first flight ―within a year

and UAC officials acknowledged that a previously

quoted target might prove optimistic unless all goes

exactly to plan Rather that milestone appears most

likely to happen in or around February 2017

according to aUAC spokesman

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Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

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Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

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While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

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Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

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Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

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لمصر للطيران

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IATA has been a great ally in ICAOrsquos efforts to ensure that the decisions

of our Member States are forward-looking and in

line with the current and future needs of the industry

Report of Tony Tyler on the Air Transport Industry

―International civil aviation can greatly help to create and preserve

friendship and understanding among the nations and peoples of the

world

From the beginning both governments and industry conceived aviation

as a force for good

Aviation makes our world a better place In doing so it supports 63

million jobs and underpins 35 of global GDP

Airlines are engines of prosperity But they have long struggled to turn a

profit and reward investors That is beginning to change

This year we expect a collective net profit of $394 billion It will be only

the second year in our historymdashand the second in a rowmdashin which

airlines will make an aggregate return in excess of the cost of capital

After decades of capital destruction thatrsquos a significant achievement

But it is still just the minimum performance that investors expect

On average airlines will make $1042 for each passenger carried

Overall despite generally adverse economic conditions it is a good

time for the air transport industry

-Consumers are getting great deals and lots of choice

-Investors are beginning to see reasonable rewards for the capital

they risk

-And airlines are able to make critical investments and shore-up their

resilience by paying down debtmdashalthough it will take several years of

solid profitability to fix most balance sheets properly

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Our success as an industry rests on areas where we work together

the foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability Each is strong but not without challenges

In bringing my remarks to a close I want to reflect on the power of

partnership

Partnership is essential for the continuous reinforcement of the

foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability

Itrsquos also important for our 264 members and the entire value chain to

work together Because together we can send a proud message that

aviation is a force for good And we can do more good when tax

burdens and infrastructure constraints are removed and when the

principles of Smarter Regulation are applied properly

The framework for our modern industry was built by governments and

airlines with a common vision that safe regular and economical air

transport would benefit the peoples of the world by creating and

preserving friendships and understanding With more than 100 years

of history behind us we can confidently say that aviation has made the

world a better place

We have done that by unleashing an irreversible and ever-more

accessible capability to explore the world in which we live to improve

our lives with unprecedented mobility and to grow prosperity by doing

business globally

People are thirsty for the opportunities that aviation makes possible

Every day we safely transport ten million people and 140000 tonnes of

cargo We are not just connecting people and shifting goods our

work is building a better future for the peoples of the world

Aviationrsquos potential has never been more inspiring We are privileged

to lead an industry that is a force for good

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At the CEO Panel Insight Debate discussion moderated by Richard Quest the

following CEOs participated Bernard Gustin CEO Brussels Airlines (BG) Ed

Bastian CEO Delta Air Lines (ED) Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group and Charamporn Jotikasthira

President of Thai Airways the issue of the security and aircraft tracking was

discussed in the view of the Brussels terrorist attack and the Egyptair 804 flight

going down into the water

The Brussels Airlines CEO said that the Brussels disaster which came after a

very good year for the airlines gave him the opportunity to experience the

amazing reaction of the airlinersquo s staff and the importance of aviation as

Brussels remained 12 days without an airport Being members of the Lufthansa

group they were able to put the long haul to Zurich and Frankfurt and useδ

provincial airport in Liege and Antwerp for local traffic When asked whether

security needs to be readdressed he answered that the risk arose before

security checks and this has to be solved with the Intelligence systems They

imposed after the disaster some extremely strong measures only to realize after

a few days that they were not appropriate He added that they need to continue

to analyze the security process and do risk analysis but have pertinent

measures and apply them consistently across the board

In the US on the other hand the situation is different the security procedures

imposed by the TSA make passengers be delayed or misconnected The

problem has taken such extent that many airports are considering replacing or

supplanting TSA When asked Ed Bastian CEO for Delta Air Lines said that

they have realized the problem and that they will deal with that and added that

they as an airline did a lot to manage the issue they innovated queuing process

in Atlanta that they paid for themselves which is going to have 50 reduction

in how long it takes travelers to get through checkpoints

As the question of security in Asia has again been raised in terms of its being

efficient and effective or not Charamporn Jotikasthira President of Thai

Airways agreed that there is a need to improve over time as there are ways to

hack systems there is a need for a system that can detect faster more

accurately with more quality

Jayne Hrdlicka CEO of Jetstar Group answered questions related to the

investment of low-cost airlines in security She answered that it is the airlinersquos

job to ensure that the security that is provided for in the airports they operate

meets the standards that we have set for ourselves Since in several of the

airports they are operating in the situation is not to these standards they take

responsibility for the safety and security of their people and customers to make

sure that the standards are consistent across the network

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Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline in his turn when expressing

his view on about aviation security in general he said that the industry

is not doing enough although there have been so many wake up calls in

the last couple of years He said that it is easy for government agencies

and organizations to blame on austerity their inability to fund the

security apparatus and the systems and procedures but the aviation

industry has to come up with a new set of protocols that ensure

security for the travelling public and consumers The industry has to

cooperate with governmental agencies to identify the possibilities of

people actually doing such attacks He added that industry has to adopt

far more readily the technological advances that are being made

available to streamline the processes but at the same time increase the

level of scrutiny He stressed the need for flow of information between

countries so as to have a more homogeneous intelligence service

When asked about airline tracking he admitted that the fact that the

problems in trying to locate an aircraft that has had a major incidence

―is a disgrace― These incidents impose on the industry a need to be

able to track aircraft at every point on their journey which as he said

Emirates does anyway within 15-20 minutes they know where all the

airlinersquos aircraft are where they fly or on the ground at the same

time He added that the manufacturers too need to come up with the

data records both CVR and cockpit voice recorders and flight data

recorders that have to be far more robust able to survive intact and

with much more power to develop beacons and locating systems in

very remote areas on the sea or in the river

When faced with the remark that six years have passed since the flight

370 incident and still the industry is unable to locate missing aircraft

and many experts argue that the airlines are reluctant to spend the

money on tracking and streaming of data they all agreed that it is not a

financial issue and the only question is a question of governance The

industry has to come to a consensus and agree on common standards

for example at what frequency the aircraft will be sending it out tracking

information the industry is waiting for an ICAO solution that everyone

is going to adopt They all agreed though that irrespective of the cost it

has to be done because as Sir Tim Clark put it ―Not to do it is

delinquency

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When Richard Quest asked them about results and yields because airlines seem to

be that making good money they all claim the yield is under pressure and to

comment on the influence of the lower fuel price Ed Bastian said that capacity has

grown over the last few years driven by the dramatic reduction in oil prices The

pressure seen on yield is a reflection of the growing capacity He commented he

does not focus only on yield but looks at other aspects and metrics to understand

the underlying health of the industry demand is very strong especially in the US and

fuel prices are stabilizing and the airline making record margins

Bernard Gustin said when fuel prices gets up again the airlines will not be able to put

it back in the yield so they need to keep a business plan both with the current fuel

price as well as with the old fuel price especially in their case since their competitors

in Brussels are low cost carriers such as Ryanair and Easyjet

When Jetstarrsquos CEO was asked whether there is unconstrained growth of capacity

she answered that the growth of capacity ahead of underlying demand is not

irrational when margins are attractive and costs well managed and strong return in

invested capital

Sir Tim Clark said that the true causes behind yield suppression need to be

examined The lowering of the fuel prices was good news but they failed to foresee

that the corporate sectors that drive many of the upper echelons of the yield will go

with the oil prices That brought us some difficulties Then there was a currency

issue the strength of the US as the airline generates a large part of income on

currencies that move south of the dollar that affected the yield too Third the

addition of capacity means extension of the revenue of greater distances which

causes yield dilution On the other hand while there is flat line projection for global

economy demand for airtravel is increasing at 6 7 8 in several areas including the

Middle East there is also an explosion of growth in the US domestic market This

means the airline backfills inventory with more passengers because demand is there

Their airline needs to adjust its business to the practical long-term change and this is

low yield the airline can do it He announced that Emirates will 14 more A380s to

their fleet of 79

Thai Airwaysrsquos President said that their problem was of a different nature as they

unable to fill the aircraft as much as the others and their load factors were 4-5

lower than the average they will first fix that and and then deal with the other

problems

When the discussion turned to the question whether there will more manufactures of

aircraft and more choice in the future Ed Bastian supported Deltarsquos decision to buy

CS100s Bombardier and commented that they have been long time customers of

their small and larger regional jets because they technologically and engine-wise

efficient and reliable and they were given good financial terms He also predicted that

more airlines will consider acquiring Bombardier C-series aircraft

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As Emirates are mostly wide body operator Sir Tim Clark said

they already have good choice between Boeing and Airbus

which answer their needs with regard to the mission and the

type of product the airline wants to offer He wished ―good

luck to any manufacturer wishing to enter the market them if

they get over the barriers to entry

Jane Hrdlicka said she expects see innovation coming in in the

form of technology of the airframe and a strong Chinese

manufacturer which means there will be more choice in two

decades from now than today

Then Richard Quest asked questions each airline individually

He asked whether Brussels Airlines will be around in two years

from now Bernand Gustin the airline will be there and will have

the same operation model but more powerful with the power of

a major aviation group Lufthansa group behind it In the past

airlines had to choose to be point-to-point or connecting Low

cost or service airline bur Brussels airline We tries to reconcile

those dimensions and they have positioned themselves a

hybrid airline People do not want to pay but they want a level

of service and even the low cost carriers are investing now in

service As for the name of airline he said that the airline will be

called what has value for the customer as it has been proven

with the airlinersquos Africa routes The airline played a crucial role

during the Ebola crisis and has gained its value as a brand in

Africa that it did not have before when it was Sabena He

stressed that a brand is something that responds to a customer

need a brand name that responds best to the Belgian customer

the European customer and the African customer and the US

customers which are the markets the airlines serves

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Thai Airwaysrsquo president was asked about the airlinersquos strategy to deal with

their problems He answered that they have a two-year reform programme

they have already achieved a profit margin 12 on sales so they are on track

reform plan They intend to remain a full service carrier with a major very

efficient hub He added that they realised after following the developments of

the last years that the ecosystem has been changing a lot as all demand

coming into Thailand has been point-to-point to secondary cities They

operate in one the fastest growing regions in terms of demand near India

and China but the demand is becoming point-to-point which means that the

model that the airline was following in the past has to be changed When

asked whether they will need a partner and more particularly a Gulf partner to

do your long haul European routes he answered that if the market is India

China and Asia and there is going to be more and more point-to-point service

they will have to be bigger They may need partners of some sort some form

of alliance but I this alliance will not be as the ones of the past In the past a

big airline in Europe a big airline in Japan could connect throughout the

world but this area is a non-united area there are many states there is

Myanmar Thailand Vietnam so the partnership will most probably be

bilateral

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group was asked how Qantas managed so

successfully to incorporate a low-cost or a low-fare branch as some call it

She answered that they did it by really understanding their customers and

recognising that there is a part of the market that is hungry for full service and

is prepared to pay a premium to get it but there is an equal part of the market

that was not able to travel because the fares were too high and would prefer

choice on how they travel and be able to pay for what they use What they

have done is effectively build a new brand that focuses squarely on that

customer group and have protected the integrity by not trying to blur the line

and keeping them very separate operationally commercially and

strategically

Bernand Gustin was asked again whether Lufthansa has considered an

arrangement with an LCC for feed and he answered that first the airline needs

to substantially reduce its cost to be price competitive and this what they

have done There is no choice about that But as they come from a service

heritage airline and given that they will never be a cost leader they try to keep

a differentiation on service a service that really people want So they have

played on connectivity on the network and on the Belgian brand There is a

wish to have a specific brand As there are other very strong brands within the

Lufthansa group if they want to go further they need to have the power of the

group to be able to further reduce the cost to get the commercial critical

mass outside of Belgium Thatrsquos where the right mix needs to be found

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Deltarsquos CEO was asked How a giant airline accommodates the new reality

of all those LCCs Ot which he answered that they do it through

segmentation within the aircraft they have introduced a product called

―basic economy for price sensitive types of travelling within the US

They are still experimenting with it as it is relatively new and the

technology solution on it is complicated Within the two they have to

accommodate the low fare end and the highly sensitive business

traveller that is willing to pay a premium and a couple of stages between

the two But it a much wider question the airline needs to find who he

wants to be so they have moved upscale they are not a commodity

player and they generated a 10 premium in relation to the other US

carriers He stressed that ―If we were to be a commodity player we would

not be around today He admits that they have to accommodate a

commodity component for the travel sector but they are not a

commodity As the carry two million passengers a year that pay a 10

premium on average they have proven our point

Jetstarrsquos CEP pointed that both fares are not commoditised any more

Airlines have to look at what customers want choice is definitely

important for all customers and choice for people who are looking for

value matters a lot She said that their airline also extracts a relative 15

premium in relation to competition because they do not view themselves

as a commodity product They invest heavily in the brand in the

experience in ways that the customers value and are prepared to pay for

it and give them the choice to custom design their experience

The Brussels Airlinesrsquos CEO added that segmentation and differentiation

is key When their airline starts with a start price of 39 euros one way and

has a very vocal pure low cost competitor at 21 euro for the same thing

the solution is to claim that it offers service as there is a whole heritage

that exists besides While the price is key people say ―I want to know

what I choose The pure commodity product that happened a few years

is going away but when there is a heritage of service that can help you

differentiate yourself then there is potential to make the difference

Brussels has all the LCCs of the world but Brussels Airlines grew by 30

more in the last two years

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Richard Quest then turned to Emirates CEO and asked him how they

accomodate with the LCCs that can offer feed from them into their long

haul services Sir Tim Clark answered that LCCs are here to stay they

continue to grow their business they have been a significant player in

the way civil aviation has developed in the last years giving consumers

a very good choice As long as the air industry business keeps the

consumers at the heart of the business and it does what they are

guiding to do then there is place for everybody The

differentiation whether it is between low cost and full service long haul

or short haul is something the industry has to adapt to accept and

encourage It is part of civil aviation After all it is the travelling public

who benefits from LCC existence The legacy carriers as they are

called have to adapt and work with them In terms of establishing a

lower cost arm for Emirates he answered ―no but he added that they

would work with them and they do They have very good relationships

with the Low Cost operators because they bring lots more people into

the market the whole principle was tapping incipient demand that

could not afford the levels of fares that were available prior to their

existence What they did is that they brought efficiency fleet efficiency

technological efficiency distribution efficiency and suddenly a new

branch of air transport industry was found ―To not work with makes no

sense

When asked about what new things they can offer to the upper end of

the market they all agreed that it is the soft goods that matter after all

Everyone can buy the hard goods but the airlines invest now in

relationship building Delta said its CEO can boast on its relationship

with corporate travelers and the fact they have one of the lowest

maintenance cancellation records They give the business traveler what

he needs dependability reliability quality to arrive on time with their

bags he added that there is a lot of technology and process behind it

but more than that a lot of willpower and culture

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Jetstarrsquos CEO said that invest a lot in their people both in full service

and in low cost training helping them to build skills relationships with

the customer Jetstar wants to enable customers to enjoy the ability of

pick and choose both to bundle and to unbundle

Emiratesrsquo CEO said that the airline spends an awful lot of time and

money on our premium product and the public knows about it and they

have always done that and they will continue to do it As soon as

things mature they will change to make things more interesting they

will be raising the bar for the consumers the business community

because ―we can do it

Panel discussion on Cyber Security

The panelists were Major General Linda Urrutia-Varhall the Assistant

Deputy Chief of Staff Director of National Intelligence for Aviation

Security in the US Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance the

Pentagon Washington DC Anja Kaspersen Head of International

Security for the World Economic Forum Alan Pellegrini CEO and

President of Thales USA Matthew Finn Managing Director of

Augmentiq Calin Rovinescu President and CEO of Air Canada and

Kurt Pipal FBI Assistant Legal Attache for US Embassy in the UK

They all agreed that aviation being a symbol of globalisation remains

an aspirational target for terrorists The interconnected nature of the

industry and interconnectibility of IT systems from baggage

movement to ticket kiosk and flight systems represent an ever growing

list of vulnerabilities and a whole brand new horizon of threats It is

however practically technologically and financially impossible to

address all the issues In the words of General Urrutia-Varhall the

interaction between actors threats and vulnerabilities can be viewed as

an ecosystem of forces in which ―we are as strong as our weakest link

No entity can go alone against these threats Airline industry

govenments domestic and international Intelligence community private

and public sectors should come together gather and share information

to characterise assess threats prioritise them and then act

appropriately

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Calin Rovinescu mentioned the ―very scary number that experts

estimate is the amount of damage caused last year by cyber hacks

was in the vicinity of US$500 million world wide and that 94

of global airlines had some form of cyber security breaches These

incidents were ―a real wake-up call for the industry Many of these

attacks were dealt with because airlines had good technology

protection but still these numbers make clear that as the industry

moves towards more automation seeking the interconnectiveness that

makes ir more efficient attack surfaces expand exponentially

Matthew Finn said businesses should look at security in a holistic way

He said there is currently a downward trend of documentation fraud

but an upward trend regarding identity theft

Alan Pellegrini said that the industy has seen recently an increasing

number of high profile hacks hacks in the wi-fi connectivity simply to

steal passenger information that is flowing over those networks a

hack into the ground systems of an airline to steal financial

transactions and information to collect the money the airline was

supposed to collect The threat is very real and although it has not

resulted to serious safety related issues it is resulting into serious

disrupting The fact that there has been no serious incident means

though that the industry is getting a lot of it right

Airlines now connect passengers to Wi-Fi on aircraft they add

connectivity to crews aircraft operations are connected on the

ground some are experimenting with cloud-based avionics controlling

aircraft operations The move towards more automation is inescepable

so the protection from cyber attackes To build such protection

requires a

a multi-year plan with responsibility at the highest level and

collaboration and information exchange between the aviation industry

and governments

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There are many technoloty tools Thales is working on to better protect

the connected aircraft but there is no ―silver bullet there is no one

piece of technology that is going to solve all the industry problems

because security is a process the same way threats are not static they

continue to evolve ―Technology is not done it continues monitoring

security operations centres are required to identify threats as they start

to materialize and to mitigate them and then go ahead and implement

addtional technology that is going to deal with new potential threats so

it is a continuous process

According to Calin Rovinescu ―No matter how complex and good

systems a company may have problems are not solved overnight and

aviation must develop a capability to respond and recover He pointed

out that aviation industry must look at and work with other industries

that have more maturity with cyber threats such as financial

institutions technology companies

The industry is very encouraged by the fact IATA is taking on this topic

to prevent serious disruption and perhaps safety issues later

Anja Kaspersen admitted that the threat is real but she added that there

is also ―fear mongering because of the commercial interests invested

in cyber security She stressed that the combination of ―ignorance and

unsubstantiated fear is dangerous and hampers preparedness She

cautioned airlines not to underestimate the psychological effect

should as as they live off their reputation Airlines have to respond to

customer expectations for security concerns

She added that aviation should work on the assumption that they

receiving both physical and cyber attacks and and therefore work on

how to protect the systems with more advanced software and develop

some translation tools to compare traditional and new risks

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Kurt Pipal pointed as airline companies possess and deal with huge

amounts of data they become by definition a target for industrial

espionage He cautioned companies to be very careful about

subcontractors which do necessarily rely on the same system

resilience He stressed the importance of sharing intelligence

information in the industry Build awareness and do not have a silo

approach Identify your vulnerabilities and make the assumption that

you are going to be hacked Participate in a 247 securities operation

centre and called the aviation to Occasionally even use a so-called

dark agent - a hacker to test your system Companies do fire drills so

why do they not do cyber security drills toolaquo

The Panel on the Climate Change Goals brought together

representatives from industry academia and NGOs to discuss the

progress on the climate change goals the aviation industry faces and

what is needed to reach them The industry has to achieve a goal of

climate neutral growth from 2020 but also the long-term target of cutting

net CO2 emissions by half by 2050 compared to 2005 levels

The panelists were Angela Gittens Director General of Airports Council

International Alan Joyce Qantas CEO Patrick de Castelbajac CEO of

aircraft manufacturer ATR John-Paul Clarke professor at Georgia

Institute of Technology and Tim Johnson of the International Coalition

for Sustainable Aviation

2050 might seeem a long way off but due to industry time lags therersquos

only around 10 years left to figure out how to reach the goal according

to John-Paul Clarke

They all agreed that the industry in all its supply chain-manufacturers

airports infrastructure airlines- must come together to work in a

concerted way to achieve how to go about achieveing these goals A

holistic perspective is needed as the industry stakeholders all are in

direct dependency and the example od a fuel efficient aircraft that

cannot operate efficiently because the air traffic management is not

efficient They stressed that sustainable development is not a question

of being politically correct any more but a condition of the future

existence of the industry ―there is no other way than being

environmentally respectful said Patrick de Castelbajac

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He added that aircraft manufacturers do consider now the

environmental impact of their aircraft at every stage from design

through to the eventual end-of-life disposal ―There is also a greater

convergence between economic and environmental interests which we

can see clearly on fuel burn he said

New technology and new management must be both environmentally

and economically sustainable

The panelists agreed that passengers are passsionate about it and do

want to offset the environmental impact of their flight Alan Joyce

said that one passenger every minute selects a voluntary offset

program

Angela Gittens said that Airports have adopted the Carbon

Accreditation Programme a programme that provides airports with a

common framework for active carbon management with measurable

goal-postsand 20 airports are already carbon neutral She added ICAO

and IATA should undertake the role of coordinating bodies which will

monitor assess and pace the progress It is necessary because ―If you

canrsquot measure it you canrsquot manage it

Continuous transparent monitoring of what is been done by an

independent entity would bring credibility according to John-

Paul Clarke

The panelists also agreed that ICAO and IATA will have to meet the

challenge of balancing the different levels of maturity in terms

of environmental measures around the globe in other words those that

move more quickly with those that have been left behind

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Joyce said the new ICAO aircraft CO2 standard would drive

advances in aircraft and engine technology He complained

that although there had been advances in navigation

technology and procedures - such as the traffic control

satellite navigation approaches to airports that saved his

airline up to 60000 tons of fuel - progress had been slow in

improving Air Traffic management and developing ATC

infrastructure

He insisted though on the role of biofuels He stressed that

more studies should be undertaken on biofuels to make sure

that they are produced in environmentally friendly way

―Biofuels are the only way we are going to get to our 2050

target Itrsquos a question of how we as an industry can cooperate

and how we can get governments interested enough to put a

policy framework in place to make that happen Their

development and insertion in the value chain will require RampD

and help from governments and other industrial sectors

He called his government to support the local alternative

fuels industry that creates new jobs and brings

environmental benefits

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Tim Johnson cautioned that it should not become

an ―accountancy exercise where we see one

gallon of biofuel uplifted to an aircraft or a tonne

of CO2 offset as the way we measure progress

adding it was important to move beyond

quantification and just emissions and consider

the wider sustainable development agenda

Investment decisions needed to be taken now to

reach the industryrsquos 2050 target he suggested

and clarity was needed on what should happen

and by when ICAO market-based measure is

perfoming well but there must be emphasis on the

other three pillars required for aviation emissions

reductions ndash aircraft technology operations and

infrastructure

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powered aircraft leaves Seville for Cairo-Solar

MADRID July 11 (Xinhua) -- The aircraft Solar Impulse

II powered completely by solar energy on Monday left

the Spanish city of Seville to attempt to land in

on WednesdayEgyptCairo

The route will be between 48 and 72 hours long

depending on weather conditions This will be the

penultimate flight of the plane that will travel to Abu

Dhabi afterwards

Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard who have

been working on the aircraft for more than a decade

will pilot the aircraft Borschberg will pilot the plane

from Seville to Cairo crossing seven countries after

which Piccard will fly to Abu Dhabi

Borschberg said that the trip was meaningful as it is

my last flight in this round-the-world epic I am happy

that were close to the end but also prudent knowing

that it is not done yet I have to stay really focused

SpainThe aircraft had been in Seville in the south of

for two weeks after successfully crossing the Atlantic

Ocean

Solar Impulse II is able to fly night and day without any

fossil fuel It travels at between 45 and 55 kmhour

reaching an altitude of 8500 meters The plane is wider

than a 747 jumbo jet and weighs 23 tons

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Russias New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

A grand unveiling of the Irkut MC-21-300 on June 8

established a relatively firm project timeline for the

160- to 212-seat narrowbody and marked a measure

of vindication for what many in the West have

disparaged as a fringe project In attendance at the

ceremony Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

spoke of the prestige the program has brought to

the country as well as its importance to helping

move its economy forward He also congratulated

Irkutrsquos employees for their role in shaping the future

of Russiarsquos return to prominence in commercial

aircraft manufacturing

Expecting the MC-21 to gain Russian certification in

2018 United Aircraft subsidiary Irkut had hoped to

fly the first airplane by the end of this year

However during the rollout ceremony Medvedev

referenced plans for first flight ―within a year

and UAC officials acknowledged that a previously

quoted target might prove optimistic unless all goes

exactly to plan Rather that milestone appears most

likely to happen in or around February 2017

according to aUAC spokesman

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Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

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Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

3

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While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

4

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Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

5

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Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

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الشركة القابضة -ادارة العالقات العامة

لمصر للطيران

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Our success as an industry rests on areas where we work together

the foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability Each is strong but not without challenges

In bringing my remarks to a close I want to reflect on the power of

partnership

Partnership is essential for the continuous reinforcement of the

foundation stones of safety security global standards and

sustainability

Itrsquos also important for our 264 members and the entire value chain to

work together Because together we can send a proud message that

aviation is a force for good And we can do more good when tax

burdens and infrastructure constraints are removed and when the

principles of Smarter Regulation are applied properly

The framework for our modern industry was built by governments and

airlines with a common vision that safe regular and economical air

transport would benefit the peoples of the world by creating and

preserving friendships and understanding With more than 100 years

of history behind us we can confidently say that aviation has made the

world a better place

We have done that by unleashing an irreversible and ever-more

accessible capability to explore the world in which we live to improve

our lives with unprecedented mobility and to grow prosperity by doing

business globally

People are thirsty for the opportunities that aviation makes possible

Every day we safely transport ten million people and 140000 tonnes of

cargo We are not just connecting people and shifting goods our

work is building a better future for the peoples of the world

Aviationrsquos potential has never been more inspiring We are privileged

to lead an industry that is a force for good

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At the CEO Panel Insight Debate discussion moderated by Richard Quest the

following CEOs participated Bernard Gustin CEO Brussels Airlines (BG) Ed

Bastian CEO Delta Air Lines (ED) Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group and Charamporn Jotikasthira

