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Qantas Orders Three Bombardier Q400 NextGen Airliners
Based on the list price for the Q400 NextGen aircraft, the contract is valued at approximately $98 million US. Bombardier Aerospace announced that Australia’s largest domestic and international airline, Qantas Airways Lim...
Snow Causes Frankfurt Flight Cancellations
Passengers suffered delays and flight cancellations on Monday at Frankfurt airport, Europe’s third busiest, after freezing rain had forced the airport to shut late on Sunday. About 300 of the 1,200 scheduled arriva...
London Heathrow Cancels More Flights Over Snow
London’s Heathrow airport cancelled 10 percent of flights on Monday, a day after it cut its capacity by a fifth, and said services could face further delays with more snowfall expected. Heathrow, Europe’s bus...
ANA Cancels 171 More Flights Over Grounded 787s
All Nippon Airways said on Monday it has cancelled 151 domestic and 26 international flights scheduled for January 23-28 after the grounding of the carrier’s Boeing 787 Dreamliners, affecting more than 21,000 passe...
787 Probe Widens After Excess Battery Voltage Ruled Out
US safety investigators on Sunday ruled out excess voltage as the cause of a battery fire last month on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner operated by Japan Airlines and said they were expanding the probe to look at the batteryR...
Snow Hits London, Paris Flights, More Cuts Seen
London’s Heathrow Airport cancelled a fifth of flights on Sunday and airlines scrapped 40 percent of flights to Paris’s two main airports as snow blanketed parts of Europe, with more forecast. Air France pred...
