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<br /> Special Focus: SITA/ATW Passenger Self-Service Survey<br /> The Magazineof Global Airline Management www.atwonline.com October 2009 November 2006<br /> A Penton Publication<br /> INSIDE<br /> EU ETS<br /> Sichuan Airlines<br /> Inflight Connectivity<br /> Air Transport World<br /> The Magazineof Global AirlineManagement www.atwonline.com A Penton Publication<br /> GARUDA<br /> Comeback?Special Focus: SITA/ATW Passenger Self-Service Survey<br /> j<br /> n<br /> Air Transport World<br /> The Magazine of Global Airline Management www.atwonline.com<br /> October 2009<br /> INSIDE<br /> EUETS<br /> Sichuan Airlines<br /> Inflight Connectivity<br /> A Penton Publication<br /> <br /> AVIC XI'AN AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY (GROUP) COMPANY LTD.<br /> Add: No. 1 Xifei Road.Yanliang.Xi'an,China P.C.:710089<br /> Tel : <a title="October 2009 page 1" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/20432326?page=1"> Special Focus: SITA/ATW Passenger Self-Service Su</a> <a title="October 2009 page 2" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/20432326?page=2"> AVIC XI'AN AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY (GROUP) COMPANY </a> <a title="October 2009 page 3" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/20432326?page=3"> Trends WORLD AIRLINE TRAFFIC </a> <a title="October 2009 page 4" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/20432326?page=4"> perry.flint@penton.com EDITORIAL HEADQUARTERS Th</a> <a title="October 2009 page 5" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/20432326?page=5"> Contents OCTOBER 2009 VOLUME 46 </a> <a title="October 2009 page 6" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/20432326?page=6"> Everyone's talking about what airlines and passen</a> <a title="October 2009 page 7" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/20432326?page=7"> Editorial Refighting the Last War N </a> <a title="October 2009 page 8" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/20432326?page=8"> LOWER EMISSIONS. X equals C</a> <a title="October 2009 page 9" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/20432326?page=9"> THAT’S THE POWER OF X. for </a> <a title="October 2009 page 10" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/20432326?page=10"> BELO HORIZONTE JOHANNESBURG MAPUTO LISBON AIR</a> <a title="October 2009 page 11" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/20432326?page=11"> NewsBriefs FINANCIAL RESULTS, NEW DEALS, AND REPO</a> <a title="October 2009 page 12" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/20432326?page=12"> NewsBriefs posed C919, the aircraft the country </a> <a title="October 2009 page 13" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/20432326?page=13"> a member of Industry’s No 1 IET Platform* </a> <a title="October 2009 page 14" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/20432326?page=14"> NewsBriefs privatization of CSA, leaving the Uni</a> <a title="October 2009 page 15" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/20432326?page=15"> 2E INVENT ONLINE SHOPPING !IRLINE)43OLUT</a> <a title="October 2009 page 16" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/20432326?page=16"> NewsBriefs » FROM HONG KONG TO THE DESERT </a> <a title="October 2009 page 17" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/20432326?page=17"> NewsBriefs CNY23.11 billion but costs declined 2</a> <a title="October 2009 page 18" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/20432326?page=18"> High pressure turbine blades The Trent phil</a> <a title="October 2009 page 19" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/20432326?page=19"> The real beauty is using less cooling air improv</a> <a title="October 2009 page 20" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/20432326?page=20"> NewsBriefs Air Terminal to deploy more than 200 </a> <a title="October 2009 page 21" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/20432326?page=21"> With 30 tourist-packed flights d</a> <a title="October 2009 page 22" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/20432326?page=22"> RegionalNews MRJ changes to delay first delive</a> <a title="October 2009 page 23" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/20432326?page=23"> Intelligent Civil Aerospace Systems START WITH TH</a> <a title="October 2009 page 24" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/20432326?page=24"> Coming Events Oct. 4-6 Boyd Group Aviation For</a> <a title="October 2009 page 25" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/20432326?page=25"> People Aer Lingus named Michael Grealy dir.-H</a> <a title="October 2009 page 26" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/20432326?page=26"> Profile Return to Glory for Garuda? 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