President of Thai Airways the issue of the security and aircraft tracking was

discussed in the view of the Brussels terrorist attack and the Egyptair 804 flight

going down into the water

The Brussels Airlines CEO said that the Brussels disaster which came after a

very good year for the airlines gave him the opportunity to experience the

amazing reaction of the airlinersquo s staff and the importance of aviation as

Brussels remained 12 days without an airport Being members of the Lufthansa

group they were able to put the long haul to Zurich and Frankfurt and useδ

provincial airport in Liege and Antwerp for local traffic When asked whether

security needs to be readdressed he answered that the risk arose before

security checks and this has to be solved with the Intelligence systems They

imposed after the disaster some extremely strong measures only to realize after

a few days that they were not appropriate He added that they need to continue

to analyze the security process and do risk analysis but have pertinent

measures and apply them consistently across the board

In the US on the other hand the situation is different the security procedures

imposed by the TSA make passengers be delayed or misconnected The

problem has taken such extent that many airports are considering replacing or

supplanting TSA When asked Ed Bastian CEO for Delta Air Lines said that

they have realized the problem and that they will deal with that and added that

they as an airline did a lot to manage the issue they innovated queuing process

in Atlanta that they paid for themselves which is going to have 50 reduction

in how long it takes travelers to get through checkpoints

As the question of security in Asia has again been raised in terms of its being

efficient and effective or not Charamporn Jotikasthira President of Thai

Airways agreed that there is a need to improve over time as there are ways to

hack systems there is a need for a system that can detect faster more

accurately with more quality

Jayne Hrdlicka CEO of Jetstar Group answered questions related to the

investment of low-cost airlines in security She answered that it is the airlinersquos

job to ensure that the security that is provided for in the airports they operate

meets the standards that we have set for ourselves Since in several of the

airports they are operating in the situation is not to these standards they take

responsibility for the safety and security of their people and customers to make

sure that the standards are consistent across the network

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Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline in his turn when expressing

his view on about aviation security in general he said that the industry

is not doing enough although there have been so many wake up calls in

the last couple of years He said that it is easy for government agencies

and organizations to blame on austerity their inability to fund the

security apparatus and the systems and procedures but the aviation

industry has to come up with a new set of protocols that ensure

security for the travelling public and consumers The industry has to

cooperate with governmental agencies to identify the possibilities of

people actually doing such attacks He added that industry has to adopt

far more readily the technological advances that are being made

available to streamline the processes but at the same time increase the

level of scrutiny He stressed the need for flow of information between

countries so as to have a more homogeneous intelligence service

When asked about airline tracking he admitted that the fact that the

problems in trying to locate an aircraft that has had a major incidence

―is a disgrace― These incidents impose on the industry a need to be

able to track aircraft at every point on their journey which as he said

Emirates does anyway within 15-20 minutes they know where all the

airlinersquos aircraft are where they fly or on the ground at the same

time He added that the manufacturers too need to come up with the

data records both CVR and cockpit voice recorders and flight data

recorders that have to be far more robust able to survive intact and

with much more power to develop beacons and locating systems in

very remote areas on the sea or in the river

When faced with the remark that six years have passed since the flight

370 incident and still the industry is unable to locate missing aircraft

and many experts argue that the airlines are reluctant to spend the

money on tracking and streaming of data they all agreed that it is not a

financial issue and the only question is a question of governance The

industry has to come to a consensus and agree on common standards

for example at what frequency the aircraft will be sending it out tracking

information the industry is waiting for an ICAO solution that everyone

is going to adopt They all agreed though that irrespective of the cost it

has to be done because as Sir Tim Clark put it ―Not to do it is

delinquency

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When Richard Quest asked them about results and yields because airlines seem to

be that making good money they all claim the yield is under pressure and to

comment on the influence of the lower fuel price Ed Bastian said that capacity has

grown over the last few years driven by the dramatic reduction in oil prices The

pressure seen on yield is a reflection of the growing capacity He commented he

does not focus only on yield but looks at other aspects and metrics to understand

the underlying health of the industry demand is very strong especially in the US and

fuel prices are stabilizing and the airline making record margins

Bernard Gustin said when fuel prices gets up again the airlines will not be able to put

it back in the yield so they need to keep a business plan both with the current fuel

price as well as with the old fuel price especially in their case since their competitors

in Brussels are low cost carriers such as Ryanair and Easyjet

When Jetstarrsquos CEO was asked whether there is unconstrained growth of capacity

she answered that the growth of capacity ahead of underlying demand is not

irrational when margins are attractive and costs well managed and strong return in

invested capital

Sir Tim Clark said that the true causes behind yield suppression need to be

examined The lowering of the fuel prices was good news but they failed to foresee

that the corporate sectors that drive many of the upper echelons of the yield will go

with the oil prices That brought us some difficulties Then there was a currency

issue the strength of the US as the airline generates a large part of income on

currencies that move south of the dollar that affected the yield too Third the

addition of capacity means extension of the revenue of greater distances which

causes yield dilution On the other hand while there is flat line projection for global

economy demand for airtravel is increasing at 6 7 8 in several areas including the

Middle East there is also an explosion of growth in the US domestic market This

means the airline backfills inventory with more passengers because demand is there

Their airline needs to adjust its business to the practical long-term change and this is

low yield the airline can do it He announced that Emirates will 14 more A380s to

their fleet of 79

Thai Airwaysrsquos President said that their problem was of a different nature as they

unable to fill the aircraft as much as the others and their load factors were 4-5

lower than the average they will first fix that and and then deal with the other

problems

When the discussion turned to the question whether there will more manufactures of

aircraft and more choice in the future Ed Bastian supported Deltarsquos decision to buy

CS100s Bombardier and commented that they have been long time customers of

their small and larger regional jets because they technologically and engine-wise

efficient and reliable and they were given good financial terms He also predicted that

more airlines will consider acquiring Bombardier C-series aircraft

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As Emirates are mostly wide body operator Sir Tim Clark said

they already have good choice between Boeing and Airbus

which answer their needs with regard to the mission and the

type of product the airline wants to offer He wished ―good

luck to any manufacturer wishing to enter the market them if

they get over the barriers to entry

Jane Hrdlicka said she expects see innovation coming in in the

form of technology of the airframe and a strong Chinese

manufacturer which means there will be more choice in two

decades from now than today

Then Richard Quest asked questions each airline individually

He asked whether Brussels Airlines will be around in two years

from now Bernand Gustin the airline will be there and will have

the same operation model but more powerful with the power of

a major aviation group Lufthansa group behind it In the past

airlines had to choose to be point-to-point or connecting Low

cost or service airline bur Brussels airline We tries to reconcile

those dimensions and they have positioned themselves a

hybrid airline People do not want to pay but they want a level

of service and even the low cost carriers are investing now in

service As for the name of airline he said that the airline will be

called what has value for the customer as it has been proven

with the airlinersquos Africa routes The airline played a crucial role

during the Ebola crisis and has gained its value as a brand in

Africa that it did not have before when it was Sabena He

stressed that a brand is something that responds to a customer

need a brand name that responds best to the Belgian customer

the European customer and the African customer and the US

customers which are the markets the airlines serves

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Thai Airwaysrsquo president was asked about the airlinersquos strategy to deal with

their problems He answered that they have a two-year reform programme

they have already achieved a profit margin 12 on sales so they are on track

reform plan They intend to remain a full service carrier with a major very

efficient hub He added that they realised after following the developments of

the last years that the ecosystem has been changing a lot as all demand

coming into Thailand has been point-to-point to secondary cities They

operate in one the fastest growing regions in terms of demand near India

and China but the demand is becoming point-to-point which means that the

model that the airline was following in the past has to be changed When

asked whether they will need a partner and more particularly a Gulf partner to

do your long haul European routes he answered that if the market is India

China and Asia and there is going to be more and more point-to-point service

they will have to be bigger They may need partners of some sort some form

of alliance but I this alliance will not be as the ones of the past In the past a

big airline in Europe a big airline in Japan could connect throughout the

world but this area is a non-united area there are many states there is

Myanmar Thailand Vietnam so the partnership will most probably be

bilateral

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group was asked how Qantas managed so

successfully to incorporate a low-cost or a low-fare branch as some call it

She answered that they did it by really understanding their customers and

recognising that there is a part of the market that is hungry for full service and

is prepared to pay a premium to get it but there is an equal part of the market

that was not able to travel because the fares were too high and would prefer

choice on how they travel and be able to pay for what they use What they

have done is effectively build a new brand that focuses squarely on that

customer group and have protected the integrity by not trying to blur the line

and keeping them very separate operationally commercially and

strategically

Bernand Gustin was asked again whether Lufthansa has considered an

arrangement with an LCC for feed and he answered that first the airline needs

to substantially reduce its cost to be price competitive and this what they

have done There is no choice about that But as they come from a service

heritage airline and given that they will never be a cost leader they try to keep

a differentiation on service a service that really people want So they have

played on connectivity on the network and on the Belgian brand There is a

wish to have a specific brand As there are other very strong brands within the

Lufthansa group if they want to go further they need to have the power of the

group to be able to further reduce the cost to get the commercial critical

mass outside of Belgium Thatrsquos where the right mix needs to be found

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Deltarsquos CEO was asked How a giant airline accommodates the new reality

of all those LCCs Ot which he answered that they do it through

segmentation within the aircraft they have introduced a product called

―basic economy for price sensitive types of travelling within the US

They are still experimenting with it as it is relatively new and the

technology solution on it is complicated Within the two they have to

accommodate the low fare end and the highly sensitive business

traveller that is willing to pay a premium and a couple of stages between

the two But it a much wider question the airline needs to find who he

wants to be so they have moved upscale they are not a commodity

player and they generated a 10 premium in relation to the other US

carriers He stressed that ―If we were to be a commodity player we would

not be around today He admits that they have to accommodate a

commodity component for the travel sector but they are not a

commodity As the carry two million passengers a year that pay a 10

premium on average they have proven our point

Jetstarrsquos CEP pointed that both fares are not commoditised any more

Airlines have to look at what customers want choice is definitely

important for all customers and choice for people who are looking for

value matters a lot She said that their airline also extracts a relative 15

premium in relation to competition because they do not view themselves

as a commodity product They invest heavily in the brand in the

experience in ways that the customers value and are prepared to pay for

it and give them the choice to custom design their experience

The Brussels Airlinesrsquos CEO added that segmentation and differentiation

is key When their airline starts with a start price of 39 euros one way and

has a very vocal pure low cost competitor at 21 euro for the same thing

the solution is to claim that it offers service as there is a whole heritage

that exists besides While the price is key people say ―I want to know

what I choose The pure commodity product that happened a few years

is going away but when there is a heritage of service that can help you

differentiate yourself then there is potential to make the difference

Brussels has all the LCCs of the world but Brussels Airlines grew by 30

more in the last two years

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Richard Quest then turned to Emirates CEO and asked him how they

accomodate with the LCCs that can offer feed from them into their long

haul services Sir Tim Clark answered that LCCs are here to stay they

continue to grow their business they have been a significant player in

the way civil aviation has developed in the last years giving consumers

a very good choice As long as the air industry business keeps the

consumers at the heart of the business and it does what they are

guiding to do then there is place for everybody The

differentiation whether it is between low cost and full service long haul

or short haul is something the industry has to adapt to accept and

encourage It is part of civil aviation After all it is the travelling public

who benefits from LCC existence The legacy carriers as they are

called have to adapt and work with them In terms of establishing a

lower cost arm for Emirates he answered ―no but he added that they

would work with them and they do They have very good relationships

with the Low Cost operators because they bring lots more people into

the market the whole principle was tapping incipient demand that

could not afford the levels of fares that were available prior to their

existence What they did is that they brought efficiency fleet efficiency

technological efficiency distribution efficiency and suddenly a new

branch of air transport industry was found ―To not work with makes no

sense

When asked about what new things they can offer to the upper end of

the market they all agreed that it is the soft goods that matter after all

Everyone can buy the hard goods but the airlines invest now in

relationship building Delta said its CEO can boast on its relationship

with corporate travelers and the fact they have one of the lowest

maintenance cancellation records They give the business traveler what

he needs dependability reliability quality to arrive on time with their

bags he added that there is a lot of technology and process behind it

but more than that a lot of willpower and culture

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Jetstarrsquos CEO said that invest a lot in their people both in full service

and in low cost training helping them to build skills relationships with

the customer Jetstar wants to enable customers to enjoy the ability of

pick and choose both to bundle and to unbundle

Emiratesrsquo CEO said that the airline spends an awful lot of time and

money on our premium product and the public knows about it and they

have always done that and they will continue to do it As soon as

things mature they will change to make things more interesting they

will be raising the bar for the consumers the business community

because ―we can do it

Panel discussion on Cyber Security

The panelists were Major General Linda Urrutia-Varhall the Assistant

Deputy Chief of Staff Director of National Intelligence for Aviation

Security in the US Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance the

Pentagon Washington DC Anja Kaspersen Head of International

Security for the World Economic Forum Alan Pellegrini CEO and

President of Thales USA Matthew Finn Managing Director of

Augmentiq Calin Rovinescu President and CEO of Air Canada and

Kurt Pipal FBI Assistant Legal Attache for US Embassy in the UK

They all agreed that aviation being a symbol of globalisation remains

an aspirational target for terrorists The interconnected nature of the

industry and interconnectibility of IT systems from baggage

movement to ticket kiosk and flight systems represent an ever growing

list of vulnerabilities and a whole brand new horizon of threats It is

however practically technologically and financially impossible to

address all the issues In the words of General Urrutia-Varhall the

interaction between actors threats and vulnerabilities can be viewed as

an ecosystem of forces in which ―we are as strong as our weakest link

No entity can go alone against these threats Airline industry

govenments domestic and international Intelligence community private

and public sectors should come together gather and share information

to characterise assess threats prioritise them and then act

appropriately

11

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Calin Rovinescu mentioned the ―very scary number that experts

estimate is the amount of damage caused last year by cyber hacks

was in the vicinity of US$500 million world wide and that 94

of global airlines had some form of cyber security breaches These

incidents were ―a real wake-up call for the industry Many of these

attacks were dealt with because airlines had good technology

protection but still these numbers make clear that as the industry

moves towards more automation seeking the interconnectiveness that

makes ir more efficient attack surfaces expand exponentially

Matthew Finn said businesses should look at security in a holistic way

He said there is currently a downward trend of documentation fraud

but an upward trend regarding identity theft

Alan Pellegrini said that the industy has seen recently an increasing

number of high profile hacks hacks in the wi-fi connectivity simply to

steal passenger information that is flowing over those networks a

hack into the ground systems of an airline to steal financial

transactions and information to collect the money the airline was

supposed to collect The threat is very real and although it has not

resulted to serious safety related issues it is resulting into serious

disrupting The fact that there has been no serious incident means

though that the industry is getting a lot of it right

Airlines now connect passengers to Wi-Fi on aircraft they add

connectivity to crews aircraft operations are connected on the

ground some are experimenting with cloud-based avionics controlling

aircraft operations The move towards more automation is inescepable

so the protection from cyber attackes To build such protection

requires a

a multi-year plan with responsibility at the highest level and

collaboration and information exchange between the aviation industry

and governments

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There are many technoloty tools Thales is working on to better protect

the connected aircraft but there is no ―silver bullet there is no one

piece of technology that is going to solve all the industry problems

because security is a process the same way threats are not static they

continue to evolve ―Technology is not done it continues monitoring

security operations centres are required to identify threats as they start

to materialize and to mitigate them and then go ahead and implement

addtional technology that is going to deal with new potential threats so

it is a continuous process

According to Calin Rovinescu ―No matter how complex and good

systems a company may have problems are not solved overnight and

aviation must develop a capability to respond and recover He pointed

out that aviation industry must look at and work with other industries

that have more maturity with cyber threats such as financial

institutions technology companies

The industry is very encouraged by the fact IATA is taking on this topic

to prevent serious disruption and perhaps safety issues later

Anja Kaspersen admitted that the threat is real but she added that there

is also ―fear mongering because of the commercial interests invested

in cyber security She stressed that the combination of ―ignorance and

unsubstantiated fear is dangerous and hampers preparedness She

cautioned airlines not to underestimate the psychological effect

should as as they live off their reputation Airlines have to respond to

customer expectations for security concerns

She added that aviation should work on the assumption that they

receiving both physical and cyber attacks and and therefore work on

how to protect the systems with more advanced software and develop

some translation tools to compare traditional and new risks

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Kurt Pipal pointed as airline companies possess and deal with huge

amounts of data they become by definition a target for industrial

espionage He cautioned companies to be very careful about

subcontractors which do necessarily rely on the same system

resilience He stressed the importance of sharing intelligence

information in the industry Build awareness and do not have a silo

approach Identify your vulnerabilities and make the assumption that

you are going to be hacked Participate in a 247 securities operation

centre and called the aviation to Occasionally even use a so-called

dark agent - a hacker to test your system Companies do fire drills so

why do they not do cyber security drills toolaquo

The Panel on the Climate Change Goals brought together

representatives from industry academia and NGOs to discuss the

progress on the climate change goals the aviation industry faces and

what is needed to reach them The industry has to achieve a goal of

climate neutral growth from 2020 but also the long-term target of cutting

net CO2 emissions by half by 2050 compared to 2005 levels

The panelists were Angela Gittens Director General of Airports Council

International Alan Joyce Qantas CEO Patrick de Castelbajac CEO of

aircraft manufacturer ATR John-Paul Clarke professor at Georgia

Institute of Technology and Tim Johnson of the International Coalition

for Sustainable Aviation

2050 might seeem a long way off but due to industry time lags therersquos

only around 10 years left to figure out how to reach the goal according

to John-Paul Clarke

They all agreed that the industry in all its supply chain-manufacturers

airports infrastructure airlines- must come together to work in a

concerted way to achieve how to go about achieveing these goals A

holistic perspective is needed as the industry stakeholders all are in

direct dependency and the example od a fuel efficient aircraft that

cannot operate efficiently because the air traffic management is not

efficient They stressed that sustainable development is not a question

of being politically correct any more but a condition of the future

existence of the industry ―there is no other way than being

environmentally respectful said Patrick de Castelbajac

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He added that aircraft manufacturers do consider now the

environmental impact of their aircraft at every stage from design

through to the eventual end-of-life disposal ―There is also a greater

convergence between economic and environmental interests which we

can see clearly on fuel burn he said

New technology and new management must be both environmentally

and economically sustainable

The panelists agreed that passengers are passsionate about it and do

want to offset the environmental impact of their flight Alan Joyce

said that one passenger every minute selects a voluntary offset

program

Angela Gittens said that Airports have adopted the Carbon

Accreditation Programme a programme that provides airports with a

common framework for active carbon management with measurable

goal-postsand 20 airports are already carbon neutral She added ICAO

and IATA should undertake the role of coordinating bodies which will

monitor assess and pace the progress It is necessary because ―If you

canrsquot measure it you canrsquot manage it

Continuous transparent monitoring of what is been done by an

independent entity would bring credibility according to John-

Paul Clarke

The panelists also agreed that ICAO and IATA will have to meet the

challenge of balancing the different levels of maturity in terms

of environmental measures around the globe in other words those that

move more quickly with those that have been left behind

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Joyce said the new ICAO aircraft CO2 standard would drive

advances in aircraft and engine technology He complained

that although there had been advances in navigation

technology and procedures - such as the traffic control

satellite navigation approaches to airports that saved his

airline up to 60000 tons of fuel - progress had been slow in

improving Air Traffic management and developing ATC

infrastructure

He insisted though on the role of biofuels He stressed that

more studies should be undertaken on biofuels to make sure

that they are produced in environmentally friendly way

―Biofuels are the only way we are going to get to our 2050

target Itrsquos a question of how we as an industry can cooperate

and how we can get governments interested enough to put a

policy framework in place to make that happen Their

development and insertion in the value chain will require RampD

and help from governments and other industrial sectors

He called his government to support the local alternative

fuels industry that creates new jobs and brings

environmental benefits

16

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Tim Johnson cautioned that it should not become

an ―accountancy exercise where we see one

gallon of biofuel uplifted to an aircraft or a tonne

of CO2 offset as the way we measure progress

adding it was important to move beyond

quantification and just emissions and consider

the wider sustainable development agenda

Investment decisions needed to be taken now to

reach the industryrsquos 2050 target he suggested

and clarity was needed on what should happen

and by when ICAO market-based measure is

perfoming well but there must be emphasis on the

other three pillars required for aviation emissions

reductions ndash aircraft technology operations and

infrastructure

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powered aircraft leaves Seville for Cairo-Solar

MADRID July 11 (Xinhua) -- The aircraft Solar Impulse

II powered completely by solar energy on Monday left

the Spanish city of Seville to attempt to land in

on WednesdayEgyptCairo

The route will be between 48 and 72 hours long

depending on weather conditions This will be the

penultimate flight of the plane that will travel to Abu

Dhabi afterwards

Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard who have

been working on the aircraft for more than a decade

will pilot the aircraft Borschberg will pilot the plane

from Seville to Cairo crossing seven countries after

which Piccard will fly to Abu Dhabi

Borschberg said that the trip was meaningful as it is

my last flight in this round-the-world epic I am happy

that were close to the end but also prudent knowing

that it is not done yet I have to stay really focused

SpainThe aircraft had been in Seville in the south of

for two weeks after successfully crossing the Atlantic

Ocean

Solar Impulse II is able to fly night and day without any

fossil fuel It travels at between 45 and 55 kmhour

reaching an altitude of 8500 meters The plane is wider

than a 747 jumbo jet and weighs 23 tons

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Russias New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

A grand unveiling of the Irkut MC-21-300 on June 8

established a relatively firm project timeline for the

160- to 212-seat narrowbody and marked a measure

of vindication for what many in the West have

disparaged as a fringe project In attendance at the

ceremony Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

spoke of the prestige the program has brought to

the country as well as its importance to helping

move its economy forward He also congratulated

Irkutrsquos employees for their role in shaping the future

of Russiarsquos return to prominence in commercial

aircraft manufacturing

Expecting the MC-21 to gain Russian certification in

2018 United Aircraft subsidiary Irkut had hoped to

fly the first airplane by the end of this year

However during the rollout ceremony Medvedev

referenced plans for first flight ―within a year

and UAC officials acknowledged that a previously

quoted target might prove optimistic unless all goes

exactly to plan Rather that milestone appears most

likely to happen in or around February 2017

according to aUAC spokesman

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Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

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Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

3

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While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

4

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Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

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Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

الشركة القابضة -ادارة العالقات العامة

لمصر للطيران

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At the CEO Panel Insight Debate discussion moderated by Richard Quest the

following CEOs participated Bernard Gustin CEO Brussels Airlines (BG) Ed

Bastian CEO Delta Air Lines (ED) Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group and Charamporn Jotikasthira

President of Thai Airways the issue of the security and aircraft tracking was

discussed in the view of the Brussels terrorist attack and the Egyptair 804 flight

going down into the water

The Brussels Airlines CEO said that the Brussels disaster which came after a

very good year for the airlines gave him the opportunity to experience the

amazing reaction of the airlinersquo s staff and the importance of aviation as

Brussels remained 12 days without an airport Being members of the Lufthansa

group they were able to put the long haul to Zurich and Frankfurt and useδ

provincial airport in Liege and Antwerp for local traffic When asked whether

security needs to be readdressed he answered that the risk arose before

security checks and this has to be solved with the Intelligence systems They

imposed after the disaster some extremely strong measures only to realize after

a few days that they were not appropriate He added that they need to continue

to analyze the security process and do risk analysis but have pertinent

measures and apply them consistently across the board

In the US on the other hand the situation is different the security procedures

imposed by the TSA make passengers be delayed or misconnected The

problem has taken such extent that many airports are considering replacing or

supplanting TSA When asked Ed Bastian CEO for Delta Air Lines said that

they have realized the problem and that they will deal with that and added that

they as an airline did a lot to manage the issue they innovated queuing process

in Atlanta that they paid for themselves which is going to have 50 reduction

in how long it takes travelers to get through checkpoints

As the question of security in Asia has again been raised in terms of its being

efficient and effective or not Charamporn Jotikasthira President of Thai

Airways agreed that there is a need to improve over time as there are ways to

hack systems there is a need for a system that can detect faster more

accurately with more quality

Jayne Hrdlicka CEO of Jetstar Group answered questions related to the

investment of low-cost airlines in security She answered that it is the airlinersquos

job to ensure that the security that is provided for in the airports they operate

meets the standards that we have set for ourselves Since in several of the

airports they are operating in the situation is not to these standards they take

responsibility for the safety and security of their people and customers to make

sure that the standards are consistent across the network

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Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline in his turn when expressing

his view on about aviation security in general he said that the industry

is not doing enough although there have been so many wake up calls in

the last couple of years He said that it is easy for government agencies

and organizations to blame on austerity their inability to fund the

security apparatus and the systems and procedures but the aviation

industry has to come up with a new set of protocols that ensure

security for the travelling public and consumers The industry has to

cooperate with governmental agencies to identify the possibilities of

people actually doing such attacks He added that industry has to adopt

far more readily the technological advances that are being made

available to streamline the processes but at the same time increase the

level of scrutiny He stressed the need for flow of information between

countries so as to have a more homogeneous intelligence service

When asked about airline tracking he admitted that the fact that the

problems in trying to locate an aircraft that has had a major incidence

―is a disgrace― These incidents impose on the industry a need to be

able to track aircraft at every point on their journey which as he said

Emirates does anyway within 15-20 minutes they know where all the

airlinersquos aircraft are where they fly or on the ground at the same

time He added that the manufacturers too need to come up with the

data records both CVR and cockpit voice recorders and flight data

recorders that have to be far more robust able to survive intact and

with much more power to develop beacons and locating systems in

very remote areas on the sea or in the river

When faced with the remark that six years have passed since the flight

370 incident and still the industry is unable to locate missing aircraft

and many experts argue that the airlines are reluctant to spend the

money on tracking and streaming of data they all agreed that it is not a

financial issue and the only question is a question of governance The

industry has to come to a consensus and agree on common standards

for example at what frequency the aircraft will be sending it out tracking

information the industry is waiting for an ICAO solution that everyone

is going to adopt They all agreed though that irrespective of the cost it

has to be done because as Sir Tim Clark put it ―Not to do it is

delinquency

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When Richard Quest asked them about results and yields because airlines seem to

be that making good money they all claim the yield is under pressure and to

comment on the influence of the lower fuel price Ed Bastian said that capacity has

grown over the last few years driven by the dramatic reduction in oil prices The

pressure seen on yield is a reflection of the growing capacity He commented he

does not focus only on yield but looks at other aspects and metrics to understand

the underlying health of the industry demand is very strong especially in the US and

fuel prices are stabilizing and the airline making record margins

Bernard Gustin said when fuel prices gets up again the airlines will not be able to put

it back in the yield so they need to keep a business plan both with the current fuel

price as well as with the old fuel price especially in their case since their competitors

in Brussels are low cost carriers such as Ryanair and Easyjet

When Jetstarrsquos CEO was asked whether there is unconstrained growth of capacity

she answered that the growth of capacity ahead of underlying demand is not

irrational when margins are attractive and costs well managed and strong return in

invested capital

Sir Tim Clark said that the true causes behind yield suppression need to be

examined The lowering of the fuel prices was good news but they failed to foresee

that the corporate sectors that drive many of the upper echelons of the yield will go

with the oil prices That brought us some difficulties Then there was a currency

issue the strength of the US as the airline generates a large part of income on

currencies that move south of the dollar that affected the yield too Third the

addition of capacity means extension of the revenue of greater distances which

causes yield dilution On the other hand while there is flat line projection for global

economy demand for airtravel is increasing at 6 7 8 in several areas including the

Middle East there is also an explosion of growth in the US domestic market This

means the airline backfills inventory with more passengers because demand is there

Their airline needs to adjust its business to the practical long-term change and this is

low yield the airline can do it He announced that Emirates will 14 more A380s to

their fleet of 79

Thai Airwaysrsquos President said that their problem was of a different nature as they

unable to fill the aircraft as much as the others and their load factors were 4-5

lower than the average they will first fix that and and then deal with the other

problems

When the discussion turned to the question whether there will more manufactures of

aircraft and more choice in the future Ed Bastian supported Deltarsquos decision to buy

