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Ryanair signs order for Chinese jets

By Paul Ash | 22 June 2011

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No-frills airline Ryanair is looking east for new aircraft.

On Tuesday, Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary signed an agreement with the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China to help the company develop its C919 twin-engine airliner. With the C919 Comac plans to challenge the Airbus/Boeing duopoly for single-aisle aircraft seating between 150 and 190 passengers. Read More…

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Tablet computers will show American’s pilots the way

By Paul Ash | 21 June 2011
THE NEW FLIGHT BAG: iPads could replace conventional navigation systems such as paper charts

THE NEW FLIGHT BAG: iPads could replace conventional navigation systems such as paper charts

American Airlines is running a test programme for a navigation system based on Apple’s iPad. Part of the thinking behind the plan, sources say, is to do away with those bulky, heavy flight bags that pilots are so fond of and save the airline a pile of cash – as much as $1.2m a year. Read More…

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Six-Foot Flyer: Popping the double-deck cherry

By Paul Ash | 13 June 2011

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At last, I get to fly on Airbus’s much-over-hyped A380 double-decker routesmasher.

This is an aircraft I’ve been as shy of as horses are of snakes. It’s that fly-by-wire thing I like the least, not to mention a few episodes that made the news recently such as when an engine on a Qantas A380 self-destructed in flight.

So, when I saw it waiting at my gate in Frankfurt, I was not much amused. Read More…