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July 14, 2008
A New Bombardier Jet Draws Only Tepid Demand

With jet fuel prices soaring, and airlines desperate to save on operating costs, Bombardier’s new 100-seat jet might seem an easy sell.

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July 14, 2008
Speculators May Not Affect Oil Price

The role of speculative investors in high oil prices is dividing the U.S. airline industry from economists, who say targeting institutional investors is more politically expedient than economically sound.

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July 13, 2008
Hey, Big Spender, Flying My Way?

BACK in Jack Kerouac’s day, when people more often traveled along blacktop roads than through the jet stream, they hitched free rides by sticking out a thumb at a freeway onramp or hopping into a friend’s old heap. Often enough the destination didn’t matter to a hitcher embarked on a personal picaresque. What counted was the ride.

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July 13, 2008
Low-cost Asian airlines thriving on silver linings

Tony Davis, the chief executive of Tiger Airways, based in Singapore, readily admits that he is much happier running an Asian-based low-cost airline right now than he would be running one in Europe or the United States.

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July 13, 2008
Aviation industry examines alternative fuels

Aviation emits 2 percent of carbon dioxide emissions worldwide, and 3 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the scientific body set up by the United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization to review the evidence on human-induced global warming.

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July 13, 2008
A fitter aviation industry takes shape under harsh economic pressure

Commercial aircraft manufacturing and the global airline industry are not businesses for the faint-hearted. The relentless rise in oil and other raw material costs over the past 12 months has taken them into uncharted territory.

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July 12, 2008
Branson predicts "spectacular" airline casualties

There will be "spectacular casualties" in the airline industry over the next 12 months, billionaire Richard Branson, the owner of Britain's No. 2 long-haul airline Virgin Atlantic [VA.UL], was quoted as saying on Saturday.

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July 11, 2008
BA offers booking via new iPhone

British Airways is allowing users of the new Apple iPhone 3G to book flights using the device.

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July 11, 2008
EgyptAir formally joins Star Alliance

EgyptAir has formally joined Star Alliance, just nine months after the alliance’s board voted to accept the Egyptian flag-carrier as a member.

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July 9, 2008
Business Travelers Increasingly Rely on GPS Devices

Portable GPS devices are seeing "explosive growth," says Tom Murray of TomTom, a GPS device manufacturer. About 10 million GPS devices were sold in North America last year.

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