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Science and technologyAirport "Valerio Catullo": a strike provokes the cancellation of 55 flights, 80 percent of adherents
Verona, Italy - The employees protested against the lack of personnel and work conditions
The employees of the airport "Valerio Catullo", in Verona (Italy), planned a strike yesterday which provoked the cancellation of 55 flights than the 101 scheduled for the day. According to what declared... more
AccidentsUS F-16 dropped into river: occupants were safe
Washington, USA - A malfunction would have caused the incident
A F-16 fighter jet crashed last afternoon into Ashley River (near Charleston) during a training flight, but two airmen have been ejected before to fall to the ground. Airplane was based at Shaw Air Force... more
AirlinesQatar plane forced to landing due to bomb-alert
Beirut, Lebanon - But authorities of Beirut Airport unveiled it was a joke
Yesterday a bomb-alarm has forced a Qatar Airlines jet to carry out an emergency landing at Beirut International Airport: the Qatar’s carrier Airbus A-320 was bound for Doha and had just taken off from t... more
DefenseMartino signed with Greece for Amphibious Battle Group
Athens, Greece - In order to fit the two military forces with an adequate maritime strategic transport ability
Italian Minister of Defence, Antonio Martino, yesterday has officially visited Athens in order to meet his counterpart Spilios Spiliotopoulos. With Martino, there were also Italian military attaché in... more
DefenseIran: "Ready to face any threat but only for defensive purposes"
Teheran, Iran - President Khatami's speech during the Iranian armed forces anniversary
Iranian President, Mohammed Khatami, seized recently a chance to express his own view about the modern defensive exigencies of the Iranian Islamic Republic, and he did it just on the occasion of the armed... more
AirlinesContinental Airlines: new connection between Houston and Cali
Houston, Usa - It will utilize a Boeing 737/700
Continental Airlines yesterday announced it will begin new daily nonstop service between Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport and Cali, Colombia, on July 15, pending government approval. Continental w... more
AirlinesAlitalia (2): flight assistants going on strike from 12:00 to 04:00 pm
Rome, Italy - Also the air transport sector workers in Europe are protesting asking for more warranties, recognitions and safety
There are some 168 flights cancelled by Alitalia today and 13,000 passengers will be unable to be provided with the carrier’s services as an effect of the four hours (12:00am-04:00pm) strike called by I... more
AirlinesAlitalia: EU's green light on the business plan likely to be provided on May 27
Brussels, Belgium - While waiting for the delivery of banks' guarantee letters and the accomplishment of the appraisal on the carrier tariff strategy
The approval for the Alitalia’s business plan by European Commission would appear more and more a probable one. EU Government would be in fact about to express its own final opinion on the carrier’s dos... more
IndustryEmbraer: sale of three EMB-170/190 family jets to Tame
São José dos Campos, Brazil - The deal confirms Letter of Intent (LOI) signed in November 2004
Embraer announced yesterday it firmed the sale of three EMBRAER 170/190 family aircraft to TAME Línea Aérea del Ecuador, the staterun Ecuadorian airline. The customer will acquire two 76-seat EMBRAER 1... more
Latest newsJoint operational flexibility trials for the Gripen
Stockholm, Sweden - Some aerial refuelling tests involving Swedish and South African air forces have been successfully performed
The SAAB/BAe JAS-39 Gripen, despite representing a sufficiently proven weapon system today, is being still involved by a series of important operational evaluations, basically intended to show its adaptation... more
SecurityItalian Premier chose to resign and his allies aim to a new Berlusconi-led Government
Rome, Italy - In the meantime, Italian Chamber of Deputies President Casini announced that Parliament works scheduled on tomorrow will not be held due to air transport strikes
Italian Chamber of Deputies President, Pier Ferdinando Casini, unveiled today that works scheduled on tomorrow in Italian Parliament will not be held due to air transport sector strikes. The news comes... more
AccidentsTwin Otter crashed in Indonesia (2): recovering of bodies started
Jakarta, Indonesia - Many of them have not yet been identified
Rescuers teams have started today to evacuate body of victims of the incident involving the DeHavilland Twin Otter aircraft belonging to GT Air commercial airline: so far corpses recovered from the plane... more
