The mayor's airport team will include design, engineering and project management consultants Atkins.

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Loganair said it was committed to the region and would continue to run their aviation engineering base at Dundee Airport and that staff members affected by the cut in services would be offered continued employment within the airline.

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As well as its airport, Varese province has a large engineering industry and is within easy reach of Milan.

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Before planning was granted KLM UK Engineering had been testing at an unauthorised site at the airport for five years.

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Engineering firm Beckett Rankine wants to construct a four-runway airport on Goodwin Sands near Deal.

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