News 14/08/03

NEWS 14th AUGUST 2003

BA have now confirmed the tour airports around the UK. The following airports will get to see Concorde one last time:

Manchester
Belfast
Birmingham
Cardiff
Edinburgh

Dates to follow.

Toronto, Canada will also receive a visit from Concorde with a first come first serve flight from Toronto to London on October 1st
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Pictures have now been published, of the new interior on the NW A330 aircraft that they are to receive soon.

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Its here, and there’re real photos! Looking very nice, certainly an improvement on the older c/s.

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The Koda Air Cargo B707 that was impounded at SEN a few years back for drug smuggling has been given a new coat of paint and now displays the airlines new livery. The aircraft will be delivered back to Koda Air Cargo next month.

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A new Dutch airline is to bit hitting the skies soon, V-Bird airlines. The airline has just acquired its first A320 aircraft, seen in the picture below. Aircraft is an Ex-Skyservice A320, still bearing the Canadian Reg number.

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Flight KU542 was evacuated because of a bomb threat as it prepared to depart from Cairo to Kuwait yesterday. Passengers
used the escape slides to leave the aircraft.
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The fuselage sections for the first Boeing 777-200ER for KLM are joined together at the Boeing factory in Everett. This aircraft is due to be delivered in Oct03. KLM has 4 aircraft on order and has signed leases for 6.

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TAP Air Portugal is considering the lease of 5 A330 aircraft to replace its current fleet of A310 aircraft.
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