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The ACMI business is dominated by the regional segment and is growing fast in Europe

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  https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomas-chlumecky-aviation-doctor-3200a021/           04-Dec-2018 11:03 PM   The ACMI business is dominated by the regional segment and is growing fast in Europe The practice of a sizeable airline subcontracting its regional flying to a partner airline is widely known in the United States. Such operations—a form of ACMI flying, where the … Continue reading →

The Russians don’t do well with their commercial aircraft, the SSJ100 will never be a commercial success, and neither were the IL-96/86, TU-154, TU-134 or YAK-42. The new MC-21 looks real good, but its sales will like the SSJ100 be limited to basically Russia and the CIS. Now, where the Russians are very good is jet fighters, SU-30/35 and the new SU-57 and helicopters, and this is a segment Russian Helicopters has been doing real well in, with $3.2 billion in revenue in 2016 and a $610 million operating profit. Now, Abu Dhabi based Mubadala is part owner in Russian Helicopters, shows there is value in the company. The new Mi-38 from Russia looks real good and a market exists but not in North America or Europe yet, but maybe in time. One market Russia has not gone after successfully is the amphibious jet from Beriev, the Be-200, that is a “game changer” if there is one today in commercial aviation. The time is right in my opinion to bring back larger commercial amphibious aircraft bigger than the Viking Air DHC-6 Series 400, like a 30 passenger CL-415 and the 72 seat Be-200, but few see the light, but its there, just needs to be promoted, nurtured, marketed and demonstrated, but Russians have done no business development with it, beyond water bomber and SAR, needs new ideas and people to make the Be-200 a commercial success.

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  https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomas-chlumecky-aviation-doctor-3200a021/     Thursday October 25, 2018 / Stanislav Golubev/Russian Aviation   Mi-38 belongs to the niche of medium helicopters according to the classification of the Russian market. Today I will tell you about our modern corporate helicopter – the Very-VIP category Mi-38. Why VVIP, and not just VIP? Because there are very few … Continue reading →

Elite Airways Returns to Long Island While Frontier Enhances Florida Service

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Six ERJ-145 regional jets are joining the eight EMB-120 at Inter-Caribbean Airways of the Turks & Caicos

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  https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomas-chlumecky-aviation-doctor-3200a021/   SIX NEW JETS FOR InterCARIBBEAN By Hayden Boyce & Todeline Defralien – The Sun – September 9, 2018       Over 60 airlines have failed in the Caribbean since 1981:  Aero Wings  Carib Aviation  Caribbean Star  RedJet  Trans Island Air 2000  Air Monserrat  Air Caribbean … Continue reading →

A rare Caribbean airline success story, Turks and Caicos based inter-Caribbean Airways (8 x EMB-120, 4 x DHC-6, 1 x BN2 and soon 2 x ERJ-145’s) under the leadership of Chairman Mr. Lyndon R. Gardiner and CEO Trevor Sadler is planning to set up an AOC in the Dominican Republic with several used ERJ-145’s, as the 26 year old airline continues its impressive Caribbean expansion from Nassau, Havana, Kingston, Tortola all the way to Dominica. This Dominican Republic move would make it the second foreign airline that plans to do so, as two months back Laser Airlines of Venezuela announced it will fill the void left by the demise of PAWA Dominicana. Dominican ownership would be just 35%, it may be enough locally, but under most bilateral air service agreements (BASA) it requires majority ownership and control, so traffic rights could be an issue. No one has yet used the 50 seat regional jets in the Caribbean, though PAWA Dominicana did plan on operating 6 x CRJ-200’s, while fast they have a high unit cost (CSAK) and need a much higher yield to breakeven than what PAWA Dominicana was getting with its MD-80’s, and this will be interesting in a low yield market like the Caribbean.

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    https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomas-chlumecky-aviation-doctor-3200a021/       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterCaribbean_Airways     Foreign airline manages to become Dominican?     ~ and covers routes within the Caribbean (translated)     Eugenio De Marchena Sunday, 26 August 2018     InterCaribbean Turks and Caicos have initiated the process that demands the Dominican State with the aim of becoming a … Continue reading →

Uganda Airlines II, starting to take shape, but I am not liking many of the decisions made so far. CEO Ephraim Bagenda has just 6 years of aircraft maintenance experience at Rwandair? really? when commercialisation will make or break the new airline? they have a CEO with no commercial, finance, sales, marketing, RM, etc. experience? it is just not the right qualification for a CEO for a new national carrier. Now, Uganda Airlines has the unique distinction of being the the only buyer of the A330-800 in the whole world? why?, though it did get a 58.4% discount (to $US 108M) on the $US 259.9M list priced aircraft, they could have leased a new B787-8/9 or A350-900? Meanwhile Bombardier is showing its desperation to sell its struggling CRJ’s by selling 4 x CRJ900’s to Uganda Airlines for $US 110.8M ($US 27.7M each), which is a discount of 40.4% from the list price of $US 46.5M each, very good for Uganda Airlines, but could have leased them also or E175’s/190’s, but now the fleet resembles that of Rwandair (except no B737’s yet). So what did AA pay for the 15 + 15 CRJ900 order a few weeks back? surely more than 55% off ($US 20.9M for each)? which is not far from the estimated cost of $18.8M, leaving a small margin for the new Regional Aircraft Division now that CSeries is part of Airbus for free. Looks like great deals are plenty today from all 4 commercial jet aircraft OEM’s.

