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Air Canada reaches agreement with CUPE on collective agreement extension

Air Canada has reached agreement on a collective agreement extension with CUPE that represents the airline’s approximately 6,700 flight attendants. The contract extension agreement, together with the pension moratorium agreement reached June 15th with CUPE, are subject to membership ratification. The airline has now concluded agreements on a cost neutral basis for collective agreement extensions

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BAE Systems announces change in US leadership

BAE Systems today announced that executive director Walt Havenstein has decided to leave the Company. Walt has resigned as a director and Chief Operating Officer, BAE Systems plc and steps down as President and CEO, BAE Systems, Inc. with effect from 26 June 2009 and will leave the employment of BAE Systems, Inc. on 20

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Airbus establishes research cooperation agreement with JAXA

Airbus announced the signature of a cooperation agreement with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on the cooperative research activities in the field of composite materials. This agreement marks the first ever research cooperation between Airbus and a Japanese aerospace agency. Two areas already identified are VaRTM (Vacuum assisted Resin Transfer Moulding) evaluation and NDI (Non-destructive

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Argentina invests to modernize national airlines

The Government of Argentina has begun an extensive effort to modernize the national airline Aerolineas Argentinas and domestic carrier Austral. President Cristina Kirchner unveiled a new Boeing 737/700 last week, the first new airplane bought for Aerolineas Argentinas in 16 years. The airline and its sister airline Austral were nationalized in December 2008 to maintain

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Industry study shows biofuels perform effectively as jet fuel

Boeing and a team from across the aviation industry released high-level elements of a study that shows that sustainable biofuels analyzed in a series of pioneering test flights performed favorably in comparison to petroleum-based fuel. According to the study, Evaluation of Bio-Derived Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene (Bio-SPK), a series of laboratory, ground and flight tests conducted

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Abu Dhabi Airports Company in Joint Venture with Helios SinoGulf

Abu Dhabi Airports Company announced that it has signed a joint venture agreement with Helios SinoGulf Property Development LLC to develop a logistics and business park under free zone regulation adjacent to Al Ain International Airport. The development will cover 650,000 square metres and will include office space, distribution centres, light industrial units, freight forwarding

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Valliere Aviation is about to create a new maintenance unit in Tunis

Valliere Aviation Group (holding of Europe Aviation) and Tunisair have signed an agreement which should lead to the creation of a common maintenance company in Tunis in the next 18 months. Europe Aviation, from the Valliere Group, provides a large scope of maintenance services on both Airbus and Boeing aircraft from line maintenance to Total

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IAI and Airbus to develop environmentally conscious taxiing system

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Airbus have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the 2009 International Paris Air Show to jointly develop and test an innovative environmentally friendly pilot-controlled towing semi-robotic system. The Taxibot Dispatch Towing system, designed by IAI, allows both wide and narrow body commercial airplanes to taxi to and from the

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