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NEWS

Entry Point North
delivers ATSEP training
in Hong Kong
Air traffic services academy Entry Point
North has delivered on-site ATSEP
OSTI And ATSEP Assessor courses to
PCCW-HKT in Hong Kong. The training
complied with ICAO standards and was
reportedly regarded as a success. Later
this year, Entry Point North will also be
delivering ATSEP Training consultancy
services to PCCW-HKT. “We are very
proud to be chosen by PCCW-HKT
for ATSEP Training and consultancy,”
said Anders Halskov-Jensen, Client
Manager at Entry Point North.
P&w breaks ground on first Singapore
manufacturing facility
Pratt & Whitney Singapore Manufacturing has broken ground on a new facility at
Singapore’s Seletar Aerospace Park that will produce fan blades and high-pressure
turbine disks for Pratt & Whitney’s PurePower Geared Turbofan engines. The new
16,000-square-metre facility, which is expected to be ready by 2014 and begin work
in 2015, will border the firm’s existing facility at Seletar: Pratt & Whitney Singapore
Component Repair. “Pratt & Whitney is pleased to break ground on this new facility
and further expand our already large presence in Singapore, which is well-known
throughout the aerospace industry for its highly trained and technically skilled
Air Astana arrives in workforce,” said Pratt & Whitney President David Hess.
Ho Chi Minh City Narita opts for Morpho’s
Kazakhstan’s Air Astana has launched CTX 9800 EdS
a new service from Almaty to Ho Chi Japan’s Narita International Airport
Minh City in Vietnam, expanding its Corporation has purchased 13 high-
Asian network. The service will be speed CTX 9800 DSi explosive detection
operated via Bangkok, with a total flight systems (EDS) from Morpho Detection
time of nine hours, while the return for hold baggage screening. The 13
flight will be operated non-stop and units are scheduled to be integrated into
take seven hours. “Air Astana continues Narita International Airport’s baggage
to grow in strength and reputation as handling system beginning this year, and said, “By reducing false alarms and
Central Asia’s leading carrier, with deployment will bring the total number time-intensive manual inspections of
the development of our Asian network of Morpho CTX EDS units in service at checked luggage, CTX 9800 is [helping
being a very high priority,” said Air Narita to around 40. Brad Buswell, to enhance the efficiency of the airport’s
Astana President Peter Foster. President and CEO of Morpho Detection baggage screening programme].”

PROFILE
Dean Athans takes the lead at the Engine Alliance
The new President of the Engine Alliance, Dean Athans, has come to his new role from the GE Power
& Aero Derivatives business, where since 2010 he has been head of the LSM100 power turbine product
line. Before that, he spent 25 years at GE Aviation in a variety of leadership roles. He said, “I welcome this
opportunity to assume leadership of the Engine Alliance. The GP7200 engine is a great product with a
strong customer base and wonderful team behind it.” In addition, Athans’ predecessor, Mary Ellen Jones,
said, “I leave the Engine Alliance with great pride in the GP7200’s performance… I look forward to [the
engine’s] continued success on the A380 with Dean at the helm.”

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