All air transport news – Page 818
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Senate sought tighter pilot training days before Tiger grounding
The grounding of Tiger Airways Australia comes just days after an Australian Senate committee stressed the need to underpin pilot training and ensure that...
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Grounded Tiger posed 'serious and imminent' safety risk
Tiger Airways Australia's grounding follows its failure to convince the civil aviation regulator that it can conduct safe operations despite having been...
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Investigators probing second Tiger A320 descent incident
Tiger Airways Australia, which has been grounded by the Australian regulator, is being investigated after two incidents in June involving Airbus A320s descending...
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PICTURE: Northrop completes centre fuselage for Dutch F-35
Northrop Grumman has completed the centre fuselage section for the Netherlands' first F-35A Joint Strike Fighter ...
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No evidence of technical failure on crashed Tu-134
Russian investigators have found no evidence of technical failure on the RusAir Tupolev Tu-134 which crashed while landing at Petrozavodsk on 20 June.
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Boeing's plans for narrowbody segment still unclear
Of all the questions posed going into the Paris air show - the status of the Airbus A350, Bombardier's CSeries order count - the one that remained unanswered...
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Garuda orders four new A330-300s
Garuda Indonesia has placed a firm order for four Airbus A330-300s, which will take the carrier's A330 fleet to 23 aircraft. It will also convert three...
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New Nordic carrier to emerge from Flybe-Finnair tie-up
Oneworld member Finnair and UK regional carrier Flybe are to acquire Finnish Commuter Airlines and establish a new Scandinavian airline, to be branded Flybe...
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737 replacement depends on 787 commercial success
To pay for a massive new development programme - its design and its industrialisation - Boeing must make its current clean-sheet 787 profitable, before it...
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Hawaiian adds 717s for new interisland push
Hawaiian Airlines is making an interisland push with three additional Boeing 717s being leased from Boeing Capital to support 20 additional flights in October. Hawaiian...
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Taiwan to upgrade 71 Ching Kuo fighters
Taiwan will upgrade 71 of its AIDC F-CK-1 Ching Kuo indigenous defence fighters for $588 million ...
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Market share concerns loom over Boeing's narrowbody decision
There are two teams within Boeing vying for the endorsement of the airframer's top leadership. One is advocating an all-new aircraft delivering 20% improvement...
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First flight of Japanese ATD-X likely in 2014
Tokyo has reaffirmed its plan for a 2014 first flight of its Mitsubishi ATD-X Shinshin stealth demonstrator ...
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EASA starts inspecting Superjet for European certification
European authorities have started inspecting the Sukhoi Superjet 100 as part of the effort to certificate the twinjet outside of Russia.
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Airbus coy on A320 winglet retrofit details
Airbus is yet to disclose full technical details of a plan to offer large winglet retrofit on its A320-family aircraft as it prepares to start producing new-build aircraft with a "sharklet" wingtip modification
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KLM used 50/50 blend for first scheduled biofuel flight
KLM used a 50/50 blend of kerosene and biofuel derived from cooking oil in both engines of the Boeing 737-800 aircraft it operated today between Amsterdam...
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Saab strikes deal to acquire Sensis
Saab has signed an agreement to acquire Sensis Corporation for $155 million in a bid to increase its presence in North America.
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KLM operates first scheduled biofuel flight from Amsterdam
KLM today operated a scheduled passenger flight between Amsterdam Schiphol and Paris Charles de Gaulle running on a blend of biokerosene derived from cooking...
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Turkish Airlines chief puts focus on organic growth
Turkish Airlines chief executive Temel Kotil is putting the focus on organic growth as the airline continues to revamp its network following a rapid expansion...