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JetBlue Airways has completed an agreement to purchase two bundles of eight slot pairs, one at New York LaGuardia Airport (LGA) and the second at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA), recently made available in an FAA auction. A slot pair provides authorization for one daily arriving flight and one daily departing flight and will

Boeing celebrated the opening of its new Interiors Fabrication facility in North Charleston. The Interiors Responsibility Center South Carolina team will manufacture 787 interior parts including stowbins, closets, partitions, class dividers, floor-mounted stowbins used by flight attendants, overhead rests for flight-crews and flight attendants, video control stations and attendant modules for Boeing South Carolina. The

Cambridge Airport released that it is one of the first UK airports to introduce the new GPS enabled (APV Baro RNAV Instrument Approach) procedure to supplement its existing SRA/ILS/NDB and modifiable PAPI facilities.  The approach has been validated for its principal runways, 23 and 05.  Cambridge is now one of the few airports in the

Avia Solutions Group, a group of business aviation companies, together with its subsidiary FL Technics is further strengthening its position in the global aviation technical support and maintenance market and is set to open its first representative office in Kuala Lumpur by the end of this year. ‘From its new office in Kuala Lumpur Avia

 United Continental Holdings received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval for a single operating certificate, marking another significant achievement in the integration of United Airlines and Continental Airlines. This regulatory milestone, while significant from an operational policies and procedures perspective, does not change how customers interact with the airline. The two carriers went through a rigorous

Inmarsat a leading provider of global mobile satellite communications services,  announced the selection of Gogo as its partner to bring Inmarsat’s Global Xpress satellite service to the commercial airline market.  Gogo will be a service provider, distributing Global Xpress service to the global commercial aviation market. Inmarsat has also selected Gogo’s business aviation subsidiary, Aircell, as

Starting from the first of December Baltic Ground Services will provide one of the largest Russian carriers, Transaero, with passenger and aircraft handling services, ticketing and fuelling services in the International Vilnius Airport. According to the newly signed agreement Baltic Ground Services will serve the company’s Boeing 737-500 aircraft which is operated on the route

Atlas Composites, based in Ilkeston, is one of only four composite engineering firms in the UK to achieve the AS9100 Rev C recognition standard for the aerospace, space and defence sectors, and is aiming to strengthen its position in the sectors further having recently become a new customer of Yorkshire Bank. The firm, which was