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Cabin crew deal will ensure dispute cannot be repeated: BA
British Airways' agreement with the Unite union contains a clause aimed at ensuring the long-running cabin crew dispute will not be repeated.
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Boeing slips Turkish AEW&C delivery, but nears Chinook deal
Boeing has again slipped its delivery schedule for the Turkish air force's 737-based airborne early warning and control system aircraft, until late 2012 ...
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SIA posts strong full-year result, plans to retire 747-400s
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has reported a S$1.09 billion ($876 million) fiscal full-year net profit, compared with the previous year's S$216 million net profit...
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Turkey signs up as Talarion partner
Turkish Aerospace Industries has signed a memorandum of understanding to become a part of Cassidian's Talarion project ...
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BA strikes deal with Unite to end cabin crew dispute
British Airways and the Unite union have reached an agreement to resolve their long-running cabin crew dispute.
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Battle for 145-seat market heats up
The 100- to 149-seat aircraft market could become more crowded following last week's revelation that Embraer is considering developing an aircraft directly...
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UK Govt report slams BAA's Heathrow snow response
London Heathrow Airport was "totally unprepared to recover from any major incident" and operator BAA "underinvested" in snow equipment, according to a UK...
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DHL Express acquires 13 A300-600s for freighter conversion
DHL Express has acquired 13 Airbus A300-600s which are to be converted into freighters by EADS' EFW division in Dresden. The aircraft will replace...
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Overweight DC-8's tailstrike influenced Afghan ban
Slack operational oversight allowed an Afghan McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63 freighter to take off from a UK runway while nearly 12t above weight limits, resulting...
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Qantas reinstates flights after engineers call off strike
Qantas Airways has reinstated dozens of flights it had planned to cancel on 13 May, after its engineers decided to hold off on industrial action.
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Thai ministry of agriculture receives C212-400 for rain-making missions
The Thai government has taken delivery of the first of two Airbus Military C212-400s.
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Programme delays hurt Australian defence budget
Australia's armed forces will return A$4.3 billion ($4.6 billion) to the government over the next five years, with A$2.4 billion to come from troubled capital expenditure programmes.
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Qantas to scrap 31 flights tomorrow due to engineers' strike
Qantas Airways plans to cancel 31 flights tomorrow morning and delay several others as a result of a planned strike by its engineers.
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VIDEO: Maryland nears human-powered award
Engineering students and faculty at the University of Maryland in College Park are close to hovering a 31m (103ft)-wide ultra-light human-powered helicopter in preparation for record attempts and the $250,000 Sikorsky prize for human-powered helicopter flight.
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FAA updates proposed air carrier crew training rules
The US FAA has issued an update to proposed sweeping pilot, flight attendant and dispatcher training rules first published in January of 2009. Two...
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Saab eyes 787 passenger doors as growth opportunity
Saab has seized on "difficulties" with a major supplier for the Boeing 787 as it looks to increase its own presence on the commercial widebody programme.
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Rockwell Collins quantifies head-up benefit
Rockwell Collins says recent flight tests with the Pro Line Fusion avionics on a Bombardier Global 5000 reveal that a combination of synthetic vision on a head-up display increased instrument landing system tracking accuracy by 70% laterally and 25% vertically compared with guidance from traditional head-down gauges.
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RNP at midsized airports promises big benefits: GE
Deploying required navigation performance (RNP) approaches at 46 midsized airports that are not now the focus of the US NextGen airspace overhaul could save...
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Gama on track for 'truly global' presence
One of Europe's largest business aviation services providers, Gama Aviation, says it is well on the way to creating "a truly global footprint" as it looks to add bases in Asia and South America to its UK, US and Middle East operations.
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Business Aviation - In brief
Bahrain-based Gulf Aviation Academy has become the first training organisation in the Middle East to be awarded regional training partner and authorised training centre accreditation from the International Air Transport Association