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Qatar Airways seeks engine guarantees for Airbus order

  PARIS / Reuters Qatar Airways is seeking strict guarantees as it talks to CFM International about supplying engines for a revamped order for Airbus narrow-body jets, which it expects to finalise ‘soon’, its chief executive said. The Gulf airline has cancelled four A320neo jets powered by alternative Pratt & Whitney engines and expects to swap the overall aircraft order, ...

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SpaceX launches rocket, deploying 10 satellites

  Bloomberg Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. returned to the skies with a flawless delivery of communications satellites into orbit, its first flight since a September 1 fireball destroyed a rocket and its payload on a Florida launch pad. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 10 Iridium Communications Inc. satellites rumbled aloft from Vandenberg Air Force Base on California’s central ...

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‘Full’ Heathrow extends European hub lead

  Bloomberg London’s Heathrow airport, which has operated close to the capacity of its two runways since the start of the decade, eked out a further 700,000 passengers to extend its lead as Europe’s top travel hub in 2016 as growth in Paris stuttered and Istanbul and Frankfurt fell back. Heathrow’s traveller tally increased 1 percent to 75.7 million, while ...

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