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AirlinesSingapore Airlines began daily A-380 service to Melbourne
Milan, Italy - Its fleet is composed of ten models, other nine in order and six options
"The inaugural Singapore Airlines A-380 service bound for Melbourne, the capital city of the Australian state of Victoria, took off from Singapore Changi Airport last September 29 and touched down at Melbourne... more
Aerospace"Aerospace & Defence Meetings" (2): Aerospace seen as the protagonist in Turin
Turin, Italy - Over 340 participating companies
“Over 340 participating companies, including 100 buyers represented by 150 purchasing managers and 240 suppliers, 22 countries of origin, 230 booths set up at the 'Oval', over 6000 appointments set, w... more
AirlinesLufthansa Group posts operating profit of 226 million euros for the first nine months of the year
Milan, Italy - Forceful implementation of measures to safeguard earnings to continue
"Deutsche Lufthansa AG has posted an operating profit of 226 million euros for the first nine months of 2009. For the first time, this figure also includes the results of Austrian Airlines and bmi, who... more
AerospaceThe sector of Air Space in Italy and in Piedmont
Turin, Italy - The field at Italian and local level is rich of industries
“The aerospace sector comprises two distinct areas of research and application: the aeronautical field, in other words, everything which makes part of you or your flight and transport (being it human o... more
AirlinesContinental Airlines announces two partnerships: Asiana Airlines and ANA
New York, Usa - The US carrier became the 25th member of Star Alliance
Continental Airlines and Asiana Airlines have signed an Alliance Agreement allowing both carriers to strengthen cooperation following Continental's joining the Star Alliance on October 27, 2009. In... more
Civil aviationEurocontrol: Pan-European Network Service launched
Brussels, Belgium - The contract is worth up to 50 Million Euros over eight and a half years
EUROCONTROL today signed a contract with SITA to launch PENS, a pan-European communications network service that will allow all air navigation service providers to exchange voice and data communications... more
AirlinesSaudi Arabian Airlines receives first directly bought Airbus A-320
Blagnac, France - The first of 22 units in firm order
Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia), Saudi Arabia's national airline, has taken delivery of its first A-320 directly bought from Airbus at a delivery ceremony in Toulouse with His Excellency Engineer Khalid... more
Press releaseMeridie SpA: reached agreement on the union contact for the new organization of work Atitech SpA
Naples, Italy - It's a further step forward towards the successful conclusion of the joint offer to purchase 100% of the society
"Meridie SpA via its subsidiary company Manutenzioni Aereonautiche Srl – informs that it has reached agreement on the union contact for the new organisation of work ?titech Sp?, a wholly owned subsidiary o... more
IndustryMitsubishi Aircraft and Eurocopter Deutschland signed contract
Donauwörth, Germany - To design and manufacturing aircraft doors for its new transport regional airplane MRJ
Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation has signed in Nagoya, in Japan, a contract with Eurocopter Deutschland GmbH to design and manufacture aircraft doors (passenger, service and cargo doors) for its next-generation... more
Civil aviationMatteoli and Riggio tomorrow present the first part of a study about the future development of the Italian airport network
Rome, Italy - It will take place at 10:30am at the Parlamentino of the Higher Council of Public Works, the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport
Tomorrow, Thursday 29th October at 10:30 am, at the ‘Parlamentino of the Higher Council of Public Works, the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, Piazzale di Pia 1 in Rome, the Minister of Infrastructure a... more
Civil aviationWind Jet flights can now be booked on Amadeus
Milan, Italy - Great success for the Sicilian low-cost carrier
"Amadeus, society in the global distribution and supplier of technologies for the travel and tourism industry, increases it’s offer with low-cost contents, integrating the flights of the Sicilian carrier W... more
AirlinesTerminal Alitalia (3). Sabelli: results of the third quarter for us to look to the future with less concern
Rome, Italy - Intervening yesterday at the conference of Terminal 1 – Alitalia, the CEO, Rocco Sabelli
Rocco Sabelli, chief executive officer of the Italian airline, speaking yesterday at the inauguration of the new Terminal 1 Alitalia to Rome–Fiumicino stated: “The third quarter results which will be... more
AirlinesTerminal Alitalia (2): Letta: "The new Alitalia has been a successful operation"
Rome, Italy - The under-secretary to the Council Presidency, Gianni Letta, hopes that the "Temporay lay offs" are assumed again
The inauguration of the new Terminal 1-Alitalia to Fiumicino yesterday in Rome also spoke to the under-secretary of the Presidency of the Council, Gianni Letta. Among the things said by the sub-secretary,... more
HelicoptersKorea Coast Guard takes delivery of two AW-139 helicopters
Cascina Costa, Italy - They will be used for maritime patrol, search and rescue and emergency medical service purposes
