WASHINGTON, DC, April 30, 2007 – The European Business Aviation Association (EBAA) and the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), co-producers of the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE), today announced that the Convention, scheduled for May 22 through 24, 2007, is on target to set new records for the total number of Exhibitors, booth spaces and aircraft on the Static Display of Aircraft. EBACE is the only European exhibition focusing exclusively on business aviation. In 2006, the Exhibitor count for EBACE reached 292; there were 1,206 booth spaces sold, and 52 fixed-wing aircraft joined four business helicopters on Static Display.

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SEATTLE—Horizon Air and TalkingRain Beverage Company are joining forces to support Medical Teams International’s (MTI) program to provide free dental care to low-income families in Washington and Oregon. Every year Horizon serves TalkingRain Artesian Spring Water and TalkingRain Lemon-Lime Sparkling Water aboard its flights, TalkingRain will contribute at least $12,000 to support MTI’s Mobile Dental Van program.

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GENEVA –The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released March traffic results showing that international passenger traffic demand rose 7.8% year–on-year. This is the largest year-on-year single month increase recorded in a year. Average international passenger load factors remained high at 76.4%. International freight traffic demand continued a 12-month run of sluggish growth with a 2.3% increase year-on-year.

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OMEGA 7 and iMPRESS harness just added a new victory at their credit with the 1st and 3rd places in the 2007 Korean Championship !

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“Timetables for the new route have been planned according to local German business wishes for connections from Nuremberg via Helsinki to Asia, as well as for local business travel,” explains Finnair VP Global Sales Petri Schaaf. Nuremberg is at the centre of northern Bavaria. About five million people live in the area, about two million of which inhabit the Nuremberg, Furth and Erlanger industrial region. The biggest companies are in the IT and telecommunications, logistics and pharmaceuticals industries. Nuremberg is also a significant tourist destination, since the famous and historic cities of Bayreuth, Rothenburg, Coburg and Bamberg.

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SANYA, China, April 27, 2007 - China Southern Airlines, (NYSE: ZNH, HKSE: 1055, SHA 600029) - www.cs-air.com/en - with the largest and most technically advanced aircraft fleet in The People’s Republic of China, hosted a forum today in the resort city of Sanya with senior airline management of SkyTeam as it reviewed its future membership in the global alliance.

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Cape Verde, Praia-based TACV (Transportes Aereos de Cabo Verde) today accepted delivery of its first ATR 72-500. This aircraft is the first to be delivered following the signature of a $50 million contract for 3 ATR aircraft (1 ATR 42-500 and 2 ATR 72-500s) in October 2006. The delivery ceremony took place in Toulouse with Joao Pereira, TACV COO and Filippo Bagnato, ATR CEO.

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MONTREAL, April 27 /CNW Telbec/ - Air Canada introduced today a better way for business travellers to fly with the Flight Pass for Business. The new pass is ideal for any-sized company looking to better manage travel and make flying more convenient for employees. “The Flight Pass for Business is designed for companies of any size, from small to large. Whether a firm has a few people flying a lot, many people flying occasionally, or any mix of flying in between, the Flight Pass for Business simplifies a company’s travel management process while making it easy for employees to fly,” said Marc Rosenberg, Vice President, Sales and Product Distribution at Air Canada. “Travellers have already flown more than one million trips using Air Canada’s flight passes, taking advantage of the flexibility, simplicity and convenience that our passes offer.”

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Guests of Austrian have always known they receive the best service – and not just on board. Now Austrian has taken that service one step further, and transformed its boarding pass into something very special on the ground too: quite simply the most valuable boarding pass in the world. From May onwards, Austrian passengers will be able to present the tear-off stub from their used boarding pass, together with a form of photographic ID, to claim a range of exciting special offers and entry to cultural institutions – either at hugely reduced prices or free of charge. The first offers to feature in the new scheme are at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the exclusive DO&CO Restaurant at Stephansplatz in Vienna and Chicago’s Julius Meinl Café.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Why should a prospective air traffic controller spend many thousands of dollars at college pursuing a degree that leads to a job with the Federal Aviation Administration when they could simply respond to the FAA’s many current “help wanted” ads on MySpace, Craigslist or Facebook – without needing that college degree – and land the same controller job?

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SEATTLE — As part of a $100 million initiative to better serve cargo customers, Alaska Airlines today announced plans to convert a fifth Boeing 737-400 to carry passengers and freight simultaneously on the main deck. The 737-400 “Combi” will join one all-cargo freighter and two other mixed-configuration aircraft already in service. A third Combi is scheduled to be delivered this week and a fourth in May. Pemco World Air Services of Dothan, Ala., will begin converting the fifth Combi in early September, with delivery slated for late December.

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Longueuil, Quebec, April 24, 2007 – When a mission to Mars is being developed, mission planners must consider many factors. Space technology advances, scientific needs and objectives, how to deal with distance, communications delays, and landing through the thin Martian atmosphere–all this must converge into a useful, workable mission concept. Canadian companies and researchers are part of an international drive to respond to these and other challenges.

