EUROPEAN CHARTERS Blue Line ceased operations and returned its eight aircraft - Airbus A310s, Boeing MD-83s and Fokker 100s - to their lessors. The French company will have closed by October's end. Sweden's Viking Airlines also stopped flying (see P8), while Germany's Hamburg International - an operator of eight Airbus A319s and a Boeing 737-700, according to Flightglobal's ACAS database - cancelled a number of services citing "economic reasons".
Source: Flight International
Asked to explain what qualities he would like to see in the next chief executive of Boeing, outgoing CEO Dave Calhoun hints at personally favouring an internal candidate to guide the company into its next era.
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