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    In the High Court this evening Justice Maureen Clarke appointed Mr. Michael McAteer of Grant Thornton as Interim Examiner to Comhfhorbairt (Gaillimh) trading as Aer Arann. The petition to enter examinership was made by the company following a resolution of its Board of Directors. full story...

    Aer Lingus notes Aer Arann's decision to make an application for the appointment of an Examiner and welcomes today's announcement that it intends to operate normally during the period of examinership. full story...

    Aeroflot confirms that it has received about $52 mln that was embezzled from it over ten years ago and until now stayed frozen in Switzerland. The assets were returned to the Russian airline by decision of a Switzerland court. full story...
    Posted Aug 27, 2010 full story...Aeroflot's results for July and for seven months of 2010

    Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis and Economics Minister Artis Kampars last week hailed the airBaltic airline for its achievements in the field of exports. full story...

    Management teams at Air Berlin and LTU have reached a successful framework agreement with VC, the pilots' union, with regard to the working conditions for cockpit personnel. The collective bargaining process that has been ongoing since the beginning of the year has therefore been brought to an amicable conclusion. full story...
    Posted Aug 27, 2010 full story...Air Berlin records an EBIT of minus EUR 28.2 million for the second quarter
    Posted Aug 27, 2010 full story...Air Berlin appoints new Area Manager Nordic Countries

    Air Canada - Posted Aug 31, 2010
    Air Canada to expand service to Mexico City

    Air Canada today announced that beginning in November it will increase service between Mexico City and Canada with the resumption of daily flights to and from Montreal and the introduction of a new flight to and from Vancouver. Twice daily flights between Toronto and Mexico City will also continue year round. full story...

    Air France - Posted Sep 1, 2010
    Air France's first A380 flight to Japan

    Today, Wednesday 1 September 2010, Air France's Airbus A380 served the Paris-Tokyo route for the very first time, making Tokyo the first destination in Asia to be served by the airline's Super jumbo. full story...

    National carrier Air India has been ranked as the Most Trusted Brand in the Aviation sector in the country, in the Economic Times Brand Equity Survey 2010. Air India has also been ranked 28th among the top 50 Service Brands, ahead of leading banks, insurance companies, food chains and airlines. full story...

    Air New Zealand - Posted Aug 30, 2010
    Air New Zealand further boosts regional capacity

    Air New Zealand is continuing to add significant capacity into its domestic operations, with more than 9,500 additional seats per week available across its regional network and main jet routes. full story...

    Air Nigeria has taken delivery of another Boeing 737-300 aircraft to further consolidate and expand its dominance on the regional and domestic routes. With the delivery of the aircraft, Air Nigeria current fleet size of seven aircraft now consists of five young Boeing 737-300 and two state of the art Embraer E-190 aircraft. full story...

    Airbus - Posted Aug 30, 2010
    EgyptAir receives first Airbus A330-300

    EgyptAir has received its first Airbus A330-300 aircraft from the Airbus facility in Toulouse, France. Powered by Rolls Royce Trent 700 engines, the aircraft seats 301 passengers with 265 in Economy Class, and 36 in Business Class. full story...

    AirTran Airways and the city of Atlanta today announced the completion of a seven-year master lease agreement for facilities at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Specific terms of the deal were not disclosed. full story...

    Ameco Beijing began to support Air China Cargo fleet in Shanghai from August 16th 2010. The Beijing-based MRO provider's Shanghai station carries out line maintenance and letter checks for this freighter carrier at Shanghai Pudong International Airport. full story...

    American Airlines today announced it will move its Asia-Pacific Regional Office to the JAL Building, the headquarters of Japan Airlines (JAL), in the Shinagawa district of Tokyo. American plans to complete the move from its current office in Uchisaiwaicho by January 2011. full story...
    Posted Sep 1, 2010 full story...American Airlines names William Collins Vice President of base naintenance
    Posted Aug 30, 2010 full story...American Airlines and American Eagle help customers affected by Mexicana Airlines service suspension

    Arik Air - Posted Aug 31, 2010
    Arik Air obtains US Category 1 Status

    Arik Air has described Nigeria's attainment of the United States' Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) International Aviation Safety Assessment (IASA) certification, known as Category 1, as a welcome development and one that will significantly boost its Lagos-New York JFK operations. full story...

    Arrow Air - Posted Aug 27, 2010
    Arrow Air auction called off

    The auction to sell off assets of bankrupt Arrow Air was cancelled due to lack of bids. The Miami auction was supposed to be held on 25 August, but none of the bids complied with requirements set by the bankruptcy judge. full story...

