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Friday, 17 February 2017

Financial Times

• Air France-KLM to cut costs further after profits rise 35%Carrier warns of economic uncertainty and risk from elections in Europe

City AM

• Join the debate over Britain's vital new runway at Heathrow airportWhat is the world’s most connected city? New York? Paris? Tokyo? No. It’s London, which last May beat all those cities to top the inaugural Global Connectivity Ranking, with 351 direct international air destinations.

Newcastle Evening Chronicle

• How Newcastle Airport's shiny, new terminal was opened on this day 50 years agoAn extended 7,000-ft runway and a new £2.5m terminal were opened by Prime Minister Harold Wilson in 1967

Get West London

• Heathrow third runway: Chris Grayling urges public to take part in consultation eventsThe Department for transport has said it will pay 25% above market price for compulsory purchase orders of homes

Other Regional Press

• Monarch launch new routes from Birmingham Airport Seats are now available and Monarch will be the only airline flying to both Split and Valencia from Birmingham

Aviation Industry

• Delta brings back main cabin meal service on 12 domestic routesDelta Air Lines will begin including meals at no extra cost for all main cabin seats on 12 transcontinental domestic routes this spring, reversing a longstanding trend of US airlines not including meal service with economy-class tickets on domestic flights. read more
• Airberlin expands long-haul fleet with three leased A330sOneworld carrier airberlin is set to add three leased Airbus A330-200s, increasing seat capacity as Germany’s second-largest carrier eyes its biggest long-haul summer flight schedule to the US. read more
• ANA names new president and CEOJapan’s All Nippon Airways ANA has appointed EVP and board member Yuji Hirako to succeed Osamu Shinobe as president and CEO from April 1. read more
• Air France-KLM profit surges in 2016 on low fuel costsAir France-KLM Group reported a 2016 net profit of €792 million ($834.4 million), up substantially from 2015’s net profit of €118 million. read more
• Bombardier posts full-year $981 million lossBombardier ended 2016 with higher revenues, margins and aircraft deliveries than forecast. read more
• Norwegian posts $132 million 2016 net profitLow-cost carrier (LCC) Norwegian reported a 2016 net profit of NOK1.1 billion ($131.6 million), more than quadrupling its NOK246 million net result in 2015. read more

Green Miscellany

• The car is so last year – Dubai promises taxi dronesIn a marriage of Chinese tech and Dubai financing, the world’s first taxi drones look set to take to the skies this summer. Controlling the single seat, eight-rotor fully-automated Ehang 184 drone couldn’t be more simple. The passenger uses a touch screen�to select a destination and the battery-powered drone takes care of the rest. The taxi�drone boasts a maximum flight… The post The car is so last year – Dubai promises taxi drones appeared first on ETA.