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Will Mitsubishi ever be able to recoup a huge investment it made in regional jet program? Answer depends on whether it can acquire, and successfully integrate, Bombardier unit.

Mitsubishi hopes global ambitions will fly with revamped jet

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June 22, 2019 - by MITSURU OBE and NAOKI WATANABE for nikkei.com

PARIS/TOKYO -- At the Paris Air Show in June 2007, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries unveiled a sleek, gleaming silver mock-up of an aircraft it hoped would conquer the world's regional jet market. Twelve years and billions of dollars in overruns later, the Japanese conglomerate was back in Le Bourget this week, rebooting a program that was billed as the fulfillment of a national and corporate dream but instead became an investor nightmare.

The pavilion of subsidiary Mitsubishi Aircraft attracted crowds of journalists and aviation enthusiasts, eager to check out the interior of the redesigned and renamed Mitsubishi Regional Jet -- now the SpaceJet -- and hear how executives plan to rise above the design flaws and other setbacks that delayed deliveries five times.

The buzz was also fueled by the news earlier this month that Mitsubishi Heavy is negotiating to buy the regional jet program of one of its archrivals, Canada's Bombardier...

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January 22, 2020 - by The Fifth Estate

"Boeing used to represent the gold standard in aircraft safety, but critics say it has lost its way in the pursuit of profit.

We tell the story of two fatal crashes involving the 737 Max 8 jet: the Ethiopian Airlines crash last March that killed 157 people and the Lion Air disaster in October 2018 that killed all 189 on board.

We explore why experts say those disasters were preventable. The story is told by pilots, legislators, Boeing insiders and the families of the people killed.

But the biggest revelations come from Boeing itself, through internal messages and emails showing Boeing officials knew about the potential for a catastrophe well before the two crashes occurred."

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Mitsubishi Ends 2019 With ~500 Commitments For SpaceJet

Mitsubishi was the launch customer of the Pratt & Whitney GTF engine family

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January 22, 2020 - by Scott Hamilton for leehamnews.com

Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. (MITAC) ended 2019 with 495 commitments for the M100 SpaceJets from multiple continents, LNA learned.

All but 100 from US regional carrier Mesa Airlines are unidentified.

Mesa announced a commitment for 50 firm orders and 50 options in September at the US Regional Airline Assn. annual meeting in Nashville.

MITAC wouldn't comment, but LNA understands that commitments come from North America and Europe. It's unclear if additional commitments are from Asia.

Japan's ANA and Japan Air Lines are launch customers for the M90 SpaceJet, previously called the MRJ90. This model was rebranded in June at the Paris Air Show when the M100 SpaceJet program was launched.

The SpaceJet is powered by the Pratt & Whitney Geared Turbo Fan engine. It's not recognized that Mitsubishi was the launch customer of the GTF family.

Bombardier followed with the CSeries. Airbus and Irkut were next, with Embraer bringing up the rear...

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Japan Airlines Reduces Business Class In Tweaked Airbus A350 Layout

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January 22, 2020 - by David Flynn for executivetraveller.com

Some of JAL's domestic Airbus A350s will see fewer business class seats as the airline caters for seasonal demand

Japan Airlines will slash the size of its Airbus A350 business class cabin, in favour of a significantly larger economy class cabin, to cater for a seasonal shift in passenger demand.

The good news is that only some of its four A350-900s, which are dedicated to domestic routes, are going under the knife – and this itself will be a short-term arrangement.

In what the airline calls its A350 'X02' layout, the jets will retain their 12 first class seats – although, and in common with the US market, domestic first class is what most countries would actually categorise as 'business class'.

In the case of JAL's Airbus A350 this means two rows of 2-2-2 recliners with "sofa-like comfort" and a 15.6-inch video screen...

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Wisk’s Electric Air Taxis Will Fly Themselves, Says CEO - Joint Venture Between Boeing And Kitty Hawk

Wisk Aero plans to bypass pilots...

