Airframers – Page 1675
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A320: training is crucial factor
Sir - I agree wholeheartedly with Capt. Sorensen's comments (Flight International, Letters, 26 April-2 May, P42). Having flown both conventional aircraft and the Airbus Industrie A320, I would like to add my opinion of the operation of the A320. It is no secret that, with the exception of ...
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Financial results
An exceptional charge of £139.2m ($226.8m) for restructuring contributed to the loss. Team Aer Lingus, the maintenance unit, lost £27.9m. Air France expects losses of FFr3.5b ($713m) for its 15 month 'year'. Debt fell from FFr33.6b to FFr27b due to the state capital injection. Lower ticket prices and ...
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Suppliers
Amadeus has signed new partners, the Colombian flag carrier Avianca, and ANATO, the country's travel agency association, to operate the CRS in Colombia. GE Aircraft Engines has signed an MoU with IHI for the Japanese company to develop and manufacture 25 to 30 per cent of the CF34-8C ...
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Orders
Aero Lloyd has ordered four A321s and two A320s direct from Airbus Industrie, worth $306 million. In addition the German charter will lease four A320s and six A321s from Los Angeles-based lessor ILFC. Delivery of the V2500 powered aircraft will begin in early 1996. United Airlines has ordered ...
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Dutch charges
Amsterdam/Schiphol airport is to introduce charges for narrow-bodied Stage 2 aircraft from the end of October. The airport wishes to cut the 18 per cent share of Stage 2 aircraft in its traffic mix to 8 per cent by 1997. Levies will range from $130-195 per landing during the day ...
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Suppliers in demand
What enlarged role could suppliers and manufacturers play as airlines look to outsourcing as a cost control mechanism? Kevin P Michaels and William D Angeloni of the Canaan Group explore the possibilities.Airline suppliers have already endured a tumultuous decade - order boom followed by order bust, complicated by the constant ...
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A fighting chance
Aer Lingus managers have yet to solve the airline's problems on UK regional routes and must complete the restructuring of the rest of the group in order to secure the final payment of state aid. Mark Odell reports from Dublin.When the European Commission gave a derogation to the Irish government ...
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Air NZ to take Ansett
News Corporation's Rupert Murdoch has agreed to sell his 50 per cent share in Ansett Australia to Air New Zealand for around A$500 million (US$365 million). But an announcement was delayed as Air NZ and its controlling shareholder Brierley Investments continued tough negotiations with the other Ansett shareholder, TNT, over ...
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Western help Uzbek style
Forget airline consultants. Uzbekistan Airways has come up with a novel way of obtaining western expertise: invest in a UK airline. European Airways, which operates a single domestic route, is 40 per cent owned by the CIS carrier. In exchange, managing director David Allen and board members are ...
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Old certification standards
Sir - You raise the subject of the application of old certification standards to new-derivative aircraft such as the Boeing 737X (Flight International, 10-16 May). We understand that some new standards apply only to new designs, and may not be appropriate for an existing, well-proved aircraft. For example, ...
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Freighter sales
Citicorp Aircraft Management has sold two ex-Delta Airlines Boeing 727-200s, one to Brazil's ITA Cargo and one to express-package operator DHL Airways. The aircraft will be converted to freighters. Source: Flight International
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MDC offers two-crew cockpit
BUILDING ON DC-10 avionics-upgrade work with United, MDC is offering a two-crew cockpit emulating that of the MD-11. "We'll know within 60 days whether we will do that," says Foreman. The core of what MDC calls the advanced common cockpit is a Honeywell-developed versatile integrated avionics (VIA 2000) ...
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Avro introduces maintenance and refurbishment services
Avro International, the British Aerospace regional-jets subsidiary, has begun offering maintenance and refurbishment services through its flight-test department at Woodford, UK. Under the Avrotec name, the company will initially offer support for the BAe146/Avro RJ series, but in the future it intends to extend its work to cover ...
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Re-learning some old lessons
Sir - With reference to the continuing investigation into the Boeing 737 accidents in March 1991 at Colorado, and in September 1994 at Pittsburgh, I wonder whether old lessons can be re-learned. In the 1950s, the single pole, electrically operated tailplane on the Canberra often ran away to ...
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BA profits soar but its alliances falter
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON BRITISH AIRWAYS HAS once more cruised to a record set of results, helped by a mix of premium-passenger growth and cost-cutting. The performance was marred only by continuing problems at alliance partners TAT and USAir. Group pre-tax profits were at a new high of ...
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Aerospatiale struggles with break-even target
Julian Moxon/PARIS CUT-THROAT competition from the USA and the slide in the value of the dollar mean that Aerospatiale will be hard-pressed to reach its target of break-even in 1995, says president Louis Gallois. The state-owned French manufacturer has been struggling to reduce its debt burden, ...
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Airbus partners disagree over future development strategy
Julian Moxon/PARIS Major differences of opinion are emerging between French manufacturer Aerospatiale and its principal partner in the Airbus Industrie consortium, Daimler Benz Aerospace (DASA), over future aircraft development strategy. Aerospatiale is seeking German support for investment in a supersonic transport, for which it believes there ...
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Team launches DC-10 upgrade
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) has teamed with Alenia subsidiary Aeronavali to launch a DC-10 product-improvement programme ranging in scope from a completely new, two-crew, digital flightdeck to a full conversion from passenger to freighter. The plan is aimed mainly at the expected growth in ...
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Boeing to cut more jobs than expected
Boeing expects to cut as many as 12,000 jobs this year - some 5,000 more than the company had anticipated. Updated 1995 employment forecasts revealed by Boeing show that more than half of the reductions will come from employees taking advantage of its one-time special retirement-incentive programme announced ...
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Star performer
New Brazilian regional-airline Interbrasil STAR has begun operations with the first of three Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia Quick Change passenger/cargo aircraft ordered in 1994, for $22 million. Brasilia-based Interbrasil's main shareholder is Brazilian airline Transbrasil. Source: Flight International