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Saturday, 30 August 2014

BBC News

• Airport increases drop-off chargesEdinburgh Airport is to increase charges for drivers who take more than five minutes to drop off passengers at the terminal building.
• MH17 crash: Briton's body identifiedThe Foreign Office confirms the body of John Alder, one of 10 Britons killed in the Malaysia Airlines crash, has been identified.

Financial Times

• Flyers have the right to reclineBeing cramped is better than being put in handcuffs and passengers should try to calm down
• Underwhelmed response for Ryanair’s business-liteFlexible tickets offer has left some corporate travellers underwhelmed by the prospect of sharing space with beer-swilling tourists

The Guardian

• Malaysia Airlines cuts 6,000 jobsMalaysia Airlines is to slash its staff numbers by a third, cutting 6,000 jobs, after the airline suffered the two worst disasters in modern aviation only five months apart. The carrier had been struggling financially even before the disasters that beset it this year, starting with the unexplained disappearance of flight MH370 with 239 people aboard in March.
• Heathrow boss urges Boris Johnson to back third runwayHeathrow has appealed to the London mayor, Boris Johnson, to back its campaign for a third runway, ahead of the possible dismissal of his own Thames estuary scheme from consideration by the Airports Commission. In an open letter to the mayor, Heathrow's recently appointed chief executive, John Holland-Kaye, reminds Johnson that they share the same belief that only a large, hub airport can provide the scale and range of global flights that the economy needs.

The Herald

• 6,000 jobs go at Malaysia Airlines MALAYSIA Airlines is to axe 6,000 jobs, around a third of the workforce, as it struggles to overcome the twin disasters that have hit it this year.
• Airport accused of profiteering over tripling of car drop-off chargeEDINBURGH Airport has been accused of

The Telegraph

• Boris Johnson 'will not surrender' over Estaury airportBoris Johnson has sent a strong signal that he will not surrender over “Boris Island”, a new hub airport in the Thames Estuary, despite expectations that the scheme will be shelved for good by the Airports Commission next week.

London Evening Standard

• Tourists affected by collapse of travel companies will not be stranded Tourists affected by the collapse of two travel companies will be able to fly home as planned, the Civil Aviation Authority said.

Aviation Industry

• Heathrow urges Boris to support bid for expansionCEO says Boris should back Heathrow’s plans if Thames Estuary bid fails
• Opinion: Time to resolve the debate over airline capacityGTMC CEO Paul Wait says less talk and more action is needed in the airport capacity debate