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Appointments
Gaston Hébert has been named president of de Havilland, replacing Ken Laver. John Horne has been appointed airport director for London/City airport. Rick Ellis has been appointed chief executive of Ansett New Zealand. He replaces Craig Wallace, who has taken a senior position with Ansett Australia. ...
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Orders
Air Atlantic has ordered 10 Jetstream 41s. The first five are to be delivered in the second quarter to the Halifax, Nova Scotia-based carrier. Mesa Air has ordered 25 Dash 8-200s from Bombardier worth $250 million. The New Mexico commuter airline has options on a further 25 aircraft. ...
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Suppliers
PROS Strategic Solutions has installed its bid price based origin-destination revenue management system at Continental Airlines. BehavHeuristic yield management system has been installed at Icelandair. FLS Aerospace has won a five year contract from Irish independent Ryanair to provide heavy maintenance for 11 Boeing 737-200s. The ...
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A firmer future
As the industry recovers, aircraft values are hardening and surpluses falling but some types are faring better than others. Clive Medland of SH&E explains why. Predicting the outlook for the commercial aviation industry is somewhat analogous to forecasting the weather. We can accurately predict that there will be winters and ...
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China order thaw on way
Pressure is mounting for Beijing to relax its freeze on new aircraft orders. It looks as if the Civil Aviation Administration of China will permit two, and perhaps all three big carriers, to place firm orders. Senior Air China officials recently visited Toulouse and Seattle in anticipation that ...
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Vietnam on for sell-off
The wide-ranging ambitions of Vietnam Airlines are set to receive a boost in the near future with an expected government decision to clear the way for partial privatisation, including a measure of foreign investment. At presstime, airline officials were awaiting details of a planning package which is expected ...
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Peace pays off for Jordan
The peace process in the Middle East has brought mixed fortunes for Royal Jordanian. While the carrier stands to gain from co-operation with El Al and Israeli overfly rights, the government is slow in its plans to commercialise the airline. From the summer schedule, Royal Jordanian and El ...
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Make believe airline
Airline Business editor Richard Whitaker learned from his mistakes when he helped run an airline for four years. But the shareholders were not pleased with the result. 'We saw it coming . . . We took too long to do anything . . . We turned it around ...
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Overhauling costs
The US carriers are proving slow to react to calls for over-reliance on labour cost cuts to give way to a reengineering of the entire way in which airlines do business. Jane L Levere reports. While cost-cutting is nothing new to the US airline industry, the term 'reengineering' represents a ...
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Mexican bailout hits mighty buck
There are potent signs that the long reign of the US dollar as the world's main reserve currency may be drawing to a close. As this change starts to take place, reflecting the deep seated changes in the global economic and financial system, the American currency - like sterling for ...
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SAS: MD-95 blow
SAS dealt a heavy blow to McDonnell Douglas' plans to launch the MD-95, by opting for the Boeing 737-600. The MD-95 or a mix of Fokker 70s and 100s were thought to be the frontrunners in SAS' fleet renewal plan, especially as the carrier helped to specify the MD-95. SAS ...
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DGPS demonstration is a success for Daimler-Benz
DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) has successfully demonstrated its differential GPS (DGPS) automatic landing system, using a Dornier 328 turboprop at Braunchweig, Germany. Four flights were carried out, each including one touch-and-go landing, during which 60 international observers had the opportunity to monitor guidance information in the aircraft cabin. The ...
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CAE cautiously optimistic for 1995 sales
CAE ELECTRONICS expects commercial flight-simulator sales to increase slightly in 1995, but the Canadian simulator manufacturer admits that it will be a challenge to maintain the 75% market share it achieved in 1994. Vice-president for sales and marketing, Andy Morris, says that CAE won 12 of the 16 ...
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Software-test tool qualified for 777 programme
IPL, THE UK SOFTWARE verification-products company, has had its AdaTEST verification tool qualified by GEC-Marconi Avionics for use on the Boeing 777 programme. The UK Avionics Company, which has recently completed a successful audit of the product, will use the AdaTEST to test its own software for the ...
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Privatisation path
In February, El Al at last emerged from 12 years of receivership. Now, for the first time since the early 1980s, Israel's national airline is under the control of its own board of directors. Their primary objective is to speed the airline towards privatisation, while at the same ...
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Loral grows with Unisys
LORAL HAS WON ITS $862 million bid to acquire the defence operations of US computer manufacturer Unisys, seeing off rival offers from Hughes Aircraft and Raytheon. The acquisition, which will bring sales of $1.4 billion and around 8,500 staff, continues a five-year shopping spree in which Loral has ...
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Estonian Air gears up to operate Boeing 737 as it aims to ditch Russian fleet
ESTONIAN AIR IS about to send the first of 25 pilots to Seattle for conversion training to prepare for their new duties flying the Boeing 737-500. The carrier expects to slash the number of its aircrew from 80 to 37, as it does away with the need for ...
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Lockheed signs C-130J agreement
LOCKHEED Aeronautical Systems has signed agreements with three Australian companies to supply components for the C-130J as part of its proposed sale of 12 aircraft to the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). The three local manufacturers selected to join the Lockheed Martin Industrial Team, as C-130J suppliers are, ...
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Ansett Australia to retire F28s
Ansett Australia is to begin retiring its Fokker F28 fleet, scrapping five 1000- and 3000-series aircraft by the end of the year. Seven Fokker F28-4000s and five Boeing 727-200s, all due for retirement under Stage 3 noise rules in 2002, will remain in the fleet, but their earlier ...
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Raytheon breathes new life into Hawker 800
Raytheon Aircraft is re-launching its mid-sized Hawker 800 business jet, with enhanced performance and has christened it the 800XP. The 800XP will sell for the same $9.9 million price as the current aircraft, but will have upgraded AlliedSignal TFE731-5BR engines providing 20kN (4,460lb) of thrust each - an ...