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Ethiopian selects GEnx for 787s
Ethiopian Airlines has selected the General Electric GEnx engine to power its Boeing 787s.
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Air India Express pilots win pay rises
Air India’s international low-cost subsidiary Air India Express is to give its pilots sizeable pay rises in a bid to keep them from resigning to join other airlines.
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Iceland's Avion orders four more 777 freighters
Iceland’s Avion Group has ordered a further four Boeing 777 freighters for its wet-lease division, Air Atlanta Icelandic.
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Hole in fuselage discovered after Alaska emergency landing
A ground inspection of an Alaska Airlines Boeing MD-83 that was forced to return to Seattle Tacoma (SeaTac) due to a loss of cabin pressure has uncovered an approximately 12in long, 6in wide (30.5cm long, 15.2cm wide) hole in the fuselage.
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Air India starts seeking financing for Boeing orders
Air India has begun seeking financing for pre-delivery payments to Boeing for its long-awaited order for new widebodies and narrowbodies.
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Azerbaijan Airlines grounds remaining An-140 after crash
Azerbaijan Airlines has grounded its remaining Antonov An-140-100 turboprop following its fatal 23 December crash involving one of the type.
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India's Air Deccan orders 30 more A320s
Indian low-fare carrier Air Deccan is to order 30 more Airbus A320s for delivery from 2008.
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Virgin America CEO says startup meets ownership laws
Virgin America CEO Fred Reid is extremely confident the startup carrier’s application for US DOT certification will withstand regulatory scrutiny, saying it was arranged “emphatically to address being within the right boundaries of foreign ownership laws”.
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NewsWorld's finest aviation quiz
It's Uncle Roger's festive quiz and there is nothing else quite like it.
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Opinion
OPINION: F-22A - not what's needed in Iraq
The US Air Force is celebrating the F-22 Raptor’s service entry, but US troops on the ground in Iraq are unlikely to feel as joyous
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Ariane 5 launches Indian and European satellites
The Ariane 5 successfully lifted off from Europe's Spaceport on Wednesday, deploying India's INSAT-4A telecommunications satellite into geostationary transfer orbit.
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Boeing celebrates as Xiamen deal pushes 737 orders past 6,000
Boeing has confirmed the sale of 10 737-800s to Xiamen Airlines as a historic landmark for the aircraft program, which has now surpassed 6,000 orders.
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Airbus rakes in pre-Christmas orders
Airbus has pulled in three final orders in the run-up to the Christmas break, announcing deals from Easyjet, Brazilian carrier TAM and an undisclosed customer.
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US NTSB finds cracks in wing spar of Chalks' crashed Mallard
US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) officials have found a fatigue crack in the right wing spar of the Chalks Ocean Airways Grumman Mallard that crashed into the sea near Miami Beach December 19.
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Boeing's former Wichita plant chases Airbus work
Spirit AeroSystems, the former Boeing Commercial Airplanes operation based in Wichita, Kansas, is responding to a set of requests for information (RFI) issued by Airbus for a range of potential aerostructures work packages.
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NewsSaudi Arabia commits to Eurofighter Typhoon deal
Government-to-Government pact lays the ground for 24 aircraft to be sold