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1983
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AIR TRANSPORT Dan-Air looks at Tay One-Eleven LONDON The promise of a 25 per cent range increase for the same fuel burn is leading Dan-Air towards serious consideration of Rolls-Royce Tay retrofits for its One-Eleven 500s. The engine is likely to become available around 1986. The Tay should have a 15 per cent lower specific fuel consumption than the Spey—bringing Tenerife and Cyprus within the One- Eleven's range from the UK with a typical inclusive-tour payload. The lower fuel consumption of the derivative engine should also reduce seat-mile costs by about 15 per cent, compared with those of the standard Spey-powered aircraft, which already closely matches the seat-mile cost of Dan-Air's 737s in IT config uration. The One-Eleven airframe is extremely durable, and is good for both 80,000hr and the same number of landings. Some Dan-Air One-Elevens have only 20,000hr to their credit. The airline believes that the Tay conversion should just about pay for itself in fuel savings during the remaining airframe life, based on current predictions of fuel costs and interest rates, but it is the range improvement which is the major attraction. The Tay is expected to deliver the same take-off thrust as the Spey, but with out the necessity for water injection. Eliminating the water system compensates for the slightly higher engine weight. • Dan-Air has two BAe 146s on lease purchase, plus two options. It says the new aircraft has superior oper ating economics to the re- engined One-Eleven on short- haul scheduled operations, where load factors are lower than on charter flights. MARKETPLACE Air UK is leasing a new Shorts 330-200 from the manufacturer for its services to Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport from London Stan- sted and from Humberside. The aircraft will enter service early in April, and will, according to the airline, almost double its capacity on the Stansted-Amsterdam route. Comair of Cincinnati is adding two Fairchild Metro Ills to its fleet in April. According to Charles Curran, Comair's vice-president for marketing, the airline is obtaining them in antici pation of developing markets with stage lengths longer than those it currently operates. Curran says that the airline is evaluating markets in the 300-500-mile range "where we have significant passenger interest from cities in our current system". Ghana Airways is putting its new McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 into service this month after obtaining financing for the aircraft. The aircraft has been sitting at Long Beach for several months, in Ghana Airways livery, awaiting the resolution of its financing. Ghana Airways will operate the DC-10 on its routes from Accra to London, Rome and Amsterdam. It will seat 274 passengers—24 in first class and 250 in economy—and has a maximum take-off weight of 565,0001b. It is powered by CF6-50C2s. To date, 391 DC-lOs and KC-lOs have been ordered, with 377 deliv ered. Nearly 50 airlines oper ate the DC-10: 365 are in commercial service, and MDC claims that it serves more cities in more countries (210 in 101) than any other wide- body type. British Midland Airways has taken delivery of three more DC-9-10s, bringing its fleet of the type to six. The UK independent carrier acquired two DC-9-14s from Finnair and a DC-9-15 from KLM in its latest fleet expan sion. The BMA deal was worth about $3 million to KLM. British Midland also operates five Viscounts, seven Fokker F.27s, three Boeing 707s, and a Shorts 330. BMA is operating The first Airbus Industrie A300-600, the stretched A300 that has learned some lessons from the A310's devel opment, now has its wings attached. The airframe is No 252 on the Airbus production line at Toulouse jUjpgl ^•H • • 31 i : -.lH ••• ^ -liiiiill ,„.„.. i^B . FLIGHT International, 5 March 1983 the ex-KLM DC-9-which was refurbished before delivery—on its routes from Teesside Airport. South African Airways is negotiating to sell its three remaining HS. 748s and suspend its services to Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland with the proviso that services may be re opened when Gaborone, Maseru, and Manzini Airports can take SAA's Boeing 737s. The decision is commercial rather than political says SAA, adding that it is negotiating with Air Botswana, Lesotho Airways, and Royal Swazi Airlines for these three carriers to take over its 13 weekly flights. If they do so, the three airlines are likely to need extra capacity. British Aerospace recently exhibited the BAe 146 to the three countries as well as SAA, but Lesotho is believed to be negotiating to buy a Fokker F.27. Short hauls ... Pan American is making a public offering of $150 million of 15 per cent of convertible secured trust notes due in 1998. The trust notes are priced at 100 per cent of face value plus accrued interest from the date of issue. Pan Am says proceeds from the sale of the notes would be used for general corporate pur poses. Kenya Airways has agreed with the Seychelles to provide enough seats to Mahe from London, Frankfurt, Zurich, and Rome from April 1, to compensate for the loss of British Airways' and Luft hansa's services from those destinations. In addition, Kenya Airways has agreed to fly direct Nairobi-Seychelles schedules so that passengers travelling from Europe will not have to change aircraft at Nairobi. Kenya Airways is also to provide tour operators with seat allocations to compensate for the loss of BA and Lufthansa capacity. Egyptair is to resume sched uled flights to Algeria, Iraq, and Iran in May. Air trans port connections were broken by the three countries with Egypt after it signed the peace treaty with Israel. 575
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