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DLD 196: Some long ones

Posted by Seth Miller on 9 June 2018 in PaxEx, podcast | 272 Views

Will Star Alliance soon see a new top status tier? The idea was floated during the group’s briefing at this week’s IATA Annual General Meeting in Sydney.

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Also in this episode:

  • Rolls-Royce Issues Continue to Grow – Hoping to have a fix by 2019
  • TAP/Air New Zealand/Norwegian/LAN/BA/SATA (leasing planes from Qatar)
  • Air France leasing Air Belgium A343
  • PIT-PVG from China Eastern – subsidized by PIT airport authority
  • EWR-SIN restart
  • ORD people mover outage
  • Bombardier – not delivering trains to NYC (disallowed from bidding on next round)
  • Brussels Airlines canceling flights due to a lack of spare parts

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Posted in PaxEx, podcast | Tagged Air France, Bombardier, Brussels Airlines, elite status, EWR, IATA, IATAAGM18, Newark, O'Hare, ORD, PaxEx, PIT, Pittsburgh, PVG, Shanghai, SIN, Singapore, Singapore Airlines, Star Alliance, United, United Airlines

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