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Airbus has reportedly received orders worth around £4.5 billion from China Airlines and Indian based airline Kingfisher Airlines.

China Airlines, which is the largest airline in Taiwan, is believed to be buying 14 Airbus A350-900 aircraft with an option for another six in an order worth about £2 billion. It is thought the airline will use the planes on long haul flights to Europe, the USA and Australia from 2015.

Heathrow consultation is sham says Greenpeace.

Environmental campaign group Greenpeace has made its feelings clear about plans to build a new runway and terminal at Heathrow.

Greenpeace volunteers wearing t-shirts with the slogan ‘This consultation is fixed – ask me how’ attended the final Heathrow consultation exhibition at the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre in London.

If you’re looking for more excitement than flights from your local airport can offer, why not consider a flight into space on the new Virgin Galactic spaceship?

Virgin Galactic has unveiled the design of the space launch system that will launch its commercial space flights. The new White Knight Two (WK2) mothership – or carrier aircraft – is the world’s largest, all carbon composite aircraft.

The carrier aircraft is being built by Scaled Composites in California and test flights are expected to start this summer. WK2 has a new high altitude lift capacity and is able to launch Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo and up to 8 astronauts into sub-orbital space flight.

The new Terminal 5 at Heathrow opens in March and volunteers are needed to trial the new terminal before operations commence.

If you’d like to be one of the first people to experience T5, then airport operator BAA would like to hear from you. “We are looking for all types of people to be involved, from frequent flyers to first time flyers – everyone can take part,” says BAA.

Volunteers are still needed for a variety of trial dates including 16 February when there will be a Heathrow Express evacuation exercise. Other dates include 23, 26 and 28 February, and 8, 11 and finally 13 March.

Savvy young investors from the UK are snapping up property in Brazil.

Brazil, along with Egypt and Croatia, is emerging as a property hotspot due to its high yields. Long popular as an adventurous holiday destination for young travellers, these buyers are increasingly driving the overseas property investment market in the UK.