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    Airlines not rushed on real-time credit swipes in-flight: GuestLogix

    2010-11-24T17:40:00Z

    GuestLogix's new onboard store platform can support real-time credit card transactions in-flight, but the firm says it hasn't yet seen a rush of carriers...

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    Investigation: cabin door déjà vu for Bombardier CRJ

    2010-11-24T16:03:00Z

    A stuck main cabin door on a SkyWest Airlines CRJ200 in Phoenix in October drew the attention of a National Transportation Safety Board official who happened...

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    Thales satcom system certified for 737, 777

    2010-11-23T15:19:27Z

    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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    AB25: US State Department, John Byerly

    2010-11-23T14:59:00Z

    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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    AB25: IATA chief executive, Giovanni Bisignani

    2010-11-23T09:18:00Z

    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

    2010-11-23T07:00:00Z

    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

    2010-11-23T05:00:00Z

    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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    Qantas to resume limited A380 services

    2010-11-23T00:57:24Z

    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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    Working Week: Jan Fridrich

    2010-11-23T00:00:00Z

    A Czech mate for light aircraft Jan Fridrich is vice-president of the Light Aircraft Association of the Czech Republic and of the European Microlight...

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    ICAO's aviation emissions reduction plan heads for Cancun

    2010-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Can ICAO's emissions framework help when the United Nations attempts to form a new climate change resolution to replace the Kyoto protocol?

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    Mexicana's new owner secures union concessions required for re-launch

    2010-11-22T21:41:55Z

    Mexicana's unions have approved new contracts with the grounded carrier's new owners, moving Mexicana one step closer to potentially re-launching operations.

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    Virgin Blue first to select new Rockwell satcom in avionics deal

    2010-11-22T20:22:19Z

    Australian operator Virgin Blue has selected Rockwell Collins' entire suite of avionics - including a new satcom solution - for its new fleet of Boeing 737...

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    AB25: Indigo Partners managing partner, Bill Franke

    2010-11-22T20:00:00Z

    Cabinets and hard drives are filled with the collective thoughts and analyses of many better-positioned chroniclers than me that cover the evolution of commercial aviation over the past quarter of a century writes Bill Franke, manging partner of Indigo Partners and former America West chief executive

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    AB25: Former BMI chairman Sir Michael Bishop

    2010-11-22T18:00:00Z

    The business of air transport is a tumultuous industry, whose financial fortunes are frequently dictated by economic, aeropolitical, criminal or geological events far beyond the day-to-day operation or control of an airline's management itself writes former BMI chairman Sir Michael Bishop

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    Investigation: Cabin door déjà vu for Bombardier CRJ

    2010-11-22T16:30:42Z

    A stuck main cabin door on a SkyWest Airlines CRJ200 in Phoenix last month drew the attention of a National Transportation Safety Board official who happened...

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    AB25: Ohio State University professor Nawal Taneja

    2010-11-22T16:00:00Z

    The airline business model has changed dramatically in the past 25 years as a result of numerous forces, such as the development and the resounding successes of low-cost carriers; incorporation of evolving information and distribution technologies; efficiencies and effectiveness of advanced regional jets; establishment and subsequent growth of the Gulf-based ...

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    AB25: Spencer Stuart executive Michael Bell

    2010-11-22T16:00:00Z

    What have the past 25 years taught us about leadership in the airline industry? In a few words: "It's tough as hell" writes Spencer Stuart's Michael Bell

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    Space Shuttle special: waiting for Discovery

    2010-11-22T16:00:00Z

    Rescheduling a Space Shuttle launch is not an easy task as NASA has only a limited number of opportunities

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    AB25: Ancillary revenues yesterday, today and tomorrow

    2010-11-22T15:00:00Z

    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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    AB25: CTAIRA principal Chris Tarry

    2010-11-22T14:00:00Z

    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