All air transport news – Page 1327
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Sea change: is air cargo about to reach maturity?
Air freight has always been a high growth industry, but is it now about to reach maturity? Air cargo will grow by an average of 6.1% a year for the...
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New deals extend Saab Gripen line into next decade
Saab has received contracts and commitments that will keep the Gripen multi-role fighter production line...
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Airbus dusts off cryoplane studies
Airbus is dusting off the concept of the hydrogen-fuelled aircraft in its bid to develop a zero carbon-emissions aircraft of the future. Christine...
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SkyEurope bids to be Europe's first requied navigation performance precision approach user
SkyEurope Airlines has engaged Seattle, Washington-based...
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Lockheed Martin success clears path for shorter en-route separation
The success of Lockheed Martin's en-route modernisation (ERAM) ...
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Singapore Airlines reveals A380 route plans
Singapore Airlines has revealed that the flying programme for its A380 fleet will be expanded to include services to Hong Kong, London, San Francisco and...
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Singapore Airlines unveils A380 cabin and lays out service plans
Singapore Airlines is using the introduction of its A380 fleet to set a new benchmark in premium cabins in the form of fully enclosed first-class suites. The...
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Spain’s Marsans to use Airbus order to build hub network over the South Atlantic
Spanish airline group Marsans will use the order it placed earlier this month for 61 Airbuses - including four A380s - to build a transatlantic multi-carrier...
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Boeing executive shake-up over, up and out
Pat Shanahan, vice-president for missile defence systems at Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, succeeds Mike Bair as vice-president and general manager of...
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Technotes - 23 October 2007
Shape-changing UAV morphs autonomously NextGen Aeronautics has completed the first autonomous flights of...
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EU selects more than €400 million in research projects for 2008 start
Meeting environmental targets, preparing for the next generation of single-aisle airliners and increasing co-operation with central Europe are the goals...
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Daydream believer: How different is the Boeing 787?
dayDREAM believer STEPHEN TRIMBLE WASHINGTON DC The 787 is different - not least because Boeing decided to rewrite the rules of aircraft exterior...
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India and Russia sign fifth-generation fighter deal
India has finally talked Russia into giving it equal funding and engineering shares in the next-generation fighter to be developed jointly by the two nations. A...
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Jet maker sues US authority over 2006 proof-of-concept jet crash
Excel-Jet is suing the US Federal Aviation Administration for the 22 June 2006...
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American Airlines drives efficiency with MD-80 tail cone retrofits
A programme launched roughly two years ago by American Airlines to improve the aerodynamics of its Boeing MD-80s is progressing, with 51 aircraft now flying...
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Airbus optimistic of All Nippon order
Airbus expects to see a request for proposals from All Nippon Airways in the large-aircraft class "within a year". Speaking at last week's handover...
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Airbus to offer A350 self-darkening windows
Airbus is to follow the lead of the Boeing 787 and offer electronic self-darkening windows on its A350...