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‫يصش نهط‪ٛ‬شاٌ نهخذياث انجٕ‪ٚ‬ت حبذأ حذذ‪ٚ‬ذ أعطٕل ع‪ٛ‬اسحٓا‬ ‫قال يجذٖ ػهٕاٌ سئ‪ٛ‬ظ يجهظ إداسة ششكت يصش نهط‪ٛ‬شاٌ نهخذياث انجٕ‪ٚ‬ت‬ ‫إَّ ف‪ ٙ‬إطاس انخذذ‪ٚ‬ذ انشايم نكم ػُاصش اإلَخاج بذأث انششكت ف‪ ٙ‬حذذ‪ٚ‬ذ‬ ‫أعطٕل ع‪ٛ‬اساث َقم انٕجباث ٔانخذياث انجٕ‪ٚ‬ت ‪.‬‬ ‫ٔأٔضخ ػهٕاٌ ‪ -‬ف‪ ٙ‬حصش‪ٚ‬خ صذف‪ ٙ‬ان‪ٕٛ‬و "انجًؼت" ‪ -‬أَّ حى ٔضغ خطت‬ ‫نخٕس‪ٚ‬ذ ‪ 18‬ع‪ٛ‬اسة ْا٘ نٕدس دذ‪ٚ‬ثت يٍ أنًاَ‪ٛ‬ا ٔصهج أٔل ع‪ٛ‬اسح‪ْ ٍٛ‬زا‬ ‫األعبٕع ‪ٔ ،‬ع‪ٛ‬خى حٕس‪ٚ‬ذ باق‪ ٙ‬انغ‪ٛ‬اساث حباػا ػهٗ يذاس انثالد انغُٕاث‬ ‫انقاديت دخٗ َٓا‪ٚ‬ت انؼاو انًان‪. 2017/2018 ٙ‬‬ ‫ٔأشاس إنٗ أٌ ْزِ انغ‪ٛ‬اساث يجٓضة بأدذد أعان‪ٛ‬ب انخبش‪ٚ‬ذ نذفظ األطؼًت‬ ‫ٔانًششٔباث ف‪ ٙ‬دسجت حبش‪ٚ‬ذ يُاعبت ف‪ ٙ‬يشدهت انُقم يٍ يطابخ اإلػذاد‬ ‫بانششكت دخٗ حغه‪ًٓٛ‬ا ػهٗ انطائشة ‪ ،‬يُْٕا إنٗ أٌ انغ‪ٛ‬اساث يضٔدة بأدذد‬ ‫أعان‪ٛ‬ب االحصال ٔكاي‪ٛ‬شاث انًشاقبت نخٕف‪ٛ‬ش أػهٗ َظى انغاليت ٔاألياٌ‪ ،‬كًا أٌ‬ ‫إيكاَ‪ٛ‬اث ْزِ انغ‪ٛ‬اساث انذذ‪ٚ‬ثت حغاػذْا نهٕصٕل السحفاع ‪ 6‬أيخاس ؛ يًا‬ ‫‪ٚ‬ؤْهٓا بغٕٓنت نخذيت طشاصاث انطائشاث انؼش‪ٚ‬ضت انذجى ٔاالسحفاع‪.‬‬

