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Malaysia Air on track with profit, mulls fleet expansion

Kuala Lumpur / Bloomberg Malaysia Airlines Bhd. is on track to return to profitability by 2018, helped by job cuts and route changes undertaken as the company reeled from two high-profile plane crashes in 2014. The airline’s restructuring effort is proceeding as planned and the company is finished laying off employees, Mueller said in an interview on Monday with Bloomberg …

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Civilian drones becoming ‘real’ threat to commercial aviation

SINGAPORE/ AFP Civilian drones are increasingly becoming a “real and growing threat” to the safety of commercial aviation, industry group IATA warned, calling for regulations to be put in place before any serious accidents occur. Tony Tyler, director-general of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), said the threat posed by unmanned aerial vehicles is still evolving as people are only …

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Germanwings aside, 2015 was a safe year for airlines, says IATA

Bloomberg Last year was one of the safest for airlines with the number of fatal accidents falling by two thirds – if you excluded more than 300 deaths resulting from a pilot suicide and possible terror attack. There were four fatal accidents, all involving turboprop aircraft, in 2015, down from 12 a year earlier, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) …

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