All air transport news – Page 894
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VivaAerobus plans US expansion
Mexico's VivaAerobus is planning to add capacity on its two US routes and is looking at opening new US gateways in 2011 now that Mexico has regained a category...
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Rolls denies that it knew about Trent 900 weakness
Clarifying details about the oil feed problem that caused the uncontained Rolls-Royce Trent 900 failure on a Qantas Airbus A380 in November, the engine manufacturer says: "It is not true that we knew about a problem in the A and B versions of the engine and went on to correct ...
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SpaceX, NASA launch new era of spaceflight
SpaceX's Dragon capsule became the first successful commercial space vehicle when it lifted off aboard the California-based company's Falcon 9 on a mission co-sponsored by NASA and was recovered from its Pacific Ocean splashdown hours later.
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MEBA: Airbus prepares to deliver first A380 for VIP customer
Airbus (stand A16) plans to deliver the first green VIP A380 in the second half of next year.
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Cathay unveils new long-haul business class seat
Cathay Pacific Airways has unveiled a new business class seat for its long-haul flights, and plans to roll out the new product offering on its Airbus A330...
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Bombardier to deliver first CRJ1000 on 14 December
Bombardier is gearing up to deliver its first production CRJ1000 NextGen regional jet on 14 December.
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Body scans not X-rated
Aircraft bomb plots drive Smiths Detection to stay ahead of the terrorists - and in profit
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Continental fits all international 777s with flat-bed seats
Continental Airlines says all of its Boeing 777 long-haul international flights now feature new 'BusinessFirst' class flat-bed seats.
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PICTURE: Airbus manufactures first A350 fuselage barrel
Airbus has started producing the first fuselage barrel for the A350 at the company's Spanish plant in Illescas. It says the barrel, for section 19...
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Airbus A320NEO will be heavier than existing A320 models
The Airbus A320NEO will be offered with two engine choices: the CFM International Leap-X and Pratt & Whitney's PurePower PW1100G.
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Opinion
Comment: End of a stand-off
In taking the bold step of avoiding a new-product strategy, Airbus sets in train a long-postponed game-theory exercise of which indefinite status quo is the only impossible result
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Putin: Italy plans to acquire large number of Superjets
Italian companies are set to acquire a "large number" of Sukhoi Superjet 100s, according to Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin. Speaking to a conference on strategy for socio-economic development of Russia's far eastern region to 2020
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MEBA: Broadening VistaJet seeks to sustain 20% yearly sales growth
All-Bombardier block charter specialist VistaJet expects to match last year's 20% revenue growth in 2010, after what chairman and founder Thomas Flohr terms a "very good summer".
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Airbus outlines expected market impact of A320NEO
Airbus's long-awaited re-engined narrowbody programme, the A320 New Engine Option, or NEO, will mean there is "virtually no business case left" for Bombardier's CSeries, according to the European airframer's chief salesman John Leahy.
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Etihad lays out plan for 150-strong fleet
Etihad Airways will see conservative growth over the next two years as the Middle East carrier plans to take delivery of 11 new aircraft.
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Industry renews pleas for EU research support
European aerospace leaders are urging the European Union to fund research into scale production of aviation biofuels, citing the astronomical costs that inhibit their use.
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Qantas unhappy with Rolls-Royce reaction
Qantas has made clear that it is not happy with Rolls-Royce's handling of the Airbus A380 engine failure crisis, and has prepared the way for court action against the engine manufacturer.
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Larger CSeries CS500 would be "ideal" for Southwest: AirInsight
Bombardier should add a 150-seat, single-class CS500 with 32in pitch to its CSeries family, as such an aircraft would be "highly competitive" and provide...
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VIDEO: Images reveal battle to set down crippled Dagestan Tu-154
Extraordinary video images have emerged of the emergency landing by a crippled Dagestan Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 which illustrates the crew's battle to put...
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Continental to appeal 'absurd' verdict in Concorde trial
Continental Airlines will appeal today's verdict by a French court that holds both the airline and a mechanic guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the July...