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Boeing Set to Buy Vought?
BNET Travel - 8 hours 16 minutes ago
The always-reliable FlightBlogger is reporting that Boeing has decided to buy the 787 operations of one of its suppliers, Vought. This would appear to again highlight the difficulty that Boeing has encountered with its much-touted global supply chain...
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Vegas for $20 a Night$
If no one believed my previous posts about Las Vegas being clobbered by the recession, they can now see it at one of Sin City’s hotels offering rooms for less than $20 a night. I can’t vouch for the look or ambiance of each place, but at least it’s cheap. According to the...
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Air France jet hit the ocean intact
Financial Times - 21 hours 35 minutes ago
An Air France jet that crashed en route from Brazil to Paris last month killing all 228 people on board did not break up in the air, French investigators said...
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SITA: Airline IT investment 'to reach new low' owing to recession
ATW Daily News - 21 hours 52 minutes ago
SITA said its "2009 Airline IT Trends Survey," released this week, revealed that carrier investment in information technology "is set to reach a new low this year as aircraft operators cope with unprecedented financial losses." According to the survey, IT and telecommunications spending as a percentage of airline revenue is...
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Melbourne room glut concerns hoteliers
Travel Weekly -
22 hours 11 minutes ago
Melbourne could be faced with oversupply of hotel rooms leading to a depression of rates, a panel of hoteliers heard yesterday...
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Launch: $39 fare signals Tiger's arrival$
news.com.au - 1 day ago
TIGER Airways lands first big blow in airfare war by launching low fares between Melbourne and Sydney...
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AF447-Preliminary report draws some early criticism
Crikey - 1 day ago
The preliminary report by the French air accident investigation authority the BEA into the Air France flight AF447 disaster in the mid Atlantic on 1 June is having credibility problems with some observers. The investigation’s leader Alain Bouillard told a news conference in Paris overnight that “Between the surface of...
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Frontier Makes Money in May, What's Next?
All this talk about Republic buying Frontier has masked something important. We haven't looked at how Frontier is doing lately. You know what? They're making money. Go figure. Republic may have picked itself up a nice little asset for a song. Frontier made $5.6 million in May net of special...
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Gulf Air CEO talks iPhone and connectivity in final speech
Flightglobal - 1 day ago
Gulf Air today announced that CEO Bjorn Naf is to step down and be replaced by current Royal Jordanian Airlines chief Samer Majali. But yesterday, while Naf was still head of the Middle Eastern carrier, he gave a speech at...
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EC Extends Austrian Probe
Aviation Week -
1 day ago
Lufthansa said it was surprised by the European Commission's decision to extend its probe of the Austrian takeover...
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