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United announced that it will hire 2,000 flight attendants, the first time the company has added to its flight attendant ranks in four years.

The major expansion for its Frankfurt Hahn base will include 18 aircraft, over 50 routes, 8 m passengers, and create 8000 jobs. Announcing this major expansion in Mainz, the capital of Rhineland Palatinate, today, Michael O

Embraer announced the appointment of Ernest Edwards as Vice-President, Executive Aviation Marketing and Sales for the U.S., Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean, joining the Company

US Airways is the first U.S. international carrier to outsource Unit Load Device (ULD) management in a sale and leaseback deal that furnishes ownership and administration of the airline’s ULD fleet to Jettainer GmbH. As part of its corporate cost-savings initiatives, US Airways has transferred its entire fleet of air cargo and passenger flight containers

Aer Lingus, the Irish state owned airline, confirmed the appointment of Merrion Capital and Goldman Sachs as advisors to the company. The advisors will assist Aer Lingus in the privatisation process already initiated by the Government. New investment in the airline is essential to fund fleet acquisition and other development expenditure required to underpin growth

Three new orders from Thailand and Malaysia for Rolls-Royce industrial gas turbine equipment, valued at over $50 million, continue to strengthen the Rolls-Royce position in Asia

The Association of European Airlines has joined with its North American counterpart

Northwest Airlines announced that Anna Schaefer has been named vice president

Ryanair confirmed that many of its Dublin pilots will exercise share options which at the current share price have a profit of approx. EUR50,000 each. These share options (which formed part of the 5 year pay, benefit and share option scheme collectively negotiated directly between the Dublin pilots and the airline in November 2000) fall

The U.S. Department of Transportation proposed new rules to help US airlines to raise foreign money. U.S. airlines would have more opportunities to obtain financing from investors under a new rule announced today by U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta. The proposed rule would allow international investors more say in some aspects of airline