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The state council, Italy’s top administrative court, said the government must start organising another auction of the Italian low-cost airline Volare within 60 days, according to the documents of a court ruling made on September 29.

In March, the troubled state-controlled airline Alitalia SpA had won the first auction for Volare by offering 38M euros. But the acquisition was suspended by the state council after the Italian airline Air One appealed against a lower court clearing the operation.

source: Forbes

Iberia Lineas Aereas de Espana’s new low cost airline Clickair said it expects to book 260 M euros in revenues in 2007.

The airline, which recently began operations out of Barcelona’s El Prat airport, will have a fleet of 20 airplanes by end-2007, and 30 planes by end-2008, a Clickair spokeswoman said.

fuente: Forbes

Rescuers recovered the first two bodies from the wreckage of a crashed Brazilian passenger plane in the Amazon jungle on Sunday and reported that none of the 155 people on board had survived, the Brazilian Airforce said.

The crash of the brand-new Boeing 737-800 belonging to low-cost airline Gol is Brazil’s worst aviation disaster.

Search and rescue teams had to rappel down from helicopters while others hacked their way through thick jungle to reach the wreckage after the plane went down in remote Mato Grosso state on Friday.

source: Sidney Morning Herald

Low-fare carrier AirTran Airways Inc. said Wednesday it plans to delay the delivery of eight Boeing 737 aircraft that were scheduled to be delivered in 2007 and 2008.

The Orlando, Fla.-based airline, a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings Inc., said it is pushing back the delivery of five of the 19 aircrafts scheduled for delivery in 2007 and three of the 18 aircrafts planned for 2008. They will now be delivered between 2009 and 2011.

A pilots’ union that had threatened a two-day strike at Japan Airlines has called it off while the union and management keep talking to work out differences over the right to strike, an airline spokesman said Thursday.Japan Airlines Corp. had been in talks with one of its labor unions to avoid a strike on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 over new work conditions that will come about with the company’s planned integration of its domestic and international services.

source: chron.com

Typhoon Xangsane is unleashing fierce winds and rains as it slams into northern and central Philippines on Thursday, killing at least four people and shutting down the capital amid widespread floods, officials say.

The Manila airport general manager suspended all flights around noon (0400 GMT) because of electric power outages.

source: CNN

European Union countries have agreed to restrict the amount of liquids that airline passengers can take on board, as well as the size of hand luggage.

The tighter security measures have been drawn up after an alleged plot to blow up transAtlantic flights to the United States, using liquid chemicals, was uncovered last month.

The new rules will limit passengers to carry no more than 100 milliliters of liquid per container.

All liquid containers will also have to be carried in a clear plastic bag.

Hand luggage must measure no more than fifty-six by forty-five by twenty-five centimetres.

source: Newswire

It’s not exactly the Oscars but, in the mile-high world of entertainment, Qantas has no peer, the World Airline Entertainment Association says.

The association has named the Australian airline the world’s No. 1 carrier for in-flight entertainment for the fourth time in five years.

The honour was given at the association’s annual conference in Miami Beach this month. Qantas won three Avion Awards: for best overall in-flight entertainment, for best in-flight entertainment guide and for best entertainment for inseat systems (full cabin).

source: smh

Ryanair is offering to build a â?¬250 million ($319.5 million) “low-cost, efficient” new terminal at Dublin Airport, operated by itself or an independent operator, and is calling on the Dublin Airport Authority to “scrap” its proposal to build a â?¬760 million terminal that would increase passenger ticket taxes by as much as 25%. Ryanair argues that the proposed Terminal 2 is badly designed, in the wrong location and five times more expensive than similar facilities in the UK and Europe.

fuente: ATWonline

Brazil’s Gol said on Monday it will provide low-cost flights for up to 200,000 Chile-based passengers in its first year, but does not aim to compete with regional giant LAN Airlines for Chile’s domestic market, of which LAN has 73 percent.

Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes has launched two daily flights between Rio de Janeiro and Santiago with stop-overs in Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires, and another between Florianopolis and Santiago via Porto Alegre and Buenos Aires.

source: Reuters