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AirlinesAlitalia (4): Air France-KLM does not reveals its intentions yet
Rome, Italy - Interviewed the vice-director Leo Van Wijk
About the interest of Air France-KLM on Alitalia and Iberia dossiers the vice-president, Leo Van Wijk, has been interviewed. "I'm not holding my breath -Van Wijk said in an official speech. They have... more
AirportsOrio al Serio airport, the cuts of SACBO board start
Bergamo , Italy - The number will decrease at least of 4 members
It is time of cuts also for the boards of the airport management companies. After the SEA, which manages Milan airports and has diminished its members of the board from 9 to 5, the SACBO (Bergamo-Orio... more
Civil aviationThe European Commission proposes flight cooperation agreement with Israel
Brussels, Belgium - The word up to the member States
The European Commission proposed yesterday for the EU to reach an agreement with the State of Israel in the civil air traffic sector, in particular for flight safety, security and management. The objective,... more
AirlinesAlitalia (3): first indiscretions about the AirOne plan
Rome, Italy - Probably 2,300 redundancies
The national press discloses the first indiscretions about the Alitalia plan of AirOne: at least 2,300 redundancies with the use of social safety valves guaranteed by the Government, gradual replacement... more
CuriositiesAeronautic terminology in dribs and drabs... <b>L as "LOAM"<b>
Rome, Italy - Laser Obstacle Avoidance System
The LOAM is a state-of-the-art navigational aid system for rotary wing platforms specifically designed by SELEX Communications (a Finmeccanica Group) to detect potentially dangerous obstacles placed in... more
SecurityFAA AD on Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc. model 204B, 205A, 205A-1, 205B, 210, 212, 412, 412EP, and 412CF helicopters (2007-19-53)
Washington, Usa - To prevent loss of a blade tip weight, loss of a blade, and subsequent loss of control of the helicopter
Airworthiness Directive Federal Register Information [Federal Register: November 20, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 223)] [Page 65224-65226] Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal... more
SecurityFAA AD on Cessna Aircraft Company, model 525B airplanes (2007-23-16)
Washington, Usa - To correct an incorrect wiring installation and to provide short-circuit protection for all wiring from the aircraft power distribution system
Airworthiness Directive Federal Register Information [Federal Register: November 20, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 223)] [Page 65219-65221] Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal... more
SecurityFAA AD on Diamond Aircraft Industries model DA-42 airplanes (2007-23-14)
Washington, Usa - To identify and correct an unsafe condition on an aviation product
Airworthiness Directive Federal Register Information [Federal Register: November 20, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 223)] [Page 65217-65219] Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal... more
Fair and showsYesterday began the "Days of the Swiss Army"
Lugano, Switzerland - Saturday and Sunday the evolutions of the "Patrouille Suisse"
The "Days of the Swiss Army 2007" aim at showing to the local population the carrying out of the three constitutional tasks of the army, namely defence and territorial security, the safeguarding of the... more
AirportsGesap SpA: started the Ryanair web check-in in the "Falcone e Borsellino" airport
Palermo , Italy - After Alitalia, Air One and easyJet
"News in the check-in system for the passengers departing from Palermo airport with Ryanair flights. After Alitalia, Air One and easyJet also Ryanair offers to its passengers the web check-in, contacting... more
AirlinesAlitalia: October 2007 traffic statistics
Rome, Italy - For the sector of passengers and cargo
"Alitalia October 2007 traffic data compared to the same period in 2006 showed an increase in both passenger and cargo businesses. Passenger business showed an increase in terms of traffic (+1.0%) with... more
AirlinesAlitalia (2): Board of Directors meeting of yesterday
Rome, Italy - The next meeting will take place within the first half of December
"The Board of Directors of Alitalia - Linee Aeree Italiane SpA - chaired by Maurizio Prato, met yesterday. During the meeting, the Board acknowledged the progress made on the Company’s project aimed a... more
