All Systems & interiors articles – Page 245
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NewsRolls denies that it knew about Trent 900 weakness
Clarifying details about the oil feed problem that caused the uncontained Rolls-Royce Trent 900 failure on a Qantas Airbus A380 in November, the engine manufacturer says: "It is not true that we knew about a problem in the A and B versions of the engine and went on to correct ...
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NewsCathay unveils new long-haul business class seat
Cathay Pacific Airways has unveiled a new business class seat for its long-haul flights, and plans to roll out the new product offering on its Airbus A330...
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Continental fits all international 777s with flat-bed seats
Continental Airlines says all of its Boeing 777 long-haul international flights now feature new 'BusinessFirst' class flat-bed seats.
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Opinion
Comment: End of a stand-off
In taking the bold step of avoiding a new-product strategy, Airbus sets in train a long-postponed game-theory exercise of which indefinite status quo is the only impossible result
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Interview
Working Week: Frank Brenner
Frank Brenner, director of the business unit control centre of air navigation service provider DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung, traces his choice of career to the tower of Stuttgart airport after growing up in its shadow.
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NewsAB25: anniversary reflections from Sir Richard Branson
"I would like to think we have brought some glamour back to air travel that was not there 25 years ago"
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Opinion
Comment: No place to hide
A range of new security technologies waiting for recognition have the potential simultaneously to improve the airport experience for passengers and outwit potential terrorists.
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Larger CSeries CS500 would be "ideal" for Southwest: AirInsight
Bombardier should add a 150-seat, single-class CS500 with 32in pitch to its CSeries family, as such an aircraft would be "highly competitive" and provide...
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NewsAB25: anniversary reflections from Juergen Weber
"The pressure on the industry to consolidate has become acut in Europe and elsewhere"
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Overhaul of US Airways' A330-300s to begin next fall
US Airways in about nine months will begin retrofitting its Airbus A330-300s with the same new business-class product that it offers on its A330-200s.
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Alaska expands intra-state Gogo in-flight Internet access
Alaska Airlines says Aircell's Gogo in-flight Internet service is now available on its flights from Southeast Alaska north to Anchorage and Fairbanks.
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Multiple systems failures on QF32 after engine blow-out
Multiple systems issues plagued the crew of the Qantas Airways Airbus A380, which was forced to make an emergency landing in Singapore on 4 November after...
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Trent 900 failure caused extensive damage to Qantas A380
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) says the 4 November uncontained failure of a Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine on a Qantas Airways Airbus A380 caused...
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Watchdog: FAA needs NextGen business case for airlines
A new report by the US government accountability office (GAO) is critical of the US FAA for not yet having a strategy in place to convince airlines of the...
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EASA orders A310 landing gear checks
Cracks in two Airbus A310s have led the European Aviation Safety Agency to institute two more airworthiness directives on main landing-gears of type variants A300B4, C4, and F4, A310, and A300-600 and -600(ST).
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NewsAB25: anniversary reflections from Giovanni Bisignani
To mark the 25th anniversary of Airline Business, 25 leading airline industry executives who have helped shape the sector over the last quarter century, give their reflections on the last 25 years and the challenges for the years to come. IATA director general and chief executive Giovanni Bisignani paints ...
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AB25: anniversary reflections from Giovanni Bisignani
"The biggest challenge today is to bring governments along with the speed and breadth of change that the industry needs."
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FAA to demonstrate FOQA program for small airlines
The US FAA is planning to fund a two-year flight operations quality assurance (FOQA) demonstration for six small airlines to satisfy a legislative mandate....
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NewsBoeing 787 struck by fire heads back to Seattle
The second 787 test aircraft is set to return to Seattle, the first flight the aircraft has undertaken since a 9 November fire that threw the schedule of...
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NewsLone co-pilot 'panicked' after putting Indian 737 into dive
Investigators have detailed an extraordinary event in which an Air India Express Boeing 737-800 was put into a steep dive moments after the captain was locked...
