British Airways launches themed entertainment packs for children

British Airways is launching new London 2012 Olympic themed entertainment packs to be given out to children on British Airways flights during the Olympic and Paralympic games.


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Events industry breaks its own record: 338 million participants in 2011

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - The German event industry has concluded the year 2011 with record results: 2.72 million events took place and were visited by 338 million participants throughout Germany. Compared to 2010, which had already been a very positive year, the number of visitors grew by another 4.5 percent. The number of events increased by 1.2 percent, the proportion of foreign participants remained stable at 5.9 percent (increase of 0.1 percent). 


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JAL Decorates Aircraft with Special Livery for 2012 Summer Olympics

Japan Airlines (JAL) will deploy a specially decorated aircraft on select domestic routes from May 27, 2012 to show support for the national team of sportspersons representing Japan at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games to be held in London this year from July 27 through August 12, 2012. 


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Alaska Airlines Offers Customers Self Bag-Tagging Option at Sea-Tac Airport

Alaska Airlines is debuting self-bag tagging for customers traveling out of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The process allows customers to print and attach their own luggage tags from a self-service kiosk in the airport lobby and then, in one step, show their identification and drop their bag off with an airline representative for security screening and loading onto an aircraft. Following a successful trial at Redmond/Bend Airport in Oregon last year, the airline intends to offer customers self-service bag-tagging options at more airports across its route system this summer.


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Boeing Delivers 3rd Peace Eye AEW&C Aircraft to Republic of Korea Air Force

Boeing delivered the third Peace Eye 737 Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) aircraft to the Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF) on May 16.

The aircraft was delivered ahead of schedule to ROKAF Base Gimhae, the main operating base for the Peace Eye fleet. Peace Eye No. 3 is the second aircraft in the fleet to be modified into an AEW&C configuration by Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) at its facility in Sacheon.


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Ryanair Will Appeal Oft 'Out Of Time' Ruling To Supreme Court

Ryanair confirmed that it had instructed its lawyers to immediately file a UK Supreme Court Appeal of  rejection of Ryanair’s claim that the UK OFT is “out of time” to investigate Ryanair’s 6 year old 29% minority stake in Aer Lingus plc.  


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Qatar Airways Prepares For Middle East Expansion

Qatar Airways is preparing for its 2012 Middle East route expansion this week with Iraq being added to the airline’s growing network.

The northern Iraqi city of Erbil and capital Baghdad will join the airline’s international portfolio of routes over a period of two weeks.


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