Friday, 30 November 2012

Kingfisher pilots threaten to approach DGCA over salary dues

Banks say no word from Kingfisher even as deadline ends
Moneycontrol.com
Banks say no word from Kingfisher even as deadline ends. Lenders to Kingfisher Airlines said they are yet to hear from the grounded airline even as the deadline set by the bankers to bring in fresh equity of USD 1 billion ended today. Source: PTI ...
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Moneycontrol.com
Kingfisher pilots threaten to approach DGCA over salary dues
Hindu Business Line
Having failed to receive their May salary as assured by the management, theKingfisher Airlines' pilots have now threatened to approach the DGCA if they did not meet the commitment by today even as the regulator maintained that the issue is out of its ...
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Airplane Raffle Drawing Close, 150 More Tickets Need to be sold


Ex-'General Hospital' Star Booted Off Airplane -- Arrested for Public Intoxication
TMZ.com
1130_ashenafi_mugshot. Former "General Hospital" star Senait Ashenafi is the passenger from hell -- TMZ has learned, she was arrested at a Dallas airport for public intoxication last weekend ... after allegedly raising a drunken ruckus on board an ...
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Airplane mechanic charged in Iran deal
UPI.com
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Nov. 29 (UPI) -- An airplane mechanic living in Texas could spend 20 years in prison if he is convicted of trying to ship seven commercial jets to Iran, his lawyer says. Diocenyr Ribamar Barbosa-Santos, 52, of Fort Worth was ...
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Experimental aircraft buffs shocked at Ore. crash
San Francisco Chronicle
(AP) — The crash of a two-seater experimental airplane this week in the Willamette Valley has shocked people who build their own aircraft from kits or plans. They consider the plane designed by an Aurora company, Van's Aircraft, one of the most ...
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Airplane Raffle Drawing Close, 150 More Tickets Need to be sold
The Laconia Daily Sun
GILFORD — WinnAero, the aviation education for youth non-profit based at the Laconia Airport, is in the final weeks of raffle ticket sales for its refurbished Cessna 172 airplane plus $1,200 in cash. Bill Seed, WinnAero Board chair, hasannounced that ...
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Price Differential Causing Airplane Travel to Overtake Rails
The Moscow Times
The romantic role of train travel in Russian culture is slowly being unseated by crampedairplanes as flight tickets become more affordable and government subsidies for economy-class rail tickets are trimmed, according to a report from Metropol ...
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The Moscow Times
Airplane Donated To Augusta Tech's Thomson Aircraft Technology Training ...
WJBF-TV
It's still more than a month away from opening, but Augusta Technical College's new Aircraft Technology Training Complex in Thomson got a really big gift Thursday morning. WJBF News Channel 6's Brett Buffington was there as the present... (more) ...
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Air New Zeland Reveals Hobbit Airplane
mediabistro.com
As Peter Jackson's adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit heads to theaters (and courtrooms), Air New Zealand has unveiled an airplane with an enormous Hobbit-inspired mural. You can see the plane in action in the video embedded above. Here's more ...
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Ultralight plane & mismatched wings stolen in Peterborough
CityNews.ca
Officers were called to the Peterborough Municipal Airport on Wednesday where thieves, sometime overnight, broke into the Aerostrike Aviation Ultralight Flight School facility and took off with a plane and equipment — including two sets of airplane ...
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