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Singapore - Passenger volume at Singapore's Changi Airport increased by 2.7 per cent year-on-year to 37.7 million despite the global economic slowdown towards the second half of 2008, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) said Wednesday.

However, the economic impact was felt in the cargo sector, with airfreight movements dipping 2 per cent to 1.86 million tons last year.

New York  - Delta Air Lines ended the year with steep losses in the final quarter of2008 as it completed its merger with Northwest, the company said Tuesday.

Losses for the year at what is now the world's largest airline came to 1.4 billion dollars in the final quarter of the year, compared with losses of 70 million dollars in the year-earlier period. Excluding one-time costs related to the merger, the loss amounted to 340 million dollars, or 50 cents per share.

London  - British Airways (BA) warned Monday that it expected to make an operating loss of 150 million pounds (208 million dollars) during the 2008/2009 financial year due to rising costs and the slide in the value of the pound.

BA said that it expected an operating loss of 50 million pounds for the third quarter to December 31, leading to a possible deficit of 150 million pounds for the whole year, ending March 31.

Country’s esteemed Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas has added another feather to its cap. On Thursday, the LCA Tejas programme logged a remarkable landmark accomplishing 1002 flights.

With this, the Tejas team has become a role model for executing large R&D programmes in the country.

Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) said that the maneuver lasted about 30 minutes and was carried out by Group Captain JA Maolankar, chief test pilot of the National Flight Test Centre.