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Lufthansa Open To Mediation On Crew Strike

Lufthansa said it was open to mediation in a row with cabin crew over pay and conditions after being threatened with a costly Germany-wide strike on Friday, although doubts whether it will succeed, an executive said on Wednesday.
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AirAsia Says No Plan To Buy JAT

AirAsia has held "serious talks" with Serbian officials, transport minister Milutin Mrkonjic said on Wednesday, though Asia's largest budget carrier denied it was considering the purchase of Serbia's indebted JAT Airways.
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British PM Moves To Defuse Airports Row
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday tried to defuse a row over potential expansion of London's over-stretched Heathrow airport, pledging to seek cross-party support for plans to boost UK airport capacity.
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Airbus Fights Exclusion From US Aerospace Lobby
Airbus has clashed with the US aerospace industry over whether it should be allowed to join its top domestic lobbying group, weeks after announcing plans to set up jet assembly in Alabama.
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ANA Aborts 787 Take-off After Pump Leak

All Nippon Airways, the launch customer for Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, said on Wednesday it had aborted the take-off of one of the new jets after a leaking hydraulic pump forced the taxiing aircraft to return to the terminal.
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Air Nigeria to suspend operations Sept. 10
Air Nigeria (VK), formerly Virgin Nigeria, is reportedly suspending operations Sept. 10 after a year plagued with strikes, a tax raid and two groundings by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
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Ethiopian to receive its first 777F Sept. 19
Ethiopian Airlines (ET) will take delivery of its first Boeing 777 freighter Sept. 19, becoming the first African carrier to operate the type.
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Boeing upholds 777X end-decade service entry
A senior Boeing executive is resisting a recent wave of pressure to speed up a launch decision and service entry for the proposed 777X, which the airframer believes will "obsolete" the Airbus A350-1000 due for first delivery in 2017.
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No End To US Airlines Aircraft Buying Spree
US airlines could place hundreds of orders for new airliners on top of their recent wave of purchases -- leaving billions of dollars' worth of orders for Boeing and Airbus to fight over.
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LAX’s US$1.545bn terminal
Los Angeles International Airport’s (LAX) new look US$1.545bn Tom Bradley International Terminal is on course to open by the end of 2012. The terminal, which will double in size, helped pump $39.7bn into the Southern California economy in 2011, say LAX's owners Los Angeles World Airports.
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American, United To Face Trial Over 9/11
A US judge ruled that American and United airlines must face trial over claims relating to the September 11 attacks that destroyed the landmark towers of the World Trade Centre in New York almost 11 years ago, court documents showed.
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Republic and American discuss large regional jet contract
Republic Airways is in talks with American Airlines regarding a capacity purchase agreement for large regional jets, as the mainline carrier restructures its fleet under bankruptcy court protection. Timothy Dooley, chief financial officer of Republic, says that the regional carrier is cautiously optimistic that they will reach an agreement with American to fly some of the up to 255 large regional jets that are allowed under the carrier's new pilots contract, at the 2012 Dahlman Rose Global Transportation Conference in New York today.
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China Eastern’s net income drops 64.6% in 1H

China Eastern Airlines (MU) has reported a first-half net income of CNY806.9 million ($127.2 million), down 64.6% compared to a net profit of CNY2.28 billion in the year-ago period.
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Aeroflot H1 Profits Down By 98 Percent

Russian state-controlled airline Aeroflot said on Wednesday first-half net profit fell by 98 percent to USD$7.1 million from USD$376.8 million a year earlier.
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F-35B completes air start testing at Edwards AFB
The Lockheed Martin F-35B short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) variant of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) has completed a series of engine air start tests, which involve shutting down and restarting the jet's Pratt & Whitney F135 turbofan in flight.
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A400M to appear in ILA flying display

Airbus Military has confirmed plans to send one of its A400M "Grizzly" development aircraft to the ILA Berlin air show next week, as work to introduce a replacement part to the type's engines gets under way.
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Small Northrop Unit Pursues New Manned, Unmanned Work
Northrop Grumman is turning to some unique teaming arrangements to pursue niche, and possibly productive, markets adjacent to the company's traditional defense work with the Pentagon on large platforms.
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Rover Reveals Unexpected Martian Landscapes
Less than a month after its touchdown, NASA's Curiosity rover is already revealing a wealth of new detail about Mars—even before driving for any significant distance. Moreover, scientists are confident the startling high-definition images of inclined strata and other significant geological phenomena transmitted late last month from Curiosity are merely the tip of the iceberg as it begins its trek toward the base of nearby Mount Sharp, the central feature of the Gale Crater in which it landed. The rover, which landed on Aug. 5, is tasked with assessing the past and present habitability of Mars.
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Other News

CTS Engines has signed multi-year engine maintenance service agreements with Finnish cargo carrier Nordic Global Airlines (NGA), and Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.-based Spirit Airlines (NK). The NGA agreement covers power-by-the-hour overhaul for seven CF6-80C2D1F engines on a fleet of MD-11Fs. CTS will perform all off-wing maintenance on the engines. According to the NK agreement, CTS will provide all on-wing engine field service work for the carrier’s fleet of 42 V2500-powered Airbus A320s. Additional terms were not disclosed.

Asiana Airlines launched a mobile integrated maintenance system in its aviation maintenance department. It developed the solution for maintenance personnel to operate maintenance manuals, check departure/arrival times, inventory and send pictures from the field.

Boeing and Ameco Beijing have completed the first of 10 Boeing 777-200 passenger interior upgrade modifications for Air China. The aircraft are being upgraded to three-class configuration including business, premium economy and economy.

Lufthansa Technik signed an eight-year aircraft maintenance services contract with Virgin Atlantic, extending an existing agreement to cover Boeing 747-400 C checks, Airbus A340 base maintenance and CF6-80 and Trent 500 thrust reverser services for its 747-400 and A340 fleet based at London’s Gatwick and Heathrow airports. The contract also extended a current five-year base maintenance agreement covering the carrier’s A340 fleet to 2019.

Aviation Quote

I never went into the air thinking I would lose.

— Commander Randy 'Duke' Cunningham, USN.

On This Date

---In 1905... Orville Wright made two flights in the 1905 Machine in Huffman Prarie, Dayton, Ohio. The flights were made around a 3/4 mile oval track and demonstrated Orville's skill at banking the aircraft and landing .

---In 1948…A de Havilland DH.108 breaks the sound barrier, the first British aircraft to do so.

---In 1952…The de Havilland DH.110 prototype, WG236, disintegrates at the Farnborough Airshow, killing 28 spectators as well as its pilot.

---In 1976…Viktor Belenko of the Soviet Union defects to the West, landing his MiG-25 FoxBat in Japan.

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