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July 28, 2010

British Airways targets smartphone users

British Airways has launched an innovative check-in tool for the rapidly increasing number of smart phone users. Executive Club iPhone users can use the new ‘app’ to display mobile boarding passes on their phones, which can be scanned check-in areas to speed up and enhance the boarding process In addition, customers using Android and Blackberry devices [...]

July 27, 2010

2010 Farnborough air show sees new airline orders for Boeing, Airbus

It was a busy week at this year’s Farnborough Air Show, and as usual some of the world’s major airlines placed big orders with the two big aircraft manufacturers; Boeing and Airbus. The show’s first day of business saw Dubai-based airline Emirates place an order with Boeing for 30 of its 777-300s in a deal [...]

July 15, 2010

‘Perfect flight’ exercise produces important data

Britain’s aviation industry has come together to reach an important environmental milestone, turning the normal Saturday evening service from Heathrow to Edinburgh into the UK’s first “perfect flight”. To the passengers it seemed just like an ordinary flight but every factor within the journey – from pushback from the stand and taxiing to an optimised [...]

July 15, 2010

Third Heathrow runway ‘vital’ for Britain – report

The government’s decision to abandon plans for a third runway at Heathrow could significantly damage Britain’s competitiveness, an engineering lobby group has warned. The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) said the government’s approach to airport capacity could “seriously undermine the UK’s global connectivity and competitiveness, and see us lagging behind North European rivals.” [...]