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John Hamilton has been appointed, vice-president, WestJet Vacations.

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British Airways says small traces of radiation have been found on two of its aircraft by investigators looking into the death of a former Russian spy, wire services report.

El Al Israel Airlines reported on Wednesday a sharp decline in third-quarter net profit as a month-long war with Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon drove tourism down 31 percent.

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Fraport agreed to pay chemical group Celanese EUR650 million (USD$858 million) to move a chemical plant that had threatened its plans for a much-needed fourth runway at Frankfurt Airport.

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Aer Lingus said on Wednesday that Ryanair had increased its stake in the company to about 25 percent, as shares in the airline hit Ryanair's 2.80 euro offer price for the first time since November 9.

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A KLM Boeing 747 with 277 passengers bound for Bangkok had to turn back to Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport late on Monday after the plane took off with one of its doors slightly open, the airline said.

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US Airways will make its case for a takeover of bankrupt Delta Air Lines during a meeting this week with Delta and a key group of creditors, a lawyer for the creditors said on Tuesday.

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A potential merger between US Airways and Delta Air Lines would force the combined airline to shed some overlapping services, but the sale of assets could open the door to low-cost competitors and spark a new fare war.

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Italian airline Eurofly will start the first direct commercial flights between Rome and New Delhi in 2007 to tap demand from a burgeoning class of globetrotting Indians, company officials said on Tuesday.

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Aer Lingus said on Tuesday its scheduled passenger traffic rose 6.1 percent in October to 760,000 passengers compared with 716,000 in October 2005.

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Air Berlin's third-quarter sales and earnings rose sharply on strong bookings and the inclusion of September operations from recent purchase DBA.

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Malaysia Airlines reported a quarterly profit on Tuesday, breaking a sequence of five quarters of losses, despite high jet fuel costs and increased competition.

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Boeing got its second multi-billion dollar order in as many weeks on Tuesday, as German airline Air Berlin said it would spend USD$5.7 billion on new jets.

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Brazilian airline TAM Linhas Aereas said on Monday it expects to save BRL85 million reais (USD$38.7 million) a year by implementing a restructuring plan that calls for hiring previously outsourced workers.

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Delta Air Lines said on Monday its creditors agreed to allow the carrier to give retired pilots an additional USD$719 million in pre-petition claims to help them recoup lost pension benefits.

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