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January 22, 2020 - by Elan Head for evtol.com

Wisk Aero plans to bypass pilots with its two-seat electric air taxi, Cora, pursuing autonomous operations from launch.

"We're going direct to autonomy," Wisk CEO Gary Gysin confirmed in a recent interview with eVTOL.com. "At this point, we're not announcing or talking about any piloted versions."

The decision to develop the passenger-carrying Cora as a fully autonomous aircraft — generally expected to be more difficult to certify than piloted models — is a bold bet by Wisk, the joint venture between Boeing and Kitty Hawk Corporation created on July 1, 2019, and announced five months later.

Other eVTOL developers, such as Joby Aviation, are preparing to launch with piloted aircraft, even if they expect to transition to autonomous operations over time.

But if Wisk is taking a gamble that regulators will approve autonomous air taxis in a timely fashion, the company is also doing what it can to stack the odds in its favor.

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January 22, 2020 - by André Pointner

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Could Southwest Buy JetBlue To Solve Growth Limit Imposed By Boeing 737 MAX Grounding?

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January 22, 2020 - by Michael Goldstein for forbes.com

Southwest Airlines is profitable but has a growth problem created by the continued grounding of its 34 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft (of 301 on order). Could Southwest get out of the box by buying JetBlue—in particular, that airline's order book of Airbus A321neo aircraft?

If Southwest is sick of waiting for the 737 MAX to be declared safe to fly, why not just order some planes from Boeing' competitor? Unfortunately, Airbus has a backlog of 3200 aircraft to deliver.

If Southwest buys JetBlue, it will also get its place in line for A321neo deliveries.

Such is the modest proposal put forth by Stifel airline analyst Joe DeNardi.

In a recent update, he called JBLU a buy, claiming "As Boeing's Stock Goes Down, JetBlue's Should Be Going Up." He put a target price on JBLU stock, currently around $19.15 a share, at $26.

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Man Furious With Air Canada After Wife Finds Rock In Meal Served On Flight

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January 22, 2020 - by Phil Tsekouras for ctvnews.ca

TORONTO -- A Toronto man was left with a bad taste in his mouth after he said his wife discovered a rock in her in-flight meal on an Air Canada flight.

Ayman Amer is an engineer and said he regularly travels from Toronto to Doha, Qatar for work. On this particular trip last month, Amer said he traveled overseas with his wife, Cybele, and 10-year-old son.

On the return journey home, the Amers connected onto an Air Canada flight from Zurich to Toronto and said the cabin crew began distributing the in-flight meals.

"They gave us the food and then my wife opened the salad," Ayman said, referring to the green bean salad with chickpeas and grains she had been given.

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Boeing Statement on 737 MAX Postpones (re)Entry Into Service Not Before Mid-2020

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January 22, 2020 - by Ajay for boardingarea.com

Boeing's 737 MAX aircraft can't seem to have enough of the trouble. After being grounded on March 13, 2019, the airframe maker shut down the 737 assembly line, only the second time in its long history, as assembled aircraft piled up across all of Boeing facilities in Washington state.

Not just that, Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems too had about 100 fuselages piling up at their end.

While the last update we received was expecting the aircraft to fly in the first quarter of 2020, which was a jump from sometime late 2019, Boeing has now issued official guidance, postponing the entry of the aircraft to mid-2020. As per the Boeing statement,

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January 22, 2020 - by Allison Lampert, Jamie Freed, David Shepardson

MONTREAL/SYDNEY/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Airlines are scrambling to book time in 737 MAX training facilities as far afield as Fiji, Iceland and Panama, operators said, after Boeing Co recommended pilots be trained in one of the few simulators replicating the latest model.

That means thousands of pilots from more than 54 airlines need to squeeze into about three dozen 737 MAX simulators around the world before they can fly the plane.

"Boeing is recommending that all 737 MAX pilots undergo training in a 737 MAX simulator prior to flying the aircraft in commercial service," the company told Reuters on Tuesday evening, the first confirmation of its new policy.

On Jan. 7, the company had recommended using a simulator but did not specify what type.

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