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SURVEY:
AIRLINE FARES UP, BUT SO IS PASSENGER SATISFACTION
Although
airline passengers are paying higher fares and being charged to haul
bags, they're apparently happier with the airline experience than they
were a couple of years ago, according to a new consumer satisfaction
survey. The Michigan-based American Consumer Satisfaction Index reported
this week that at 67 on a scale of 100, customer satisfaction with the
airline industry is as high as it's been for decades. In 2012 alone, the
industry gained 3.1 percent in approval points, this despite higher
fares, more crowded flights and fewer scheduling options. What's going
on here? "I think in part it's because customers are becoming cleverer
when they fly at avoiding the various fees. We're finding that while
passengers aren't terribly satisfied with checked baggage fees, fewer of
them are checking baggage," says ASCI director David VanAmburg.
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SCORING POINTS WITH PASSENGERS
Amid numerous changes for the
airlines in recent years is one you might not expect: Customer
satisfaction is up. Paul Bertorelli asked David VanAmburg from
the American Customer Satisfaction Index to explain. More...
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IRIDIUM,
NAVCANADA TO OFFER GLOBAL FLIGHT TRACKING
A constellation of
66 new satellites that will be launched starting in 2015 will make it
possible for operators to track their aircraft anywhere in the world,
even across oceans and remote regions where coverage is not currently
available, the project partners announced on Tuesday. Iridium
Communications is providing the technology, and NavCanada is the launch
customer. For routes that operate in oceanic airspace, the new Aireon
satellites will provide a "quantum improvement" in efficiency, said
NavCanada CEO John Crichton. For example, NavCanada said, flights across
the North Atlantic should save $100 million per year thanks to more
efficient routing. The satellites, which are scheduled to be online by
2017, will communicate with the ADS-B devices on airplanes.
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NTSB,
GULFSTREAM AT ODDS IN INVESTIGATION
NTSB chairman Deborah
Hersman has criticized some of the actions of Gulfstream staffers during
an investigation into a fatal
crash during a flight test of a G650 in New Mexico last year. In a
letter dated April 4, 2012, that was recently posted
to the NTSB's public docket, Hersman says that while interacting with
Gulfstream, NTSB investigators "encountered a variety of situations that
are not typical when dealing with parties to investigations." She goes
on to list her concerns, including "noncompliance with instructions from
the NTSB investigator-in-charge relating to quarantine of
accident-related telemetry data … unexplained missing evidence,
including a computer hard drive containing accident-related telemetry
data… [and] general conduct and dilatory tactics prejudicial to the
investigation." Gulfstream President Larry Flynn defended the company's
actions in a letter, also posted to the docket, stating that
"Gulfstream has responded to each and every request for information from
the NTSB as promptly as possible." More...
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EMBRAER'S
FLORIDA PLANT EARNS PRODUCTION CERTIFICATE
Embraer's first
manufacturing plant in the U.S. earned its production certificate this
week. The Melbourne, Fla., facility has been shipping Phenom 100s since
last December but the aircraft were certified under the type certificate
for Brazilian-made Phenoms. The aircraft are assembled using assemblies
made in Brazil. The plant was opened
a little more than a year ago. More...
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CSERIES
FIRST FLIGHT BY END OF YEAR
Bombardier says its CSeries
single-aisle airliner is on schedule and will fly by the end of the
year. Marc Arcomone, president of commercial aircraft, also says first
deliveries will be made by the end of 2013. "Yes, the CSeries program is
on track," he told analysts ahead of the all-important Farnborough Air
Show in a few weeks. He said that from a technical standpoint, there are
no major issues in the way of the current timeline and he also said he's
satisfied with the modest (by clean-sheet airliner standards) order book
to date for the 110 and 130-seat aircraft. "We are exactly where we want
to be with 11 customers and 317 orders," he said. Central to the
efficiency claims being made about the CSeries (20 percent on fuel burn)
and much of that is due to the PurePower geared turbofans being
developed by Pratt & Whitney Canada. More...
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VIDEO:
VIKING AIR TWIN OTTER FACTORY
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quickly ramping up production of its new build Twin Otter 400 series.
AVweb's Russ Niles toured the Victoria, British Columbia factory
with VP of Operations Dan Tharp, a Wichita aircraft production veteran
recently hired by Viking to boost production. More...
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