“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 biggest carrier Aeroflot will acquire 22 Airbus A350 jets, said Aeroflot general director Valery Okulov. The deal (about $4 billion) is the largest purchase in Russian aviation history, according to news agencies.
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March 17, 2007A Russian policeman has been jailed for phoning an airport with a bomb warning to help acquaintances of his boss make their flight, the Reuters news agency reports quoting an article in the Friday issue of Russian daily Kommersant.
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March 12, 2007A serviceman of the anti-terrorist coalition’s airbase deployed at Kyrgyzstan’s Manas International Airport shot dead an employee of a local fuel supply company.
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December 7, 2006
Home Secretary John Reid has said that traces of radioactivity had been found at “around 12″ locations as part of the investigation into the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.
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Dufry Group, a Swiss duty-free retailer, said it won a contract to operate shops at Moscow international airport.
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