21 March 2012

Further to the framework agreement signed in March 2011, Jin Zhuanglong, Chairman, Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China  (COMAC) and Pierre Beaudoin, President and Chief Executive Officer, Bombardier, signed a definitive agreement covering program commonalities between the C919 and CSeries aircraft. More specifically, the two leading aircraft manufacturers have agreed to cooperate on four distinctive projects …

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Airbus has joined a consortium including Virgin Australia to study a new pathway to produce sustainable aviation fuels. Eucalyptus mallee trees, grown in Western Australia’s wheat belt are sustainably harvested and converted to a feedstock for refining into alternative aviation fuel via a process called Pyrolysis. Mallee is indigenous to Australia and is well adapted …

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airberlin became part of oneworld on March 20th, adding the second largest airline in Germany and the sixth largest in Europe to the world’s premier global airline alliance. NIKI, the Austrian member of the airberlin group, joined oneworld as an affiliate member at the same time. Both airlines are now offering oneworld’s services and benefits …

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