AgustaWestland (AW) has announced that the Korea Coast Guard has taken delivery of two AW-139 medium twin helicopters during an official ceremony held at Vergiate plant (Italy). The AW-139s will be used... more
ConferencesVerona Airport hosts today’s ENAC's seminar
Verona, Italy - On the CDM (Collaborative Decision Making)
“Today, on Wednesday, October 28th, the airport ‘Valerio Catullo’, in Verona hosts at its press conference room a seminar sponsored by the operation: Directorate ENAC (Italian Civil Aviation Authority) of Ve... more
AirlinesTerminal Alitalia. Colaninno stated that: “We have reached very demanding and challenging goals”
Rome, Italy - For the chairman of Alitalia, Roberto Colaninno, also stated that: “The air company is a successful example"
The chairman of Alitalia Roberto Colaninno, speaking yesterday at the inauguration of the new Terminal 1-Alitalia, has expressed the desire to summarise all the temporary layoffs. For Colaninno, Alitalia... more
Report“Puncture” the landing and continue the flight: the ever more grotesque story of the Northwest pilots
Washington, Usa - They were not sleeping; they were not engaged in a heated debate: they were: ‘Programming shifts on their Pcs”
Increasingly taking on the contours of the grotesque events that last Wednesday, 21st October, saw the involvement of the two American pilots of the American air company ‘Northwest Airlines’ that without rea... more
AirlinesAlitalia’s Terminal 1 at Rome-Fiumicino presented yesterday
Rome, Italy - Along with the new brand RomaMilano-MilanoRoma
"The Chairman of Alitalia, Roberto Colaninno, and the CEO, Rocco Sabelli, yesterday presented Alitalia’s Terminal 1 at Rome Fiumicino airport for domestic flights and international destinations in EU c... more
HelicoptersNATO Allies sign declaration of intent for HIP code helicopter initiative
Bratislava, Slovakia - To fill up the deficiency of the answer to request of this kind of machines in different operating theatres of the Alliance
NATO Deputy Secretary General, Claudio Bisogniero, presided over a signing ceremony in the margins of the NATO Defence Ministers meeting in Bratislava. The ceremony marked a declaration of intent by nine... more
AirlinesCheck-in Blue Panorama/Blu-express.com at T3 in Fiumicino
Rome, Italy - The airline asks urgently a special security passage for national passengers
"Blue Panorama Airlines, according to the transfer of check-in area of flights by low-cost brand Blu-express.com to the new T3 in 'Leonardo da Vinci' airport in Fiumicino, specifying that it was a direct... more
AccidentsBAe-125/800 crashed in Belarus
Minsk, Belarus - On board three crew members and two passengers are all dead
All the deceased: the three crew members and two passengers who were aboard the British Aerospace B?e-125/800B operated by the Russian S-?ir. The aircraft which took off yesterday from Moscow–Vnukovo, c... more
OccurrencesJapan: Three were injured due to turbulence on an American direct flight to Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan - In a raging tropical storm
The Minister of transport in Japan announced that three passengers on an American Airlines plane, a B-777/2000 with 228 people aboard, took off yesterday from Dallas and flying towards Tokyo, were injured... more
AirlineseasyJet launches 25 new routes
Milan, Italy - From end of October and the beginning of February
"This week easyJet, low-cost airline in Europe, begins to fly with the Winter timetable and announces the launch of 25 new routes, in the next months, inside of its already rich network. The English airline... more
IndustryAlenia North America: contract worth 7 Million dollars by U.S. Air Force
Washington, Usa - For training of the U.S. Air Advisors for the Afghan G-222
"Alenia North America, a subsidiary of Alenia Aeronautica - a Finmeccanica company - has been awarded a contract, worth approximately 7 Million dollars, by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to perform G-222 aircrew... more
AirlinesContinental Airlines joins Star Alliance (2): the carrier is its 25th member
New York, Usa - Strategic Network Expansion in the Americas, Asia and Europe
"The CEOs of the Star Alliance member carriers today welcomed the alliance's 25th member: Continental Airlines. Continental's joining Star Alliance will further enhance the alliance's three main customer... more
SecurityFAA AD on International Aero Engines AG (IAE) V2500-A1, V2527E-A5, V2530-A5, and V2528-D5 Turbofan Engines (2009-22-06)
Washington, Usa - To prevent an uncontained failure of parts of disc assembly, resulting in an in-flight engine shutdown and probable damage to the airplane
Airworthiness Directive Federal Register Information [Federal Register: October 26, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 205)] [Page 54895-54896] Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal... more
AirlinesContinental Airlines towards final step to joining Star Alliance
New York, Usa - After months of waiting
Continental Airlines is poised to join Star Alliance today following months of preparations for the first-ever transition of a major airline from one global alliance to another. Within the last 48 hours,... more
Civil aviationSingle Sky Committee gives favourable opinion on draft EC Regulation
Brussels, Belgium - On Aeronautical Data and Information Quality.
