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Spain-based travel firm Amadeus said on Monday it had started talks over taking control from Air France of a jointly-owned French unit.

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Europe's largest tourism company, TUI, plans to introduce fuel surcharges on flights for German leisure travelers from December 1 to counter the impact of record oil prices.

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Ottawa's aid package for jet maker Bombardier must be in place by February at the latest or it will be too late for Canada to remain in the aerospace industry, Transport Minister Jean Lapierre said on Monday.

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Europe's biggest budget airline Ryanair launched another European hub on Tuesday at Shannon Airport in the west of Ireland, and said it was also looking to expand in Italy.

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Working through the night to rebuild Frankfurt Airport's crumbling runway, workers face not only a "no-compromises deadline" to finish by dawn when jets start landing again but unexploded World War Two bombs as well.

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Britain's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on Tuesday proposed lowering the maximum charge airlines will pay to use UK airspace beginning in January, 2006.

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Dutch airline KLM, part of the world's biggest airline by sales, Air France-KLM, on Tuesday said it would appoint an Air France executive to the post of chief financial officer.

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National carrier Thai Airways said on Tuesday its annual profit fell 17 percent, despite higher passenger traffic, due to higher oil prices and foreign exchange losses.

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Italy's big three unions staged a nationwide strike on Tuesday to protest against the government's economic policies, in a show of strength the left said was the start of a campaign to unseat Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

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Boeing expects to have 200 orders by the end of the year for its 7E7 Dreamliner -- a rival to EADS' Airbus A350 long-haul passenger jet -- a Boeing manager was quoted as telling German paper Handelsblatt.

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The board of Airbus parent EADS will meet on Monday to discuss whether to go ahead with development of a plane to rival Boeing's 7E7, an industry source said on Friday.

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Airbus said it will temporarily move planned production of its A380 superjumbo to Toulouse in France from Hamburg because of a dispute over land needed for a runway extension.

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A Hamburg Lutheran bishop on Wednesday stepped in to help resolve a dispute over land needed for a planned runway extension at an Airbus plant after a church group that owns some of the land pulled out of talks.

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Italy's aviation authority has suspended Volare's flight licence for one month, citing the troubled airline's financial and operational problems, ENAC said in a statement on Wednesday.

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India's biggest domestic airline, Jet Airways, is considering an initial public offer of shares to fund growth as the aviation sector recovers after a slump in Asia's fourth-largest economy.

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