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London City airport dials back plans for 40% hike in capacity

  Bloomberg London City airport dialed back proposals for more early-morning and Saturday flights in a bid to make its plans to lift capacity by almost 40% more palatable to planning officials and local people. The terminal, favoured by business travellers for its proximity to London’s financial districts, is sticking with an application to raise its annual passenger cap to ...

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Rolls-Royce engine key to zero-carbon shift ready for trials

  Bloomberg Rolls-Royce said a new aircraft engine designed to slash carbon production over coming decades is ready to be fired up in ground-based tests. The demonstrator turbine for the so-called UltraFan program has completed assembly and been transported to Rolls’s purpose-built Testbed 80 in Derby, England, where it has been mounted in preparation for activation early next year, the ...

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Boeing races to win Congress reprieve for 737 Max models

  Bloomberg US congressional leaders are poised to exempt two Boeing Co 737 Max models from a new cockpit requirement that would take effect next week, a victory that would help the planemaker avoid an expensive redesign and potentially lengthy certification delays for the jets. Lawmakers were expected to include the controversial provision in the so-called omnibus bill expected to ...

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