SHOW NOTESI. News of the week US airlines vs the Gulf airlines, round two U.S. Airlines vs Gulf Carriers: That Escalated Quickly — Paul Papadimitriou, Layovers Qatar's Al Baker firmly rebukes Delta chief in subsidies row — Max Kingsley-Jones, FlightGlobal Delta CEO apologizes for terrorist remark — Karen Walker, ATW Emirates Boss Pushes Back on Delta's Open Skies and 9/11 Claims — Jason Clampet, Skift U.S Airport Group Sides Against Airlines in Open Skies Battle — Marisa Garcia, Skift The Battle Over Open Skies Forces U.S. Tourism Industry to Choose Sides — Marisa Garcia, Skift Emirates Considers Reducing Tickets Prices — RJ321, Airliners.net Are cabin toxic fumes a health risk? Warning over toxic fumes in plane cabins — Andrew Gilligan, Telegraph North Korea Air Force One See Inside Kim Jong Un's Remodeled Air Force One — Taylor Rogoway, Jalopnik Turkish might get two A380s Turkish Air Said to Consider Leasing A380s From Malaysia Air — Ercan Ersoy and Andrea Rothman, Bloomberg Gulfstream breaks world record Gulfstream Breaks Round The World Record With Only One Fuel Stop — Chris Clarke, Jalopnik FAI.org Lufthansa's premium costs versus LCC Lufthansa Proposes Legacy Growth Plan In Return For Staff Concessions — Jens Flottau, Aviation Week Lufthansa's Eurowings agrees new pay deal with pilots — Reuters Lufthansa's new budget airline cleared for take-off — Chris Bryant, FT ($) EU releases report on LCC working conditions Zero-hour pilot contracts threaten air safety, says study — Euractiv Virgin America posts profits Virgin America posts second consecutive full-year net profit — Aaron Karp, ATW Delta lost dogs Furious owners claim Delta lost their show dogs at airport — Matt Markovich, Komonews Russia requests API Russia to require API for all overflights — hugolover, Flyertalk Air France mobile upgrade game Air France Upgrade Challenge — AirFrance.com The upgrade challenge: new cabins launch in Asia — Air France (video) Air France Launches The Upgrade Challenge Social Game — Ryan Lum, Creative Guerilla Marketing Breathometer Breathometer ties in Uber and last-minute hotel stays for drunk — Nick Vivion, Tnooz Airports set to impose tougher restrictions on alcohol sales in the departure lounge after number of 'air rage' incidents triples in three years — John Hutchinson, MailOnline Anti-alcohol group calls for booze to be banned on planes following increase in mid-air incidents — Andrea Magrath, MailOnline China Eastern introduces digital personal assistant China Eastern Chatbot Flight Takes Off: Will "XiaoIce" Raise In-Flight Services to Unprecedented Levels? — Kai-Chin Shih, Talk Airlines Meet XiaoIce, a Chinese chatbot that works with their version of Cortana — John Callaham, Windows Central Microsoft XiaoIce (Chinese) Siri in the cockpit Honeywell tests voice-recognition technology on flight decks — Meryl Fishler, Cronkite News Cool New Cockpit Technologies — Honeywell Aviation (video) 3D printed Rolls-Royce engine Rolls-Royce to fly Trent XWB with largest-ever 3D-printed part — Murdo Morrison, FlightGlobal ANA sells 747-400 parts as memorabilia Forever 747 — ANA A-Style (Japanese) A Concorde podcast episode Flying the Concorde — Omega Tau, episode 166 OpenFlights.org The origins of the Gulf Airlines The Rise of the Gulf Carriers — Ashley Kindergan, TheFinancialist Flying High, The Improbable Rise of the Gulf Airlines — Jim Krane, Foreign Affairs Big three Gulf airlines brush aside obstacles in pursuit of dominance — Gwyn Topham, The Guardian The sky is the limit: has the time come for air traffic control in the GCC? — Albawaba Business What is the largest airline in the world by fleet size? by Paul (after Alex told him Emirates wasn't in the Top 10) World Airline Fleets: Top 10 Aviation Armadas with Most Airplanes — FinancesOnline The 10 Airlines With the Biggest Fleets in the World — Rob Cowte, The Richest
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One of the most efficient airports when it comes to transit—a 30 minutes layovers is enough to catch a connecting flight, but also one of the most forward-looking when it comes to noise and pollution control.
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