BA has commissioned an independent study to look into last month's shutdown of its data center, which knocked out its systems and stranded 75,000 people over a bank holiday weekend, its parent company's CEO said Monday. "We have commissioned an independent company to conduct a full investigation," International Consolidated Airlines Group CEO Willie Walsh said. "It will be peer reviewed, and we will be happy to disclose details. I'm hoping that people will be able to learn from the experience that we have had, and we'll all be better as a result," he said. Walsh said the incident occurred when an electrical engineer disconnected the uninterruptible power supply, therefore shutting down the data center. That would not have been a big problem in itself, he said, but the damage was caused when the power was restored in an uncontrolled fashion. "It's very clear to me that you can make a mistake in disconnecting the power," he said. "It's difficult for me to understand how to make a mistake in reconnecting the power."<br/>
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An American Airlines Group Inc regional jet made an emergency landing in Norfolk, Virginia, on Monday because of a cracked windshield, and no injuries were reported, an airport executive said. American Flight 5149 was en route from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Newport News, Virginia, when the Bombardier CRJ700 landed at Norfolk International Airport, said Steve Sterling, the airport's deputy executive director. The plane had a crack to the inside layer of the cockpit windshield, he said. The 77 people aboard were being bused to Newport News, Sterling said. American spokesman Ross Feinstein said by email that the plane had landed safely and that the windshield had multiple layers. "We apologize to our customers for the inconvenience," he said. Sterling said the Norfolk airport had an average of one or two emergency landings a month.<br/>
Airbus will refit Zodiac Aerospace seats on all of Finnair Oyj’s A350 wide-body jetliners because of quality issues, said the airline’s CEO, Pekka Vauramo. Entire business-class berths must be replaced on the nine A350s that Finnair has in operation, Vauramo said in an interview at the International Air Transport Association’s annual meeting in Cancun, Mexico. The changes will be timed to coincide with a major maintenance round due at the end of this year. The plan underscores the struggles of Zodiac, which French engine-maker Safran has agreed to buy for E8.7b, in maintaining quality and ramping up deliveries of Airbus’s marquee wide-body. The planemaker last year handed over 49 A350s, one short of its target, only after a December surge that saw previously manufactured jets fitted with delayed interiors. “With Zodiac we have issues. Earlier deliveries were affected, not the recent deliveries, now it seems to be better under control by Airbus,” Vauramo said. “But there are still quality issues, there’s still a lot of rework on our aircraft that needs to be done.”<br/>
Russia’s S7 Airlines announced a codeshare agreement with newly launched Cyprus Airways, which began operations June 1 with a Larnaca-St. Petersburg Airbus A319 service. The flights are performed 3X-weekly, according to S7 Airlines. A connection for Rhodes and Heraklion flights, which Cyprus Airways will begin June 23-24, will be available for passengers from St. Petersburg. Cyprus also offers the option to fly through Moscow Domodedovo via an interline agreement with S7. The carrier will announce its revised schedule in the next few months, which will be implemented in March 2018. The Cyprus Airways brand was secured by Charlie Airlines in July 2016 under a 10-year deal with the Cypriot government. <br/>