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Tuesday, 03 July 2012

BBC News

• Heathrow route safe, says WalshBritish Airways has no intention of scrapping the route from Belfast to London Heathrow, says the chief executive of its parent company Willie Walsh.
• Heathrow queues 'still too long'Immigration queues at Heathrow are
• Airbus launches first US factoryEuropean plane manufacturer Airbus has confirmed plans to build a $600m (£483m) factory in Alabama, marking its first facility on US soil

Financial Times

• Airbus confirms plans for first US factoryEuropean aircraft maker ramps up competition with Boeing as it unveils a new $600m facility in Alabama that also signals a revival of US manufacturing

The Independent

• Heathrow immigration queues are 'unacceptably long'Airport operator BAA today said recent immigration queues at Heathrow were œunacceptably� long.Related StoriesPolice officer insists he could not remember any injury to Sean Rigg despite CCTV footageHundreds of police stations to close in cutbacksEast London worse off than before Olympic bidHow to spend it like the Queen? Try a £1m asbestos billWeston pulls out of police election

Mail Online

• Two men suspected of trying to hijack a flight in China were beaten to death by passengersThe Uighur men were part of a six-strong gang, aged 20 to 36, who managed to smuggle suspected explosives on board a Tianjin Airlines flight before trying to break into the cockpit (file picture).

London Evening Standard

• BAA hits out at immigration queuesAirport operator BAA has said recent immigration queues at Heathrow were "unacceptably" long.

Other Regional Press

• Airport decision 'on track for next year'Transport bosses say they hope a decision on whether to build a new airport in the Thames estuary WILL be made by next year.

Aviation Industry

• MPs demand study on APD's economic impactBackbenchers launch motion expressing concern over UK™s aviation tax
• Profit warning for airlines despite oil price fallSlowdown in passenger growth does ˜not bode well™ - IATA