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Press releaseEnac invites the German authority to suspend the request from Alitalia to increase the rates for the Germany-Tokyo routes
Rome, Italy - By its office in Brussels
"Enac, Italian Civil Aviation Agency, diffused to have ordered, by its office in Brussels, a meeting in EU following the request put forward by the German Civil Aviation Authority regarding Alitalia in... more
IndustryTurbomeca: a leader together with Rolls Royce in Europe in the helicopter powerplant sector
Paris, France - The aircraft produced by Eurocopter are in particular purchased by several countries equipped with the engines of the well known producer
Turbomeca analyses the situation regarding the current market situation, a condition tha the company competent for the aeronautics engines sector considers as particularly good in this period. Actually,... more
SecurityLufthansa: bomb-alert on a flight bound to Tel Aviv (3): in a hour it will can take off again
Larnaca, Cyprus - It would be of joke made by an Arab man, according to the "Jerusalem Post"
A Lufthansa spokesperson said the flight LH-686 with 331 passengers on board, left this morning at 10:10am from the Frankfurt airport with destination the "Ben Gurion" International Airport in Tel Aviv,... more
HelicoptersMil: the Mi-38 has been shown
Moscow, Russia - The new transport helicopter destined to both military and civil uses is produced by Mil, Kazan and Eurocopter
Mil, the Russian helicopter company among the worldwide leading firms which produce both civil and military choppers, has recently unveiled the first data related to the new transport chopper destined... more
Weather forecastsThe "Patrouille de France" has arrived today in China
Beijing, China - It will appear flying the next October 7, over the Beijing airport "Nanyuan"
It is a special event for the Asian country: the first show of the French aviation acrobatic patrol with its 50 years history, to celebrate the French culture year in China opening. Moreover, for the first... more
Civil aviationA depot with Mirage's components considered as radioactive in Switzerland
Berne, Switzerland - Ministry of Defence would have improperly delayed the spreading of information about it, according to Councillor Schmid
The appraisal activities regarding the honouring of the ruling regarding safety against materials considered as damaging both for military and civil people (see for details AVIONEWS), besides the problems... more
AirlinesHard time for non-US based travel agency which issue paper tickets for the Continental Airlines
Houston, USA - It aims to reduce paper tickets purchased through travel agencies in favour of electronic tickets
Mark Bergsrud, Vice-President of the marketing programs and distribution of the Continental Airlines claimed that "Customers overwhelmingly prefer the convenience of electronic tickets over paper tickets,... more
AirlinesAustrian Airlines: there is a new starting from next year
Rome, Italy - The Austrian carrier comes into line with the others airlines
It seems official the new according to which, starting from the month of January 2005, the Austrian Airlines would recognize to the Italian travel agency a payment, for the tickets issued which correspond... more
MiscellaneousOlympic Airlines again protagonist of a false bomb-alarm
Athens, Greece - The third one in a week
Again a bomb-alarm, again false and again for a Greek Olympic Airlines plane (see AVIONEWS), the flight 265 that this morning would be left again from Athens to London, after yesterday has had carry out... more
SecurityLufthansa: bomb- alert on a flight bound to Tel Aviv (2) : still a false notice
Larnaca, Cyprus - It seems it is a German security mistake
About 20 minutes after the Lufthansa plane landing at Larnaca Airport (see for details AVIONEWS), the Israeli Foreign Minister would have reported that the notice threating "large quantity of charge on... more
AirlinesAlitalia (2): "In case a deal with the unions on the social safety valves is not achieved everything would come to nothing"
Rome, Italy - It would have been maintained by Italian Welfare Minister Roberto Maroni
Italian Welfare Minister Roberto Maroni would have underlined the necessity for achieving an agreement with the trade unions' representatives on the social safety valves by today. In a different case,... more
Science and technologySea: also at Linate baggages supervised from 50 cameras
Milan, Italy - Sos Baggages Service: it will at disposition of the passengers the Numero Verde (800-964693)
"After Malpensa also at the Linate’s airport have been installed 50 cameras in the baggages shunting areas. The Labour Provincial Office of Milan, in fact, has allowed the authorization to the Sea SpA t... more
AirlinesSIA: new link Singapore-India
Singapore - Airline will serve three times a week the route towards the town of Amritsar
Singapore Airlines is expanding its flights towards India, by a route to Amritsar, in the North Punjab at gateway to Kashmir. The new destination would have be served three times a week: the first plane... more
SecurityLufthansa: bomb- alert on a flight bound to Tel Aviv
Larnaca, Cyprus - The plane with on board 300 passengers was diverted on Cyprus
