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Portugal Injects Heavy Investment Into Newly TAP
Branded TAP ExpressAPEX Insight: TAP Portugal has announced the introduction of
new regional aircraft and services. The airline’s CEO, Fernando
Pinto, says the changes “will enable better service on the point-to-
point connections and much better conditions for an optimized
connectivity to the Lisbon hub operations.” Other improvements
underway include a €60-million investment to retrofit the aircraft
interiors of the fleet and installation of a €2-million digital
reservations platform.
TAP Portugal has announced a renewal of its regional fleet to
harmonize with its mainline commercial identity, and a redesign of its
products and services through new interiors and updated digital
platforms. The airline will introduce a Porto-Lisbon shuttle and a
rebranded regional TAP Express to replace the Portugália, PGA airline
brand. A new fleet of eight ATR 72 and nine Embraer E190 aircraft will
be added to the regional fleet. TAP expects to better its annual
operating results by €60 million with these improvements.
The airline touts these aircraft as more comfortable and silent, with 40
percent lower fuel consumption. These new aircraft will increase the
airline‘s seating capacity by 47 percent and allow schedule
improvements to hourly flights for TAP‘s Porto-Lisbon shuttle service.
―The launch of the Porto-Lisbon shuttle will enable better service on the
point-to-point connections and much better conditions for an optimized
connectivity to the Lisbon hub operations, providing customers with
easy access to the whole TAP network,‖ says Fernando Pinto, TAP‘s
.official announcementCEO, in the company‘s
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Sign TechnikPhilippine Airlines and Lufthansa Total
ContractMaintenance Component Philippine Airlines and Lufthansa Technik AG have signed a five-year
Total Component Maintenance (TCM) contract for the Airline's Airbus
A320 and A340 Fleet. The services will be extended end of 2016 to
support additional Airbus 320s operated by Philippine Airlines.
Lufthansa Technik will support Philippine Airlines at its main base in
Manila, the Component Service offices in Manila and Shenzhen will
coordinate the customer support. Maintenance, repair and overhaul
services will be carried out at Lufthansa Technik's component Centres
in Hamburg, Germany and Shenzhen, China.
"We were pleased with Lufthansa Technik's ability to customize its
services to the individual needs of Philippine Airlines and ensuring 24/7
worldwide AOG services at locations such as JFK which are vital for our
Flight operations," said William Tan, Vice President of Purchasing,
Philippine Airlines.
Jens Behrend, Sales Executive from Lufthansa Technik, said: "I want to
thank Philippine Airlines for the trust they continuously place in the
Lufthansa Technik Group. The signing of these contracts is a great
success for us in this highly competitive market."
Lufthansa Technik is committed to extend its partnership with Philippine
Airlines and to support other Aircraft types in the future.
Lufthansa Technik:
The Lufthansa Technik Group, with more than 30 subsidiaries and
associates and over 26,000 employees worldwide, is one of the leading
providers of technical services for the aviation industry. Its portfolio
encompasses the entire spectrum of services for commercial aircraft:
maintenance, repair, overhaul, modification and conversion, engines
and components.
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(Continue)―The ‗Ponte Aérea‘ will offer very competitive prices to travel between
Porto and Lisbon and an innovative product, with dedicated check-in
counters and boarding gates along with fast and easy passenger
boarding,‖ Pinto states. ―As of next March 27, TAP will increase the
number of weekly flights to destinations already served in Europe, Brazil,
the United States and Africa, reinforcing our product consistency.‖
Pinto adds, ―We are not only renewing our regional fleet, but also adding
consistency to the TAP brand and product by reinforcing its commercial
identity and redesigning our product and services as well.‖
Other improvements underway include orders for 53 new aircraft, a €60-
million investment to retrofit the aircraft interiors of the fleet, a €11-million
investment to install sharklets on 12 A320-family aircraft for improved
efficiency and the addition of a new €2-million digital reservations
platform.
―The ‗Ponte Aérea‘ will offer very competitive prices to travel between
Porto and Lisbon and an innovative product, with dedicated check-in
counters and boarding gates along with fast and easy passenger
boarding.‖ – Fernando Pinto, TAP Portugal CEO
the sale of the national the Portuguese government approved,2015In
flagship carrier to the Atlantic Gateway consortium led by David
Neeleman (CEO of Brazil‘s Azul and founder of JetBlue) and Humberto
Pedrosa (owner of Barraqueiro Transports).
and committed to million cash payment-10€The consortium made a
injecting additional capital of €348 million into TAP. It also absorbed TAP‘s
previous debt of €1.06 billion, and agreed to supply TAP with 53 new
aircraft while ensuring the Portuguese government that it would keep
TAP‘s main hub in Lisbon for at least 30 years.
