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Eurowings replaces Lufthansa on Dusseldorf-Newark route
Eurowings will add a second service to the New York City area, replacing parent Lufthansa on some Newark flights in December.
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Cathay Pacific plans to grow new US services
Cathay Pacific will grow its new routes to Seattle Tacoma and Washington Dulles before adding any new US markets, says chief executive Rupert Hogg.
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PICTURES: JetBlue debuts special livery for Puerto Rico
JetBlue Airways has unveiled Bluericua, a special livery dedicated to Puerto Rico on an Airbus A320.
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Interview
INTERVIEW: Flying solo for a place in the history books
British-Nigerian Lola Odujinrin is the first African to circumnavigate the Earth solo in a single-engined aircraft. He describes this feat – which he undertook without the help of a conventional support team – as "by far my greatest achievement in aviation".
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Air France to deploy A380s to another US gateway
Air France is to deploy Airbus A380s on its transatlantic service to Atlanta from Paris Charles de Gaulle next year.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: As Trent reaches limits, R-R sees need for succession
Rolls-Royce Trent has been synonymous with advanced aero engines for nearly three decades. Indeed, the series has been successful enough for this namesake of British engineering to claim that gas turbines named after the mighty waterway flowing past its Derby home power a market-leading 40% share of the new generation ...
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KLM gambles on Las Vegas in 2019
KLM plans to land in Las Vegas next summer with new flights from Amsterdam.
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Southwest to invest in new MRO facility at Baltimore/Washington
Southwest Airlines will co-fund a new $130 million regional maintenance facility at Baltimore/Washington International airport, to better meet its needs at the second busiest airport in its network.
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Liebherr wins follow-up component supply deal for 777
Boeing has engaged Liebherr to supply electronic control equipment for the landing gears of current- and next-generation 777s.
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Panasonic strikes connectivity partnership deal with Inmarsat
Panasonic Avionics and Inmarsat have agreed a new long-term partnership under which Inmarsat's GX Aviation service will become Panasonic's exclusive provider of Ka-band in-flight connectivity for commercial aviation.
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JetBlue takes first renewable fuel-powered A321 at Mobile
Airbus has delivered the first aircraft powered by a renewable jet fuel blend from its US facilities in Mobile, with a A321 handed over to JetBlue Airways today.
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NewsPICTURES: The life and times of Boeing's first 777
The historic retirement this week of the first 777 comes almost a quarter of a century after the aircraft was revealed to the world at Boeing’s plant in Everett, Washington.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Can the industry get more women into the cockpit?
Kanchana Gamage begins presentations to young schoolchildren about careers in aviation by announcing that two pilots will be giving the talk. “When two women walk onto stage in their uniforms, the gasp from the audience is audible,” says the founder of the Aviatrix Project, a campaign to encourage more girls ...
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Are drones leading us down a collision course?
Drone use – both commercial and recreational – is on the rise in the UK, and, more worryingly, so is the frequency of airprox events involving unmanned air systems.
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United to fly 787s to Europe from Newark in 2019
United Airlines will fly Boeing 787s to Europe from its Newark Liberty International airport by next summer, as it preps for the introduction of its latest Dreamliner variant.
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Washington Dulles to lower airline costs with land deal
Washington Dulles International airport will use $237 million from the sale of unused land on its western periphery to further lower airline costs.
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OpinionOPINION: Will a GECAS sale be ‘Guinness Peat 2.0’?
Over 20 years since Guinness Peat Aviation’s collapse became a defining moment in the aircraft leasing industry, the prospect of General Electric hiving off the world’s largest lessor, GECAS, could do the same.
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PICTURES: Delta's first A220 rolls out of Mirabel hangar
Airbus has released images which show Delta Air Lines' first A220-100 rolling out of the paint hangar at the final assembly line in Mirabel, Canada.
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ST Engineering to acquire GE's nacelle unit
GE Aviation is to divest its Middle River Aircraft Systems nacelle division to ST Engineering.
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FlightGlobal appoints CMO to capitalize on its unique data and analytics portfolio
FlightGlobal appoints CMO to capitalize on its unique data and analytics portfolio