AWAS has delivered its fifth Airbus A330-300 aircraft to Singapore Airlines. This aircraft will join the fleet of A330-300s which Singapore Airlines will operate on selected routes serving the Middle East, West Asia and North Asia. From March this year, these routes will include services to Abu Dhabi, Jeddah and Kuwait, as well as Male. […]
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WestJet reported the resignation of President and CEO Sean Durfy effective April 1, 2010. Mr. Durfy will also resign from the board of directors at that time. Mr. Durfy has cited personal reasons for his departure.
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Air Berlin has agreed with Boeing to streamline its order book to account for a change in market conditions and in order to meet Air Berlin
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JetBlue Airways reported its preliminary traffic results for February 2010. Traffic in February increased 2.7% from February 2009, on a capacity increase of 2.7%. Load factor for February 2010 was 74.5%, the same as February 2009.
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SAS released that the Court of Appeal (Lagmansretten) Oslo ruled on 16 March 2010 that SAS Group shall pay damages totaling NOK 160 Million plus legal costs. In total, the amount adds up to just under NOK 175 million (approx 22 million EUR). For SAS, this will have a negative effect on results and liquidity
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A second Boeing 747-8 Freighter, RC 522, successfully completed its first flight on March 14th. The airplane took off from Paine Field in Everett, Wash., for a two-and-a-half-hour flight and landed at Boeing Field in Seattle. The airplane reached an altitude of 27,000 feet (8,230 m) and an airspeed of 240 knots, or about 276
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Boeing has added the fourth 787 Dreamliner to its flight-test fleet with the completion of the first flight of ZA003. Captains Ray Craig and Mike Bryan piloted the airplane on its three-hour-and-six-minute flight. ZA003 is the final 787 with Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines to enter the flight-test program.
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AAR has been selected by Bombardier Aerospace, Belfast to design and manufacture composite flap track fairings for the wings of the new CSeries family of commercial aircraft. The work will be performed by AAR Composites, which develops and fabricates advanced composite structures for a wide range of aviation and aerospace applications. The contract could be
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Sikorsky Aircraft and PZL Mielec, its company in Poland, announced the completion of final assembly on the first S-70i BLACK HAWK helicopter, an international variant of the BLACK HAWK helicopter. This new international variant is the first BLACK HAWK helicopter assembled in Europe using a global supply chain.
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Elbit Systems was awarded a contract from the Department of Defence of the Commonwealth of Australia in the amount of approximately US$298 million dollars (approximately $331 million Australian dollars) for the supply, integration, installation and support of a Battle Group and Below Command, Control and Communications (BGC3) system for the Australian Army’s Land 75/125 program.
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