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Analysis: Ascend corporate travel survey suggests its time to go back to the future
Ascend survey shows that corporates are looking at multiple ways to achieve financial efficiency for their business flights
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Alliances stymied in solving transatlantic riddle
The alliance groups' much-sought joint ventures across the north Atlantic are up and running, but the challenge of achieving year-round profitability in...
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Biman issues tender for CF6-50C2 engine repair, overhaul
Biman Bangladesh Airlines has issued a bid tender for the repair and overhaul of 12 of its GE Aviation CF6-50C2 engines that are installed on its McDonnell...
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Alliances: differing takes on the immune system
As liberalisation creeps along at a snail's pace, alliances with anti-trust immunity have become the answer for many airlines anxious to move beyond restrictive...
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NewsQantas denies reports of private equity offer
Qantas Airways has denied reports that it has received a private equity bid of A$3.5 billion ($3.66 billion). "There has been no approach, formal...
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South Korea receives three F-15K Slam Eagles
South Korea has taken delivery of three more Boeing F-15K Slam Eagles, with the final eight of its 2008 21 aircraft order to be delivered before April 2012.
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Qantas to operate Airbus A320 aircraft for premium carrier
Qantas has revealed it will operate Airbus A320 aircraft for its new premium carrier, which will be based in Asia.
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FAA investigates Southwest close call with fireworks mortar
The US FAA has posted air traffic control audio tapes revealing a near miss...
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Final parts arrive for first Charleston 787
Boeing's North Charleston, South Carolina final assembly line has received its first locally fabricated Boeing 787 aft fuselage, completing the final shipments...
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MTU delivers first GEnx centre turbine frame
MTU Aero Engines has begun delivering turbine centre frames (TCF) for the General Electric GEnx programme.
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NewsRussian Progress capsule crashes
A Russian Progress spacecraft has crashed in eastern Russia. A Russian Soyuz-U rocket launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan successfully...
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LoPresti set to roll out unpressurised tyres
Florida-based LoPresti Aviation Engineering said it is working with Cessna and at least one other business jet airframer to roll out a new line of aircraft-specific banded tyres that do not require any inflation.
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Eurowings appoints Wallisch as joint chief executive
Germany's Eurowings has appointed Lufthansa executive Jochen Wallisch to lead the regional airline jointly with chief executive Peter Kranich.
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Piaggio makes first Brazilian sale
Piaggio Aero has confirmed receiving its first order from a Brazilian customer, as the maker of the P180 Avanti launches a strategic push into the fast-growing Latin American market for business jets.
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Bombardier's chief CSeries salesman Gary Scott to retire
Bombardier Aerospace's top CSeries salesman, Gary Scott, has announced he will retire from the company on 1 October. Scott, who has held the title...
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NewsBombardier offers hi-speed connectivity on Global 5000 and 6000
Bombardier has started offering high-speed in-flight connectivity on its Global 5000 and Global 6000 business aircraft.
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NewsNPO Saturn reveals cause of PAK-FA engine flame-out
A malfunction in the automatic flight control system was the cause of the Sukhoi PAK-FA's starboard engine flame-out at the MAKS Moscow air show, according...
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FAA launches Part 23 update
The US Federal Aviation Administration has launched a new aviation rulemaking committee (ARC) that could produce a slate of more pragmatic certification standards for light business jets and general aviation aircraft several years from now, simplifying and streamlining the path to market for new aircraft.
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China's ARJ21 falls behind on flight test schedule
Two key components in the flight test programme of China's first indigenously designed regional jet have not been completed, and this has led to the likelihood...
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FlairJet plans new bases in East Midlands and Dublin
Oxford airport-based FlairJet plans to open two new bases at East Midlands and Dublin airports, where it will position two Embraer Phenom 100 aircraft.