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‫يصش نهط‪ٛ‬شاٌ حخغهى ع‪ٛ‬اسح‪ ٍٛ‬نُقم انٕجباث‬ ‫صشح يجذٖ ػهٕاٌ سئ‪ٛ‬ظ يجهظ إداسة ششكت يصش نهط‪ٛ‬شاٌ نهخذياث انجٕ‪ٚ‬ت‬ ‫بأَّ فٗ إطاس انخذذ‪ٚ‬ذ انشايم نكم ػُاصش اإلَخاج بذأث انششكت فٗ حذذ‪ٚ‬ذ‬ ‫أعطٕل ع‪ٛ‬اساث َقم انٕجباث ٔانخذياث انجٕ‪ٚ‬ت‪.‬‬ ‫ٔقذ حى ٔضغ خطت نخٕس‪ٚ‬ذ ػذد ‪ 18‬ع‪ٛ‬اسة ْا٘ نٕدس دذ‪ٚ‬ثت يٍ أنًاَ‪ٛ‬ا ٔصهج‬ ‫أٔل ع‪ٛ‬اسح‪ْ ٍٛ‬زا اإلعبٕع ٔع‪ٛ‬خى حٕس‪ٚ‬ذ باق‪ ٙ‬انغ‪ٛ‬اساث حباػا ػهٗ يذاس انثالد‬ ‫انغُٕاث انقاديت دخٗ َٓا‪ٚ‬ت انؼاو انًان‪ ْٙٔ 2017/2018 ٙ‬ع‪ٛ‬اساث يجٓضة‬ ‫بأدذد أعان‪ٛ‬ب انخبش‪ٚ‬ذ نذفظ األطؼًت ٔانًششٔباث فٗ دسجت حبش‪ٚ‬ذ يُاعبت فٗ‬ ‫يشدهت انُقم يٍ يطابخ اإلػذاد بانششكت دخٗ حغه‪ًٓٛ‬ا ػهٗ انطائشة ٔانغ‪ٛ‬اساث‬ ‫يضٔدة بأدذد أعان‪ٛ‬ب االحصال ٔكاي‪ٛ‬شاث انًشاقبت نخٕف‪ٛ‬ش أػه‪َ ٙ‬ظى انغاليت‬ ‫ٔاألياٌ نألشخاص ٔانًشكبت كًا اٌ إيكاَ‪ٛ‬اث ْزِ انغ‪ٛ‬اساث انذذ‪ٚ‬ثت حغاػذْا‬ ‫نهٕصٕل السحفاع ‪6‬يخشاث يًا ‪ٚ‬ؤْهٓا بغٕٓنت نخذيت طشاصاث انطائشاث‬ ‫انؼش‪ٚ‬ضت انذجى ٔاالسحفاع‪.‬‬ ‫يٍ َاد‪ٛ‬ت أخش٘ ٔف‪ ٙ‬حقه‪ٛ‬ذ جذ‪ٚ‬ذ اَخٓجخّ ششكت يصش نهط‪ٛ‬شاٌ نهخذياث انجٕ‪ٚ‬ت‬ ‫قاو يجذ٘ ػهٕاٌ سئ‪ٛ‬ظ يجهظ إداسة انششكت ٔانط‪ٛ‬اس ْشاو انُذاط سئ‪ٛ‬ظ‬ ‫يجهظ إداسة ششكت يصش نهط‪ٛ‬شاٌ نهخطٕط انجٕ‪ٚ‬ت بخكش‪ٚ‬ى ػذد يٍ أفشاد‬ ‫انض‪ٛ‬افت انجٕ‪ٚ‬ت انهز‪ ٍٚ‬قايٕا بخذق‪ٛ‬ق أػه‪ ٙ‬يب‪ٛ‬ؼاث نغهغ انب‪ٛ‬غ ػه‪ ٙ‬انطائشاث‬ ‫خالل االشٓش انغج انًاض‪ٛ‬ت ٔرنك بًُخ انًخً‪ٛ‬ض‪ ٍٚ‬يُٓى جٕائض يان‪ٛ‬ت ٔشٓاداث‬ ‫حكش‪ٚ‬ى نخذف‪ٛ‬ضْى ػه‪ ٙ‬بزل انًض‪ٚ‬ذ يٍ انجٓذ ف‪ ٙ‬حذق‪ٛ‬ق اػه‪ ٙ‬يب‪ٛ‬ؼاث خالل‬ ‫انفخشة انقاديت‪.‬‬

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United Airlines considers making seats smaller on long, vacation-destination flights

United Airlines wants to add 100 more seats to its Boeing 777s. (The Associated Press) Douglas Perry | The Oregonian/OregonLive By Douglas Perry | The Oregonian/OregonLive Email the author | Follow on Twitter on February 06, 2015 at 7:32 AM, updated February 06, 2015 at 10:08 AM Airlines have shaved nearly 2 inches off the width of most seats, allowing flyers to feel swaddled like babies We all know why air travel can be so unpleasant: the seats are too large. You feel like you're swimming in that thing. It's impossible to get comfortable.

