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Friday, 27 March 2015

BBC News

• Airport hours boost 'is needed'A small London airport needs to extend its hours to avoid being forced to take on holidaymakers and more commercial airlines, its boss claims.
• Mayor rejects airport expansion planBoris Johnson turns down a £220 million project to expand London City Airport.
• Airports keen to host UK spaceportTwo Scottish airports are bidding to host the UK's first spaceport, according to Infrastructure Secretary Keith Brown.
• Airlines change cockpit proceduresAirlines across the world have begun requiring two crew members to always be present in the cockpit, in the wake of the French Alps crash.

Financial Times

• Lufthansa chief shaken by crash findingsIf suspicions are confirmed, airline group will need to defend hiring and safety procedures
• Airlines toughen up cockpit rulesMarseille prosecutor says copilot wanted to ‘destroy the plane’ when left alone on the flightdeck
• Alps crash prompts cockpit access debateSince 9/11 flight crews have been locked behind bulletproof doors with an access code known to crew
• City airport slams Johnson bar to growthMayor’s rejection on noise grounds unjustified and ‘perplexing’

The Guardian

• A quiet word about Heathrow expansion - Letter Stewart Wingate Chief executive officer, Gatwick AirportIt is true that aircraft are getting quieter and more efficient
• Germanwings crash: report that co-pilot Lubitz had suffered 'personal life crisis' - rolling updatesMore details emerge about Andreas Lubitz, the 27-year-old German co-pilotFrench prosecutor says co-pilot crashed plane deliberatelyAirlines adopt two-person cockpit ruleInteractive: the last minutes of Germanwings flight 4U9525 5.56pm AEST Here’s what we currently know about the investigation into the Germanwings crash and Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot who deliberately steered the plane into the Alps, killing all 150 people on board: 5.11pm AEST The Guardian’s Luke Harding, our former Berlin correspondent, reports a potentially alarming development coming out of the German newspaper Bild Zeitun...

The Telegraph

• Police find 'clue' at home of Germanwings' co-pilot Andreas LubitzOfficers testing items from his house near Dusseldorf they say could be a 'significant' discovery

Mail Online

• Airlines announce new cockpit changes in wake of Germanwings tragedy EasyJet (pictured) will implement the new rule from tomorrow in the wake of the Germanwings air disaster where the co-pilot locked the pilot out of the cockpit and deliberately crashed the plane.
• Germanwings passengers didn't realise co-pilot was deliberately flying them into mountain The final moments of the Germanwings Airbus A320 flight, which was deliberately flown into the French alps killing 150 people, have been described by prosecutor Brice Robin (pictured).

The Mirror

• Germanwings plane crash: Live updates as investigation under way into French Alps pilotInvestigators continue to try to figure out what possessed Andreas Lubits, the doomed Germanwings passenger jet co-pilot, to intentionally bring the plane down

London Evening Standard

• French Alps crash: Germanwings flight co-pilot 'locked cabin door and deliberately crashed plane' The co-pilot of ill-fated Germanwings flight 4u9525 locked the cabin door before deliberately crashing the plane, killing everyone on board.
• Boris Johnson ditches £200m London City Airport expansion plans Boris Johnson today pulled the plug on plans to double the capacity of London City Airport, saying expansion would blight the lives of thousands of people

Manchester Evening News

• EasyJet flights from Manchester airport will be among first to change cockpit rules after Germanwings tragedyThe operator will now ensure two crew members are in the cockpit at all times after Alps tragedy claims lives of Manchester mum and infant

Blackpool Gazette

• Airport equipment to go under the hammerA raft of equipment from Blackpool Airport is to be sold at auction.

Aviation Industry

• CAPA conference: airline marketing technology 'needs shake-up'Ryanair's chief marketing officer labels the industry 'old-fashioned'
• Etihad could sell Aer Lingus stake if IAG bid is acceptedJames Hogan says deal would deliver 'great return'
• Germanwings crash: Norwegian first airline to changes cockpit proceduresNorwegian announces new protocol mandating that two crew members are always present in the cockpit during a flight