Science and technologyPassenger traffic up at Dubai International Airport
Dubai, United Arab Emirates - The increase, in the first three months of the current year, was related to 12,7 per cent
Dubai International Airport assisted to a passenger traffic increased to 6.0 million people from 5.3 million a year earlier, that means 12.7 percent more. Even cargo traffic increased 18.3 per cent in... more
Civil aviationRussia ready to dismantle Western nuclear submarines
Moscow, Russia - The Russian experts' offer addressed to the United States, Great Britain and France
Russia was so far supposed to be the only state needing international support for starting a serious dismantling process for its own nuclear power energy. Nevertheless, Russian military and industrial... more
MiscellaneousBrazil: II world war plane has been found
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Aboard there could be the remains of crew's members
Some Brazilian archeologists would have found along a river in the North of the country, the wreckage of a US plane of the second world war: founding occurred in the town of Cutias do Araguari, North to... more
MiscellaneousEnav flight assistants strike has been called off
Rome, Italy - Italian Government will not ratify the Central European air traffic services agreement
The 8-hour strike (from 10:00am to 6:00pm) of Enav (Italian Authority for flight assistance) scheduled for Friday, April 22 from Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl, Uilt, Ugl, Atm and Cisal unions, has been called off.... more
Science and technologyTwo Pakistan's international airports received terroristic threat
Islamabad, Pakistan - After Islamabad joined Usa in its war against terrorism a spate of terror assaults occured in major Pakistan cities
Two Pakistan’s international airports alerted a more imposing security plan after the country received terror threats in particular referred to aviation. The two interested air stations are the one of K... more
Latest newsChile: the first F-16 for Air Force is ready
Santiago, Chile - Ten multirole airplanes have been ordered in the F-16C and the F-16D versions and they will be all in service by 2006
Chilean Air Force will take delivery of its first Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon multirole light fighter soon, as recently completed at the well known US maker’s Fort Worth facility (Texas). The S... more
AirlinesQantas announced additional flights to Queensland
Sydney, Australia - Tourists can fly on larger aircraft
Qantas Airlines will increase its services towards Queensland and add 6600 available seats and 19 return flights each week as well. Starting from next July, return flights will be operated from Brisbane... more
AirlinesSingapore Airlines March load factor to fall
Singapore, Republic of Singapore - The carrier filled 67,5 per cent of available space on its flights last month
National carrier Singapore Airlines announced that its load factor fell to 67,5 percent last month, from 70,9 percent in the same period a year earlier. The performance of the carrier in March 2005 was... more
Civil aviationFAA AD on BAE Systems (Operations) Limited (Jetstream) model 4101 airplanes
Washington, Usa - To prevent incorrect connection of the aileron trim cables, which could result in failure of the aileron trim system and consequent reduced controllability of the airplane
Airworthiness Directive Federal Register Information [Federal Register: April 18, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 73)] [Page 20045-20046] Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal... more
IndustryConsolidation and integration: passwords for the further growth of Finmeccanica
Rome, Italy - It is being gone on focusing non the US market thanks most of all to the US-101 and the C-27J
Italian aerospace and defence group Finmeccanica aims to its own structure consolidation in an attempt to encourage the deepest integration among its units as a necessary consequence of the recent acquisitions... more
HelicoptersKamov: partnership with Rolls Royce to seize the European-US market
Moscow, Russia - The possible provision of engines for the KA-226 helicopters with a specific export version
Kamov, the well known Russian helicopter maker, intends to "land" in Europe and in the United States with its own products. A hard undertaking when considering the fierce competition and the problems related... more
PeopleFraport-Lufthansa's deal expected to be signed in May
Berlin, Germany - The carrier is trying to cut the operation costs of 30 per cent
German airport operator, Fraport, said it expects to sign a deal with its biggest customer, the national flag carrier Lufthansa, in May 2005. The agreement concerns handling fee cuts, as the airline wants... more