Fortunately, airlines are addressing this problem.

Many have shaved nearly two inches off the width of the average economy-class seat, allowing flyers to feel swaddled like babies. As it turned out, this was a win-win: it allowed the airlines to add a whole additional seat to each row.

Industry publication Aviation Daily reported this week that United Airlines is thinking about joining the crowd: the airline is considering reducing the size of its seats.

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(continue) United is weighing the creation of a "high-density Boeing 777 subfleet with 10 seats across -- rather than nine -- in regular economy class and a smaller than usual business class cabin." United chiefly uses Boeing 777s on Hawaii routes and on flights between the East Coast and Europe.

In other words, they want to make sure your next vacation gets off to a good start.

This change would mean more than 100 additional seats on the plane, bringing the total up to 364. It would put United in line with American Airlines' Boeing 777 configuration. "We evaluate lots of options across our fleet and haven't made any further announcements specific to the 777 fleet," a United spokesman told The Guardian newspaper.

The comfort provided by airline seats has recently led to passengers coming up with "hacks" to make life even more pleasant during their travels. Last fall, a United passenger's use of the "Knee Defender" -- a product that prevents the person in the seat in front of the user from reclining -- caused a brouhaha that went viral. The airline had to divert a flight from Newark, N.J., to Denver because a fight broke out between the Knee Defender user and the wannabe recliner he blocked from reclining. The police and the TSA investigated, but ended up calling the incident "a customer-service issue."

United soon may have more of those.

http://www.nytimes.com Open-Skies Agreements Challenged For more than two decades, domestic airlines and successive administrations have pushed for, and achieved, broad international agreements that have fostered greater competition, lower airfares and more flights to hundreds of destinations like Tokyo, Beijing and Rio de Janeiro.

But now, with the rise of Persian Gulf airlines and other nimble foreign carriers, those pacts, called open-skies agreements, are under attack from an unlikely alliance of domestic airlines and unions.

The chief executives of American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines recently joined together to quietly lobby the Obama administration to restrict access by fastgrowing rivals based in the Persian Gulf. They cited unfair competition from the Middle East carriers Emirates, Etihad Airlines and Qatar Airways, which they say receive large government subsidies that put domestic carriers at a disadvantage.

This comes as another foreign airline, Norwegian Air Shuttle, is facing opposition from pilot unions and some domestic airlines to expand low-cost flights from Europe and Asia. The Transportation Department is reviewing Norwegian’s application, but delays have prompted a complaint by European Union officials.

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(continue) Legacy airlines, which have traditionally backed openskies policies to expand their markets, are now rebelling against the sort of competition that these policies are meant to bring about.

The push has gained their rivals’ attention. Tim Clark, the president of Emirates, said their attacks threaten “the bedrock of the modern-day aviation system.”

“By challenging open skies, you are not just challenging the aero-political situation, you are challenging the very essence of economic liberalization that the U.S. has championed for decades,” Mr. Clark said in an interview.

“I hope the administration will not stand for this nonsense.”

Last week, the top executives from Delta, American and United met with several government officials, including Anthony Foxx, the transportation secretary, and Penny Pritzker, the commerce secretary, and requested that existing open-skies agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Qatar be renegotiated.

“We welcome robust competition provided the playing field is level,” all three airlines said in similar statements. “A reopening of those open-skies agreements is the first step and the right step to ensure competition is preserved and enhanced.”

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(continue) This is the latest skirmish in a long-running battle that Western airlines have been waging against the fast-growing Middle East carriers. Some European countries curtail flights from the United Arab Emirates, and Canada has placed restrictions on the number of flights from there as well.

The three gulf carriers have expanded their operations into the United States in recent years, though they do not compete directly with domestic airlines. Emirates flies to nine United States cities from its hub in Dubai. Delta and United have only one daily flight each to Dubai and none to Abu Dhabi.

