Melbourne, April 1 :Some American airports are using whole body scanners at security checkpoints, which can penetrate people's clothing.

Developed by New York-based L3 Communications, the scanner has become a cause of concern, with reports suggesting that even underwear is visible in the scans.

Due to this ability of the novel scanner, it is being likened to scanners on the 1990 science fiction film Total Recall, which revealed the bodies of Mars-bound passengers beneath their clothing.

Geneva  - Starting in 2013, up to 100 European airports will take part in a plan to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions over the continent's airspace by half a million tonnes a year, aviation industry groups said Tuesday.

The plan to the use the so-called Continuous Descent Approach (CDA) for landing, where aircraft fly a smooth approach into an airport rather than the classical stepped approach, announced at the Aviation and Environment Summit in Geneva, would reduce carbon output and fuel usage.

Accusing the Jet Airways for the supposed lapse in payment of installments with regard to the April 2007 takeover of the earlier Sahara Airlines - now JetLite - Sahara India has approached the Bombay High Court.

Out of the Rs. 1,450 crore acquisition deal for Sahara Airlines, Jet Airways had made an upfront payment of Rs. 900 crore, and had agreed to pay annual installments of Rs 137 crore in the course of the next four years beginning 2007.

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British Airways authorities Sunday onwards suspended its direct services from Kolkata to London - practically applying its last year announcement - saying that the route was not making adequate profit! Coincidentally, the same day, Air India resumed its October 2008-suspended service on the Kolkata-London route, via Delhi.

With the last British Airways flight taking off at around 5 a. m. from the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport, the carrier's thrice a week service, direct form Kolkata to Heathrow Airport in London, has been scrapped.

According to reports, India's foremost privately-owned airline Jet Airways intends slashing its fleet capacity - the airline had earlier announced 18-20% reduction in its winter schedule from October to February.

The airline's Chief Commercial Officer Sudheer Raghavan said that the cuts result from "excess manpower," the company would try to redeploy the affected fleet members for providing better customer service.