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Crashed BA 777 inquiry battles to understand fuel restriction UK investigators remain unable to explain the reduction in fuel flow that led to a British Airways Boeing 777-200ER losing power in both engines and landing... Thai picks Trent 900 for A380s Thai Airways International has selected the Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine to power the six Airbus A380s it has on firm order. A spokeswoman says from Bangkok that the Star Alliance carrier?s board met yesterday and selected the Trent 900 over the Engine Alliance GP7200. The spokeswoman says the carrier?s first A380 is due for delivery around the middle of 2010. Thai placed its order for six A380s in 2004. Deliveries were originally due in 2008 and 2009 but they were pushed back as a result of to delays in the programme. The carrier?s existing widebody aircraft from Airbus and Boeing are powered by engines from all three major manufacturers, General Electric, SIA claims first iPod integration with IFE system Singapore Airlines (SIA) is claiming to be the first airline to offer passengers the ability to connect their Apple iPod personal electronic devices to an in-flight entertainment (IFE) system. The Star Alliance carrier says in a statement that the first flight to allow passengers iPod integration with the Panasonic Avionics IFE system was operated out of Singapore today. The Airbus A340-500 is operating to Newark in the USA and the aircraft is the first of five A340-500s that SIA is having reconfigured to all-business class layouts. A spokesman for the carrier says a check with Apple has confirmed that SIA is the first airline to allow passengers to play music and view video content using their own iPod or iPhone devices through SIA operates first all-business class flight Singapore Airlines (SIA) is today operating its first all-business class service, between its Singapore base and New York-Newark in the USA. Flight SQ22 departed Singapore at 11:00 today and the Airbus A340-500 is due to arrive in Newark at 17:50 local time. SIA has five A340-500s that operate non-stop services between Singapore and both Newark and Los Angeles. Until today all five had been in a two-class layout, seating 181 passengers in premium economy and business class. FAA plunges into JetBlue toilet episode FAA plunges into JetBlue toilet episode Fuel costs weigh on Iberia in first quarter Spanish Oneworld carrier Iberia slid to a ?400,000 ($617,000) first quarter net loss, after spiralling fuel costs hampered it from matching its ?12.2 million net profit for the first quarter of 2007. Between January and March Iberia?s operating revenues fell fractionally to ?1.3 billion, but its costs were 2.5% up at ?1.33 billion, causing its EBITDAR to drop 29% to ?124 million. The Spanish firm swung to a ?28 million EBIT loss from a ?13 million profit. Operating losses for the quarter stood at ?6.6 million, down from a ?14 million operating profit. Iberia says the operating loss was driven by ?66.8 million in additional fuel costs. But despite the increased fuel expenditure, Iberia?s capped its total cost increase to ?31.4 million. It says: ?The restructuring of the flight network and th ANA, JAL seek 767 leases to fill 787 capacity gap All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Japan Airlines (JAL) are negotiating compensation deals... Inexperienced crew narrowly avoid botched landing following Finncomm's rushed introduction of ATR turboprops Finnish investigators have highlighted the risks of rapid fleet expansion, following an extraordinary incident in which an inexperienced ATR crew?s botched landing attempt resulted in four missed approaches, several ground-proximity system alerts, and a stall warning. In its inquiry into the Finncomm Airlines incident last year, the Finnish Accident Investigation Board has catalogued a series of deficiencies with the carrier?s organisation, at a time when it was broadening its regional network to serve as a feeder for Finnair. The board states that the carrier had been unprepared for a rapid introduction of ATR turboprops and did not have the resources to cope. Finncomm set up its own type-rating training organisation to overcome the difficulties of sourcing Boeing secures over 130 orders for upgrade package for older-model 777s A quarter of operators of older Boeing 777s have purchased a new performance improvement package that should boost... iPod integration part of new IFE at Air New Zealand Allowing passengers to play music and video content from their own Apple iPod players over installed in-flight entertainment (IFE) systems is one of several features that will be offered onboard Air New Zealand aircraft in the near-term. The carrier has opted to equip 13 Airbus A320s and five Boeing 767s with Panasonic?s X Series IFE systems. In addition to iPod integration, the IFE platform from August will offer video and audio on demand (AVOD), moving map, games, USB media player, and other entertainment options. As Air New Zealand?s long-term strategy evolves, advanced functionality can easily be added to the system, says Panasonic. ?The Panasonic X Series meets our needs because of its capability and reliability. It was also important that the syste

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