Boeing and Aeroflot signed a deal Saturday for the Russian carrier to acquire 22 Dreamliner jets from the American plane maker.
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June 11, 2007“One of major risks in buying Alitalia are powerful trade unions that in case of any discontent stage a strike that paralyzes work of the company and the airport,†Aviaport Agency analyst Oleg Panteleyev said in an interview.
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May 24, 2007Russia remains the most dangerous place to fly despite global improvements that made 2006 the safest year on record, the Reuters news agency reported quoting the latest annual report by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) released on Tuesday.
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April 18, 2007Russian airline Aeroflot will join UniCredit to bid for Alitalia, Italy’s largest bank said on Monday, as two other bidders joined forces, reducing the total number of possible offers to three, the Russian carrier’s banking partner Unicredito Italiano said on Monday April 2.
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April 2, 2007A Russian Tupolev-134 passenger jet crashed during landing in the airport of Samara on Saturday morning, killing 5 people and wounding at least 51, the RIA-Novosti news agency reports.
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March 17, 2007Russia and Italy have signed a protocol on cooperation to develop the Russian aircraft Sukhoi SuperJet 100.
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March 14, 2007German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a newspaper interview published on Monday, March 5, that new shareholders should not be admitted to European aerospace company EADS’s shareholder pact. Merkel was answering a question about allowing Russian investors to buy into the pan-European company.
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March 5, 2007According to Reuters, Russia’s top carrier Aeroflot could still buy aircraft from U.S.-based Boeing despite a major contract with Europe’s Airbus, Economy Minister German Gref told reporters on Thursday.
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February 23, 2007Russia is interested in acquiring a larger stake in European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co., the parent company of airline manufacturer Airbus, Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday, February 21.
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February 22, 2007Norwegian authorities detained the captain, co-captain and five other crew members of a Ukrainian giant An-22 cargo plane on suspicion of intending to fly while drunk, the Associated Press reports.
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