On 14 October 2009, the European Commission’s Single Sky Committee gave its unanimous support to a new interoperability Implementing Rule on Aeronautical Data and information Quality (ADQ). The rule s... more
SecurityEmergency exercise at "Al Bateen Executive Airport" in Adu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi, EAU - For two hours the airport will be partially closed
Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) will conduct a full scale emergency response exercise at Al Bateen Executive Airport today, in accordance with Civil Aviation Regulations issued by the General Civil Aviation... more
AirlinesEtihad Airways: two Japan destinations to launch in first quarter 2010
Abu Dhabi, UAE - To Nagoya and Tokyo, the first ones in the Country
Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, will launch services to Nagoya and Tokyo in the first quarter of 2010 – the airline’s first destinations in Japan. The carrier will ope... more
AirlinesThe restructuring of Jat, passes, through the cutting of 550 jobs
Belgrade, Serbia - Decreases will also involve leaders – all by the end of the year
Srdjan Radovanovic, director general of the Serbian airline, Jat Airways, declared that there is an action-plan to implement a plan of corporate reorganisation, which includes cutting, by the end of the... more
AirlinesThe Ecuadorian Aerogal announces merger with the Colombian Avianca
Quito, Ecuador - Details of the merger will be available in the coming days
Set up the negotiations, the details of which were not disclosed about the merger of the commercial airline Ecuadorian Aerogel with Columbian Avianca. The “Efe” agency reports the statement of the Pre... more
AirlinesAegean Airlines inaugurates the new direct flight Malpensa-Salonika
Rome, Italy - Served three times per week
"Aegean Airlines continues to grew on the Italian market and adds Salonika to destinations already served from Malpensa and from Fiumicino. With the Winter timetable, from October 26, 2009, the departing... more
AirlinesSuspended the landing in Italy of the Seagle Air
Bratislava, Slovakia - An itinerary revealed in the last edition of the "TTG Reunion" in Rimini
From midnight of the 23rd of October, Seagle Air has suspended its charter flights from Bratislava, thus blocking all landings schedules at the various Italian airports, amongst which that of Lamezia Terme. As... more
AirlinesCzech Government to block CSA's privatisation
Prague, Czech Republic - The State will carry on to the "Agonizing" reorganization
Jan Fischer, the Czech Prime Minister, yesterday stated during a press conference that: "The Government has decided that it will no longer sell CSA (Czech Airlines) as requested by the Minister of Economy... more
AccidentsAfghanistan. 14 American soldiers perished due to Isaf helicopters crash
Rome, Italy - As stated in a press conference issued by the NATO Commandment in Afghanistan
The dead toll of the ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) helicopter crash amounts to 14 dead American soldiers. Three helicopters have crashed, one in the west of the Country and two have collided... more
Civil aviationSale ERJ-145 old Alitalia: the opening of envelopes offers will take place today
Rome, Italy - It will deal with a batch of 14 samples
Today at 12.00pm there will be the opening of the bids received for the sale of the sixth batch of 14 Embraer ERJ -145 aircraft which belonged to the old Alitalia as valuation made last June, to the amount... more
AirlinesIberia. Cabin crew strike causes the cancellation of 200 flights
Rome, Italy - The confussionary state will persists through out today
The Spanish airline Iberia has yesterday cancelled 200 flights due to a cabin crew strike, confusion will continue even throughout today, bringing the total amount of flights cancelled to that of 400 or... more
AirportsSea SpA reduces its participation as a share holder in Malpensa European Logistics
Milan, Italy - The Milan airports’ management company is continuing in putting into action the implementation of the Industrial business plan as formulated in 2009–2016
“SEA Sp? has, yesterday morning, signed a contract for the handing over of 75% of the company ‘Malpensa European Logistics’ to Argol Sp?, a company that deals with cargo and logistics sector. With this... more
