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NewsDSEi: Saab announces UK management team
Saab has used the DSEi exhibition to unveil the management team for its new London headquarters ...
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INTERIORS: Airbus tweaks A350 to seat over-sized passengers
Aircraft seat manufacturers are still working to ensure that the armrests on economy class seats for the Airbus A350 XWB can completely retract back so that...
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NewsEADS ownership battle heats up
The vexed question of shareholdings in EADS resurfaced last week with a Financial Times report indicating the German government is finally prepared to step in where no private buyers dare to tread - and relieve Daimler, the national industrial champion best known for its Mercedes-Benz cars, of some of the ...
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NewsCaution welcomed: Boeing's 737 Max
Boeing eventually chose discretion over valour in deciding its future narrowbody strategy - and the decision has found favour with the credit markets
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NewsINTERIORS: In-flight wi-fi arena hots up with Arinc's Cabin Connect
Competition in the in-flight wi-fi sector just got more intense now that Arinc has thrown its hat into the ring with a new Inmarsat SwiftBroadband-supported...
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Opinion
Comment: Governments be gone
Europe's aerospace giant has been an undeniable success story since its creation a decade ago from national champions. It is long past time for the politicians to get out of the way
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NewsEASA to order A300 operators to fit rudder-reversal alarms
Airbus A300 and A310 operators will be instructed to fit a warning device designed to prevent crews from making potentially hazardous rudder inputs of the kind that brought down an American Airlines jet 10 years ago.
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NewsGovt audit blames ministry, management for Air India troubles
An Indian government report has blamed both Air India's management and the Ministry of Civil Aviation for letting the beleaguered carrier become both unprofitable...
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InterviewAirline Business cover interview: ANA’s Shinichiro Ito
All Nippon Airways has quietly caught up with Japan Airlines as its local rival has regrouped after a turbulent couple of years financially. And the airline is about to enter the global spotlight as it flies Boeing’s 787 on its debut passenger service.
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Red Wings chief calls for Kremlin intervention on Tu-204SM programme
Aleksander Lebedev, the owner of Russian carrier Red Wings, has written to Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin urging him to take personal control over...
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EasyGroup calls for removal of Doganis from EasyJet board
UK budget carrier EasyJet has received another letter from shareholder EasyGroup, this time requesting a meeting to vote on the removal of aviation consultant Rigas Doganis from its board.
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Computer modelling cuts autoclave time
Elaborate computer modelling of autoclave curing of large composite structures has identified ways to optimise the process to cut up to one-third from curing times.
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US Airways takes preliminary look at A321neo
Re-engined twinjet is aimed at 757's replacement market but carrier questions new Airbus's capability to match up
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Aircraft finance costs set to rise
When Washington's summer debt-ceiling brinkmanship spurred ratings agency Standard & Poor's to take the once-unimaginable step of stripping the USA of its top-tier AAA credit rating, financiers started asking whether the theoretical risk of default would hit the cost of borrowing.
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China's Juneyao faces CAAC sanctions after safety breach
Chinese A320 operator sanctioned after crew refuses to surrender landing slot to inbound Qatar 777 with fuel emergency
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NewsPICTURES: First 747-8 in Lufthansa colours rolls out
Boeing has rolled out the first Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental sporting the colours of German flag-carrier Lufthansa, the type's airline launch customer. Lufthansa...
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The big squeeze on aircraft interiors
Strong demand for aircraft seats and galleys has led to a significant backlog in the industry, but manufacturers are wary of boosting capacity too quickly in an uncertain economy. As a result, airlines and leasing companies are facing difficulty in sourcing seats and galleys in the short term.
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Boeing to deliver first 747-8F to Cargolux on 19 Sept
Boeing will deliver the first 747-8 freighter to launch customer Cargolux on 19 September, followed by delivery of the second aircraft to the cargo carrier...
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Scope uncertainty pushes SkyWest to study large turboprops
Bombardier and ATR in contention as United-Continental partner looks at alternatives to ageing CRJ200s and Embraers
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NewsBoeing learns lessons for 737 from 787 overruns
That Boeing has learnt its lesson from the overlong development of the 787 and 747-8 can be seen in the proposed timescale for the re-engined narrowbody, named the 737 Max, which the airframer launched on 30 August.