Sentences with phrase «for on aviation»

Miliband told The Guardian newspaper «If you made 80 % cuts across the board, as some people call for on aviation, you would go back to 1974 levels of flying.

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To accelerate its plans for global expansion, in February Hitachi splurged nearly 260 billion yen on the railway and signaling units of Italian defense and aviation company Finmeccanica, marking one of the company's priciest - ever acquisitions.

The lack of a single fatality on a commercial flight last year prompted President Donald Trump to take credit for advances in safety in a Tweet that raised eyebrows in the aviation safety community.

That record for avoiding fatalities — which had never been approached in the history of modern aviation — was splintered in an instant Tuesday when an engine on a Southwest Airlines (luv) plane exploded mid-air, spewing shrapnel into a window and killing a passenger.

Employees pride themselves on their passion for aviation and their problem - solving skills.

Discussions on a structure for a potential tie up with plane maker Boeing are ongoing, Embraer's commercial aviation chief executive said on Wednesday.

JAL's $ 10 million investment in Boom is tiny in the aviation world, but shows at least one airline's willingness to bet on a startup for future aircraft.

John Slattery, Embraer's commercial aviation chief executive, told CNBC discussions are ongoing on a structure that might work for a potential tie - up between Embraer and Boeing.

«The ban means there is probably intelligence indicating a terrorist group or individual has been planning to detonate a device on board a commercial airplane, using an electronic to either hide an explosive, or as a triggering device for an explosive,» said aviation safety and security expert Jeff Price.

The ride - hailing company first introduced its plan for «on - demand aviation» in October last year, but still has some hurdles to face, including inventing the aircrafts.

Robert Mann, an aviation consultant and former American Airlines executive, said it would most likely be Tuesday before Delta's operations in Atlanta returned to normal, and for passengers «it could be most of the week» because there aren't many open seats on other flights in the last week before Christmas.

But for all of the bad press the company has received, there's one thing many industry analysts and aviation experts agree on: The CSeries is a damned decent plane.

Regarding, the Federal Aviation Administration's recently released commercial drone regulations that provide rules on how businesses can use drones Ayer said they represent a «big step forward» for the both the drone and aviation industry.

The good folks at AVI - 8 (pronounced aviate) are known for their aviation - inspired watches, and here's one we think should definitely land on your wrist.

A diplomatic thaw, which eased restrictions on remittances, travel and banking, is giving new incentive for charters to try again, according to Robert Mann, head of aviation consultant R.W. Mann & Co. in Port Washington, New York.

had hoped to find both the necessary votes and time on the House floor for consideration of a bill that would spin the nation's air traffic controllers and thousands of people working on modernizing the aviation system into a private nonprofit corporation.

New proposals include lowering taxes on diesel and aviation fuel by half and further reductions in corporate taxes for small and medium - sized business.

For example, if you have retired as a seasoned marketer with huge experience in the aviation sector, you can offer expert advice to new airline and private airline operators on how to attract customers and grow their business.

In Kazan, on the mid-Volga, Catholics converted an ordinary apartment into a chapel after the secular authorities refused to return their nineteenth - century church building, which had been converted into a wind tunnel for aviation research.

Joe Moore (49th) expressed support Saturday for a plan to rebuild Meigs Field along with an aviation museum and nature park on Northerly Island.

Partly as a result of the UK's relatively high population density, the top 15 UK airports account for more than one million of the 2.5 million people affected by aviation noise across the Europe Union (41 per cent of the total), based on the European standard measure of 55LDen.

On Wednesday 5 November, senior aviation leaders assembled at the Royal Aeronautical Society to honour aerospace professionals for achievements within their specialist field of expertise.

The Government announced its intention to create a new framework for aviation in the UK, to replace the previous government's 2003 White Paper, «The Future of Air Transport», which it said «failed to take sufficient account of climate change and the impact of aviation on local communities.»

The government published a white paper on The Future of Air Transport in 2003, setting out a 30 - year framework for the growth of the aviation industry.

Research published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 1999 found that, in 1992, aviation was responsible for 3.5 per cent of the total global contribution to climate change.

For example Unite the Union are currently publishing a campaign to try and prevent baggage handlers in the aviation industry suffering from muscular skeletal injuries, and the RMT Union are raising awareness of safety concerns on the Tube tracks.

