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- n your feet … flying at 30000 feet
- Kashmiri women lift veil eye career in the skies
- Boeing acquisition could land more aviation business
- Taxing aviation to pay for adaptation to climate change
- Catlin appoints quartet to aviation team
- United Airlines will offer nonstop service between Kansas City and …
n your feet … flying at 30000 feet
USA Today
At least two carriers one in Europe and one in Asia are seriously considering it. Spring Airlines a 4-year-old carrier that calls itself China’s first low-cost airline is seeking permission from that country’s aviation regulators to reconfigure its planes to allow some stand-up “seats. ” Standing passengers would pay less than their conventionally seated fellow travelers. The idea may not be dismissed out of hand by Chinese regulators because it was suggested by China Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang according to Air Transport Intelligence a website that focuses on global aviation industry news. Meanwhile Ireland’s.
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Kashmiri women lift veil eye career in the skies
Reuters
The inauguration of an international airport in Srinagar in February gave youngsters in Kashmir’s main city an alternative to traditional careers in medicine and teaching and the valley’s first aviation academy is now grooming them for the skies. “When this institute opened we got really excited” said Samiya Ayub a trainee cabin crew at Viinzs Aviation Training Institute which is located a short drive outside Srinagar. “We now have the opportunity to show the world that we can also become something in life” she told Reuters Television. The year-long training in grooming English and French languages ticketing and catering is no different from that offered by hundreds of similar institutes that mushroomed across India on the back of an aviation boom in a fast growing economy. But in Kashmir where tens of thousands of people have been killed since discontent against Indian rule turned into a rebellion in 1989 the institute is to many a god-send. With protests and violence almost a daily occurrence in Srinagar the institute chose to maintain a low-profile picking an out-of-town location so the women who often come in wearing burqas are safe.
Boeing acquisition could land more aviation business
Charleston Regional Business
While Fancher said that both Vought and Global Aeronautica were a part of that learning curve he also said that the companies struggled in equal proportion to Boeing?s other global partners. Scott Hamilton with Seattle-based Leeham Co. LLC a consulting firm that provides news and analysis on aviation matters said the announcement would seem to indicate that the Boeing plan didn?t go as blueprinted. ?therwise why would Boeing be reversing its ownership?? Hamilton said. ?Boeing has freely admitted it didn?t provide the oversight it should have. And Boeing has freely admitted it has made mistakes but they continue to say they believe the 787 production model is the model of the future. ? Hamilton said he was told by an industry insider that North Charleston is on the short list of cities under consideration for the second assembly line.
Taxing aviation to pay for adaptation to climate change
The Ecologist
Among these and thrown all too briefly into the UK media spotlight was a proposal from the Maldives to impose a levy on all international flights. Tabled on behalf of the 50 least-developed countries the aviation levy is intended to create revenues to fund climate change adaptation measures in developing countries. The political messages behind this proposal are very clear: that guaranteeing finance is a critical issue for developing countries at the talks and that international aviation which has escaped any global measures to date by virtue of its exclusion from the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol is a visible target for raising much-needed funds. The need to finance adaptation measures is clear and probably a critical component in obtaining the support of developing countries in Copenhagen. Fed up with the vague promise of financial support that in practice has delivered far less developing countries are now looking for certainty and find the idea of a dedicated fund appealing given the magnitude of the challenge. Gordon Brown recently announced that approximately $100 billion per annum is required by 2020 while many in the environmental sector argue that it will be at least double this amount.
Catlin appoints quartet to aviation team
Insurance Daily
Power’s appointment to senior underwriter is effective from 1 August and he will lead the firm’s airline underwriting team. Previously he worked for C. Starr & Company as airline practice leader and has also been an underwriter for Global Aerospace.
United Airlines will offer nonstop service between Kansas City and …
Bizjournals.com
The flight will run once daily each way and is timed to give passengers convenient connections to United’s departures to Hawaii and Asia the release said. United operates 15 daily flights from KCI to Denver Washington and Chicago said Justin Meyer the Aviation Department’s manager of air service development. United operates a hub at San Francisco International Airport with 258 daily departures to 71 nonstop destinations. The new flight will be scheduled to leave Kansas City at 8:51 a.