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Australia castigates Papua New Guinea
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Air Niugini and Milne Bay Air (MBA) will lose their rights to operate to Australia unless safety oversight and regulatory irregularities are rapidly rectified, the Australian aviation minister Mark Vaile has warned his Papua New Guinea (PNG) counterpart. Making public a list of shortcomings identified in ...
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FAA decides to extend wiring checks to non-Boeing types
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The USA's major airlines have agreed to check fuel tank wiring in a controlled sample of Lockheed and McDonnell Douglas aircraft to determine whether they need mandatory inspections like those recently ordered for older Boeing airliners. The high-time passenger aircraft which the US Federal ...
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Fairchild Dornier outlines financing plans for 728JET
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Fairchild Dornier says "up to $350 million" of the $850 million required to develop its 728Jet 70-seat regional jet "-is already on the table" from potential risk sharing partners and equipment suppliers. President Jim Robinson says risk-sharing suppliers of the wing, fuselage and empennage would ...
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BA income slips, but analysts forecast recovery
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON As had been predicted, British Airways saw profits slip after a troubled year which included a damaging cabin crew strike. The fall was less than expected, however, and optimism is growing among financial analysts that the worst of the bad news is now over. The final ...
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Hyundai challenges for S Korea lead
Hyundai Space & Aircraft has formally opened its new Seosan aerospace manufacturing plant, in move that is being widely interpreted as a challenge for the leadership of South Korea's fragmented aviation industry. The South Korean conglomerate marked the opening of the 700,000m² (65,000ft²) plant with the completion of its ...
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Silver arrow buy
Israel's El-Op confirms that it has taken over the 50%stake in the unmanned air vehicle (UAV)developer Silver Arrow, previously owned by its parent Federmann group. The UAV company, half owned by Elbit Systems, had sales of $15 million last year but that is due to double by 2000, says El-Op. ...
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Eurojet targets 1999 EJ200 approval
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Eurojet is planning to certificate its EJ200 turbofan engine for the Eurofighter EF2000 by the end of November 1999, and is preparing for ground and flight testing of the engine's production version from March next year. The company says it will introduce the 03B version of ...
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BAe and Lockheed Martin link on Skynet
British Aerospace Defence Systems and Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space have teamed to bid for the development of the Skynet 5 military communications satellite system for the UKMinistry of Defence. The companies are competing with Matra Marconi Space (MMS), which includes the former BAe Space Systems, the original prime ...
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Boeing defines 747-400X
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Paul Lewis/SEATTLE Almost 18 months after cancelling the 747-500X/ 600X programmes, Boeing has finally settled on a firm design configuration for the next version of the 747-400, which could be in service in less than three years. The long awaited move increases the maximum take-off ...
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FLS retreats from Team Aer Lingus plans after workers rejection
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON FLS Aerospace has shelved its acquisition talks with Team Aer Lingus, after workers at the Irish aircraft maintenance unit voted against a deal. The Danish group says that it is prepared to revive the bid, if workers have a change of heart, and will meanwhile continue to ...
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Dassault Electronique prepares to rival AlliedSignal's EGPWS
Ian Sheppard/LONDON Despite delaying certification of its ground collision avoidance system (GCAS) until September, Dassault Electronique is still confident that the system will head off AlliedSignal's market domination with the enhanced ground proximity warning system (EGPWS). The French company, now allied to Thomson-CSF, is flying the GCAS on ...
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Cerberus upbeat on fire detection
Cerberus Guinard is confident it can still increase its share of the fire detection market, bolstered by recent safety legislation, despite losing the contract for the Boeing Next Generation 737 to Kidde Technologies. The French company claims that, although its system is more modern, the fact that Kidde could ...
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Delayed date set for ISS launch
Tim Furniss/LONDON A new launch date has been set for the first component of the International Space Station (ISS), with the Russian-built Control Module now due to be launched on 20 November, five months late. A date had been set for June, but the launch of this initial Module was ...
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Transparent ambition
Tim Furniss/LONDON Never forget, says Arianespace, "-we are not selling a launcher but a delivery service, every three to four weeks, whether we use Ariane 5 or Ariane 4". This "transparent service" philosophy was emphasised at the ILA Berlin air show in late May by Jean-Marie Luton, the launch ...
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BA creates jobs
British Airways is to create 15,000 jobs over the next three years, representing a 25 per cent increase in staff. Some 3,400 jobs will be for cabin crew, 2,100 for customer services, 400 for pilots and 1,100 for telephone sales staff. Source: Airline Business
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American to bed US rival
Karen Walker Caution is the key word in the American Airlines and US Airways alliance proposal, but some wonder whether early tiptoeing might lead to a full merger further down the road. The two airlines describe their marketing alliance as 'broad and innovative', but provide few other details. By ...
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Hold your horses!
Jackie Gallacher Close your eyes. Now open them. Like magic the alliance picture has changed again. In fact the speed of airline alliance courtships in 1997-8 is beginning to make pinning down an accurate image of the major groupings a bit like trying to capture fairy dust. Has the ...
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China seeks foreign cash
David Knibb Zhu Rongji may be starting cautiously as China's new premier, but his pro-market plans are clearly visible in recent aviation initiatives. Beijing is cutting its own spending as the Civil Aviation Administration of China considers whether to allow more foreign capital in airlines and how to attract ...
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Delta ties knot at last
Karen Walker To the relief of its new chief executive officer, Delta Air Lines has joined the US matchmaking game. But the planned strategic alliance with United Airlines has union and governmental hurdles ahead. The two airlines confirmed their alliance plans on 30 April. The pair say they will ...
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Who's ready for a cosy threesome?
And then there were three. If things work out as planned - and that's a big 'if' - over 80 per cent of the US airline industry will be in the hands of three alliance groups. Globally, the situation is less clear-cut, but the industry is moving in the same ...