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Airbus's biggest customer, Lufthansa, has taken its backlog with the airframer to 91 aircraft with an order for 32 A320-family aircraft and eight Rolls-Royce Trent 700-powered A330-300s to be operated by itself and its Swiss and Germanwings units
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Pan Am International Flight Academy has acquired Miami-based Aeroservice Aviation Center
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Opinion
Comment: Destruction still means death
One reason military electronics cost a bomb compared with civilian gadgets is that military equipment has got to operate reliably in vastly more hostile environments than a living room or a Starbucks
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Comment: Probing investigation
Air accident investigation in Europe will still be carried out by national agencies, but a new EU law requires them to be much more accountable. This is no bad thing
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Southwest plans to keep AirTran’s Boeing 717 fleet
Southwest executives have confirmed that it plans to operate AirTran's 86 Boeing 717s once its acquisition of AirTran closes and the Atlanta-hubbed carrier...
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Airline Services opens new interiors shop at Stansted
Airline Services, which provides aircraft interiors and ramp presentation services in the UK, is further expanding its portfolio of services with the opening...
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Cassidian to protect Norwegian F-16s
EADS's Cassidian unit is to protect Norway's F-16 fighters from shoulder-launched missile attack ...
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NewsPICTURES & VIDEO: Eurocopter unveils high-speed hybrid helicopter
Eurocopter has made clear it has no intention of letting rivals loosen its grip on the civil rotorcraft market with the unveiling of its much-anticipated high-technology solution to the challenge of boosting helicopter speeds.
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NewsPICTURE: Surplus Dutch F-16s near delivery to Chile
Chile is close to receiving its next batch of ex-Royal Netherlands Air Force Lockheed Martin F-16 fighters ...
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Caribbean orders nine ATR 72-600s with Armonia cabins
Trinidad and Tobago's Caribbean Airlines has ordered nine ATR 72-600 turboprops from the European airframer.
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Mexico signs repeat order for EC725
Eurocopter has increased its orderbook for the EC725 to include 12 for Mexico ...
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Crashed Wind Jet A319 landed hard before runway threshold
Italian investigators have confirmed that the Wind Jet Airbus A319 damaged in a landing accident at Palermo had touched down hard before the runway threshold.
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NewsSouthwest to acquire AirTran Airways
Southwest is to further consolidation in the US industry through the acquisition of fellow low-fare carrier AirTran Airways. In a definitive agreement...
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PICTURE: HC-130J delivery marks treble milestone for Lockheed
Lockheed Martin has handed over the first HC-130J combat tanker to the USAF's Air Combat Command ...
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Fox's spending axe threatens UK programmes
Tensions are mounting as the UK government nears the end of its Strategic Defence and Security Review process ...
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NewsAeromexico hands 737 component support to Lufthansa
Aeromexico has reached a maintenance agreement with Lufthansa Technik covering component support for Boeing 737 aircraft.
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SaxonAir looks to turn Norwich into centre of business aviation
Norwich is the latest UK city to stake a bid to become a hub of business aviation. Local operator SaxonAir is investing £6.5 million ($10 million) in a two-hangar business aviation centre at the airport and plans to add to its five-aircraft charter fleet with larger aircraft.
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Korean Air studies regional jet order
Korean Air (KAL) is mulling over an order for regional jets in the next two years to operate on short-haul services to China and Japan.
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ICAO realistic about emissions schemes as its 37th Assembly begins
ICAO leadership plans to take a practical approach during its triennial Assembly beginning on 28 September to achieve a highly-anticipated framework for...
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NewsUAE's RAK Airways to relaunch services on 10 October
Ras Al Khaimah's latest attempt to establish its own airline will culminate with the commencement of flights in two weeks' time. The emirate will restart...