Warnings after near-disaster of Lanzarote ignored?
MADRID - Nearly seven weeks after the crash of a Spanair machine at the Madrid airport by 154 deaths are new allegations against the Spanish aviation authorities have become loud. A U.S. expert had the Spanish authorities have indicated in January against the danger of such a disaster warned. “But the leaders in Spain have nothing,” said American James W. Hudspeth of the Madrid newspaper El Pais “(Sunday edition). Read more
Airlines put 2008 more than 1,000 aircraft
LONDON - The international airline industry this year will be shut down 1,029 planes. This returns the “Air Transport World”, referring to a study of aviation consultancy Ascend, the Ascend CEO Eddy Pieniazek presented yesterday in London. Modernization programs, but also the realignment of the airline market are the fundamentals of the observed fleet policy. Read more
Unions agree to rescue plan
ROME - For the insolvent Italian airline Alitalia traces a rescue at the last minute: After new bargaining on Thursday the four largest trade unions in the country the Map of the investor group CAI yet approved. Above all, the largest employee representation CGIL, which last had resisted, were now following. The rescue plan provides for, among other things, the elimination of at least 3000 a total of 20 000 posts. Read more
Charter airline Futura stands before
MADRID - The Spanish charter company Futura stands before Off. The Madrid Aviation Authority withdrew the company on Monday until further notice the pilot’s license. The transport ministry has justified the decision-making authority so that the insolvent company no donors could rise. Futura had to have several redevelopment plans, but all had failed. Read more
Singapore Airlines receives Six Airbus A380s
SINGAPORE - Singapore Airlines has its sixth Airbus A380 received. This was announced the airline on Thursday. The plane was after the handover in Toulouse have been transferred to Singapore. Singapore Airlines is the sixth of its A380 fleet, as has been another day of the series aircraft on the route Singapore - London use. The connection among the flight numbers SQ318/SQ321 starts on the 20th September. Read more
Olympic Airlines is facing restructuring
ATHENS - The lack of hard Greek airline Olympic Airlines, according to Greek media reports in early 2009 to be closed. Thousands of jobs are before the off. After the closure, the airline as part of a privatization in Pantheon Airways temporarily renamed, and then again under the traditional name its Olympic operational.
The EU Commission will be voting for this plan to give the green light Wednesday, reported the Greek State Radio (NET) on Tuesday. The new airline will be significantly smaller. The staff drastically reduced from 1000 to 8000, it said. Read more
Airbus confirms schedule for A350 XWB
JOHANNESBURG - The European aircraft manufacturer Airbus has the timetable for its planned long-haul A350 XWB plane. The more than 60 percent from new, ultra-lightweight materials existing twin-jet 2012 will start on its first flight, said the deputy competent for Africa Airbus sales chief, Hadi Akoum, on Monday. A year later begin extradition.
So far 447 machines were ordered, Akoum said in Johannesburg. The Airbus A350 is mainly against Boeing’s 787 “Dream Liner”, whose first delivery was postponed to 2009. The A350 has a diameter of 5.9 metres from the widest fuselage in its class. The cost of the A350 development programme were at the start to around ten billion euros. Read more
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