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AIR TRANSPORT Sabena wants more BAe 146s BELGIAN national airline Sabena wants to acquire up to 12 more British Aerospace BAe 146 regional jets for use on routes in Europe. Delta Air Transport (DAT), the airline's 79%-owned Antwerp-based commuter sub sidiary has operated four of the type since 1992 on franchised routes. Two more aircraft are leased to Air UK. A team from DAT has travelled to the USA to inspect several air craft laid up in the desert. Sabena president Pierre Godfroid says that he is pleased with the quiet ness, both inside and out, of the BAe 146 which operates in increasingly difficult environmen tal conditions. Among the routes it serves is noise-sensitive Berlin Tempelhof Airport, where it is the only jet- powered type allowed to land. As well as the four BAe 146s already in use, the DAT fleet includes three Fokker F28, ten Embraer EMB-120 Brasilias and a de Havilland Dash 8, which is now wet-leased from Schreiner of the Netherlands. Godfroid says that he wants to standardise the DAT fleet to achieve lower maintenance costs. • Israeli independent carrier Arkia is to evaluate the Avro RJ70 regional jet as a candidate to replace its fleet of ten de Havilland Dash 7s. Avro will per form demonstration flights in Israel in mid-November. Saab has already demonstrated its 2000 turboprop to Arkia. Arkia's main operating base is Dov Airport, Tel Aviv, where noise regulations limit operations. The trials will include extensive noise measurements. The carrier plans twice-daily Dash-7 services from Tel Aviv-Amman, following the Israel-Jordan peace treaty. • Frankfurt opens second terminal FRANKFURT Airport opened its new Terminal 2 on 24 October, boosting its annual pas senger capacity by 10-12 million. Eighteen airlines have trans ferred to the new terminal, leaving Lufthansa and its partner airlines such as United and Thai Airways most of the older terminal. Airport owner company Flughafen Frank furt says that Lufthansa has taken up the extra space on a 20-year ten ancy agreement. Flughafen Frankfurt is to invest over DM500 million ($306 mil lion) in modernising and refitting the terminal over the next three years, with Lufthansa investing an additional DM100 million. The German flag carrier will establish its own restaurants and shops, conspicuously marking the build ing, which it calls Lufthansa Terminal Frankfurt, with its cor porate stamp. Lufthansa's annual passenger capacity at the airport will expand immediately to 25 million, but it says that it has the option of fur ther expansion — the capacity of die entire terminal is about 32 mil lion passengers. Frankfurt Airport says that it is expecting about 34 million pas sengers in 1994, of whom about 5 million will pass through the new terminal. In 1993, the air port's Terminal 1 handled 32.5 million passengers. • Baltic Boeing 727 enters service US/LATVIAN JOINT VENTURE Baltic International Airlines (BIA) has replaced a Tupolev Tu-134A with this Boeing 727-100 on its daily Riga-London Gatwick service. The ex-American Airlines aircraft entered service on 13 October and is to be joined by a second aircraft on the Riga-Frankfurt route. BIA is negotiating to serve Yerevan, Armenia; Almaty, Kazakhstan; and Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Bering Air will use CATPASS to Russia ALASKA'S Bering Air has acquired a Commuter Air Technology (CAT) CATPASS 2 50, a modified 13 -seat Beech King Air 200, for use on services to Russia. Nome-based Bering says tfrat flights into Russia with its Piper Navajos were limited by lack of piston fuel in the region. The twin-turbine CATPASS will be used on new routes from north-western Alaska to Anadyr, Magadan and Cape Schmidt. CAT also hopes to sell at least five aircraft to Vietnam for a Government-run shuttle service, initially based at Ho Chi Minh City. A feasibility study is now under way and the Vietnamese Aviation Authority has granted approval for the CATPASS 250 to be imported. 3 WORKSHOP • SHANNON Shannon Aerospace is to perform maintenance and intermediate checks on two Aero Lloyd McDonnell Douglas MD-87s. Included in the work will be a new modification to increase pay- load by removing the aft auxiliary fuel-tank, for which Shannon will acquire the supplemental type certifi cate. Shannon has also won its biggest contract so far with a contract to perform heavy maintenance on ten of KLM's Boeing 737-300s. The three-year deal includes stripping, painting and D- checks on all the aircraft. For Shannon, a Swissair/Luft- hansa/GPA joint venture, it marks a major move away from its core customer base of European charter airlines, into the scheduled sector. • ELSINORE Elsinore Aerospace Services has obtained a supplemental type certificate for the con version of Boeing 747-200s to freighters, using the GATX/Airlog kit designed for -100s. Chrysler Techno logies Airborne Systems of Waco, Texas, modified the prototype aircraft. • ALSALAM Alsalam Aircraft of Riyadh has been granted a US Federal Aviation Admin istration repair-station cer tificate for work on Boeing 737s, Pratt & Whitney JT8D turbofans and specialised inspection activities. • AERO Aero of Lake City, Florida, is to perform heavy mainte nance and modification work on nine McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32s for US carrier Valujet Airlines. • LUFTHANSA Lufthansa has created Lufthansa Technik in Hamburg as a formal spin off of its aircraft, engines and equipment overhaul function. FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 2 - 8 November 1994
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