Continue reading the main story Gulf carriers are more threatening to the European allies of United States carriers, which have had more direct competition for a lot longer. Through their partnerships, all three big United States airlines have business ventures with a major European airline, sharing revenue and profits on trans-Atlantic flights: Delta with Air France, American with British Airways, and United with Lufthansa, the German carrier.

The domestic airlines’ change of heart about open-skies agreements is an abrupt shift after decades of pushing for them. Since 1992, the United States has signed more than 100 open-skies agreements, a policy that usually gets the strongest backing from the domestic carriers. Last year, Delta’s chief executive, Richard Anderson, called on Japan’s government to expand competition.

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(continue) But it is the stunning ascent of the Persian Gulf carriers — Dubai’s airport is now the world’s busiest international air travel hub — that now concerns the domestic airlines.

Mr. Anderson has become their most vocal critic, championing what he calls “fair skies” instead of open skies.

Last year, Delta sought to block gulf carriers from receiving American loan guarantees through the ExportImport Bank to buy new jets from Boeing. It also tried to block Emirates from flying a new route between New York and Milan, and took the matter before an Italian court.

Mr. Clark said Emirates did not receive any subsidies from the Dubai government. And in a sharp retort to Mr. Anderson, Mr. Clark warned that focusing on government subsidies could backfire since many airlines around the world were supported by governments.

“If you go down this minefield, you must ask yourself,” he said, “to what extent all the foreign carriers serving the U.S. are subsidized? Take China, take Thailand, take Malaysia, take Japan, take New Zealand. I could go on forever.”

Gulf carriers have succeeded by creating new markets that domestic airlines were not serving, Mr. Clark said.

Emirates, for instance, offers connections between Seattle and Hyderabad in India, with a single stop in Dubai. The service is popular among the large population of technology workers with Indian origins.

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(continue) B“Look at where these people are going and ask yourself where was Delta, where was United, where was American when the world was becoming more globalized?” he said.

The latest talk of restricting flights has also divided the industry. Consumer advocates point out that opening new markets benefited travelers in the United States and abroad. Airports in the United States also welcome the extra traffic from the Middle East and beyond.

“Historically, shifts toward protectionism have ended up hurting markets and choking off growth and job creation,” the United States Travel Association said in a statement this week. “Travel to and within the United States has lately been under assault from protectionist, anticompetitive forces, and the move against open skies is the latest example.”

Not all domestic airlines are pushing against open skies.

Robin Hayes, JetBlue’s chief executive, expressed strong support in a letter to three cabinet members, including Secretary of State John Kerry.

The first open-skies agreements between the United States and the U.A.E. and Qatar were signed in 1999. Both countries are major United States allies in the Middle East. Last year, in a move that angered domestic carriers, the United States established a customs and immigration pre-clearance facility in the Abu Dhabi airport, which allows passengers flying into the United States to clear immigration before the flight.

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(continue) Supporters of open skies point out that United States carriers have received government support in the past.

Delta, American and United, for example, have been granted far-reaching antitrust immunity to set up joint ventures with rival carriers on some specific routes to Europe and Asia.

“Now that U.S. airlines have secured antitrust immunity, industry consolidation and concomitantly rising airfares and ancillary fees, and are achieving record unprecedented profits, some carriers shamelessly seek to close off U.S. markets to competition from foreign carriers,” Kevin Mitchell, the chairman of the Business Travel Coalition, a trade group, wrote in a letter to various government officials.

A spokesman for the Transportation Department, Brian Farber, said the administration was taking the airlines’ concerns seriously and was reviewing them.

Still, he said that the administration “remains committed to the open-skies policy which has greatly benefited the traveling public, the U.S. aviation industry, American cities and the broader U.S. economy through increased travel and trade, and job growth.”

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Big U.S. Airlines Fault Persian Gulf Carriers Three U.S. Airline CEOs Say State-Owned Gulf Carriers Are Distorting Air Transportation The chief executives of the three largest U.S. airlines said they are pressing the government to modify or— lacking substantive remedies—annul air treaties with two Persian Gulf nations. The CEOs cited what they claim are subsidies and government industrial policies that favor three of the Gulf region’s fast-growing carriers, distorting global air transportation.