Science and technologyGap will open in short time its capital
Mexico City, Mexico - The Mexican Government planned the sale of 85 per cent of the airport operator
Mexican Government planned for next summer the sale of 85 per cent of Gap, the airport operator which manages national air stations. Authorities expect to earn about USD 800m in that which will be the... more
Civil aviationGreenpeace asked Nato for renouncing nuclear weapons
Brussels, Belgium - Six European nations host about 480 nuclear bombs at the moment
Greenpeace with Bombspotting activists, disguised himself as a walking missiles, has performed, last Saturday, a symbolic inspections in three military facilities in Belgium in order to ask Nato member... more
AirlinesSaudi Arabian Airlines to introduce new schedule by B-777
Milan, Italy - To occur tomorrow, April 19, at 12:00am
Saudi Arabian Airlines announced the official inauguration of new schedule by B-777, will occur on Tuesday April 19, at 12:00am, at Malpensa Airport TL Check-in, area 1. more
AirlinesSN Brussels adds new destinations
Brussels, Belgium - To Cork, Jersey and Bari
Belgian carrier SN Brussels announced that it will inaugurate new services with the incoming summer season to Cork (Ireland), Jersey and Bari. Thanks to the extra capacity destined to leisure traffic the... more
MiscellaneousThe flight operations aimed to carry the obelisk of Axum to its original country to effectuate today
Axum, Ethiopia - The first part of the archeological finds will turn back today, followed by the other two parts of the stele in the next 10 days
The 58-year time waiting for Ethiopian, who expect this moment already since time as the flight operations in order to transport the obelisk of Axum to its original country should have started already... more
Government actsEuropean Parliament: question on Airport security
Strasbourg, France - By Sir Robert Atkins (PPE-DE)
"Written question E-1350/05 by Sir Robert Atkins (PPE-DE) to the Commission Subject: Airport security With relation to Regulation (EC) No 2320/2002, what progress is the Commission making in the... more
AerospaceSpace: robot-navette for docking satellite on orbit to be launched only partly successfully by Nasa
New York, Usa - The operation should have demonstrated that it is possible to effectuate space missions completely automatic
The launch of Nasa occured in the past days and related to Dart (Demonstration of Autonomous Rendezvous Technology), a robot-navette destined for docking a satellite which is on orbit, had only partly... more
PeopleLow-cost airlines to guide air sector recovering
Washington, USA - The number of no-frills flights has more than doubled in Asia
OAG, company specialising in travel and transport, has performed a study on low-cost airlines, which revealed that no-frills carriers now operate one in eight of all world flights. 12 percent of all scheduled... more
AirlinesSouthwest Airlines to triple its profit
New York, Usa - Thanks to fuel hedges
US carrier, Southwest Airlines, tripled its profits in the first quarter of the new year thanks to fuel hedges which helped it to blow from surging oil costs, which has been forcing rival airlines, even... more
AccidentsTwin Otter crashed in Indonesia: no survivors among plane's remains
Jakarta, Indonesia - The wreckage has been found five days later on a Papuasia mountain
The twin-engine deHavilland DHC-6 Twin Otter belonging to the private airline, GT Air, failed in Indonesia last Tuesday, near Timika coast, with aboard 18 passengers (see for details AVIONEWS), has been... more
PeopleUsa: details about the flight Klm forced to return back
New York, Usa - The plane had took off from Holland to Mexico, by overflying Us air space, but Usa denied access
The allusion is to a flight on April, 8, which had took off from Holland to Mexico operated by the airline Klm (see AVIONEWS): Usa alarms after receiving the list of passengers on board of the flight which,... more
Science and technologyAirport San Francisco: some baggage handler arrested due to thefts about air parcels destined to US soldiers
New York, Usa - The employees worked for Aeroground, a firm operating in the order of loading operations
Thirteen workers belonging to the category of baggage handlers at International Airport of San Francisco were arrested as they have stolen objects worth USD 200,000, including laptop and digital photo... more
DefenseCiampi to postpone Supreme Defense Committee
Rome, Italy - For indeterminate time
The President of Italian Republic, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, postponed for indeterminate time the Supreme Defense Committee scheduled on tomorrow, after the political crisis which invested in these days Italian... more
