News from FlightGlobal – Page 985
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Qantas to scrap 31 flights tomorrow due to engineers' strike
Qantas Airways plans to cancel 31 flights tomorrow morning and delay several others as a result of a planned strike by its engineers.
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Irish Govt scraps travel tax in return for increased traffic
Ireland's Government has agreed to abolish its controversial aviation tax in return for increased tourist traffic, prompting Dublin Airport Authority to...
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Delta and Virgin Australia finally receive antitrust nod from the US
Nearly two years after they first applied for antitrust approval for a transpacific joint venture, US regulators have proposed to approve the tie-up between...
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Boeing ups 787-9 weights again
Boeing again has increased the maximum take-off weight (MTOW) of the 787-9 as it further refines the performance of the larger variant due in late 2013.
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Passenger traffic in China to hit 450m in 2015
Chinese airlines are expected to carry 450 million passengers in 2015, with passenger traffic growing at an annual rate of 11% from now until 2015. The...
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Strategic gets nod for services between USA and Australia
Australia's International Air Services Commission (IASC) has approved Strategic Airlines' application for the allocation of unlimited passenger and cargo...
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Fuel and taxes double EasyJet's first-half losses
UK budget carrier EasyJet's first-half pre-tax loss has doubled to £153 million ($250 million). The airline says the figure is "in line with expectations"...
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Emirates Group posts 43% surge in net full-year profit
Middle Eastern air transport company Emirates Group has posted a group net profit of Dhs5.9 billion ($1.6 billion) for the full year 2010-11, an increase...
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Merpati president offers to quit after crash
Merpati Nusantara's President Sardjono Jhony Tjitrokusumo has offered to resign after one of the airline's Xian MA60 turboprops crashed over the weekend.
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Indonesia moves to address airline crash problem
Indonesia, which has consistently had one of the world's worst airline accident records, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Netherlands-based European Joint Aviation Authorities Training Organisation (JAA TO) to set up a major training centre to produce aviation safety management skills for its own needs and those of ...
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Air Lease inks new lease deals for nearly a dozen widebodies
US lessor Air Lease has signed lease agreements for 11 additional twin-aisle aircraft, comprising Airbus A330-200s, A330-300s and Boeing 777-300ERs. The...
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PICTURE: One of AF447's engines retrieved from sea bed
One of the two General Electric CF6 engines of the crashed Air France Airbus A330, lost in the South Atlantic two years ago, has been raised from the sea...
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Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 awarded FAA ETOPS approval
Rolls-Royce's Trent 1000 turbofan has been awarded 330min extended twin engine operations approval by the US Federal Aviation Administration.
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Virtual airline start-up HiAir plans Doncaster-Amsterdam flights
A new virtual airline called HiAir plans to begin Jetstream 32 operations in September between Doncaster Sheffield in northern England and Amsterdam Schiphol.
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Lufthansa to begin Munich-Jeddah service
Lufthansa is to launch thrice-weekly flights from Munich to Jeddah, via Riyadh, on 31 October. The carrier will operate the route using Airbus A340-300...
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China's Xiamen orders six 787s
China's Xiamen Airlines has placed an order with Boeing for six 787 aircraft. Xiamen will take delivery of the aircraft "in stages" between 2014 and...
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TIMELINE: Trace the evolution of low-cost carriers with our interactive timeline
What have been the triggers for this growth of the sector? We've plotted some of the key drivers and developments in the evolution of low-cost carriers in a special interactive timeline, ...
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Emirates works with Boeing to get connectivity linefit to widebodies
Emirates is working with Boeing to ensure AeroMobile's in-flight mobile phone connectivity solution is line-fitted to its new widebodies as soon as possible.
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Boeing to hold 747-8 assembly line for a month
Boeing will hold the 747-8 line in place from 6 May until 7 June, to allow it to catch up on design changes as it introduces the new -8I passenger model...