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First China-Assembled A320 Flies at Airshow

A Sichuan Airlines A320 aircraft powered by V2500 engines flew above the crowds at the Zhuhai Airshow today. The aircraft was assembled and delivered in 2009 from the Airbus Tianjin Final Assembly Line China (FALC) – the ...


Norwegian Air Boss Looks Beyond Ailing SAS

  Norwegain Air Shuttle CEO Bjørn Kjos. When Scandinavian airline SAS cast off a tiny Norwegian partner carrier in 2002, few people thought it could survive, let alone threaten within a decade to bury its former master. N...



Video Qatar Airways Industry Type Carrier from Brussels to Melbourne on-line

Now the video from Qatar Airways Trade Type Provider from Brussels to Melbourne Australia is on-line. Quickly the whole article will probably be on-line on BTmagazine.nl together with photograph’s which already are on-lin...


Boeing Celebrates Delivery of First 787 Dreamliner to Qatar Airways

Qatar Airways’ first Boeing 787 is also the airline’s 32nd Boeing airplane and will join a fleet of 31 Boeing 777 passenger and cargo aircraft. Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Qatar Airways today celebrated the delivery of th...



Gulf Air Cuts Boeing, Revises Airbus Order

  Gulf Air, Bahrain’s struggling national carrier, has cut its order for Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner and also revised a deal with Airbus, as it restructures its fleet to cope with a tough market. Gulf Air said on M...


Virgin Atlantic Reveals 100,000 Tons of CO2 Savings Due As It Publishes Third Annual Sustainability Report

Ground-breaking new computer software will reduce Virgin Atlantic’s fuel emissions by 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide annually, thus helping the environment while saving the airline almost $32 million in fuel costs. This innova...