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United sets 12 December launch for Dulles-Lagos
Star Alliance member United Airlines has set a 12 December launch date for new daily service between Washington Dulles and Lagos, Nigeria. The flights...
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AB 25: Brian Havel on why open skies is a milestone not the culmination of liberalisation
When faced with the prospect that the "end of history" was imminent, Nietzsche responded with revulsion to what he saw as the coming stultification of the human race. We, too, should experience a similar horror at the prospect that air transport liberalisation has reached its apotheosis through "open skies" writes ...
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AB25: Ancillary revenues yesterday, today and tomorrow
When ancillary revenue first began in the late 1930s, it was motivated by operational constraints, as opposed to any sense of commercial opportunity writes Collinson Latitude's business planning director Janet Titterton
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Retrospective: No rallying cry as Space Shuttle programme launched
The Space Shuttle was launched to service a space station, but it had to wait 30 years to fulfil its original mission
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AB25: CTAIRA principal Chris Tarry
In the aviation industry the only constant is change and over the last 25 years there have been some dramatic changes with significant effect on the business writes CTAIRA principal Chris Tarry
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AB25: JetBlue chief executive, Dave Barger
Twenty-five years ago, there were no iPods, "e-commerce" was not a word, and the internet was barely relevant to most business people writes JetBlue chief executive Dave Barger
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Safi to wet-lease aircraft as Afghanistan faces EU blacklisting
Afghanistan's Safi Airways is to wet-lease aircraft to maintain its German route as the European Commission prepares to blacklist all operations by Afghan...
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NewsAustrian to refit 32 A320s and 737s with new seats
Lufthansa-affiliated Austrian Airlines is to reconfigure 32 short-haul aircraft in its fleet with new seats from Recaro as part of a European product overhaul. The...
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AB25: Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson
When we went into the airline business 26 years ago, the aviation industry was lifeless and dull. The airlines did not seem to have any imagination and air travel had lost the glamour that was associated with it in the 1950s. Food was tasteless, seats uncomfortable and passengers were treated ...
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NewsFatigue cracks raise questions about key decision in F-35 redesign
Are the cracks widening? Questions raised over 2004 weight-saving decision to switch key F-35...
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CUTAWAY: As shuttle programme fades away, what comes next for manned spaceflight?
Uncertain funding and constantly changing schedules are clouding the future of the US space programme
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AB25: African Aviation chief executive Nick Fadugba
The landscape of the African airline industry has changed significantly in the past 25 years. Numerous former stalwart national carriers, such as Air Afrique, Ghana Airways, Nigeria Airways and Zambia Airways, have gone bankrupt; several privately owned airlines, such as Arik Air in Nigeria, Precisionair in Tanzania and Fly540 in ...
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Armchair astronaut: flying the Space Shuttle simulator
What is it like to fly the Space Shuttle? Two simulators in Houston gave our test pilot a taste of an atmospheric experience
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NewsLatest deal for 31 F-35s shows slight price decline
Lockheed Martin has finalised a nearly $3.5 billion low-rate initial production contract for 31 more F-35s ...
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US Air Force confirms F-22 pilot died in crash
The US Air Force has confirmed that the pilot of a Lockheed Martin F-22 which crashed on 16 November died in the accident ...
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BA names Go-Ahead executive as chief financial officer
British Airways has named transport firm Go-Ahead Group's finance director, Nick Swift, as its new chief financial officer. Swift will replace Keith...
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AB25: ACE Aviation chairman, Robert Milton
Look back 25 years? I'm not old enough oh wait, I am. Let's see, I'll go back to when I knew this was the industry for me, my first sighting of a 747. I was nine. Whoops, that was 1969, way too long ago. Twenty-five years? Write ACE avaition holdings ...
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AB25: AirAsia Group chief executive Tony Fernandes
GROUP chief executiveairasia On 13 October, less than nine years after a dream called Air-Asia became reality, the 100 millionth "guest" was flown...
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RAK Airways to open Bangladeshi routes
Resurrected Middle Eastern carrier RAK Airways is extending its fledgling route network to Bangladesh. It is to operate three times per week to the...
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AB25:Use of standards in maintenance data: blessing or nuisance?
Is the use of standards in maintenance data a blessing or a nuisance ask Christian Eickhoff, quality management, and Dierk Kruetzmann, engineering, Lufthansa Technik