Civil aviationEC requests BA, Iberia and Continental to assign its empty slots to its competitors
London, United Kingdom - To create a tripartite agreement in regards to the transatlantic routes
Yesterday it has been reported by the British daily newspaper the "Financial Times" that the European Commission (EC) considers that the agreement established among British Airways (BA), Iberia (once the... more
SecurityAustrian Eurofighter Typhoons on duty for NATO’s Defence Ministers meeting
Hallbergmoos, Germany - On last October 22 and 23 in Bratislava, Slovakia
The Austrian Air Force’s Eurofighter Typhoons were significantly involved in air policing missions during meetings of "NATO’s Defence Ministers" held in Bratislava, Slovakia, on Thursday 22 and Friday 23... more
Conferences"Aerospace and Defense Meetings" (2): the "Green Aircraft Conference"
Turin, Italy - With the participation by societies, as Rolls-Royce, Boeing, Avio, Alenia, Eurocopter
"The basic themes at the heart of the 'Green Aircraft' international conference are: reduction of the oil's dependence, use of sustained energies, utilization of alternative sources for thrust, aircraft... more
AirportsAir Arabia's flights take off from Casablanca to Bologna
Bologna, Italy - Four ones per week to Bologna, for a total of 14 weekly links with Italy
"Air Arabia (Maroc), the new low-cost airline for Morocco, has announced today the starting of flights that will link Bologna's airport to Casablanca, the carrier's hub in Morocco. The maiden flight was... more
Civil aviationEASA certifies BTV and ROW/ROP systems on the Airbus A-380 airplanes
Blagnac, France - Improving runway turnaround time and reducing runway excursion risk at landing
Following recent successful development testing, “Brake-To-Vacate” (BTV) and “Runway Overrun Warning and Prevention” (ROW/ROP) have both been approved and certified for the Airbus A-380 by the Europea... more
DefenseOto Melara signs contract worth around 20 million euro for 81 HITROLE Light
Rome, Italy - The turrets will equip the Lince vehicles employed in Afghanistan
"Oto Melara, a Finmeccanica company, signed a contract worth around 20 million euro with Italy’s Ministry of Defence - General Directorate of Terrestrial Armaments to supply 81 HITROLE Light turrets. The H... more
Civil aviationAir France and KLM to jointly adopt solution from Amadeus
Milan, Italy - To ensure a passengers service of last generation
"Amadeus, a global society in technology for the airline industry, today announces that Air France and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines have signed a ten year agreement for the implementation and operation of... more
AirlinesAlitalia: changes denomination of Terminals from Fiumicino's airport
Rome, Italy - Also the passengers of Alitalia's flights to France and Holland, served in code-share with Air France and KLM, are accepted at Terminal 1
" From yesterday, on Sunday October 25, the denomination of Terminals of Rome-Fiumicino's airport has changed. In particular: Terminal A becomes Terminal 1 (T1) Terminal AA becomes Terminal 2 (T2)... more
Fair and shows"Aerospace and Defense Meetings", the international aerospace and defense convention in Italy
Turin, Italy - It will take place at Oval Lingotto in Turin next October 28 and 29
"Held in Torino on 28 and 29 October, 'Aerospace and Defense Meetings' is the international business convention in Italy for the aerospace industry. The event is structured on B2B meetings - to build up... more
AirlinesThe new Winter timetable by Alitalia in force from yesterday
Rome, Italy - Until next March 27, 2010
"The new Winter season by Alitalia has begun yesterday, on October 25, until next March 27, 2010. The schedule predicts 2300 weekly frequencies on 129 routes and 72 destinations in Italy and in other... more
Fair and showsAir shows and exhibitions in the last week of October
Rome, Italy - From today, on Monday 26 to next Saturday 31
Monday 26 - "China Sport Aviation Forum". Laiwu City, Shandong Province, China. www.chinacivilaviation.com Wednesday 28 - "International Business Convention for the Aerospace Industries". Oval... more