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Friday, 22 July 2016

Financial Times

• Airline records Kenya’s worst ever lossCarrier highlights the scale of the turnround task, after recording four successive years of losses
• Terror, Brexit weigh on airlines’ profitsEU carriers also being affected by falling ticket prices linked to excessive capacity growth
• Italy eyes €750m air traffic control saleKey plank of Renzi’s privatisation programme prices close to top of range

Mail Online

• Just get a move on with airport expansion, Chancellor is warned: Hammond told to end '40 years of talk and no action' on whether to increase Heathrow or Gatwick� The Treasury Select Committee has called on the Government to speed up the decision about airport expansion in the South East - forcing it to choose between Gatwick and Heathrow.

London Evening Standard

• 'This is ludicrous': Heathrow Airport passengers' fury as they are told to leave luggage behindHeathrow passengers were left furious after a fault meant they could only take hand luggage on flights and had to leave their suitcases behind.

Other Regional Press

• Abusive passenger given lifetime ban after causing a flight to be diverted Passenger was travelling from East Midlands Airport to Gran Canaria with Jet2.com

Aviation Industry

• Boeing to take $2.1 billion 2Q hit across 787, 747-8 & KC-46 programsBoeing will report after-tax charges totaling $2.1 billion across three aircraft programs—the 787, 747-8 and KC-46 aerial refueler—in its July 27 second-quarter earnings release, the company has revealed. read more
• Lufthansa cuts profit forecast as terror attacks hit bookingsAirline has seen advance bookings to Europe ‘significantly reduce’
• Easyjet counts cost of Brexit, weak pound and terrorismCEO Carolyn McCall says current trading conditions for airlines are ‘extremely tough’
• Frequent flyers call for more ‘seamless digital experience’Priority Pass study shows rise of ‘digital flyer’