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Unions refuse to retract safety warnings
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Victoria Moores

South African Airways (SAA) has threatened legal action over union claims that its operations are unsafe, as the airline works to reinstate flights canceled when cabin crews and technicians went on strike.
 
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Victoria Moores

Scandinavian Airlines’ (SAS) first Airbus A321LR will enter commercial service in September 2020, operating an initial route between Copenhagen and Boston.
 
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Chen Chuanren

Garuda Indonesia took delivery of its first Airbus A330neo Nov. 16, becoming the third airline group in the region to operate the type after AirAsia and Lion Air.
 
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Chen Chuanren

Singapore-based lessor BOC Aviation has delivered the first of 10 new Airbus A320neos to Air China.
 
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Polina Montag-Girmes

A new Russian airport being developed in the Western Siberian city of Tobolsk is planned to open in 2020 and begin accepting scheduled flights in 2021.
 
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