All Systems & interiors articles – Page 547
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Leisure travel: New horizons
Leisure carriers are shifting their attentions to medium- and long- haul destinations as they face a stiff challenge from budget airlines and respond to changing consumer behaviour
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Market outlook:Time to take stock?
Although the performances of many carriers have improved so far this year, there is still a need for a cautious outlook, writes Chris Tarry of CTAIRA, with analyses from Fabrice Tacoun
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Southwest’s Seattle showdown
Playing tough on airport costs, Southwest Airlines says it will leave Seattle/Tacoma airport and build its own terminal at the little-used Boeing Field across the city.
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Taiwan's Mandarin issues RFP for 11 Fokker replacements
Mandarin Airlines, primarily a domestic carrier owned by Taiwan’s China Airlines (CAL), has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for 70-110 seat regional jets and 110-140 seat narrowbody aircraft.
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NewsEarlier incidents underline depressurisation hazards
Although the sequence of events in the cockpit of the crashed Helios Airways Boeing 737 remains a mystery, earlier incidents have shown the crucial importance of reacting promptly to airliner depressurisations. In both the incidents below the captain lost consciousness, leaving only the first officer flying the aircraft. And ...
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NewsNo survivors in West Caribbean MD-82 crash
Colombian civil aviation administration Aerocivil has confirmed that there are no survivors from the West Caribbean Airways-operated Boeing MD-82 aircraft which crashed in Venezuela early today.
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Fake Helios pictures identified
Hoax photographs purporting to be pictures taken from the cockpit a Lockheed Martin F-16 as it intercepted the Helios Airways Boeing 737-300 that crashed near Athens on 14 August have been circulated on the internet.
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NewsA380 is set ‘survivability’ test goal
Regulators impose requirements aimed at ensuring double-deck giant’s crashworthiness matches existing airliners
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NewsHelios 737 passenger text message a hoax
Problems with the pressurisation system appear almost certainly to be behind the fatal loss yesterday of a Helios Airways Boeing 737-300 in Greece, but the possible sequence of events remains a puzzle.
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EASA approves data for P-RNAV
Clearance allows development of common precision navigation procedures in European terminal airspace
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SpaceShipTwo mothership based on Globalflyer
Mojave-based Scaled Composites' SpaceShipTwo's (SS2) carrier aircraft, White Knight 2, will have the wingspan of a Boeing 737 and use composite structure technology developed for the Virgin Atlantic Globalflyer.
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NewsBoeing to test ‘smart’ chevrons
Noise-reducing technology on engine nacelle put through paces as part of collaborative research project