Flight International - 1 October 2019

48 Pages·2019·30.52 MB·English

Expansion goal
Virgin details growth plan
as A350 enters service 13

Rome advantage
From airframes to interiors and
space – how Italy innovates 26

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Leisure and pain

Why debt-ridden Thomas Cook
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1-7 OCTOBER 2019

Administrator pushes for Piaggio rescue plan P34

KlasJet
Piaggio Aerospace

THIS WEEK
8
Max handovers to hit 70 each month
10 Virgin delays retirement of A340 fleet
11 Boeing plans overhaul of safety culture.
Regulators and industry must keep distance

AIR TRANSPORT
12 Kalitta may ditch Dutch due to slot row.
Australia agrees SilkAir Alice Springs Max move
13 Flybe and widebodies vital for Virgin
14 Montreal provides room for SpaceJet

AVIATION EXPO CHINA SHOW REPORT
16 Ameco aims to grow third-party MRO
17 Airbus pushes A220’s economic appeal.
C919 schedule slips towards 2022

DEFENCE
18 USMC will restore AURA via attack fleet renewal.
F-35A takes Guard duty with Vermont squadron
19 Stingray makes its autonomous debut.
French air force fuels up with KC-130J tanker

NEWS FOCUS
20 GatorWorks makes engine development snappy

BUSINESS AVIATION
22 Revamped Globals achieve certification.
NetJets Challenger fleet reaches 100th delivery
23 Longitude jet passes ‘most robust’ testing

DATA VIEW
24 Comac drives summer sales

Korea Aerospace Industries

BEHIND THE HEADLINES
Alfred Chua visited Beijing
for the Aviation Expo
China event (P16). For our
Italy special report, Murdo
Morrison toured some of
the nation’s aerospace
industry players (P26)

NEXT WEEK ADEX
We preview South Korea’s
biennial defence show. And
don’t miss our commercial
engines special report

Volume 196 Number 5705

VIP-configured Boeing 737-500
joins KlasJet corporate fleet P23

COVER STORY
9
Thomas Cook
failure prompts
rethink

Dramatic collapse of
holiday giant into
insolvency leads
UK government to
re-evaluate airline
failure strategy

26 Securing the future
It has been an eventful year for Italian aerospace,
with Leonardo and others getting on board the UK’s
Tempest future fighter programme. Meanwhile, will a
saviour rescue Piaggio? Our special report focuses on
these stories, as well as Avio Aero’s efforts to market an
all-European GA engine to export-restricted nations,
and Italy’s space programme. We also visit two of the
nation’s leading players in cabin interiors

NEWS

FEATURES

REGULARS

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Comment

39 Straight & Level
40 Letters
42 Classified
44 Jobs
47 Working Week

Expansion goal
Virgin details growth plan
as A350 enters service 13

Rome advantage
From airframes to interiors and
space – how Italy innovates 26

1-7 October 2019 I flightglobal.com

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Leisure and pain

Why debt-ridden Thomas Cook
lost its battle for survival

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This week, we ask: Thomas Cook’s demise?
❑ Government should have acted ❑ Airline remained viable
❑ Financial inevitability

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Net cost to airline group IAG of September pilots' strike at
subsidiary British Airways; further stoppages are planned

JetBlue Airways has authorised a buyback of common stock,
running until end-2021; a $750m repurchase ended in 2017

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Airbus Helicopters

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the week
Airbus Helicopters has
claimed a new record with
its H145, following flight
trials performed in the
Andes. The activity involved
setting the twin-engined
rotorcraft’s skids down atop
Mount Aconcagua,
Argentina, at an altitude of
22,840ft, with a test pilot
and engineer on board

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