CS100s Bombardier and commented that they have been long time customers of

their small and larger regional jets because they technologically and engine-wise

efficient and reliable and they were given good financial terms He also predicted that

more airlines will consider acquiring Bombardier C-series aircraft

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As Emirates are mostly wide body operator Sir Tim Clark said

they already have good choice between Boeing and Airbus

which answer their needs with regard to the mission and the

type of product the airline wants to offer He wished ―good

luck to any manufacturer wishing to enter the market them if

they get over the barriers to entry

Jane Hrdlicka said she expects see innovation coming in in the

form of technology of the airframe and a strong Chinese

manufacturer which means there will be more choice in two

decades from now than today

Then Richard Quest asked questions each airline individually

He asked whether Brussels Airlines will be around in two years

from now Bernand Gustin the airline will be there and will have

the same operation model but more powerful with the power of

a major aviation group Lufthansa group behind it In the past

airlines had to choose to be point-to-point or connecting Low

cost or service airline bur Brussels airline We tries to reconcile

those dimensions and they have positioned themselves a

hybrid airline People do not want to pay but they want a level

of service and even the low cost carriers are investing now in

service As for the name of airline he said that the airline will be

called what has value for the customer as it has been proven

with the airlinersquos Africa routes The airline played a crucial role

during the Ebola crisis and has gained its value as a brand in

Africa that it did not have before when it was Sabena He

stressed that a brand is something that responds to a customer

need a brand name that responds best to the Belgian customer

the European customer and the African customer and the US

customers which are the markets the airlines serves

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Thai Airwaysrsquo president was asked about the airlinersquos strategy to deal with

their problems He answered that they have a two-year reform programme

they have already achieved a profit margin 12 on sales so they are on track

reform plan They intend to remain a full service carrier with a major very

efficient hub He added that they realised after following the developments of

the last years that the ecosystem has been changing a lot as all demand

coming into Thailand has been point-to-point to secondary cities They

operate in one the fastest growing regions in terms of demand near India

and China but the demand is becoming point-to-point which means that the

model that the airline was following in the past has to be changed When

asked whether they will need a partner and more particularly a Gulf partner to

do your long haul European routes he answered that if the market is India

China and Asia and there is going to be more and more point-to-point service

they will have to be bigger They may need partners of some sort some form

of alliance but I this alliance will not be as the ones of the past In the past a

big airline in Europe a big airline in Japan could connect throughout the

world but this area is a non-united area there are many states there is

Myanmar Thailand Vietnam so the partnership will most probably be

bilateral

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group was asked how Qantas managed so

successfully to incorporate a low-cost or a low-fare branch as some call it

She answered that they did it by really understanding their customers and

recognising that there is a part of the market that is hungry for full service and

is prepared to pay a premium to get it but there is an equal part of the market

that was not able to travel because the fares were too high and would prefer

choice on how they travel and be able to pay for what they use What they

have done is effectively build a new brand that focuses squarely on that

customer group and have protected the integrity by not trying to blur the line

and keeping them very separate operationally commercially and

strategically

Bernand Gustin was asked again whether Lufthansa has considered an

arrangement with an LCC for feed and he answered that first the airline needs

to substantially reduce its cost to be price competitive and this what they

have done There is no choice about that But as they come from a service

heritage airline and given that they will never be a cost leader they try to keep

a differentiation on service a service that really people want So they have

played on connectivity on the network and on the Belgian brand There is a

wish to have a specific brand As there are other very strong brands within the

Lufthansa group if they want to go further they need to have the power of the

group to be able to further reduce the cost to get the commercial critical

mass outside of Belgium Thatrsquos where the right mix needs to be found

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Deltarsquos CEO was asked How a giant airline accommodates the new reality

of all those LCCs Ot which he answered that they do it through

segmentation within the aircraft they have introduced a product called

―basic economy for price sensitive types of travelling within the US

They are still experimenting with it as it is relatively new and the

technology solution on it is complicated Within the two they have to

accommodate the low fare end and the highly sensitive business

traveller that is willing to pay a premium and a couple of stages between

the two But it a much wider question the airline needs to find who he

wants to be so they have moved upscale they are not a commodity

player and they generated a 10 premium in relation to the other US

carriers He stressed that ―If we were to be a commodity player we would

not be around today He admits that they have to accommodate a

commodity component for the travel sector but they are not a

commodity As the carry two million passengers a year that pay a 10

premium on average they have proven our point

Jetstarrsquos CEP pointed that both fares are not commoditised any more

Airlines have to look at what customers want choice is definitely

important for all customers and choice for people who are looking for

value matters a lot She said that their airline also extracts a relative 15

premium in relation to competition because they do not view themselves

as a commodity product They invest heavily in the brand in the

experience in ways that the customers value and are prepared to pay for

it and give them the choice to custom design their experience

The Brussels Airlinesrsquos CEO added that segmentation and differentiation

is key When their airline starts with a start price of 39 euros one way and

has a very vocal pure low cost competitor at 21 euro for the same thing

the solution is to claim that it offers service as there is a whole heritage

that exists besides While the price is key people say ―I want to know

what I choose The pure commodity product that happened a few years

is going away but when there is a heritage of service that can help you

differentiate yourself then there is potential to make the difference

Brussels has all the LCCs of the world but Brussels Airlines grew by 30

more in the last two years

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Richard Quest then turned to Emirates CEO and asked him how they

accomodate with the LCCs that can offer feed from them into their long

haul services Sir Tim Clark answered that LCCs are here to stay they

continue to grow their business they have been a significant player in

the way civil aviation has developed in the last years giving consumers

a very good choice As long as the air industry business keeps the

consumers at the heart of the business and it does what they are

guiding to do then there is place for everybody The

differentiation whether it is between low cost and full service long haul

or short haul is something the industry has to adapt to accept and

encourage It is part of civil aviation After all it is the travelling public

who benefits from LCC existence The legacy carriers as they are

called have to adapt and work with them In terms of establishing a

lower cost arm for Emirates he answered ―no but he added that they

would work with them and they do They have very good relationships

with the Low Cost operators because they bring lots more people into

the market the whole principle was tapping incipient demand that

could not afford the levels of fares that were available prior to their

existence What they did is that they brought efficiency fleet efficiency

technological efficiency distribution efficiency and suddenly a new

branch of air transport industry was found ―To not work with makes no

sense

When asked about what new things they can offer to the upper end of

the market they all agreed that it is the soft goods that matter after all

Everyone can buy the hard goods but the airlines invest now in

relationship building Delta said its CEO can boast on its relationship

with corporate travelers and the fact they have one of the lowest

maintenance cancellation records They give the business traveler what

he needs dependability reliability quality to arrive on time with their

bags he added that there is a lot of technology and process behind it

but more than that a lot of willpower and culture

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Jetstarrsquos CEO said that invest a lot in their people both in full service

and in low cost training helping them to build skills relationships with

the customer Jetstar wants to enable customers to enjoy the ability of

pick and choose both to bundle and to unbundle

Emiratesrsquo CEO said that the airline spends an awful lot of time and

money on our premium product and the public knows about it and they

have always done that and they will continue to do it As soon as

things mature they will change to make things more interesting they

will be raising the bar for the consumers the business community

because ―we can do it

Panel discussion on Cyber Security

The panelists were Major General Linda Urrutia-Varhall the Assistant

Deputy Chief of Staff Director of National Intelligence for Aviation

Security in the US Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance the

Pentagon Washington DC Anja Kaspersen Head of International

Security for the World Economic Forum Alan Pellegrini CEO and

President of Thales USA Matthew Finn Managing Director of

Augmentiq Calin Rovinescu President and CEO of Air Canada and

Kurt Pipal FBI Assistant Legal Attache for US Embassy in the UK

They all agreed that aviation being a symbol of globalisation remains

an aspirational target for terrorists The interconnected nature of the

industry and interconnectibility of IT systems from baggage

movement to ticket kiosk and flight systems represent an ever growing

list of vulnerabilities and a whole brand new horizon of threats It is

however practically technologically and financially impossible to

address all the issues In the words of General Urrutia-Varhall the

interaction between actors threats and vulnerabilities can be viewed as

an ecosystem of forces in which ―we are as strong as our weakest link

No entity can go alone against these threats Airline industry

govenments domestic and international Intelligence community private

and public sectors should come together gather and share information

to characterise assess threats prioritise them and then act

appropriately

11

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Calin Rovinescu mentioned the ―very scary number that experts

estimate is the amount of damage caused last year by cyber hacks

was in the vicinity of US$500 million world wide and that 94

of global airlines had some form of cyber security breaches These

incidents were ―a real wake-up call for the industry Many of these

attacks were dealt with because airlines had good technology

protection but still these numbers make clear that as the industry

moves towards more automation seeking the interconnectiveness that

makes ir more efficient attack surfaces expand exponentially

Matthew Finn said businesses should look at security in a holistic way

He said there is currently a downward trend of documentation fraud

but an upward trend regarding identity theft

Alan Pellegrini said that the industy has seen recently an increasing

number of high profile hacks hacks in the wi-fi connectivity simply to

steal passenger information that is flowing over those networks a

hack into the ground systems of an airline to steal financial

transactions and information to collect the money the airline was

supposed to collect The threat is very real and although it has not

resulted to serious safety related issues it is resulting into serious

disrupting The fact that there has been no serious incident means

though that the industry is getting a lot of it right

Airlines now connect passengers to Wi-Fi on aircraft they add

connectivity to crews aircraft operations are connected on the

ground some are experimenting with cloud-based avionics controlling

aircraft operations The move towards more automation is inescepable

so the protection from cyber attackes To build such protection

requires a

a multi-year plan with responsibility at the highest level and

collaboration and information exchange between the aviation industry

and governments

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There are many technoloty tools Thales is working on to better protect

the connected aircraft but there is no ―silver bullet there is no one

piece of technology that is going to solve all the industry problems

because security is a process the same way threats are not static they

continue to evolve ―Technology is not done it continues monitoring

security operations centres are required to identify threats as they start

to materialize and to mitigate them and then go ahead and implement

addtional technology that is going to deal with new potential threats so

it is a continuous process

According to Calin Rovinescu ―No matter how complex and good

systems a company may have problems are not solved overnight and

aviation must develop a capability to respond and recover He pointed

out that aviation industry must look at and work with other industries

that have more maturity with cyber threats such as financial

institutions technology companies

The industry is very encouraged by the fact IATA is taking on this topic

to prevent serious disruption and perhaps safety issues later

Anja Kaspersen admitted that the threat is real but she added that there

is also ―fear mongering because of the commercial interests invested

in cyber security She stressed that the combination of ―ignorance and

unsubstantiated fear is dangerous and hampers preparedness She

cautioned airlines not to underestimate the psychological effect

should as as they live off their reputation Airlines have to respond to

customer expectations for security concerns

She added that aviation should work on the assumption that they

receiving both physical and cyber attacks and and therefore work on

how to protect the systems with more advanced software and develop

some translation tools to compare traditional and new risks

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Kurt Pipal pointed as airline companies possess and deal with huge

amounts of data they become by definition a target for industrial

espionage He cautioned companies to be very careful about

subcontractors which do necessarily rely on the same system

resilience He stressed the importance of sharing intelligence

information in the industry Build awareness and do not have a silo

approach Identify your vulnerabilities and make the assumption that

you are going to be hacked Participate in a 247 securities operation

centre and called the aviation to Occasionally even use a so-called

dark agent - a hacker to test your system Companies do fire drills so

why do they not do cyber security drills toolaquo

The Panel on the Climate Change Goals brought together

representatives from industry academia and NGOs to discuss the

progress on the climate change goals the aviation industry faces and

what is needed to reach them The industry has to achieve a goal of

climate neutral growth from 2020 but also the long-term target of cutting

net CO2 emissions by half by 2050 compared to 2005 levels

The panelists were Angela Gittens Director General of Airports Council

International Alan Joyce Qantas CEO Patrick de Castelbajac CEO of

aircraft manufacturer ATR John-Paul Clarke professor at Georgia

Institute of Technology and Tim Johnson of the International Coalition

for Sustainable Aviation

2050 might seeem a long way off but due to industry time lags therersquos

only around 10 years left to figure out how to reach the goal according

to John-Paul Clarke

They all agreed that the industry in all its supply chain-manufacturers

airports infrastructure airlines- must come together to work in a

concerted way to achieve how to go about achieveing these goals A

holistic perspective is needed as the industry stakeholders all are in

direct dependency and the example od a fuel efficient aircraft that

cannot operate efficiently because the air traffic management is not

efficient They stressed that sustainable development is not a question

of being politically correct any more but a condition of the future

existence of the industry ―there is no other way than being

environmentally respectful said Patrick de Castelbajac

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He added that aircraft manufacturers do consider now the

environmental impact of their aircraft at every stage from design

through to the eventual end-of-life disposal ―There is also a greater

convergence between economic and environmental interests which we

can see clearly on fuel burn he said

New technology and new management must be both environmentally

and economically sustainable

The panelists agreed that passengers are passsionate about it and do

want to offset the environmental impact of their flight Alan Joyce

said that one passenger every minute selects a voluntary offset

program

Angela Gittens said that Airports have adopted the Carbon

Accreditation Programme a programme that provides airports with a

common framework for active carbon management with measurable

goal-postsand 20 airports are already carbon neutral She added ICAO

and IATA should undertake the role of coordinating bodies which will

monitor assess and pace the progress It is necessary because ―If you

canrsquot measure it you canrsquot manage it

Continuous transparent monitoring of what is been done by an

independent entity would bring credibility according to John-

Paul Clarke

The panelists also agreed that ICAO and IATA will have to meet the

challenge of balancing the different levels of maturity in terms

of environmental measures around the globe in other words those that

move more quickly with those that have been left behind

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Joyce said the new ICAO aircraft CO2 standard would drive

advances in aircraft and engine technology He complained

that although there had been advances in navigation

technology and procedures - such as the traffic control

satellite navigation approaches to airports that saved his

airline up to 60000 tons of fuel - progress had been slow in

improving Air Traffic management and developing ATC

infrastructure

He insisted though on the role of biofuels He stressed that

more studies should be undertaken on biofuels to make sure

that they are produced in environmentally friendly way

―Biofuels are the only way we are going to get to our 2050

target Itrsquos a question of how we as an industry can cooperate

and how we can get governments interested enough to put a

policy framework in place to make that happen Their

development and insertion in the value chain will require RampD

and help from governments and other industrial sectors

He called his government to support the local alternative

fuels industry that creates new jobs and brings

environmental benefits

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Tim Johnson cautioned that it should not become

an ―accountancy exercise where we see one

gallon of biofuel uplifted to an aircraft or a tonne

of CO2 offset as the way we measure progress

adding it was important to move beyond

quantification and just emissions and consider

the wider sustainable development agenda

Investment decisions needed to be taken now to

reach the industryrsquos 2050 target he suggested

and clarity was needed on what should happen

and by when ICAO market-based measure is

perfoming well but there must be emphasis on the

other three pillars required for aviation emissions

reductions ndash aircraft technology operations and

infrastructure

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powered aircraft leaves Seville for Cairo-Solar

MADRID July 11 (Xinhua) -- The aircraft Solar Impulse

II powered completely by solar energy on Monday left

the Spanish city of Seville to attempt to land in

on WednesdayEgyptCairo

The route will be between 48 and 72 hours long

depending on weather conditions This will be the

penultimate flight of the plane that will travel to Abu

Dhabi afterwards

Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard who have

been working on the aircraft for more than a decade

will pilot the aircraft Borschberg will pilot the plane

from Seville to Cairo crossing seven countries after

which Piccard will fly to Abu Dhabi

Borschberg said that the trip was meaningful as it is

my last flight in this round-the-world epic I am happy

that were close to the end but also prudent knowing

that it is not done yet I have to stay really focused

SpainThe aircraft had been in Seville in the south of

for two weeks after successfully crossing the Atlantic

Ocean

Solar Impulse II is able to fly night and day without any

fossil fuel It travels at between 45 and 55 kmhour

reaching an altitude of 8500 meters The plane is wider

than a 747 jumbo jet and weighs 23 tons

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Russias New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

A grand unveiling of the Irkut MC-21-300 on June 8

established a relatively firm project timeline for the

160- to 212-seat narrowbody and marked a measure

of vindication for what many in the West have

disparaged as a fringe project In attendance at the

ceremony Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

spoke of the prestige the program has brought to

the country as well as its importance to helping

move its economy forward He also congratulated

Irkutrsquos employees for their role in shaping the future

of Russiarsquos return to prominence in commercial

aircraft manufacturing

Expecting the MC-21 to gain Russian certification in

2018 United Aircraft subsidiary Irkut had hoped to

fly the first airplane by the end of this year

However during the rollout ceremony Medvedev

referenced plans for first flight ―within a year

and UAC officials acknowledged that a previously

quoted target might prove optimistic unless all goes

exactly to plan Rather that milestone appears most

likely to happen in or around February 2017

according to aUAC spokesman

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Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

2

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Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

3

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While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

4

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Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

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Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

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لمصر للطيران

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Sir Tim Clark President Emirates Airline in his turn when expressing

his view on about aviation security in general he said that the industry

is not doing enough although there have been so many wake up calls in

the last couple of years He said that it is easy for government agencies

and organizations to blame on austerity their inability to fund the

security apparatus and the systems and procedures but the aviation

industry has to come up with a new set of protocols that ensure

security for the travelling public and consumers The industry has to

cooperate with governmental agencies to identify the possibilities of

people actually doing such attacks He added that industry has to adopt

far more readily the technological advances that are being made

available to streamline the processes but at the same time increase the

level of scrutiny He stressed the need for flow of information between

countries so as to have a more homogeneous intelligence service

When asked about airline tracking he admitted that the fact that the

problems in trying to locate an aircraft that has had a major incidence

―is a disgrace― These incidents impose on the industry a need to be

able to track aircraft at every point on their journey which as he said

Emirates does anyway within 15-20 minutes they know where all the

airlinersquos aircraft are where they fly or on the ground at the same

time He added that the manufacturers too need to come up with the

data records both CVR and cockpit voice recorders and flight data

recorders that have to be far more robust able to survive intact and

with much more power to develop beacons and locating systems in

very remote areas on the sea or in the river

When faced with the remark that six years have passed since the flight

370 incident and still the industry is unable to locate missing aircraft

and many experts argue that the airlines are reluctant to spend the

money on tracking and streaming of data they all agreed that it is not a

financial issue and the only question is a question of governance The

industry has to come to a consensus and agree on common standards

for example at what frequency the aircraft will be sending it out tracking

information the industry is waiting for an ICAO solution that everyone

is going to adopt They all agreed though that irrespective of the cost it

has to be done because as Sir Tim Clark put it ―Not to do it is

delinquency

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When Richard Quest asked them about results and yields because airlines seem to

be that making good money they all claim the yield is under pressure and to

comment on the influence of the lower fuel price Ed Bastian said that capacity has

grown over the last few years driven by the dramatic reduction in oil prices The

pressure seen on yield is a reflection of the growing capacity He commented he

does not focus only on yield but looks at other aspects and metrics to understand

the underlying health of the industry demand is very strong especially in the US and

fuel prices are stabilizing and the airline making record margins

Bernard Gustin said when fuel prices gets up again the airlines will not be able to put

it back in the yield so they need to keep a business plan both with the current fuel

price as well as with the old fuel price especially in their case since their competitors

in Brussels are low cost carriers such as Ryanair and Easyjet

When Jetstarrsquos CEO was asked whether there is unconstrained growth of capacity

she answered that the growth of capacity ahead of underlying demand is not

irrational when margins are attractive and costs well managed and strong return in

invested capital

Sir Tim Clark said that the true causes behind yield suppression need to be

examined The lowering of the fuel prices was good news but they failed to foresee

that the corporate sectors that drive many of the upper echelons of the yield will go

with the oil prices That brought us some difficulties Then there was a currency

issue the strength of the US as the airline generates a large part of income on

currencies that move south of the dollar that affected the yield too Third the

addition of capacity means extension of the revenue of greater distances which

causes yield dilution On the other hand while there is flat line projection for global

economy demand for airtravel is increasing at 6 7 8 in several areas including the

Middle East there is also an explosion of growth in the US domestic market This

means the airline backfills inventory with more passengers because demand is there

Their airline needs to adjust its business to the practical long-term change and this is

low yield the airline can do it He announced that Emirates will 14 more A380s to

their fleet of 79

Thai Airwaysrsquos President said that their problem was of a different nature as they

unable to fill the aircraft as much as the others and their load factors were 4-5

lower than the average they will first fix that and and then deal with the other

problems

When the discussion turned to the question whether there will more manufactures of

aircraft and more choice in the future Ed Bastian supported Deltarsquos decision to buy

CS100s Bombardier and commented that they have been long time customers of

their small and larger regional jets because they technologically and engine-wise

efficient and reliable and they were given good financial terms He also predicted that

more airlines will consider acquiring Bombardier C-series aircraft

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As Emirates are mostly wide body operator Sir Tim Clark said

they already have good choice between Boeing and Airbus

which answer their needs with regard to the mission and the

type of product the airline wants to offer He wished ―good

luck to any manufacturer wishing to enter the market them if

they get over the barriers to entry

Jane Hrdlicka said she expects see innovation coming in in the

form of technology of the airframe and a strong Chinese

manufacturer which means there will be more choice in two

decades from now than today

Then Richard Quest asked questions each airline individually

He asked whether Brussels Airlines will be around in two years

from now Bernand Gustin the airline will be there and will have

the same operation model but more powerful with the power of

a major aviation group Lufthansa group behind it In the past

airlines had to choose to be point-to-point or connecting Low

cost or service airline bur Brussels airline We tries to reconcile

those dimensions and they have positioned themselves a

hybrid airline People do not want to pay but they want a level

of service and even the low cost carriers are investing now in

service As for the name of airline he said that the airline will be

called what has value for the customer as it has been proven

with the airlinersquos Africa routes The airline played a crucial role

during the Ebola crisis and has gained its value as a brand in

Africa that it did not have before when it was Sabena He

stressed that a brand is something that responds to a customer

need a brand name that responds best to the Belgian customer

the European customer and the African customer and the US

customers which are the markets the airlines serves

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Thai Airwaysrsquo president was asked about the airlinersquos strategy to deal with

their problems He answered that they have a two-year reform programme

they have already achieved a profit margin 12 on sales so they are on track

reform plan They intend to remain a full service carrier with a major very

efficient hub He added that they realised after following the developments of

the last years that the ecosystem has been changing a lot as all demand

coming into Thailand has been point-to-point to secondary cities They

operate in one the fastest growing regions in terms of demand near India

and China but the demand is becoming point-to-point which means that the

model that the airline was following in the past has to be changed When

asked whether they will need a partner and more particularly a Gulf partner to

do your long haul European routes he answered that if the market is India

China and Asia and there is going to be more and more point-to-point service

they will have to be bigger They may need partners of some sort some form

of alliance but I this alliance will not be as the ones of the past In the past a

big airline in Europe a big airline in Japan could connect throughout the

world but this area is a non-united area there are many states there is

Myanmar Thailand Vietnam so the partnership will most probably be

bilateral

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group was asked how Qantas managed so

successfully to incorporate a low-cost or a low-fare branch as some call it

She answered that they did it by really understanding their customers and

recognising that there is a part of the market that is hungry for full service and

is prepared to pay a premium to get it but there is an equal part of the market

that was not able to travel because the fares were too high and would prefer

choice on how they travel and be able to pay for what they use What they

have done is effectively build a new brand that focuses squarely on that

customer group and have protected the integrity by not trying to blur the line

and keeping them very separate operationally commercially and

strategically

Bernand Gustin was asked again whether Lufthansa has considered an

arrangement with an LCC for feed and he answered that first the airline needs

to substantially reduce its cost to be price competitive and this what they

have done There is no choice about that But as they come from a service

heritage airline and given that they will never be a cost leader they try to keep

a differentiation on service a service that really people want So they have

played on connectivity on the network and on the Belgian brand There is a

wish to have a specific brand As there are other very strong brands within the

Lufthansa group if they want to go further they need to have the power of the

group to be able to further reduce the cost to get the commercial critical

mass outside of Belgium Thatrsquos where the right mix needs to be found

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Deltarsquos CEO was asked How a giant airline accommodates the new reality

of all those LCCs Ot which he answered that they do it through

segmentation within the aircraft they have introduced a product called

―basic economy for price sensitive types of travelling within the US

They are still experimenting with it as it is relatively new and the

technology solution on it is complicated Within the two they have to

accommodate the low fare end and the highly sensitive business

traveller that is willing to pay a premium and a couple of stages between

the two But it a much wider question the airline needs to find who he

wants to be so they have moved upscale they are not a commodity

player and they generated a 10 premium in relation to the other US

carriers He stressed that ―If we were to be a commodity player we would

not be around today He admits that they have to accommodate a

commodity component for the travel sector but they are not a

commodity As the carry two million passengers a year that pay a 10

premium on average they have proven our point

Jetstarrsquos CEP pointed that both fares are not commoditised any more

Airlines have to look at what customers want choice is definitely

important for all customers and choice for people who are looking for

value matters a lot She said that their airline also extracts a relative 15

premium in relation to competition because they do not view themselves

as a commodity product They invest heavily in the brand in the

experience in ways that the customers value and are prepared to pay for

it and give them the choice to custom design their experience

The Brussels Airlinesrsquos CEO added that segmentation and differentiation

is key When their airline starts with a start price of 39 euros one way and

has a very vocal pure low cost competitor at 21 euro for the same thing

the solution is to claim that it offers service as there is a whole heritage

that exists besides While the price is key people say ―I want to know

what I choose The pure commodity product that happened a few years

is going away but when there is a heritage of service that can help you

differentiate yourself then there is potential to make the difference

Brussels has all the LCCs of the world but Brussels Airlines grew by 30

more in the last two years

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Richard Quest then turned to Emirates CEO and asked him how they

accomodate with the LCCs that can offer feed from them into their long

haul services Sir Tim Clark answered that LCCs are here to stay they

continue to grow their business they have been a significant player in

the way civil aviation has developed in the last years giving consumers

a very good choice As long as the air industry business keeps the

consumers at the heart of the business and it does what they are

guiding to do then there is place for everybody The

differentiation whether it is between low cost and full service long haul

or short haul is something the industry has to adapt to accept and

encourage It is part of civil aviation After all it is the travelling public

who benefits from LCC existence The legacy carriers as they are

called have to adapt and work with them In terms of establishing a

lower cost arm for Emirates he answered ―no but he added that they

would work with them and they do They have very good relationships

with the Low Cost operators because they bring lots more people into

the market the whole principle was tapping incipient demand that

could not afford the levels of fares that were available prior to their

existence What they did is that they brought efficiency fleet efficiency

technological efficiency distribution efficiency and suddenly a new

branch of air transport industry was found ―To not work with makes no

sense

When asked about what new things they can offer to the upper end of

the market they all agreed that it is the soft goods that matter after all

Everyone can buy the hard goods but the airlines invest now in

relationship building Delta said its CEO can boast on its relationship

with corporate travelers and the fact they have one of the lowest

maintenance cancellation records They give the business traveler what

he needs dependability reliability quality to arrive on time with their

bags he added that there is a lot of technology and process behind it

but more than that a lot of willpower and culture

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Jetstarrsquos CEO said that invest a lot in their people both in full service

and in low cost training helping them to build skills relationships with

the customer Jetstar wants to enable customers to enjoy the ability of

pick and choose both to bundle and to unbundle

Emiratesrsquo CEO said that the airline spends an awful lot of time and

money on our premium product and the public knows about it and they

have always done that and they will continue to do it As soon as

things mature they will change to make things more interesting they

will be raising the bar for the consumers the business community

because ―we can do it

Panel discussion on Cyber Security

The panelists were Major General Linda Urrutia-Varhall the Assistant

Deputy Chief of Staff Director of National Intelligence for Aviation

Security in the US Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance the

Pentagon Washington DC Anja Kaspersen Head of International

Security for the World Economic Forum Alan Pellegrini CEO and

President of Thales USA Matthew Finn Managing Director of

Augmentiq Calin Rovinescu President and CEO of Air Canada and

Kurt Pipal FBI Assistant Legal Attache for US Embassy in the UK

They all agreed that aviation being a symbol of globalisation remains

an aspirational target for terrorists The interconnected nature of the

industry and interconnectibility of IT systems from baggage

movement to ticket kiosk and flight systems represent an ever growing

list of vulnerabilities and a whole brand new horizon of threats It is

however practically technologically and financially impossible to

address all the issues In the words of General Urrutia-Varhall the

interaction between actors threats and vulnerabilities can be viewed as

an ecosystem of forces in which ―we are as strong as our weakest link

No entity can go alone against these threats Airline industry

govenments domestic and international Intelligence community private

and public sectors should come together gather and share information

to characterise assess threats prioritise them and then act

appropriately

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Calin Rovinescu mentioned the ―very scary number that experts

