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		<title>Europe Delays Introduction of Body Scanners</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[European Union (EU) lawmakers (EU-MPs) have delayed the installation of full body scanners or millimeter wave scanners at European Airports which takes an X-ray picture to view &#8220;under the clothes&#8221; outline image of the person, an alternative to pat down search. EU MPs passed a resolution to conduct further study on privacy and health implication [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=airlinerblog.wordpress.com&blog=3275924&post=408&subd=airlinerblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ryanair plans to start &#8220;no-frills transatlantic&#8221; service</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ryanair, Europe&#8217;s largest low cost airline headquartered in Dublin and well known for its cheap fares within Europe, is planning to launch a transatlantic &#8220;budget&#8221; airline between US and Europe in less than 3 years time. The airline will be operating a fleet of new aircrafts by picking up cancelled aircraft orders at Airbus and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=airlinerblog.wordpress.com&blog=3275924&post=387&subd=airlinerblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jet Republic: New private jet company</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new &#8220;fractional ownership and block charter company&#8221; has been launched (at a launch event at Farnborough Airport) in Europe that seeks to challenge NetJets Europe. The airline is called Jet Republic will be based in Lisbon, Portugal and will fly to more than 1000 airports in Europe (including UK). The company has already placed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=airlinerblog.wordpress.com&blog=3275924&post=346&subd=airlinerblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lufthansa Buys 45% of Brussels Air</title>
		<link>http://airlinerblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/lufthansa-buys-45-of-brussels-air/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Europe&#8217;s second largest airline, Lufthansa announced that it agreed to buy 45% of Belgian Airline, Brussels Air for 65 million euros or $92 million. The German based carrier has an option to buy the remaining 55% of the company starting 2011 which might (depends on performance related factors in 2010) bring the total price to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=airlinerblog.wordpress.com&blog=3275924&post=319&subd=airlinerblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Merger Update: British Airways and Iberia Airlines in merger talks</title>
		<link>http://airlinerblog.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/merger-update-british-airways-and-iberia-airlines-in-merger-talks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ +  Higher oil prices have driven airlines to different solutions like capacity reduction, merger related synergies, airfare increase, charging for the usual freebies, etc.
British Airways and Spain&#8217;s flag carrier Iberia (or Iberia, Líneas Aéreas de España, S.A. ) are deep in merger talks with Iberia &#8220;have taken direct/indirect 10% stake in British rival&#8221;. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=airlinerblog.wordpress.com&blog=3275924&post=268&subd=airlinerblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pilots Strike Again: Luftansa cancels 990 Flights</title>
		<link>http://airlinerblog.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/pilots-strike-again-luftansa-cancels-990-flights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last time pilots strike at Lufthansa over pay caused 44 flight cancellations. This time the strike caused to ground a quarter of the flights with 990 cancellations (465 domestic and regional flights on July 22nd and 525 flights today on July 23rd 2008). Lufthansa is offering the affected passengers to rebook on other flights or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=airlinerblog.wordpress.com&blog=3275924&post=252&subd=airlinerblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lufthansa: Worker strike causes 44 flight cancellations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Luthansa (or Deutsche Luftansa AG), flag carrier of Germany and second largest airline in Europe, canceled 44 flights and delayed many more after its workers in Frankgurt, Munich, Stuttgart and Cologne walked off the job to press for higher pay raise. Lufthansa has earlier offered 5.5% raise in two steps instead of the union&#8217;s request [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=airlinerblog.wordpress.com&blog=3275924&post=215&subd=airlinerblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>European Union allows Cell Phone Service on Planes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Today (April 7th 2008), European Union took the decision to take off the ban on the use of cell phones in flight for its 27-nation-bloc.
Facts about the decision -

The flight&#8217;s captain will have the power to turn off the service anytime
The service will be blocked during takeoff and landing (allowed to turn on after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=airlinerblog.wordpress.com&blog=3275924&post=60&subd=airlinerblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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