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• Tanker DRFP may violate law: former procurement official

  
  Leeham News and Comment — Authority: 527
  Inside Defense, a subscription-only publication, today reported that a former defense procurement official believes the current KC-X tanker Draft RFP may violate the law. Here is what Inside Defense sent out in the public domain: Former Top Procurement Official Questions KC-X Compliance with New Acquisition Law ...
  23 hours ago

• Does Malta really need its own airline?

  
  Airline Business — Authority: 418
  The answer as always is "it depends". For instance, if the islands flag carrier Air Malta didnt exist would this tiny island off the coast of Italy in the Mediterranean find itself cut off (the photo shows Valletta the rather stunning capital of Malta)? Probably not: there are plenty of airlines willing to serve ...
  1 day ago

• Private Jet Anyone? Plane Talk about BAs A318 service

  
  Runway Girl — Authority: 514
    A number of journa-bloggers have tried British Airways new transatlantic Airbus A318 service between London City airport and New York JFK. But few have broken down the experience in a really in-depth fashion. Thats why I asked Plane Talking , the self-described "fuelling aviation conversation" web site, to ...
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• Boeing gains on Airbus in 2009 delivery race; Air France gets first A380

  
  anna.aero — Authority: 428
  Airbus and Boeing delivered 166 aircraft during September and October with Boeing handing over eight more aircraft than its European rival. But which carriers were receiving the most new aircraft and did US or Chinese airlines collect most new Boeings?
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• Hawaiian Airlines Celebrates 80 Years of Continuous Service for Hawaii

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 156
  Hawaiian Airlines has celebrated its 80th anniversary of continuous service for Hawaii. Hawaiian’s airport stations statewide were decorated to recognize the historic occasion, and arriving passengers at Honolulu International Airport were greeted with fresh flower lei and serenaded with live Hawaiian music. Mark ...
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• The airline industry

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 136
  More on aviation and airlines and Wednesday-night.com ; Financial Times December 2008 BA and Iberia agree merger British Airways and Iberia on Thursday night agreed the terms of a merger that would create Europe’s third-largest airline by revenue, one of the biggest deals in the global aviation industry. ...
  2 days ago

• Travel Options by United: A guide to fleet renewal

  
  FlightBlogger - Aviation News, Commentary and Analysis — Authority: 472
  In what may end up being the biggest aircraft order of 2009, United Airlines appears close to purchasing a massive number of widebody aircraft by the end of the year from Boeing and/or Airbus to replace the airlines aging 747, 777, 767 and 757 fleets. Ive put together a graphic that lays out all of Uniteds ...
  2 days ago

• Visiting Airbus in Toulouse

  
  Plastic Pilot — Authority: 103
  During a recent conference, the participants have been invited to visit the Airbus site in Toulouse. I took my camera with, in flight and at the conference, to learn when entering the site that taking pictures there is not allowed. Damn! The visit starts with a replica of the telemetry room used during the test ...
  2 days ago

• KC-X Tanker Competition: Thompson Hits Target

  
  http://www.fleetbuzzeditorial.com — Authority: 113
  While deliberations on the draft RFP for the KC-X tanker contract are still continuing, Arizona Senator and former Presidential candidate John McCain bizarrely questioned the US Air Force focus in this contest favours a smaller airplane. The single most critical component of the KC-X competition that may ultimately ...
  2 days ago

• Boeing to build 737 into 2020s: Bair

  
  Leeham News and Comment — Authority: 527
  The Renton (WA) Reporter has this story that Boeing will continue to build the 737 into the 2020 decade, further extending the timeline for a replacement aircraft, says Mike Bair, vice president of Business Strategy and Marketing for the company. This is highly significant on a number of levels. First, it tends to ...
  2 days ago

• Emirates may buy more planes

  
  Dubai Business | Kippreport — Authority: 515
  Emirates airlines may buy more aircraft from Airbus and Boeing, and is likely to take over its rivals’ orders in a bid to prepare for the global economic recovery, reports Reuters . “We are looking at it (buying more planes) … we are making the assessments, but clearly with the growth we have and the profit we ...
  3 days ago

• A380 Cabin Comparisons

  
  Flight Image of the Day — Authority: 426
  Two years on from its service debut, operators have told Flight International that the Airbus A380 has proved itself to be a crowd pleaser from apassenger point of view but suffers some frustrating technical problems. In our exclusive in-service report, launch customers Emirates,Qantas and Singapore Airlines provide ...
  3 days ago

• Etihad to operate double daily flights to Frankfurt

  
  PlaneTalking.com — Authority: 144
  Etihad Airways will increase its Abu Dhabi-Frankfurt services from 10 to 13 per week from the 12th December, increasing to a double daily from the 28th March 2010.
  3 days ago

• Batavia Air add Airbus 330

  
  Quantum Indonesia Translogistic — Authority: 112
  To meet its expansion needs to Jeddah, Batavia Air will add a wide-body aircraft type Airbus 330-200 with 302 seat capacity. Public Relation Manager of PT Metro Batavia (Batavia Air) Eddy Haryanto said the plane will be imported from Ireland. "The plane is the orderd one another, it was to rent from ...
  3 days ago

• Books of The Times: A Cool Pilot, but the Plane Was Cooler

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 911
  William Langewiesche
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• Buzzing the Toulouse tower

  
  The Wandering Aramean — Authority: 422
  As part of the Star Alliance Mega Do event last week just over 200 of us chartered a 757-300 to fly around Europe for the day.  One of the stops was a visit to the Airbus factory in Toulouse, France.  Yup, we showed up at Airbus in a Boeing .  It was all we could get our hands on that would have enough seats ...
  4 days ago

• Finally, An Airbus !

  
  simFlight.COM Flight Simulation News Source — Authority: 142
  Many people have been waiting for this a LOOOOONG time…. a detailed Airbus with actual working systems! Dreamfleet in the US was working on one, and so was AirSimmer in Russia. Seems like AirSimmer has won! Pity it is only for FS2004 so far, but  an FSX version has been promised. Alexander Demetiev from our ...
  4 days ago

• Surgery

  
  Worldman — Authority: 106
  I am enjoying the last few days of "liberty of movement". Liberty to drive my car. Liberty of banging on my computer keyboard. Liberty of doing anything that needs the use of two hands. On November 23rd, I will have surgery on my left hand. In particular the small finger. It is 70 percent bent. It is impossible ...
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• The A380 assembly line

  
  The Wandering Aramean — Authority: 422
  Damn, that plane is big.  Huge.  Just plain (plane??) enormous.  And going to the facility where they assemble such planes means several of them around in all their enormity.  As one of the main events of the Star Alliance   Mega Do event last week we visited the assembly facility in Toulouse and got to see the ...
  4 days ago

• PlaneBusiness Banter Now Posted

  
  PlaneBuzz — Authority: 118
  This weeks mega-earnings issue edition of PlaneBusiness Banter is now posted. This week we take an in-depth look at the recent earnings results posted by WestJet, SkyWest and Republic Holdings. We also have the PlaneBusiness Earnings Summary posted for Pinnacle. Some of the highlights from this batch of ...
  4 days ago

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