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Airbus supports extension of Clean Sky programme
ILA Berlin Air Show – Airbus has entered into an agreement together with 13 leading aerospace industry and research partners with a letter of intent to cooperate on a “Clean Sky 2” programme. As an extension of the European Commission’s (EC) “Clean Sky” Joint Technology Initiative, the industry would invest jointly with the EC a total […]
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Air France lands on wrong runway
Pilots of an Air France Airbus A319 erroneously landed on the wrong runway at Casablanca after accepting a visual approach and failing to notice that the jet was aligned on a parallel centreline. Moroccan investigators found that the aircraft, cleared to land on runway 35L, had correctly acknowledged the clearance but approached high and fast, […]
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PAL to buy 54 Airbus Jets
Philippine Airlines (PAL) has placed a firm order with Airbus covering 34 A321ceo, 10 A321neo and 10 A330-300s. The aircraft are being purchased under a major fleet modernisation programme at the airline, with deliveries starting in 2013. The single aisle A321 aircraft are being purchased to enhance the airline’s product offerings on domestic […]
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Airbus provides famine relief for Africa
The Airbus Corporate Foundation has helped deliver 36 tonnes of dried food to famine-blighted areas of southeast Africa, in a relief effort organised jointly with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IRFC). On 27 July, a flight test crew left Toulouse, France aboard an A340 and collected the supplies from Bergen, […]
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Turkish Airlines to expand operations in India
Turkish Airlines plans to expand operations in India in 2012 by doubling weekly flights to 28 and adding Hyderabad as its third Indian destination. Turkey’s flag carrier, which currently operates one flight daily to Delhi and Mumbai, also aims to extend its code share withAir India, India’s national carrier, to get more passengers from Indian […]
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Jet Blue makes emergency landing
A JetBlue flight made a safe emergency landing at Long Beach Airport after its pilot reported mechanical problems and burned off its fuel off Catalina Island, the airline and other sources said Friday night. JetBlue Airways spokeswoman Tamara Benton confirmed that the captain of Flight 235 from Salt Lake City–with 152 passengers on board– was […]
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Airbus expands operations with Satair
EADS has for the second time this year dipped into its cash pool to make a services-oriented acquisition for one of its operating units, with a $504 million deal to acquire Satair to bolster Airbus’s service offering. The move – along with acquisition of Vector Aerospace for Eurocopter – is part of EADS’s wider […]
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Fuel costs are eating AA`s lunch
AMR Corp.’s American Airlines struck historic deals recently to buy, over the next 14 years, up to 925 Airbus and Boeing aircraft worth $38 billion, but it doesn’t ensure the Fort Worth carrier’s survival, industry analysts and observers say. With a 600-aircraft fleet averaging 15 years old – one of the oldest fleets in the […]
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A380 superjumbo makes emergency landing
An Airbus A380 belonging to Singapore Airlines was forced to head back to its base after an engine of the double-decker failed, only eight months after a similar type to the four Trent 900 engine failed on a Qantas aircraft. The aircraft, bound for Hong Kong, returned yesterday once the Rolls-Royce engine completely shut […]
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Spirit Airlines is growing fast
On its first-ever earnings conference call Thursday, newly-public Spirit Airlines sounded nothing like the half-dozen established airlines whose calls came earlier. To begin with, Spirit is growing. Capacity grew 27.3% in the second quarter, with full-year growth pegged at 16%. The carrier has 35 Airbus aircraft and will take two more this fall, seven […]