A Lufthansa plane from Frankfurt and destined to Israele, to Tel Aviv, with over 300 passengers on board, would have been compelled by Israeli military planes to emergency landing on Cyprus: the Israeli... more
MiscellaneousA C-130 takes again in Italy the female child wounded in the Giakarta terrorist attack
Verona, Italy - The Italian Air Force aircraft landed yesterday evening to Verona airport of "Catullo"
Yesterday evening at 9:15pm (local hour) by an Italian Air Force C-130 it returned home Elisabeth Manuela Masu, the Italian 5 years female child, critically injured during the terrorist attack to the Australian... more
CuriositiesVirgin Atlantic can offer to its passengers a double-suite on clouds
London, England - The long and comfortable bed on board of two of the Virgin airline's aircraft
Virgin Atlantic has given to its passengers the possibility to travel closer together fitting four double suites on board of two of its B-747-400. "We are delighted that the Virgin Atlantic is the first... more
AirportsReviews: "Sintesi di Diritto Aereo"
Rome, Italy - The foundations of Aviation Law concentrated in a book dedicated both to study and to a first overture on such matter
"Sintesi di Diritto Aereo", (An Aviation Law Summary) Valeria Napoleone IBN Editore, 2004, 130 pages, EUR 9,50 Valeria Napoleone succeeded in concentrate the foundations of the Aviation Law in just... more
AirlinesUs Airways: Ceo gives a good example and matches his wage
Washington, USA - Previewed new cuts to management and non-union jobs
After the agreement with pilots about the work contract (see for details AVIONEWS), US Airways would eliminate hundreds of management and non-union jobs, and impose further wage cuts in order to save more... more
IndustryBoeing: a noble industry
New York, Usa - Its employees played an important rule to assist the areas hardest hit by the recent American hurricanes
It seems that The Employees Community Fund of The Boeing Company (ECF) is the world's largest employee-directed charitable organization of its kind. Tony Bailey, Vice-President of Boeing's Community and... more
AerospaceIss: there is a delay for the departure of the 10th International space mission
Moscow, Russia - Because of some technical inconvenient the space shuttle shot Soyuz-Tma5 has got a five days's delay
It seems official the new that Yuri Shargin, pilot of the space shuttle shot Soyuz-Tma5 would guide the October 14, the Russian spaceman Salizhan Sharipov and the American Leroy Chiao to embark on the... more
MiscellaneousThe B-747 Singapore Airlines left again to New York: no bomb aboard
London, United Kingdom - Alarm had been launched by a call to the German Police
It left again to New York the B-747 Singapore Airlines that yesterday was diverted at 11:00am local hour to Manchester Airport, after it took off from Frankfurt (see for details AVIONEWS): a call to German... more
AccidentsNew Mexico: two mortal incidents during week end
Santa Fe, USA - In both crashes the pilots died
Two mortal incidents the last week end in New Mexico (USA): a single-engine Cessna would be crashed at Luna Sunday, killing the only passenger on board, an Arizona man. While investigators were still trying... more
AccidentsFound wreckage of a plane in Mississippi: maybe on board there was a family on the run from Ivan
Jackson, Usa - Aircraft is registered in the name of a man which with his wife and sons would be disappeared since September 15
Yesterday in Mississippi have been found some bodies amid the wreckage of a small private plane near Magee, in the Simpson County. Authorities believe aircraft has crashed in a wooded area the last September... more
HelicoptersEurocopter EC-120 for the protection of US borders
Washington, USA - More than 55 helicopters to be manufactured in the United States by American Eurocopter with a USD 75m contract
US Department of Homeland Security selected the EC-120 Colibri as the new helicopter destined to the patrolling of the United States' borders. Eurocopter reveals the sign of a USD 75m contract, with an... more
IndustryBoeing projects new airplanes in Ireland
Dublin, Ireland - For more than 300 aircraft and its worth of USD 22bn for the next 20 years
Ireland will require more than 300 new airplanes worth USD 22bn over the next 20 years, according to The Boeing Company’s annual forecast for the commercial airplane market. Single-aisle airplanes l... more
Civil aviationSecurity and electoral campaign: the mysterious aspects of USA's anti-terrorism enlightened on the eve of the Presidential election
Washington, USA - Old and new matters on ther air transport security draw the US population's attention
Right during the electoral campaign in the United States, one among the most delicate themes is surely the one of security, most of all when the political rivals find a way for weakening US Government... more
IndustryFinmeccanica: investments have been performed by steady financial bases
Rome, Italy - It would have been pointed out by the group's representatives with reference to the purchases and alliances under development
Finmeccanica's President and CEO, Pierfrancesco Guarguaglini, recently commented about the matter regarding the group's development, by putting into evidence how a clear decision on Finmeccanica 2 is going... more
AccidentsCessna crashes in Columbia: dead six persons
