 | U.S. air traffic returns to normal after glitch | | ATLANTA -- The FAA says airline flights around the United States are back to normal, a day after hundreds of flights were delayed by a communications breakdown. The Northeast was hardest hit by the delays prompted by a glitch at a Georgia facility that | | Thu, 28 August 2008, 9:27 | |
| Beijing airport sees off last batch of Olympic Family members | | BEIJING, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- The last batch of Olympic Family members, 63 Brazilian athletes and coaches, departed Beijing Capital International Airport late Wednesday night, an official said on Thursday. Xu Zengxing, a Beijing Organizing Committee of | | Thu, 28 August 2008, 9:26 | |
| ?PH Int?l Airport not ready for pilgrimage? | | Nigerians planning to use the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa for this yearâ??s hajji and Christian pilgrimage to the holy Saudi Arabia and Israel, respectively would be disappointed as the airport is not fit to operate such operations | | Thu, 28 August 2008, 9:26 | |
| Qantas 'explosion' report being released | | Safety investigators will release an initial report on Friday into the mid-air crisis which forced a Qantas jet to make an emergency landing in Manila. Late last month, an explosion tore through part of the fuselage of the Melbourne-bound Boeing 747-400 | | Thu, 28 August 2008, 9:24 | |
| Eclipse confident of passing FAA and congressional scrutiny | | Eclipse Aviation says it 'welcomes' a independent investigation into the Eclipse 500's airworthiness certification, a process the company says was 'one of the most rigorous' in the agency's 50-year history. The FAA has revealed that it launched a | | Thu, 28 August 2008, 9:22 | |
| Report on Qantas explosion tomorrow | | SAFETY investigators will tomorrow release an initial report into the mid-air explosion that left a Qantas jet with a hole in its fuselage and forced it to make an emergency landing in Manila. tore through part of the fuselage of the Melbourne-bound | | Thu, 28 August 2008, 9:22 | |
| Aer Lingus posts first half loss on rising fuel costs | | Aer Lingus has posted an operating loss of 22.3 million for the first six months of 2008, down from an operating profit of 2.6 million last year, as rising fuel costs took their toll on the airline. Fuel costs rose by 56.5 million, an increase of nearly | | Thu, 28 August 2008, 9:19 | | | |
| Aer Lingus takes 'surgical look' at costs after suffering loss | | Photograph: PA Aer Lingus warned today that it needs to cut costs across its business, raising fears of job losses, after plunging into a loss for the first half of this year. The airline posted an operating loss of 22.3m (17.93m) for the first half of | | Thu, 28 August 2008, 9:16 | |
| Alitalia Turnaround Plan Sees Return To Profit In 2011-Sources | | ROME -(Dow Jones)- The rescue plan for Italy's troubled airline Alitalia SpA (AZA.MI) aims to have the restructured company return to profit in 2011, reaching an operating profit of EUR250 million two years later, people close to the dossier told Dow | | Thu, 28 August 2008, 9:16 | | |
| [08/27] One small hitch for FAA, one giant mess for fliers | | CHICAGO (AP) - When a computer system that distributes flight plans nationwide came rolling to a halt this week because of a software glitch, so did airplanes on tarmacs from Orlando to Chicago. The ensuing delays drove home just how easily an apparently | | Thu, 28 August 2008, 9:11 | |
| Rapide growth at Dublin Airport | | Irish Parking Association Annual Conference at Dublin Airport was an opportunity for Tremco illbruck to showcase its leading deck waterproofing system, Rapide HB FR. The conference agenda included a site visit to three recently refurbished car parks at | | Thu, 28 August 2008, 9:11 | | | |
| Tiger Airways expands service | | TIGER Airways will fly from Adelaide to Hobart, the Gold Coast, Perth and Alice Springs, from March next year after setting up a base in South Australia. The company said today the services would be in addition those previously announced between Adelaide | | Thu, 28 August 2008, 9:07 | |
| Thomas Cook tour operator in fusion talks with TUI, Lufthansa | | Frankfurt - European tour operator Thomas Cook Group plc announced Thursday it was in talks with Deutsche Lufthansa AG and TUI Travel plc regarding the merger of subsidiary airlines owned by the companies. No commercial terms had yet been agreed and | | Thu, 28 August 2008, 9:02 | |
| DASSAULT AVIATION : First Half-year 2008 Results | | SAINT CLOUD, FRANCE -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 08/28/08 -- 1.CONSOLIDATED RESULTS FOR THE FIRST HALF-YEAR 2008 The Board of Directors, which met on August 27th, 2008, chaired by Mr Charles EDELSTENNE, approved the financial statements for the first half- year | | Thu, 28 August 2008, 8:58 | |
| Airline chiefs in new dogfight | | THE bitter war of words between Ryanair and Aer Arann dramatically re-ignited last night with Michael O'Leary claiming his counterpart, Padraig O Ceidigh, couldn't give Aer Arann away even 'as a present', writes Ralph Riegel. The claim came as the | | Thu, 28 August 2008, 8:57 | |
