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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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