All Networks news – Page 507
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Interview
Interview: AirTran chief executive Bob Fornaro
AirTran Airways has had to scale back its growth plans and reposition itself in order to survive first the fuel crisis and now the demand crisis. But chief executive Bob Fornaro is confident the steps taken will ensure the carrier's continued survival
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Opinion
Comment: Safety means going beyond compliance
When global airline safety has become very good, it becomes progressively more difficult to improve it. But there are ways to get even better and reap efficiency improvements as well
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News
Virgin Nigeria admits competition forced long-haul withdrawal
Virgin Nigeria is attributing its withdrawal from long-haul operations to an influx of foreign carriers which have depressed fares on the Lagos-London market,...
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News
Business: Good week - Bad week
The eternal struggle to reform the unreformable has finally succeeded as the carrier, still called Alitalia but now owned by investor group Compagnia...
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News
SIA to use A380 for Paris services
Singapore Airlines (SIA) is to start operating the Airbus A380 to Paris in June.
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News
ANZ A320 pitched up and stalled before crash: investigator
The probe into the November crash of an Air New Zealand (ANZ) Airbus A320 in France is focusing on an apparent surge of engine power during the final approach...
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News
Air France-KLM outlines Alitalia synergy targets
Air France-KLM spells out synergy targets after Italian investors pick it as partner for relaunched Alitalia
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News
Lithuania's main airline, FlyLAL, to cease operations
Lithuania's main airline, FlyLAL, is to cease operations after a plan to sell the carrier to external investors collapsed.
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News
JFK on “super-shortlist” as Lufthansa mulls first A380 service
Star Alliance member Lufthansa plans to launch Airbus A380 flights next spring, and says New York JFK is on "the super-shortlist" to be one of the carrier's...
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News
Airbus keeps mum on A380 production ramp-up plan
Airbus is declining to provide guidance on A380 delivery rates beyond 2009 and has warned that while production should stabilise in two years, market demand...
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News
US Airways CEO Parker and NTSB en route to New York
US Airways chief executive Doug Parker and representatives the US National Transportation Board (NTSB) are en route to New York as an investigation gets...
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News
US Airways A320 crash lands in the Hudson River
A US Airways Airbus A320 has crash-landed in the Hudson River west of New York City after a departure from LaGuardia Airport on January 15th.
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News
Air Berlin chooses ACSS for environmental, safety upgrade
Air Berlin has signed an agreement with US-based ACSS to equip a portion of its new Boeing 737 fleet with the company's SafeRoute automatic dependent surveillance...
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News
Air Austral to take 840-seat A380s in 2014
Reunion-based carrier Air Austral is expected to take delivery of its all-economy Airbus A380s in 2014. The carrier has signed a memorandum of understanding...
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News
Pinnacle expands Q400 fleet by fifteen aircraft
US regional operator Pinnacle Airlines Corporation has extended its agreement with Continental Airlines and ordered 15 Bombardier Q400 NextGen turboprop...
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News
Harbin Embraer in the fray after no deliveries in 4Q
Embraer's revelation this week that no ERJ-145 regional jets were delivered during the fourth quarter of 2008 forced the company to again answer questions...
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News
United latest to sign for Aircell's Internet solution
Several years after withdrawing from now-defunct Connexion by Boeing's satellite-based Internet project, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines...
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News
Taiwan's AIDC may make parts for Japan's MRJ
Japan's Mitsubishi Aircraft is speaking to Taiwan's Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC) about making parts for its Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) and will be making a decision in the coming months.
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News
PICTURES: KLM celebrates 90th year with 'retro' 737
Dutch carrier KLM has become the latest airline to adopt a retro-style livery, painting a Boeing 737-800 in a historic scheme to mark the company's 90th...
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News
Forecasts 2009 - Airframers: Crunch time
How will airframers cope with the inevitable decline in orders as the world's financial meltdown kick in?