Saturday Links #49

Looking for a European market that had airline traffic growth in May? How about Latvia? Anna.aero has some very interesting traffic statistics.
The climate bill passed the House by a pretty close margin yesterday, the ATA had a couple of interesting press releases about it. (Here and here.)
Qantas canceled 15 787 orders and deferred 15 more. Not surprisingly, Jon Ostrower has all the details.
The first flight of the 787 was pushed back again this week. Jon has all the details on that one, too.
Oh, look, O’Leary has a new idea: passengers will carry bags to the aircraft. O’Leary also said that “this is so much fun. I love recessions. You get the chance to kick the —- out of everybody.”
WestJet has some plans to utilize Twitter. (Finally – for awhile there it seemed they were only updating sporadically.)

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