AirlineseasyJet: preliminary results for the 12 months to September 30, 2007
Milan, Italy - The delivery of the hundredth A-319 airplane last April
"Record pre-tax profit of £201.9m, including a £10.6m one-off benefit of reinstating easyJet’s investment in The Airline Group. Underlying profit before tax increased 48% to £191.3m and underlying earn... more
ReportBangladesh emergency: biscuits rain from the sky
Dhaka, Bangladesh - Launched from airplanes and helicopters in the most hit and secluded areas
Airplanes and helicopters of the national military aviation and WFP - World Food Programme, are launching some packages containing food (in particular highly invigorating biscuits) in the most hit and... more
AirlinesStill trouble for Alpi Eagles airline
Cagliari, Italy - Yesterday the Cagliari prefect had to intervene to make the flight leave to Venice
No peace for the Italian carrier Alpi Eagles. After the petition in bankruptcy, filed by the airport management companies SAVE and GESAC at the Court of Padova (see AVIONEWS), yesterday in Cagliari the... more
SecurityAgainst terrorism also the United Kingdom will file arriving and departing passengers
London, United Kingdom - Tough line, as it happens from today in Japan for foreigners
Great restrictions, after those implemented from today in Japan (see AVIONEWS) are coming also for the United Kingdom, where might be approved new regulations according to which, starting from mid-2009... more
AerospaceItalian Transports Ministry and ASI together for the future of the satellite navigation
Rome, Italy - ENAV to free its own excellence centres
"With the agreement signed by the Italian Minister, Alessandro Bianchi and by ASI (Italian Space Agency) President, Giovanni Fabrizio Bignami, the two Authorities start to a cooperation that will bring... more
AirlinesQatar Airways strengthens in Europe and celebrates in the USA
Rome, Italy - The flights and destinations increase
"Qatar Airways will increase, in the next weeks, its presence on the European routes with the opening of a new airport in Stockholm, foreseen for November 27 and the use of new Airbus A-330 airplanes towards... more
Military aviationArgentine Air Force will buy 4 Saab 340B aircraft
Buenos Aires , Argentine - The total costs is about 34 USDm
The Argentine Air Force taken its final decision to buy four Saab 340B aircraft during 2008 and 2009 which will be sold by Saab Aircraft Leasing in cooperation with Saab Aerotech, in a four year process... more
AerospaceThe Galileo satellite programme risks the stop again
Rome, Italy - Soon the meeting between Prodi and the German chancellor Angela Merkel
The Galileo satellite project has been brought forward by the Germans, said Pier Francesco Guarguaglini, CEO of Finmeccanica, talking about the next meeting between Italian Premier Romano Prodi and the... more
AirlinesEmirates, 600 million dollars for a classy product
Abu Dhabi, UAE - The "ICE" entertainment system will be available in all classes
After an investment equal to 35 billion dollars to enrich still further their fleet with 93 new airplanes (plus other 50 optioned), Emirates Airlines is investing other 600 million dollars for in-flight... more
Press releaseAmnesty International about Italian weapons in the conflicts: RID asks the government to suspend supplies to Pakistan
Rome, Italy - Authorized sales for 23 million Euro relative to air, naval and ground componentry
"'Suspend sales of weapons to Pakistan. It is the request made to the Italian government by the RID (Rete Italiana Disarmo), the Italian network of associations for the armament control, in reply to the... more
HelicoptersAgustaWestland, 400 million Euro contract in Algeria
Algeri , Algeria - The agreement concerns 10 helicopters, 6 AW-101 Merlin and 4 Lynx Mk 300
Another important contract for AgustaWestland, the helicopter company of Finmeccanica. This time the business has been signed in Algeria. Usually the North-African Country buys military supplies from Russia... more
Press releaseAlenia Aeronautica: 1000 flight hours for the C-27Js of the Italian Air Force
Rome, Italy - All C-27Js ordered by ItAF will be delivered by mid-2008
The fleet of the C-27Js currently in service with the Italian Air Force has reached 1000 flight hours. The first of the four aircraft in service, based in Pisa, 46th Air Wing Headquarters, had entered... more
SecurityJapan. New anti-terrorism measures: booked all foreign passengers
