Vacant jetways line the main pier of Berlin Brandenburg Airport. (Photo by Muns via wikimedia, CC-BY)

New Berlin Airport Faces More Delays, Won’t Open Before 2014

In a new embarrassment for the city, the opening of Berlin's new main airport has been postponed again after several previous delays.
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Tail section of a Dassault Rafale jet. (Photo by Georges Seguin via wikimedia, CC-BY-SA)

India Says French Rafale Jets Contract Being Fine-Tuned

India is fine-tuning a contract to buy 126 French-made Rafale fighter jets, Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid said on Thursday.
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A Kingfisher Airlines Airbus A320 (VT-KEG) taxis at Bangalore. (Photo by marirs via wikipedia, CC-BY-SA)

India’s Kingfisher Revival Plan ‘Unconvincing’

A plan proposed by troubled Kingfisher Airlines is not enough to get it back in the skies, an aviation ministry official said on Friday.
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Tens of thousands of vehicles damaged by super storm Sandy are being temporarily stored on runways and taxiways at Calverton Executive Airpark in Calverton, New York, on January 9, 2013 in this aerial view. Insurance Auto Auctions Inc, a salvage auto auction company specializing in total-loss vehicles, acquired the cars and trucks and will put them up for auction. (Photo by Stan Honda/AFP)

Sandy Turns Long Island Airport Into Vast Used Car Purgatory

Cars -- thousands upon thousands of them -- roughed up to one extent or another by Superstorm Sandy, are sitting on a Calverton runway.
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Virgin Atlantic Airways Boeing 747-400 (G-VROC) on final approach to Heathrow. (Photo by Mark Winterbourne via Flickr, CC-BY)

Virgin Atlantic Recruits CEO From American Airlines

Virgin Atlantic named American Airlines Senior VP Craig Kreeger as its new Chief Executive.
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