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NewsWikileaks: Embraer favoured Super Hornet for Brazilian fighter contract
A newly-leaked diplomatic cable describes Embraer chief executive Frederico Fleury Curado candidly revealing the company's preferred bidder for the F-X2...
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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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MEBA: Al Bateen drops charges to woo new business
Al Bateen Executive Airport (stand C600) has slashed the cost of flying in and out of the Abu Dhabi-based business aviation...
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PICTURE: Airbus manufactures first A350 fuselage barrel
Airbus has started producing the first fuselage barrel for the A350 at the company's Spanish plant in Illescas. It says the barrel, for section 19...
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Airbus A320NEO will be heavier than existing A320 models
The Airbus A320NEO will be offered with two engine choices: the CFM International Leap-X and Pratt & Whitney's PurePower PW1100G.
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MEBA: Briefings
Two Airbus corporate jets are at the show, comprising an A318 Elite operated by Al Jaber Aviation (AJA) of Abu Dhabi and an Airbus Corporate Jet based in Bahrain and operated by Comlux
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MEBA: Re-engining 737 would open new city pairs for BBJ
Boeing's business aviation chief says a re-engined 737 would open a significant number of new city pairs for the Boeing Business Jet, although he acknowledges...
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MEBA: Spot Air spies market for midsize business jets
Egyptian charter provider Spot Air is planning to acquire midsize business jets next year to support burgeoning demand for private jet flights to and from...
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MEBA: NBAA backs Hainan Rendez-Vous 2011
The National Business Aviation Association and China Rendez-Vous will partner to promote each other's forthcoming events in the Asian region.
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MEBA: RDT demonstrates Tempus IC telemedicine system
RDT is demonstrating its Tempus IC "vital signs" monitoring device - designed for use by non-medical personnel such as pilots and cabin crew.
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Jetalliance East trailblazes Russian charter market
Austrian business aviation services provider Jetalliance has become the first Western operator to offer domestic charter services within Russia and the CIS
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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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Business briefs
Israeli unmanned systems maker Aeronautics is looking for more foreign joint venture manufacturing partners
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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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Putin: Italy plans to acquire large number of Superjets
Italian companies are set to acquire a "large number" of Sukhoi Superjet 100s, according to Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin. Speaking to a conference on strategy for socio-economic development of Russia's far eastern region to 2020
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MEBA: Jet Aviation Dubai marks fifth birthday with latest maintenance approval and record aircraft movements
Jet Aviation Dubai is celebrating its fifth birthday at MEBA with its latest approval - for Dassault Falcon 7X line maintenance
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MEBA: Broadening VistaJet seeks to sustain 20% yearly sales growth
All-Bombardier block charter specialist VistaJet expects to match last year's 20% revenue growth in 2010, after what chairman and founder Thomas Flohr terms a "very good summer".
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MEBA: MedAire signs deals with Comlux and Hawker Beechcraft
Comlux VIP passengers and crew will have round-the-clock access to specialised medical care - both in flight and on the ground - thanks to an agreement between the Swiss business aviation services provider and international SOS company MedAire
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Airbus outlines expected market impact of A320NEO
Airbus's long-awaited re-engined narrowbody programme, the A320 New Engine Option, or NEO, will mean there is "virtually no business case left" for Bombardier's CSeries, according to the European airframer's chief salesman John Leahy.