The airline with the greatest number of Boeing’s new Dreamliner jets will resume commercial flights with it today, four months after the 787 jet was grounded over safety fears.
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Thomas Cook jet heading for UK makes emergency landing in Bermuda
Wednesday 01 May 2013
A charter passenger jet made an emergency landing Tuesday in Bermuda after the captain reported a possible fire in the cabin, officials in the British island territory said.
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Friday 22 February 2013
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Get me out of here: York, Mexico, Monarch flights
Wednesday 02 January 2013
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Exclusive: Date revealed for first scheduled departure of Boeing's 787 'Dreamliner'
Monday 26 November 2012
The 787 promises a dramatic improvement in passenger comfort, with more space, bigger windows and air pressurised at only 6,000 feet rather than 8,000 feet.
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Friday 23 November 2012
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US 'drugs killer' is apprehended in Mexico after 24 years on run
Monday 16 July 2012
For years, millions of pleasure-seeking Americans filed through Cancun airport past a smiling, joking man trying to sell them timeshare apartments in the Mexican resort, little realising that the man who called himself Oscar Rivera was in fact one of the US's most wanted fugitives.
Something to declare: Belize, not via the US; Gatwick Express; Brazil during Carnival; Air Asia X to exit UK
Saturday 14 January 2012
Destination of the week: Belize, not via the US
Morales, his moral maze and a road into Amazon wilderness
Friday 19 August 2011
Snooker: Higgins conquers his first-round nerves in style
Friday 22 April 2011
John Higgins, the triple world champion, admitted he felt a bout of nerves before digging deep to secure his place in the last 16 stage of this year's World Championship.
Snooker: Fate starts to smile on the Leicester Jester
Sunday 09 January 2011
Mexico: Trail of the unexpected
Wednesday 22 December 2010
Nature Studies by Michael McCarthy: Cancun was a triumph for global co-operation
Friday 17 December 2010
It is difficult sometimes, when one understands a situation but imperfectly, to make an accurate assessment of it; and such may be the case with some of those who have belittled the achievement of the United Nations climate conference which ended in Cancun, Mexico, a week ago.
Dominic Lawson: A climate deal that flatters to deceive
Tuesday 14 December 2010
Leading article: Better than nothing, but not much
Monday 13 December 2010
The best that can be said of the United Nations climate change summit in Cancun is that it could have been worse. The Mexican hosts managed to produce a document that all delegates were able to sign up to. It was not the diplomatic "car crash" that our own Climate Change Secretary, Chris Huhne, warned of as the summit was nearing its conclusion.
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