Tokyo, Japan - According to Human Rights Association the new law violates the civil liberties
Starting from today, all foreign passengers who enter in Japan will be booked. This is a disposal provided for new anti-terrosism policy. The new law includes greater controls in the ports and airports... more
IndustryThyssenKrupp acquires Apollo Metals Group
Duesseldorf , Germany - It will be part of ThyssenKrupp Aerospace
Well-known German industrial group ThyssenKrupp announced the acquisition of the British society Apollo Metals Group, which supplies the aeronautic and air-space industry with metal products and linked... more
CuriositiesAirAsia, renewed contract with Manchester United
Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia - The low-cost airline signed the partnership also for 2008
Manchester United renewed its partnership with the Asian low-cost carrier AirAsia and Malaysia Tourism Board for 2008. On the airline plane reserved for the legendary "Red Devils" have drawn the images... more
Civil aviationIATA: airline passengers call for more self-service
Geneva, Switzerland - The results of its annual Corporate Air Travel Survey
"The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released its annual Corporate Air Travel Survey of over 10,000 active travellers, which shows that not only are passengers accepting high-tech travel... more
AirlinesAir Berlin: rising profits in the third quarter
Berlin, Germany - After LTU's acquisition and the opening of new routes
Air Berlin, one of the major low-cost carriers of the Old Continent, which this year has acquired charter-carrier LTU and aims at purchasing operator Condor from Thomas Cook as well, declared for the third... more
AirlinesAer Lingus appeals to the European Court against Ryanair
Dublin, Ireland - In hopes of forcing Ryanair to sell its shares in Aer Lingus
Aer Lingus Group PLC filed a lawsuit Monday in the European Union's second-highest court in hopes of forcing its main rival, budget airline Ryanair, to sell its shares in Aer Lingus. The Irish national... more
ReportStrong winds raise fears of new wildfires in California
Los Angeles , United States - Four US-Army, fire-fighting C-130 airplanes sent over to the West Coast
While the United States prepares to celebrate Thanksgiving Day, the resurgence in Southern California of strong and dry winds, the same that fed the massive wildfires in the last weeks, have prompted the... more
AirportsAirport charges raise for Heathrow and Gatwick
London, UK - The announcement by the Civil Aviation Authority
Britain's Civil Aviation Authority has given its green light to increases of airport fees for the 2008/2009 period for carriers flying on London's airports of Heathrow and Gatwick. They are boosts by 15,6%... more
Civil aviation2006 air traffic, high growth for the Asian continent
Rome, Italy - Stagnation in North America, light increase of 0.7%
In 2006 Asia obtained an extraordinary result in the air transport, with a growth of 9.7%. India (+32%) and China (+15%) drawn the increase. The international arrivals, which are connected to the tourism,... more
CuriositiesAerospace terminology in dribs and drabs... <b>G as "Galileo"<b>
Rome, Italy - The Europe's major programme for satellite navigation
Galileo is the Europe's major programme for satellite navigation, providing a highly accurate, guaranteed global positioning service under civilian control with multi-mode coverage. The first experimental... more
Military aviationWales, World War II Plane extracted from the sand
Cardiff, Wales - It is a Lockheed P-38 Lightning twin-engine fighter
Sensational find in Northern Wales. A Lockheed P-38 Lightning twin-engine fighter plane resurfaced after about 65 years. It is an aircraft crashed during a WW2 mission. It remained buried under the sand... more
AirportsItalian entrepreneurs defend Malpensa's role
Milan, Italy - "A resource for the Italian economy"
As the talks on Alitalia's status carry on (see AVIONEWS), the Italian entrepreneurs' association, Confindustria, takes position in regard to the airport of Malpensa, whose destiny is uncertain as well... more
AirlinesAlitalia about the privatization: Aeroflot not to take part in the project
Rome, Italy - The decision by the management communicated to the Italian airline
"Alitalia announces that a communication has just been received from Aeroflot stating that the management of the company has decided not to take part in the project regarding the privatization of A... more
