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Pilots hamper TAP privatisation
SAirGroup has agreed to take a stake in Tap Air Portugal, but a dispute over pilots' pay may jeopardise the Portuguese carrier's fragile profitability and remaining privatisation plans. As expected, Swissair's parent is to cement its relationship with the Portuguese flag carrier by taking a 20% stake, pending ...
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Time to talk about the scope clause
Union limits on the scale and scope of regional flying are due to be brought out into the open as US regional carriers prepare to meet in Phoenix. How times have changed. In the not too distant past, regional airlines were the minnows of the aviation world, flying on "hometown" ...
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Link to the future
Europe's air traffic control datalink work is forging on Kieran Daly/COPENHAGEN and STOCKHOLM Processing in loose line astern up the east Swedish coast through the broken cloud of a winter Sunday morning, our four-strong formation is something of an oddity: a light twin turboprop flat out at 240kt (440km/h), tailed ...
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Old pals act
Just when it seemed that Philippine Airlines was on a plausible road to recovery, the road has been spiked by the carrier's major shareholder. Controversial beer and tobacco mogul Lucio Tan is one of the wealthiest men in the Philippines. He already owns about 70% of the Philippines national ...
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Herculean task
The European Commission's air transport liberalisation programme can justly claim to have succeeded with its legal framework to allow airline competition. To critical observers, the results can be clearly seen through improved attitudes to the passenger and to quality of service, aircraft condition and operational efficiency. The architects ...
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African Star ships in aircraft as it claims licence approval
Hilka Birns/CAPE TOWN South Africa's first independent and majority black-owned international airline, African Star, may have jumped the gun by announcing that the government has granted it an international air service licence. According to sources at the country's transport department, Pretoria's Air Services Licensing Council has given only ...
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European airlines call for ATC rethink
Emma Kelly/LONDON The Association of European Airlines (AEA) has called for a radical rethink on European air traffic control (ATC), after the latest capacity and delay predictions. European air navigation organisation Eurocontrol had originally targeted accommodating 8% more traffic this year, compared with the previous year, with a ...
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Subduing the shunto
With crisis gripping Japan's airlines, even the trade unions are unwilling to fight cost-cutting measures Andrzej Jeziorski/TOKYO Springtime in Japan is traditionally marked not only by the flowering of cherry blossom, but by the stirrings of industrial unrest. This year's strike season, known locally as "shunto", should be well under ...
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USA and Netherlands to further landing research
The US Federal Aviation Administration and the Netherlands Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) have signed an agreement to co-operate on local area augmentation system (LAAS) research and development. Using LAAS, which will augment the accuracy and integrity of global positioning system (GPS) signals, approaches can be designed to ...
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FlightSafety wins Northwest CRJ deal
Northwest Airlines has selected FlightSafety International to provide pilot and maintenance training for Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets (CRJs) on order for its Northwest Airlink regional affiliates. Under the 10-year contract, extendible to 15 years, FlightSafety will locate Level D simulators for the 50-seat CRJ-200 at training centres convenient for Northwest ...
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Northwest Training upgrades systems
Northwest Aerospace Training (NATCO), the training arm of Northwest Airlines, is to upgrade the visual systems on eight of its full flight simulators. NATCO, based at Eagan, Minnesota, has awarded Evans & Sutherland (E&S) a contract for nine ESIG-3350 visual systems - eight of them to upgrade Airbus A320, ...
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Upper stage failure imperils Chandra X-ray Observatory
Tim Furniss/LONDON The recent failure of the Boeing Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) has put into doubt the planned launch of the Chandra X-ray Observatory aboard Space Shuttle STS93/Columbia on 9 July. The IUS, which is due to be used on the Chandra mission, failed to place a Defence Support ...
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Delta launches NASA Landsat 7
A Boeing Delta II carried NASA's Landsat 7 remote-sensing satellite into orbit from Vandenberg AFB, California, on 15 April, a year later than planned. The satellite's Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus camera will produce 250 30m-resolution multispectral images a day. The launch had been delayed by electrical problems with the thematic ...
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Dnepr booster lifts Minisatellite
Russia's Kosmotras organisation launched a Dnepr booster - a former SS-18 missile - from a silo at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on 21 April. The booster carried Surrey Satellite Technology's (SSTL) 350kg UoSAT 12 Minisatellite into a 650km, 65¼-inclination orbit. SSTL's first $5.5 million Minisatellite will demonstrate high resolution ...
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New Collins avionics go Continental
Rockwell Collins has expanded its Pro Line 21 integrated avionics system with the addition of next-generation radio sensors. The first new aircraft to have the system will be Bombardier's Continental business jet. The Pro Line 21 CNS sensor suite will provide the functionality required for the future communication, navigation, ...
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Sikorsky eyes Latin American Black Hawk orders
Sikorsky has set aside six completed S-70 Black Hawk helicopters for sale to Venezuela, which has yet to conclude a purchase contract, while pursuing follow-on orders from Brazil, Columbia and Chile, and potential new sales in Ecuador and Peru. Venezuela is trying to raise funding for the six machines - ...
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Vietnam seeks maintenance venture partners
Vietnam Airlines is searching for foreign partners for an aircraft maintenance and engineering joint venture. The carrier hopes to find partners and to secure government approval for the venture this year. Vietnam Airlines plans to hold at least 50% of the company, which will operate from the airports at ...
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Airports
Minneapolis/St Paul-based Sun Country Airlines and the local Metropolitan Airports Commission have agreed a deal that makes Sun Country the principal tenant at a new $53 million, 27, 870m2 (300,000ft2) terminal, which opens in April 2001 adjacent to the Hubert Humphrey terminal, where the airline now operates. Sun Country will ...
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Sun Pacific grounded
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has suspended the operating certificate of Sun Pacific International, a charter operator based in Arizona. The FAA says it grounded the Boeing 727 operator after it failed to correct maintenance and record-keeping problems. Source: Flight International
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Windeagle wins first order for Turboprop
Interdoc Aerospace has placed the launch order for the Windeagle Turboprop, a re-engined derivative of the four-seat Windecker Eagle developed by Windeagle Aircraft of Ontario, Canada. The Midrand, South Africa-based company has ordered 15 aircraft, valued at around $9 million, with first deliveries expected by the end of the ...