All Europe articles – Page 585
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PICTURE: Low-cost pioneer Laker chosen for Norwegian Max fin
Norwegian has selected UK low-cost airline pioneer Sir Freddie Laker to feature on the first of its Boeing 737 Max jets to operate transatlantic services.
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Norwegian’s US flight attendants join unions
Flight attendants at Norwegian and Norwegian Air International (NAI) in the USA have elected to join unions, even as labour groups maintain their opposition to the low-cost carrier’s "flag of convenience" model.
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Tuskegee to host Leonardo's T-100 assembly
Leonardo has selected the historic aviation town of Tuskegee, Alabama, to assemble T-100 jets proposed to succeed the Northrop T-38 as the lead-in trainer for US Air Force fighter and bomber pilots.
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Wow Air to take A330neos for large fleet expansion
Icelandic budget carrier Wow Air is taking four Airbus A330-900s in a substantial expansion of its fleet.
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NewsBrussels Airlines to absorb Thomas Cook's Belgian carrier
Brussels Airlines is to take a dominant position in the operations of leisure group Thomas Cook’s Belgian arm.
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Cultural shift needed to tackle go-around failures: analysis
Safety investigators are warning that failing to comply with go-around policies is ingrained as an accepted norm by the airline industry, and that a broad cultural shift is necessary to reduce the threat it presents.
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NewsDassault secures FalconEye certification on 8X
Dassault has secured European and US certification for its FalconEye combined enhanced and synthetic vision system on board the Falcon 8X business jet. The validations follow a two-year development effort involving both flight and simulator testing.
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EASA aims to fine-tune safety-risk analysis
Forty years after the worst accident in civil aviation history, European authorities are transitioning to a new method of assessing safety risk.
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RAF Northolt to close in 2018 for runway renovation
RAF Northolt, the fourth-largest airport in the London area for business aviation traffic, is to close temporarily in early 2018 for runway renovation.
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NewsFrance, UK advance deep strike weapons study
France and the UK have launched a three-year programme to advance the replacement of their current inventories of air-launched cruise missiles and anti-ship weapons, to enter use around the end of the next decade.
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IATA blasts electronics ban
IATA has slammed the US and UK restrictions on electronics in flights, calling them unacceptable and questioning their effectiveness.
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Lome to join TAP network
Portuguese flag-carrier TAP will start serving Togolese capital Lome on 17 July.
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LHT set to present new weight-saving A320 cabin monument
Lufthansa Technik and Diehl Aerosystems have developed a new cabin monument for the Airbus A320 family, and intend to unveil it at the Aircraft Interiors Expo which opens in Hamburg on 4 April.
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ANALYSIS: Rebel Aerospace shows its creative spark in seating
The aptly named Rebel Aero is one of a number of recent European start-ups out to prove that when it comes to the aircraft seating market there is still plenty creative thinking to be done. Although the spin-off from an established composites specialist called United Aerospace has yet to win ...
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Virgin Atlantic profits shored-up by holidays division
UK operator Virgin Atlantic has slightly increased its full-year pre-tax profit to £23 million ($29 million) before exceptional items, despite a slip in revenues.
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AIX: Inmarsat takes a quieter approach to connectivity
Inmarsat Aviation is confident its “measured” approach of adding satellite capacity where and when it is required to meet growing demand for in-flight connectivity will drown out the “noisier claims” made by some of its rivals.
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Heathrow foresees integrating LCCs without dedicated terminal
Heathrow airport's director of expansion Derek Provan expects the gateway to attract low-cost carriers when it opens its third runway and but does not foresee a need to accommodate them in a dedicated budget terminal.
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Cathay and Lufthansa agree codeshare deal
Cathay Pacific and Lufthansa have disclosed a codesharing agreement that will give the Hong Kong carrier access to a wider European network and allow the European group to offer passengers new destinations in Australia and New Zealand.
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Wow Air to serve Chicago
Icelandic low-cost carrier Wow Air is to add Chicago as its 10th North American destination.
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Autopilot logic kept 747 on fatal descent path: inquiry
Russian investigators are advising Boeing to consider amending autopilot logic to avoid the possibility of an aircraft’s automatically following a descent path incompatible with runway position.