All Airframers news – Page 984
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Pacific islands struggle on
Three Pacific island nations are finding it tough to maintain links with the outside world following cutbacks in air service.
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Delay fears mount as traffic soars
Europe’s air traffic management organisation Eurocontrol says that air traffic grew to a record 9.2 million flights in 2005, but airline bodies are nervous as delay levels creep up.
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Northwest cranks up labour tensions
A proposal by Northwest Airlines to set up an internal small-jet subsidiary as it reorganises in bankruptcy has provoked strike threats by its pilots union, a warning observers are taking seriously.
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More of the same
The latest research from Airline Business shows that carriers have been tackling their cost bases vigorously over the past few brutal years with measurable success. However, as traffic and revenues rise, the challenge will be to sustain this progress and change the industry’s fundamentals for ever
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Liquid returns
The airline sector is once again back in favour with investors, with plenty of financing available and an increasing number of initial public offerings coming to market
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Focus Iceland: Northern raiders
A small island in the North Atlantic does not immediately spring to mind as a hotbed of aggressive investment policies and strategic forays into foreign lands, yet Iceland has an abundance of both
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Delayed take-off
Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport, despite a well-publicised so-called first landing in September, may finally open in June 2006. But several question marks still hang over the development and IATA has a number of misgivings
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NewsA350 v 787
In this week's edition Flight International reports from Seattle and Toulouse on the rival aircraft competing for the long-haul twinjet market.
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