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Monday 17 February 2020

El Airbus A330-800neo recibe autorización para empezar a volar comercialmente

Prototipo del A330-800 durante sus vuelos de prueba - S. Ramadier
Prototipo del A330-800 durante sus vuelos de prueba - S. Ramadier

Con un poco de retraso sobre lo previsto, ya que estaba previsto que ocurriera a finales de 2019, pero el Airbus A330-800neo acaba de conseguir su certificado de tipo. A cambio del pequeño retraso es un certificado de tipo conjunto para la Agencia Europea de Seguridad Aérea (EASA) y para la Autoridad Federal de Aviación de los Estados Unidos (FAA).

El A330-800neo es la versión corta del A330-900neo, que a cambio de poder meter un menor número de pasajeros a bordo consigue 1.700 kilómetros más de autonomía que el -900. Igual que este incorpora un ala mejorada con sharklets más eficaces, un pilón –la pieza en la que se sujeta el motor– de titanio, un carenado de materiales compuestos para éste, y motores Rolls Royce Trent 7000.

Esto le proporciona una autonomía de 15.000 kilómetros en una configuración de 260 pasajeros –unos 2.400 kilómetros más que el A330-200 en el que se basa– que, según Airbus, cubren el 98% de todas las rutas que se vuelan con aviones de este tipo hoy en día.

Un A330-800 con librea de Kuwait Airways – Fixion/dreamstime.com/MMS
Impresión artística de un A330-800 con librea de Kuwait Airways – Fixion/dreamstime.com/MMS

El problema es que Airbus tan sólo cuenta con 14 pedidos para este modelo: ocho para Kuwait Airways, que será el cliente de lanzamiento, dos para Uganda Airlines y cuatro para un cliente cuyo nombre no se ha hecho público. Además Garuda Indonesia tiene firmada una carta de compra para cuatro ejemplares más y Air Greenland parece tener interés en comprar uno. Son sin duda pocos ejemplares así que no sería demasiado sorprendente que Airbus terminara por cancelar la producción del modelo.

En -900, por su parte, que entraba en servicio con TAP a finales de 2018, acumula ya 323 pedidos.

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SpaceX va a poner en órbita el satélite Starlink número 300

El Falcon 9 del lanzamiento Starlink anterior en la plataforma – SpaceX
El Falcon 9 del lanzamiento Starlink anterior en la plataforma – SpaceX

SpaceX tiene todo preparado en el Complejo de Lanzamiento 40 de cabo Cañaveral para lanzar un nuevo lote de satélites de su constelación Starlink de acceso a Internet. Con otros 60 satélites a bordo este lanzamiento dejará en 304 el total de satélites de la constelación. Estos nuevos satélites siguen siendo el modelo estándar, que no incorpora ningún tipo de modificación para minimizar el efecto que tienen sobre el cielo nocturno.

La primera etapa del cohete es la B1056 en el que será su cuarto lanzamiento tras los de las Dragon 17 y 18 y el JCsat 18 el pasado 15 de diciembre de 2019. Con sólo 61 días desde su último lanzamiento establecerá un récord en lo que se refiere a su reutilización, aunque aún está muy lejos ese objetivo de volver a volar en 48 horas.

Aterrizará, si todo da bien, en el espaciopuerto flotante Of Course I Sill Love You, mientras que Ms. Tree y Ms. Chief intentarán pescar al vuelo las dos mitades de la cofia protectora.

Será el cuarto lanzamiento del año para SpaceX, de los que tres han sido dedicados al lanzamiento de satélites Starlink. El otro fue la prueba en vuelo del sistema de escape de la Crew Dragon.

El lanzamiento está previsto para las 16:05, hora pensinular española, y se podrá seguir por Internet desde unos veinte minutos antes.

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Oyo’s revenue surged in FY19, but loss widened, too

Budget-lodging startup Oyo reported a loss of $335 million on $951 million revenue globally for the financial year ending March 31, 2019, and pledged to cut down on its spending as the India-headquartered startup grows more cautious about its aggressive expansion.

The six-year-old startup’s growing revenue, up from $211 million in financial year ending March 31, 2018, is in line with the company’s ambitions to be in a clear path to profitability this year, said Abhishek Gupta, Global CFO of OYO Hotels & Homes, in a statement.

But the startup’s loss has widened, too. Its consolidated loss increased from 25% in FY18 to 35% in FY19, it said. In India, where Oyo clocked $604 million in revenue in FY19, it was able to reduce its loss to 14% (from 24%) of revenue in FY19 to $83 million.

The startup, which today operates more than 43,000 hotels with over a million rooms in 800 cities in 80 nations, said its expansion to China and other international markets contributed to the loss.

“These markets constituted 36.5% of the global revenues. While consistently improving operating economics in mature markets like India where it’s already seeing an improvement in gross margins, the company is determined to bring in the same fiscal discipline in emerging markets in the coming financial year,” the startup said in a statement.

Oyo has come under scrutiny in recent months for its aggressive expansion in a manner that some analysts have said is not sustainable. The startup, which rebrands and renovates independent budget hotels, has also engaged in sketchy ways to sign up new hotels, as documented by the New York Times earlier this year.

In recent months, Oyo executives have acknowledged that the startup grew too fast and is confronting a number of “teething issues.” Oyo has laid off at least 3,000 employees, mostly in India, in last three months.

Local Indian laws require every startup to disclose their annual financials. Most of them filed their financials in early October.

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Will they? Won't they? Are we getting a new iPhone in March?

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Swift Playgrounds is now available on Mac, making it even easier to get a taste of software development. There are new phones from Samsung, including the Galaxy Z Flip, and signs continue to point towards a less expensive iPhone to be announced sooner than later.

Apple has been ordered to pay employees in California for time spent waiting for their bags to be searched after their work shift. And speaking of bags, a man found his missing AirPods Pro in a bag of chips.

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