The heads of American Airlines Group Inc., United Continental Holdings Inc. and Delta Air Lines Inc. said in a joint interview Thursday that the three state-owned Gulf airlines have received $42.3 billion in “quantifiable” subsidies since 2004, accompanied by other benefits including breaks on local airport infrastructure and services, exemptions from corporate taxes and advantages from “opaque” related-party transactions.

The U.S. executives said the policies are giving a big leg up to Emirates Airline, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways, helping them expand globally by stimulating low-fare traffic through their hubs. More recently, the three Gulf carriers have targeted growth to U.S. airports, where they can fly freely and set prices without restriction due to “open skies” treaties between the U.S. and the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.

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(continue) The routes from the Gulf region to the U.S. haven’t produced a meaningful increase in passenger traffic, the U.S. carriers said in a 55-page briefing paper being circulated to officials of the departments of Transportation, State and Commerce, among others.

Instead, the new routes “serve to displace the market share of U.S. airlines and to shift good aviation jobs overseas.”

The three Gulf carriers have boosted the number of daily seats between their hubs and the U.S. by 11,000 since 2008, the document says. But the number of daily bookings between those airports and the U.S., in both directions, which were 2,500 a day in 2008, were up just 85 a day by 2014. The bulk of the U.S. passengers using the Gulf carriers are traveling beyond Dubai, Doha or Abu Dhabi to destinations such as India and Southeast Asia and that hits the U.S. airlines and their Asian and European partners right where it hurts. Doug Parker , American’s chief executive, said his team wants to begin flights to India. But the routes won’t justify themselves, he said, because the fares are so low. And Richard Anderson , Delta’s CEO, said his airline is leaving the Indian market altogether for the same reason.

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(continue) Kevin Mitchell of OpenSkies.travel, a grouping of tourism and airline interests, wrote to the three U.S. departments last week, expressing “deep concerns” about the U.S. airline CEOs’ lobbying efforts. He said that after the mergers of six U.S. carriers into three and a situation where the top four airlines control 80% of the U.S. market, “some…shamelessly seek to close off U.S. markets to competition from foreign carriers.”

In a recent interview, Emirates President Tim Clark said the U.S. airlines’ claims are “outrageous, unsubstantiated [and] incorrect.” He said that his company isn’t dumping capacity or selling below cost and is profitable on every route it operates from the U.S. “Tell us where the subsidies are,” he added. Etihad and Qatar declined to comment.

Emirates, now the No. 1 international airline by capacity, said it files public financial statements annually that are audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Etihad and Qatar have repeatedly denied they are subsidized.

U.S. carriers have been worried about the Gulf carriers since at least 2012, concerned about losing some of their most lucrative international passengers and alarmed by their rivals’ big buildup of U.S. routes. In 2013, United, Delta, the U.S. trade association Airlines for America, and the largest U.S. pilot union, Air Line Pilots Association, International launched legal and political challenges, and Delta suggested that the U.S. revisit some of its air treaties.

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Taiwan Airline Crash Highlights Safety Challenges in Rapidly Growing Market

The deadly crash of a TransAsia plane into a river in Taiwan is again focusing the world’s attention on the safety challenges facing fast-growing Asian airlines.

TransAsia has been adding new routes rapidly since the Taiwanese carrier went public in 2011. TransAsia and others like it are rushing to keep up with a travel boom driven by the region’s growing middle class.

The ease and increasing affordability of flying helps fuel economic growth and a better lifestyle for Asian consumers. But as airlines carry more passengers across increasingly crowded skies, they are also racing to train enough pilots.

“The demand is almost exceeding the supply,” says John M. Cox, who spent 25 years flying for US Airways and is now CEO of consultancy Safety Operating Systems.

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(continue) Quickly-growing airlines need to maintain standards as they hire more pilots, maintenance workers, dispatchers and flight attendants. Cox says the Asian carriers are currently meeting those marks, but it’s a big challenge.

