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Canada's Fighter Jet Tender Competition (finally) Takes Off Next Month

Attempts to replace 3-decade-old CF-18s began in 2010, but have been mired in politics

April 15, 2019 - by Murray Brewster for cbc.ca

Attempts to replace 3-decade-old CF-18s began in 2010, but have been mired in politics

The politically charged competition to replace Canada's aging fleet of fighter jets will rocket forward at the end of May as the federal government releases a long-anticipated, full-fledged tender call.

There are four companies in the running: Saab of Sweden, Airbus Defence and Space out of Britain, and the American firms Boeing and Lockheed Martin.

Once the request for proposals is released, the manufacturers will have until the end of the year to submit bids, defence and industry sources told CBC News. Airbus Military plans to offer its Eurofighter Typhoon...

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The 737 Max is Boeing's fastest-selling aircraft ever, but the company hasn't taken any new orders since an Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crashed minutes after take-off from Addis Ababa in March, killing all 157 people on board.

'Passengers are afraid of this airplane': How Boeing is handling its 737 Max problem

Jet's maker has a technical fix, now comes the hard part: getting passengers on board again

April 24, 2019 - by David Common for cbc.ca

Jet's maker has a technical fix, now comes the hard part: getting passengers on board again

Boeing has made changes to its 737 Max airliner and conducted more than 100 test flights to show that apparent problems have been fixed in the wake of two deadly crashes. Convincing passengers will be much harder.

"Passengers are afraid of this airplane," aviation industry analyst Henry Harteveldt says.

"I haven't seen anything like this in decades, in terms of consumer fear and desire to avoid flying on the 737 Max."

Little wonder, given all the media coverage showing that a system designed for safety may have been a factor in the crashes involving both Lion Air last October and Ethiopian Airlines in March.

The airliners both struggled at low altitude, then plummeted nose-first into the ground while the pilots frantically tried to figure out why their aircraft weren't responding to the controls.

Read it all https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/the-national-737-max-boeing-1.5107529

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737 Max grounding tests Southwest's relationship with Boeing - Southwest Airlines CEO Looking at Airbus A220

April 23, 2019 - by Jon Ostrower for theaircurrent.com

Southwest Airlines CEO Looking at Airbus A220

As Southwest Airlines neared delivery of the first 737-700 in the 1990s, late-founder and Chairman Emeritus Herb Kelleher made a deal with Boeing that was never written down. No airline on Earth would pay less for 737s than Southwest. And if they did, Boeing owed Southwest a check "no questions asked," recounted another retired Boeing executive and confirmed by a second. "Just a handshake and it was honored."

Southwest isn't just a customer to Boeing. It has closely guided the 737's incremental development, serving as launch buyer for the jet's last two generations, but it is also a strategic governor for Boeing, cushioning the company's peaks and valleys in production.

The aircraft on which Southwest built its existence 48 years ago, Boeing's 737, today hangs in an uncertain balance...

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Lim Guan Eng witnesses the signing of an agreement for the Industrial Collaboration Program between the government of Malaysia and Bombardier Hartasuma Consortium in Putrajaya April 23, 2019. — Picture by Miera Zulyana

Govt inks RM2.7b deal with Bombardier Hartasuma Consortium to supply trains, refurbish Kelana Jaya LRT line - ($710 millions)

April 23, 2019 - by Danial Dzulkifly for malaymail.com

PUTRAJAYA, April 23 — The government has signed two contracts worth RM 2.17 billion with Bombardier Hartasuma Consortium (BHC) to supply and refurbish trains for the light rail transit (LRT) Kelana Jaya Line.

The two contracts, which were signed between Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng and BHC at the Ministry of Finance here today will see the rail-company supplying 27 new trains sets (KLAV-27) while providing a mid-life refurbishment (MLR) service to existing used 2-car train sets to 4-car train sets for the line.

Lim also announced that the deal will utilise the Industrial Collaboration Programme...

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Why Bombardier’s Atmosphère cabin skipped AIX

April 23, 2019 - by John Walton for runwaygirlnetwork.com

With deliveries of new CRJ regional jets featuring Bombardier's updated Atmosphère cabin to Delta, American and other carriers progressing apace, the Canadian airframer is seeing much demand from airlines for retrofit options for their current fleets — so much, in fact, that it decided to send its cabin mockup to a customer rather than to the Aircraft Interiors Expo earlier this month.

Eight aircraft with the new cabin are already flying with launch customer Delta, and in the coming month American and certain unnamed customers are also expected to take delivery of Atmosphère, featuring bigger bins, a more modern design and the option of a lavatory suitable for people with reduced mobility...

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Airbus A220 Assembly Line in Mirabel, Quebec, Canada

Airbus Reports A220 Integration On Track!

April 23, 2019 - by Graham Warwick for atwonline.com

Integration of the former Bombardier CSeries program into Airbus is progressing well, the head of Airbus in Canada said.

"We will deliver more aircraft in the second half of the year than we did in the first half as we continue to ramp up," said Philippe Balducci, CEO of the Airbus-led partnership that now builds the narrowbody airliner as the A220.

"Our first focus was to preserve the operations to ensure continuity and make sure customers were not impacted. That has been successful," he told the Aero Montreal conference in Montreal on April 16. Airbus took control of the CSeries Aircraft Limited Partnership (CSALP) from Bombardier on July 1, 2018.

Noting that the Bombardier CEO "is still very involved in the program," Balducci said, "There is a strong focus within Airbus senior management on this. Sales just take time, we have to be patient."

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Bombardier Eyes Higher Sales From Retrofitting Trains

April 23, 2019 - by Allison Lampert for reuters.com

Canada's Bombardier Inc sees higher sales from modernizing existing rail cars as the company works to further diversify its largest division as measured in revenue, a spokesman said this month.

Bombardier projects that a quarter of its transportation division's expected 2020 revenue of $10 billion will come from rail services, up from 18 percent in 2014, according to a company investor presentation. Rail services include retrofitting, operations and maintenance.

The Montreal-based company is counting on its transportation and corporate jet divisions for growth as it sheds its money-losing commercial aviation businesses. It closed a deal last summer to cede a controlling stake in its largest narrowbody program to Europe's Airbus SE.

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First Airbus A220 Flight Simulator Has Arrived at Air Canada

April 23, 2019 - Fliegerfaust

The first A220 flight simulator for Air Canada is now arrived and installed at Air Canada training facility.

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