    Austin-Bergstrom International Airport - Posted Aug 30, 2010
    Austin Airport July 2010 passenger & air cargo traffic

    Total passenger traffic for July 2010 was 827,741, up 5% compared to July 2009. July 2010 enplanements totaled 417,893, up 6%. July 2010 air cargo totaled 12,916,047 lbs., down 0.4% compared to July 2009. full story...

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    Boeing will perform landing gear exchange, repair and overhaul services on Qantas Airways' 747-400ER jetliners. Qantas, the program launch customer for the 747-400ER and operator of six of the airplanes, becomes the launch customer for the 747-400ER Landing Gear Overhaul and Exchange Program. full story...
    Posted Aug 27, 2010 full story...Boeing delays 787 first delivery to Mid-First Quarter 2011

    Bombardier Aerospace announced today that Smart Aviation Company of Cairo, Egypt has signed a firm order to acquire two Q400 NextGen turboprop aircraft, and has also taken options on an additional three Q400 NextGen aircraft. full story...

    British Airways - Posted Aug 30, 2010
    British Airways announces fare sale

    British Airways launched a sale with thousands of flights in all cabins, and hundreds of holidays. The sale runs from August 26, 2010 until midnight on September, 14 2010. full story...

    China Southern Airlines has taken delivery of its fifth 777-200 freighter. This is the second of the type the airline has received in two months. full story...

    Continental Airlines Chairman, President and CEO Jeff Smisek today reaffirmed Continental's commitment to Cleveland and denounced legal maneuvers by a plaintiffs' lawyer aimed at distorting the facts. full story...
    Posted Sep 1, 2010 full story...Continental Airlines reports August 2010 operational performance
    Posted Aug 30, 2010 full story...Aeromar and Continental Airlines announce Frequent Flyer Program partnership
    Posted Aug 27, 2010 full story...United and Continental merger - U.S. Department of Justice completes antitrust review

    The Czech Airlines 2010/2011 winter flight schedule will reflect the first changes in the carriage network model that the Airline has made known since May 2010. With its new concept, Czech Airlines will discontinue operations to certain destinations that are not profitable. full story...

    Delta Air Lines today filed applications with the European Commission and the U.S. Department of Transportation requesting permission to operate twice-daily year-round service between London's Heathrow Airport and Boston, and daily year-round service between Heathrow and Miami. full story...

    Emirates has strengthened its links to West Africa with the launch of a new direct service to Dakar. EK 797 took off this morning for the airline's 105th destination, creating the only non-stop, scheduled passenger link between Dubai and Senegal. full story...
    Posted Sep 1, 2010 full story...Emirates launches A380 service to Manchester
    Posted Aug 31, 2010 full story...Emirates to go daily to Al Medinah al Munawarah

    Effective 01 September, Ethiopian Airlines in cooperation with its partner ASKY Airlines will introduce new connectivity between West Africa and Ethiopian's worldwide network. full story...
    Posted Aug 27, 2010 full story...Ethiopian Airlines and the Boeing 777-200LR

    Etihad Airways has unveiled a major fare sale today to mark the announcement of its new partnership between the airline and Virgin Blue Group. Return fare deals from Australia to Europe and the Middle East, inclusive of taxes and charges, start from AU$1834, with comparable deals on inbound fares from Europe to Australia and New Zealand. full story...

    The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has proposed a $24.2 million civil penalty against American Airlines Inc. for failing to correctly follow an Airworthiness Directive involving the maintenance of its McDonnell Douglas MD-80 aircraft. This civil penalty is the largest ever proposed by the FAA. full story...

    Finnair - Posted Sep 1, 2010
    Finnair is searching for "Quality Hunters"

    In September, Finnair is launching a search for four Quality Hunters, independent advisors whose task is to travel to various destinations in Europe, Asia and the US to investigate the elements that determine quality in travel. full story...

    Flybe - Posted Aug 26, 2010
    Flybe reports strong last minute demand

    Flybe is gearing up for an exceptionally busy August Bank Holiday weekend with passenger numbers up 5% over the same period last year. The airline is also experiencing extremely strong last minute demand for many of the 1836 flights flying across its extensive regional network over the long weekend. full story...

    The national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, Gulf Air has signed a Memorandum of Understanding offering 25% discount on tickets for journalists and media members. full story...

    Hawaiian Airlines announced today the start of ticket sales for its new nonstop flights between Honolulu and South Korea's Seoul-Incheon International Airport, which will commence with the inaugural departure from Honolulu on January 12, 2011. The inaugural return flight from Incheon takes place January 14. full story...