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New non-stop flights to Tunisia from Zurich and Geneva! Helvetic Airways will be operating flights to Monastir from 23rd May 2007. Monastir is the latest in a long line of exclusive destinations on offer to Helvetic Airways passengers. The airline will operate weekly non-stop flights to Monastir from Geneva and Zurich each Wednesday.

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AgustaWestland and Saab Training Systems have jointly developed an airborne Cabin/Door Gun Training System that utilises existing helicopter weapon installations. It takes skill and lots of practice to hit targets with a machine gun from a fast moving helicopter so the new Cabin/Door Gun Training System, which enables any flight to be utilised as a training mission, allows gunners to build up highly realistic experience without the need for live firing or dedicated gunner training flights. The Cabin/Door Gun Training System provides low cost, high fidelity training for air gunnery and aircrew co-operation, which can only improve aircraft and aircraft crew survivability in combat situations. The system utilises the new BT 46 Mk II simulator, providing maximum degree of realism in combination with a integrated mission recorder. The mission recorder gives immediate feedback as well as comprehensive After Action Reviews and valuable analyse of training performance.Utilising this system, airborne gunnery training can be carried out at any location; home, afloat or deployed, free from any firing range access issues and ammunition availability. Weapon handling will be the same as for any other type of training (dry or live firing).

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MONTREAL, April 24 /CNW Telbec/ - Air Canada today announced it has exercised existing options and purchase rights for 23 Boeing 787 aircraft, bringing its total firm orders for the aircraft to 37 from the 14 originally announced, with deliveries starting in 2010. Air Canada thus becomes the largest North American customer for the Dreamliner, the world’s most advanced aircraft.

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The MOJITO is a wing developed from the new MESCAL2. It exhibits first class take-off behaviour and is extremely forgiving of pilot error.

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easyJet, Europe’s leading low-fares airline, welcomes the European Commission’s decision to limit the abuse of Public Service Obligation (PSO) routes in Italy. The decision follows official complaints by easyJet and other airlines against an Italian decree that was imposed last year to create monopolies on the 16 most important routes between mainland Italy and Sardinia.

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easyJet, the south west’s largest airline, today launches another new exciting route from its Bristol base to the Italian fashion capital, Milan. This new daily service has fares from just £24.99 one way including tax and the airline expects to carry 100,000 passengers on this route in the next 12 months.

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40 children were given the grant award for the trip of a lifetime on the first day of the Icelandic summer. 30 children from Iceland and 10 from the United States. This year 70 children and their families will receive grants from The Special Children Fund as part of the 70th anniversary of Icelandair. Grants are awarded twice a year, with the latest being awarded on the Icelandic “Summerday” which according to Icelandic tradition marks the first day of summer.

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EAA AVIATION CENTER, OSHKOSH, Wis. - (April 23, 2007) - The Lockheed U-2, an aircraft that grabbed headlines and imaginations during the height of the Cold War and still is a key “eye in the sky” for the U.S. military, is the latest major aircraft to join the long list of featured airplanes at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2007, “The World’s Greatest Aviation Celebration.” eAA AirVenture, the 55th annual edition of the Experimental Aircraft Association fly-in convention, will take place July 23-29 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh.

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British pilot Paul Bonhomme (01:32.45 minutes) won a decisive victory against Spaniard Alejandro Maclean (01:36.53) in the the second leg of the Red Bull Air Race World Series, held Saturday over Botafogo Bay in Rio de Janeiro.

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Brussels, 20 April 2007 – Airports Council International EUROPE (ACI EUROPE) welcomes, on behalf of its airport members throughout Europe, the decision reached today by the European Commission to postpone, for one year, the entry into force of the maximum cabin luggage size restriction.

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EAA AVIATION CENTER, OSHKOSH, Wis. - (April 19, 2007) - The EAA Young Eagles program, which has become the largest youth aviation program in history, is celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2007 by reaching another milestone and planning to help even more young people experience the wonders of flight. EAA-member pilots, including the program’s chairman, pilot and actor Harrison Ford, have now flown more than 1,300,000 Young Eagles, supplying flight experiences free of charge to young people on six continents. The flight of Young Eagle #1,300,000 took place on Saturday, March 17 - St. Patrick’s Day - as Paul Rachels of Yuma, Ariz., flew 13-year-old Arlene Martinez, also of Yuma. More than 40,000 pilots have participated as volunteer flight leaders since the first flights in July 1992, with an equal number of ground-based volunteers that make the success of the program possible.

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Kerrville, Texas—Mooney Airplane Company is branching out, expanding on its role as the producer of general aviation’s fastest single engine piston airplanes, to become a match maker. “The ‘Mooney Match’ program was actually unveiled on Valentine’s Day,” noted the firm’s Vice President of Sales and Marketing David Copeland. “We couldn’t pass up such an obvious opportunity to introduce a program that is designed not only to match customers with the right airplane, but to bring potential buyers with compatible usage profiles and geographic locations together, as well,” he observed.

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SEATTLE—Horizon Air is running more flights, many with larger aircraft, to meet an expected increase in passengers during the busy summer travel season and beyond. Flights will be added using a combination of 74-seat Q400 turboprops, 37-seat Q200 turboprops, and 70-seat CRJ-700 jets. The schedule increases are as follows (and all are year-round unless otherwise indicated):

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