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June 06, 2008

Boeing, Blue Air Reach Agreement For Three Boeing 737-900ERs

Builds On Earlier Two-Plane Deal

Boeing and Romanian low-cost carrier Blue Air announced this week an agreement on an order for three Next-Generation 737-900ER jetliners.

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Aero-News Featured Aero-Casts For Friday 06.06.08

Advice For Aspiring Airline Pilots, From Someone Who's Been There

ANN Daily Touch N Go: 06.06.08 (ANN's Short-Form Daily News Program) ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 06.06.08 (ANN's Long-Form Daily News Program) ANN Special Feature -- Advice For Aspiring Airline Pilots: 06.06.08 (ANN Special Report, with airline captain, flight instructor, career counselor and author Karen Kahn.)

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Teamsters Agree To Wage Concessions At Frontier

Airline Employees Take One For The Team

It's an important step, one that Frontier Airlines hopes will help keep it in business as the carrier slogs through Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Frontier announced this week members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Union "overwhelmingly" voted to support temporary wage and benefit concessions requested by the company.

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Industry Pundit Predicts New Era In US Air Travel -- The Low-Cost Era

Says Legacies May Soon Disappear As Budget Carriers Reap Benefits

Some industry analysts and armchair pundits predict the current spike in fuel prices -- and resulting cutbacks in airline capacity, along with ever-climbing air fares -- may prove to have one unintended benefit for US carriers, and some travelers. Those persons predict that as fares climb, fewer "budget" flyers will fill the planes, resulting in lower passenger numbers for legacy carriers... but also a return to profitability, and possibly the return of some onboard amenities and service that had disappeared in the wake of cut-rate fares.

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Continental, ExpressJet Reach New Capacity Agreement

Seven-Year Deal Locks In Lower Rates

On the same day it announced massive cutbacks to its mainline fleet and operations, Continental Airlines also announced it reached a new seven-year capacity purchase agreement with ExpressJet Airlines, Inc. to provide regional jet service for Continental.

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Embraer Delivers Its 400th E-Jet

Republic Airways Will Fly Historic Bird

Aero-News has learned Embraer delivered its 400th E-Jet Thursday, in a ceremony held at the company’s headquarters in São José dos Campos, Brazil. The aircraft, an Embraer 175, was ordered by US-based Republic Airlines, a subsidiary of Republic Airways Holdings.

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