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Science and technologyHeathrow airport is returning to normality
London, United Kingdom - British Airways has scheduled for today to operate the 80% of its capability
The air company British Airways has issued a press release where express its intention to reach for today the 80% of its ordinary operative capability. Also this is a signal of how -even if slowly- the... more
AirlinesAmadeus in China: signed the deal between China Eastern Airlines and China Airlines
Beijing, China - The implementation has predicted for the end of August
Amadeus, the Global Travel Distribution (GTD) has closed a deal with China Eastern Airlines and China Airlines to improve the international sites of two Chinese Companies with the solutions e-commerce... more
AirlinesCode share deal between Qantas and Jet Airways
Camberra, Australia - The agreement will be operating since next September
The Australian Qantas Airways and the Indian Jet Airways have reached a code share deal that will be operating hence September 6. For both Companies, the agreement represent an important expansion of owns... more
MiscellaneousIt's flying to Rome the corpse of the Italian volunteer killed at Jerusalem
Rome, Italy - The landing is scheduled for this afternoon at Ciampino
There is the father of Angelo Frammartino in the plane that is taking the young Italian volunteers back home in his last flight. The Italian State airplane has taken-off this morning from the "Ben Gurion"... more
DefenseIsrael-Lebanon (4): D'Alema visits Beirut, "This war has been a tragedy"
Beirut, Lebanon - The Italian Foreign Minister has reached Beirut with a military airplane just in the first cease-fire day
"Seeing the war destructions in tv in not the same of beeing among the bombings wracks", these are the words of Italian Foreign Ministry Massimo D’Alema during his visit to beirut, where he came this m... more
AirlinesAlitalia: share in positive, gains the 0,88%
Rome, Italy - Booming also the other European Companies
Positive day in Piazza Affari for Alitalia that have marked an increase of the 0,88% at € 0,8685, after the falls of last days, with the other European Companies, after the scatterbrained terrorist attempt i... more
AirlinesRyanair proposes a buy back plan for its shares
Dublin, Ireland - It concerns the 5% of capital stock
According to what retailed by the British weekly newspaper "Sunday Times", the Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair will ask to its shareholders on the next Semptember to approve a buy back plan. The buy back... more
Sport aviationAerostar: in 2007 parting to hot air ballons
Washington, Usa - Turnover decreasing for the events of September 11
The American Company Aerostar International Inc., one of the major global producers of light means of the air, from January 31 2007, will not accept more orders for hot air ballons. The Company has explained... more
DefenseIsrael-Lebanon (3): the Beirut airport could open again within the next 72 hours
Beirut, Lebanon - In the mean time thousands of displaced persons are returning to their houses
Tv and radio stations in Lebanon say today that the international airport of Beirut could be open again by the next 72 hours. In these cease-fire hours thousands of Lebanese displaced persons are coming... more
Latest newsUsaf: training Joint Strike Fighter to 33° Fighter Wing
Washington, Usa - The new command will be entrusted to Air Educational and Training Command
The USAF, the United States Air Force, wants to entrust to 33° Fighter Wing the training of the pilots and of the ground crew destined to new Joint Strike Fighter F-35, currently called "Lightning II". Hence... more
DefenseIsraeli air raid on Gaza strip: a Palestinian has been killed
Tel Aviv, Israel - Few hours later the cease-fire with Lebanon
While it seems to go on the cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah (see also AVIONEWS), the battles in the Gaza strip don’t stop. Medical sources have retailed that this morning an Israeli air raid h... more
PeopleItali Airlines plane to Tenerife returns to Orio for technical problems
Bergamo, Italy - No problems for the 151 passengers
There have been only few delays hours, and a little fear for the 151 passengers of the charter flights of the Itali Airlines directed to Gran Canaria (Tenerife) the inconvenient happened this morning.... more
