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"Not only does our line-up of members include the finest airline brands in the world, our collection of networks delivers the best coverage in the markets that matter most throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia. We believe our focus on the quality, rather than quantity, of members has been the right approach." "Meantime, we have been able to welcome Japan Airlines' reaffirmation to oneworld. It is very good to have Masaru Onishi among us. We respect JAL's alliance review was an important decision for the airline and the government of Japan. We believe they made the right choice for JAL's many stakeholders, for Japan's national interests and for consumers." Mr Arpey noted that this year had seen the biggest progress in oneworld's history in deepening links between its member airlines: "We expect our applications for anti-trust immunity across the Atlantic and Pacific to be approved soon, levelling the alliance playing field between North America and Europe and ensuring that alliance competition remains robust between North America and Asia. Both initiatives will enable oneworld to offer our customers even better services and benefits." oneworld had taken significant strides in many other areas too, completing its biggest yet airport co-location project, bringing all on-line airlines from across all five passenger terminals into just two at its biggest European hub, London Heathrow, and increasing its lead in offering the widest range of alliance consumer fares. Mr Arpey concluded: "For us, the key aim of all this activity is simple -to establish oneworld further firmly as the premier airline alliance, delivering to both our customers and member airlines services and benefits beyond the reach of any individual airline and making it easier and more rewarding to reach more places more easily on a quality network of the best brands in the business." Significant progress in expanding cooperation with Japan Airlines Considerable progress has been made in expanding co-operation between JAL and its oneworld partners since the airline reaffirmed its membership of the alliance, following a review of its alliance strategy conducted as part of its overall restructuring programme, on 9 February this year. Three days later it applied with American Airlines to the US Department for Transportation for antitrust immunity for a joint business agreement between North America and Asia, and notified Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Tourism of their transaction. By working more closely together, the two airlines will be able to provide more seamless links for connecting passengers, expand customer choice by offering new routes and supporting existing routes that would not be economically viable for the airlines individually. This will enable them to improve efficiency, find opportunities to lower costs and have greater ability to invest in products, services and fleets. American Airlines has also taken steps to serve Tokyo Haneda, which is JAL's main domestic hub. American applied in February for slots to serve the airport from Los Angeles and New York JFK with flights that would also carry the JL code, subject to regulatory approvals. British Airways and JAL are expanding their codesharing agreement significantly, more than doubling the number of European destinations served by flights operated by the UK airline with the JL prefix. Nine routes were added last week with another four to follow later this month, taking to 23 the number of cities in Europe served by these joint services. Meantime, preparations are moving ahead for the transfer this November of British Airways operations at Tokyo Narita into Terminal 2, alongside those of JAL and all other on-line oneworld partners. Other oneworld member airlines are also expanding code-sharing with JAL. Its JL code has recently been added to flights by Mexicana to its Mexico City hub and on more routes served by Qantas subsidiary Jetstar. At London Heathrow, oneworld's biggest European hub, JAL and all other oneworld on-line partners, along with some BA services, have recently consolidated operations in Terminal 3. JAL has just started sharing BA's lounges for premium customers there. Plans are being developed to enable JAL to share its oneworld partners' lounges at more airports worldwide. oneworld Governing Board Chairman, American Airlines Chairman and Chief Executive Gerard Arpey, said: "Japan Airlines is a highly valued member of oneworld and we are all committed to supporting JAL in its restructuring to create an even stronger partnership for the benefit of all our stakeholders. The rapid progress we have achieved so far is testimony to that commitment." Japan Airlines President Masaru Onishi said: "We analysed our alliance strategy in great detail before reaffirming our oneworld membership. oneworld is clearly the alliance of best quality, with excellent airline partners, extensive global coverage and best overall alliance proposition. The progress we have made with our oneworld partners since then, and our meeting today, has
confirmed we made the right decision. "We at Japan Airlines are excited at the prospects of further developing our relationships with our oneworld partners. We also firmly believe that being part of oneworld can strongly support JAL at a time when we are striving towards the revival of our business, which we are determined to achieve." Financial Impact of Icelandic Volcano Ash The air transport industry is experiencing major disruption of services following the Iceland volcanic eruption. IATA’s initial and conservative estimate of the financial impact on airlines is in excess of US$200 million per day in lost revenues. In addition to lost revenues, airlines will incur added costs for re-routing of aircraft, care for stranded passengers and stranded aircraft at various ports. IATA has set up its crisis center in Montreal and is closely coordinating with Eurocontrol and European air navigation service Providers. A330-200 Freighter receives Type Certification from EASA Aircraft's payload capability of 70 tonnes is one tonne greater than expected. The A330-200F was granted Type Certification on 9 April 2010 by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) following a successful 200-hour flighttest campaign. The trials were performed by two aircraft, covering both engine types on offer: the Pratt and Whitney PW4000 and the Rolls- Royce Trent 700. This dedicated freighter aircraft, which is a derivative of the A330- 200 passenger model, has been certified through an amendment to the existing A330-200 EASA Type Certificate granted to Airbus in 1998. This EASA award will be followed by Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Type Certification. Speaking at the signing ceremony in Toulouse, Christian Favre, A330/340 Chief Engineer said: "After a very smooth and successful flight test campaign we have reached certification in line with our planning. Moreover, thanks to some design optimisation, the aircraft's payload capability of 70 tonnes is one tonne more than first expected." He added: "With the freighter market already showing signs of recovery, rising by 20 per cent so far this year, we now have a great new aircraft to offer customers," he concluded. The A330-200F features an optimised fuselage cross-section, offering flexibility to carry a wide variety of pallet and container sizes. The aircraft offers 30 per cent more volume than any freighter in its class, and is based on the proven and technologically-advanced A330 platform, for which Airbus has over 1,000 orders and already more than 650 aircraft in service. Over 3,400 freighters will be needed in the next 20 years to cater for a 5.2 percent average annual growth rate. This will include around 1,600 midsized freighters, of which the A330-200F will play an important role. Boeing Launches 787 GoldCare Service With TUI Travel PLC The Boeing Company on 13 April 2010 announced that TUI Travel PLC, the world's leading leisure travel company, is the launch customer for GoldCare. The agreement to support the airline's Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet covers 13 airplanes currently on order by TUI. The 787s will be operated by Thomson Airways, Tuifly Nordic, Jetairfly and Arkefly. The GoldCare contract is for a period of 12 years from the delivery date of each airplane. Boeing will provide TUI Travel with GoldCare Enterprise, which encompasses the full portfolio of available GoldCare services. GoldCare is Boeing's lifecycle solution that provides maintenance, engineering and material management as a multiyear service managed by Boeing. GoldCare is made
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