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First Air France A380 reaches New York

AFP - 11 hours 41 mins ago

NEW YORK (AFP) - The world's largest airliner, an Air France A380, touched down in New York on Friday after completing the superjumbo jet's first Atlantic crossing from Europe to the United States. More »

Chile airports resume operations after major strike
AFP - Yesterday, 07:39 pm
SANTIAGO (AFP) - Chilean airports resumed normal activity on Friday, after some 2,000 airport workers launched a country-wide strike that caused flight delays, the General Directorate of Civil Aviation said. More »
Boeing starts work on second Dreamliner assembly site
AFP - Yesterday, 07:27 pm
NEW YORK (AFP) - US aerospace giant Boeing broke ground Friday for the second assembly plant for its new 787 Dreamliner aircraft scheduled for its first test flight by the end of the year. More »
Dubai Airshow ends on sharply lower sales note
AFP - Thursday, November 19 04:47 pm
DUBAI (AFP) - The biennial Dubai Airshow ended on Thursday, fulfilling pessimistic analyst forecasts, as sales of only a bit more than 14 billion dollars dimmed against 155.5 billion dollars in 2007. More »
Air France A380 set for first transatlantic flight
AFP - Thursday, November 19 03:26 pm
PARIS (AFP) - An Air France A380 superjumbo, the world's largest civilian airliner, is to set off on Friday on the first Air France flight across the Atlantic bound for New York with 538 passengers aboard. More »
Europe's top airline Air France-KLM posts loss
AFP - Wednesday, November 18 08:09 pm
PARIS (AFP) - Air France-KLM, Europe's biggest airline, on Wednesday posted a loss of 147 million euros (220 million dollars) in the second quarter of its fiscal year as the crisis continues to hit air travel. More »
Boeing rolls out new version of Boeing 747 jumbo
AFP - Wednesday, November 18 03:25 pm
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US aerospace giant Boeing said Wednesday it had rolled out the first of the much delayed new version of its 747 freighter ahead of its maiden flight early next year. More »
Air Berlin reports doubled profits
AFP - Tuesday, November 17 07:48 pm
FRANKFURT (AFP) - Air Berlin, Germany's second biggest airline after Lufthansa, on Tuesday reported that its net profit more than doubled in the third quarter of this year on a 12-month comparison. More »
Heathrow runway plan may take years
Reuters - Tuesday, November 17 03:57 pm
BERLIN (Reuters) - The man charged by airport operator BAA with seeing Heathrow's third runway through said on Tuesday its planning application for the 8 billion pound project could take up to four years to approve. More »