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Europe aims for an end to tooling
Shaped metal deposition promises to slash costs and speed production compared with traditional machining techniques
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Business: Good week - Bad week
AIR INDIA The government is pumping Rp8 billion ($174 million) of new equity into its loss-making flag carrier "to ease the cashflow situation [and] also...
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Opinion
Comment: Is Obama boxing clever on NASA?
As a former Marine Corps general and Space Shuttle commander, NASA administrator Charles Bolden is well-equipped to take fire. That's good, because he needed all the grace under pressure he could muster last week when senators tore into him and his boss, Barack Obama, for killing off US human spaceflight.
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First flight of interiors-fitted 787 slides to March
First flight of Boeing's third flight test aircraft has moved into March, citing a pre-fitting of flight test instrumentation that the company believes will...
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OCCAR: 'Significant progress' made in talks to save A400M
Customer nations for the A400M transport are awaiting a response from EADS after proposing changes to save the project ...
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Fokker Services - life after death
Fokker the airframer is long gone, but out-of-production aircraft are a growth business
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NewsAeroflot A320 takes off from Oslo taxiway
Norwegian investigators have opened an inquiry after an Aeroflot Airbus A320 bound for Moscow Sheremetyevo took off from a taxiway at Oslo Gardermoen yesterday.
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Singapore's Tiger to double fleet size by 2012
Singapore's Tiger Airways plans to double its fleet size over the next two years. It will increase its fleet to 33 Airbus A320s by March 2012, up from...
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Proposed UAC incentive ties tax break to domestic orders
Russia's United Aircraft is seeking to foster demand for its projected new aircraft by offering fiscally-attractive investment deals to domestic airlines...
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Eurocopter to dazzle this decade
One year ago, Sikorsky dominated the Heli Expo buzz with a very public unveiling of its X2 advancing blade concept demonstrator, an aircraft that to date has reached 106kt (195km/h) and is expected to gradually ramp up to 250kt by year's end.
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Auckland Airport profit up 4.7% in H1
Auckland Airport has posted a 4.7% growth in net profit for the six months ended 31 December 2009, as passenger demand recovered.
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Qantas launching two new services to Karratha
Qantas Airways is launching two new weekly services linking the Western Australian town of Karratha to Melbourne and Sydney.
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Air China suspends trading with possible capital injection
Air China has suspended trading of its shares, pending a possible capital injection from its parent company and a potential private share placement.
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AirAsia posts 549m ringgit profit in 2009
AirAsia posted an 11% rise in net profit in 2009 due to an increase in revenue and fall in costs.
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Singapore's Tiger posts S$14.1m profit in Q3
Singapore's Tiger Airways has posted a net profit of S$14.1 million ($10 million) in its fiscal third quarter, rebounding from losses in the same period...
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ANZ profit rises to NZ$56 million in H1
Air New Zealand (ANZ) reported a sharp increase in half-year earnings today amid a fall in demand resulting from tough operating conditions due to the global...
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NewsAlaska eyes Gogo Video and Wi-fi-enabled IFE
Seattle-based Alaska Airlines will likely evaluate Aircell's forthcoming video download service for its flights to Hawaii, Canada and Mexico as the carrier...
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United finalises order for up to 75 787s
Boeing and United Airlines have finalised an order for up to 75 787 aircraft. The order for 25 firm 787-8s and an additional 50 options are set to...
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Re-engined single-aisle plans make aircraft finance market edgy
Growing industry speculation about the imminent launch of upgraded single-aisle airliners powered by advanced turbofans is beginning to cause ripples in...