TransAsia Airways Flight 235 crashed Wednesday shortly after takeoff from Taipei, Taiwan, with 58 people aboard. Dramatic video from a car’s dashboard camera captured the moment that the plane, tilting madly, clipped a bridge before landing in a shallow river. At least 26 people were killed.

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EgyptAir Opens New Route Between Jakarta and Cairo Jakarta. Egypt’s national flag carrier, EgyptAir, on Thursday opened a new route from Jakarta to Cairo in a bid to capitalize on the growing number of Indonesians looking to travel to the North African country.

The airline will fly passengers with a Boeing 777-300ER, which has a capacity of 368 passengers, every Thursday and Sunday. Flights are via Bangkok.

“The flight is still twice a week, but we hope soon enough that it would be four times a week,” said Peter Setiono, general services administration director of EgyptAir Indonesia, on Thursday.

Speaking at the official launch of the new route in Jakarta, Peter said that every year there was higher demand for flights to Cairo and the company was trying to meet it.

Established in 1932, EgyptAir currently flies to 75 destinations in 60 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States. In Southeast Asia, the airline also operates in Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore.

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Kuwaiti firm gets 48 year build and operate contract for Iraq airport The regional government has agreed a 45-year deal with the Kuwaiti company.

The 17 square kilometer site will be used for the first phase, with a similar area put aside for future development Speaking at the signing ceremong, the Governor of Diwaniya, Ammar Al-Madani, said the project will create some 8,000 jobs for the residents of the governorate, and that 10 percent of its revenues will go to the provincial government. See more at: http://www.arabianaerospace.aero/kuwaiti-firmgets-48-year-build-and-operate-contract-for-iraqairport.html#sthash.9pscZfY2.dpuf

http://www.arabianaerospace.aero Egis upgrades airfield facilities at Riyadh Airport The King Khaled International Airport is currently undergoing a large development and expansion programme that aims at increasing capacity in a near future.

Serving the Saudi capital, King Khaled International Airport is the second biggest airport in Saudi Arabia, after Jeddah Airport.

Today the airport hosts circa 20 million passengers each year and the current expansion programme will extend capacity to 35Mmillion Egis was nominated as design consultant of Almabani. For the first time in the airport infrastructure domain Egis will perform the full design under the BIM (Building Information Modeling) concept. Egis will also provide full technical support during construction.

The scope of works for this project covers the following airside facilities: new taxiways; new cargo apron; rehabilitation of existing taxiways; extension of the existing fuel line; and miscellaneous drainage improvements.

Egis is already working on an ongoing project at Riyadh Airport and providing technical support to the Saudi Arabian Trading and Construction Company (SATCO) for an operations & maintenance contract of airside equipment & systems. Egis’s scope of works covers the new Passenger Boarding Bridges (PBBs), 400Hz power units and preconditioned air (PCA) systems.

Through this new project, Egis reinforces its position as a partner of choice for Thanks to a complementary expertise in airport and air traffic management (ATM), Egis is also currently working on another major neighbouring airport on integration and validation activities for ATM equipment in an air traffic control tower.

http://profit.ndtv.com India's Air Passenger Traffic Grows by 8% in 2014: IATA Air passenger traffic in India saw an eight per cent growth last year compared to 2013, the highest after China and Russia, even as global traffic rose by 5.9 per cent, according to data released by International Air Transport Association (IATA).

Also, the passenger carrying capacity in India rose by 5.7 per cent in 2014 with a 76.3 per cent load factor or capacity utilisation.

According to IATA, the global industry out-performed the 10-year average growth rate of 5.6 per cent. Air passenger traffic in China rose by 11 per cent, helping to drive global air travel performance upward while travel demand in Russia grew by 9.8 per cent during this period.

Besides, the Asia Pacific carriers recorded an increase of 5.8 per cent in traffic, which was the largest increase among the three biggest regions compared to 2013, IATA said.