AirlinesRyanair enlarges its connection plan from Dublin
Dublin, Ireland - The Bologna airport will have 4 new weekly flights
The low-cost Irish carrier has announced the enlargement of its operative flights departing from and directed to Dublin, for what concerns the next winter season. To the present connections starting from... more
Science and technologyItalian airports: still delays on check-in
Rome, Italy - But the situation is slowly returning to the normality
While the passengers departing from the Italian airports must face the new restrictions for hand-luggages and the queues at check-in. The Adr (agency that manages the Rome airports) and Sea( that manages... more
Civil aviationUK: reduced the restrictions the hand luggage on the flight
London, United Kingdom - Turned down the level of alert from "critical" to "grave"
The British government has retailed that since today, to passengers will be allowed to take a hand luggage on flight, prohibition removed following the turned down of the alert’s level from "critical" t... more
AirlinesIt is born the Honda Aircraft Company
Tokyo, Japan - New light aircraft HondaJet at 6-7 seats
The Japanese Automobile Group Honda has announced the formal constitution of the Honda Aircraft Company to build the new light aircraft HondaJet at 6-7 seats. The Company will have the headquarter in... more
AirlinesVirgin Atlantic: questions with fee in flight
London, United Kingdom - First air application
From the end of the month, on all flights at long range of Virgin Atlantic Airways a new initiative will be launch. It returns in a strategy of increasing for the entries no by-ticket: "Any Questions Answered"... more
MiscellaneousA plane comes back to London after a mobile phone started to ring
London, United Kingdom - Fear on board, despite the controls someone managed to bring a cellular
This night a plane of the air company British Airways directed to New York was forced to come back to London, after a cellular, that seemed to belong to no-one of the 217 passengers, started to ring. The... more
AirlinesLufthansa mislaies more baggages than Alitalia
Brussels, Belgium - Lost on the average 15,2 baggages each 1000 passengers
According to datums makes known by Association of European Airlines (AEA), in the first quarter of 2006, have been lost on the average 15,2 baggages each 1000 passengers. The worse performance has been... more
AccidentsAlgerian airplane crashes near Piacenza
Piacenza, Italy - Before the impact it grazed several houses, fortunately without hitting them. The three passengers of C-130 are dead
There have been three deads, but there could have been more, for the crash of the civil cargo airplan from Algeria, plunged yesterday evening near Piacenza (Italy). The Hercules C-130, has in fact grazed... more
DefenseIsrael-Lebanon: the cease-fire starts today
Tel Aviv, Israel- From this morning the weapons don't fire
Since the 7:00am (Italian hour) the cease-fir has come into effect in the Israel-Lebanon conflict, issued forth from the UN resolution 1701 and accepted by the two Countries’s Governments. The conflict, i... more
HelicoptersAgustaWestland: Irish Air Corps receive the first AW-139
Cascina Costa di Samarate, Italy - Over 190 helicopters have been ordered and over 40 delivered
The first of four AgustaWestland AW-139 helicopters for the Irish Air Corps was handed over by Mr Bruno Spagnolini, AgustaWestland’s Managing Director to Brigadier General James, General Officer Commanding, I... more
AirlineseasyJet deleted today all the flights from and for London
London, United Kingdom - Flight times more long
After the failure terrorist attack of yesterday, easyJet, one of the low-cost British airlines, has decided to delete today, all the flights in outward bound from the London airports (Gatwick, Stansted... more
IndustryBoeing: positive result for the laser mirror
Seattle, USA - A contract for a value of USD 20 million
Boeing and USAF, inventors of the dell’Aerospace Relay Mirror System (ARMS), have announced to have achieved a successful with the experiment led in the Kirtland Air Force Base, in New Mexico, about t... more
PeopleEUFOR Rd Congo: the Italian C-130J moved from Gabon to Kinshasa
Kinshasa, Congo - It will directly operate in the Capital
