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S7 cancels Dreamliner contract

: Latest News; Monday, 02 February 2009

Russian airline S7 has cancelled a contract to buy 15 Boeing 787 Dreamliners for delivery in 2014 and will seek to lease the planes instead.

All Nippon revises forecast

: Latest News; Monday, 02 February 2009

All Nippon Airways, Japan's second-largest airline, says its business will dip into the red for the first time in six years and it expects a group net loss of JPY9 billion for the year to March 31 instead of a previously projected profit of JPY17 billion. It had a JPY64.1 billion profit the previous year.

Austrian tightens belt

: Latest News; Monday, 02 February 2009

Austrian Airlines is to attempt to cut costs by EUR225 million this year and by a further EUR200 million by 2012.

Lufthansa to cut cargo staff hours

: Latest News; Monday, 02 February 2009

Germany’s Lufthansa is to reduce working hours for 2,600 cargo employees.

Bmi signals possible redundancies

: Latest News; Monday, 02 February 2009

Britain’s Times media says airline Bmi has written to staff to tell them it can’t honour an earlier promise to deliver a pay increase this year.

Dulles gets radiation monitor

: Latest News; Monday, 02 February 2009

The US’s Homeland Security Department has installed its first airport radiation portal monitor at Washington DC’s Dulles International.

Australia ratifies Montreal Convention

: Latest News; Friday, 30 January 2009

Australia has joined other member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in ratifying the Montreal Convention (MC) with new rules applying from January 24, 2009.