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ANA Looking To Accelerate 777 Deliveries
All Nippon Airways is in talks with Boeing to speed up the delivery of three 777s as its fleet of 787 Dreamliners remains grounded with undiagnosed battery problems, the Nikkei newspaper said on Sunday. All 50 Boeing 787...
NTSB Takes Microscope To Damaged 787 Battery
The US National Transportation Safety Board said on Tuesday it was carrying out a detailed, microscopic investigation of a battery that caught fire on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner in Boston as the probe dragged into a fourth ...
Italian Crash Probably Caused By Missile
An Italian court said the cause of one of the country’s most enduring aviation mysteries, a plane that broke up over the coast of Sicily 32 years ago killing 81 people, was most probably a missile hitting the aircraft. Th...
EU Regulator Extends Ryanair-Aer Lingus Review
EU antitrust regulators have extended their review of the latest bid by Ryanair to acquire Irish rival Aer Lingus to March 6 after the budget carrier offered additional concessions to allay competition concerns. The one-...
Air China Continues Expansion in North America with New Nonstop Houston-Beijing Service
New service makes Houston the first gateway for direct connection to China in Texas and in the South Central Region of the United States Dr. Zhihang Chi, Air China’s Vice President and General Manager for North America, a...
787 Probe Puts Spotlight on Battery Charger
US National Transportation Safety Board investigators will travel to Arizona based Securaplane Technologies, which makes battery chargers used on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, to test and examine the charger. Fiona Greig, a...
