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India’s Kingfisher Airlines to be part of oneworld from 10 February.
Kingfisher Airlines will become part of oneworld® with effect from Friday 10 February 2012, adding India’s leading carrier to the premier global airline alliance. It will be the first carrier from the subcontinent to join any of the global airline groups – and the first of three airlines to join oneworld in its biggest membership…
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JAL Expands Use of User-Preferred-Routes to Vancouver
The JAL Group (JAL) plans to utilize User Preferred Routes (UPR) on its daily flight between Tokyo (Narita) and Vancouver starting from December 19, 2011. JAL first introduced the use of UPR in Japan, on its Japan = Hawaii routes in August 2008 and later on routes to Australia in June 2009. Airlines flying between…
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SAA honoured with two prestigious Feather Awards.
South African Airways (SAA) today won a prestigious Feather Award from the Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA) honouring the airline as the Best Full Service Airline at OR Tambo International Airport (ORTIA). This was the second Feather Award SAA received this year, after walking away with Best Domestic (full service) carrier at Port Elizabeth…
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Ethiopian Airlines Joins Star Alliance.
At a ceremony held at Addis Ababa’s Bole International Airport the Star Alliance Chief Executive Board (CEB) welcomed Ethiopian Airlines as the Alliance’s third carrier based on the African continent. “Today we have taken a large step forward in completing our Africa strategy,” said Jaan Albrecht, CEO Star Alliance.” With Ethiopian Airlines now part of…
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New Year’s Eve in Baia euroAtlantic flies to Salvador, land of happines.
euroAtlantic airways (EAA), the first airline operating charter flights to the Northeast of Brasil, will perform together with the Tour Operators terrabrasil, Soltrópico and Abreu, a charter flight with single departure on December 25th . 2011 and return on January 2nd . 2012, destination Salvador da Baia, former Baia de Todos os Santos, first capital…
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Emirates the talk of the town in Dublin.
Emirates took Ireland by storm last night with a high profile gala dinner to promote its brand new daily flight to Dublin, beginning 9th January. More than 800 guests gathered for the eagerly-awaited event at The Convention Centre Dublin with Lionel Richie making a surprise appearance as the headline act. Performers from the internationally-renowned Spirit…
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EASA proposes harmonised European rules for airports.
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) today published Notice of Proposed Amendment (NPA) 2011-20 containing draft rules for the certification, management, operation and design, of aerodromes. Only airports open for commercial air transport with at least one paved runway of 800 metres or more are addressed in these proposals. At present, the safety regulation of…
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A first in Europe: Snecma and CNRS successfully test high-power electric thruster for spacecraft (20kW).
Snecma (Safran group) and French national scientific research agency CNRS have successfully carried out a series of tests on the prototype of a 20 kilowatt Hall effect thruster for spacecraft (also called a stationary plasma thruster, or SPT), designed by Snecma. Achieving this level of power using Hall effect technology is a first in Europe.…
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Southwest Airlines Launches LEAP-1B-Powered 737 MAX.
Southwest Airlines today formally launched CFM International’s advanced LEAP-1B engine on the Boeing 737 MAX with a firm order for 150 airplanes. In addition, the airline expanded its current order book with an order for 58 additional CFM56-7BE-powered Next-Generation 737-800s. The total engine order is valued at approximately $4.7 billion U.S. at list price. Both…
