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1991 - 2551.PDF
AIR TRANSPORT * ^a-P—^ii* •JEW 1^ « _ P"" 4P^'--,-.y 1 iM^^MtaM^. ANGLO CARGO LEASES BOEING 757 FREIGHTER British freight carrier Anglo Cargo Airlines has leased a Boeing 757 freighter from Ansett Worldwide Aviation Services. Anglo says that the new aircraft permits carriage of much larger, but similar weight, loads compared with its current 707 cargo aircraft. Although maximum load is slightly lighter, the 757 offers higher volume for such cargo as flowers or clothing. The operator also flies a unique BAe One-Eleven freighter. Malev court action in contract battle The legal battle between US engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney (P&W) and Hungar ian airline Malev has taken a further twist with Malev filing a motion in a US court in Con necticut to give it access to information and Pratt & Whit ney personnel, relevant to its case. The initial hearing in the legal tussle over a disputed engine "contract" between the two com panies began on 20 September (Flight International, 25 Septem ber-1 October). Pratt & Whitney says Malev "filed a motion for discovery in the US, for information of a number of deals and negotia tions with eastern European countries, along with access to Pratt & Whitney personnel". The legal wrangle centres on whether or not the two compa nies had a contract, concluded in December 1990, for Pratt & Whitney PW4056 engines for a widebody transport aircraft. Malev announced the choice of the Boeing 767 in February. Malev, disputing that a con tract ever existed, re-opened the engine competition in March, eventually deciding upon rival engine manufacturer General Electric. • FAA Stage 3 noise ruling finalilised The US Federal Aviation Ad ministration (FAA) is to give airlines credits for introducing Stage 3 aircraft as well as for retiring Stage 2 types in the final version its long-awaited noise regulations released on 24 September. Airports are not explicitly banned from imposing local re strictions harsher than the fed eral version, but can do so only by agreement with operators and with FAA approval. Plans to allow trading of Stage 2 allocations between carriers have been abandoned, but indi vidual operators who meet the interim compliance dates early can carry forward credits to the next date. Carriers can now choose be tween meeting Stage 2 phase-out or Stage 3 phase-in schedules Malaysian operator launches Y-12 New Malaysian operator, Pa cific Air Charter (PAC), is to be the south-east Asian launch customer for the Y-12 built by Harbin Aircraft Manu facturing of China. Managing pilot, Capt Earnest, says: "We particularly need an aircraft with a bigger seating capacity for charters at the mo ment. We had a good offer from China and we intend to take delivery of two Y-12s in January and-March next year, subject to Malaysian aviation authority ap proval." Earnest says that the Malay- SAS cuts unprofitable Atlantic routes Swedish flag-carrier SAS will suspend three services and introduce a combined operation on a fourth due to weak eco nomic performance. Services from Copenhagen to Toronto, Stockholm to Tampere, and Copenhagen to Sao Paulo will cease, while the Copen hagen-Chicago service will be operated with Austrian Airlines from the second quarter next year. "The economy of the South American operation has never been strong", says SAS which has been flying to the continent for 45 years, "and recent years' yields — even with sold out flights — have not been ade quate to restore the route's profitablity". • sians have been invited to visit the manufacturing site in Harbin to inspect production standards. Since the Y-12 has already got UK Civil Aviation Authority cer tification, it is likely that the Malaysians will grant approval with a minimum of fuss and without serious delay. The managing pilot believes the Y-12 will be an ideal aircraft for short-field operations. "The Twin Otter is a proven aircraft and the Y-12 has yet to be proven, but with the Western avionics and engines on a rug ged Chinese airframe we are confident that it is a good air craft," he says. PAC gained its public trans port category licence in Novem ber 1990 and is hoping to become a scheduled airline within the next two years. Since start-up with a Turbine Islander, the airline has added two Bell 206 helicopters, a pis ton Islander and a Citation II executive jet. PAC is owned by two large Malaysian companies, one of which runs a hotel resort on Tioman Island. • and can switch targets provided they meet one or the other at each relevant date. The Stage 2 phase-out is unal tered from the proposed rule making as follows: 25% of aircraft by operator fleet to cease operations by 31 December, 1994; 50% by 31 December, 1996; 75% by the end of 1998 and a complete ban by the end of the century. The new alternative is to phase in Stage 3 aircraft by the same dates, so as to achieve Stage 3 proportions of respec tively: 55%, 65%, 75% and 100%. The baseline for a US operator is its fleet on any particular day, to be specified by the airline, between 1 January, 1990 and 1 July, 1991. For foreign operators, the pro posed rule is changed from a baseline calculated from its number of US operations, to a system calculated from its num ber of US-assigned aircraft. The schedules for foreign car riers are similarly calculated around aircraft numbers rather than operations, and the pro posal to exempt those with fleets of only two aircraft is abandoned. New-entrant airlines have no restrictions if launched before the 1994 deadline, but then have to meet the same schedule as everyone else. There is no waiver for high- bypass, widebody aircraft such as the 50 or so JT9-powered older 747s which cannot be hushkitted. US carriers which are 85% compliant by the final date and have FAA-approved plans to reach compliance by 2003 can apply for waivers. Foreign carri ers, however, cannot do so but can, like US operators, apply for interim waivers. The phasing rules apply only to aircraft of more than 34,000kg gross weight, but the rules relating to locally-imposed restrictions apply to all aircraft. D FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 2 - 8 October, 1991 9
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