estimate is the amount of damage caused last year by cyber hacks

was in the vicinity of US$500 million world wide and that 94

of global airlines had some form of cyber security breaches These

incidents were ―a real wake-up call for the industry Many of these

attacks were dealt with because airlines had good technology

protection but still these numbers make clear that as the industry

moves towards more automation seeking the interconnectiveness that

makes ir more efficient attack surfaces expand exponentially

Matthew Finn said businesses should look at security in a holistic way

He said there is currently a downward trend of documentation fraud

but an upward trend regarding identity theft

Alan Pellegrini said that the industy has seen recently an increasing

number of high profile hacks hacks in the wi-fi connectivity simply to

steal passenger information that is flowing over those networks a

hack into the ground systems of an airline to steal financial

transactions and information to collect the money the airline was

supposed to collect The threat is very real and although it has not

resulted to serious safety related issues it is resulting into serious

disrupting The fact that there has been no serious incident means

though that the industry is getting a lot of it right

Airlines now connect passengers to Wi-Fi on aircraft they add

connectivity to crews aircraft operations are connected on the

ground some are experimenting with cloud-based avionics controlling

aircraft operations The move towards more automation is inescepable

so the protection from cyber attackes To build such protection

requires a

a multi-year plan with responsibility at the highest level and

collaboration and information exchange between the aviation industry

and governments

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There are many technoloty tools Thales is working on to better protect

the connected aircraft but there is no ―silver bullet there is no one

piece of technology that is going to solve all the industry problems

because security is a process the same way threats are not static they

continue to evolve ―Technology is not done it continues monitoring

security operations centres are required to identify threats as they start

to materialize and to mitigate them and then go ahead and implement

addtional technology that is going to deal with new potential threats so

it is a continuous process

According to Calin Rovinescu ―No matter how complex and good

systems a company may have problems are not solved overnight and

aviation must develop a capability to respond and recover He pointed

out that aviation industry must look at and work with other industries

that have more maturity with cyber threats such as financial

institutions technology companies

The industry is very encouraged by the fact IATA is taking on this topic

to prevent serious disruption and perhaps safety issues later

Anja Kaspersen admitted that the threat is real but she added that there

is also ―fear mongering because of the commercial interests invested

in cyber security She stressed that the combination of ―ignorance and

unsubstantiated fear is dangerous and hampers preparedness She

cautioned airlines not to underestimate the psychological effect

should as as they live off their reputation Airlines have to respond to

customer expectations for security concerns

She added that aviation should work on the assumption that they

receiving both physical and cyber attacks and and therefore work on

how to protect the systems with more advanced software and develop

some translation tools to compare traditional and new risks

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Kurt Pipal pointed as airline companies possess and deal with huge

amounts of data they become by definition a target for industrial

espionage He cautioned companies to be very careful about

subcontractors which do necessarily rely on the same system

resilience He stressed the importance of sharing intelligence

information in the industry Build awareness and do not have a silo

approach Identify your vulnerabilities and make the assumption that

you are going to be hacked Participate in a 247 securities operation

centre and called the aviation to Occasionally even use a so-called

dark agent - a hacker to test your system Companies do fire drills so

why do they not do cyber security drills toolaquo

The Panel on the Climate Change Goals brought together

representatives from industry academia and NGOs to discuss the

progress on the climate change goals the aviation industry faces and

what is needed to reach them The industry has to achieve a goal of

climate neutral growth from 2020 but also the long-term target of cutting

net CO2 emissions by half by 2050 compared to 2005 levels

The panelists were Angela Gittens Director General of Airports Council

International Alan Joyce Qantas CEO Patrick de Castelbajac CEO of

aircraft manufacturer ATR John-Paul Clarke professor at Georgia

Institute of Technology and Tim Johnson of the International Coalition

for Sustainable Aviation

2050 might seeem a long way off but due to industry time lags therersquos

only around 10 years left to figure out how to reach the goal according

to John-Paul Clarke

They all agreed that the industry in all its supply chain-manufacturers

airports infrastructure airlines- must come together to work in a

concerted way to achieve how to go about achieveing these goals A

holistic perspective is needed as the industry stakeholders all are in

direct dependency and the example od a fuel efficient aircraft that

cannot operate efficiently because the air traffic management is not

efficient They stressed that sustainable development is not a question

of being politically correct any more but a condition of the future

existence of the industry ―there is no other way than being

environmentally respectful said Patrick de Castelbajac

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He added that aircraft manufacturers do consider now the

environmental impact of their aircraft at every stage from design

through to the eventual end-of-life disposal ―There is also a greater

convergence between economic and environmental interests which we

can see clearly on fuel burn he said

New technology and new management must be both environmentally

and economically sustainable

The panelists agreed that passengers are passsionate about it and do

want to offset the environmental impact of their flight Alan Joyce

said that one passenger every minute selects a voluntary offset

program

Angela Gittens said that Airports have adopted the Carbon

Accreditation Programme a programme that provides airports with a

common framework for active carbon management with measurable

goal-postsand 20 airports are already carbon neutral She added ICAO

and IATA should undertake the role of coordinating bodies which will

monitor assess and pace the progress It is necessary because ―If you

canrsquot measure it you canrsquot manage it

Continuous transparent monitoring of what is been done by an

independent entity would bring credibility according to John-

Paul Clarke

The panelists also agreed that ICAO and IATA will have to meet the

challenge of balancing the different levels of maturity in terms

of environmental measures around the globe in other words those that

move more quickly with those that have been left behind

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Joyce said the new ICAO aircraft CO2 standard would drive

advances in aircraft and engine technology He complained

that although there had been advances in navigation

technology and procedures - such as the traffic control

satellite navigation approaches to airports that saved his

airline up to 60000 tons of fuel - progress had been slow in

improving Air Traffic management and developing ATC

infrastructure

He insisted though on the role of biofuels He stressed that

more studies should be undertaken on biofuels to make sure

that they are produced in environmentally friendly way

―Biofuels are the only way we are going to get to our 2050

target Itrsquos a question of how we as an industry can cooperate

and how we can get governments interested enough to put a

policy framework in place to make that happen Their

development and insertion in the value chain will require RampD

and help from governments and other industrial sectors

He called his government to support the local alternative

fuels industry that creates new jobs and brings

environmental benefits

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Tim Johnson cautioned that it should not become

an ―accountancy exercise where we see one

gallon of biofuel uplifted to an aircraft or a tonne

of CO2 offset as the way we measure progress

adding it was important to move beyond

quantification and just emissions and consider

the wider sustainable development agenda

Investment decisions needed to be taken now to

reach the industryrsquos 2050 target he suggested

and clarity was needed on what should happen

and by when ICAO market-based measure is

perfoming well but there must be emphasis on the

other three pillars required for aviation emissions

reductions ndash aircraft technology operations and

infrastructure

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powered aircraft leaves Seville for Cairo-Solar

MADRID July 11 (Xinhua) -- The aircraft Solar Impulse

II powered completely by solar energy on Monday left

the Spanish city of Seville to attempt to land in

on WednesdayEgyptCairo

The route will be between 48 and 72 hours long

depending on weather conditions This will be the

penultimate flight of the plane that will travel to Abu

Dhabi afterwards

Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard who have

been working on the aircraft for more than a decade

will pilot the aircraft Borschberg will pilot the plane

from Seville to Cairo crossing seven countries after

which Piccard will fly to Abu Dhabi

Borschberg said that the trip was meaningful as it is

my last flight in this round-the-world epic I am happy

that were close to the end but also prudent knowing

that it is not done yet I have to stay really focused

SpainThe aircraft had been in Seville in the south of

for two weeks after successfully crossing the Atlantic

Ocean

Solar Impulse II is able to fly night and day without any

fossil fuel It travels at between 45 and 55 kmhour

reaching an altitude of 8500 meters The plane is wider

than a 747 jumbo jet and weighs 23 tons

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Russias New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

A grand unveiling of the Irkut MC-21-300 on June 8

established a relatively firm project timeline for the

160- to 212-seat narrowbody and marked a measure

of vindication for what many in the West have

disparaged as a fringe project In attendance at the

ceremony Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

spoke of the prestige the program has brought to

the country as well as its importance to helping

move its economy forward He also congratulated

Irkutrsquos employees for their role in shaping the future

of Russiarsquos return to prominence in commercial

aircraft manufacturing

Expecting the MC-21 to gain Russian certification in

2018 United Aircraft subsidiary Irkut had hoped to

fly the first airplane by the end of this year

However during the rollout ceremony Medvedev

referenced plans for first flight ―within a year

and UAC officials acknowledged that a previously

quoted target might prove optimistic unless all goes

exactly to plan Rather that milestone appears most

likely to happen in or around February 2017

according to aUAC spokesman

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Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

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Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

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While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

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Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

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Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

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When Richard Quest asked them about results and yields because airlines seem to

be that making good money they all claim the yield is under pressure and to

comment on the influence of the lower fuel price Ed Bastian said that capacity has

grown over the last few years driven by the dramatic reduction in oil prices The

pressure seen on yield is a reflection of the growing capacity He commented he

does not focus only on yield but looks at other aspects and metrics to understand

the underlying health of the industry demand is very strong especially in the US and

fuel prices are stabilizing and the airline making record margins

Bernard Gustin said when fuel prices gets up again the airlines will not be able to put

it back in the yield so they need to keep a business plan both with the current fuel

price as well as with the old fuel price especially in their case since their competitors

in Brussels are low cost carriers such as Ryanair and Easyjet

When Jetstarrsquos CEO was asked whether there is unconstrained growth of capacity

she answered that the growth of capacity ahead of underlying demand is not

irrational when margins are attractive and costs well managed and strong return in

invested capital

Sir Tim Clark said that the true causes behind yield suppression need to be

examined The lowering of the fuel prices was good news but they failed to foresee

that the corporate sectors that drive many of the upper echelons of the yield will go

with the oil prices That brought us some difficulties Then there was a currency

issue the strength of the US as the airline generates a large part of income on

currencies that move south of the dollar that affected the yield too Third the

addition of capacity means extension of the revenue of greater distances which

causes yield dilution On the other hand while there is flat line projection for global

economy demand for airtravel is increasing at 6 7 8 in several areas including the

Middle East there is also an explosion of growth in the US domestic market This

means the airline backfills inventory with more passengers because demand is there

Their airline needs to adjust its business to the practical long-term change and this is

low yield the airline can do it He announced that Emirates will 14 more A380s to

their fleet of 79

Thai Airwaysrsquos President said that their problem was of a different nature as they

unable to fill the aircraft as much as the others and their load factors were 4-5

lower than the average they will first fix that and and then deal with the other

problems

When the discussion turned to the question whether there will more manufactures of

aircraft and more choice in the future Ed Bastian supported Deltarsquos decision to buy

CS100s Bombardier and commented that they have been long time customers of

their small and larger regional jets because they technologically and engine-wise

efficient and reliable and they were given good financial terms He also predicted that

more airlines will consider acquiring Bombardier C-series aircraft

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As Emirates are mostly wide body operator Sir Tim Clark said

they already have good choice between Boeing and Airbus

which answer their needs with regard to the mission and the

type of product the airline wants to offer He wished ―good

luck to any manufacturer wishing to enter the market them if

they get over the barriers to entry

Jane Hrdlicka said she expects see innovation coming in in the

form of technology of the airframe and a strong Chinese

manufacturer which means there will be more choice in two

decades from now than today

Then Richard Quest asked questions each airline individually

He asked whether Brussels Airlines will be around in two years

from now Bernand Gustin the airline will be there and will have

the same operation model but more powerful with the power of

a major aviation group Lufthansa group behind it In the past

airlines had to choose to be point-to-point or connecting Low

cost or service airline bur Brussels airline We tries to reconcile

those dimensions and they have positioned themselves a

hybrid airline People do not want to pay but they want a level

of service and even the low cost carriers are investing now in

service As for the name of airline he said that the airline will be

called what has value for the customer as it has been proven

with the airlinersquos Africa routes The airline played a crucial role

during the Ebola crisis and has gained its value as a brand in

Africa that it did not have before when it was Sabena He

stressed that a brand is something that responds to a customer

need a brand name that responds best to the Belgian customer

the European customer and the African customer and the US

customers which are the markets the airlines serves

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Thai Airwaysrsquo president was asked about the airlinersquos strategy to deal with

their problems He answered that they have a two-year reform programme

they have already achieved a profit margin 12 on sales so they are on track

reform plan They intend to remain a full service carrier with a major very

efficient hub He added that they realised after following the developments of

the last years that the ecosystem has been changing a lot as all demand

coming into Thailand has been point-to-point to secondary cities They

operate in one the fastest growing regions in terms of demand near India

and China but the demand is becoming point-to-point which means that the

model that the airline was following in the past has to be changed When

asked whether they will need a partner and more particularly a Gulf partner to

do your long haul European routes he answered that if the market is India

China and Asia and there is going to be more and more point-to-point service

they will have to be bigger They may need partners of some sort some form

of alliance but I this alliance will not be as the ones of the past In the past a

big airline in Europe a big airline in Japan could connect throughout the

world but this area is a non-united area there are many states there is

Myanmar Thailand Vietnam so the partnership will most probably be

bilateral

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group was asked how Qantas managed so

successfully to incorporate a low-cost or a low-fare branch as some call it

She answered that they did it by really understanding their customers and

recognising that there is a part of the market that is hungry for full service and

is prepared to pay a premium to get it but there is an equal part of the market

that was not able to travel because the fares were too high and would prefer

choice on how they travel and be able to pay for what they use What they

have done is effectively build a new brand that focuses squarely on that

customer group and have protected the integrity by not trying to blur the line

and keeping them very separate operationally commercially and

strategically

Bernand Gustin was asked again whether Lufthansa has considered an

arrangement with an LCC for feed and he answered that first the airline needs

to substantially reduce its cost to be price competitive and this what they

have done There is no choice about that But as they come from a service

heritage airline and given that they will never be a cost leader they try to keep

a differentiation on service a service that really people want So they have

played on connectivity on the network and on the Belgian brand There is a

wish to have a specific brand As there are other very strong brands within the

Lufthansa group if they want to go further they need to have the power of the

group to be able to further reduce the cost to get the commercial critical

mass outside of Belgium Thatrsquos where the right mix needs to be found

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Deltarsquos CEO was asked How a giant airline accommodates the new reality

of all those LCCs Ot which he answered that they do it through

segmentation within the aircraft they have introduced a product called

―basic economy for price sensitive types of travelling within the US

They are still experimenting with it as it is relatively new and the

technology solution on it is complicated Within the two they have to

accommodate the low fare end and the highly sensitive business

traveller that is willing to pay a premium and a couple of stages between

the two But it a much wider question the airline needs to find who he

wants to be so they have moved upscale they are not a commodity

player and they generated a 10 premium in relation to the other US

carriers He stressed that ―If we were to be a commodity player we would

not be around today He admits that they have to accommodate a

commodity component for the travel sector but they are not a

commodity As the carry two million passengers a year that pay a 10

premium on average they have proven our point

Jetstarrsquos CEP pointed that both fares are not commoditised any more

Airlines have to look at what customers want choice is definitely

important for all customers and choice for people who are looking for

value matters a lot She said that their airline also extracts a relative 15

premium in relation to competition because they do not view themselves

as a commodity product They invest heavily in the brand in the

experience in ways that the customers value and are prepared to pay for

it and give them the choice to custom design their experience

The Brussels Airlinesrsquos CEO added that segmentation and differentiation

is key When their airline starts with a start price of 39 euros one way and

has a very vocal pure low cost competitor at 21 euro for the same thing

the solution is to claim that it offers service as there is a whole heritage

that exists besides While the price is key people say ―I want to know

what I choose The pure commodity product that happened a few years

is going away but when there is a heritage of service that can help you

differentiate yourself then there is potential to make the difference

Brussels has all the LCCs of the world but Brussels Airlines grew by 30

more in the last two years

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Richard Quest then turned to Emirates CEO and asked him how they

accomodate with the LCCs that can offer feed from them into their long

haul services Sir Tim Clark answered that LCCs are here to stay they

continue to grow their business they have been a significant player in

the way civil aviation has developed in the last years giving consumers

a very good choice As long as the air industry business keeps the

consumers at the heart of the business and it does what they are

guiding to do then there is place for everybody The

differentiation whether it is between low cost and full service long haul

or short haul is something the industry has to adapt to accept and

encourage It is part of civil aviation After all it is the travelling public

who benefits from LCC existence The legacy carriers as they are

called have to adapt and work with them In terms of establishing a

lower cost arm for Emirates he answered ―no but he added that they

would work with them and they do They have very good relationships

with the Low Cost operators because they bring lots more people into

the market the whole principle was tapping incipient demand that

could not afford the levels of fares that were available prior to their

existence What they did is that they brought efficiency fleet efficiency

technological efficiency distribution efficiency and suddenly a new

branch of air transport industry was found ―To not work with makes no

sense

When asked about what new things they can offer to the upper end of

the market they all agreed that it is the soft goods that matter after all

Everyone can buy the hard goods but the airlines invest now in

relationship building Delta said its CEO can boast on its relationship

with corporate travelers and the fact they have one of the lowest

maintenance cancellation records They give the business traveler what

he needs dependability reliability quality to arrive on time with their

bags he added that there is a lot of technology and process behind it

but more than that a lot of willpower and culture

10

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Jetstarrsquos CEO said that invest a lot in their people both in full service

and in low cost training helping them to build skills relationships with

the customer Jetstar wants to enable customers to enjoy the ability of

pick and choose both to bundle and to unbundle

Emiratesrsquo CEO said that the airline spends an awful lot of time and

money on our premium product and the public knows about it and they

have always done that and they will continue to do it As soon as

things mature they will change to make things more interesting they

will be raising the bar for the consumers the business community

because ―we can do it

Panel discussion on Cyber Security

The panelists were Major General Linda Urrutia-Varhall the Assistant

Deputy Chief of Staff Director of National Intelligence for Aviation

Security in the US Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance the

Pentagon Washington DC Anja Kaspersen Head of International

Security for the World Economic Forum Alan Pellegrini CEO and

President of Thales USA Matthew Finn Managing Director of

Augmentiq Calin Rovinescu President and CEO of Air Canada and

Kurt Pipal FBI Assistant Legal Attache for US Embassy in the UK

They all agreed that aviation being a symbol of globalisation remains

an aspirational target for terrorists The interconnected nature of the

industry and interconnectibility of IT systems from baggage

movement to ticket kiosk and flight systems represent an ever growing

list of vulnerabilities and a whole brand new horizon of threats It is

however practically technologically and financially impossible to

address all the issues In the words of General Urrutia-Varhall the

interaction between actors threats and vulnerabilities can be viewed as

an ecosystem of forces in which ―we are as strong as our weakest link

No entity can go alone against these threats Airline industry

govenments domestic and international Intelligence community private

and public sectors should come together gather and share information

to characterise assess threats prioritise them and then act

appropriately

11

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Calin Rovinescu mentioned the ―very scary number that experts

estimate is the amount of damage caused last year by cyber hacks

was in the vicinity of US$500 million world wide and that 94

of global airlines had some form of cyber security breaches These

incidents were ―a real wake-up call for the industry Many of these

attacks were dealt with because airlines had good technology

protection but still these numbers make clear that as the industry

moves towards more automation seeking the interconnectiveness that

makes ir more efficient attack surfaces expand exponentially

Matthew Finn said businesses should look at security in a holistic way

He said there is currently a downward trend of documentation fraud

but an upward trend regarding identity theft

Alan Pellegrini said that the industy has seen recently an increasing

number of high profile hacks hacks in the wi-fi connectivity simply to

steal passenger information that is flowing over those networks a

hack into the ground systems of an airline to steal financial

transactions and information to collect the money the airline was

supposed to collect The threat is very real and although it has not

resulted to serious safety related issues it is resulting into serious

disrupting The fact that there has been no serious incident means

though that the industry is getting a lot of it right

Airlines now connect passengers to Wi-Fi on aircraft they add

connectivity to crews aircraft operations are connected on the

ground some are experimenting with cloud-based avionics controlling

aircraft operations The move towards more automation is inescepable

so the protection from cyber attackes To build such protection

requires a

a multi-year plan with responsibility at the highest level and

collaboration and information exchange between the aviation industry

and governments

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There are many technoloty tools Thales is working on to better protect

the connected aircraft but there is no ―silver bullet there is no one

piece of technology that is going to solve all the industry problems

because security is a process the same way threats are not static they

continue to evolve ―Technology is not done it continues monitoring

security operations centres are required to identify threats as they start

to materialize and to mitigate them and then go ahead and implement

addtional technology that is going to deal with new potential threats so

it is a continuous process

According to Calin Rovinescu ―No matter how complex and good

systems a company may have problems are not solved overnight and

aviation must develop a capability to respond and recover He pointed

out that aviation industry must look at and work with other industries

that have more maturity with cyber threats such as financial

institutions technology companies

The industry is very encouraged by the fact IATA is taking on this topic

to prevent serious disruption and perhaps safety issues later

Anja Kaspersen admitted that the threat is real but she added that there

is also ―fear mongering because of the commercial interests invested

in cyber security She stressed that the combination of ―ignorance and

unsubstantiated fear is dangerous and hampers preparedness She

cautioned airlines not to underestimate the psychological effect

should as as they live off their reputation Airlines have to respond to

customer expectations for security concerns

She added that aviation should work on the assumption that they

receiving both physical and cyber attacks and and therefore work on

how to protect the systems with more advanced software and develop

some translation tools to compare traditional and new risks

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Kurt Pipal pointed as airline companies possess and deal with huge

amounts of data they become by definition a target for industrial

espionage He cautioned companies to be very careful about

subcontractors which do necessarily rely on the same system

resilience He stressed the importance of sharing intelligence

information in the industry Build awareness and do not have a silo

approach Identify your vulnerabilities and make the assumption that

you are going to be hacked Participate in a 247 securities operation

centre and called the aviation to Occasionally even use a so-called

dark agent - a hacker to test your system Companies do fire drills so

why do they not do cyber security drills toolaquo

The Panel on the Climate Change Goals brought together

representatives from industry academia and NGOs to discuss the

progress on the climate change goals the aviation industry faces and

what is needed to reach them The industry has to achieve a goal of

climate neutral growth from 2020 but also the long-term target of cutting

net CO2 emissions by half by 2050 compared to 2005 levels

The panelists were Angela Gittens Director General of Airports Council

International Alan Joyce Qantas CEO Patrick de Castelbajac CEO of

aircraft manufacturer ATR John-Paul Clarke professor at Georgia

Institute of Technology and Tim Johnson of the International Coalition

for Sustainable Aviation

2050 might seeem a long way off but due to industry time lags therersquos

only around 10 years left to figure out how to reach the goal according

to John-Paul Clarke

They all agreed that the industry in all its supply chain-manufacturers

airports infrastructure airlines- must come together to work in a

concerted way to achieve how to go about achieveing these goals A

holistic perspective is needed as the industry stakeholders all are in

direct dependency and the example od a fuel efficient aircraft that

cannot operate efficiently because the air traffic management is not

efficient They stressed that sustainable development is not a question

of being politically correct any more but a condition of the future

existence of the industry ―there is no other way than being

environmentally respectful said Patrick de Castelbajac

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He added that aircraft manufacturers do consider now the

environmental impact of their aircraft at every stage from design

through to the eventual end-of-life disposal ―There is also a greater

convergence between economic and environmental interests which we

can see clearly on fuel burn he said

New technology and new management must be both environmentally

and economically sustainable

The panelists agreed that passengers are passsionate about it and do

want to offset the environmental impact of their flight Alan Joyce

said that one passenger every minute selects a voluntary offset

program

Angela Gittens said that Airports have adopted the Carbon

Accreditation Programme a programme that provides airports with a

common framework for active carbon management with measurable

goal-postsand 20 airports are already carbon neutral She added ICAO

and IATA should undertake the role of coordinating bodies which will

monitor assess and pace the progress It is necessary because ―If you

canrsquot measure it you canrsquot manage it

Continuous transparent monitoring of what is been done by an

independent entity would bring credibility according to John-

Paul Clarke

The panelists also agreed that ICAO and IATA will have to meet the

challenge of balancing the different levels of maturity in terms

of environmental measures around the globe in other words those that

move more quickly with those that have been left behind

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Joyce said the new ICAO aircraft CO2 standard would drive

advances in aircraft and engine technology He complained

that although there had been advances in navigation

technology and procedures - such as the traffic control

satellite navigation approaches to airports that saved his

airline up to 60000 tons of fuel - progress had been slow in

improving Air Traffic management and developing ATC

infrastructure

He insisted though on the role of biofuels He stressed that

more studies should be undertaken on biofuels to make sure

that they are produced in environmentally friendly way

―Biofuels are the only way we are going to get to our 2050

target Itrsquos a question of how we as an industry can cooperate

and how we can get governments interested enough to put a

policy framework in place to make that happen Their

development and insertion in the value chain will require RampD

and help from governments and other industrial sectors

He called his government to support the local alternative

fuels industry that creates new jobs and brings

environmental benefits

16

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Tim Johnson cautioned that it should not become

an ―accountancy exercise where we see one

gallon of biofuel uplifted to an aircraft or a tonne

of CO2 offset as the way we measure progress

adding it was important to move beyond

quantification and just emissions and consider

the wider sustainable development agenda

Investment decisions needed to be taken now to

reach the industryrsquos 2050 target he suggested

and clarity was needed on what should happen

and by when ICAO market-based measure is

perfoming well but there must be emphasis on the

other three pillars required for aviation emissions

reductions ndash aircraft technology operations and

infrastructure

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powered aircraft leaves Seville for Cairo-Solar

MADRID July 11 (Xinhua) -- The aircraft Solar Impulse

II powered completely by solar energy on Monday left

the Spanish city of Seville to attempt to land in

on WednesdayEgyptCairo

The route will be between 48 and 72 hours long

depending on weather conditions This will be the

penultimate flight of the plane that will travel to Abu

Dhabi afterwards

Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard who have

been working on the aircraft for more than a decade

will pilot the aircraft Borschberg will pilot the plane

from Seville to Cairo crossing seven countries after

which Piccard will fly to Abu Dhabi

Borschberg said that the trip was meaningful as it is

my last flight in this round-the-world epic I am happy

that were close to the end but also prudent knowing

that it is not done yet I have to stay really focused

SpainThe aircraft had been in Seville in the south of

for two weeks after successfully crossing the Atlantic

Ocean

Solar Impulse II is able to fly night and day without any

fossil fuel It travels at between 45 and 55 kmhour

reaching an altitude of 8500 meters The plane is wider

than a 747 jumbo jet and weighs 23 tons

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Russias New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

A grand unveiling of the Irkut MC-21-300 on June 8

established a relatively firm project timeline for the

160- to 212-seat narrowbody and marked a measure

of vindication for what many in the West have

disparaged as a fringe project In attendance at the

ceremony Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

spoke of the prestige the program has brought to

the country as well as its importance to helping

move its economy forward He also congratulated

Irkutrsquos employees for their role in shaping the future

of Russiarsquos return to prominence in commercial

aircraft manufacturing

Expecting the MC-21 to gain Russian certification in

2018 United Aircraft subsidiary Irkut had hoped to

fly the first airplane by the end of this year

However during the rollout ceremony Medvedev

referenced plans for first flight ―within a year

and UAC officials acknowledged that a previously

quoted target might prove optimistic unless all goes

exactly to plan Rather that milestone appears most

likely to happen in or around February 2017

according to aUAC spokesman

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Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

2

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Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

3

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While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

4

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Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

5

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Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

