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972 Transbrasil chooses GE power for Boeing 757 BRAZILIAN carrier Transbrasil has chosen the General Electric CF6-32 to power three Boeing 757 narrowbodies on order for delivery in 1983. Trans- brasil's 757 order was announced in April this year and the carrier becomes the first to firmly order 757s not powered by the Rolls-Royce RB.211-535. Eastern Air Lines has ordered 27 Rolls-Royce-powered 757s and has taken options on another 24. British Airways has ordered 19 air craft and taken options on another 18. Hawaii-based Aloha Airlines has announced its intention to buy three 757s powered by GE CF6-32s. • Ansett Airlines of Australia has chosen the General Electric CF6-80 to power five Boeing 767s ordered earlier this year. The order is valued at over $30 million and makes a clean sweep for GE in the Australian medium-haul widebody market—TAA has chosen the GE CF6-50 for its Airbus A300s. Seen here in flight over the Mount St. Helens volcano (now a regular backdrop for Boeing pictures) is the first of four Boeing 737s for Chilean carrier Ladeco FLIGHT International, 6 September 1980 Must read ... D Australian Transport 1978-79, in cludes a review of Australian civil aviation activities for the year, arid can be purchased from the Australian Publishing Service in Canberra, or from the Australian High Commission, Australia House, Strand, London WC2B 4LA. • Location Indicators (Doc 7910/30), Aeronautical Information Services provided by states (Doc 7383-AIS/ 503/51), and Designators for aircraft operating agencies, aeronautical auth orities and services (Doc 8585/42) are the titles of three new Icao publica tions, obtainable from Icao at PO Box 400, Succursale: Place de 1'Aviation internationale, 1000 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2R2. They can be obtained in the United Kingdom from the Civil Avia tion Authority, Printing and Publica tions Services, Greville House, 37 Gratton Road, Cheltenham, Glos, GL50 2BN. People... • Reed Phillips is named as presi dent of New York Helicopter Cor poration, a new subsidiary of Island Helicopter Corporation which begins scheduled operations this autumn. He previously rose to senior vice- president of Island Helicopter after starting his career as a helicopter pilot. Short hauls ... D Residents of Norfolk Island are opposing the Australian Government's decision to spend A$6 million (£2-9 million) on upgrading the island's air port so that it can handle jet aircraft. East-West Airlines plans to introduce Fokker F.28s in place of F.27s on its Norfolk Island services. But the islanders feel that the consequent shorter journey times will encourage an increase in tourism which, they believe, has reached saturation point already. The situation is further com plicated because East-West Airlines can onjy operate F.27s to the island. It has been granted an exemption to the Government's "90-minute rule" prohibiting over-water flights of more than 90 minutes by twin-engined air screw-driven aircraft. Ansett, the only other carrier serving Norfolk Island, plans to avoid the problem by intro ducing Dash 7s on the route. • Pan Am is considering selling the National Airlines terminal at Ken nedy International Airport as part of its current operational reorganisation. Trans World Airlines is reportedly interested in acquiring it because the TWA terminal next door is becoming overcrowded. Pan Am acquired the terminal on merging with National Airlines last year. Short hauls ... • UK Under-Secretary of State for Trade Norman Tebbit has denied that Prestwick Airport might lose its inter national status. In a speech at Edin burgh Airport he stated that such speculation was unfounded and that it was harmful to Scotland's civil aviation interests. Although British Airways had planned to save costs by moving its Scottish transatlantic oper ations to Glasgow Airport, the cost to the British Airports Authority would have been too high. Tebbit ruled out the introduction of scheduled trans atlantic flights to Edinburgh. Tebbit has also said that BAA's Scottish Air ports Division will be given until 1983- 84 to break even. The division lost £2-3 million last year. D Eastern Air Lines made a net loss of $12-5 million in the first half of 1980, despite showing a $4-5 million profit on its flying operations during this period. This compares to an operating profit of $66 million in the first half of 1979. In the second quarter of 1980 the carrier lost $16 million and cites a 73 per cent fuel cost increase and a month-long strike affecting its Mexican operations as major con tributory factors. In the same period last year it made $26 million profit, Short hauls ... but it regards this as an inflated figure because of the United Airlines strike and extra revenue it gained from the FAA DC-10 grounding (Eastern does not operate the type). D Pacific Southwest Airline has recorded a net 1980 first-half profit of $3 million, 16 per cent up from the same period last year. Its profits in the second quarter of this year, how ever, have fallen 40 per cent from last year's figure down to just over $0-75 million. The airline says that its fuel costs have risen significantly over the last year, from $24 million in the first half of 1979 to $56 million in this year's first six months. • The proposed high - frequency carrier People Express has announced details of its route system. It hopes to operate seven - times - daily services from New York-Newark Airport to Buffalo, and four-times-daily flights from Newark to both Columbus, Ohio, and Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, with either Boeing 737s or DC-9s. All of these destinations have experi enced sizeable declines in service frequency recently. The airline has also filed applications to serve Chicago, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Boston, Detroit, and Cleveland as points in an extensive proposed service network.
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