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Start-up Air Samara to start operations next year
Russian provincial start-up Air Samara is planning to begin operations in 2011 using Western-built aircraft. After forming a legal entity, the Samara-based...
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HK adapts procedures after A340 taxiway take-off incident
Air traffic controllers at Hong Kong have put in place a temporary procedural change after a Finnair Airbus A340-300 accidentally attempted to take off from...
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Australia approves Darwin Airport master plan
Australia's transport ministry has approved Darwin International Airport's 2010 master plan, the details of which will be released within the next two months. The...
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Embraer appoints Pesce as new Asia Pacific president
Brazilian airframer Embraer has appointed a new president for its Asia Pacific office in Singapore.
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India eyes greater transparency in flight fares and tariffs
India's civil aviation ministry has formed a committee to look into the disclosure of fares and tariffs by the country's airlines.
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787 flight tests resume, final schedule unclear
After a six-week suspension, Boeing will resume flight test activities today, though a complete assessment of the schedule will be completed in January and...
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Boeing makes progress in 747-8F flight tests
After the cumulative effect of design changes added six-months to the first delivery of the first 747-8 freighter, Boeing appears to have found a more steady...
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Air New Zealand receives first 777-300ER
Air New Zealand has received its first Boeing 777-300ER aircraft, scheduled to land in Auckland on 24 December.
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Forecasts 2011: Safety - The price of safety
A shake-up and investment in flight safety and security is overdue, but is it likely to happen this year?
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Shannon Aerospace employees agree to job cuts
Union and employee representatives have agreed to Shannon Aerospace's planned restructuring.
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Airline Business looks back at another roller-coaster year for airlines in 2010
Things are seldom quiet in the airline industry and 2010 proved no exception. It will be a year remembered for a faster financial recovery from airlines than anyone dared hope; when a volcano eruption in Iceland brought European airspace to its knees; and where consolidation fever within the industry took ...
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NASA's COTS dream gets boost from Taurus II test
NASA's vision of private enterprise partners filling the cargo and crew launch gap left by the imminent retirement of its Space Shuttle fleet got a further boost from Orbital Sciences's successful 17 December long-duration test firing of its liquid-fuelled Aerojet-supplied AJ26 rocket engine.
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Missing recorder means CV-22 crash remains a mystery
A paperwork glitch has deprived investigators of the flight incident recorder on board a crashed Bell Boeing CV-22 tiltrotor despite evidence that the critical device survived, according to the president of a US Air Force accident investigation board.
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EASA extends Trent 900 inspection intervals
Europe's safety regulator has extended the inspection threshold and interval requirements for Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines with certain modification standards. The...
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UK CAA warns carriers to meet denied-boarding obligations
UK regulators have castigated some airlines for failing to meet passenger obligations during the recent snow disruption at the country's airports.
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VIDEO: Precision strike AT-802U demonstrator runway crash
Flightglobal has obtained a slow-motion video taken by a ground observer as Air Tractor's AT-802U surveillance and precision strike demonstrator aircraft...
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Business Aviation - In Brief
Czech business aircraft services provider ABS Jets has received authorisation to carry out maintenance of UAE-registered aircraft.