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Strategy Awards: The Airline Business Award
Presented to Tim Clark, president of Emirates Airline
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Strategy Awards: Regional Leadership
Presented to Bill Ayer, chief executive of Alaska Air Group
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Gol expects WebJet integration to be easier than VRG acquisition
Gol is confident its proposed acquisition of fellow Brazilian low-cost carrier Webjet will be easier in terms of integration than its previous purchase of Varig successor VRG, and it expects to enjoy annual synergies of 100 million reais ($63.7 million) within two years.
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Business: People Moves
Boivin: LHR operations Aeroports de Montreal operations director Normand Boivin will be chief operating officer at London Heathrow airport from 29...
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Airbus delivers 800th A330 but freighter sales stay slack
Hong Kong Airlines is to operate the 800th Airbus A330 to roll off the production line at Toulouse. The airline, part of HNA Group, is taking the A330-200F,...
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Embattled Tiger Australia appoints high profile safety advisor
Tiger Airways Australia has appointed an ex-Qantas chief pilot as a safety advisor to the CEO.
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Uniacke joins IBA as head of asset management
The International Bureau of Aviation (IBA) has announced that James Uniacke has joined them in a newly created role, Head of Asset Management, to lead and...
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Cathay first to sign up for revolutionary simulation system
Cathay Pacific and partner carrier Dragonair will be the first airlines to fit a motion-modifying system to all full flight simulators to make them feel...
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VIDEO: Lufthansa shows off VIP A380 concepts
Lufthansa Technik has illustrated possible concepts for a private interior on the Airbus A380, through a video released by its VIP & Executive Jet Solutions...
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RIAT: L-3 unveils Spydr surveillance aircraft
L-3 Communications has unveiled its Spydr system demonstrator for small ISR aircraft at RIAT in the UK ...
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P&W Rocketdyne fires J-2X
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne has announced the first firing of the J-2X, the liquid fuel rocket that will power the second stage of the Space Launch System. The...
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Lufthansa commences daily biofuel flights with A321
Lufthansa has launched the world's first regular scheduled commercial flights powered by biofuel. For six months, a Lufthansa Airbus A321 will fly...
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Jetstar to increase Singapore-based Airbus fleet by end-2011
Singapore-based low-cost carrier Jetstar Asia will have 17 Airbus A320-200s and four A330-200s based at its Singapore hub by the end of 2011.
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Israel to issue trainer request by early August
A request for proposals for an advanced jet trainer for the Israeli air force should be released by the first week of August ...
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F-35 LRIP overrun value raised to $1.15b
The F-35 programme office has confirmed the estimated cost overrun for the first 28 production F-35s is roughly $1.15 billion ...
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Dubai Aeropace Enterprise wipes out its 737 backlog
Dubai Aerospace Enterprise has cancelled its remaining 35 Boeing 737s on order, eliminating its entire narrowbody backlog, Boeing confirms. The airframer's...
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Ameco Beijing plans merger with Air China Technics
Air China plans to merge its maintenance arm, Air China Technics, with its MRO joint venture with Lufthansa, Ameco Beijing, to become a major global maintenance,...