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India Orders Real Time Aircraft Tracking After MH370
India’s civil aviation regulator has instructed airlines to track all aircraft in real time, a decision the regulator said was prompted by the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. The directives will ap...
Norwegian Air Signs New Deal For Three Boeing 787s
Budget carrier Norwegian Air has signed a letter of intent to lease another three Boeing 787 Dreamliners, two with delivery in 2016 and one for delivery in 2017, the company said on Wednesday. The new planes 787-9s, a st...
Airbus Won 236 Orders In Jan – April
Airbus won 236 gross aircraft orders in the first four months of the year, boosted by a contract for 71 single-aisle A320-family planes in April from American Airlines. Adjusted for cancellations, net orders totalled 142...
Europe To Toughen Black Box Rules After Boeing 777 Flight MH370
The European Aviation Safety Agency has drawn up proposals to make it easier to find black boxes from missing aircraft, in the strongest official reaction so far to the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, pe...
Tiger Airways Replaces CEO With SIA Executive
Singapore’s Tiger Airways said it would be replacing its chief executive with an executive from its largest shareholder, Singapore Airlines, days after the budget carrier reported a deepening of its losses. Lee Lik...
Australian ‘Hijacker’ Mistook Cockpit Door For Toilet Door
An Australian passenger mistook the cockpit door for the toilet door, triggering Friday’s hijack scare on a Virgin Australia flight from Brisbane to the Indonesian island of Bali, police said. Matt Lockley told Bal...