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As Emirates are mostly wide body operator Sir Tim Clark said

they already have good choice between Boeing and Airbus

which answer their needs with regard to the mission and the

type of product the airline wants to offer He wished ―good

luck to any manufacturer wishing to enter the market them if

they get over the barriers to entry

Jane Hrdlicka said she expects see innovation coming in in the

form of technology of the airframe and a strong Chinese

manufacturer which means there will be more choice in two

decades from now than today

Then Richard Quest asked questions each airline individually

He asked whether Brussels Airlines will be around in two years

from now Bernand Gustin the airline will be there and will have

the same operation model but more powerful with the power of

a major aviation group Lufthansa group behind it In the past

airlines had to choose to be point-to-point or connecting Low

cost or service airline bur Brussels airline We tries to reconcile

those dimensions and they have positioned themselves a

hybrid airline People do not want to pay but they want a level

of service and even the low cost carriers are investing now in

service As for the name of airline he said that the airline will be

called what has value for the customer as it has been proven

with the airlinersquos Africa routes The airline played a crucial role

during the Ebola crisis and has gained its value as a brand in

Africa that it did not have before when it was Sabena He

stressed that a brand is something that responds to a customer

need a brand name that responds best to the Belgian customer

the European customer and the African customer and the US

customers which are the markets the airlines serves

7

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Thai Airwaysrsquo president was asked about the airlinersquos strategy to deal with

their problems He answered that they have a two-year reform programme

they have already achieved a profit margin 12 on sales so they are on track

reform plan They intend to remain a full service carrier with a major very

efficient hub He added that they realised after following the developments of

the last years that the ecosystem has been changing a lot as all demand

coming into Thailand has been point-to-point to secondary cities They

operate in one the fastest growing regions in terms of demand near India

and China but the demand is becoming point-to-point which means that the

model that the airline was following in the past has to be changed When

asked whether they will need a partner and more particularly a Gulf partner to

do your long haul European routes he answered that if the market is India

China and Asia and there is going to be more and more point-to-point service

they will have to be bigger They may need partners of some sort some form

of alliance but I this alliance will not be as the ones of the past In the past a

big airline in Europe a big airline in Japan could connect throughout the

world but this area is a non-united area there are many states there is

Myanmar Thailand Vietnam so the partnership will most probably be

bilateral

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group was asked how Qantas managed so

successfully to incorporate a low-cost or a low-fare branch as some call it

She answered that they did it by really understanding their customers and

recognising that there is a part of the market that is hungry for full service and

is prepared to pay a premium to get it but there is an equal part of the market

that was not able to travel because the fares were too high and would prefer

choice on how they travel and be able to pay for what they use What they

have done is effectively build a new brand that focuses squarely on that

customer group and have protected the integrity by not trying to blur the line

and keeping them very separate operationally commercially and

strategically

Bernand Gustin was asked again whether Lufthansa has considered an

arrangement with an LCC for feed and he answered that first the airline needs

to substantially reduce its cost to be price competitive and this what they

have done There is no choice about that But as they come from a service

heritage airline and given that they will never be a cost leader they try to keep

a differentiation on service a service that really people want So they have

played on connectivity on the network and on the Belgian brand There is a

wish to have a specific brand As there are other very strong brands within the

Lufthansa group if they want to go further they need to have the power of the

group to be able to further reduce the cost to get the commercial critical

mass outside of Belgium Thatrsquos where the right mix needs to be found

8

atnaero

Deltarsquos CEO was asked How a giant airline accommodates the new reality

of all those LCCs Ot which he answered that they do it through

segmentation within the aircraft they have introduced a product called

―basic economy for price sensitive types of travelling within the US

They are still experimenting with it as it is relatively new and the

technology solution on it is complicated Within the two they have to

accommodate the low fare end and the highly sensitive business

traveller that is willing to pay a premium and a couple of stages between

the two But it a much wider question the airline needs to find who he

wants to be so they have moved upscale they are not a commodity

player and they generated a 10 premium in relation to the other US

carriers He stressed that ―If we were to be a commodity player we would

not be around today He admits that they have to accommodate a

commodity component for the travel sector but they are not a

commodity As the carry two million passengers a year that pay a 10

premium on average they have proven our point

Jetstarrsquos CEP pointed that both fares are not commoditised any more

Airlines have to look at what customers want choice is definitely

important for all customers and choice for people who are looking for

value matters a lot She said that their airline also extracts a relative 15

premium in relation to competition because they do not view themselves

as a commodity product They invest heavily in the brand in the

experience in ways that the customers value and are prepared to pay for

it and give them the choice to custom design their experience

The Brussels Airlinesrsquos CEO added that segmentation and differentiation

is key When their airline starts with a start price of 39 euros one way and

has a very vocal pure low cost competitor at 21 euro for the same thing

the solution is to claim that it offers service as there is a whole heritage

that exists besides While the price is key people say ―I want to know

what I choose The pure commodity product that happened a few years

is going away but when there is a heritage of service that can help you

differentiate yourself then there is potential to make the difference

Brussels has all the LCCs of the world but Brussels Airlines grew by 30

more in the last two years

9

atnaero

Richard Quest then turned to Emirates CEO and asked him how they

accomodate with the LCCs that can offer feed from them into their long

haul services Sir Tim Clark answered that LCCs are here to stay they

continue to grow their business they have been a significant player in

the way civil aviation has developed in the last years giving consumers

a very good choice As long as the air industry business keeps the

consumers at the heart of the business and it does what they are

guiding to do then there is place for everybody The

differentiation whether it is between low cost and full service long haul

or short haul is something the industry has to adapt to accept and

encourage It is part of civil aviation After all it is the travelling public

who benefits from LCC existence The legacy carriers as they are

called have to adapt and work with them In terms of establishing a

lower cost arm for Emirates he answered ―no but he added that they

would work with them and they do They have very good relationships

with the Low Cost operators because they bring lots more people into

the market the whole principle was tapping incipient demand that

could not afford the levels of fares that were available prior to their

existence What they did is that they brought efficiency fleet efficiency

technological efficiency distribution efficiency and suddenly a new

branch of air transport industry was found ―To not work with makes no

sense

When asked about what new things they can offer to the upper end of

the market they all agreed that it is the soft goods that matter after all

Everyone can buy the hard goods but the airlines invest now in

relationship building Delta said its CEO can boast on its relationship

with corporate travelers and the fact they have one of the lowest

maintenance cancellation records They give the business traveler what

he needs dependability reliability quality to arrive on time with their

bags he added that there is a lot of technology and process behind it

but more than that a lot of willpower and culture

10

atnaero

Jetstarrsquos CEO said that invest a lot in their people both in full service

and in low cost training helping them to build skills relationships with

the customer Jetstar wants to enable customers to enjoy the ability of

pick and choose both to bundle and to unbundle

Emiratesrsquo CEO said that the airline spends an awful lot of time and

money on our premium product and the public knows about it and they

have always done that and they will continue to do it As soon as

things mature they will change to make things more interesting they

will be raising the bar for the consumers the business community

because ―we can do it

Panel discussion on Cyber Security

The panelists were Major General Linda Urrutia-Varhall the Assistant

Deputy Chief of Staff Director of National Intelligence for Aviation

Security in the US Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance the

Pentagon Washington DC Anja Kaspersen Head of International

Security for the World Economic Forum Alan Pellegrini CEO and

President of Thales USA Matthew Finn Managing Director of

Augmentiq Calin Rovinescu President and CEO of Air Canada and

Kurt Pipal FBI Assistant Legal Attache for US Embassy in the UK

They all agreed that aviation being a symbol of globalisation remains

an aspirational target for terrorists The interconnected nature of the

industry and interconnectibility of IT systems from baggage

movement to ticket kiosk and flight systems represent an ever growing

list of vulnerabilities and a whole brand new horizon of threats It is

however practically technologically and financially impossible to

address all the issues In the words of General Urrutia-Varhall the

interaction between actors threats and vulnerabilities can be viewed as

an ecosystem of forces in which ―we are as strong as our weakest link

No entity can go alone against these threats Airline industry

govenments domestic and international Intelligence community private

and public sectors should come together gather and share information

to characterise assess threats prioritise them and then act

appropriately

11

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Calin Rovinescu mentioned the ―very scary number that experts

estimate is the amount of damage caused last year by cyber hacks

was in the vicinity of US$500 million world wide and that 94

of global airlines had some form of cyber security breaches These

incidents were ―a real wake-up call for the industry Many of these

attacks were dealt with because airlines had good technology

protection but still these numbers make clear that as the industry

moves towards more automation seeking the interconnectiveness that

makes ir more efficient attack surfaces expand exponentially

Matthew Finn said businesses should look at security in a holistic way

He said there is currently a downward trend of documentation fraud

but an upward trend regarding identity theft

Alan Pellegrini said that the industy has seen recently an increasing

number of high profile hacks hacks in the wi-fi connectivity simply to

steal passenger information that is flowing over those networks a

hack into the ground systems of an airline to steal financial

transactions and information to collect the money the airline was

supposed to collect The threat is very real and although it has not

resulted to serious safety related issues it is resulting into serious

disrupting The fact that there has been no serious incident means

though that the industry is getting a lot of it right

Airlines now connect passengers to Wi-Fi on aircraft they add

connectivity to crews aircraft operations are connected on the

ground some are experimenting with cloud-based avionics controlling

aircraft operations The move towards more automation is inescepable

so the protection from cyber attackes To build such protection

requires a

a multi-year plan with responsibility at the highest level and

collaboration and information exchange between the aviation industry

and governments

12

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There are many technoloty tools Thales is working on to better protect

the connected aircraft but there is no ―silver bullet there is no one

piece of technology that is going to solve all the industry problems

because security is a process the same way threats are not static they

continue to evolve ―Technology is not done it continues monitoring

security operations centres are required to identify threats as they start

to materialize and to mitigate them and then go ahead and implement

addtional technology that is going to deal with new potential threats so

it is a continuous process

According to Calin Rovinescu ―No matter how complex and good

systems a company may have problems are not solved overnight and

aviation must develop a capability to respond and recover He pointed

out that aviation industry must look at and work with other industries

that have more maturity with cyber threats such as financial

institutions technology companies

The industry is very encouraged by the fact IATA is taking on this topic

to prevent serious disruption and perhaps safety issues later

Anja Kaspersen admitted that the threat is real but she added that there

is also ―fear mongering because of the commercial interests invested

in cyber security She stressed that the combination of ―ignorance and

unsubstantiated fear is dangerous and hampers preparedness She

cautioned airlines not to underestimate the psychological effect

should as as they live off their reputation Airlines have to respond to

customer expectations for security concerns

She added that aviation should work on the assumption that they

receiving both physical and cyber attacks and and therefore work on

how to protect the systems with more advanced software and develop

some translation tools to compare traditional and new risks

13

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Kurt Pipal pointed as airline companies possess and deal with huge

amounts of data they become by definition a target for industrial

espionage He cautioned companies to be very careful about

subcontractors which do necessarily rely on the same system

resilience He stressed the importance of sharing intelligence

information in the industry Build awareness and do not have a silo

approach Identify your vulnerabilities and make the assumption that

you are going to be hacked Participate in a 247 securities operation

centre and called the aviation to Occasionally even use a so-called

dark agent - a hacker to test your system Companies do fire drills so

why do they not do cyber security drills toolaquo

The Panel on the Climate Change Goals brought together

representatives from industry academia and NGOs to discuss the

progress on the climate change goals the aviation industry faces and

what is needed to reach them The industry has to achieve a goal of

climate neutral growth from 2020 but also the long-term target of cutting

net CO2 emissions by half by 2050 compared to 2005 levels

The panelists were Angela Gittens Director General of Airports Council

International Alan Joyce Qantas CEO Patrick de Castelbajac CEO of

aircraft manufacturer ATR John-Paul Clarke professor at Georgia

Institute of Technology and Tim Johnson of the International Coalition

for Sustainable Aviation

2050 might seeem a long way off but due to industry time lags therersquos

only around 10 years left to figure out how to reach the goal according

to John-Paul Clarke

They all agreed that the industry in all its supply chain-manufacturers

airports infrastructure airlines- must come together to work in a

concerted way to achieve how to go about achieveing these goals A

holistic perspective is needed as the industry stakeholders all are in

direct dependency and the example od a fuel efficient aircraft that

cannot operate efficiently because the air traffic management is not

efficient They stressed that sustainable development is not a question

of being politically correct any more but a condition of the future

existence of the industry ―there is no other way than being

environmentally respectful said Patrick de Castelbajac

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He added that aircraft manufacturers do consider now the

environmental impact of their aircraft at every stage from design

through to the eventual end-of-life disposal ―There is also a greater

convergence between economic and environmental interests which we

can see clearly on fuel burn he said

New technology and new management must be both environmentally

and economically sustainable

The panelists agreed that passengers are passsionate about it and do

want to offset the environmental impact of their flight Alan Joyce

said that one passenger every minute selects a voluntary offset

program

Angela Gittens said that Airports have adopted the Carbon

Accreditation Programme a programme that provides airports with a

common framework for active carbon management with measurable

goal-postsand 20 airports are already carbon neutral She added ICAO

and IATA should undertake the role of coordinating bodies which will

monitor assess and pace the progress It is necessary because ―If you

canrsquot measure it you canrsquot manage it

Continuous transparent monitoring of what is been done by an

independent entity would bring credibility according to John-

Paul Clarke

The panelists also agreed that ICAO and IATA will have to meet the

challenge of balancing the different levels of maturity in terms

of environmental measures around the globe in other words those that

move more quickly with those that have been left behind

15

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Joyce said the new ICAO aircraft CO2 standard would drive

advances in aircraft and engine technology He complained

that although there had been advances in navigation

technology and procedures - such as the traffic control

satellite navigation approaches to airports that saved his

airline up to 60000 tons of fuel - progress had been slow in

improving Air Traffic management and developing ATC

infrastructure

He insisted though on the role of biofuels He stressed that

more studies should be undertaken on biofuels to make sure

that they are produced in environmentally friendly way

―Biofuels are the only way we are going to get to our 2050

target Itrsquos a question of how we as an industry can cooperate

and how we can get governments interested enough to put a

policy framework in place to make that happen Their

development and insertion in the value chain will require RampD

and help from governments and other industrial sectors

He called his government to support the local alternative

fuels industry that creates new jobs and brings

environmental benefits

16

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Tim Johnson cautioned that it should not become

an ―accountancy exercise where we see one

gallon of biofuel uplifted to an aircraft or a tonne

of CO2 offset as the way we measure progress

adding it was important to move beyond

quantification and just emissions and consider

the wider sustainable development agenda

Investment decisions needed to be taken now to

reach the industryrsquos 2050 target he suggested

and clarity was needed on what should happen

and by when ICAO market-based measure is

perfoming well but there must be emphasis on the

other three pillars required for aviation emissions

reductions ndash aircraft technology operations and

infrastructure

17

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powered aircraft leaves Seville for Cairo-Solar

MADRID July 11 (Xinhua) -- The aircraft Solar Impulse

II powered completely by solar energy on Monday left

the Spanish city of Seville to attempt to land in

on WednesdayEgyptCairo

The route will be between 48 and 72 hours long

depending on weather conditions This will be the

penultimate flight of the plane that will travel to Abu

Dhabi afterwards

Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard who have

been working on the aircraft for more than a decade

will pilot the aircraft Borschberg will pilot the plane

from Seville to Cairo crossing seven countries after

which Piccard will fly to Abu Dhabi

Borschberg said that the trip was meaningful as it is

my last flight in this round-the-world epic I am happy

that were close to the end but also prudent knowing

that it is not done yet I have to stay really focused

SpainThe aircraft had been in Seville in the south of

for two weeks after successfully crossing the Atlantic

Ocean

Solar Impulse II is able to fly night and day without any

fossil fuel It travels at between 45 and 55 kmhour

reaching an altitude of 8500 meters The plane is wider

than a 747 jumbo jet and weighs 23 tons

httpwwwainonlinecom

Russias New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

A grand unveiling of the Irkut MC-21-300 on June 8

established a relatively firm project timeline for the

160- to 212-seat narrowbody and marked a measure

of vindication for what many in the West have

disparaged as a fringe project In attendance at the

ceremony Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

spoke of the prestige the program has brought to

the country as well as its importance to helping

move its economy forward He also congratulated

Irkutrsquos employees for their role in shaping the future

of Russiarsquos return to prominence in commercial

aircraft manufacturing

Expecting the MC-21 to gain Russian certification in

2018 United Aircraft subsidiary Irkut had hoped to

fly the first airplane by the end of this year

However during the rollout ceremony Medvedev

referenced plans for first flight ―within a year

and UAC officials acknowledged that a previously

quoted target might prove optimistic unless all goes

exactly to plan Rather that milestone appears most

likely to happen in or around February 2017

according to aUAC spokesman

1

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Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

2

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Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

3

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While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

4

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Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

5

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Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

الشركة القابضة -ادارة العالقات العامة

لمصر للطيران

atnaero

Thai Airwaysrsquo president was asked about the airlinersquos strategy to deal with

their problems He answered that they have a two-year reform programme

they have already achieved a profit margin 12 on sales so they are on track

reform plan They intend to remain a full service carrier with a major very

efficient hub He added that they realised after following the developments of

the last years that the ecosystem has been changing a lot as all demand

coming into Thailand has been point-to-point to secondary cities They

operate in one the fastest growing regions in terms of demand near India

and China but the demand is becoming point-to-point which means that the

model that the airline was following in the past has to be changed When

asked whether they will need a partner and more particularly a Gulf partner to

do your long haul European routes he answered that if the market is India

China and Asia and there is going to be more and more point-to-point service

they will have to be bigger They may need partners of some sort some form

of alliance but I this alliance will not be as the ones of the past In the past a

big airline in Europe a big airline in Japan could connect throughout the

world but this area is a non-united area there are many states there is

Myanmar Thailand Vietnam so the partnership will most probably be

bilateral

Jayne Hrdlicka (JH) CEO Jetstar Group was asked how Qantas managed so

successfully to incorporate a low-cost or a low-fare branch as some call it

She answered that they did it by really understanding their customers and

recognising that there is a part of the market that is hungry for full service and

is prepared to pay a premium to get it but there is an equal part of the market

that was not able to travel because the fares were too high and would prefer

choice on how they travel and be able to pay for what they use What they

have done is effectively build a new brand that focuses squarely on that

customer group and have protected the integrity by not trying to blur the line

and keeping them very separate operationally commercially and

strategically

Bernand Gustin was asked again whether Lufthansa has considered an

arrangement with an LCC for feed and he answered that first the airline needs

to substantially reduce its cost to be price competitive and this what they

have done There is no choice about that But as they come from a service

heritage airline and given that they will never be a cost leader they try to keep

a differentiation on service a service that really people want So they have

played on connectivity on the network and on the Belgian brand There is a

wish to have a specific brand As there are other very strong brands within the

Lufthansa group if they want to go further they need to have the power of the

group to be able to further reduce the cost to get the commercial critical

mass outside of Belgium Thatrsquos where the right mix needs to be found

8

atnaero

Deltarsquos CEO was asked How a giant airline accommodates the new reality

of all those LCCs Ot which he answered that they do it through

segmentation within the aircraft they have introduced a product called

―basic economy for price sensitive types of travelling within the US

They are still experimenting with it as it is relatively new and the

technology solution on it is complicated Within the two they have to

accommodate the low fare end and the highly sensitive business

traveller that is willing to pay a premium and a couple of stages between

the two But it a much wider question the airline needs to find who he

wants to be so they have moved upscale they are not a commodity

player and they generated a 10 premium in relation to the other US

carriers He stressed that ―If we were to be a commodity player we would

not be around today He admits that they have to accommodate a

commodity component for the travel sector but they are not a

commodity As the carry two million passengers a year that pay a 10

premium on average they have proven our point

Jetstarrsquos CEP pointed that both fares are not commoditised any more

Airlines have to look at what customers want choice is definitely

important for all customers and choice for people who are looking for

value matters a lot She said that their airline also extracts a relative 15

premium in relation to competition because they do not view themselves

as a commodity product They invest heavily in the brand in the

experience in ways that the customers value and are prepared to pay for

it and give them the choice to custom design their experience

The Brussels Airlinesrsquos CEO added that segmentation and differentiation

is key When their airline starts with a start price of 39 euros one way and

has a very vocal pure low cost competitor at 21 euro for the same thing

the solution is to claim that it offers service as there is a whole heritage

that exists besides While the price is key people say ―I want to know

what I choose The pure commodity product that happened a few years

is going away but when there is a heritage of service that can help you

differentiate yourself then there is potential to make the difference

Brussels has all the LCCs of the world but Brussels Airlines grew by 30

more in the last two years

9

atnaero

Richard Quest then turned to Emirates CEO and asked him how they

accomodate with the LCCs that can offer feed from them into their long

haul services Sir Tim Clark answered that LCCs are here to stay they

continue to grow their business they have been a significant player in

the way civil aviation has developed in the last years giving consumers

a very good choice As long as the air industry business keeps the

consumers at the heart of the business and it does what they are

guiding to do then there is place for everybody The

differentiation whether it is between low cost and full service long haul

or short haul is something the industry has to adapt to accept and

encourage It is part of civil aviation After all it is the travelling public

who benefits from LCC existence The legacy carriers as they are

called have to adapt and work with them In terms of establishing a

lower cost arm for Emirates he answered ―no but he added that they

would work with them and they do They have very good relationships

with the Low Cost operators because they bring lots more people into

the market the whole principle was tapping incipient demand that

could not afford the levels of fares that were available prior to their

existence What they did is that they brought efficiency fleet efficiency

technological efficiency distribution efficiency and suddenly a new

branch of air transport industry was found ―To not work with makes no

sense

When asked about what new things they can offer to the upper end of

the market they all agreed that it is the soft goods that matter after all

Everyone can buy the hard goods but the airlines invest now in

relationship building Delta said its CEO can boast on its relationship

with corporate travelers and the fact they have one of the lowest

maintenance cancellation records They give the business traveler what

he needs dependability reliability quality to arrive on time with their

bags he added that there is a lot of technology and process behind it

but more than that a lot of willpower and culture

10

atnaero

Jetstarrsquos CEO said that invest a lot in their people both in full service

and in low cost training helping them to build skills relationships with

the customer Jetstar wants to enable customers to enjoy the ability of

pick and choose both to bundle and to unbundle

Emiratesrsquo CEO said that the airline spends an awful lot of time and

money on our premium product and the public knows about it and they

have always done that and they will continue to do it As soon as

things mature they will change to make things more interesting they

will be raising the bar for the consumers the business community

because ―we can do it

Panel discussion on Cyber Security

The panelists were Major General Linda Urrutia-Varhall the Assistant

Deputy Chief of Staff Director of National Intelligence for Aviation

Security in the US Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance the

Pentagon Washington DC Anja Kaspersen Head of International

Security for the World Economic Forum Alan Pellegrini CEO and

President of Thales USA Matthew Finn Managing Director of

Augmentiq Calin Rovinescu President and CEO of Air Canada and

Kurt Pipal FBI Assistant Legal Attache for US Embassy in the UK

They all agreed that aviation being a symbol of globalisation remains

an aspirational target for terrorists The interconnected nature of the

industry and interconnectibility of IT systems from baggage

movement to ticket kiosk and flight systems represent an ever growing

list of vulnerabilities and a whole brand new horizon of threats It is

however practically technologically and financially impossible to

address all the issues In the words of General Urrutia-Varhall the

interaction between actors threats and vulnerabilities can be viewed as

an ecosystem of forces in which ―we are as strong as our weakest link

No entity can go alone against these threats Airline industry

govenments domestic and international Intelligence community private

and public sectors should come together gather and share information

to characterise assess threats prioritise them and then act

appropriately

11

atnaero

Calin Rovinescu mentioned the ―very scary number that experts

estimate is the amount of damage caused last year by cyber hacks

was in the vicinity of US$500 million world wide and that 94

of global airlines had some form of cyber security breaches These

incidents were ―a real wake-up call for the industry Many of these

attacks were dealt with because airlines had good technology

protection but still these numbers make clear that as the industry

moves towards more automation seeking the interconnectiveness that

makes ir more efficient attack surfaces expand exponentially

Matthew Finn said businesses should look at security in a holistic way

He said there is currently a downward trend of documentation fraud

but an upward trend regarding identity theft

Alan Pellegrini said that the industy has seen recently an increasing

number of high profile hacks hacks in the wi-fi connectivity simply to

steal passenger information that is flowing over those networks a

hack into the ground systems of an airline to steal financial

transactions and information to collect the money the airline was

supposed to collect The threat is very real and although it has not

resulted to serious safety related issues it is resulting into serious

disrupting The fact that there has been no serious incident means

though that the industry is getting a lot of it right

Airlines now connect passengers to Wi-Fi on aircraft they add

connectivity to crews aircraft operations are connected on the

ground some are experimenting with cloud-based avionics controlling

aircraft operations The move towards more automation is inescepable

so the protection from cyber attackes To build such protection

requires a

a multi-year plan with responsibility at the highest level and

collaboration and information exchange between the aviation industry

and governments

12

atnaero

There are many technoloty tools Thales is working on to better protect

the connected aircraft but there is no ―silver bullet there is no one

piece of technology that is going to solve all the industry problems

because security is a process the same way threats are not static they

continue to evolve ―Technology is not done it continues monitoring

security operations centres are required to identify threats as they start

to materialize and to mitigate them and then go ahead and implement

addtional technology that is going to deal with new potential threats so

it is a continuous process

According to Calin Rovinescu ―No matter how complex and good

systems a company may have problems are not solved overnight and

aviation must develop a capability to respond and recover He pointed

out that aviation industry must look at and work with other industries

that have more maturity with cyber threats such as financial

institutions technology companies

The industry is very encouraged by the fact IATA is taking on this topic

to prevent serious disruption and perhaps safety issues later

Anja Kaspersen admitted that the threat is real but she added that there

is also ―fear mongering because of the commercial interests invested

in cyber security She stressed that the combination of ―ignorance and

unsubstantiated fear is dangerous and hampers preparedness She

cautioned airlines not to underestimate the psychological effect

should as as they live off their reputation Airlines have to respond to

customer expectations for security concerns

She added that aviation should work on the assumption that they

receiving both physical and cyber attacks and and therefore work on

how to protect the systems with more advanced software and develop

some translation tools to compare traditional and new risks

13

atnaero

Kurt Pipal pointed as airline companies possess and deal with huge

amounts of data they become by definition a target for industrial

espionage He cautioned companies to be very careful about

subcontractors which do necessarily rely on the same system

resilience He stressed the importance of sharing intelligence

information in the industry Build awareness and do not have a silo

approach Identify your vulnerabilities and make the assumption that

you are going to be hacked Participate in a 247 securities operation

centre and called the aviation to Occasionally even use a so-called

dark agent - a hacker to test your system Companies do fire drills so

why do they not do cyber security drills toolaquo

The Panel on the Climate Change Goals brought together

representatives from industry academia and NGOs to discuss the

progress on the climate change goals the aviation industry faces and

what is needed to reach them The industry has to achieve a goal of

climate neutral growth from 2020 but also the long-term target of cutting

net CO2 emissions by half by 2050 compared to 2005 levels

The panelists were Angela Gittens Director General of Airports Council

International Alan Joyce Qantas CEO Patrick de Castelbajac CEO of

aircraft manufacturer ATR John-Paul Clarke professor at Georgia

Institute of Technology and Tim Johnson of the International Coalition

for Sustainable Aviation

2050 might seeem a long way off but due to industry time lags therersquos

only around 10 years left to figure out how to reach the goal according

to John-Paul Clarke

They all agreed that the industry in all its supply chain-manufacturers

airports infrastructure airlines- must come together to work in a

concerted way to achieve how to go about achieveing these goals A

holistic perspective is needed as the industry stakeholders all are in

direct dependency and the example od a fuel efficient aircraft that

cannot operate efficiently because the air traffic management is not

efficient They stressed that sustainable development is not a question

of being politically correct any more but a condition of the future

existence of the industry ―there is no other way than being

environmentally respectful said Patrick de Castelbajac

14

atnaero

He added that aircraft manufacturers do consider now the

environmental impact of their aircraft at every stage from design

through to the eventual end-of-life disposal ―There is also a greater

convergence between economic and environmental interests which we

can see clearly on fuel burn he said

New technology and new management must be both environmentally

and economically sustainable

The panelists agreed that passengers are passsionate about it and do

want to offset the environmental impact of their flight Alan Joyce

said that one passenger every minute selects a voluntary offset

program

Angela Gittens said that Airports have adopted the Carbon

Accreditation Programme a programme that provides airports with a

common framework for active carbon management with measurable

goal-postsand 20 airports are already carbon neutral She added ICAO

and IATA should undertake the role of coordinating bodies which will

monitor assess and pace the progress It is necessary because ―If you

canrsquot measure it you canrsquot manage it

Continuous transparent monitoring of what is been done by an

independent entity would bring credibility according to John-

Paul Clarke

The panelists also agreed that ICAO and IATA will have to meet the

challenge of balancing the different levels of maturity in terms

of environmental measures around the globe in other words those that

move more quickly with those that have been left behind

15

atnaero

Joyce said the new ICAO aircraft CO2 standard would drive

advances in aircraft and engine technology He complained

that although there had been advances in navigation

technology and procedures - such as the traffic control

satellite navigation approaches to airports that saved his

airline up to 60000 tons of fuel - progress had been slow in

improving Air Traffic management and developing ATC

infrastructure

He insisted though on the role of biofuels He stressed that

more studies should be undertaken on biofuels to make sure

that they are produced in environmentally friendly way

―Biofuels are the only way we are going to get to our 2050

target Itrsquos a question of how we as an industry can cooperate

and how we can get governments interested enough to put a

policy framework in place to make that happen Their

development and insertion in the value chain will require RampD

and help from governments and other industrial sectors

He called his government to support the local alternative

fuels industry that creates new jobs and brings

environmental benefits

16

atnaero

Tim Johnson cautioned that it should not become

an ―accountancy exercise where we see one

gallon of biofuel uplifted to an aircraft or a tonne

of CO2 offset as the way we measure progress

adding it was important to move beyond

quantification and just emissions and consider

the wider sustainable development agenda

Investment decisions needed to be taken now to

reach the industryrsquos 2050 target he suggested

and clarity was needed on what should happen

and by when ICAO market-based measure is

perfoming well but there must be emphasis on the

other three pillars required for aviation emissions

reductions ndash aircraft technology operations and

infrastructure

17

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powered aircraft leaves Seville for Cairo-Solar

