All articles by NAME MISSING – Page 107

  • News

    Futura temporarily halts flights, plans creditor protection

    2008-09-08T15:00:00Z

    Spanish carrier Futura International Airways has suspended operations for 24 hours today but is intending to resume services. In a statement the Spanish...

  • News

    Elbit gets $25 million order for Hermes 450, Skylark 1 UAVs

    2008-09-04T08:00:00Z

    Elbit Systems has received a contract worth around $25 million to supply an undisclosed nation "in the Americas" with its Hermes 450 and Skylark 1 unmanned...

  • News

    SAS technical division extends Thomas Cook service pact

    2008-09-03T13:00:00Z

    SAS Group's engineering division SAS Technical Services has sealed a three-year extension to a service contract with Thomas Cook Airlines' Scandinavian operation. The...

  • Opinion

    Comment: Sweetened deals that leave a sour taste

    2008-09-02T12:00:00Z

    To many small-business owners brought up in the affluent comforts of a free-market, democratic culture, corruption is something that happens over there but...

  • News

    Business: Good week - Bad week

    2008-09-01T18:00:00Z

    AIR BERLIN The German carrier expects to rack up a full-year operating profit after cutting first-half losses nearly a fifth to just under €54 million ($80...

  • News

    EgyptAir identified as 777-300ER customer

    2008-09-01T17:00:00Z

    EgyptAir has been revealed to be the customer for two Boeing 777-300ER widebodies that had been attributed to an unidentified customer on the airframer's...

  • Opinion

    Comment: Whose data is it anyway?

    2008-09-01T14:00:00Z

    There is a tendency among many of the world's accident investigation agencies to treat the information they gather as their property. It is not. And judicial interference makes this worse

  • News

    Business: Briefings

    2008-09-01T13:00:00Z

    FALCON DELIVERIES UP AT DASSAULT RESULTS Dassault Aviation had a mixed first half, with orders, sales and profits all falling...

  • News

    Working week: Engineering growth at PremiAir

    2008-09-01T10:15:00Z

    UK aviation services company is seeking to employ qualified fixed-wing engineers for its new base at Oxford airport....

  • News

    This Weeks Briefings

    2008-09-01T08:00:00Z

    CONFUSION BLAMED FOR CARBON OFFSET APATHY ENVIRONMENT Passengers are dissuaded from paying carbon offsets by wildly varying offset costs...

  • News

    P&W ships PW1000G GTF to Airbus for A340 tests

    2008-08-28T08:00:00Z

    Pratt & Whitney has shipped its PurePower PW1000G GTF geared turbofan demonstration engine to Toulouse, France to begin a test programme on an Airbus A340-600...

  • Opinion

    Comment: Get-out clause

    2008-08-27T17:00:00Z

    Computer modelling could provide a much more accurate - and safer - way of testing how easy it is to evacuate a new aircraft type after an accident. So why aren't airframers interested?

  • News

    Business Briefings

    2008-08-27T15:30:00Z

    CYCLONE IN A SPIN OVER F-15 CONTRACT SUPPLIERS Elbit Systems subsidiary Cyclone Aviation Products has won a $31 million contract...

  • News

    Business: Good week - Bad week

    2008-08-27T14:00:00Z

    EMBRAER The Brazilian airframer signed a long-term service contract with Aeromexico Connect to support its fleet of ERJ-145 and 190 jets. The deal makes...

  • Opinion

    Comment: who'll take a bet on a composite jet?

    2008-08-27T09:00:00Z

    Grob Aerospace can be added to the long list of airframers that have seen the cash dry up at that most crucial time - when certification is tantalisingly...

  • News

    Working week: putting a business jet to the test

    2008-08-26T10:00:00Z

    Imagine stepping into an aircraft that is being flown for the first time. That is the demanding role of the test pilot. We speak to Tore Reimers, who is part of the certification programme for the new Grob SPn

  • News

    This Week briefings

    2008-08-26T09:00:00Z

    AMERICAN EAGLE FACES PENALTIES PUNISHMENT The US Transportation Security Administration may levy civil penalties against American Eagle Airlines after...

  • News

    PICTURE: Brazil's TAM Airlines receives first Boeing 777-300ER

    2008-08-21T15:01:00Z

    TAM Airlines has taken delivery of the first of eight Boeing 777-300ER long-range widebody twinjets on firm order. TAM is the first Latin American airline...

  • News

    UK to extend rolling carrier landing research for JSF

    2008-08-21T10:00:00Z

    The UK Ministry of Defence is continuing research to refine a hybrid shipboard rolling vertical landing (SRVL) technique, potentially to be employed as the...

  • News

    Pratt & Whitney ships PW1000G GTF to Airbus for A340 tests

    2008-08-21T08:00:00Z

    Pratt & Whitney has shipped its PurePower PW1000G geared turbofan demonstration engine to Toulouse, France to begin a test programme on an Airbus A340-600...