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Read my regular Articles and Posts on LinkednIN:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomas-chlumecky-3200a021/   Reviving Uganda Airlines: How government plans to raise the money – Daily Monitor – July 24, 2018   By Dicta Asiimwe & Raymond Tamale         Uganda hurriedly firmed up plans to revamp the country’s defunct airline in March 2019, after signing a … Continue reading →

SUMMARY: Farnborough International Airshow 2018

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Read my regular Articles and Posts on LinkednIN:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomas-chlumecky-3200a021/       Farnborough Airshow wrap-up    The Farnborough 2018 Airshow was stolen by freighter orders, proving to many that the air cargo market is restoring to strength. We could therefore argue that Farnborough 2018 further shows that carriers such as Emirates (as one major example) … Continue reading →

Two of Europe’s biggest regional airlines, Air Nostrum and CityJet aim for closer cooperation , with a combined fleet of 88 aircraft and up to Euro 700 million in revenue from wet lease and franchise contracts they are out to conquer the regional market in Europe? Yet they are both over dependent on 1 major customer each for their survival, CityJet on SAS and Air Nostrum on Iberia Regional, they both have a large fleet of what I call “loser” aircraft programs as CityJet has 7 (+8 on order) of the 95 passenger Russian Sukhoi SSJ100’s, the ONLY operator in Western Europe, and only the 2nd western airline to operate it commercially (after Mexico’s Interjet), its cheap and it is about to get the boot from LH’s Brussels Airlines for poor dispatch reliability! Air Nostrum has 27 of the 60 delivered (just 68 ordered in 8 years of production) 100 passenger CRJ1000’s (a 18.2 meter stretch of the 1970’s CL-600 Challenger business jet), that airlines just don’t want or need, it is a very long tube from the back, and noone is buying it, airlines know best as to what is good and bad, it is why aircraft orders say novels about any aircraft no matter what an OEM says or thinks!

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Read my regular Articles and Posts on LinkednIN:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomas-chlumecky-3200a021/     July 17, 2018   100 passenger CRJ1000 of Air Nostrum (Spain)   95 passenger Sukhoi SSJ100-95 of CityJet (Ireland)       Tomas’ Comment:   Interesting development, but no surprise, CityJet has been looking to buy other other operators as it looks for M&A … Continue reading →

SUMMARY: DAY #1 at Farnborough International Airshow – July 16, 2018

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Read my regular Articles and Posts on LinkednIN:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomas-chlumecky-3200a021/         July 16, 2018,  Airfinance Journal:        Day One of Farnborough 2018 belonged firmly to Boeing in terms of firm orders, although the US manufacturer saved up many of its largest announcements from deals done earlier in the year.   Airbus, meanwhile, … Continue reading →

The national flag carrier of Fiji is Fiji Airways, whose history goes back to 1951, and which was until May 2012 known as Air Pacific, and from 2012 it has become a very profitable airline national airline under 2 excellent previous airline executives, American CEO’s Dave Pflieger (Ex-CEO Hawaiian Airlines and after Fiji Airways he went on to Silver Air, Island Air and now RAVN Alaska), German Stefan Pichler (Ex-CEO Thomas Cook AG, Ex-COO Virgin Australia, Ex-CEO Jazerra Airways, Ex-CEO airBerlin and now CEO Royal Jordanian) and now highly regarded and talented South African CEO Andre Viljoen (Ex-Comair, SAA, Ex-CEO Air Mauritius). Fiji Airways has grown its fleet to 12 jets (6 x A330-200, 1 x A330-300, 1 x B737-700, 4 x B737-800 and 6 on order, 1 x A330-300 and 5 x B737-8’s). The airline is part of the Air Pacific Group, which also owns 100% of Fiji Link (1 x ATR-42-600, 2 x ATR-72-600, 3 x DHC-6-300’s to be replaced by 4 x Viking Air’s Series 400 Twin Otters), with the Government of Fiji owning 51% of Air Pacific Group, 46.32% owned by QANTAS and 2.68% ownership spread out between Air New Zealand and the Governments of the Pacific island states of Kiribati, Tonga, Nauru and Samoa.

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Read my regular Articles and Posts on LinkednIN:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomas-chlumecky-3200a021/     FIJI AIRWAYS, THE LITTLE AIRLINE WITH A BIG HEART   Written by Tom Ballantyne July 14, 2018 – June 2018 edition of Australian Aviation.       It’s the little airline with a big heart. In the South Pacific, where history suggests financial success … Continue reading →

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