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It has been reported that at approximately 2.30am GMT twelve protesters from the group “Plane Stupid” cut through wire fencing surrounding Heathrow’s northern runway. They were protesting at the decision made earlier this month regarding the building of a third runway for Heathrow, allowing it to maintain a competitive position as a major European airways

China’s efforts to challenge the duopoly of Boeing’s 737 and Airbus’ A320 narrow-body aircraft with the country’s first production of a narrow-body commercial jet has been further delayed, though for reasons as yet unknown. The original launch date for the C9198 was 2016, but continual delays have seen that date change to 2018. While the

Frankfurt Airport (FRA) continued to record increased passenger traffic in the first half of 2015.  Welcoming 28.9 million passengers from January to June 2015, FRA achieved strong 4.1% growth compared to the previous year and a new historic half-year passenger record.  Furthermore, the average number of passengers per flight rose to 135.4 – an all-time

Operating as the low-cost arm of AirAsia (AirAsia Berhad), Indonesia AirAsia, based in Jakarta, is facing potential grounding if new financial regulations introduced by the Indonesian government become enforceable. The government has been increasingly concerned over the state of finances of 13 Indonesian airlines and as a consequences has given them all until the 31st

Early on Wednesday morning in the US, United Airlines was forced to ground all flights worldwide for approximately two hours as a result of a computer problem. “An issue with a router degraded network connectivity for various applications, causing this morning’s operational disruption. We fixed the router issue, which is enabling us to restore normal

The head of Boeing’s commercial aircraft division, Ray Conner, has indicated that the lack of available finance through the US Export-Import Bank would likely put the company at a “huge competitive disadvantage” as rival firms still had access to similar beneficial forms of financing. However he went on to say that Boeing was keen to

Although its opening has been postponed several times, and with a current opening date now scheduled for 2017, the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag has reported that such weighty investors as JP Morgan and Macquarie have been courted by Berlin to take a stake in the new airport. The newspaper report states that investors will