Government actsEuropean Parliament: question on the conversion of the former Hellinikon Airport into a park for the capital
Strasbourg, France - By Georgios Karatzaferis
"Oral question H-0273/05 for Question Time at the part-session in May 2005 pursuant to Rule 109 of the Rules of Procedure by Georgios Karatzaferis to the Commission Subject: Conversion of the former... more
Government actsEuropean Parliament: question on Customs union protocol; opening up of Turkish ports and airports to Cyprus
Strasbourg, France - By Philip Claeys (NI)
"Written question E-1326/05 by Philip Claeys (NI) to the Commission Subject: Customs union protocol; opening up of Turkish ports and airports to Cyprus Turkey has indicated that it is prepared... more
DefenseNorth Korea suspended Yongbyon reactor operations
Seoul, South Korea - The action may cover alarming develops
North Korea would have stopped operations of its nuclear reactor in Yongbyon, according to South Korean Foreign Ministry official: analysts believed such move could be destined to start plutonium extraction... more
DefenseCyprus: EU Military Committee President's official visit
Nicosia, Cyprus - Gen. Mosca Moschini expected to arrive in the island on next April 21
European Union Military Committee President, General Rolando Mosca Moschini, will officially visit Cyprus in April 21. General was invited by local Ministry of Defence and the isle’s Chief of National G... more
Government actsQuestion Time: Trentino Alto Adige region's soldiers with cancer and relations with depleted uranium
Rome, Italy - By Hon. Luigi Olivieri (DS)
Italian Deputy Honourable Olivieri asked Italian Minister of Defence for making clear which kind of information he is aware of about the case of four Italian Trentino Alto Adige region’s soldiers with c... more
IndustryEmbraer: Customer Training Center awarded RBHA 142 certification
São José dos Campos, Brazil - The certificate awarded at company headquarters
Embraer announced that its São José dos Campos-based Customer Training Center was awarded the Regulamento Brasileiro de Homologação Aeronáutica 142 (RBHA 142) certificate from the Brazilian Department of C... more
Civil aviationWashington: laser to warn about the overflight-banned areas
Washington, USA - Light signals to be in service by the beginning of June
Washington city will be provided with new security systems for air traffic management over the capital of the United States. It deals with a composite laser-markers network suggested by the NORAD (North... more
AerospaceSpace: achieved mission for 11th expedition which reached Iss
Rome, Italy - Vittori is the first European to occupy Iss twice
The new Iss crew, composed by astronauts Sergei Krikalev and John Phillips, mixed with the Italian cosmonaut Roberto Vittori, who will remain on board of international space station for eight days to return... more
IndustryAirbus: new CEO to be appointed on April 28
Paris, France - He will replace Noel Forgeard who will become on his part the new EADS co-CEO working by Thomas Enders' side
Aerospace industry is going to know the name of Noel Forgeard’s successor as the European leading civil aviation company Airbus’ chief. A meeting of the EADS holding board (owning a 80% stake in Airbus) has... more
AccidentsAlpi Eagles: plane heading to Greece suffered for technical problems
Venice, Italy - Pilot asked authorization to return at Venice Airport
An airplane from Alpi Eagles carrier, taken off Saturday around 7:00pm from Venice Airport, bound for Athens, has been forced to come back because of a technical broken-down. Pilot, when realized the problem,... more
AirlinesRestless passengers create tension on board of a Northwest flight
New York, Usa - They would like to visit pilotage cabin
Two passengers on board of a flight operated in the past days by the US carrier Northwest Airlines on the route Detroit-New York created some moments of tension after their request to visit the pilotage... more
Fair and showsItaly: UDC Ministers resigned, including Tassone
Rome, Italy - Resignation letters have been submitted to the Chief of the State
Italian Government crisis, started after defeat suffered at administrative elections occurred last April 3-4, involved transportation sector too: UDC party decided in fact to retire its own Ministers,... more
Press releaseAir Blu: the decision on the fleet will be announced within this week
Gallarate, Italy - After a series of meetings the first round of negotiations has been concluded
"On March 22nd 2005, the Shareholders of AirBlu SpA, IMS (16,3%) and CAN Cockpit Airnet Srl (83,7%), under the Chairmanship of Dr Albert A. Denzler, decided to adopt the name of ’AZZURRAair SpA’, a Br... more