Overall, a record 3.3 billion passengers boarded aircraft globally last year, an increase of 170 million from 2013, it said. "Demand for passenger business did well in 2014.

With a 5.9 per cent expansion of demand, the industry outperformed the 10-year average growth rate," IATA director general and chief executive Topny Tyler said in a release.

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(continue) The 2014 performance was also above the 5.2 per cent annual growth experienced in 2013 compared to 2012, Mr Tyler said.

Carriers in the Middle-east posted double-digit growth while results in Africa were barely above previous-year levels.

"While it is clear that people will continue to travel in growing numbers, there have been signs in recent months that softening business confidence is translating into a levelling off of international travel demand," Mr Tyler said.

IATA, however, noted that traffic has been broadly flat over the past four months or so amid signs of a slowdown in regional production activity, despite trade volumes having remained strong.

"In the aftermath of the Greek elections and the intensifying debate on how to deliver a dynamic economic programme for Europe, we must not forget the power of air connectivity to create growth," Mr Tyler said.

Governments can kick-start economic development by reducing passenger taxes that depress demand for air transport, costing jobs and prosperity, he said, adding that there are already some positive signs in this direction.

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Airfare War Hots Up as IndiGo Announces Rs 1,499 Offer to Take on SpiceJet Budget carrier IndiGo on Thursday announced allinclusive fares starting Rs 1,499 to take on its rival SpiceJet, which has come up with a series of discounted offers over the past two weeks. IndiGo's starting price for air tickets is priced Rs 100 lower than SpiceJet's 'Special Valentine' Rs 1,599 offer.

(Read:SpiceJet Sale is Back, Tickets From Rs 1,599) Seats under IndiGo's promotional offer, however, are available on select routes such as Delhi-Jaipur and are valid on bookings made 90 days before travel date.

SpiceJet's promotional offer, open till February 6, is applicable on travel between February 14 and April 15, 2015.

The trend for massive discounts on airfares was started

by SpiceJet last year and it seems that the new management led by co-founder Ajay Singh is comfortable with the airline's aggressive strategy.

SpiceJet's 'Super Sale' offer for 5 lakh seats, announced on January 28, resulted in a whopping 400 per cent jump in bookings, the airline has claimed.

Loss-making SpiceJet was grounded briefly in December 2014 because of a cash crunch. IndiGo, one of the few profitable airlines, is India's biggest carrier by market share.

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2015 Air Transport News Awards finalists announced Air Transport news is pleased to announce the finalists the 2015 Air Transport News awards. The finalists (in alphabetical order) in each category are: Regional Aircraft Manufacturer of the Year -ATR -Bombardier -Embraer Aircraft Manufacturer of the Year -Airbus -Antonov -Boeing Engine Manufacturer of the Year -CFM -GE -Rolls-Royce Ground Handler of the Year -Aviapartner -Dnata -Goldair Handling -Servisair -Swissport

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(continue) IT Company of the Year -Accelya -Aviaso -Amadeus -Lufthansa Systems -SITA MRO Company of the Year -AFI KLM E&M -Lufthansa Technik -Sabena technics -TAP Maintenance & Engineering -Turkish Airlines Technic Airport of the Year under 10 Million Passengers -AĂŠroport de Bordeaux -Dubai World Central Al Maktoum International Airport -Enfidha Hammamet International Airport -Joao Paulo II Airport -London City Airport Airport of the Year 10-30 Million Passengers -Abu Dhabi International Airport -Aeroport International de Geneve -Athens International Airport -Lisbon Airport -Prague Airport

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(continue) Airport of the Year -AĂŠroport de Bordeaux -Athens International Airport -Joao Paulo II Airport -Dubai International Airport -Singapore Changi Airport Airline Alliance of the Year -SkyTeam -Star Alliance Cargo Airline of the Year -Cargolux -Etihad Cargo -FedEx -Lufthansa Cargo -UPS Regional Airline of the Year -Adria Airways -Aeromexico Connect -Etihad Regional -KLM Cityhopper -sata