MADRID July 11 (Xinhua) -- The aircraft Solar Impulse

II powered completely by solar energy on Monday left

the Spanish city of Seville to attempt to land in

on WednesdayEgyptCairo

The route will be between 48 and 72 hours long

depending on weather conditions This will be the

penultimate flight of the plane that will travel to Abu

Dhabi afterwards

Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard who have

been working on the aircraft for more than a decade

will pilot the aircraft Borschberg will pilot the plane

from Seville to Cairo crossing seven countries after

which Piccard will fly to Abu Dhabi

Borschberg said that the trip was meaningful as it is

my last flight in this round-the-world epic I am happy

that were close to the end but also prudent knowing

that it is not done yet I have to stay really focused

SpainThe aircraft had been in Seville in the south of

for two weeks after successfully crossing the Atlantic

Ocean

Solar Impulse II is able to fly night and day without any

fossil fuel It travels at between 45 and 55 kmhour

reaching an altitude of 8500 meters The plane is wider

than a 747 jumbo jet and weighs 23 tons

httpwwwainonlinecom

Russias New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

A grand unveiling of the Irkut MC-21-300 on June 8

established a relatively firm project timeline for the

160- to 212-seat narrowbody and marked a measure

of vindication for what many in the West have

disparaged as a fringe project In attendance at the

ceremony Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

spoke of the prestige the program has brought to

the country as well as its importance to helping

move its economy forward He also congratulated

Irkutrsquos employees for their role in shaping the future

of Russiarsquos return to prominence in commercial

aircraft manufacturing

Expecting the MC-21 to gain Russian certification in

2018 United Aircraft subsidiary Irkut had hoped to

fly the first airplane by the end of this year

However during the rollout ceremony Medvedev

referenced plans for first flight ―within a year

and UAC officials acknowledged that a previously

quoted target might prove optimistic unless all goes

exactly to plan Rather that milestone appears most

likely to happen in or around February 2017

according to aUAC spokesman

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Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

2

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Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

3

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While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

4

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Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

5

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Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

الشركة القابضة -ادارة العالقات العامة

لمصر للطيران

atnaero

Deltarsquos CEO was asked How a giant airline accommodates the new reality

of all those LCCs Ot which he answered that they do it through

segmentation within the aircraft they have introduced a product called

―basic economy for price sensitive types of travelling within the US

They are still experimenting with it as it is relatively new and the

technology solution on it is complicated Within the two they have to

accommodate the low fare end and the highly sensitive business

traveller that is willing to pay a premium and a couple of stages between

the two But it a much wider question the airline needs to find who he

wants to be so they have moved upscale they are not a commodity

player and they generated a 10 premium in relation to the other US

carriers He stressed that ―If we were to be a commodity player we would

not be around today He admits that they have to accommodate a

commodity component for the travel sector but they are not a

commodity As the carry two million passengers a year that pay a 10

premium on average they have proven our point

Jetstarrsquos CEP pointed that both fares are not commoditised any more

Airlines have to look at what customers want choice is definitely

important for all customers and choice for people who are looking for

value matters a lot She said that their airline also extracts a relative 15

premium in relation to competition because they do not view themselves

as a commodity product They invest heavily in the brand in the

experience in ways that the customers value and are prepared to pay for

it and give them the choice to custom design their experience

The Brussels Airlinesrsquos CEO added that segmentation and differentiation

is key When their airline starts with a start price of 39 euros one way and

has a very vocal pure low cost competitor at 21 euro for the same thing

the solution is to claim that it offers service as there is a whole heritage

that exists besides While the price is key people say ―I want to know

what I choose The pure commodity product that happened a few years

is going away but when there is a heritage of service that can help you

differentiate yourself then there is potential to make the difference

Brussels has all the LCCs of the world but Brussels Airlines grew by 30

more in the last two years

9

atnaero

Richard Quest then turned to Emirates CEO and asked him how they

accomodate with the LCCs that can offer feed from them into their long

haul services Sir Tim Clark answered that LCCs are here to stay they

continue to grow their business they have been a significant player in

the way civil aviation has developed in the last years giving consumers

a very good choice As long as the air industry business keeps the

consumers at the heart of the business and it does what they are

guiding to do then there is place for everybody The

differentiation whether it is between low cost and full service long haul

or short haul is something the industry has to adapt to accept and

encourage It is part of civil aviation After all it is the travelling public

who benefits from LCC existence The legacy carriers as they are

called have to adapt and work with them In terms of establishing a

lower cost arm for Emirates he answered ―no but he added that they

would work with them and they do They have very good relationships

with the Low Cost operators because they bring lots more people into

the market the whole principle was tapping incipient demand that

could not afford the levels of fares that were available prior to their

existence What they did is that they brought efficiency fleet efficiency

technological efficiency distribution efficiency and suddenly a new

branch of air transport industry was found ―To not work with makes no

sense

When asked about what new things they can offer to the upper end of

the market they all agreed that it is the soft goods that matter after all

Everyone can buy the hard goods but the airlines invest now in

relationship building Delta said its CEO can boast on its relationship

with corporate travelers and the fact they have one of the lowest

maintenance cancellation records They give the business traveler what

he needs dependability reliability quality to arrive on time with their

bags he added that there is a lot of technology and process behind it

but more than that a lot of willpower and culture

10

atnaero

Jetstarrsquos CEO said that invest a lot in their people both in full service

and in low cost training helping them to build skills relationships with

the customer Jetstar wants to enable customers to enjoy the ability of

pick and choose both to bundle and to unbundle

Emiratesrsquo CEO said that the airline spends an awful lot of time and

money on our premium product and the public knows about it and they

have always done that and they will continue to do it As soon as

things mature they will change to make things more interesting they

will be raising the bar for the consumers the business community

because ―we can do it

Panel discussion on Cyber Security

The panelists were Major General Linda Urrutia-Varhall the Assistant

Deputy Chief of Staff Director of National Intelligence for Aviation

Security in the US Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance the

Pentagon Washington DC Anja Kaspersen Head of International

Security for the World Economic Forum Alan Pellegrini CEO and

President of Thales USA Matthew Finn Managing Director of

Augmentiq Calin Rovinescu President and CEO of Air Canada and

Kurt Pipal FBI Assistant Legal Attache for US Embassy in the UK

They all agreed that aviation being a symbol of globalisation remains

an aspirational target for terrorists The interconnected nature of the

industry and interconnectibility of IT systems from baggage

movement to ticket kiosk and flight systems represent an ever growing

list of vulnerabilities and a whole brand new horizon of threats It is

however practically technologically and financially impossible to

address all the issues In the words of General Urrutia-Varhall the

interaction between actors threats and vulnerabilities can be viewed as

an ecosystem of forces in which ―we are as strong as our weakest link

No entity can go alone against these threats Airline industry

govenments domestic and international Intelligence community private

and public sectors should come together gather and share information

to characterise assess threats prioritise them and then act

appropriately

11

atnaero

Calin Rovinescu mentioned the ―very scary number that experts

estimate is the amount of damage caused last year by cyber hacks

was in the vicinity of US$500 million world wide and that 94

of global airlines had some form of cyber security breaches These

incidents were ―a real wake-up call for the industry Many of these

attacks were dealt with because airlines had good technology

protection but still these numbers make clear that as the industry

moves towards more automation seeking the interconnectiveness that

makes ir more efficient attack surfaces expand exponentially

Matthew Finn said businesses should look at security in a holistic way

He said there is currently a downward trend of documentation fraud

but an upward trend regarding identity theft

Alan Pellegrini said that the industy has seen recently an increasing

number of high profile hacks hacks in the wi-fi connectivity simply to

steal passenger information that is flowing over those networks a

hack into the ground systems of an airline to steal financial

transactions and information to collect the money the airline was

supposed to collect The threat is very real and although it has not

resulted to serious safety related issues it is resulting into serious

disrupting The fact that there has been no serious incident means

though that the industry is getting a lot of it right

Airlines now connect passengers to Wi-Fi on aircraft they add

connectivity to crews aircraft operations are connected on the

ground some are experimenting with cloud-based avionics controlling

aircraft operations The move towards more automation is inescepable

so the protection from cyber attackes To build such protection

requires a

a multi-year plan with responsibility at the highest level and

collaboration and information exchange between the aviation industry

and governments

12

atnaero

There are many technoloty tools Thales is working on to better protect

the connected aircraft but there is no ―silver bullet there is no one

piece of technology that is going to solve all the industry problems

because security is a process the same way threats are not static they

continue to evolve ―Technology is not done it continues monitoring

security operations centres are required to identify threats as they start

to materialize and to mitigate them and then go ahead and implement

addtional technology that is going to deal with new potential threats so

it is a continuous process

According to Calin Rovinescu ―No matter how complex and good

systems a company may have problems are not solved overnight and

aviation must develop a capability to respond and recover He pointed

out that aviation industry must look at and work with other industries

that have more maturity with cyber threats such as financial

institutions technology companies

The industry is very encouraged by the fact IATA is taking on this topic

to prevent serious disruption and perhaps safety issues later

Anja Kaspersen admitted that the threat is real but she added that there

is also ―fear mongering because of the commercial interests invested

in cyber security She stressed that the combination of ―ignorance and

unsubstantiated fear is dangerous and hampers preparedness She

cautioned airlines not to underestimate the psychological effect

should as as they live off their reputation Airlines have to respond to

customer expectations for security concerns

She added that aviation should work on the assumption that they

receiving both physical and cyber attacks and and therefore work on

how to protect the systems with more advanced software and develop

some translation tools to compare traditional and new risks

13

atnaero

Kurt Pipal pointed as airline companies possess and deal with huge

amounts of data they become by definition a target for industrial

espionage He cautioned companies to be very careful about

subcontractors which do necessarily rely on the same system

resilience He stressed the importance of sharing intelligence

information in the industry Build awareness and do not have a silo

approach Identify your vulnerabilities and make the assumption that

you are going to be hacked Participate in a 247 securities operation

centre and called the aviation to Occasionally even use a so-called

dark agent - a hacker to test your system Companies do fire drills so

why do they not do cyber security drills toolaquo

The Panel on the Climate Change Goals brought together

representatives from industry academia and NGOs to discuss the

progress on the climate change goals the aviation industry faces and

what is needed to reach them The industry has to achieve a goal of

climate neutral growth from 2020 but also the long-term target of cutting

net CO2 emissions by half by 2050 compared to 2005 levels

The panelists were Angela Gittens Director General of Airports Council

International Alan Joyce Qantas CEO Patrick de Castelbajac CEO of

aircraft manufacturer ATR John-Paul Clarke professor at Georgia

Institute of Technology and Tim Johnson of the International Coalition

for Sustainable Aviation

2050 might seeem a long way off but due to industry time lags therersquos

only around 10 years left to figure out how to reach the goal according

to John-Paul Clarke

They all agreed that the industry in all its supply chain-manufacturers

airports infrastructure airlines- must come together to work in a

concerted way to achieve how to go about achieveing these goals A

holistic perspective is needed as the industry stakeholders all are in

direct dependency and the example od a fuel efficient aircraft that

cannot operate efficiently because the air traffic management is not

efficient They stressed that sustainable development is not a question

of being politically correct any more but a condition of the future

existence of the industry ―there is no other way than being

environmentally respectful said Patrick de Castelbajac

14

atnaero

He added that aircraft manufacturers do consider now the

environmental impact of their aircraft at every stage from design

through to the eventual end-of-life disposal ―There is also a greater

convergence between economic and environmental interests which we

can see clearly on fuel burn he said

New technology and new management must be both environmentally

and economically sustainable

The panelists agreed that passengers are passsionate about it and do

want to offset the environmental impact of their flight Alan Joyce

said that one passenger every minute selects a voluntary offset

program

Angela Gittens said that Airports have adopted the Carbon

Accreditation Programme a programme that provides airports with a

common framework for active carbon management with measurable

goal-postsand 20 airports are already carbon neutral She added ICAO

and IATA should undertake the role of coordinating bodies which will

monitor assess and pace the progress It is necessary because ―If you

canrsquot measure it you canrsquot manage it

Continuous transparent monitoring of what is been done by an

independent entity would bring credibility according to John-

Paul Clarke

The panelists also agreed that ICAO and IATA will have to meet the

challenge of balancing the different levels of maturity in terms

of environmental measures around the globe in other words those that

move more quickly with those that have been left behind

15

atnaero

Joyce said the new ICAO aircraft CO2 standard would drive

advances in aircraft and engine technology He complained

that although there had been advances in navigation

technology and procedures - such as the traffic control

satellite navigation approaches to airports that saved his

airline up to 60000 tons of fuel - progress had been slow in

improving Air Traffic management and developing ATC

infrastructure

He insisted though on the role of biofuels He stressed that

more studies should be undertaken on biofuels to make sure

that they are produced in environmentally friendly way

―Biofuels are the only way we are going to get to our 2050

target Itrsquos a question of how we as an industry can cooperate

and how we can get governments interested enough to put a

policy framework in place to make that happen Their

development and insertion in the value chain will require RampD

and help from governments and other industrial sectors

He called his government to support the local alternative

fuels industry that creates new jobs and brings

environmental benefits

16

atnaero

Tim Johnson cautioned that it should not become

an ―accountancy exercise where we see one

gallon of biofuel uplifted to an aircraft or a tonne

of CO2 offset as the way we measure progress

adding it was important to move beyond

quantification and just emissions and consider

the wider sustainable development agenda

Investment decisions needed to be taken now to

reach the industryrsquos 2050 target he suggested

and clarity was needed on what should happen

and by when ICAO market-based measure is

perfoming well but there must be emphasis on the

other three pillars required for aviation emissions

reductions ndash aircraft technology operations and

infrastructure

17

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powered aircraft leaves Seville for Cairo-Solar

MADRID July 11 (Xinhua) -- The aircraft Solar Impulse

II powered completely by solar energy on Monday left

the Spanish city of Seville to attempt to land in

on WednesdayEgyptCairo

The route will be between 48 and 72 hours long

depending on weather conditions This will be the

penultimate flight of the plane that will travel to Abu

Dhabi afterwards

Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard who have

been working on the aircraft for more than a decade

will pilot the aircraft Borschberg will pilot the plane

from Seville to Cairo crossing seven countries after

which Piccard will fly to Abu Dhabi

Borschberg said that the trip was meaningful as it is

my last flight in this round-the-world epic I am happy

that were close to the end but also prudent knowing

that it is not done yet I have to stay really focused

SpainThe aircraft had been in Seville in the south of

for two weeks after successfully crossing the Atlantic

Ocean

Solar Impulse II is able to fly night and day without any

fossil fuel It travels at between 45 and 55 kmhour

reaching an altitude of 8500 meters The plane is wider

than a 747 jumbo jet and weighs 23 tons

httpwwwainonlinecom

Russias New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

A grand unveiling of the Irkut MC-21-300 on June 8

established a relatively firm project timeline for the

160- to 212-seat narrowbody and marked a measure

of vindication for what many in the West have

disparaged as a fringe project In attendance at the

ceremony Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

spoke of the prestige the program has brought to

the country as well as its importance to helping

move its economy forward He also congratulated

Irkutrsquos employees for their role in shaping the future

of Russiarsquos return to prominence in commercial

aircraft manufacturing

Expecting the MC-21 to gain Russian certification in

2018 United Aircraft subsidiary Irkut had hoped to

fly the first airplane by the end of this year

However during the rollout ceremony Medvedev

referenced plans for first flight ―within a year

and UAC officials acknowledged that a previously

quoted target might prove optimistic unless all goes

exactly to plan Rather that milestone appears most

likely to happen in or around February 2017

according to aUAC spokesman

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Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

2

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Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

3

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While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

4

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Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

5

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Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

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Richard Quest then turned to Emirates CEO and asked him how they

accomodate with the LCCs that can offer feed from them into their long

haul services Sir Tim Clark answered that LCCs are here to stay they

continue to grow their business they have been a significant player in

the way civil aviation has developed in the last years giving consumers

a very good choice As long as the air industry business keeps the

consumers at the heart of the business and it does what they are

guiding to do then there is place for everybody The

differentiation whether it is between low cost and full service long haul

or short haul is something the industry has to adapt to accept and

encourage It is part of civil aviation After all it is the travelling public

who benefits from LCC existence The legacy carriers as they are

called have to adapt and work with them In terms of establishing a

lower cost arm for Emirates he answered ―no but he added that they

would work with them and they do They have very good relationships

with the Low Cost operators because they bring lots more people into

the market the whole principle was tapping incipient demand that

could not afford the levels of fares that were available prior to their

existence What they did is that they brought efficiency fleet efficiency

technological efficiency distribution efficiency and suddenly a new

branch of air transport industry was found ―To not work with makes no

sense

When asked about what new things they can offer to the upper end of

the market they all agreed that it is the soft goods that matter after all

Everyone can buy the hard goods but the airlines invest now in

relationship building Delta said its CEO can boast on its relationship

with corporate travelers and the fact they have one of the lowest

maintenance cancellation records They give the business traveler what

he needs dependability reliability quality to arrive on time with their

bags he added that there is a lot of technology and process behind it

but more than that a lot of willpower and culture

10

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Jetstarrsquos CEO said that invest a lot in their people both in full service

and in low cost training helping them to build skills relationships with

the customer Jetstar wants to enable customers to enjoy the ability of

pick and choose both to bundle and to unbundle

Emiratesrsquo CEO said that the airline spends an awful lot of time and

money on our premium product and the public knows about it and they

have always done that and they will continue to do it As soon as

things mature they will change to make things more interesting they

will be raising the bar for the consumers the business community

because ―we can do it

Panel discussion on Cyber Security

The panelists were Major General Linda Urrutia-Varhall the Assistant

Deputy Chief of Staff Director of National Intelligence for Aviation

Security in the US Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance the

Pentagon Washington DC Anja Kaspersen Head of International

Security for the World Economic Forum Alan Pellegrini CEO and

President of Thales USA Matthew Finn Managing Director of

Augmentiq Calin Rovinescu President and CEO of Air Canada and

Kurt Pipal FBI Assistant Legal Attache for US Embassy in the UK

They all agreed that aviation being a symbol of globalisation remains

an aspirational target for terrorists The interconnected nature of the

industry and interconnectibility of IT systems from baggage

movement to ticket kiosk and flight systems represent an ever growing

list of vulnerabilities and a whole brand new horizon of threats It is

however practically technologically and financially impossible to

address all the issues In the words of General Urrutia-Varhall the

interaction between actors threats and vulnerabilities can be viewed as

an ecosystem of forces in which ―we are as strong as our weakest link

No entity can go alone against these threats Airline industry

govenments domestic and international Intelligence community private

and public sectors should come together gather and share information

to characterise assess threats prioritise them and then act

appropriately

11

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Calin Rovinescu mentioned the ―very scary number that experts

estimate is the amount of damage caused last year by cyber hacks

was in the vicinity of US$500 million world wide and that 94

of global airlines had some form of cyber security breaches These

incidents were ―a real wake-up call for the industry Many of these

attacks were dealt with because airlines had good technology

protection but still these numbers make clear that as the industry

moves towards more automation seeking the interconnectiveness that

makes ir more efficient attack surfaces expand exponentially

Matthew Finn said businesses should look at security in a holistic way

He said there is currently a downward trend of documentation fraud

but an upward trend regarding identity theft

Alan Pellegrini said that the industy has seen recently an increasing

number of high profile hacks hacks in the wi-fi connectivity simply to

steal passenger information that is flowing over those networks a

hack into the ground systems of an airline to steal financial

transactions and information to collect the money the airline was

supposed to collect The threat is very real and although it has not

resulted to serious safety related issues it is resulting into serious

disrupting The fact that there has been no serious incident means

though that the industry is getting a lot of it right

Airlines now connect passengers to Wi-Fi on aircraft they add

connectivity to crews aircraft operations are connected on the

ground some are experimenting with cloud-based avionics controlling

aircraft operations The move towards more automation is inescepable

so the protection from cyber attackes To build such protection

requires a

a multi-year plan with responsibility at the highest level and

collaboration and information exchange between the aviation industry

and governments

12

atnaero

There are many technoloty tools Thales is working on to better protect

the connected aircraft but there is no ―silver bullet there is no one

piece of technology that is going to solve all the industry problems

because security is a process the same way threats are not static they

continue to evolve ―Technology is not done it continues monitoring

security operations centres are required to identify threats as they start

to materialize and to mitigate them and then go ahead and implement

addtional technology that is going to deal with new potential threats so

it is a continuous process

According to Calin Rovinescu ―No matter how complex and good

systems a company may have problems are not solved overnight and

aviation must develop a capability to respond and recover He pointed

out that aviation industry must look at and work with other industries

that have more maturity with cyber threats such as financial

institutions technology companies

The industry is very encouraged by the fact IATA is taking on this topic

to prevent serious disruption and perhaps safety issues later

Anja Kaspersen admitted that the threat is real but she added that there

is also ―fear mongering because of the commercial interests invested

in cyber security She stressed that the combination of ―ignorance and

unsubstantiated fear is dangerous and hampers preparedness She

cautioned airlines not to underestimate the psychological effect

should as as they live off their reputation Airlines have to respond to

customer expectations for security concerns

She added that aviation should work on the assumption that they

receiving both physical and cyber attacks and and therefore work on

how to protect the systems with more advanced software and develop

some translation tools to compare traditional and new risks

13

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Kurt Pipal pointed as airline companies possess and deal with huge

amounts of data they become by definition a target for industrial

espionage He cautioned companies to be very careful about

subcontractors which do necessarily rely on the same system

resilience He stressed the importance of sharing intelligence

information in the industry Build awareness and do not have a silo

approach Identify your vulnerabilities and make the assumption that

you are going to be hacked Participate in a 247 securities operation

centre and called the aviation to Occasionally even use a so-called

dark agent - a hacker to test your system Companies do fire drills so

why do they not do cyber security drills toolaquo

The Panel on the Climate Change Goals brought together

representatives from industry academia and NGOs to discuss the

progress on the climate change goals the aviation industry faces and

what is needed to reach them The industry has to achieve a goal of

climate neutral growth from 2020 but also the long-term target of cutting

net CO2 emissions by half by 2050 compared to 2005 levels

The panelists were Angela Gittens Director General of Airports Council

International Alan Joyce Qantas CEO Patrick de Castelbajac CEO of

aircraft manufacturer ATR John-Paul Clarke professor at Georgia

Institute of Technology and Tim Johnson of the International Coalition

for Sustainable Aviation

2050 might seeem a long way off but due to industry time lags therersquos

only around 10 years left to figure out how to reach the goal according

to John-Paul Clarke

They all agreed that the industry in all its supply chain-manufacturers

airports infrastructure airlines- must come together to work in a

concerted way to achieve how to go about achieveing these goals A

holistic perspective is needed as the industry stakeholders all are in

direct dependency and the example od a fuel efficient aircraft that

cannot operate efficiently because the air traffic management is not

efficient They stressed that sustainable development is not a question

of being politically correct any more but a condition of the future

existence of the industry ―there is no other way than being

environmentally respectful said Patrick de Castelbajac

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He added that aircraft manufacturers do consider now the

environmental impact of their aircraft at every stage from design

through to the eventual end-of-life disposal ―There is also a greater

convergence between economic and environmental interests which we

can see clearly on fuel burn he said

New technology and new management must be both environmentally

and economically sustainable

The panelists agreed that passengers are passsionate about it and do

want to offset the environmental impact of their flight Alan Joyce

said that one passenger every minute selects a voluntary offset

program

Angela Gittens said that Airports have adopted the Carbon

Accreditation Programme a programme that provides airports with a

common framework for active carbon management with measurable

goal-postsand 20 airports are already carbon neutral She added ICAO

and IATA should undertake the role of coordinating bodies which will

monitor assess and pace the progress It is necessary because ―If you

canrsquot measure it you canrsquot manage it

Continuous transparent monitoring of what is been done by an

independent entity would bring credibility according to John-

Paul Clarke

The panelists also agreed that ICAO and IATA will have to meet the

challenge of balancing the different levels of maturity in terms

of environmental measures around the globe in other words those that

move more quickly with those that have been left behind

15

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Joyce said the new ICAO aircraft CO2 standard would drive

advances in aircraft and engine technology He complained

that although there had been advances in navigation

technology and procedures - such as the traffic control

satellite navigation approaches to airports that saved his

airline up to 60000 tons of fuel - progress had been slow in

improving Air Traffic management and developing ATC

infrastructure

He insisted though on the role of biofuels He stressed that

more studies should be undertaken on biofuels to make sure

that they are produced in environmentally friendly way

―Biofuels are the only way we are going to get to our 2050

target Itrsquos a question of how we as an industry can cooperate

and how we can get governments interested enough to put a

policy framework in place to make that happen Their

development and insertion in the value chain will require RampD

and help from governments and other industrial sectors

He called his government to support the local alternative

fuels industry that creates new jobs and brings

environmental benefits

16

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Tim Johnson cautioned that it should not become

an ―accountancy exercise where we see one

gallon of biofuel uplifted to an aircraft or a tonne

of CO2 offset as the way we measure progress

adding it was important to move beyond

quantification and just emissions and consider

the wider sustainable development agenda

Investment decisions needed to be taken now to

reach the industryrsquos 2050 target he suggested

and clarity was needed on what should happen

and by when ICAO market-based measure is

perfoming well but there must be emphasis on the

other three pillars required for aviation emissions

reductions ndash aircraft technology operations and

infrastructure

17

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powered aircraft leaves Seville for Cairo-Solar

