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Lease management provider C-S Aviation Services has entered into a five-year tripartite agreement with Air India and Aviation Sales Distribution to perform maintenance on its General Electric CF6-50C2 engines on an exclusive basis. The contract, worth $100 million, stipulates a five-year option to extend the agreement. Air India will perform ...
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British Midland deal helps boost Star's presence at Heathrow
Laura Hailstone/LONDON British Midland (BM) has confirmed its much-anticipated entry into the Star alliance. This follows Lufthansa's acquisition of a 20% stake from partner SAS for £91.4 million ($150 million). The deal, which will see SAS' shareholding reduced to 20%, gives Star more than a quarter of all movements ...
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Belgian Government to decide on future of its stake in Sabena
Herman De Wulf/BRUSSELS Belgian transport Minister Isabelle Durant is pushing the government for a policy statement on whether it plans to sell its stake in national flag carrier Sabena. The new Belgian Government came to power in June but has yet to reach a conclusion about whether to hold ...
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Bell drives stake through heart of Romanian deal
Bell Helicopter Textron has dropped plans to take over Romanian aerospace manufacturer IAR Brasov and set up an AH-1W SuperCobra licenses production line after failing to get a government response to its latest proposals. Bell presented its proposals to the Romanian Government in late June and was expecting to receive ...
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Emirates turns class into marketable commodity
Mike Martin/DUBAI Emirates will consider taking a stake in other airlines - as it has with SriLankan - but will not rush into new ventures, Emirates chief director Group Services Gary Chapman said at the show. "We will consider opportunities with our feet firmly on the ground," says ...
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Air Canada submits offer: ATI
Air Canada is giving Canadian Airlines' shareholders until 7 December to accept its C$2-per-share bid for its major rival, after mailing the formal offer to the shareholders. The Montreal-based carrier has set up a new company to make the offer. Although the offer is to be funded by Air ...
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Iberia flotation slips: ATI
Spainish Minister of Industry Josep Pique has delayed the flotation of flag-carrier Iberia until at least January next year, citing the current state of the markets as the reason. Flotation of the airline was due on 22 November after the resolution of a dispute between majority shareholder Caja Madrid ...
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Qantas employees take action: ATI
Qantas Airways is facing legal action brought against it by maintenance workers whose duties were transferred to Melbourne when the carrier outsourced the work to a labour hire company there. Qantas is yet to comment on the case, which is said to be the first Federal Court appeal brought ...
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Marconi HUD system cleared for B737
Tim Ripley/DUBAI Marconi Avionics executives are celebrating being awarded Supplemental Type Certification (STC) by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for full operational use of the HUD 2020 Visual Guidance System (VGS) on Boeing 737-800 aircraft. "The award of STC to Marconi is a major milestone in promoting ...
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Costs, not technology, stall in-flight access to internet
Steve Nichols/DUBAI The Internet is the hot business tool of the 1990s and usage is predicted to continue increasing exponentially in the next millennium. So it is not surprising that passengers are starting to demand Internet access on board aircraft too. Honeywell (E712) is demonstrating its In Flight Email ...
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Attack helicopter contests
Bell Helicopter says development work on the H-1 upgrade programme is on track and the manufacturer is now training its sights on winning two lucrative attack helicopter contests which would provide export customers for the AH-1Z Zulu Cobra. The uprated machine, developed from the AH-1W, is competing in Turkey ...
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Dubai takes Bell 407
Dubai Air Wing is joining the family of Bell 407 light helicopter operators, announcing that it is to take delivery of a single-engine machine before year-end. Hawker Pacific, which represents Bell in the Middle East, announced the sale at the show. Aircraft marketing manager Alan Parsons and general manager, ...
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Sicma takes a load off weary feet
Show-goers weary from hours spent tramping around the halls of Dubai 2000 should stop at the Sicma Aero Seat stand (W322)and try out the French company's latest first class seat. Sicma is demonstrating the seat specially developed for the Emirates Airbus Industrie A330-200 fleet. It features a range of electrically-driven ...
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Singapore site for new gear JV
A joint venture between Singapore Aerospace Manufacturing (SAM) and Messier-Dowty International will produce landing gear assemblies and related components in the Far East from 1 January 2000. SAM's chairman Loh Chuk Yam and Messier-Dowty's chairman and CEO Dominique Paris signed the agreement that will see SAM transferring its landing ...
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JV opens Japan market for GE Engine services
GE Engine Services is moving into the Japanese market, having signed a Memorandum of Intent (MoI) to acquire a controlling interest in an aircraft maintenance partnership between All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries (IHI). The resulting joint venture - in which ANA and IHI will maintain a ...
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Seat comfort draws on luck of the Irish
Mark Hannant/DUBAI An enterprising Irish company hopes to make long-haul flights more bearable with the unveiling at the show of its self-moulding seat cushioning technology. Long Haul Technologies, part of the Vita Cortex Group, has its airbag-based seat cushions now tested and approved for a 16-G environment and on ...
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Boeing scorns arguments for super-large aircraft
Geoff Thomas/DUBAI Boeing is back... at least according to executive vice-president sales and marketing Seddick Belyamani. Speaking at the show yesterday he said that the Seattle-based company was back on course toward convincing its shareholders that the ills of the past decade are behind them. "Our goal is ...
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Volvo applauds China deal for GE engines
China Airlines' selection of General Electric engines for its 13 new Boeing 747-400 aircraft is good news for Volvo Aero which supplies components for the engine. The order value to the Swedish manufacturer is expected to be $25 million. The total order for CF60-80C2 GE engines is 52. ...
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Hableel-Nordisk target aerospace
Dubai's Hableel Engineering is expanding its aerospace business following a joint venture agreement with Nordisk Aviation Products, it was announced at the show. The deal covers marketing and maintenance of LD1 and LD3 containers across the Middle East and South East Asia. The maintenance work will be added to ...
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Big advances in new Honeywell display
Honeywell (E712) is promoting its new CD-820 flight management (FMS) Control Display Unit (CDU) which offers size, weight, power and display improvements over its predecessors. It will be available in February 2000. The CD-820 has a large, full-colour, 13.8in Active Matrix LCD and is designed to interface with Honeywell's ...