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Thursday, 11 June 2009

UK carrier British Airways ceo Willie Walsh has refused to rule out compulsory redundancies among the airline's 40,000 staff after setting an end-June deadline to agree pay cuts and 2,000 flight attendant job reductions.

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Thursday, 11 June 2009

France’s Air France “within days”  will replace the airspeed sensors implicated in the June 1 AF447 crash after an Air France union said it “deplored” the carrier’s decision to continue operating twin-aisle Airbus A330 and A340 models and said its members should agree to fly A330s only after at least two of the three sensors on each plane had been upgraded.

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Thursday, 11 June 2009

Emirates airline has signed a fleet management agreement with the Engine Alliance, which makes engines for the Airbus A380. Under the agreement, worth more than US$3 billion, Engine Alliance will repair and overhaul the GP7200 engines used on Emirates' Airbus A380 fleet.

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Thursday, 11 June 2009

British Airways ceo Willie Walsh said this week the carrier was confident of winning approval from US and European authorities to allow it to co-operate with US carrier American Airlines on trans-Atlantic flights by 2010.

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Thursday, 11 June 2009

Malaysia has committed to the Asean roadmap for liberalisation of air services and its prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak says the Asean roadmap will open air services arrangements in the region by 2015.

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