MADRID July 11 (Xinhua) -- The aircraft Solar Impulse

II powered completely by solar energy on Monday left

the Spanish city of Seville to attempt to land in

on WednesdayEgyptCairo

The route will be between 48 and 72 hours long

depending on weather conditions This will be the

penultimate flight of the plane that will travel to Abu

Dhabi afterwards

Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard who have

been working on the aircraft for more than a decade

will pilot the aircraft Borschberg will pilot the plane

from Seville to Cairo crossing seven countries after

which Piccard will fly to Abu Dhabi

Borschberg said that the trip was meaningful as it is

my last flight in this round-the-world epic I am happy

that were close to the end but also prudent knowing

that it is not done yet I have to stay really focused

SpainThe aircraft had been in Seville in the south of

for two weeks after successfully crossing the Atlantic

Ocean

Solar Impulse II is able to fly night and day without any

fossil fuel It travels at between 45 and 55 kmhour

reaching an altitude of 8500 meters The plane is wider

than a 747 jumbo jet and weighs 23 tons

httpwwwainonlinecom

Russias New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

A grand unveiling of the Irkut MC-21-300 on June 8

established a relatively firm project timeline for the

160- to 212-seat narrowbody and marked a measure

of vindication for what many in the West have

disparaged as a fringe project In attendance at the

ceremony Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

spoke of the prestige the program has brought to

the country as well as its importance to helping

move its economy forward He also congratulated

Irkutrsquos employees for their role in shaping the future

of Russiarsquos return to prominence in commercial

aircraft manufacturing

Expecting the MC-21 to gain Russian certification in

2018 United Aircraft subsidiary Irkut had hoped to

fly the first airplane by the end of this year

However during the rollout ceremony Medvedev

referenced plans for first flight ―within a year

and UAC officials acknowledged that a previously

quoted target might prove optimistic unless all goes

exactly to plan Rather that milestone appears most

likely to happen in or around February 2017

according to aUAC spokesman

1

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Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

2

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Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

3

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While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

4

httpwwwainonlinecom

Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

5

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Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

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Jetstarrsquos CEO said that invest a lot in their people both in full service

