All aerospace news – Page 900
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Business: Good week - Bad week
Shortages of biofuel feedstock have delayed some recent alternative fuel trial flights, but now Airbus parent EADS and the Singapore government's Agency...
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Embraer looks to the future with cabin comfort project
Embraer aims to ensure that its future commercial and executive aircraft offer integrated cabin solutions that focus on passenger and crew comfort.
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Weakness underlies recent gains in premium traffic performance
Positive trends in premium traffic growth reflected in IATA's latest analysis are being tempered by the association's conclusion that the industry has essentially...
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Italian market review: Coming to the party
While the new Alitalia is finding its feet, other carriers continue to stake their own claims in an Italian market that remains as fragmented as ever
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Mexico's Volaris learns e-commerce from Southwest
Airlines are always looking around the industry at best practices. For carriers in emerging markets, where Internet penetration is lower and e-commerce strategies...
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In depth
Marketing special report: Airline websites
Can airlines still turn to the Internet to differentiate and gain a competitive advantage, or are all airline websites starting to look the same? Report by Brendan Sobie in Washington Over the past 15 years the Internet has clearly driven dramatic shifts in the airline industry. ...
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Marketing special report: The credit card trap
By Sandra Arnoult Credit card companies are reaping the benefits of increased online transactions, but airlines are studying the bill and calling for better terms as alternative forms of payment gain ground, writes Sandra Arnoult in Washington Using the Internet to book flights and purchase ancillary services has been a ...
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InterviewINTERVIEW: Olympic Air CEO Antonis Simigdalas
A decade after helping Aegean Airlines break into the Greek airline market, Antonis Simigdalas now finds himself leading efforts to breathe fresh life into the once proud but diminished Olympic name
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Business briefs
Montreal repair supplier ExelTech Aerospace has filed for creditor protection, had its credit facility...
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CityJet drops business-class cabin for premium-economy
Air France-KLM subsidiary CityJet is scrapping business class in favour of a premium-economy product.
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NewsUK could use plutonium in space nuclear power demonstration
The European Space Agency Harwell site will research nuclear power for spacecraft, but who provides the plutonium?
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Hydraulics: so last century
Electric motors seem like an obvious improvement on oil-filled pipes and heavy pumps, but the switch will not be easy
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US results: Climbing off the bottom
US carriers are ready to put the worse year in history behind them, but remain cautious over the recovery
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Reborn JAL sticks to oneworld
Troubled Japanese carrier rejects SkyTeam advances as formal restructuring process begins
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STAT MedEvac ASAP: a deeper dive into helicopter safety
Can safety management systems curb the alarming rise in the number of helicopter emergency medical service accidents?
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ADS-B bridges the Gulf of Mexico
Introduction of ADS-B operations has made offshore helicopter flights safer in the Gulf of Mexico since December
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Opinion
Comment: Taking a back seat on safety
Koito Industries president Takashi Kakegawa says he is sorry his company deceived regulators by supplying false safety test data on a staggering 150,000...
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Much to do about MAPL
TECHNOLOGY MUCH TO DO ABOUT MAPL WHEN BELL decided to produce an eight-seat, single-pilot IFR twin-engined helicopter, there was a choice of...