Medellin, Columbia - It seems that pilot has had to change course due the bad weather
A twin-engined Cessna, registered HK-3105, would have crashed yesterday near Medellin, in the North-West Columbia, after it took off from the "Jose Maria Cordoba" Airport at Rionegro, destined to Murindò... more
IndustryRaytheon Space & Airborne Systems awarded of a near 6 USDm contract
Washington, Usa - For the F/A-18 aircraft
Raytheon Space & Airborne Systems, El Segundo, Calif., is being awarded a $5,901,012 firm-fixed-price delivery order against a previously awarded Basic Ordering Agreement (N00383-04-G-001H) for 18 AN/APG-73... more
IndustryThe Boeing Co. awarded of a near 6 USDm contract
Washington, Usa - For the E-4B aircraft
The Boeing Co., Wichita, Kan., is being awarded a $5,900,000 cost-plus fixed-fee contract modification to provide for Solaris 2.6 Beta 1 Correction for E-4B Aircraft 73-1677. At this time $1,974,815 of... more
IndustryMcDonnell Douglas Corp. awarded of a over 18 USDm contract
Washington, Usa - For the B-1B aircraft
McDonnell Douglas Corp., Long Beach, Calif.,is being awarded a $18,086,734 firm -fixed price contract to provide for Overhaul of nine different types of servocylinders used on the B-1B aircraft. No funds... more
AirlinesAlitalia: a meeting at Palazzo Chigi to be held on the social safety valves at 05:00 pm today
Rome, Italy - Italian Government, the airline and the unions prove firm to solve the problem definitively
Italian trade unions' sources would have revealed that the meeting with Italian Government and the Alitalia's board regarding the redundancies and the social safety valves is going to occur at Palazzo... more
DefenseAn ambitious plan to La Spezia
La Spezia, Italy - In the Ligurian city would take place a seminary on the Italian military force evolution in relation to its area
The object of the seminary's discussion seems to be the one to study a strong strategy in order to redraw the arsenal of La Spezia and to transform it into "an excellent technological and industrial pole... more
Civil defenseNorthrop Grumman and Raytheon awarded with the contract for the new radar destined to the US Army's UAVs
Washington, USA - The AACER system to ensure a significant increase in the monitoring and target tracking capabilities
DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency), the US authority which attends to the development of the most advanced military programmes in the United States, would have awarded Northrop Grumman and... more
SecurityToday the second launch of the SpaceShipOne (2): mission accomplished
Los Angeles, Usa - Paul Allen will cash USD 10m for the space tourism
Also accomplished the second attempt on the first private space team in the history: the SpaceShipOne has remarkable gone over the 100 km height barrier (see news AVIONEWS). The billionaire Paul Allen... more
AirlinesAs Ryanair company's spokesman asserted the airline has some difficulties because of the fuel rises
Dublin, Ireland - The latest surge in oil prices put Ryanair in a painful situation
Joe Gill, head of institutional equity research at Goodbody Stockbrokers in Dublin, personally claimed "It is a painful situation for Ryanair but it’s not a business buster", emphasizing that although s... more
Science and technologyZurich-Kloten: few delays despite the new rules
Zurich, Switzerland - The society that manages air station enrolled additional staff to avoid discomforts to travellers
The "Unique", Zurich-Kloten airport management society, reported that in this week end there was no delays, as it feared after the new security rules gone into effect on Saturday, October 2 (see news AVIONEWS):... more
IndustryWTO. The war on subsidies between Airbus and Boeing could be fought in this battlefield (3): EU proves calm even in case of a US appeal
Brussels, Belgium - It would have ben underlined by the new European Commissioner for Trade, Peter Mandelson
European Commission would not appear excessively worried about the threats put forward by Washington regarding the matter of subsidies destined to the aerospace industry. The hypothesis of an appeal to... more
IndustryBoeing: deliveries in the third quarter in 2004
Washington, USA - The 737 and the F/A-18 as the most successful products of the US group
The US aerospace and defence leading company Boeing has unveiled the data regarding the deliveries of both civil and military aircraft during the third quarter in 2004. As far as it is concerned with the... more
Science and technology"Riviera del corallo" Alghero Airport: September positive, the one million passenger record is closer
Alghero, Italy - Above all thanks to the Irish airline Ryanair
The Italian Alghero Airport "Riviera del Corallo", in September would have recorded a passenger increase equal to 100.000 unit, and the one million passenger in a year record is closer. Above all thanks... more
AirlinesAlitalia (2): talks on the social safety valves have been postponed till tomorrow
Rome, Italy - State could be forced to afford costs for some EUR 326m for the national carrier's redundancies
The meeting occurred today at the Italian Welfare Ministry among Italian Government, the trade unions and the Alitalia's board and ended early in the afternoon would not have produced no relevant results,... more
Latest newsA merger between MIG and Irkut?