and in low cost training helping them to build skills relationships with

the customer Jetstar wants to enable customers to enjoy the ability of

pick and choose both to bundle and to unbundle

Emiratesrsquo CEO said that the airline spends an awful lot of time and

money on our premium product and the public knows about it and they

have always done that and they will continue to do it As soon as

things mature they will change to make things more interesting they

will be raising the bar for the consumers the business community

because ―we can do it

Panel discussion on Cyber Security

The panelists were Major General Linda Urrutia-Varhall the Assistant

Deputy Chief of Staff Director of National Intelligence for Aviation

Security in the US Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance the

Pentagon Washington DC Anja Kaspersen Head of International

Security for the World Economic Forum Alan Pellegrini CEO and

President of Thales USA Matthew Finn Managing Director of

Augmentiq Calin Rovinescu President and CEO of Air Canada and

Kurt Pipal FBI Assistant Legal Attache for US Embassy in the UK

They all agreed that aviation being a symbol of globalisation remains

an aspirational target for terrorists The interconnected nature of the

industry and interconnectibility of IT systems from baggage

movement to ticket kiosk and flight systems represent an ever growing

list of vulnerabilities and a whole brand new horizon of threats It is

however practically technologically and financially impossible to

address all the issues In the words of General Urrutia-Varhall the

interaction between actors threats and vulnerabilities can be viewed as

an ecosystem of forces in which ―we are as strong as our weakest link

No entity can go alone against these threats Airline industry

govenments domestic and international Intelligence community private

and public sectors should come together gather and share information

to characterise assess threats prioritise them and then act

appropriately

11

atnaero

Calin Rovinescu mentioned the ―very scary number that experts

estimate is the amount of damage caused last year by cyber hacks

was in the vicinity of US$500 million world wide and that 94

of global airlines had some form of cyber security breaches These

incidents were ―a real wake-up call for the industry Many of these

attacks were dealt with because airlines had good technology

protection but still these numbers make clear that as the industry

moves towards more automation seeking the interconnectiveness that

makes ir more efficient attack surfaces expand exponentially

Matthew Finn said businesses should look at security in a holistic way

He said there is currently a downward trend of documentation fraud

but an upward trend regarding identity theft

Alan Pellegrini said that the industy has seen recently an increasing

number of high profile hacks hacks in the wi-fi connectivity simply to

steal passenger information that is flowing over those networks a

hack into the ground systems of an airline to steal financial

transactions and information to collect the money the airline was

supposed to collect The threat is very real and although it has not

resulted to serious safety related issues it is resulting into serious

disrupting The fact that there has been no serious incident means

though that the industry is getting a lot of it right

Airlines now connect passengers to Wi-Fi on aircraft they add

connectivity to crews aircraft operations are connected on the

ground some are experimenting with cloud-based avionics controlling

aircraft operations The move towards more automation is inescepable

so the protection from cyber attackes To build such protection

requires a

a multi-year plan with responsibility at the highest level and

collaboration and information exchange between the aviation industry

and governments

12

atnaero

There are many technoloty tools Thales is working on to better protect

the connected aircraft but there is no ―silver bullet there is no one

piece of technology that is going to solve all the industry problems

because security is a process the same way threats are not static they

continue to evolve ―Technology is not done it continues monitoring

security operations centres are required to identify threats as they start

to materialize and to mitigate them and then go ahead and implement

addtional technology that is going to deal with new potential threats so

it is a continuous process

According to Calin Rovinescu ―No matter how complex and good

systems a company may have problems are not solved overnight and

aviation must develop a capability to respond and recover He pointed

out that aviation industry must look at and work with other industries

that have more maturity with cyber threats such as financial

institutions technology companies

The industry is very encouraged by the fact IATA is taking on this topic

to prevent serious disruption and perhaps safety issues later

Anja Kaspersen admitted that the threat is real but she added that there

is also ―fear mongering because of the commercial interests invested

in cyber security She stressed that the combination of ―ignorance and

unsubstantiated fear is dangerous and hampers preparedness She

cautioned airlines not to underestimate the psychological effect

should as as they live off their reputation Airlines have to respond to

customer expectations for security concerns

She added that aviation should work on the assumption that they

receiving both physical and cyber attacks and and therefore work on

how to protect the systems with more advanced software and develop

some translation tools to compare traditional and new risks

13

atnaero

Kurt Pipal pointed as airline companies possess and deal with huge

amounts of data they become by definition a target for industrial

espionage He cautioned companies to be very careful about

subcontractors which do necessarily rely on the same system

resilience He stressed the importance of sharing intelligence

information in the industry Build awareness and do not have a silo

approach Identify your vulnerabilities and make the assumption that

you are going to be hacked Participate in a 247 securities operation

centre and called the aviation to Occasionally even use a so-called

dark agent - a hacker to test your system Companies do fire drills so

why do they not do cyber security drills toolaquo

The Panel on the Climate Change Goals brought together

representatives from industry academia and NGOs to discuss the

progress on the climate change goals the aviation industry faces and

what is needed to reach them The industry has to achieve a goal of

climate neutral growth from 2020 but also the long-term target of cutting

net CO2 emissions by half by 2050 compared to 2005 levels

The panelists were Angela Gittens Director General of Airports Council

International Alan Joyce Qantas CEO Patrick de Castelbajac CEO of

aircraft manufacturer ATR John-Paul Clarke professor at Georgia

Institute of Technology and Tim Johnson of the International Coalition

for Sustainable Aviation

2050 might seeem a long way off but due to industry time lags therersquos

only around 10 years left to figure out how to reach the goal according

to John-Paul Clarke

They all agreed that the industry in all its supply chain-manufacturers

airports infrastructure airlines- must come together to work in a

concerted way to achieve how to go about achieveing these goals A

holistic perspective is needed as the industry stakeholders all are in

direct dependency and the example od a fuel efficient aircraft that

cannot operate efficiently because the air traffic management is not

efficient They stressed that sustainable development is not a question

of being politically correct any more but a condition of the future

existence of the industry ―there is no other way than being

environmentally respectful said Patrick de Castelbajac

14

atnaero

He added that aircraft manufacturers do consider now the

environmental impact of their aircraft at every stage from design

through to the eventual end-of-life disposal ―There is also a greater

convergence between economic and environmental interests which we

can see clearly on fuel burn he said

New technology and new management must be both environmentally

and economically sustainable

The panelists agreed that passengers are passsionate about it and do

want to offset the environmental impact of their flight Alan Joyce

said that one passenger every minute selects a voluntary offset

program

Angela Gittens said that Airports have adopted the Carbon

Accreditation Programme a programme that provides airports with a

common framework for active carbon management with measurable

goal-postsand 20 airports are already carbon neutral She added ICAO

and IATA should undertake the role of coordinating bodies which will

monitor assess and pace the progress It is necessary because ―If you

canrsquot measure it you canrsquot manage it

Continuous transparent monitoring of what is been done by an

independent entity would bring credibility according to John-

Paul Clarke

The panelists also agreed that ICAO and IATA will have to meet the

challenge of balancing the different levels of maturity in terms

of environmental measures around the globe in other words those that

move more quickly with those that have been left behind

15

atnaero

Joyce said the new ICAO aircraft CO2 standard would drive

advances in aircraft and engine technology He complained

that although there had been advances in navigation

technology and procedures - such as the traffic control

satellite navigation approaches to airports that saved his

airline up to 60000 tons of fuel - progress had been slow in

improving Air Traffic management and developing ATC

infrastructure

He insisted though on the role of biofuels He stressed that

more studies should be undertaken on biofuels to make sure

that they are produced in environmentally friendly way

―Biofuels are the only way we are going to get to our 2050

target Itrsquos a question of how we as an industry can cooperate

and how we can get governments interested enough to put a

policy framework in place to make that happen Their

development and insertion in the value chain will require RampD

and help from governments and other industrial sectors

He called his government to support the local alternative

fuels industry that creates new jobs and brings

environmental benefits

16

atnaero

Tim Johnson cautioned that it should not become

an ―accountancy exercise where we see one

gallon of biofuel uplifted to an aircraft or a tonne

of CO2 offset as the way we measure progress

adding it was important to move beyond

quantification and just emissions and consider

the wider sustainable development agenda

Investment decisions needed to be taken now to

reach the industryrsquos 2050 target he suggested

and clarity was needed on what should happen

and by when ICAO market-based measure is

perfoming well but there must be emphasis on the

other three pillars required for aviation emissions

reductions ndash aircraft technology operations and

infrastructure

17

httpnewsxinhuanetcom

powered aircraft leaves Seville for Cairo-Solar

MADRID July 11 (Xinhua) -- The aircraft Solar Impulse

II powered completely by solar energy on Monday left

the Spanish city of Seville to attempt to land in

on WednesdayEgyptCairo

The route will be between 48 and 72 hours long

depending on weather conditions This will be the

penultimate flight of the plane that will travel to Abu

Dhabi afterwards

Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard who have

been working on the aircraft for more than a decade

will pilot the aircraft Borschberg will pilot the plane

from Seville to Cairo crossing seven countries after

which Piccard will fly to Abu Dhabi

Borschberg said that the trip was meaningful as it is

my last flight in this round-the-world epic I am happy

that were close to the end but also prudent knowing

that it is not done yet I have to stay really focused

SpainThe aircraft had been in Seville in the south of

for two weeks after successfully crossing the Atlantic

Ocean

Solar Impulse II is able to fly night and day without any

fossil fuel It travels at between 45 and 55 kmhour

reaching an altitude of 8500 meters The plane is wider

than a 747 jumbo jet and weighs 23 tons

httpwwwainonlinecom

Russias New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

A grand unveiling of the Irkut MC-21-300 on June 8

established a relatively firm project timeline for the

160- to 212-seat narrowbody and marked a measure

of vindication for what many in the West have

disparaged as a fringe project In attendance at the

ceremony Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

spoke of the prestige the program has brought to

the country as well as its importance to helping

move its economy forward He also congratulated

Irkutrsquos employees for their role in shaping the future

of Russiarsquos return to prominence in commercial

aircraft manufacturing

Expecting the MC-21 to gain Russian certification in

2018 United Aircraft subsidiary Irkut had hoped to

fly the first airplane by the end of this year

However during the rollout ceremony Medvedev

referenced plans for first flight ―within a year

and UAC officials acknowledged that a previously

quoted target might prove optimistic unless all goes

exactly to plan Rather that milestone appears most

likely to happen in or around February 2017

according to aUAC spokesman

1

httpwwwainonlinecom

Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

2

httpwwwainonlinecom

Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

3

httpwwwainonlinecom

While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

4

httpwwwainonlinecom

Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

5

httpwwwainonlinecom

Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

الشركة القابضة -ادارة العالقات العامة

لمصر للطيران

atnaero

Calin Rovinescu mentioned the ―very scary number that experts

estimate is the amount of damage caused last year by cyber hacks

was in the vicinity of US$500 million world wide and that 94

of global airlines had some form of cyber security breaches These

incidents were ―a real wake-up call for the industry Many of these

attacks were dealt with because airlines had good technology

protection but still these numbers make clear that as the industry

moves towards more automation seeking the interconnectiveness that

makes ir more efficient attack surfaces expand exponentially

Matthew Finn said businesses should look at security in a holistic way

He said there is currently a downward trend of documentation fraud

but an upward trend regarding identity theft

Alan Pellegrini said that the industy has seen recently an increasing

number of high profile hacks hacks in the wi-fi connectivity simply to

steal passenger information that is flowing over those networks a

hack into the ground systems of an airline to steal financial

transactions and information to collect the money the airline was

supposed to collect The threat is very real and although it has not

resulted to serious safety related issues it is resulting into serious

disrupting The fact that there has been no serious incident means

though that the industry is getting a lot of it right

Airlines now connect passengers to Wi-Fi on aircraft they add

connectivity to crews aircraft operations are connected on the

ground some are experimenting with cloud-based avionics controlling

aircraft operations The move towards more automation is inescepable

so the protection from cyber attackes To build such protection

requires a

a multi-year plan with responsibility at the highest level and

collaboration and information exchange between the aviation industry

and governments

12

atnaero

There are many technoloty tools Thales is working on to better protect

the connected aircraft but there is no ―silver bullet there is no one

piece of technology that is going to solve all the industry problems

because security is a process the same way threats are not static they

continue to evolve ―Technology is not done it continues monitoring

security operations centres are required to identify threats as they start

to materialize and to mitigate them and then go ahead and implement

addtional technology that is going to deal with new potential threats so

it is a continuous process

According to Calin Rovinescu ―No matter how complex and good

systems a company may have problems are not solved overnight and

aviation must develop a capability to respond and recover He pointed

out that aviation industry must look at and work with other industries

that have more maturity with cyber threats such as financial

institutions technology companies

The industry is very encouraged by the fact IATA is taking on this topic

to prevent serious disruption and perhaps safety issues later

Anja Kaspersen admitted that the threat is real but she added that there

is also ―fear mongering because of the commercial interests invested

in cyber security She stressed that the combination of ―ignorance and

unsubstantiated fear is dangerous and hampers preparedness She

cautioned airlines not to underestimate the psychological effect

should as as they live off their reputation Airlines have to respond to

customer expectations for security concerns

She added that aviation should work on the assumption that they

receiving both physical and cyber attacks and and therefore work on

how to protect the systems with more advanced software and develop

some translation tools to compare traditional and new risks

13

atnaero

Kurt Pipal pointed as airline companies possess and deal with huge

amounts of data they become by definition a target for industrial

espionage He cautioned companies to be very careful about

subcontractors which do necessarily rely on the same system

resilience He stressed the importance of sharing intelligence

information in the industry Build awareness and do not have a silo

approach Identify your vulnerabilities and make the assumption that

you are going to be hacked Participate in a 247 securities operation

centre and called the aviation to Occasionally even use a so-called

dark agent - a hacker to test your system Companies do fire drills so

why do they not do cyber security drills toolaquo

The Panel on the Climate Change Goals brought together

representatives from industry academia and NGOs to discuss the

progress on the climate change goals the aviation industry faces and

what is needed to reach them The industry has to achieve a goal of

climate neutral growth from 2020 but also the long-term target of cutting

net CO2 emissions by half by 2050 compared to 2005 levels

The panelists were Angela Gittens Director General of Airports Council

International Alan Joyce Qantas CEO Patrick de Castelbajac CEO of

aircraft manufacturer ATR John-Paul Clarke professor at Georgia

Institute of Technology and Tim Johnson of the International Coalition

for Sustainable Aviation

2050 might seeem a long way off but due to industry time lags therersquos

only around 10 years left to figure out how to reach the goal according

to John-Paul Clarke

They all agreed that the industry in all its supply chain-manufacturers

airports infrastructure airlines- must come together to work in a

concerted way to achieve how to go about achieveing these goals A

holistic perspective is needed as the industry stakeholders all are in

direct dependency and the example od a fuel efficient aircraft that

cannot operate efficiently because the air traffic management is not

efficient They stressed that sustainable development is not a question

of being politically correct any more but a condition of the future

existence of the industry ―there is no other way than being

environmentally respectful said Patrick de Castelbajac

14

atnaero

He added that aircraft manufacturers do consider now the

environmental impact of their aircraft at every stage from design

through to the eventual end-of-life disposal ―There is also a greater

convergence between economic and environmental interests which we

can see clearly on fuel burn he said

New technology and new management must be both environmentally

and economically sustainable

The panelists agreed that passengers are passsionate about it and do

want to offset the environmental impact of their flight Alan Joyce

said that one passenger every minute selects a voluntary offset

program

Angela Gittens said that Airports have adopted the Carbon

Accreditation Programme a programme that provides airports with a

common framework for active carbon management with measurable

goal-postsand 20 airports are already carbon neutral She added ICAO

and IATA should undertake the role of coordinating bodies which will

monitor assess and pace the progress It is necessary because ―If you

canrsquot measure it you canrsquot manage it

Continuous transparent monitoring of what is been done by an

independent entity would bring credibility according to John-

Paul Clarke

The panelists also agreed that ICAO and IATA will have to meet the

challenge of balancing the different levels of maturity in terms

of environmental measures around the globe in other words those that

move more quickly with those that have been left behind

15

atnaero

Joyce said the new ICAO aircraft CO2 standard would drive

advances in aircraft and engine technology He complained

that although there had been advances in navigation

technology and procedures - such as the traffic control

satellite navigation approaches to airports that saved his

airline up to 60000 tons of fuel - progress had been slow in

improving Air Traffic management and developing ATC

infrastructure

He insisted though on the role of biofuels He stressed that

more studies should be undertaken on biofuels to make sure

that they are produced in environmentally friendly way

―Biofuels are the only way we are going to get to our 2050

target Itrsquos a question of how we as an industry can cooperate

and how we can get governments interested enough to put a

policy framework in place to make that happen Their

development and insertion in the value chain will require RampD

and help from governments and other industrial sectors

He called his government to support the local alternative

fuels industry that creates new jobs and brings

environmental benefits

16

atnaero

Tim Johnson cautioned that it should not become

an ―accountancy exercise where we see one

gallon of biofuel uplifted to an aircraft or a tonne

of CO2 offset as the way we measure progress

adding it was important to move beyond

quantification and just emissions and consider

the wider sustainable development agenda

Investment decisions needed to be taken now to

reach the industryrsquos 2050 target he suggested

and clarity was needed on what should happen

and by when ICAO market-based measure is

perfoming well but there must be emphasis on the

other three pillars required for aviation emissions

reductions ndash aircraft technology operations and

infrastructure

17

httpnewsxinhuanetcom

powered aircraft leaves Seville for Cairo-Solar

MADRID July 11 (Xinhua) -- The aircraft Solar Impulse

II powered completely by solar energy on Monday left

the Spanish city of Seville to attempt to land in

on WednesdayEgyptCairo

The route will be between 48 and 72 hours long

depending on weather conditions This will be the

penultimate flight of the plane that will travel to Abu

Dhabi afterwards

Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard who have

been working on the aircraft for more than a decade

will pilot the aircraft Borschberg will pilot the plane

from Seville to Cairo crossing seven countries after

which Piccard will fly to Abu Dhabi

Borschberg said that the trip was meaningful as it is

my last flight in this round-the-world epic I am happy

that were close to the end but also prudent knowing

that it is not done yet I have to stay really focused

SpainThe aircraft had been in Seville in the south of

for two weeks after successfully crossing the Atlantic

Ocean

Solar Impulse II is able to fly night and day without any

fossil fuel It travels at between 45 and 55 kmhour

reaching an altitude of 8500 meters The plane is wider

than a 747 jumbo jet and weighs 23 tons

httpwwwainonlinecom

Russias New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

A grand unveiling of the Irkut MC-21-300 on June 8

established a relatively firm project timeline for the

160- to 212-seat narrowbody and marked a measure

of vindication for what many in the West have

disparaged as a fringe project In attendance at the

ceremony Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

spoke of the prestige the program has brought to

the country as well as its importance to helping

move its economy forward He also congratulated

Irkutrsquos employees for their role in shaping the future

of Russiarsquos return to prominence in commercial

aircraft manufacturing

Expecting the MC-21 to gain Russian certification in

2018 United Aircraft subsidiary Irkut had hoped to

fly the first airplane by the end of this year

However during the rollout ceremony Medvedev

referenced plans for first flight ―within a year

and UAC officials acknowledged that a previously

quoted target might prove optimistic unless all goes

exactly to plan Rather that milestone appears most

likely to happen in or around February 2017

according to aUAC spokesman

1

httpwwwainonlinecom

Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

2

httpwwwainonlinecom

Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

3

httpwwwainonlinecom

While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

4

httpwwwainonlinecom

Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

5

httpwwwainonlinecom

Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

الشركة القابضة -ادارة العالقات العامة

لمصر للطيران

atnaero

There are many technoloty tools Thales is working on to better protect

the connected aircraft but there is no ―silver bullet there is no one

piece of technology that is going to solve all the industry problems

because security is a process the same way threats are not static they

continue to evolve ―Technology is not done it continues monitoring

security operations centres are required to identify threats as they start

to materialize and to mitigate them and then go ahead and implement

addtional technology that is going to deal with new potential threats so

it is a continuous process

According to Calin Rovinescu ―No matter how complex and good

systems a company may have problems are not solved overnight and

aviation must develop a capability to respond and recover He pointed

out that aviation industry must look at and work with other industries

that have more maturity with cyber threats such as financial

institutions technology companies

The industry is very encouraged by the fact IATA is taking on this topic

to prevent serious disruption and perhaps safety issues later

Anja Kaspersen admitted that the threat is real but she added that there

is also ―fear mongering because of the commercial interests invested

in cyber security She stressed that the combination of ―ignorance and

unsubstantiated fear is dangerous and hampers preparedness She

cautioned airlines not to underestimate the psychological effect

should as as they live off their reputation Airlines have to respond to

customer expectations for security concerns

She added that aviation should work on the assumption that they

receiving both physical and cyber attacks and and therefore work on

how to protect the systems with more advanced software and develop

some translation tools to compare traditional and new risks

13

atnaero

Kurt Pipal pointed as airline companies possess and deal with huge

amounts of data they become by definition a target for industrial

espionage He cautioned companies to be very careful about

subcontractors which do necessarily rely on the same system

resilience He stressed the importance of sharing intelligence

information in the industry Build awareness and do not have a silo

approach Identify your vulnerabilities and make the assumption that

you are going to be hacked Participate in a 247 securities operation

centre and called the aviation to Occasionally even use a so-called

dark agent - a hacker to test your system Companies do fire drills so

why do they not do cyber security drills toolaquo

The Panel on the Climate Change Goals brought together

representatives from industry academia and NGOs to discuss the

progress on the climate change goals the aviation industry faces and

what is needed to reach them The industry has to achieve a goal of

climate neutral growth from 2020 but also the long-term target of cutting

net CO2 emissions by half by 2050 compared to 2005 levels

The panelists were Angela Gittens Director General of Airports Council

International Alan Joyce Qantas CEO Patrick de Castelbajac CEO of

aircraft manufacturer ATR John-Paul Clarke professor at Georgia

Institute of Technology and Tim Johnson of the International Coalition

for Sustainable Aviation

2050 might seeem a long way off but due to industry time lags therersquos

only around 10 years left to figure out how to reach the goal according

to John-Paul Clarke

They all agreed that the industry in all its supply chain-manufacturers

airports infrastructure airlines- must come together to work in a

concerted way to achieve how to go about achieveing these goals A

holistic perspective is needed as the industry stakeholders all are in

direct dependency and the example od a fuel efficient aircraft that

cannot operate efficiently because the air traffic management is not

efficient They stressed that sustainable development is not a question

of being politically correct any more but a condition of the future

existence of the industry ―there is no other way than being

environmentally respectful said Patrick de Castelbajac

14

atnaero

He added that aircraft manufacturers do consider now the

environmental impact of their aircraft at every stage from design

through to the eventual end-of-life disposal ―There is also a greater

convergence between economic and environmental interests which we

can see clearly on fuel burn he said

New technology and new management must be both environmentally

and economically sustainable

The panelists agreed that passengers are passsionate about it and do

want to offset the environmental impact of their flight Alan Joyce

said that one passenger every minute selects a voluntary offset

program

Angela Gittens said that Airports have adopted the Carbon

Accreditation Programme a programme that provides airports with a

common framework for active carbon management with measurable

goal-postsand 20 airports are already carbon neutral She added ICAO

and IATA should undertake the role of coordinating bodies which will

monitor assess and pace the progress It is necessary because ―If you

canrsquot measure it you canrsquot manage it

Continuous transparent monitoring of what is been done by an

independent entity would bring credibility according to John-

Paul Clarke

The panelists also agreed that ICAO and IATA will have to meet the

challenge of balancing the different levels of maturity in terms

of environmental measures around the globe in other words those that

move more quickly with those that have been left behind

15

atnaero

Joyce said the new ICAO aircraft CO2 standard would drive

advances in aircraft and engine technology He complained

that although there had been advances in navigation

technology and procedures - such as the traffic control

satellite navigation approaches to airports that saved his

airline up to 60000 tons of fuel - progress had been slow in

improving Air Traffic management and developing ATC

infrastructure

He insisted though on the role of biofuels He stressed that

more studies should be undertaken on biofuels to make sure

that they are produced in environmentally friendly way

―Biofuels are the only way we are going to get to our 2050

target Itrsquos a question of how we as an industry can cooperate

and how we can get governments interested enough to put a

policy framework in place to make that happen Their

development and insertion in the value chain will require RampD

and help from governments and other industrial sectors

He called his government to support the local alternative

fuels industry that creates new jobs and brings

environmental benefits

16

atnaero

Tim Johnson cautioned that it should not become

an ―accountancy exercise where we see one

gallon of biofuel uplifted to an aircraft or a tonne

of CO2 offset as the way we measure progress

adding it was important to move beyond

quantification and just emissions and consider

the wider sustainable development agenda

Investment decisions needed to be taken now to

reach the industryrsquos 2050 target he suggested

and clarity was needed on what should happen

and by when ICAO market-based measure is

perfoming well but there must be emphasis on the

other three pillars required for aviation emissions

reductions ndash aircraft technology operations and

infrastructure

17

httpnewsxinhuanetcom

powered aircraft leaves Seville for Cairo-Solar

MADRID July 11 (Xinhua) -- The aircraft Solar Impulse

II powered completely by solar energy on Monday left

the Spanish city of Seville to attempt to land in

on WednesdayEgyptCairo

The route will be between 48 and 72 hours long

depending on weather conditions This will be the

penultimate flight of the plane that will travel to Abu

Dhabi afterwards

Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard who have

been working on the aircraft for more than a decade

will pilot the aircraft Borschberg will pilot the plane

from Seville to Cairo crossing seven countries after

which Piccard will fly to Abu Dhabi

Borschberg said that the trip was meaningful as it is

my last flight in this round-the-world epic I am happy

that were close to the end but also prudent knowing

that it is not done yet I have to stay really focused

SpainThe aircraft had been in Seville in the south of

for two weeks after successfully crossing the Atlantic

Ocean

Solar Impulse II is able to fly night and day without any

fossil fuel It travels at between 45 and 55 kmhour

reaching an altitude of 8500 meters The plane is wider

than a 747 jumbo jet and weighs 23 tons

httpwwwainonlinecom

Russias New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

A grand unveiling of the Irkut MC-21-300 on June 8

established a relatively firm project timeline for the

160- to 212-seat narrowbody and marked a measure

of vindication for what many in the West have

disparaged as a fringe project In attendance at the

ceremony Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

spoke of the prestige the program has brought to

the country as well as its importance to helping

move its economy forward He also congratulated

Irkutrsquos employees for their role in shaping the future

of Russiarsquos return to prominence in commercial

aircraft manufacturing

Expecting the MC-21 to gain Russian certification in

2018 United Aircraft subsidiary Irkut had hoped to

fly the first airplane by the end of this year

However during the rollout ceremony Medvedev

referenced plans for first flight ―within a year

and UAC officials acknowledged that a previously

quoted target might prove optimistic unless all goes

exactly to plan Rather that milestone appears most

likely to happen in or around February 2017

according to aUAC spokesman

1

httpwwwainonlinecom

Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

2

httpwwwainonlinecom

Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

3

httpwwwainonlinecom

While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

4

httpwwwainonlinecom

Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

5

httpwwwainonlinecom

Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

الشركة القابضة -ادارة العالقات العامة

لمصر للطيران

atnaero

Kurt Pipal pointed as airline companies possess and deal with huge

amounts of data they become by definition a target for industrial

espionage He cautioned companies to be very careful about

subcontractors which do necessarily rely on the same system

resilience He stressed the importance of sharing intelligence

information in the industry Build awareness and do not have a silo

approach Identify your vulnerabilities and make the assumption that

you are going to be hacked Participate in a 247 securities operation

centre and called the aviation to Occasionally even use a so-called

dark agent - a hacker to test your system Companies do fire drills so

why do they not do cyber security drills toolaquo

The Panel on the Climate Change Goals brought together

representatives from industry academia and NGOs to discuss the

progress on the climate change goals the aviation industry faces and

what is needed to reach them The industry has to achieve a goal of

climate neutral growth from 2020 but also the long-term target of cutting

net CO2 emissions by half by 2050 compared to 2005 levels

The panelists were Angela Gittens Director General of Airports Council

International Alan Joyce Qantas CEO Patrick de Castelbajac CEO of

aircraft manufacturer ATR John-Paul Clarke professor at Georgia

Institute of Technology and Tim Johnson of the International Coalition

for Sustainable Aviation

2050 might seeem a long way off but due to industry time lags therersquos

only around 10 years left to figure out how to reach the goal according

to John-Paul Clarke

They all agreed that the industry in all its supply chain-manufacturers

airports infrastructure airlines- must come together to work in a

concerted way to achieve how to go about achieveing these goals A

holistic perspective is needed as the industry stakeholders all are in

direct dependency and the example od a fuel efficient aircraft that

cannot operate efficiently because the air traffic management is not

efficient They stressed that sustainable development is not a question

of being politically correct any more but a condition of the future

existence of the industry ―there is no other way than being

environmentally respectful said Patrick de Castelbajac

14

atnaero

He added that aircraft manufacturers do consider now the

environmental impact of their aircraft at every stage from design

through to the eventual end-of-life disposal ―There is also a greater

convergence between economic and environmental interests which we

can see clearly on fuel burn he said

New technology and new management must be both environmentally

and economically sustainable

The panelists agreed that passengers are passsionate about it and do

want to offset the environmental impact of their flight Alan Joyce

said that one passenger every minute selects a voluntary offset

program

Angela Gittens said that Airports have adopted the Carbon

Accreditation Programme a programme that provides airports with a

common framework for active carbon management with measurable

goal-postsand 20 airports are already carbon neutral She added ICAO

and IATA should undertake the role of coordinating bodies which will

monitor assess and pace the progress It is necessary because ―If you

canrsquot measure it you canrsquot manage it

Continuous transparent monitoring of what is been done by an

independent entity would bring credibility according to John-

Paul Clarke

The panelists also agreed that ICAO and IATA will have to meet the

challenge of balancing the different levels of maturity in terms

of environmental measures around the globe in other words those that

move more quickly with those that have been left behind

15

atnaero

Joyce said the new ICAO aircraft CO2 standard would drive

advances in aircraft and engine technology He complained

that although there had been advances in navigation

technology and procedures - such as the traffic control

satellite navigation approaches to airports that saved his

airline up to 60000 tons of fuel - progress had been slow in

improving Air Traffic management and developing ATC

infrastructure

He insisted though on the role of biofuels He stressed that

more studies should be undertaken on biofuels to make sure

that they are produced in environmentally friendly way

―Biofuels are the only way we are going to get to our 2050

target Itrsquos a question of how we as an industry can cooperate

and how we can get governments interested enough to put a

policy framework in place to make that happen Their

development and insertion in the value chain will require RampD

and help from governments and other industrial sectors

He called his government to support the local alternative

fuels industry that creates new jobs and brings

environmental benefits

16

atnaero

Tim Johnson cautioned that it should not become

an ―accountancy exercise where we see one

gallon of biofuel uplifted to an aircraft or a tonne

of CO2 offset as the way we measure progress

adding it was important to move beyond

quantification and just emissions and consider

the wider sustainable development agenda

Investment decisions needed to be taken now to

reach the industryrsquos 2050 target he suggested

and clarity was needed on what should happen

and by when ICAO market-based measure is

perfoming well but there must be emphasis on the

other three pillars required for aviation emissions

reductions ndash aircraft technology operations and

infrastructure

17

httpnewsxinhuanetcom

powered aircraft leaves Seville for Cairo-Solar

MADRID July 11 (Xinhua) -- The aircraft Solar Impulse

II powered completely by solar energy on Monday left

the Spanish city of Seville to attempt to land in

on WednesdayEgyptCairo

The route will be between 48 and 72 hours long

depending on weather conditions This will be the

penultimate flight of the plane that will travel to Abu

Dhabi afterwards

Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard who have

been working on the aircraft for more than a decade

will pilot the aircraft Borschberg will pilot the plane

from Seville to Cairo crossing seven countries after

which Piccard will fly to Abu Dhabi

Borschberg said that the trip was meaningful as it is

my last flight in this round-the-world epic I am happy

that were close to the end but also prudent knowing

that it is not done yet I have to stay really focused

SpainThe aircraft had been in Seville in the south of

for two weeks after successfully crossing the Atlantic

Ocean

Solar Impulse II is able to fly night and day without any

fossil fuel It travels at between 45 and 55 kmhour

reaching an altitude of 8500 meters The plane is wider

than a 747 jumbo jet and weighs 23 tons

httpwwwainonlinecom

Russias New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

A grand unveiling of the Irkut MC-21-300 on June 8

established a relatively firm project timeline for the

160- to 212-seat narrowbody and marked a measure

of vindication for what many in the West have

disparaged as a fringe project In attendance at the

ceremony Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

spoke of the prestige the program has brought to

the country as well as its importance to helping

move its economy forward He also congratulated

Irkutrsquos employees for their role in shaping the future

of Russiarsquos return to prominence in commercial

aircraft manufacturing

Expecting the MC-21 to gain Russian certification in

2018 United Aircraft subsidiary Irkut had hoped to

fly the first airplane by the end of this year

However during the rollout ceremony Medvedev

referenced plans for first flight ―within a year

and UAC officials acknowledged that a previously

quoted target might prove optimistic unless all goes

exactly to plan Rather that milestone appears most

likely to happen in or around February 2017

according to aUAC spokesman

1

httpwwwainonlinecom

Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

2

httpwwwainonlinecom

Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

3

httpwwwainonlinecom

While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

4

httpwwwainonlinecom

Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

5

httpwwwainonlinecom

Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

الشركة القابضة -ادارة العالقات العامة

لمصر للطيران

atnaero

He added that aircraft manufacturers do consider now the

environmental impact of their aircraft at every stage from design

through to the eventual end-of-life disposal ―There is also a greater

convergence between economic and environmental interests which we

can see clearly on fuel burn he said

New technology and new management must be both environmentally

and economically sustainable

The panelists agreed that passengers are passsionate about it and do

want to offset the environmental impact of their flight Alan Joyce

said that one passenger every minute selects a voluntary offset

program

Angela Gittens said that Airports have adopted the Carbon

Accreditation Programme a programme that provides airports with a

common framework for active carbon management with measurable

goal-postsand 20 airports are already carbon neutral She added ICAO

and IATA should undertake the role of coordinating bodies which will

monitor assess and pace the progress It is necessary because ―If you

canrsquot measure it you canrsquot manage it

Continuous transparent monitoring of what is been done by an

independent entity would bring credibility according to John-

Paul Clarke

The panelists also agreed that ICAO and IATA will have to meet the

challenge of balancing the different levels of maturity in terms

of environmental measures around the globe in other words those that

move more quickly with those that have been left behind

15

atnaero

Joyce said the new ICAO aircraft CO2 standard would drive

advances in aircraft and engine technology He complained

that although there had been advances in navigation

technology and procedures - such as the traffic control

satellite navigation approaches to airports that saved his

airline up to 60000 tons of fuel - progress had been slow in

improving Air Traffic management and developing ATC

infrastructure

He insisted though on the role of biofuels He stressed that

more studies should be undertaken on biofuels to make sure

that they are produced in environmentally friendly way

―Biofuels are the only way we are going to get to our 2050

target Itrsquos a question of how we as an industry can cooperate

and how we can get governments interested enough to put a

policy framework in place to make that happen Their

development and insertion in the value chain will require RampD

and help from governments and other industrial sectors

He called his government to support the local alternative

fuels industry that creates new jobs and brings

environmental benefits

16

atnaero

Tim Johnson cautioned that it should not become

an ―accountancy exercise where we see one

gallon of biofuel uplifted to an aircraft or a tonne

of CO2 offset as the way we measure progress

adding it was important to move beyond

quantification and just emissions and consider

the wider sustainable development agenda

Investment decisions needed to be taken now to

reach the industryrsquos 2050 target he suggested

and clarity was needed on what should happen

and by when ICAO market-based measure is

perfoming well but there must be emphasis on the

other three pillars required for aviation emissions

reductions ndash aircraft technology operations and

infrastructure

17

httpnewsxinhuanetcom

powered aircraft leaves Seville for Cairo-Solar

MADRID July 11 (Xinhua) -- The aircraft Solar Impulse

II powered completely by solar energy on Monday left

the Spanish city of Seville to attempt to land in

on WednesdayEgyptCairo

The route will be between 48 and 72 hours long

depending on weather conditions This will be the

penultimate flight of the plane that will travel to Abu

Dhabi afterwards

Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard who have

been working on the aircraft for more than a decade

will pilot the aircraft Borschberg will pilot the plane

from Seville to Cairo crossing seven countries after

which Piccard will fly to Abu Dhabi

Borschberg said that the trip was meaningful as it is

my last flight in this round-the-world epic I am happy

that were close to the end but also prudent knowing

that it is not done yet I have to stay really focused

SpainThe aircraft had been in Seville in the south of

for two weeks after successfully crossing the Atlantic

Ocean

Solar Impulse II is able to fly night and day without any

fossil fuel It travels at between 45 and 55 kmhour

reaching an altitude of 8500 meters The plane is wider

than a 747 jumbo jet and weighs 23 tons

httpwwwainonlinecom

Russias New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

A grand unveiling of the Irkut MC-21-300 on June 8

established a relatively firm project timeline for the

160- to 212-seat narrowbody and marked a measure

of vindication for what many in the West have

disparaged as a fringe project In attendance at the

ceremony Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

spoke of the prestige the program has brought to

the country as well as its importance to helping

move its economy forward He also congratulated

Irkutrsquos employees for their role in shaping the future

of Russiarsquos return to prominence in commercial

aircraft manufacturing

Expecting the MC-21 to gain Russian certification in

2018 United Aircraft subsidiary Irkut had hoped to

fly the first airplane by the end of this year

However during the rollout ceremony Medvedev

referenced plans for first flight ―within a year

and UAC officials acknowledged that a previously

quoted target might prove optimistic unless all goes

exactly to plan Rather that milestone appears most

likely to happen in or around February 2017

according to aUAC spokesman

1

httpwwwainonlinecom

Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

2

httpwwwainonlinecom

Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

3

httpwwwainonlinecom

While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

4

httpwwwainonlinecom

Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

5

httpwwwainonlinecom

Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

الشركة القابضة -ادارة العالقات العامة

لمصر للطيران

atnaero

Joyce said the new ICAO aircraft CO2 standard would drive

advances in aircraft and engine technology He complained

that although there had been advances in navigation

technology and procedures - such as the traffic control

satellite navigation approaches to airports that saved his

airline up to 60000 tons of fuel - progress had been slow in

improving Air Traffic management and developing ATC

infrastructure

He insisted though on the role of biofuels He stressed that

more studies should be undertaken on biofuels to make sure

that they are produced in environmentally friendly way

―Biofuels are the only way we are going to get to our 2050

target Itrsquos a question of how we as an industry can cooperate

and how we can get governments interested enough to put a

policy framework in place to make that happen Their

development and insertion in the value chain will require RampD

and help from governments and other industrial sectors

He called his government to support the local alternative

fuels industry that creates new jobs and brings

environmental benefits

16

atnaero

Tim Johnson cautioned that it should not become

an ―accountancy exercise where we see one

gallon of biofuel uplifted to an aircraft or a tonne

of CO2 offset as the way we measure progress

adding it was important to move beyond

quantification and just emissions and consider

the wider sustainable development agenda

Investment decisions needed to be taken now to

reach the industryrsquos 2050 target he suggested

and clarity was needed on what should happen

and by when ICAO market-based measure is

perfoming well but there must be emphasis on the

other three pillars required for aviation emissions

reductions ndash aircraft technology operations and

infrastructure

17

httpnewsxinhuanetcom

powered aircraft leaves Seville for Cairo-Solar

MADRID July 11 (Xinhua) -- The aircraft Solar Impulse

II powered completely by solar energy on Monday left

the Spanish city of Seville to attempt to land in

on WednesdayEgyptCairo

The route will be between 48 and 72 hours long

depending on weather conditions This will be the

penultimate flight of the plane that will travel to Abu

Dhabi afterwards

Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard who have

been working on the aircraft for more than a decade

will pilot the aircraft Borschberg will pilot the plane

from Seville to Cairo crossing seven countries after

which Piccard will fly to Abu Dhabi

Borschberg said that the trip was meaningful as it is

my last flight in this round-the-world epic I am happy

that were close to the end but also prudent knowing

that it is not done yet I have to stay really focused

SpainThe aircraft had been in Seville in the south of

for two weeks after successfully crossing the Atlantic

Ocean

Solar Impulse II is able to fly night and day without any

fossil fuel It travels at between 45 and 55 kmhour

reaching an altitude of 8500 meters The plane is wider

than a 747 jumbo jet and weighs 23 tons

httpwwwainonlinecom

Russias New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

A grand unveiling of the Irkut MC-21-300 on June 8

established a relatively firm project timeline for the

160- to 212-seat narrowbody and marked a measure

of vindication for what many in the West have

disparaged as a fringe project In attendance at the

ceremony Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

spoke of the prestige the program has brought to

the country as well as its importance to helping

move its economy forward He also congratulated

Irkutrsquos employees for their role in shaping the future

of Russiarsquos return to prominence in commercial

aircraft manufacturing

Expecting the MC-21 to gain Russian certification in

2018 United Aircraft subsidiary Irkut had hoped to

fly the first airplane by the end of this year

However during the rollout ceremony Medvedev

referenced plans for first flight ―within a year

and UAC officials acknowledged that a previously

quoted target might prove optimistic unless all goes

exactly to plan Rather that milestone appears most

likely to happen in or around February 2017

according to aUAC spokesman

1

httpwwwainonlinecom

Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

2

httpwwwainonlinecom

Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

3

httpwwwainonlinecom

While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

4

httpwwwainonlinecom

Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

5

httpwwwainonlinecom

Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

الشركة القابضة -ادارة العالقات العامة

لمصر للطيران

atnaero

Tim Johnson cautioned that it should not become

an ―accountancy exercise where we see one

gallon of biofuel uplifted to an aircraft or a tonne

of CO2 offset as the way we measure progress

adding it was important to move beyond

quantification and just emissions and consider

the wider sustainable development agenda

Investment decisions needed to be taken now to

reach the industryrsquos 2050 target he suggested

and clarity was needed on what should happen

and by when ICAO market-based measure is

perfoming well but there must be emphasis on the

other three pillars required for aviation emissions

reductions ndash aircraft technology operations and

infrastructure

17

httpnewsxinhuanetcom

powered aircraft leaves Seville for Cairo-Solar

MADRID July 11 (Xinhua) -- The aircraft Solar Impulse

II powered completely by solar energy on Monday left

the Spanish city of Seville to attempt to land in

on WednesdayEgyptCairo

The route will be between 48 and 72 hours long

depending on weather conditions This will be the

penultimate flight of the plane that will travel to Abu

Dhabi afterwards

Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard who have

been working on the aircraft for more than a decade

will pilot the aircraft Borschberg will pilot the plane

from Seville to Cairo crossing seven countries after

which Piccard will fly to Abu Dhabi

Borschberg said that the trip was meaningful as it is

my last flight in this round-the-world epic I am happy

that were close to the end but also prudent knowing

that it is not done yet I have to stay really focused

SpainThe aircraft had been in Seville in the south of

for two weeks after successfully crossing the Atlantic

Ocean

Solar Impulse II is able to fly night and day without any

fossil fuel It travels at between 45 and 55 kmhour

reaching an altitude of 8500 meters The plane is wider

than a 747 jumbo jet and weighs 23 tons

httpwwwainonlinecom

Russias New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

A grand unveiling of the Irkut MC-21-300 on June 8

established a relatively firm project timeline for the

160- to 212-seat narrowbody and marked a measure

of vindication for what many in the West have

disparaged as a fringe project In attendance at the

ceremony Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

spoke of the prestige the program has brought to

the country as well as its importance to helping

move its economy forward He also congratulated

Irkutrsquos employees for their role in shaping the future

of Russiarsquos return to prominence in commercial

aircraft manufacturing

Expecting the MC-21 to gain Russian certification in

2018 United Aircraft subsidiary Irkut had hoped to

fly the first airplane by the end of this year

However during the rollout ceremony Medvedev

referenced plans for first flight ―within a year

and UAC officials acknowledged that a previously

quoted target might prove optimistic unless all goes

exactly to plan Rather that milestone appears most

likely to happen in or around February 2017

according to aUAC spokesman

1

httpwwwainonlinecom

Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

2

httpwwwainonlinecom

Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

3

httpwwwainonlinecom

While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

4

httpwwwainonlinecom

Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

5

httpwwwainonlinecom

Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

الشركة القابضة -ادارة العالقات العامة

لمصر للطيران

httpnewsxinhuanetcom

powered aircraft leaves Seville for Cairo-Solar

MADRID July 11 (Xinhua) -- The aircraft Solar Impulse

II powered completely by solar energy on Monday left

the Spanish city of Seville to attempt to land in

on WednesdayEgyptCairo

The route will be between 48 and 72 hours long

depending on weather conditions This will be the

penultimate flight of the plane that will travel to Abu

Dhabi afterwards

Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard who have

been working on the aircraft for more than a decade

will pilot the aircraft Borschberg will pilot the plane

from Seville to Cairo crossing seven countries after

which Piccard will fly to Abu Dhabi

Borschberg said that the trip was meaningful as it is

my last flight in this round-the-world epic I am happy

that were close to the end but also prudent knowing

that it is not done yet I have to stay really focused

SpainThe aircraft had been in Seville in the south of

for two weeks after successfully crossing the Atlantic

Ocean

Solar Impulse II is able to fly night and day without any

fossil fuel It travels at between 45 and 55 kmhour

reaching an altitude of 8500 meters The plane is wider

than a 747 jumbo jet and weighs 23 tons

httpwwwainonlinecom

Russias New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

A grand unveiling of the Irkut MC-21-300 on June 8

established a relatively firm project timeline for the

160- to 212-seat narrowbody and marked a measure

of vindication for what many in the West have

disparaged as a fringe project In attendance at the

ceremony Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

spoke of the prestige the program has brought to

the country as well as its importance to helping

move its economy forward He also congratulated

Irkutrsquos employees for their role in shaping the future

of Russiarsquos return to prominence in commercial

aircraft manufacturing

Expecting the MC-21 to gain Russian certification in

2018 United Aircraft subsidiary Irkut had hoped to

fly the first airplane by the end of this year

However during the rollout ceremony Medvedev

referenced plans for first flight ―within a year

and UAC officials acknowledged that a previously

quoted target might prove optimistic unless all goes

exactly to plan Rather that milestone appears most

likely to happen in or around February 2017

according to aUAC spokesman

1

httpwwwainonlinecom

Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

2

httpwwwainonlinecom

Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

3

httpwwwainonlinecom

While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

4

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Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

5

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Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

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Russias New Generation Narrowbody Is On a Roll

A grand unveiling of the Irkut MC-21-300 on June 8

established a relatively firm project timeline for the

160- to 212-seat narrowbody and marked a measure

of vindication for what many in the West have

disparaged as a fringe project In attendance at the

ceremony Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev

spoke of the prestige the program has brought to

the country as well as its importance to helping

move its economy forward He also congratulated

Irkutrsquos employees for their role in shaping the future

of Russiarsquos return to prominence in commercial

aircraft manufacturing

Expecting the MC-21 to gain Russian certification in

2018 United Aircraft subsidiary Irkut had hoped to

fly the first airplane by the end of this year

However during the rollout ceremony Medvedev

referenced plans for first flight ―within a year

and UAC officials acknowledged that a previously

quoted target might prove optimistic unless all goes

exactly to plan Rather that milestone appears most

likely to happen in or around February 2017

according to aUAC spokesman

1

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Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

2

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Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

3

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While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

4

httpwwwainonlinecom

Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

5

httpwwwainonlinecom

Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

الشركة القابضة -ادارة العالقات العامة

لمصر للطيران

httpwwwainonlinecom

Speaking with reporters in the Eastern Siberian capital

Irkutsk Irkut vice president of marketing Kirill Budaev

referenced the potential to replace some of the Western

partners on the program in the future but he conceded

the need for Russian companies to develop to Western

standards before the OEM would consider any such

move ―We are trying to keep a balance he said ―For

sure we have an interest in both [Western and Russian

suppliers] We need to satisfy international airlines and

they need international suppliers for sure And we need

to satisfy the Russian aviation industry because we

need to force them to develop We expect that sooner

or later local Russian manufacturers will be at least at

the same level as international ones

Irkut will also need the help of international suppliers

to provide customer support networks added Budaev

In fact Irkut has already signed a memorandum of

understanding with Lufthansa Technik

for MRO support ―They have quite a wide network

Budaev said of the German company ―We can rely on

such a big player and then if airlines say we want

something more focused we used to work with

other MRO providers We can authorize them we do

not have to build our own infrastructurehellipsales goes

first and then the customer service follows It makes

no sense to create something special for example in

Australia if sales will not be there

2

httpwwwainonlinecom

Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

3

httpwwwainonlinecom

While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

4

httpwwwainonlinecom

Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

5

httpwwwainonlinecom

Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

الشركة القابضة -ادارة العالقات العامة

لمصر للطيران

httpwwwainonlinecom

Perhaps the programrsquos most prominent Western supplier

Pratt amp Whitney has now shipped three PW1400G geared

turbofans out of an order for 100 engines a pair of which will

power the MC-21 on its first flight An alternative powerplantmdash

in the form of the domestically designed PD-14 turbofanmdash

began flight tests on an Ilyushin Il-76 test bed earlier this year

Apart from the new engine choices either of which Irkut claims

will produce a 15-percent operating cost advantage over the

current Airbus A320 the MC-21rsquos most radical advance centers

on its carbon fiber wings which take the airplanersquos composite

content to 30 percent AeroComposit in Ulyanovsk Russia

builds the wings using an out-of-autoclave resin transfer

infusion process never before tried on a commercial aircraft

Both Airbus and Boeing use a more expensive process that

requires an autoclave to cure their composite wings on

theA350 and 787 respectively Both of the MC-21rsquos chief

competitorsmdashthe Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320ndashuse

metal wings

Still UAC president Yury Slyusar acknowledged the difficulty

the MC-21 will encounter competing against the Western

duopoly whose well-established support networks and long

history of sales to airlines around the world Irkut can only hope

to one day match ―We do understand that it will not be easy

he said ―But we are sure that the MC-21 is really nowadays the

most competitive aircraft in its class And thatrsquos why we believe

this aircraft will meet the demands of passengers airlines and

so onmdashdue to its innovation such as engines such as

avionics such as composite wings

3

httpwwwainonlinecom

While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

4

httpwwwainonlinecom

Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

5

httpwwwainonlinecom

Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

الشركة القابضة -ادارة العالقات العامة

لمصر للطيران

httpwwwainonlinecom

While UACrsquos definitive plans call for that innovation to

extend to the smaller 150-seat MC-21-200 Slyusar

suggested the company has seriously revisited

prospects for a larger version airplane in the form of

the MC-21-400 ―I think that this project will be

discussed during 2017 not earlier confirmed Slyusar

who also acknowledged the potential for further

competition from Boeing in the sector the MC-21-400

would occupy or the so called ―Middle of the Market

)MOM(

―We should take into consideration the plans of our

colleagues thatrsquos why we [plan to] make a decision

rationally he said

Addressing production capacity Slyusar said Irkut

could build as many as 72 aircraft a year in its newly

refurbished and modernized final assembly hall in

Irkustk While the companyrsquos needndashor abilityndashto deliver

six airplanes per month wonrsquot likely materialize for

several years Budaev said the production plan

satisfies the companyrsquos projected demand for

1060 MC-21s over the next two decades Slyusar

meanwhile expressed satisfaction with the early level

of commercial interest in the product so far the MC-21

has drawn firm orders for nearly 200 airplanes

including 50 from launch customer Aeroflot

4

httpwwwainonlinecom

Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

5

httpwwwainonlinecom

Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

الشركة القابضة -ادارة العالقات العامة

لمصر للطيران

httpwwwainonlinecom

Immediately following the rollout ceremony the

program received a new commercial boost in the form

of letter of intent from Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL)

covering the lease of 10 MC-21-300s through Ilyushin

Finance The signing ceremony marked only the third

such deal from a foreign airline for the model Holding

a firm order for six MC-21-300s Egyptrsquos Cairo Aviation

stands as the only confirmed non-Russian customer

for the airplane Malaysiarsquos Crecom Burj Resources

placed a tentative order for 50 airplanes at

Farnborough 2010 that has yet to become firm

As for the heavy imbalance toward Russian

customers Budaev called the phenomenon ―normal

and pointed to the programrsquos international supplier

base as proof of its global stature ―Sometimes we call

the MC-21 an international plane with Russian brains

he quipped Budaev added that program leaders see

―big potential in Latin America Africa and in Asia

particularly for the MC-21-300 whose seating capacity

falls between the A320 and A321ndashexactly where UACrsquos

market studies show the greatest demand

5

httpwwwainonlinecom

Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

الشركة القابضة -ادارة العالقات العامة

لمصر للطيران

httpwwwainonlinecom

Featuring the widest fuselage of any

narrowbody on the market the MC-21 offers

both cabin comfort for full-service airlines and

cost advantages for low-fare carriers

according to UACand Irkut The MC-21rsquos list

price of $91 million suggests a 15-percent lower

acquisition cost than that of the current A320

―For sure we are looking at Europe as well

because airlines there need to find unusual or

ambitious solutions to survive because of the

strong presence of low-fare airlines said

Budaev Last yearrsquos order for Sukhoi Superjets

from Irelandrsquos CityJet ―is a very good sign for

the MC-21 program he concluded

6

الشركة القابضة -ادارة العالقات العامة

لمصر للطيران

الشركة القابضة -ادارة العالقات العامة

لمصر للطيران