    Iberia is the sole airline to be certified by the National Air Safety Agency (AESA) as an official centre for evaluating the linguistic competence of pilots. The other approved centre is the air safety research and services company SENASA. full story...
    Posted Aug 31, 2010 full story...Iberia offers flights to central London City Airport
    Posted Aug 27, 2010 full story...Iberia cuts first-half losses by 87.4%

    The future growth of the global economy depends upon a robust air transport sector. At the 37th triennial Session of its Assembly, the 190 Member States of ICAO will focus on policies and regulations that will deliver on systematic and consistent improvements to the level of safety, security and environmental sustainability of the sector in the years to come. full story...

    Japan Airlines - Posted Aug 31, 2010
    JAL to retire 103 planes, scrap 49 routes

    Japan Airlines, a debt-ridden carrier worth no more than a two-decade old jumbo when it was bailed out by the government in January, is to retire 103 jets and scrap 49 routes in a bid to return to profit. full story...

    Jet2.com is expanding its operations from Manchester Airport for summer 2011 with the launch of the airport's - and airline's - first route to Brive (Dordogne). full story...
    Posted Aug 26, 2010 full story...Jet2.com announces new summer 2011 route from Edinburgh to Budapest

    JetBlue Airways plans to continue growing its focus city at Boston's Logan International Airport with new daily nonstop service to Newark, N.J., beginning in early May 2011. JetBlue will operate four daily flights to Newark's Liberty International Airport. full story...

    Jetstar Asia Airways has announced it will operate (for the first time) direct scheduled services from Singapore to Guilin, subject to regulatory approval. The twice weekly Singapore-Guilin flight service commences on 3 November 2010. full story...

    Lufthansa Flight Training - Posted Sep 1, 2010
    Air Berlin Pilots to continue training at Lufthansa Flight Training

    The Air Berlin Group is continuing to entrust the training of its cockpit crews to Lufthansa Flight Training (LFT). The airline has extended its partnership agreement with LFT and will thus have its pilots trained exclusively on LFT flight simulators until at least the end of 2015. full story...

    Transaero Airlines will use its Integrated Operations Control Center (IOCC) Platform from Lufthansa Systems. The Russian carrier recently signed a five-year agreement relating to the IOCC Platform and its components IOCC/Sched for schedule management, IOCC/Ops for operations control and IOCC/Crew for crew management. full story...

    Lufthansa - Posted Sep 1, 2010
    Lufthansa launches A380 service to Beijing

    Lufthansa's third Airbus A380 enters scheduled service today (Wednesday, 1 September), just one week after being delivered to the airline. Initially, the A380 will serve Beijing once a week. In coordination with Chinese authorities, Lufthansa aims to gradually increase the frequency of this service. full story...
    Posted Aug 31, 2010 full story...Lufthansa and Germanwings plan extensive cooperation with numerous benefits for customers
    Posted Aug 31, 2010 full story...Lufthansa launches direct services from Luxembourg to Munich

    Malaysia Airlines - Posted Aug 27, 2010
    Malaysia Airlines offers daily flights to Yangon, Myanmar

    Effective 2 September 2010, Malaysia Airlines will ? ? run two additional flights between Kuala Lumpur and Yangon, resulting in seven flights weekly. full story...
    Posted Aug 26, 2010 full story...Malaysia Airlines offers 72 hours Merdeka sale

    Malaysia's airport operator said Monday a low-cost air terminal expected to be among the largest in the world will be delayed until mid-2012 and cost at least $150 million more than originally planned. full story...

    Melbourne Airport - Posted Aug 30, 2010
    Jetstar boosts services in Melbourne

    Melbourne Airport welcomes Jetstar's announcement that the airline will significantly expand its domestic network with an extra 24 weekly services out of Melbourne to Adelaide, Brisbane and Newcastle by December this year. full story...

    Mexicana de Aviacion, one of Mexico's two major airlines, will cease operations by midday Saturday, Mexico's Transport Minister Juan Molinar told reporters on Friday. full story...

    Northwest Airlines - Posted Aug 31, 2010
    Northwest Cargo fined USD38m for pricefixing

    A US judge has fined Northwest Airlines Cargo US$38 million for price-fixing air cargo charges. Prosecutors proved that the division, which is no longer operating and whose parent Northwest Airlines is now part of Delta Air Lines, conspired to fix airfreight rates in the US and overseas from July 2004 to February 2006. full story...

