News from FlightGlobal – Page 1443
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DayJet lays off staff in the face of funding shortfall
The hiring frenzy has reversed at DayJet , where ill-timed financing has come up short and led the Florida-based air...
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Maxjet to be reinvented as 'luxury' charter service
All-premium transatlantic carrier Maxjet is to start services as a "luxury" charter service. The grounded carrier...
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Austrian CEO rejects new Saudi investor's allegations
Austrian CEO rejects new Saudi investor's allegations
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Good Week - Bad Week
EOS The all-premium London Stansted-New York JFK carrier filed for Chapter 11 and called in the receivers after failing to close the deal on a $50 million...
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Northwest, easyJet praise P&W's geared turbofan
Northwest, easyJet praise P&W's geared turbofan
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Comment - Don't wait to take action over toxic cabin air
There's no argument that toxins get into cabin air. The argument is about how much harm they do. Should airlines await legal proof before acting to protect their crew and passengers?
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OpenSkies 757 emerges
The first Boeing 757-200 for British Airways' new OpenSkies division has emerged from the paint shop equipped with Aviation Partners winglets. The airline,...
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IATA sees more signs of slowdown in March
Airline passenger traffic figures for March are a further indication of the slowing growth rate of air travel demand, warns the International Air Transport...
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Dutch mull specific greenhouse gases for taxation
The Netherlands is mulling over whether to build into its new controversial environment tax a specific levy linked to climate-changing nitrogen oxide (NOx)...
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One year on: the story of the 787
One year ago, Boeing could not have been riding higher. Its stock and yearly orderbook were climbing to a record peak and its flagship product, the 787 Dreamliner,...
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Rude awakening for dream factories
Far from the 787 final assembly line, two facilities in north Charleston, South Carolina were established to manufacture and integrate fuselage barrels for...
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787 centre wing box redesign buckles schedule
In mid-March, Steven Udvar-Hazy, chairman of International Lease Finance, Boeing's biggest customer, declared to an audience of Wall Street analysts that...
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FAA mandates A320 stabilizer inspections
The US FAA has finalized an airworthiness directive (AD) first proposed in October, calling on operators of 721 US-registered Airbus A320-family aircraft to perform a one-time inspection of the aircraft’s trimmable horizontal stabilizer actuator (THSA).
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Flight International's deputy editor Max Kingsley-Jones covers Emirates' financial results and more
Flight International's deputy editor Max Kingsley-Jones covers Emirates' financial results and more
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Slot-trading an acceptable practice, says European Commission
European regulators have formally acknowledged, for the first time, the potential value of secondary slot-trading between airlines, in a clarification of...
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NewsEmirates awaits Boeing's 777 succession plan
Emirates Airline's president Tim Clark has reiterated his belief that Boeing must...
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Lufthansa Cargo to conduct Krasnoyarsk test flights
Lufthansa Cargo has signed an agreement that could result in transferring its Asian freight hub to Krasnoyarsk, Russia, if the airport's navigation systems...
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SAS expects to dispose of Q400s within six months
SAS expects to sell the remainder of its grounded Bombardier Q400 turboprops within the next six months, but is still forecasting a full-year earnings impact...