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(continue) Low Cost Airline of the Year -AirAsia -easyJet -Germanwings -Ryanair -Vueling Airline of the Year -Aegean Airlines -British Airways -Etihad Airways -Emirates -Turkish Airlines The jury will reach its final verdict starting from a zero basis by carefully examining the profile of each of the finalists in every category based on the 5, 3* or 2** shortlisted companies (according to the number of votes received) in each category. *For categories with less than 20 candidates **Airline Alliance of the Year category

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(continue) The Chairperson of the jury for 2015 is Jeff Poole, Director General, CANSO The other members of the jury are (in alphabetical order): •Bob Aaronson, ex Director General ACI •Narjess Abdennebi, Chief Economic Analysis and Policy Section, Air Transport Bureau, ICAO •Dr Pierre Coutu, Program Executive, AMPAP & President ASI •Simon McNamara, Director General, ERA •Dr Andreas Papatheodorou, Editor in Chief, Journal of Air Transport Studies •Dr Charles E. Schlumberger, Lead Air Transport Specialist, World Bank The winners will be announced in the 2015 Air Transport News Award Ceremony to be held in Ariana Museum, Geneva, Switzerland on Saturday 21st March 2015 Air Transport News would like to cordially thank all the readers who kindly participated in this exciting voting process

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2015 Air Transport News Awards finalists announced Air Transport news is pleased to announce the finalists the 2015 Air Transport News awards. The finalists (in alphabetical order) in each category are: Regional Aircraft Manufacturer of the Year -ATR -Bombardier -Embraer Aircraft Manufacturer of the Year -Airbus -Antonov -Boeing Engine Manufacturer of the Year -CFM -GE -Rolls-Royce Ground Handler of the Year -Aviapartner -Dnata -Goldair Handling -Servisair -Swissport

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(continue) IT Company of the Year -Accelya -Aviaso -Amadeus -Lufthansa Systems -SITA MRO Company of the Year -AFI KLM E&M -Lufthansa Technik -Sabena technics -TAP Maintenance & Engineering -Turkish Airlines Technic Airport of the Year under 10 Million Passengers -AĂŠroport de Bordeaux -Dubai World Central Al Maktoum International Airport -Enfidha Hammamet International Airport -Joao Paulo II Airport -London City Airport Airport of the Year 10-30 Million Passengers -Abu Dhabi International Airport -Aeroport International de Geneve -Athens International Airport -Lisbon Airport -Prague Airport

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(continue) Airport of the Year -AĂŠroport de Bordeaux -Athens International Airport -Joao Paulo II Airport -Dubai International Airport -Singapore Changi Airport Airline Alliance of the Year -SkyTeam -Star Alliance Cargo Airline of the Year -Cargolux -Etihad Cargo -FedEx -Lufthansa Cargo -UPS Regional Airline of the Year -Adria Airways -Aeromexico Connect -Etihad Regional -KLM Cityhopper -sata Low Cost Airline of the Year -AirAsia -easyJet -Germanwings -Ryanair -Vueling

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(continue) Airline of the Year -Aegean Airlines -British Airways -Etihad Airways -Emirates -Turkish Airlines The jury will reach its final verdict starting from a zero basis by carefully examining the profile of each of the finalists in every category based on the 5, 3* or 2** shortlisted companies (according to the number of votes received) in each category. *For categories with less than 20 candidates **Airline Alliance of the Year category The Chairperson of the jury for 2015 is Jeff Poole, Director General, CANSO The other members of the jury are (in alphabetical order): •Bob Aaronson, ex Director General ACI •Narjess Abdennebi, Chief Economic Analysis and Policy Section, Air Transport Bureau, ICAO •Dr Pierre Coutu, Program Executive, AMPAP & President ASI •Simon McNamara, Director General, ERA •Dr Andreas Papatheodorou, Editor in Chief, Journal of Air Transport Studies •Dr Charles E. Schlumberger, Lead Air Transport Specialist, World Bank The winners will be announced in the 2015 Air Transport News Award Ceremony to be held in Ariana Museum, Geneva, Switzerland on Saturday 21st March 2015

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