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...There are 215 Max 9 aircraft in service globally, according to data from aviation consultancy Cirium....
...Delta is also trying to reduce the time aircraft are out of service for maintenance....
...In the four decades prior, the US government was responsible for regulating the air service....
...more than 90 per cent since March, and a V-shape recovery is no longer in the cards....
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...“The problem with [air-taxis] is there would be zillions of these things flying all over the place. They are going to drop a hubcap and it’s going to guillotine somebody.”...
...At the Flying J truck stop, driver Alvin Perry, taking a break before continuing his journey to North Carolina, says he has been poached four times in two years....
...Ryanair fury as Lufthansa sizes up Air Berlin assets Air Berlin became the second large European airline to go bankrupt this summer after it was forced to file for insolvency on Tuesday when its biggest...
...The airlines have relied particularly heavily on providing high-quality business-class services used by the kind of passengers who may resent being parted from their laptops....
...of normal maintenance, and is not expected to lead to significant new financial charges....
...Air Canada undertook to carry out maintenance on its C Series fleet in Québec....
...Manufacturers have cracked that problem and Panasonic, which boasts that it supplies IFE to all 10 of the world’s top-rated airlines, can already stream live sport to the air....
...European regulators are investigating whether airlines are being forced to enter anti-competitive contracts to keep their 24,000 aircraft flying, as equipment makers seek a slice of the $60bn a year maintenance...
...Carriers from Air France-KLM, British Airways and Virgin Atlantic to low-cost airlines such as easyJet are planning airborne WiFi services as the technology matures and becomes more affordable....
...The Gulf airlines have taken the essentials of that model — newer aircraft, flying from airports with lower fees direct to smaller cities rather than through hubs, with better service — and applied it globally...
...In the 21st century, where a working flying car exists, it seems strange that we are still waiting for automobiles powered by clean energy to enter the motoring mainstream....
...So US carriers including Delta Air Lines stopped flying to Tel Aviv and a clutch of European airlines have done the same, including Lufthansa and Air France-KLM....
...Both reflect Delta’s renewal of its fleet, which is allowing it to dispose of leased aircraft and reducing the cost of keeping aircraft flying....
...The A350s are expected to begin flying passengers in mid-2014....
...United Airlines has Global Services and Delta has Diamond Medallion, while Lufthansa and Air France have schemes, too....
...NetJets also offers pilots and other services such as aircraft management and maintenance. The company was founded in 1986 and was bought by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway in 1998....
...Creditors include customers, a handful of airports and suppliers aircraft parts and maintenance services....
...Ryanair is also considering expanding services in Barcelona after the collapse this month of Spanair, a carrier based in Catalonia’s regional capital....
...Frontline border control staff are members of the Public and Commercial Services Union and the Immigration Service Union, and both are due to join the strike....
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