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Lufthansa achieves record full-year profit
Lufthansa posted a 70% improvement in adjusted full-year EBIT to reach €2.97 billion ($3.68 billion) for 2017 after revenues were lifted by its acquisition of Air Berlin as well as gains from new pilot labour deals..
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UKEF supports Korean CSeries delivery
UK Export Finance and Export Development Canada have backed the financing of two Bombardier CSeries deliveries to Korean Air.
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ANALYSIS: How business aviation boosts Europe's economy
Critics may decry it as a perk for a wealthy elite, but business aviation is a bulwark of Europe's economy, supporting 374,000 jobs and contributing €32 billion ($40 billion), or just under 0.2% of the total value of goods and services produced in the region each year. That is according ...
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Investigators detail Paris A320 incursion on departing A330
Investigators have disclosed that an Aeroflot Airbus A320 crossed a hold-short line at Paris Charles de Gaulle while an Airbus A330-300 had been conducting its departure from the same runway.
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Aeroflot to resume Cairo flights after security overhaul
Russian flag-carrier Aeroflot is to restore services to the Egyptian capital Cairo, more than two years after the suspension of flights over security concerns.
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Ryanair extends lead as Italy's biggest carrier
Ryanair consolidated its position as Italy's largest airline by growing passenger numbers there more than 10% in 2017, new figures from civil aviation authority ENAC show.
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Bombardier Challenger 350 completes steep approach certification testing
Bombardier has completed the steep approach certification flight-test campaign for its Challenger 350, and hopes to secure final approval for the enhancement later this year, allowing owners and operators of the super-midsize business jet access to a greater number of airports across the world.
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Garmin flies first G5000-equipped Citation XLS
Garmin has performed a maiden sortie of the first Cessna Citation XLS to be retrofitted with a G5000 integrated flight deck, with the twinjet completing the milestone in late February at the avionics manufacturer's US test facility in Olathe, Kansas.
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SR Technics alumnus returns as chief after stint at other HNA arm
SR Technics' former operating chief Frank Walschot is to rejoin the Swiss maintenance provider as chief executive on 1 April.
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AnalysisINSIGHT FROM FLIGHTGLOBAL: The Big Data landscape
How the aviation and aerospace sectors view the Big Data opportunity
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PICTURE: Embraer to deliver first E190-E2 to Wideroe on 4 April
Embraer will deliver the first E190-E2, registered LN-WEA, to launch operator Wideroe on 4 April.
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ConnectJets receives first UK-owned Avanti Evo
Bespoke private aircraft services company ConnectJets has taken delivery of the first Piaggio P.180 Avanti Evo to be owned by a UK customer.
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Turkish commits to 60 widebodies after inking A350 and 787 deals
Turkish Airlines has struck deals covering orders for 25 Airbus A350-900s and another 25 Boeing 787-9s, paving the way for deliveries to begin next year.
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Thales to develop dual GPS/Galileo satellite navigation system
French technology group Thales will develop, under a European Union project, satellite navigation equipment that can process signals from two competing systems.
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OpinionOPINION: Airbus to play long game with A330-800
On the face of it, the Hawaiian Airlines widebody campaign was Airbus's to lose. It was the incumbent supplier with a powerful presence in the Pacific airline's fleet across both single- and twin-aisle sectors.
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A320neo delivery levels slide over engine hitch
Airbus delivered just 10 A320neo-family jets in February, fewer than the number handed over in the same month last year, as engine technical snags continued to hamper output.
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Asiana conversion erases last A350-800 order
Airbus has eliminated the A350-800 order backlog after the final customer, Korean carrier Asiana Airlines, migrated its agreement for eight of the twinjets.
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CFM recruits LHT for its Leap service network
Lufthansa Technik has become a member of CFM International’s MRO network for the Leap engine.
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FL Technics lifts profit in 2017
Lithuanian maintenance provider FL Technics increased its net profit to €5.6 million ($6.9 million) last year, from around €3 million in 2016.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Where does Hawaiian switch leave A330-800?
It is too early to determine whether the decision by Hawaiian Airlines to ditch its A330-800 order in favour of the Boeing 787-9 is a critical moment for the Airbus twinjet, but it certainly creates some headaches for Toulouse.