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  • Malaysia Airlines flight 370: possible wreckage found on Tanzanian islandAustralia’s transport minister Darren Chester says a ‘piece of aircraft debris’ was found on Pemba IslandAircraft wreckage potentially from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has been found on an island off the east African coast, an Australian official said.Transport minister Darren Chester, who oversees the search for the Boeing 777 that vanished in 2014 with 239 people on board, said a “piece of aircraft debris” was found on Pemba Island off the coast of Tanzania. Continue reading...

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  • TAS shines spotlight on fostering new wave of managersDepot manager training launched for bus & coach industry The TAS Partnership is again breaking new ground by introducing a qualification, to foster the talent of depot and middle managers in the bus and coach industry, to CILT’s training portfolio.  This is the second of three courses which TAS is devising. The first, Level 3 Certificate in Road Passenger First Line Management, is aimed at developing drivers and technicians to become supervisors and junior leaders, and was launched in 2015.   The new, follow-on Level 5 Certificate in Road Passenger Transport Management p...
  • Menzies drivers vote to strike over “pitiful pay”Drivers at Menzies Distribution could strike in the next two weeks, causing severe disruption to the delivery of newspapers to UK newsagents and railway stations nationwide. A pay change, which took effect in April, means that drivers, packers and pickers now receive £7.25 a hour - just 5p more than the recently revised minimum wage for over-25s. Additionally, workers now receive basic pay for bank holidays, while double-time pay and time off in lieu for seven of the eight bank holidays have been done away too. As a result, 86 per cent of 300 Unite members have voted in favour of strike action...

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  • Egypt reportedly sends MS804 damaged recorders to ParisEgyptian investigators are reportedly sending the damaged flight data and cockpit voice recorders of the crashed Egyptair Airbus A320 to French air accident investigation agency BEA, after failing to extract information from them, according to multiple media sources. read more
  • IATA warns UK air passengers could decline 3%-5% by 2020Following the UK’s June 23 vote to leave the European Union (EU), IATA said preliminary estimates suggest UK air passengers could decline 3%-5% by 2020, following an expected economic downturn and predicted falling British pound sterling (GBP) exchange rates. read more
  • British Airways delays Tehran returnAirline had been due to start flights to Iranian capital in July

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