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Wednesday, 08 February 2017

The Scotsman

• Chris Marshall: We need clarity on rendition flight links to ScotlandIn 2013, an academic study presented fresh evidence Scottish airports were used in the extraordinary rendition of terror suspects by the CIA in the years after 9/11.

Buying Business Travel

• Wow Air to introduce business classIcelandic airline to launch a ‘three-tiered ticketing system'

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

• Another strong year for air travel demand in 2016The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced full-year global passenger traffic results for 2016, showing demand (revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) rose 6.3% compared to 2015 (or 6.0% if adjusted for the leap year). This strong performance was well ahead of the ten-year average annual growth rate of 5.5%. Capacity rose 6.2% (unadjusted) compared to 2015, pushing the load factor up 0.1 percentage points to a record full-year average high of 80.5%. A particularly strong performance was reported for December with an 8.8% rise in demand outstripping 6.6% capacity growth. &ldquo...

Aviation Industry

• White House confirms Trump to meet airline CEOs, defends NorwegianUS President Donald Trump is planning to meet with a number of US airline CEOs Feb. 9, the White House confirmed Tuesday. read more
• Canadian government gives Bombardier $282 million in repayable supportCanada’s federal government is to provide Bombardier with $372.5 million ($282.4 million) in repayable support for its Global 7000 business-jet and CSeries airliner programs. read more