    Prague Airport - Posted Sep 1, 2010
    Prague Airport traffic development

    July 2010 saw a slight year-on-year decrease by 1.8% in numbers of passengers handled at Prague Airport. A total of 1,289,152 passengers passed through the airport in the reported month. The number of aircraft movements declined by 6.4% to the total of 14,998. full story...
    Posted Sep 1, 2010 full story...Prague Airport - network expansion

    Qantas - Posted Aug 30, 2010
    Qantas launches rebranded courier business

    Qantas Freight today announced it had begun offering courier and baggage delivery services to Qantas and third party customers under the new brand name Qantas Courier. full story...

    Qatar Airways - Posted Aug 30, 2010
    Qatar Airways prepares for major Indian expansion

    Qatar Airways today announced further expansion to its Indian network with a 20 per cent increase in frequency covering the cities of Delhi, Cochin and Amritsar from next month. full story...

    Ryanair - Posted Sep 1, 2010
    Ryanair opens Barcelona (El Prat) base

    Ryanair today officially opened its newest base at Barcelona El Prat with 8 based aircraft, 23 low fare routes and 2.5m passenger p.a. which will help reverse declining traffic at El Prat airport which fell by 3m passengers in 2009. full story...
    Posted Aug 31, 2010 full story...Ryanair to close Belfast City base

    Airphil Express has renewed its partnership with Sabre Airline Solutions as its main ecommerce technology partner to support its business transformation and ambitious expansion plans. Airphil Express is a burgeoning airline that earlier this year re-engaged in the market as a full-fledged low-cost carrier. full story...

    SATA International - Posted Aug 31, 2010
    SATA renews agreement with Gran Canaria Tourism

    On 04 August, Grupo SATA signed a new agreement with the Gran Canaria Island Tourism Board from the Canary Islands to increase passenger traffic on flights between the Azores, Madeira and the Canary archipelago, thereby strengthening SATA's Atlantic calling by bringing the Macaronesian islands even closer together. full story...
    Posted Aug 27, 2010 full story...SATA Handling signs agreement with Austrian Airlines

    Scandinavian Airlines - Posted Aug 27, 2010
    SAS is phasing out all of its MD-90 aircraft

    SAS Group has entered into 5-year leases covering its eight MD-90-30 aircraft with an undisclosed US airline. The eight aircraft will be delivered in a phase out schedule starting Q3-2010 and ending Q2-2011. full story...

    Singapore Airlines - Posted Aug 31, 2010
    Singapore Airlines and Tourism Western Australia sign MoU

    Singapore Airlines and Tourism Western Australia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly promote tourism to Western Australia. Under the three-year partnership, Singapore Airlines and TWA will jointly fund marketing campaigns and actively promote inbound tourism to Western Australia by way of Singapore Airlines' services between Singapore and Perth. full story...

    Star Alliance - Posted Aug 27, 2010
    Star Alliance Brazil Airpass launched

    The Brazil Airpass allows travel across the entire domestic network of more than 45 destinations served by TAM Airlines. The routing can be freely selected and needs to cover between four and nine flight coupons. full story...

    TAM has just received authorization from Brazilian and Argentinean regulatory organs to perform flights between the "Aeroporque", Jorge Newbery airport, in Buenos Aires and Salgado Filho airport in Porto Alegre. full story...

    Thai Airways - Posted Aug 30, 2010
    Thai Airways to purchase seven A330-300s

    Thai Airways International has finalised a purchase agreement with Airbus for seven A330-300s, confirming a commitment announced at last month's Farnborough Air Show. full story...

    Tri-MG - Posted Aug 27, 2010
    Tri-MG flies again

    Indonesia has reissued a business permit for Tri-MG, a cargo airline that had its business permit revoked by the government in 2008. full story...

    United Airlines and Continental Airlines today announced that they have reached agreements to lease 18 pairs of take-off and landing slots (roundtrip flights) during peak and off-peak travel times and certain related facilities to Southwest Airlines at Newark Liberty International Airport. full story...

    Today Virgin America announced new nonstop service to Los Cabos and Cancun. To help kick off the fiesta, the airline is giving away "2-for-1 Tacos + Tix" at sites throughout San Francisco and Los Angeles today only. full story...

    The Virgin Blue Group of Airlines announced today the second phase of its network review with the introduction of Airbus A330-200 aircraft for its domestic network and an overhaul of its international long haul network. full story...
    Posted Aug 25, 2010 full story...Virgin Blue Group announces major new partnership with Etihad
    Posted Aug 25, 2010 full story...Virgin Blue confirms positive 2010 results in line with forecast

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