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| Helen Massy-Beresford  Italy has formally pushed back the deadline for selecting a buyer for Alitalia by six months to Oct. 31, with the repayment of a controversial government bridge loan that is keeping it flying now set for Dec. 15.
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| Bill Carey The pilots of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 diverted to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport and landed safely on May 2 after a window cracked in flight.
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| Katie Cantle  Air China has grounded some of its Boeing 787s powered by Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines, which had been found to have vulcanization and fatigue cracks in the blades of the engine’s intermediate pressure (IP) compressor.
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| Graham Warwick The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has doubled the number of unmanned aircraft system (UAS) integration projects it will fund after a strong response from organizations that want to participate.
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| Victoria Moores Premium Content  China Southern Airlines is ultimately hoping to secure rights to fly between the new Beijing Airport and London Heathrow, but in the interim the Guangzhou-based carrier plans to announce a new Heathrow link from Sanya, an island off China’s south coast.
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| Guy Norris Premium Content Further details are emerging of Rolls-Royce’s plan to flight test the company’s UltraFan future commercial engine technology demonstrator with Airbus as part of a wider strategy that targets entry-into-service from the mid-2020s.
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| Adrian Schofield Premium Content  Qantas Airways has converted six more options for Boeing 787-9s to firm orders, which will allow the Australian flag carrier to retire its remaining 747-400s a few years earlier than planned.
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| Aaron Karp It’s been common to lump WestJet in with the likes of Norwegian as a carrier trying to make long-haul, low-cost service work.
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