All Safety News – Page 546
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Business: Good week - Bad week
More than three years of contract negotiations appear to have ended with a deal running until August 2011 giving pilots at the budget carrier...
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United pulls more business from Mesa
Struggling US regional Mesa Air Group faces another challenge in sustaining its business as the time period for its partner United to exercise its option...
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SAS claims lead in lean fuel operations
Driven by a potent combination of industry recession, fuel prices and ecological pressures, airlines are looking for ways of saving fuel. SAS, which has...
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L-3 in resellers deal covering AMA data communications products
L-3 Communications' Aviation Recorders division has signed an agreement with AeroMechanical Services (AMA) to sell AMA's real-time data communications and...
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NTSB, FAA investigate high altitude bird strikes near Phoenix
US Federal teams are investigating two high-altitude in-flight bird strikes earlier this week in central Arizona.
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NTSB wants business aviation pilots to train for upset recovery
US air taxi companies and business would have to incorporate upset recovery training into their pilot training programmes if the...
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PiperJet to enter service in mid-2013
Piper Aircraft has decided to pursue a mid-2013 service-entry date for its first jet. The single-engined six-seat PiperJet had been scheduled to be...
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GECAS declares interest in placing a 787 order
GE Commercial Aviation Services has revealed that it might place an order for as many as 30 Boeing 787s.
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PICTURES: Winglet installation underway for Hawaiian 767s
Hawaiian Airlines has installed blended winglets on its first Boeing 767-300ER following FAA certification of the 767 modification.
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Airbus throws A330-200F straight into flight-test regime during maiden sortie
Airbus put the A330-200 Freighter through an intense test regime during its first flight earlier today, operating the aircraft up to its maximum speed and altitude and testing its revised nose landing gear arrangement.
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EADS weight-saving technology to make F1 debut in 2010
The Force India Formula 1 team will almost certainly race in 2010 using safety-critical components made using an EADS-developed lightweight manufacturing...
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A330-200F touches down after successful maiden flight
The Airbus A330-200F has touched down in Toulouse after completing its maiden flight, marking the start of a 180h, four-month flight-test programme.
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Emirates bucks trends with report of rising profits
Emirates Airline's profits increased 165% in the first half compared with the same period of 2008, says the Dubai-based carrier. A net profit of Dhs752...
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Qantas' top engineers vote for industrial action
Qantas Airways' professional engineers have voted to take industrial action against the carrier over wages.
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China Eastern gets nod for institutional placement
China Eastern Airlines has received conditional approval from the China security regulatory commission to place 1.35 billion A-shares with institutional...
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Chinese cargo start-up takes Precision-converted 757
China's SF Express has taken delivery of its first aircraft, a Boeing 757-200PCF converted by Precision Conversions, which will be operated by SF's newly...
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Babbitt defends revoking licenses of Northwest pilots
FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt is standing behind the agency's decision to revoke the licenses of two Northwest Airlines pilots that overflew Minneapolis...
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Lufthansa considering deferrals across broad range of types
Lufthansa is discussing the possible deferral of several aircraft deliveries and hints that these could include Airbus A380s. As part of its "Climb...
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BMIbaby targets redundancies and fleet reduction
BMIbaby is to make 158 staff redundant and scale down its fleet from 17 aircraft to 12 as part of a restructuring programme. BMI's low-cost subsidiary...
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Qantas suspends two pilots for failing to deploy landing gear
Qantas Airways has suspended two pilots over an incident in which they failed to deploy the landing gear on a Boeing 767 and this meant the aircraft had...