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Thursday, 24 March 2011

Planemakers Boeing and Airbus reportedly are watching Russian and Chinese planemakers and now consider them upcoming narrow-body jet market competitors in the 100 to 200-seat plane category.

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Wednesday, 23 March 2011

Australian media say as many as 9000 Qantas workers - including refuellers, caterers, cleaners, baggage and transport staff - are prepared to take industrial action, calling on the carrier to halt plans to send jobs overseas.

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Wednesday, 23 March 2011

As the earthquake and tsunami dead and missing count exceeded 21,500 on Tuesday (with some overlap of figures because of difficulty identifying some victims), air cargo coming from or passing through Japan now faces delays at destination ports after radiation was detected in a number of shipments.

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Wednesday, 23 March 2011

Japan's airports have about 10 days before they run out of avgas, after infrastructure was damaged in the recent earthquake.

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Wednesday, 23 March 2011

Middle East airline Emirates is joining rivals Qatar Airways and Etihad and adding capacity at the north English city of Manchester.

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