HelicoptersFinmeccanica: an A-119 Koala helicopter for the Ugandan Police
Kampala, Uganda - A deal worth 5 million dollars
The Ugandan Police has signed with Finmeccanica an agreement for a value of 5 million dollars for the purchase of an AgustaWestland A-119 Koala helicopter. With this contract, that follows those of SELEX... more
AirlinesMeridiana, the low-cost flight Sardinia-New York is ready
Olbia , Italy - The carrier's first flight from Rome to the "Big Apple" took off on Friday
After the first flight, operated with an Airbus A-330 plane of 282 seats in code-share with Eurofly, between Rome and New York, the Italian airline Meridiana is creating a link from Sardinia to the United... more
HelicoptersThe White House demand over 800 changes to the "Marine One" presidential helicopter
Washington, USA - For an "Oval Office in the sky"
It seems the Americans have changed their mind. The "Marine One" presidential helicopter of the Lockheed Martin-AgustaWestland consortium, that in 2005 won the tender for the production of 23 specimens... more
AirlineseasyJet: presentation of the annual results 2007
Milan, Italy - To be held tomorrow morning
easyJet PLC, European low-cost airline, informs that tomorrow, Tuesday November 20th, 2007, h 11:00, at the Sheraton Diana Majestic Hotel - room Giardino Viale Piave 42, Milan - will take place the presentation... more
PeopleLars Lindgren new Executive Chairman of Spanair
Stockholm, Sweden - Lars Sandahl Sørensen new CEO of SAS International
"SAS Internationals' CEO Lars Lindgren has been appointed Executive Chairman of Spanair, a member of the SAS Group. Lars Lindgren has strong background of international airline operations and has... more
AirportsSEA: shareholders meeting to elect the new councillors
Milan, Italy - Giuseppe Bonomi confirmed president and CEO
"Today has been held the meeting of SEA SpA (Milan airports management company) shareholders. The meeting has decided in extraordinary session, according to the law 296/2006, for the modification of... more
AirportsGenoa, international tender for relaunching the air station
Genoa, Italy - Giovanni Novi, president of the port Authority, hopes for a joint management of "Cristoforo Colombo"
This morning, the president of the port Authority, Giovanni Novi, has communicated the opening of an international public tender aiming to decide who will support the current shareholders of Aeroporto... more
Civil aviationAutotutela denounces the Ryanair spokesman
Turin, Italy - Due to slanders against the travel agents
"It doesn't matter what people are saying as long as they talk about you". This should seem to be the current Ryanair slogan that adds to the host of prosecutions a criminal one by Autotutela, an Italian... more
AirportsUK: Heathrow and Gatwick the worst records for delayed departing flights
London, United Kingdom - Data provided for the Association of European Airlines
London's Gatwick and Heathrow airports had the worst records for delayed departing flights of all Europe's leading airports in the three months through September, the "Financial Times" reported. Gatwick... more
AirlinesPossible merger between Delta Air Lines and UAL?
Atlanta, USA - Gordon Bethune has proposed the idea
Gordon Bethune, the advisor of to Pardus Capital Management, said he has told shareholders of Delta Air Lines and UAL, the parent of United Airlines, that there would be no losers in a combination of the... more
AirportsFrosinone, the pro-airport committee asks for two new airports
Frosinone , Italy - One must be built in the South, the other in the North of Rome
While Alessandro Bianchi, the Italian Minister of Transport, announces that the work of the technical commission on the third airport of Lazio is going to end, Stefano Venditti, the president of Frosinone... more
AirlinesBA could have to pay millions compensation for cancelled flights
London, UK - Legal case started for violation of EU-rules
British Airways risks to be involved in a series of law-suits that could cost the air-company millions. Dutch firm EUclaim aims namely at sueing the British carrier for having tried to hide a confidential... more
AirportsThe European Union to elaborate a decongestion plan for the regional airports
Brussels, Belgium - The forecasts of ECAC and EUROCONTROL
A forecast of ECAC - European Civil Aviation Conference and EUROCONTROL has estimated that within 2025 there will be over 9 billion passengers worldwide, and Asia will be the main market. According... more