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Lufthansa Technik has announced that it is now offering

Boeing and two ANA (All Nippon Airways) pilots flew the Boeing 787 Dreamliner for the first time on May 12th. The airplane they flew is the first of six flight-test airplanes and the two-hour-and-40-minute flight took place over Washington state. The flight was conducted under a special airworthiness certificate granted by the U.S. Federal Aviation

Aviation training center Baltic Aviation Academy (Lithuania) expanded its capability list by adding Embraer 145 type rating courses and became the first approved type rating training organization (TRTO) in the Baltic region to start training program for this type of aircraft. In May 2010 the Lithuanian Civil Aviation Administration has issued to the Baltic Aviation

Brazilian carrier TAM Airlines joined the Star Alliance network on May 13th. TAM Airlines offers more than 40 destinations in Brazil and 10 airports across South America. Over the past years, the airline has expanded its intercontinental network to cover a variety of destinations in the USA and Europe, many of these being Star Alliance

EMRISE CORPORATION, a multi-national manufacturer of defense and aerospace electronic devices and communications equipment, has received multi-year production orders valued at $1.6 million for power supplies to be used in In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) systems. The products, which were ordered by two longstanding EMRISE customers, will be used for retrofitting existing aircraft with new IFE systems.

SkyWorks Holdings announced the formation of an advisory board to advise its management regarding strategic initiatives, product development and expansion into new related lines of business. Benoit Debains and Paul Marini have joined this new advisory board.

Emirates will launch flights to Baghdad from 1st July 2010. Baghdad will be Emirates

American Airlines will begin nonstop service from Chicago O’Hare International Airport to Beijing Capital International Airport on May 25, with four flights per week, and will operate four nonstop flights per week from Beijing to Chicago starting May 27. Beginning July 3, American will offer daily departures from both cities.

LAN Airlines S.A. and its subsidiaries announced an agreement with Colombian airline Aeroasis S.A. to provide it with technical support and service consultancy in the process of obtaining an operating permit from the Colombian civil aviation authority (Unidad Administrativa Especial de Aeron

Virgin America released that it will postpone its start of service to Orlando International Airport (MCO) due to delays in the airline’s aircraft delivery schedule. The airline previously announced that it would launch daily nonstop flights from both Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and San Francisco International Airport (SFO) to MCO beginning August 19, 2010.