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SkyTeam alliance member Air France has ordered four more Boeing 777s.
The orders, revealed on Boeing’s orders and deliveries web site, were previously listed in the unidentified customer category of the site. Specific variants have not yet been disclosed.
According to Flight’s ACAS database, Air France already has standing orders for five 777-200LR freighters […]

Serbia is poised to begin the tender process to privatise flag carrier Jat Airways, as soon as details of the privatisation strategy are finalised. Efforts…

Pilots of the Kalitta Air Boeing 747-200 freighter destroyed after overrunning at Brussels rejected the take-off at about the same time as air traffic controllers observed a fire in one of the aircraft’s two right-hand engines.
The aircraft overran runway 20 by around 300m (985ft) and broke into three sections, its forward fuselage severed ahead […]

The world’s leading airline experts are united in their gloomy assessment of industry prospects
One word summed up the mood of the dozen global airline analysts polled in the run-up to IATA’s annual gathering by Airline Business editors about the industry’s prospects: pessimistic.
“It’s going to be ugly,” says Peter Harbison, executive chairman of the […]