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What happens when an airport loses its main hub carrier, its next largest airline and almost all of its domestic connectivity in a short stretch of time?
In the last decade, Albrecht Dürer Airport Nürnberg (NUE), an airport which serves as a gateway to the rich Bavarian region of Franconia, has had to find out the answers to these questions....

President Donald Trump said China has agreed to order 200 Boeing aircraft, a deal that would mark the country’s first major purchase of US-built commercial jets in nearly a decade, but which is still well below estimates ahead of a high-stakes summit...

A federal jury in Chicago awarded $49.5 million to the family of Samya Stumo, a 24-year-old American who was killed in the March 2019 crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302.
Stumo died when the Boeing 737 MAX 8 crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on March 10, 2019. All 157 people on board were killed. The flight was bound for Nairobi, Kenya....

Iridium Communications has agreed to buy Aireon, the company behind a space-based aircraft tracking system used by air navigation service providers around the world.
The deal brings Aireon fully inside Iridium, whose satellite constellation already carries Aireon’s Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) technology. Aireon uses these receivers to track ADS-B-equipped aircraft from space, including over...