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FAA: Expect more flights crowding, smaller fare hikes

Airline Industry

FAA: Expect more flights crowding, smaller fare hikes

By Jon Hilkevitch

Passengers on U.S.

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Air travel in Brazil posts biggest increase in 2009

Brazil

Air travel in Brazil posts biggest increase in 2009

By Guillermo Parra-Bernal

SAO PAULO - Air travel in Brazil, the largest Latin American aviation market, posted its biggest increase in five years in 2009, reflecting the country's resilience to the worst downturn in global civ

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Oakland controllers scrambled to keep planes safe

FAA Communications Shut Down

Oakland controllers scrambled to keep planes safe

By eTN Staff Writer

More than half the air traffic controllers on duty on Wednesday morning at the Oakland Center, unexpectedly found themselves without the ability to communicate with airborne aircraft or use landline t

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Controllers tried to warn pilot in deadly Hudson River mid-air collision

New York

Controllers tried to warn pilot in deadly Hudson River mid-air collision

Federal investigators said on Friday that an air traffic controller last week first failed to caution and then attempted to divert a private plane in the midair crash with a tour helicopter from flyin

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European airlines: Air traffic stabilizing

Airline Industry

European airlines: Air traffic stabilizing

LONDON - European airlines and the U.K.'s dominant airport operator Monday signaled that passenger traffic is stabilizing after two years of steep falls, but trans-Atlantic traffic, the profit driver

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Airline group: Only Mexico hit hard by swine flu

IATA

Airline group: Only Mexico hit hard by swine flu

By AP

MADRID — The International Air Transport Association says the outbreak of swine flu seems only to have affected airline traffic to and from Mexico.

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Airports modernization plans take wing in India

Air Traffic Growth

Airports modernization plans take wing in India

By eTN Staff Writer

MUMBAI, India - The growth of air traffic in India has increased aircraft movement per airport, which in turn, has necessitated an expansion of the capacity of airports or development of new airports.

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Forecast for air traffic gets bleaker

Global Aviation Industry

Forecast for air traffic gets bleaker

By Nelson Alcantara

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released its report for international air traffic for October and the numbers are not good.

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Thailand shuts down second airport in capital

Thailand

Thailand shuts down second airport in capital

By AP

BANGKOK, Thailand — Thai authorities have closed a second airport in the capital after anti-government protesters stormed the terminal.

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Teamsters join forces with PATCO air traffic controllers

Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization

Teamsters join forces with PATCO air traffic controllers

By eTN Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, DC - The Teamsters Airline Division announced today that it has signed an agreement forming an alliance with the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) to work together

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Abu Dhabi International Airport selects Searidge Technologies for surface surveillance

Enhancing Information To Air Traffic Controllers

Abu Dhabi International Airport selects Searidge Technologies for surface surveillance

By eTN

OTTAWA (August 19, 2008) - Searidge Technologies and its partner in the Gulf region, Bayanat Airports Engineering & Supplies LLC, today announced the award of a contract by the Abu Dhabi Airport Compa

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UK and Irish ministers agree to air space arrangement

First Functional Airspace Block in Europe

UK and Irish ministers agree to air space arrangement

By eTN

London - Rosie Winterton, UK Minister of State for Transport and Noel Dempsey, Irish Minister of State for Transport, today announced an agreement on the first functional airspace block (FAB) in Europe. A FAB is a means of more efficiently managing airspace along operational requirements rather than national boundaries.

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