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Bombardier Means Business at MEBA 2012

Bombardier Aerospace announced today that it will showcase three of its class-defining business jets at this year’s Middle East Business Aviation (MEBA) show at Dubai’s Al Maktoum airport from December 11 to December 13, 2012. On display will be three jets, the Challenger 605, Challenger 850 andGlobal 5000 jets. The Bombardier Vision Flight Deck will be adding another show to […]

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VistaJet Thinks Global with $7.8 Billion Bombardier Business Aircraft Order

Bombardier announced today the largest business aircraft sale in its history. VistaJet, a world-leading luxury aviation company and exclusive operator of Bombardier business aircraft, has signed a deal for up to 142 Global business jets which includes firm orders for 56 Global jets and options for a further 86 Global jets at a 2012 U.S. list price value of more than […]

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Ethiopian CEO Wins African CEO of the Year Award

Ethiopian Airlines CEO, Tewolde Gebremariam has been awarded African CEO of the year from the African CEO Forum 2012 on Tuesday, November 20, 2012. While Ethiopian CEO, Tewolde won the African CEO of the Year award, three other companies also won in different categories for their commitment and accomplishments in four key areas: promotion of […]

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Qantas Foundation Announces Art Award Winners

The Qantas Foundation has tonight revealed the winners of the 2012 Encouragement of Australian Contemporary Art Award, with artists from each state and territory taking home a share of cash and Qantas airfares in recognition of their artistic talents. Each winner receives $8,000 cash and $10,000 Qantas voucher to help further inspire their quest for artistic excellence and […]

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Jet Aviation sells Dusseldorf and Zurich MRO operations to Cessna

Jet Aviation has agreed to sell its Dusseldorf, Germany, and Zurich, Switzerland maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) operations to Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron Inc. company. The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of 2012. Terms of the transaction are confidential. Jet Aviation will continue to own and operate its fixed-base operations […]

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Jet Aviation Signs Agreement with First Emirates Aviation Group

Jet Aviation Dubai signed an agreement with First Emirates Aviation Group (FEAG) to offer full interior refurbishment capabilities out of Abu Dhabi. Further to an announcement at EBACE 2012, Jet Aviation Dubai has entered into an agreement with First Emirates Aviation Group (FEAG), an Abu Dhabi-based service provider specialized in aircraft interior refurbishing. Jet Aviation […]

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Air France-KLM struggles to protect its stake in Amadeus

Air France-KLM has entered into a hedging transaction with Société Générale to protect the value of 12,000,000 ordinary shares it holds in Amadeus IT Holding S.A., representing about a third of its stake. This transaction will allow the Group to protect the value of these shares, while continuing to benefit from the potential upside of […]

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Boeing and AVIC to Collaborate on Interior Supply Capability in China

Boeing and Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), China’s largest state-owned aviation company, announced today they will work together to expand AVIC capabilities to include interior commodities such as passenger seats, galleys, lavatories and in-flight entertainment systems for commercial airplanes. Geng Ruguang, executive vice president of AVIC, and Stan Deal, vice president and general manager […]

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COMAC and Bombardier Announce Successful Completion of Phase I of Definitive Agreement and Official Launch of Phase II

Further to the definitive agreement signed on March 21, 2012, covering program commonalities between the C919 and CSeries aircraft, Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd (COMAC) and Bombardier Inc. wish to announce the successful completion of the Phase I of the agreement, and the launch of the second phase. As part of the first phase […]

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Boeing Increases 787 Production Rate

Boeing employees last week rolled out the first 787 Dreamliner built at the new rate of five-airplanes-per-month. The airplane is the 83rd 787 to be built. “This accomplishment, doubling our production rate in one year, is the result of the combined efforts of thousands of men and women across Boeing and at our partners,” said […]