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is feasible,” Enders said during
the Airbus results conference call.
“We have the engines, we have the
airframes but of course this ain’t going
to be a walk in the park.”
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Embraer is celebrating its 40th
anniversary in Australia and is
looking ahead to its fifth decade in
this country with confidence given
its lineup of regional jets stand
ready to replace the large number
of older generation aircraft in this
part of the world. “Australia has been
an important and good market for
Embraer,” Embraer Commercial
Aviation vice president for Asia
Pacific Cesar Pereira said. “There is a
good market now as well. There are Gulfstream said. The aircraft had a AIRLINE NEWS Royal Brunei A320neo V8-RBD
more than 100 jets in that 100-seat range of 6,500nm at Mach 0.85. Singapore Airlines (SIA) has at Melbourne on August 12.
segment flying in Australia from the – sounded a note of caution about victor pody
Fokker 100, BAe 146 and 717.” Rolls-Royce has booked a the impact of rising fuel prices after
– £554 million exceptional charge in reporting a halving of net profit for
Separately, Embraer said it delivered its 2018 half year financial results as the three months to June 30 2018.
28 commercial aircraft in the second it works to resolve problems with the The company said net profit for the
quarter of calendar 2018, 11 fewer Trent 1000 engine. The engine maker first quarter of its fiscal 2019 year
aircraft compared with the prior has also estimated the cost impact fell 59 per cent to S$140.0 million,
corresponding period. The second of the Trent 1000 engine issues will from S$228 million in the prior
quarter performance brings to 42 total about £1.25 billion over the next corresponding period. While the
the number of commercial aircraft three years, comprising £450 million airline group reported increased
Embraer has delivered to customers in each of 2018 and 2019 and passenger numbers and cargo volumes
so far in calendar 2018, putting £350 million in 2020. The estimates for the quarter, the bottom line was
the company on track to meet its for the current and future financial hit by the rising cost of fuel. SIA
previously announced target of years is on top of the £170 million said there had been a S$154 million
between 85 and 95 aircraft for the already booked in 2017. “We are increase in net fuel costs, noting that
year. working very constructively with each the average jet fuel price had risen 40
– and every one of those customers on a per cent, or US$26 per barrel, in the
Gulfstream has received the type customer by customer, almost engine quarter. “Costs remain under pressure,
certification from the US Federal by engine basis. We have the situation especially from higher fuel prices,” SIA
Aviation Administration for its G500 with each customer’s engines plotted said in a statement to the Singapore
business jet. The milestone paves the out over the next 12 to 18 months and stock exchange on July 26.
way for Gulfstream to begin delivering that is a dynamic situation but we –
the G500 to customers by the fourth are working very closely with them Meanwhile, SIA is a step closer to
quarter of the year. The clean-sheet on that,” Rolls-Royce chief executive reclaiming the title of having the
G500, which seats up to 19 people, has Warren East said at the company’s world’s longest nonstop passenger Gulfstream has received US FAA
a range of 5,200nm and a long-range calendar 2018 first half results flight after the first of its seven Airbus type certification for its new
cruising speed of Mach 0.85, was presentation on August 2. A350-900ULR (Ultra Long Range) G500 business jet. gulfstream
launched in October 2014 alongside
sister-ship the G600. At its high-speed
cruise of Mach 0.90, the G500 had a
range of 4,400nm, Gulfstream said.
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Separately, Gulfstream said at the
Latin American Business Aviation
Conference and Exhibition (LABACE)
that the G600 had commenced
United States Federal Aviation
Administration field performance
testing. “We continue to make steady
progress toward certifying the all-new
G600 later this year and beginning
customer deliveries in 2019,”
Gulfstream president Mark Burns
said. The G600 flight test program,
which began on December 17 2016,
has completed about 2,290 flight
hours on more than 600 flights,
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