Airliner World and Airports of the World conducted interviews with key airline and airport executives in Cairo on the eve of President Obama’s landmark visit to the Egyptian capital. Feature stories will appear in forthcoming issues of both publications.

June 4: A French Air Force E-3F Advanced Warning and Control Systems (AWACS) aircraft based at Avord in France took off on June 2 to participate in the research of Air France Flight 447 that disappeared off the coast of…

June 4: Brazil’s defence ministry has confirmed that a navy vessel has arrived at the assumed crash location of Air France Flight 447, an Airbus A330-203 operating a scheduled international passenger flight from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Charles de…