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Happy families?
The debate in the aerospace industry over future product lines is sharply focused on the two extremes - the regional jet and the 'superjumbo'. Karen Walker looks ahead as the manufacturers vie to fill the gaps in the market, and Mark Odell presents a summary of current and planned jets. ...
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Too few sales but lots of potential
Despite much recent fanfare about airline participation in the online revolution, ticket-selling on the Internet is still a relatively rare phenomenon and has yet to have much positive impact on carriers' bottom lines. But its potential is undisputed and airlines uniformly consider their experience to be an invaluable education about ...
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Forget Paris
While other French carriers are dragged in to the vortex of troubles affecting the French airline industry, Régional Airlines has found a successful niche on the sidelines and is expanding it. Lois Jones reports. At the sight of a fight some people bare their fists; others walk away. While TAT, ...
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. . . as Swiss go stateside
Swiss caution and American zeal seem as unlikely a combination as yodelling and rock music, but Swissair is certain that an American chief executive at its helm will fashion a more international outlook. Swiss national pride undoubtedly took a knock following Swissair's decision to hand over operating control ...
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CAI survives the big chill
Canadian Airlines International has survived the winter with the help of government, employees and creditors, but competition in western Canada is still growing with charter operator Canada 3000 expanding its scheduled services. Canadian's cash position has improved enough to defer searching for a C$60 million (US$40 million) credit ...
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Clinton still confident
The American economy has shown remarkable resilience in the 1990s. Over the last five years more than 11 million new jobs have been created, the rate of unemployment has fallen to 5.4 per cent of the workforce and inflation has been kept below 3 per cent. Even the US budget ...
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Precision success
Dunlop Precision Rubber is to supply electrically conductive wing-root seals to Embraer EMB-145 subcontractor Sonaca of Belgium. Dunlop already supplies seals for EMB-145 applications. Source: Flight International
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737 AD issued
US Boeing 737 operators are being ordered to retrofit their fleets with four newly developed rudder-system components, following the formal issue by the US Federal Aviation Administration of two airworthiness directives (ADs). The announcement follows a US National Transportation Safety Board report, urging the FAA to make its proposed AD ...
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Civil warfare
Italy's airline industry is at a crossroads. Long dominated by flag carrier Alitalia, the country's air-transport industry is still coming to terms with the 1995 liberalisation of the domestic market. Despite the dramatic events of the last year or so, most agree that there is still plenty of room for ...
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Taiwanese/Czechs link on AE-270
Taiwan's Aerospace Industrial Development (AIDC) and Aero Vodochody of the Czech Republic have signed a $60 million joint-venture agreement to co-produce a ten-seat turboprop aircraft, the AE-270. Each will take a 50% stake. AIDC president Wang Shih-sen and Aero Vodochody chief executive Adam Stranak signed the agreement on ...
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SIA ponders A340-500 and 777-200X
Singapore Airlines (SIA) says that it will need at least ten new ultra-long-range aircraft to open fresh routes and frequencies to the USA, after the recent signing of an open-skies bilateral air agreement between the two countries. The airline is looking at the proposed Boeing 777-200X and rival ...
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SilkAir narrows choice to 737 and A320 families
SilkAir of Singapore has narrowed its choice of new narrowbody passenger-aircraft to the Boeing 737 and Airbus Industrie A320 families. It is now expected to make a final selection early in April. Following a board meeting by SilkAir's parent company, Singapore Airlines, it has been decided to drop ...
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US carriers hunt for new twin families
CONTINENTAL Airlines is negotiating with Boeing and Airbus Industrie over the purchase of 40 long-range commercial aircraft worth as much as $2.5 billion, says the airline. Continental expects to decide within two months whether to buy the Boeing 767-400 or 777, or, instead, purchase the Airbus A330-200. The ...
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Delta signs up with Boeing for exclusive fleet-renewal deal
Delta Air Lines has agreed an exclusive 20-year fleet-acquisition plan with Boeing, covering the potential purchase of up to 644 aircraft, and launching the stretched 767-400 as part of the initial order phase. The deal includes 106 firm orders, 124 options and 414 "rolling options". Despite "fierce competition" ...
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-plans IHAS avionics safety development
AlliedSignal Aerospace is discussing with airlines and aircraft manufacturers its plan to develop a so-called integrated hazard-avoidance system (IHAS). The IHAS would combine safety-related avionics systems, such as ground-proximity warning system, traffic-alert and collision-avoidance system and windshear detection, in a single box, with the aim of providing a ...
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AlliedSignal sets regional target for RE220 APU-
The AlliedSignal-led team which is developing the RE220 auxiliary power unit (APU) is refocusing its efforts on the regional-aircraft market, following the virtual completion of the Gulfstream V flight-test programme, followed by the beginning of the Bombardier Global Express test effort. The APU produces up to 280kW (375hp) ...
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Emirates' pilot
There is an infectious buzz about Dubai. The country is awash with new construction on a grand scale. Among other things, the tiny Gulf state will soon have the world's tallest and most exotic hotel to add to its tally of international golf courses, race tracks and shopping malls. It ...
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Breakthrough nears on burn-through
Airline passengers will soon have dramatically improved post-accident fire-protection if an Airbus Industrie-led group of European companies can win a European Commission (EC) research grant. Research has already established that the use of different cabin-insulation materials at manufacture could increase tenfold the time it takes for external fire to burn ...
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Chinese close in on Boeing 777 contract
There are growing indications that China might finally sign a $1 billion deal with Boeing for ten 777-200/300s during US Vice-President Al Gore's trip to the country in the last week of March. Airbus Industrie is also pushing to conclude a deal for up to 75 A320 family aircraft during ...
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Embraer commits to Erieye for EMB-145
Ericsson Microwave Systems of Sweden has signed a $145 million deal with Embraer to supply five Erieye airborne-early-warning (AEW) and control systems for installation on the Brazilian aircraft builder's EMB-145 regional jet. The aircraft is part of the equipment for a wider surveillance scheme being managed for the Brazilian Government ...