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FlightStats 2016 Airline On-Time Performance Service Award Winners Announced
January 4, 2017 - FlightStats, Inc., the leader in global flight information services, part of FlightGlobal, has released the winners for the 8th Annual Airline On-Time Performance Service Awards.
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New ruling allows for low visibility commercial landings
A recently updated US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ruling will allow airlines to operate in almost all visibility conditions with the assistance of Elbit Systems’ Clear Vision Enhanced Flight Vision System (EFVS).
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BA cabin crew to proceed with strike after rejecting latest offer
British Airways cabin crew represented by UK union Unite and employed under the airline's "mixed fleet" contract will conduct a 48h strike later this month in a dispute over pay and conditions.
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Aeroflot A321 damaged in Kaliningrad landing accident
One of Russian carrier Aeroflot’s Airbus A321s has been damaged in an accident at Kaliningrad, apparently suffering a nose-gear collapse.
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FORECASTS: What's in store for 2017?
As the old saying goes, anybody who can tell the future should keep quiet about it and quietly get rich on the stock market. Here at Flightglobal, we are naturally quite confident of our forecasting ability but instinctively generous with our opinions. Herewith our best horizon-scanning guestimates for 2017:
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A321 struck tail after pilot falsely perceived bounce
Swiss investigators believe an Airbus A321 sustained a tail-strike at Geneva after a pilot mistakenly believed the aircraft had bounced on landing.
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Air Baltic takes second CS300
Latvian carrier Air Baltic has taken delivery of a second Bombardier CS300.
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Citilink CEO resigns after 'drunk' pilot incident
Two top executives at Indonesian carrier Citilink have tendered their resignations, after a video of one of its pilots allegedly showing up for work drunk went viral.
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NewsInterjet grounds half of SSJ100 fleet pending repairs
Mexican carrier Interjet has grounded 11 Sukhoi Superjet 100s with stabiliser defects pending repairs.
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REVIEW: A look back at our top 5 CEO interviews of 2016
As the end draws in for 2016, we take a look back at some of our most read CEO interviews of the year
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Tu-154 inquiry obtains video evidence of accident
Investigators probing the military Tupolev Tu-154 crash in the Black Sea are to analyse video recordings of the accident captured as the aircraft departed Sochi.
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Weather forced ill-fated Tu-154 to switch refuelling stop
Russian authorities have disclosed that the Tupolev Tu-154 which crashed in the Black Sea had originally been due to refuel in Mozdok, in North Ossetia, rather than Sochi.
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Emirates on verge of taking first Trent A380s
Emirates is set to take delivery of at least three Rolls-Royce Trent-powered Airbus A380s before the end of this year.
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Emirates defers delivery of a dozen A380s
Middle Eastern carrier Emirates is to defer delivery of 12 Airbus A380s which had been due to arrive over the next two years, under a tripartite agreement to cut production of the type a year earlier than previously planned.
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Flight recorder retrieved from military Tu-154 wreckage
Recovery teams have retrieved one of the flight recorders from the Tupolev Tu-154B which crashed in the Black Sea on 25 December.
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Black Sea topography confronts Tu-154 search effort
Search teams are trying to refine data about the Black Sea crash site of a Russian military Tupolev Tu-154B which came down shortly after departing Sochi.
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No evidence of survivors as Tu-154 wreck located
Russian search teams have found no evidence of survivors from the military Tupolev Tu-154B which crashed in the Black Sea after take-off from Sochi.
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Russian military identifies crashed Tu-154B
Russia’s defence ministry has identified the military Tupolev Tu-154 which came down in the Black Sea after departing Sochi.
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Over 90 on board crashed Russian military Tu-154
Ninety-one personnel are on board a Russian Tupolev Tu-154 which crashed while en route to Syria.
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Passengers and crew released from hijacked Afriqiyah A320
Malta's prime minister Joseph Muscat has confirmed that all passengers and crew have been released from a hijacked Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A320 which landed in the country earlier today.