Green groups have been lobbying for an 80 per cent aviation - inclusive target for several years, but movement on the demands only came in the last two months.

I'd pay for it by closing the loopholes that benefit the very wealthy, taxing aviation fairly, and introducing a mansion tax on properties worth over # 2m.

For most of my life I have stood firmly against expansion of Heathrow airport, largely on the grounds of aviation's impact on climate change.

It also comes alongside a doubling of funding for aviation security, with more checks to be conducted on airports in high - risk areas like North Africa and the Middle East.

As compensation, the transport secretary said the government would push for a European cap on aviation emissions, set below current levels.

A date for the flight is not yet fixed but the actor, a long - time aviation buff, said he plans to be on it.

The Greens make no bones about who will pay for it — they will introduce a 2 % wealth tax on the top 1 %; a Robin Hood tax on financial transactions; increase corporation tax from 20 % to 30 %; increase fuel duty on aviation; impose an additional 60 % top rate income tax band and a plethora of other measures.

Millions of pounds were spent on plans for a new offshore airport in the Thames Estuary, despite receiving almost no backing from government or the aviation industry and despite the fact that the proposed location was not even inside London.

As MPs prepare to return to Westminster on Monday for a two week pre-conference session, Osborne outlined the government's new thinking on aviation.

We will ensure no - one pays tax on the first # 10,000 they earn, paid for in full by closing loopholes that unfairly benefit the wealthy, the biggest - ever clampdown on tax avoidance, a new mansion tax and higher aviation duties.»

Driven by security and environmental concerns as well as skyrocketing oil prices — United Airlines more than doubled its fuel surcharge per ticket to $ 50 on January 12 — the aviation industry continues to cut back on fuel burn as it searches for cleaner, cheaper alternatives.

Iceland's Met Office on Monday raised its risk level to the aviation industry for an eruption at its Bardarbunga volcano to orange, which is the fourth level on a five - grade scale.

REYKJAVIK (Reuters)- Iceland lowered its warning code for possible volcanic disruption to the aviation industry to orange from red on Sunday after further analysis of an apparent eruption under a glacier found there had been no eruption after all.

CURTISS FLIES — «Aero Club of America members and others interested in aviation made the trip to Hammondsport, N.Y., to witness the flight of the Aerial Experiment Association's third aeroplane, the «June Bug,» on the Fourth of July, for the Scientific American trophy.

According to a spokesman for the UK Department for Transport, body - scanner approvals will be on the agenda at a meeting of the European Commission's aviation security committee on 7 January, at which responses to the failed attack will be considered.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters)- Iceland's Met Office on Monday raised its risk level to the aviation industry for an eruption at its Bardarbunga volcano to orange, which is the fourth level on a five - grade scale.

«The civil aviation authority in the Netherlands said we've seen enough of this fuel that I'm comfortable putting people on it,» says Holmgren, who works for refiner UOP, a division of Honeywell International.

The paper, written by authors at King's College London and Baylor College of Medicine, reviews contraceptive devices available including those already used by military and aviation personnel, and calls for more research into the effect of hormone treatments on bone mineral loss in space.

The ash warning level for aviation remained at orange, the second - highest level on a five - color scale, after several brief hikes to the top red in recent weeks.

On Sunday, Iceland lowered its warning code for possible volcanic disruption to the aviation industry to orange from red, the highest level on the country's five - point alert system, after concluding that seismic activity had not led to a volcanic eruption under the glacieOn Sunday, Iceland lowered its warning code for possible volcanic disruption to the aviation industry to orange from red, the highest level on the country's five - point alert system, after concluding that seismic activity had not led to a volcanic eruption under the glacieon the country's five - point alert system, after concluding that seismic activity had not led to a volcanic eruption under the glacier.

authorizes a robust program including efforts to integrate unmanned aerial systems into the national airspace, development of NextGen technology for air traffic management and research on aviation safety

International aviation accounts for approximately half a billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year and has an even wider impact on the climate from other (non-CO2) emissions.

Re the cost of flying, there are lots of assumptions around because of different ways of using or ignoring a 1999 report on aviation's role in global warming [Aviation and the Global Atmosphere] for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — the effects of flying are much worse than would be predicted by just burning the oil.

The first Bass shoe was created in 1876 and early on the most popular Bass shoe became the aviation boot, the official boot for the U.S. Army.