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Thales satcom system certified for 737, 777
Thales' multi-service 'TopFlight' satcom system has been certified for Boeing 737NG and 777 passenger aircraft following successful flight tests at Boeing.
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NewsThailand signs for more Gripen fighters, anti-ship missiles
Thailand has signed a follow-on order for more Gripens and another Saab 340-based surveillance aircraft ...
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AB25: US State Department, John Byerly
It was in 1985, the year Airline Business was founded, that I landed my first job in aviation as the State Department lawyer responsible for air services negotiations and policy. writes John Byerly, US Deputy Assisntant Secretary, Transportation affairs
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Embraer hands over first Legacy 650 to Sugar
Embraer handed over the first Legacy 650 business jet on 22 November to UK entrepreneur and television personality Alan Sugar.
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NewsIndia's Invision gets first of 18 Phenom 100s for air-taxi operation
Embraer has handed over the first India-based Phenom 100 to...
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NewsPICTURE: Third Lynx Wildcat joins flight test fleet
AgustaWestland's third and final AW159 Lynx Wildcat test aircraft has joined the company's operational fleet ...
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Tunisair-linked Mauritania Airways blacklisted by Europe
Tunisair affiliate carrier Mauritania Airways has been included on the European Commission's latest revision of blacklisted airlines.
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This weeks briefings
The crash this month in Alaska of a Lockheed Martin F-22 reduced the US Air Force's fleet of the stealth fighter to 185 fighters, including the final batch of 20 being built by Lockheed for delivery before March 2012.
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NewsPICTURES: UAE's first PC-21 makes flight debut
Pilatus has performed the first flight of a PC-21 turboprop trainer for the United Arab Emirates ...
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Garuda formally signs SkyTeam accession pact
Garuda Indonesia has officially inked an agreement that will see it joining the SkyTeam alliance in 2012. Indonesia's flag-carrier will spend the...
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AB25: Former British Airways chairman and CEO, Lord Marshall
Working in air transport, alongside wonderfully committed people was, for me, a great and fulfilling experience. Over the past 25 years, I learned that it was not a business for those of a nervous disposition or anyone seeking a quick profit writes former British Airways chairman Lord Marshall.
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India assesses future pilot needs
India's Directorate General of Civil Aviation has asked the leading Indian carriers to submit a five-year hiring and training plan along with details of...
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AB25: IATA chief executive, Giovanni Bisignani
Air transport today is almost unrecognisable compared with the 1985 industry in which Airline Business was born writes Giovani Bisignani, IATA director general
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AB25: Lufthansa chairman, Juergen Weber
Stability and control are the essence of safe flying and succeeding as a business. On average, the airline industry is confronted with the challenge of new innovative cycles every 10 to 20 years. Keeping the craft on course and in trim and finding the right power-setting to master any potential ...
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AB25: Jet Airways chairman, Naresh Goyal
The 1960s, and to some extent the 1970s, were the age of innocence for our industry in India. Aviation as a business was less cut-throat, more a luxury, almost like a one-time experience to be cherished; definitely not a common man's choice of travel, the Great Indian Railways had then ...
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ALTA 2010: Aeromexico adds three 737-800s and one 767
Aeromexico is adding three Boeing 737s and one 767 to its fleet this month as part of a plan to further increase capacity ahead of the upcoming peak season.
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Qantas to resume limited A380 services
Qantas Airways will resume limited Airbus A380 services on 27 November, more than three weeks after an uncontained engine failure forced one of its aircraft...
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Opinion
Comment: Accident information rules must change
The commercial air transport industry and its regulators, all the way up to the International Civil Aviation Organisation, need to review their protocols...
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Comment: No free ride to space
Saving money and developing a spacecraft to replace the Shuttle sound like mutally exclusive endeavours in cash-strapped Washington, but politicians aren't getting the real cost issue