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Friday November 13, 2009 Vietnam Airlines has signed an MOU for four A380s, VN and EADS officials told reporters in Hanoi. EADS VP Marwan Lahoud said VN is the first new A380 customer since 2006 and that the order was worth $800 million-$1.2 billion, according to Agence France Presse. VN CEO Pham Ngoc Minh told Bloomberg News that the agreement marked t...
The EU has been urged to rethink the ban on liquids such as toothpaste or baby bottles being carried as hand baggage by travellers at European airports, the Parliament.com informs. The ban is due to expire next April but parliament's mini plenary in Brussels heard that a latest commission proposal may seek to extend the restriction until 2014. This has ...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is updating training and procedures for handling the loss of two-way communication with aircraft and how other agencies are notified, after a detailed review of air traffic contact with Northwest Airlines Flight 188 on October 21, 2009. The FAA also has taken steps to ensure more accurate preliminary information a...
Dubai Air Show witnessed a truly historical event at the official public unveiling of the new national carrier of the Republic of Senegal – Senegal Airlines. Established to commercially exploit the gap left with the departure of Air Senegal International, the new airline will take to the skies in early 2010, initially with a fleet of leased aircraft....
Boeing has completed installing reinforcements within the side-of-body section of two more 787 Dreamliners. Over the weekend, employees at Boeing's facility in Everett, Wash., finished reinforcing the full-scale static test airframe and the second Dreamliner designated for flight test. Installations were completed Nov. 11 on the first flight-test airplan...
Cargo tonnage handled by Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) in October 2009 increased by 1.3% over the same period last year, to 324,000 tonnes – marking the first month since August 2008 that a year-on-year monthly comparison registered positive growth. Passenger throughput and air traffic movements declined 3.7% and 7.8% compared to the same mon...
GREEK dockers at Cosco's Piraeus container terminal have been have returned to work under a court order which bans further strikes and threatens daily fines of US$6,000 if workers walk out again. A Piraeus judge ordered 1,500 dockers back to work after they again started striking the Cosco Pacific terminal early October in a series of on-again off-again ...
GLOBAL power systems company Rolls-Royce has won an order worth GBP350 million (US$586.96 million), at list prices, for Trent 700 engines to power five Airbus A330 aircraft - two freighter aircraft and three passenger jets - for Turkish Airlines (THY). The contract includes long-term 'TotalCare' service support. Aircraft deliveries are slated to begin i...
Port of Tallinn is the biggest port authority in Estonia and as far as both cargo and passenger traffic are taken into account, the biggest port on the shores of the Baltic Sea.
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