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London Gatwick Eyes Second Runway
London’s Gatwick Airport may need to build a second runway to cope with an expected 30 percent rise in passenger numbers by 2045, it said in a master plan published on Thursday. A second runway cannot be built at L...
AMR Flight Attendants To Vote On Contract
Leaders of American Airlines’ flight attendants’ union will let its members vote on the company’s latest contract offer, possibly heading off a threat by the carrier to abandon current agreements and im...
British Airways Drops Slot-Backed Bond Issue
IAG-owned British Airways has abandoned plans to issue its first secured bond backed by its valuable take-off and landing slots at London’s Heathrow airport, due to insufficient demand. “Despite this weekR...
Gulf Airlines Set Sights On Saudi Skies
Saudi Arabia’s push towards an open skies policy is attracting the interest of major airlines in the Gulf and raising hopes that poor service and overbooked flights that have characterised air travel across the cou...
Suicide Bomber Blows Up Bulgaria Airport Bus
A suicide bomber carried out an attack that killed eight people in a bus transporting Israeli tourists in Bulgaria, the country’s interior minister said on Thursday, and Israel accused Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants o...
Front Section for First Flyable A350 XWB Arrives at Toulouse FAL
The 21 metre long section is already equipped with its systems and was flown in from AirbusÂ’ site in Saint-Nazaire (France) by the Airbus Beluga transport aircraft. Airbus has delivered the front fuselage for the first flyable...
