Scotland's Transport Minister Keith Brown said it was a welcome announcement for both passengers and the air industry.
Although Pakistan's air industry has been booming, critics say standards have not always kept pace with the increase in services.
First, the air shipping industry must take the initiative now to face down the challenges of supply chain security in the same way its maritime cousins did in 2004.
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With respect to the last, Captain Dennis Eckenrod , a former Chief Pilot for American Airlines, described the potentially transforming effect of V-22 derivatives on the civil air transportation industry.
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The air travel industry was not fully prepared for such an eventuality, despite the fact that Iceland had been saying for some time that an eruption of one of their volcanoes was likely.
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The air cargo industry needs something similar.
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SITA, a co-operative formed by major world airlines in 1949 to provide communications and data-processing services to the air-transport industry.
Moreover, continuing shift in freight traffic from air to the sea, driven by higher fuel prices is not helping the air-cargo industry at all.
The Center's director, Frank Gaffney, introduced the GAO's findings and invited comment from the Air Force personnel, industry representatives and other participants.
We have also developed COSAC-AWB (Air Way Bill) and COSAC-Customs, to facilitate the industry adoption of digital air way bills and eventually e-freight.
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Sales were strong in the second quarter, which included the Paris Air Show, an industry event that was very profitable for the big two airlines.
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"Low cost airlines have given people the bug for flying - people who weren't flying before, " says David Kaminski-Morrow, air transport editor at industry magazine Flight International.
The paper estimates the air pollution damages for each industry in the United States.
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Moreover, powerful interests, including the Air Force and the rail industry, are pushing for coal.
This means that, despite more air travellers, the airline industry as a whole is likely to face a fourth consecutive year of losses.
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"They're more restricted when you get into adverse weather, " says David Castelveter, a spokesman for the Air Transport Association, the industry group for major carriers.
He said he wanted to use experts from the air traffic control and airport industry to see how the airport can be made more effective and efficient.
The real problem is an antiquated air-traffic control system "that is essentially based on World War II-era technology, " says Victoria Day, a spokeswoman with the Air Transport Association, the industry's lobby group.
On Thursday, the Air Transport Association, the industry group for commercial airlines, predicted a meager 1% decline in the number of passengers expected to fly in the U.S. this summer, compared with June-August 2007.
Air travel is a quintessential growth industry, but few people have figured out how to make money on airlines.
She was also lobbied over the issue of Air Passenger Duty, which the industry would like to see scrapped.
Speaking at the Farnborough Air Show he said the defence industry must cut costs, or the government would have to cut procurement projects.
Although the Air Transport Association, the main industry group representing U.S. airlines, hailed the news, stocks for several major airlines, such as Continental, U.S. Airways and Delta posted only modest gains Monday.
This was the most recent in a string of changes the Bush administration has made to the Clean Air Act rules at the request of industry.
In addition to advising ill U.S. travelers returning from Mexico to stay confined, government officials are turning to the travel industry for help, particularly air travel.
Aldy said the economic benefits from avoided health problems and saved lives are clear while Cass said the cost to industry to adhere to the air pollution limits is not worth it.
The International Air Transport Association, a worldwide travel industry group, is working on measures that will allow passengers to get their boarding passes using fingerprint or retinal scans and then pass through the checkpoint.
"There was a proposal about seven or eight years ago for the building regulations to have a presumption against air conditioning in the UK and the industry fought against that and the industry won, " he says.
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