Diplomacy

Discrimination in the skies? UK’s Air Passenger Duty explained

Toni G. — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 19:03:42 +0000

Every passenger departing the UK has to pay a fee. It varies depending where you are flying to, and where you are sitting on the plane. APD – Air Passenger Duty – is divided into four categories or bands based on the distance between London, and the final destination. Watch the video about this « banding system » hereafter:

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F-35 Raptor batch to freeze West Bank settlements

Toni G. — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:45:15 +0000

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China might order Airbus passenger aircraft

Toni G. — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 17:39:49 +0000

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Philippines and China-USA balance in the South China Sea

Toni G. — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:43:52 +0000

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RAFALE or EUROFIGHTER to become next Indian Air Force fighter jet according to Indian media – Russian and US media deny

Toni G. — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:15:21 +0000

Amazing rumours have spread for a couple of days regarding the MMRCA (Indian Air Force Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft) or the MRCA Tender which is an ongoing competition to supply the Indian Air Force with 126 Multi-Role Combat Aircraft maybe up to 189 fighter jets.

The Indians have considered 6 bidders so far:

Typhoon (European Eurofighter Consortium)
Rafale (French Dassault)
MiG-35 Fulcrum-F (Russian UAC subsidiary RSK-MiG)
Gripen NG/IN or JAS 39 (Swedish Saab)
Super Hornet F/A-18 E/F (US Boeing)
F-16IN Fighting Falcon (US Lockheed Martin)

As you can watch the video below, two fighter aircraft have been quoted as finalists for the last stage: The EUROFIGHTER-Typhoon and the RAFALE.

However, American and Russian media deem that such statement cannot be true. Official results should be announced soon. Well, wait and see…

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