Aviation Daily, March 26, 2018

Boeing has not appealed the U.S. International Trade Commission’s (ITC) rejection of its C Series price dumping claims against Bombardier. Boeing confirmed the March 22 deadline to appeal the Jan. 26 ITC vote passed without it filing an appeal....More

Air China said it expects to raise its share of traffic at Beijing Capital International Airport to 70% after a new airport opens in the city’s Daxing district next year....More

African LCC fastjet and Mozambican national carrier LAM have signed a wide-ranging MOU to explore long-term commercial cooperation....More

All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Alitalia signed a commercial partnership agreement that will include codeshare flights between Japan and Italy and on domestic routes within the two countries from Oct. 28....More

Air China will begin connecting Panama City with Beijing via Houston from April 5....More

Lufthansa has started utilizing biometric self-boarding gates at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)....More

LONDON—London Luton Airport is aiming to clamp down on excessive noise late at night over the peak summer period, after it breached its night-time noise contour limits. The airport, which is situated some 35 miles north of central London, is the home of LCC easyJet and handles a high percentage of LCC and charter flights. It has experienced rapid growth in flight numbers—up 37% in the past five years. It handled 15.8 million passengers on 135,000 flights in 2017. ...More

Following a March 22 cyberattack on the City of Atlanta government, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) temporarily shut down its Wi-Fi system, leaving the airport’s approximately 275,000 daily passengers and 63,000 employees scrambling for internet connectivity....More

Airlines for America (A4A) CEO Nick Calio believes there will be further progress in UK-U.S. air services talks by April, as the UK prepares to exit from the European Union (Brexit) next year....More

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