Pinto credits the new ownership for giving the airline ―the investment
capacity to expand and turn into a more modern and competitive airline,
one that is responsive to the needs of Customers and strongly
committed to serve the markets where it operates.‖
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Kuwait Airways Drops Flights to Avoid Israeli
PassengersThis picture taken in Tangerang on March 18, 2013 shows a Kuwait
Airways plane preparing for landing over the Sukarno-Hatta airport in
Tangerang.
Kuwait Airways will operate its last flight between New York City and
London on Saturday, deciding last month to drop the route after
about 35 years of service rather than transport Israeli citizens
between the two cities.
that the airline's found in SeptemberThe Transportation Department
policy discriminated against Israeli citizens and ordered the practice
to stop. Instead, the airline announced in December that it would
drop the flights.
The decision does not apply to the airline's three weekly nonstop
flights between Kennedy International Airport in New York and
Kuwait City. Those flights are not affected because Israelis are not
allowed to visit Kuwait and are not granted visas.
Passengers in transit through another country are another matter,
according to the Transportation Department, which said that Kuwait
Airways' refusal to carry Israeli citizens between New York City and
London amounted to "unreasonable discrimination" because Israeli
passport holders have the legal right to travel between the United
States and Britain.
"An airline does not have the right to refuse to sell tickets to and
transport a person between the U.S. and any third country where
they are allowed to disembark based on the laws of that country,"
said Namrata Kolachalam, a spokeswoman for the department.
The Transportation Department said that it was also investigating
two formal complaints with Qatar Airways and Saudi Arabian Airlines.
Kuwait Airways started flying to New York in 1980 three times a
week, on Saturdays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, with flights stopping
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(Continue)in London before continuing on to Kuwait City, according to a
reservation agent from Kuwait Airways.
The unusual case stemmed from a complaint of an Israeli citizen,
Eldad Gatt, who tried to book a flight in 2013 from New York to
Heathrow Airport in London. When he tried to buy a ticket online,
Kuwait Airways' booking system did not allow the transaction
because of Mr. Gatt's citizenship.
More from The New York Times
that petition filed in NovemberLawyers for Kuwait Airways said in a
the airline's policy was based on Kuwaiti law, which prohibits
domestic companies from conducting business with Israeli citizens.
The airline, the lawyers stressed, did not discriminate against
passengers holding a valid passport from a nation recognized by
Kuwait and did not discriminate based on race or religion.
The lawyers say that courts in the United States have long accepted
distinctions based on citizenship and that the United States also
upholds similar restrictions on citizens of countries it does not
recognize, like North Korea.
But those arguments were not accepted by the Transportation
Department, and the matter attracted the attention of Transportation
Secretary Anthony Foxx, who said that if the airline did not change
course, the administration was "prepared to use all tools at its
disposal to protect the civil rights of passengers."
It is not the first time that geopolitics has gotten entangled with air
travel policy. In 2013, when Bill de Blasio was running for mayor of
New York City, he criticized Saudi Arabia's national carrier for
refusing to sell tickets to Israelis flying from New York. At the time,
officials with the Saudi airline said that since Saudi Arabia did not
allow visitors from Israel, the carrier could not fly them there, even
for connecting flights.
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ofInspectionCompleteExpertsSecurityRussian
AirportCairoA group of Russian experts on flight safety and security have
finished an inspection of security procedures at the international
airport in Egyptian capital, Cairo, a source in Egypt's Ministry of
Civil Aviation said Wednesday.
CAIRO (Sputnik) — The four-men group arrived in Egypt on Monday
to check on the newly established security measures at the Cairo airport
as part of efforts to resume air travel between Russia and Egypt.
"The Russian specialists have completed their work at the Cairo airport. They have inspected all stages of security procedures in all terminals, including cargo. They will depart to Moscow tomorrow."
/ MICHEL MOUTOT2016© AFP
Russian Experts Begin Checks of Security Measures at Cairo
Airport
The delegation has not made any significant comments regarding the
state of the airport's security, Egypt's Al Shorouk newspaper reported
on its website, quoting an airport source.
The inspection group's final report will concern the control of passenger
and baggage movement inside the airport, the source added.
Russian Deputy FM Arrives in Egypt to Discuss Mideast, Terrorism
Russia imposed ban on flights to Egypt due to security concerns
following the crash of a Russian-operated Airbus A321 over Egypt's Sinai
Peninsula in October, which killed all 224 people on board, after an
explosive device detonated in the passenger compartment.
Flights between Egypt and Russia may resume after a joint Russian-
Egyptian effort at increasing airport security in Egypt has concluded,
according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
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