Posts Tagged ‘Air transport’

HOAX PLAN TO PAVE OVER CENTRAL PARK

Friday, July 24, 2009 15:21

Is the hoax campaign to concrete over NYC's favourite green space and build an airport a satire on incompetent transport policy or another product viral? Watch this space"Environmentalists rally in support of Manhattan airport". That got your attention, didn't it? And that was precisely ...

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EMERGENCY LANDING CLOSES GATWICK RUNWAY

Friday, July 24, 2009 14:30

Passengers on Paris to Cardiff plane evacuated and flights diverted to other airports after crew report faultHaroon SiddiqueAn emergency landing of a plane en route to Cardiff closed a runway at Gatwick airport this morning.Flybe flight BE1432 flying from Charles de Gaulle airport in ...

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WE WILL PROTECT AIR TRAVEL – MILIBAND

Tuesday, July 14, 2009 7:08

Mass air travel will be preserved even in a low-carbon Britain because the government will find deeper emissions cuts in other areas, the climate change secretary Ed Miliband said today.Dismissing demands for punitive sanctions to curb flying, Miliband said the government was determined to ...

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BA PILOTS VOTE FOR 2.6% SALARY CUT

Monday, July 13, 2009 19:40

• Pilots agree to take salary cut and work longer hours• Chief executive expected to be barracked at AGMWillie Walsh, the embattled chief executive of British Airways, faces a mauling from shareholders and his own staff at the airline's annual meeting, tomorrow despite ...

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AIRPORT PASSENGER NUMBERS FALL 5.9%

Friday, July 10, 2009 12:30

• 12.7m passengers pass through company's seven airports• Lowest figure for nine months• Edinburgh bucks the trendThe number of travellers using major UK airports declined to its lowest level for nine months in June, BAA said today.The airport operator said a total ...

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AIR FRANCE PLANE CRASHED VERTICALLY

Thursday, July 2, 2009 19:26

Flight 447 went down so quickly that passengers had no time to react, says French head investigatorAir France flight 447 did not break up in the air but plunged vertically into the Atlantic Ocean, according to the French head investigator of last month's crash, ...

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YEMENI PLANE CRASH TEENAGER ‘DOING WELL’

Wednesday, July 1, 2009 15:53

• Girl, 13, escapes with cuts and fractured collarbone• Black box located in ocean near Comoros islandsThe teenage girl who survived the Comoros plane crash by clinging to a piece of debris is recovering well in hospital. Bahia Bakari, a 13-year-old Franco-Comoran who ...

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