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December 04, 2019

Dickson To Return To Capitol Hill

Slated To Testify Before The House Transportation And Infrastructure Committee

FAA Administrator Steven Dickson will be back on Capitol Hill next Wednesday, testifying before the The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. The topic of the hearing is the agency's review of Boeing's 737 MAX.

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Boeing to Give $48 Million In Grants To More Than 400 Charitable Organizations

Total Corporate Giving Is On Track To Surpass $230 Million In 2019

In observance of Giving Tuesday, Boeing announced a 2019 charitable grants package totaling more than $48 million. The grants will support 404 charitable organizations in 50 countries, funding programs through 2020 and beyond. This latest investment puts Boeing on track to surpass $230 million in total corporate giving in 2019. This sum includes charitable giving, company business contributions, employee giving and employee gift match.

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United Airlines Pledges Millions Of Miles To Non-Profits On Giving Tuesday

Airline To Match Customer Donations Up To 10 Million Miles

United Airlines continues its successful Miles on a Mission campaign this Giving Tuesday by pledging to match customer donations up to a total of 10 million MileagePlus miles to featured Miles on a Mission partners. The campaign is a first-of-its-kind crowdsourcing platform that gives customers a simple, and easy way to donate miles to non-profit organizations and charities in need of air travel.

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Scandinavia’s SAS Takes Delivery Of Its First Airbus A350 XWB

One Of Eight The Carrier Has On Order

Scandinavian carrier SAS has taken delivery of its first A350-900, becoming the newest operator of this latest generation, highly efficient widebody aircraft. The airline has a total of eight A350-900 aircraft on order and operates an Airbus fleet of 68 aircraft (51 A320 Family, 17 A330 and A340 Family aircraft). In the coming years, as part of an extensive fleet modernisation, SAS will take delivery of 54 additional A320neo Family aircraft and the remaining seven A350-900s through direct purchase and lease contracts.

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Sir Richard Branson Retains Control Of Virgin Atlantic

Partnership With Air France-KLM Approved

A partnership between Virgin Atlantic and Air France-KLM  that was first discussed in 2017 has been approved by multiple governmental agencies, including most recently the U.S. Department of Transportation. Under the terms of the deal, Sir Richard Branson and his family will retain 51 percent of the airline he started 35 years ago.

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WTO Rules Tariffs On Airbus Should Be Reduced By Around Two Billion Dollars

Follows Compliance Measures Put In Place By The Planemaker

A WTO panel assessing the measures the EU and Airbus have taken to comply with the WTO recommendations has issued its findings. As a result of the panel’s findings, the US should immediately reduce the $7.5 billion in tariffs that the WTO authorised to the US in October by around $2 billion. This is the direct result of the panel finding that the loans for the development of the A380 no longer have an impact on Boeing sales and that therefore the value of the lost sales no longer exists.

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