Moscow, Russia - Russian Government would be seriously thinking about the opportunity for performing such solution
A merger between MIG and Irkut: this is the latest relevant thought by Russian Government with reference to the future of the country's aerospace industry. The two companies would be able to put together... more
Press releaseSab: tomorrow the new direct flight Bologna-Kiev starts
Bologna, Italy - Those with Milan-Malpensa stopover took off on Friday instead
An other international link for the Bologna Airport. Tomorrow in fact the new direct flight Bologna-Kiev will start, by the Italian Blue Panorama Airlines Boeing 737-400 with 167 seats. From the last Friday... more
IndustryFinmeccanica. An exponential growth by 2006 (2): "cooperating simultaneously with Boeing and Airbus is difficult but possible"
Rome, Italy - It would have been underlined by CEO Guarguaglini
Finmeccanica’s CEO, Pierfrancesco Guarguaglini, underlined recently the importance of the presence of the Italian group in the world. According to Finmeccanica’s CEO in fact, it is certainly true that it... more
Civil defenseUS Predator crash in Pakistan near a military base
Multan, Pakistan - No victims nor damage at Jacobajad
A Predator, an American spy UAV, would have crashed near the military base at Jacobajad, in the South Pakistan, returning from a mission in Afghanistan. It occurred yesterday at 9:45am: fortunately there... more
IndustryWTO. The war on subsidies between Airbus and Boeing could be fought in this battlefield (2): risks for both the protagonists
Brussels, Belgium - EU Commission would have confirmed that both European Union and the USA would risk a condemnation by the WTO
European Commission would have commented again today about ther matter related to the mutual accuses for subsidies that Airbus and Boeing exchanged during the last months. According to some rumors then... more
Latest newsJAS-39 Gripen: an increasing interest for the SAAB/BAe fighter in Eastern Europe
Budapest, Hungary - The assembly of the first aircraft for the Hungarian Air Force has started while Bulgaria signs a cooperation deal
The assembly of the first SAAB/British Aerospace JAS-39 Gripen multirole fourth generation light fighter destined to Hungarian Air Force has started. This stage before the tests should last for about four... more
AirlinesUS Airways: reached the agreement with pilots
Washington, USA - The wage reduction will bring USD 300m for the carrier
The US Airways would have reached the agreement with pilots for the new labor contract which includes wage cuts and benefit reduction (see news AVIONEWS): thanks to the ok from unions, airline can save... more
Civil aviationFAA AD on Airbus model A-320 series airplanes
Washington, Usa - To detect and correct fatigue cracking in certain areas of the rear spar of the wing, which may lead to reduced structural integrity of the wing and the main landing gear (MLG)
Airworthiness Directive Federal Register Information [Federal Register: October 1, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 190)] [Page 58828-58830] Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal... more
SecurityFalse bomb-alert: Singapore Airlines plane diverted
London, United Kingdom - It landed to the Manchester Airport
A Frankfurt-New York flight of the Singapore Airlines was diverted in England to Manchester Airport, after a bomb-alert. The plane would have carried out an emergency landing without problems at 11:00am,... more