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Thursday, 30 July 2015

Financial Times

• Investigators check possible MH370 partDebris potentially related to crash found on Indian Ocean island of La Réunion

The Guardian

• MH370 search: Minister says debris 'almost certainly' from Boeing 777 – latest updatesOfficials examine aircraft part washed up on Réunion Island in the French Indian Ocean as possible clue to fate of missing Malaysian Airlines planeRead the latest summaryWhat is the flaperon found in La Réunion? 4.30pm AEST Warren Truss, the Australian deputy prime minister, is about to speak about the find on La Réunion.Australia has been leading the seabed search for the missing plane. 4.24pm AEST Associated Press reports that relatives of many of the 153 Chinese passengers of MH370 have said in a statement that they want authorities to be 100% certain the part was from the missin...

The Independent

• How judge who was kicked off British Airways competition case used a hearing to subject airline's legal counsel to barrage of questionsIt was the case that stunned the legal profession: a High Court judge who used a hearing in a £3 billion dispute involving British Airways to repeatedly press the airline on the question of what had happened to his lost luggage.

City AM

• Investigators fly to Reunion to check possible MH370 debrisA team of investigators has been sent to the island of Reunion to find out whether debris that has washed ashore could be from the missing flight MH370.  A two-metre-long (6ft) piece of wreckage washed up on the French Indian Ocean island, which sits 370 miles east of Madagascar, late on Wednesday. Experts have said the debris looks like a piece of the wing from a Boeing 777, known as a flaperon, fuelling speculation that it could be from the Malaysia Airlines, which disappeared without a trace in March 2014. There were 227 passengers on the flight. Associated Press news ag...

Mail Online

• Ryanair passenger shocked when window frame of the plane falls into his lap Laurence Gibson was flying back to London Stansted from Gdansk in Poland with his partner Matt when the window reveal fell out of the frame as the aircraft came into land.
• Aviation experts explain how plane flap found on La Reunion could be part of MH370 Aviation experts say the current of the Indian Ocean could have taken the discovered flap (pictured) up the WA coast, then Indonesia before ending up at La Reunion, off the coast of Africa.

The Mirror

• MH370 found? Live updates as wreckage washes up on Indian Ocean island Malaysia has sent a team to the French island of Reunion to investigate whether wreckage found there could be from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 plane which disappeared last year

London Evening Standard

• Letters to the editor: Londoners want a new airport Tuesday's poll on airport capacity must have made difficult reading for Heathrow Airport [“More Brits want new airport, not Heathrow or Gatwick expansionâ€�, July 27].
• Malaysia Airlines flight MH370: could wreckage found off east coast of Africa be part of missing aircraft? Part of an aircraft wreckage found on an island off the east coast of Africa could be part of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, it has emerged.

North Wales Live

• Digital specialist Hit Search working with Liverpool John Lennon Airport Liverpool agency aiming to increase rankings and content performance for city's airport

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

• Amazon wants air space for delivery dronesAmazon wants to carve out a special zone of the sky to shuttle commercial drones that would deliver goods to its customers. Amazon Prime Air project vice president Gur Kimchi used a NASA convention in California to fly the idea of dedicating separate air zones for commercial drones. Kimchi proposed setting commercial drone zones between 200 and 400 feet above the ground, with a no-fly buffer of 100 feet above to keep them safely apart from other aircraft. Less sophisticated drones, such as those used by hobbyists, could be given air space below that used by the faster, more sensor-equipped co...

Aviation Industry

• Aer Lingus profits fall as IAG closes in on takeoverIrish carrier’s board says joining British Airways’ parent company will boost growth
• British Airways extends NDC pilot to include seatsAirline adds the ability to search and choose seats to developer trial

Other News Sources

• GBTA 2015: Lack of competition driving Lufthansa chargeAirline industry consolidation has allowed German carrier to introduce GDS fee