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ALPA sets out policy priorities in white paper

US pilot union Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA) is calling on the industry to revisit numerous labour, safety, subsidy and collective bargaining issues that for the past year have taken a back seat to the coronavirus pandemic. US pilot...

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Cargo focus helps China Airlines eke out profit in 2020

A strategy of “prioritising cargo over passenger services” during the coronavirus pandemic has helped China Airlines stay in the black, despite a sharp decline in passenger travel demand. A strategy of “prioritising cargo over passenger services” during the coronavirus pandemic...

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LHT looks back on ‘leap of faith’ into the Philippines

Lufthansa Technik’s establishment of a maintenance site in Manila in 2000 was a central step for the German MRO provider to build up an international facility network and gain access to local customers, recalls the Philippine operation’s chief executive Elmar...

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Fleet composition crucial to Nok’s rehab plan draft

Fleet composition crucial to Nok’s rehab plan draft Nok Air needs to work out a viable fleet strategy before putting pen to paper on the first draft of its rehabilitation plan, which is now due for submission on 15 April...

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Bell has completed 30% of 360 Invictus for US Army FARA programme

Bell has completed 30% of the 360 Invictus winged helicopter for the US Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft programme. Bell has completed 30% of  360 Invictus winged helicopter for the US Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) programme. Construction of...

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Bell sees V-280 and V-247 having ‘synergy’ with US Navy FVL Maritime Strike

Bell believes its work on the V-280 Valor tiltrotor for the US Army and the unmanned V-247 Vigilant tiltrotor concept for the US Marine Corps (USMC) ought to have “synergy” with the US Navy’s (USN) Future Vertical Lift (FVL) Maritime...

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Bell see its APT cargo UAV as being attritable in combat

Bell believes it will be able to design and build its Autonomous Pod Transport cheap enough for the unmanned air vehicle to be considered attritable. Bell believes it will be able to design and build its Autonomous Pod Transport (APT) cheap...

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Councilmen Stone, Stonecipher propose early expiration of Oklahoma City mask ordinance

Ward 4 Councilman Todd Stone and Ward 8 Councilman Mark Stonecipher will jointly propose an ordinance amendment that, if approved, would allow Oklahoma City's mask ordinance to expire early on March 31. The Councilmen cited dramatically improved...

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Start-up Norse Atlantic plans $152 million private placement

Norwegian long-haul start-up Norse Atlantic is seeking to raise NKr1.28 billion ($152 million) via a private placement and plans to list on Olso’s Euronext Growth exchange. Norwegian long-haul start-up Norse Atlantic is seeking to raise NKr1.28 billion ($152 million) via a private...

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MC-21 transferred to northern Russia for natural icing test flights

One of the Irkut MC-21-300 test aircraft has been flown to Arkhangelsk in northern Russia to undergo natural icing certification tests. The aircraft, number 73051, is the same jet that was involved in a runway excursion at Moscow Zhukovsky in...

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