The C-130J of the 46th Air brigade of Pisa, making part of the Italian share of the mission EUFOR Rd Congo, peace-keeping operation for the democratization and stabilization’s process of the Region in t... more
CuriositiesAn hour delay for a Cathay Pacific flight because of a designer bag
Hong Kong, China - A woman refused to put it underneath her seat
A Cathay Pacific Airways flight leaving from Hong Kong airport and headed to Tokyo had more than an hour delay because of a passenger who refused to put her bag underneath her seat. That because she did... more
Civil aviationA project of non-hijackable airplanes
Paris, France - European researchers want to complete it within 2008
European researchers want to complete an ambitious program to fight menaces on board airplanes within 2008, through the creation of non-hijackable aircraft, endowed with a computer system able to detect... more
DefenseIsrael-Lebanon: ready to leave the ship "San Marco" with the humanitarian aids
Rome, Italy - Increasingly incisive the Italy role in the Middle-East crisis
The Italian Premier, Romano Prodi, in a meeting with Lebanese Premier Fouad Siniora, has confirmed that Italy is ready to send the emergency aids to Civilian population. About this, the Civil Defense,... more
Civil aviationEU Commission: each State is responsable for air transport safety
Brussels, Belgium - AEA and ACI Europe stands for it
The Association of European Airlines (AEA) and the Airports Council International Europe (ACI Europe) said they are satisfied about European Commission’s report which declared that protection of European c... more
Latest newsLecce: a P-47D Thunderbolt wreck has been found out
Lecce, Italy - At 12-meter depth
An Italian newspaper wrote a group of divers found out a rotor aircraft wreck at 12-meter depth off the shore of Lecce, Southern Italy. According to first analysis, it should be a P-47D Thunderbolt, a... more
CuriositiesUS airports: Microsoft does not pass controls
Washington, USA - Electronic devices that appear "Strange" are forbidden
After recent facts about thwarted terroristic attempts in London, which also talked of explosive devices started by common electronic objects, the US airport security agency has compiled a list of permitted... more
IndustryBoeing and USAF will update Swedish C-130
San Antonio, USA - On the field of AMP program
Boeing and USAF signed an agreement on the update of the first Swedish Air Force C-130, on the field of the Avionics Modernization Program (AMP), with a value of about 20 million dollars. The agreement... more
Civil aviationEurocontrol: security alert in the United Kingdom
Brussels, Belgium - It was established in the early morning of yesterday
A security alert was established in the early morning of Thursday 10 August 2006 in the United Kingdom and, as a result, exceptional security measures were adopted to check airline passengers and their... more
IndustryEmbraer, Ogma and the Portoguese State signed industrial cooperation agreement
São José dos Campos, Brazil - Aim is to develop aeronautical activities in Portugal
Embraer, OGMA - Indústria Aeronáutica de Portugal, S.A., and the Portuguese State through the Portuguese Investment Agency (Agência Portuguesa para o Investimento - API) signed yesterday a protocol of... more
IndustryFinmeccanica: Goldman Sachs to 3,282% of the capital
Milan, Italy - It learns it from the periodic communications of Consob on the important participations
The merchant Bank Goldman Sachs Asset Management, branch of the Goldman sachs, according to retailed the periodic communications of Consob, the National Committee for Society and Stock Exchange agrees... more
Science and technologyBolzano airport: Southward runway will be extended
Bolzano, Italy - To enlarge flight supply
Luis Durnwalder, President of Bolzano Province, said to journalists that Bolzano airport will remain regional, but it will have an updated masterplan which will avoid little constant and periodical interventions.... more
AerospaceASI: Vetrella denies resignation
Rome, Italy - The news was reported by an Italian unions statement
ASI President, Sergio Vetrella, denies rumors about his presumed resignation as Italian Space Agency leader, according to a statement by Italian unions on July 26. The reason of resignation would have... more
MiscellaneousPrivacy: PC thefts again in USA
Miami, USA - Data of 133 thousand people were stolen
