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2010 07 29
IATA: Demand Continues Recovery in June |
28/07/2010
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced international scheduled traffic statistics for June which showed continued strong demand growth as the industry recovers from the impact of the global financial crisis. Compared to June 2009, international passenger demand was up 11.9% while international scheduled freight traffic showed a 26.5% improvement.
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2010 06 29
European Commission: Air Passenger rights |
Why is the European Commission launching a campaign to raise awareness of passenger rights?
Although the European Union has made great strides in recent years in establishing common passenger rights for those travelling by air or rail, not every European is yet aware of what he is entitled to. This campaign sets out to make all air and rail passengers aware of what rights they enjoy under European legislation and how to make use of them.
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2010 06 19
ACI EUROPE Best Airport Award |
announced last night in Milan during the gala dinner of the 20th ACI EUROPE Annual
Congress. It was the conclusion to a day of intensive exchanges and debates
between more than 400 top industry representatives, national government and EU
officials, under the theme of this year’s event ‘A 20 year vision of the airports of
2030’.
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2010 05 18
easyJet’s founder doesn’t like ‘rapid’ growth; germanwings, Norwegian, Ryanair, Wizz Air will all grow faster this summer |
The decision by Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannau to resign from the board of easyJet, the airline he founded 15 years ago, is the latest move in an apparent fundamental disagreement about the airline’s growth strategy which Sir Stelios believes is too ambitious.
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2010 05 12
Airlines are Losing Faith in Current Methodology for Closing Airspace |
Ahead of the ICAO meeting of the Volcanic Ash Task Force (EUR/NAT) in Paris tomorrow, IACA and its members urgently call upon the European Commission to show leadership and push for an immediate upgrade to the present procedures for opening and closing airspace based on volcanic ash concentrations.
Source: European Commission
"Let's be clear about one thing. This is going to continue to happen. It might be next week. It might be in 20 years. But it will happen again; and volcanoes do not obey rules. So we need to be faster and more flexible in our response.
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2010 04 08
British Airways and Iberia Sign Merger Agreement |
Iberia and British Airways have today taken a further step towards creating a new leading European airline group by signing their merger agreement. The terms of the merger agreement are consistent with the binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between the two airlines in November 2009.
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2010 03 22
In praise of Vilnius International |
ONCE all but off the aviation map after the collapse of Lithuania's national airline, Vilnius is now served by a respectable number of direct flights (at least within Europe).
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2010 03 19
Preliminary World Airport Traffic 2009 |
ACI reports preliminary results of a 2.7 percent decline in global passenger traffic for 2009, reflecting steep declines in the first quarter in most regions but a return to growth activity by year-end. Total cargo volumes retracted by 8.2 percent, while aircraft movements were 5.5 percent below the 2008 level. The preliminary report is based on input from over 900 airports.
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2010 03 15
CAA STATISTICS show last year’s fall in passenger numbers was biggest since the Second World War |
UK airports handled 218 million passengers during the 2009 calendar year according to figures published today by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), a fall of 7.3 percent (17 million) on 2008, the biggest decline in passenger numbers at UK airports since records began.
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