http://www.flypoland.com Airline news, last minutes offers - fly to Poland Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:54:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Both the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and flight data recorder (FDR) from the Air New Zealand (ANZ) Airbus A320 that crashed in France last week were badly... http://www.flypoland.com/recorders-from-crashed-a320-badly-damaged-anz.html Aer Lingus has formally rejected the proposed all-cash acquisition of the carrier by Irish budget airline Ryanair. The board of Aer Lingus says the... http://www.flypoland.com/aer-lingus-board-rejects-ryanair-takeover-offer.html Embraer is maintaining the expectation that the E-190 will secure steep approach certification next year, but is staying mum about a slight slip in the timeline... http://www.flypoland.com/e-190-steep-approach-trials-slip-but-09-certification-still-planned.html The crew of a US Airways Express Dash-8 that was forced to land at the Philadelphia International Airport with its nose wheel landing gear retracted on the... http://www.flypoland.com/ntsb-dash-8-crew-departed-despite-%e2%80%9ccreaking-and-groaning-noise%e2%80%9d.html Emirates has commenced Airbus A380 services on the Dubai-London Heathrow route today, with the first flight conducted with the carrier's third example of... http://www.flypoland.com/pictures-emirates-a380-begins-dubai-heathrow-flights.html Nigerian carrier Arik Air has formally taken delivery of its first Airbus A340-500 during an event at the airframer's Toulouse headquarters. http://www.flypoland.com/nigerias-arik-air-takes-delivery-of-first-a340-500.html Budget carrier Ryanair is making a fresh takeover bid for rival Irish airline Aer Lingus, saying its planned all-cash offer values the company at €748 million... http://www.flypoland.com/ryanair-launches-fresh-takeover-bid-for-aer-lingus.html Inquiries into the Airbus A320 accident in the Mediterrean Sea have prompted Air New Zealand to postpone until next year a test flight using biofuel... http://www.flypoland.com/biofuel-747-flight-on-hold-as-anz-copes-with-a320-crash.html Edward Lucas re-posts The Economist's obits of Mieczyslaw Rakowski, a Polish Communist journalist and politician, who died on Nov. 8, and of Boris Fyodorov, a Russian economic reformer, who died on Nov. 20. Borut Peterlin notes the death of Vilko Filač, the “cameraman of Emir Kusturica’s best movies.” http://www.flypoland.com/central-eastern-europe-obituaries.html Discussions on whether Poland is a “racist country” - at the POLSKI blog, Raf Uzar, and Eternal Remont. http://www.flypoland.com/poland-a-racist-country.html