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Embraer Breaks Ground for New Executive Jet Service Center in Brazil.
Four months after announcing its new executive jet service center in Brazil, Embraer broke ground at Bertram Luiz Leupolz (SOD) airport in Sorocaba, fulfilling its promise to bring convenient services to its customers. The 216,000-square-foot site will include hangars, VIP lounges, meeting rooms and crew living quarters, as well as administrative offices. This…
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Singapore Airlines Launches US$50 Million In-Flight Connectivity Programme.
Singapore Airlines is today formally launching In-Flight Connectivity as part of a US$50 million programme to bring Internet and mobile data services to customers, even when flying at 35,000ft. Following a recent soft launch on a limited number of aircraft, In-Flight Connectivity is today available on 14 aircraft in the fleet, including all five Airbus…
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Czech Airlines in the 2012/13 Winter Season: Optimising Seasonality, More Flights to Budapest, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Milan, and Warsaw, a New Fare System, and the Airline’s Own Mobile Website and Applications.
For Czech Airlines, the 2012/13 winter season will be marked by the optimisation of seasonal fluctuations, product improvement on individual routes, and the continuation of the established strategy of providing a transfer bridge between East and West. In the upcoming winter season, Czech Airlines will offer its passengers the same number of weekly frequencies as…
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ANA to become world’s first airline to have all flight and cabin crew equipped with iPads.
ANA Group, Japan‘s largest airline group, today announces that it is to equip all of its approximately 2,500 flight crew with an iPad, in addition to the already equipped cabin crew. The move, which will involve ANA producing electronic versions of the flight manual, is part of ANA’s Corporate Strategy for FY2012-13 to support corporate…
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Prestigious Tasting Says SAA has Best Business Class White.
South African Airways has won first place in the business class white wine section of Global Traveler’s prestigious “Wine on the Wing” competition and placed second in the red wine section, securing an overall second place for the best business class wine offering on international routes. The announcement was made yesterday by US-based Global…
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Marry Mound has a nice ring to it…
The eastern lawn of Park Live presented by British Airways has been dubbed ‘Marry Mound’ following a number of engagement proposals during the London 2012 Olympic Games. BA Lawn Hosts manning the area noticed the romantic hostpot when they heard loud cheers from the hill. Since then they estimate 25 proposals have taken place,…
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Air France – KLM: JULY 2012 TRAFFIC.
Air France – KLM – Passenger business July 2012 traffic rose 1.1% for capacity up 1.6%, leading to a slight (-0.4 point) decline in load factor, which remained at the high level of 86.9%. The number of passengers amounted to 7.43 million, up 1.5%. Unit revenue per available seat kilometre (RASK) ex-currency was up relative to…
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JetBlue Airways Reconfigures Embraer E190 Fleet to Offer Even More of its Popular Even More(TM) Space Seats.
– Customers can now purchase 39-inches of legroom in rows 13 and 14 and 38-inches in rows 1 and 12 on E190 aircraft. – JetBlue continues to provide more legroom than any other airline in coach for both the E190 and Airbus A320 aircraft (a). JetBlue Airways (Nasdaq: JBLU) today announces the reconfiguration of its…
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Profitable organic growth in Q2 2012.
EBITDA 28.8 million USD, increasing by USD 11.8 million between years Increase in income 15% from the corresponding quarter of last year Net cash from operations USD 72.2 million, as compared to USD 42.9 million in the preceding year Equity ratio was 31% Björgólfur Jóhannsson, president and CEO “The results from the Company operations…
