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Gulf Air to close four underperforming routes | Gulf Tourism and Aviation | AMEinfo.com
www.ameinfo.com | 46 minutes ago
Bahrain's national carrier Gulf Air has announced that will suspend service to four destinations for commercial reasons.

Newsvine - Airlines forecast to buy $3.5T of new jets by 2030
www.newsvine.com | 7 hours 22 minutes ago
Global airlines will need $3.5 trillion of new planes through 2030, with more than a third of that demand coming from Asia, Airbus's chief executive said Wednesday.

Defence cuts and contract woes hit BAE - FT.com
www.ft.com | 15 hours 7 minutes ago
BAE Systems is expected to report lower profits on Thursday amid sharp warnings from analysts and unions that further cuts to the defence budget risk undermining the nation’s skills base. With the Ministry of Defence planning spending cuts of 8 per

Bottom Line - Boeing signs largest-ever commercial airplane order with Lion Air
bottomline.msnbc.msn.com | 19 hours 27 minutes ago
By msnbc.com news services Boeing said Tuesday it has signed its largest ever commercial airplane order with Indonesian carrier Lion Air in a deal worth $22.4 billion. Boeing said Lion Air, Indonesia's largest carrier by passenger volume, has ordered 230 airplanes, including 201 …

NASA scales back hunt for life on Mars
www.newscientist.com | 23 hours 13 minutes ago
The space agency has pulled out of joint missions with its European counterpart to search for complex carbon-based molecules on the Red Planet

Boeing locks in biggest plane order on record - The Globe and Mail
www.theglobeandmail.com |
Indonesian carrier Lion Air finalizes $22.4-billion (U.S.) order for 230 planes

Investors back easyJet board in pay battle with Sir Stelios | Business | The Guardian
www.guardian.co.uk | Feb 12, 2012
Airline founder takes fight against 'fat cat City bonus culture' to AGM wire

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www.fitchratings.com | Feb 10, 2012
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Red Tape - Airlines secretly cash in on unused tickets
redtape.msnbc.msn.com | Feb 10, 2012
With so much talk about airline fees lately, you might overlook perhaps the largest source of ancillary revenue for the industry — and a big headache for you — that lets airlines make money for nothing.

NASA Mission Takes Stock of Earth's Melting Land Ice
www.waterlink-international.com | Feb 9, 2012
In the first comprehensive satellite study of its kind, a University of Colorado at Boulder-led team used NASA data to calculate how much Earth's melting land ice is adding to global sea level rise. Using satellite measurements from the ...