The News Review:
- Drummer Sues Over Plane Crash
- Airport revenue dries up
- India’s Aviation Minister Patel Asks Carriers to Reduce Fares
- The Quest for Alternative Fuel in the Aviation Industry Takes Off
- Kwara Signs N1.5 Billion MOU On Aviation College
- Flybe urges govt to back regional aviation
Drummer Sues Over Plane Crash
New York Times, United States
Barker, the drummer for the defunct band Blink-182, filed suit against the plane’s owner, Global Exec Aviation, as well as Goodyear Tire and Rubber, a maintenance company and two charter companies that brokered the flight, which overshot a runway and caught fire on Sept. 19 at the Columbia Metropolitan Airport in South Carolina. Barker and a second passenger, Adam Goldstein, known as DJ AM, were burned in the accident, and two passengers and the pilot and co-pilot were killed.
Airport revenue dries up
Chicago Tribune, United States
5 million passengers will travel through O’Hare International and. 1, according to the Chicago Department of Aviation. Compared with an average day during the year, it represents thousands of additional people paying taxes on airline tickets, parking vehicles, renting cars and buying food, drinks and souvenirs, as well as headache medicine to cope with flight delays.
India’s Aviation Minister Patel Asks Carriers to Reduce Fares
Bloomberg
22 (Bloomberg) — India's airlines should cut fares asoil prices have dropped and the government has helped theindustry by scrapping a levy on aviation fuel, Aviation Minister. , the nation's largest refiner, cut jetfuel prices on Nov.
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The Quest for Alternative Fuel in the Aviation Industry Takes Off
RenewableEnergyWorld.com, NH
And while you may not be flying on an airplane powered by alternative fuel to get to Thanksgiving dinner this year, scientists are studying the possibilities now more than ever. With more than 75,000 scheduled commercial flights per day in the world, finding an alternative fuel source is crucial. The aviation industry produces only about one-ninth as much carbon dioxide as motor vehicles do. But, because these gases have a much greater impact on the upper layers of the atmosphere, scientists say the potential for danger is that much greater. As the aviation industry grows and newer aircraft are produced that can fly quieter and farther, alternative fuels that can power these flying machines would likely be the next logical, eco-friendly step in their development. The airlines are actively working to reduce their emissions. Over the last 30 years, U.
Kwara Signs N1.5 Billion MOU On Aviation College
TMCnet
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Kwara Signs N1. Special Assistant to Governor Bukola Saraki on Communication and Strategy, Mr Akintoba Fatigun, said the establishment of the college, which would be for the training of pilots, would cost N1. According to him, the conclusion of the deal would make the state, the first state to consumate a public-private partnership in the aviation sector.
Flybe urges govt to back regional aviation
Just the Flight, UK
The airline issued what it described as a "challenge" to Mr Darling not to treat the aviation industry as a "cheap tax grab". Flybe’s statement was prompted by speculation that the chancellor is planning to boost public funds by increasing air passenger duty (APD) in today’s report. Jim French, the airline’s chairman and chief executive officer, said: "The government has spent billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money on bailing out the bankers in London and surely now it’s the turn of hard-working families who save up for their annual holiday. "Slapping a further tax on holiday flights and business travel will be the clearest message yet that the government will support the Square Mile while the UK regions are hung out to dry.