Umpteenth computer theft with personal data of thousands of people in the United States. This time it is the case of an officer of US Transport Department, whose laptop with 133 thousand residents in Florida... more
Science and technologyGB: cancellations and delays today and during week-end
London, United Kingdom - For flights to and from London
Discomforts for passengers headed and departing from London is going on today and the week-end, after the terroristic plan that was thwarted yesterday on transatlantic flights to USA and consequent extraordinary... more
IndustryBoeing: delivered the 501th Apache Longbow
Seattle, USA - Deliver of a contract of the second mid of last decade
Boeing has delivered to US Army the 501th combat helicopter AH-64D Apache Longbow, built on the strength of two five-year contracts of the second mid of last decade. The production will continue with... more
MiscellaneousAn Italian young man was killed in Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel - Possible the political motif
Yesterday evening, at 8 pm, an Italian young man, Angelo Frammartino, 25, lived in Monterotondo, Rome, has been killed in front of Herodes Gate, in the Old City, in the East zone near to Damascus Gate. The... more
Latest newsLuftwaffe installed new functions to Eurofighter simulator
Berlin, Germany - ASTA and FMS for the Cockpit Trainer
The German Air Force ended the update of its first Eurofighter Typhoon simulator at the 73rd "Steinhoff" Fighter Wing. The extension of capabilities concerns the installation of ASTA (Aircrew Synthetic... more
IndustryAssociated Aerospace Activities awarded of a over 22 USDm contract
Washington, Usa - For the F-16 fighter aircraft
Associated Aerospace Activities, Inc., San Leandro, Calif. is being awarded a $22,409,592 firm-fixed price contract, five year requirement contract (three year basic with two, one-year options. This contract... more
Science and technologyBAA rises 3.1% passenger traffic in July
London, United Kingdom - 15 million people passed through London's airports
BAA (British Airport Authority) has made known that 15 million passengers passed through London’s airports which it manages (Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted) in July. The number signals a 3.1% growth c... more
Civil aviationArgentina: false alarm to the Ezeiza Airport of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, Argentina - Suspicious abandoned package into a ladies toilette
Around 11 a.m. of this morning, is released the bomb alert also in the international Ezeiza Airport of Buenos Aires, provoked by a suspicious abandoned package in one of the toilette of the airport. The... more
SecurityThe hijack of a Qatar Airways plane has been thwarted
Amman, Jordan - According to "Al Jazeera" TV
Arab TV "Al Jazeera" reports that an attempt to hijack an airplane of Qatar Airways headed from Amman (Jordan) to Doha (Qatar). The same source says that the hijacker is a 21-year-old Eritrean, who tried... more
AirlinesIn-flight texting on Virgin Atlantic planes
London, United Kingdom - A question and answer service through a screen
On the field of efforts by airlines to gain from additional services and of promises to customers to pass the time in the air in more luxurious and less boring ways, there is who hopes to allow mobile... more
DefenseThe Russian Air Force will receive a deliver of MI-28N "Night Avoc"
Moscow, Russia - First flight realized in December 2005
The commander of Russian Air Force, the General Vladimir Mijailov, has communicated that within the end of the year, to three helicopters MI-28N "Night Avoc" already in possession, it will add a deliver... more
AirlinesGB (4): easyJet and Swiss International Airlines flights have been cancelled too
London, United Kingdom - The English low-cost airline does not stop at Heathrow but subdues flights to the other London's airports
In addition to cancellations already mentioned of flights to and from London, AVIONEWS informs that the British low-cost airline easyJet has announced it blocked all flights to and from London’s airports (... more
AirlinesNorthwest Airlines: judge's decision on flight attendants strike has been delayed
Washington, USA - Workers threatened agitations in August
The dispute between Northwest Airlines management and its employees is not coming to an end. Federal judge Allan Gropper delayed a decision on whether flight attendants have a right to strike as a means... more