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Saturday, 19 May 2018

BBC News

• Smart luggage firms close because of airline battery rulesTwo firms have closed this month, citing changes in airline policies on carrying batteries.

The Independent

• Charging passengers to sit together on flights could hinder safe evacuations, new report findsCharging passengers to sit together could hinder safe and rapid evacuations, according to a new report produced by the Royal Aeronautical Society Flight Operations Group (FOG).

City AM

• Gatwick Airport is trialling self-boarding gates to cut airport queues and improve flight departure timesGatwick is running a new biometrics trial using self-boarding gates to help slash queues for thousands of passengers with a goal to improving flight departure times too, the London airport said today.
• EU transport official sounds warning on post-Brexit flightsA European Union official has warned that time is ticking on sorting out the arrangement for post-Brexit flights between Britain and the bloc,

Aviation Industry

• Wizz Air adds London Luton routesFast-growing Budapest-based LCC Wizz Air is allocating two new Airbus A320s to its London Luton fleet, accompanying the launch of two routes to Larnaca, Cyprus and Lviv, Ukraine. read more
• ANALYSIS: US major airlines' fifth failureA three-year battle started by American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines against the major Gulf carriers appears to have ended with little to show for the millions of dollars of campaigning by the US airlines and affiliated unions. read more
• Air Belgium secures Russian overflight rightsLong-haul start-up Air Belgium has been granted Russian overflight permission, cementing its revised June 3 launch date. read more