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1986
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AIR TRANSPORT MBB engineer to become Airbus No 2 TOULOUSE ~ West German engineer Herbert Flosdorff is expected to become Airbus Industrie's new second-in-command to the European airliner manu facturing consortium's chair man Jean Pierson, reports Gilbert Sedbon. Official appointment is due on January 27 when the consortium supervisory board meets in Toulouse. Flosdorff, who is head of development at the Hamburg works of Messerschmitt- Bolkow-Blohm (MBB) (the country's biggest aerospace group and owner of Deutsche Airbus, Airbus' German part ner), will replace Johann Schaeffler as Airbus Indus trie's general manager. Scha effler is leaving the Toulouse- based European consortium on February 1 after only five months to become Board chairman of Dornier GmbH, West Germany's second- largest aerospace group. West Germany's MBB and France's Aerospatiale each hold a 37-9 per cent stake in Airbus Industrie, British Aerospace 20 per cent, and Spain's Construcciones Aero- nauticas S.A. (Casa) 4-2 per cent. At the January 27 meeting, the Airbus Industrie Board is also expected to take a deci sion on launching the planned 250-seat long-haul four- engined twin aisle TA11 airliner, and the twin-engined 300-seat medium range TA9 airliner. Taken together these two aircraft represent a $2,500 million programme. In prac tice the decision is more likely to be the launching of a campaign to raise the capital needed to build the aircraft. Pan Am works hard for Atlantic NEW YORK ~~~ Pan Am is concentrating all its growth efforts on trans atlantic routes following the sale of its Pacific division to United Airlines. New services will concen trate on Germany to take full advantage of the forthcoming resumption of USA-USSR air links. Pan Am plans to use its fleet of 737s based in Frank furt and West Berlin to serve Prague, Moscow, and Lenin grad from April 27. By summer it will be operating 206 weekly transatlantic flights occupying 65 per cent of its total capacity. The US carrier now has three established east coast hubs at New York, Washing ton, and Miami feeding traffic on to transatlantic routes. "We have felt for some time," says John Krimsky, senior vice-president, marketing, "that the expansion of our transatlantic services would be one of the major catalysts for Pan Am's return to profitability". Financial results for the first nine months of 1985 were badly hit by the month- long strike in March. The airline reports a pre-tax loss of $203-2 million compared with a $130-1 million loss over the same period in 1984. Profits for the third quarter, however, stood at $17-3 million (1984 $774,000). The management and tech nical assistance subsidiary, Pan Am World Services, showed a pre-tax profit of $15-5 million for the nine months. It recently gained a new chairman, Edward Acker, also chairman of the parent company Pan Am Corp. Aeroflot hits target MOSCOW Aeroflot carried 112 million passengers in 1985 and worked 108 million hectares of agricultural land, according to the Soviet Central Statisti cal Directorate. For the period 1980 to 1985 passengers flown totalled more than 550 million with 15-5 million tonnes of freight and mail, slightly exceeding targets. Goals for the next five years have been set at 580 million passengers, 15 • 8 million freight tonnes, and more than a trillion passenger kilo metres. Eight new terminals and six runways are scheduled for construction nationwide by 1990. And the airline aims to reduce seat fuel costs by 3 to 5 per cent and tonne-km costs by 3 per cent by increasing the use of the 11-86, Tu-154M, and Yak-42. A320 moves down the line These Airbus A320 front fuselages were at Aerospatiale's St Nazaire factory when this picture was taken, though the first one has now been transported to Toulouse where final assembly takes place. The second and third front fuselages here are static and fatigue test specimens. MARKET PLACE Air Malta is leasing a 189-seat Boeing 707 to meet increased demand in holiday traffic this summer after obtaining a Government go- ahead to enlarge its fleet. It currently operates three 737s and three 720Bs. Trinidad and Tobago Airways Corporation (BWIA International) has ordered one McDonnell Douglas MD-83 twin jet and taken an option on a second. The aircraft are scheduled for delivery in October 1986 and June 1987. BWIA will lease an MD-83 from Irish Aerospace in April this year to replace the MD-82 it now has on lease. Australian Aircraft Sales has sold its last Fokker F.27-100 to Great Aircruise Company of Sydney, bring ing the number of Fokkers it has owned and sold to date to 29. In a deal worth $20 million an Allegheny Commuter has ordered three Beech 1900 turboprops and taken options on three more. Operated by Pennsylvania Airlines, the commuter serves destinations in Pennsylvania as well as the New York and Washington hubs using Shorts 330s and 360s and de Havilland Canada Twin Otters. Norwegian operator Norsk Flytnejest has signed firm orders for two Embraer 120 Brasilias with options on a further three for use on its Scandinavian routes. Sales of the EMB-120 now total 62 with 89 options. India's third airline, Vayudoot, is looking at suit able 40-to-50-seat aircraft to add to its fleet. Likely candi dates could be the Super HS.748, ATR42, F.27, Fokker 50, CN-235, or Dash 8-300. Vayudoot will progressively take over Indian Airlines' turboprops; the first four, with their routes, are being transferred shortly. Connecticut-based Business Express, formerly Atlantic Air, has taken delivery of a Beechcraft 1900, and plans to add another four to its fleet by mid-1986. This brings the number of 1900s now in service to 50. FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL, 25 January 1986
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