All aerospace news – Page 1877
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WestPac to pack it all in
Denver-based Western Pacific has joined the long list of US low cost carriers to bite the dust. The airline has been unable to buy the time needed to turn around since limping into Chapter 11 bankruptcy last year. The US industry has been anticipating Western Pacific's demise for some ...
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Overhaul specialist expands with international contracts
Alitalia Technical Operations division has secured contracts to overhaul two Continental Airlines DC-10s at its Rome maintenance centre and is optimistic that it will win a longer term commitment from the US carrier. One contract is for a C-check, the other a D-check. Winning a more substantial contract would satisfy ...
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Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE)
Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE) is to consider a Singapore and New York Stock Exchange listing in 2000 as a capital-raising exercise to help boost its portfolio. Managing director John Willingham says SALE has no definitive plans to list at the moment, although owners Singapore Airlines (SIA), Boullioun Aviation Services ...
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Embraer scoops an $810million order from Business Express
Embraer earned its place as the show's most successful exhibitor in new contract terms yesterday when it revealed an $810-million order from US regional carrier Business Express. This takes the value of Embraer's show announcements to more than $1.3 billion. Over glasses of champagne, Mauricio Botelho, Embraer president ...
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Derco names new top management
Derco Aerospace has appointed a new chairman and new president as part of its organisational restructuring. Eric Dermond is the new chairman and chief executive officer, while Max Dermond has been named president and chief operating officer. Eric Dermond will focus his attention on issues such as acquisition ...
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GE joins forces with Eva in overhaul operation
General Electric (GE) has announced a joint venture with Taiwan's second-largest carrier, Eva Airways, to form an engine overhaul and aircraft maintenance joint venture, to be named Evergreen Aviation Technologies (EAT). The Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) was signed in Taipei on 24 February. Eva will hold an 80% share ...
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CFM focuses on loyalty to beat the opposition
"When the customers are happy with you, then they come back to you." That's an observation by Gerard Laviec, CFM International's president and chief executive officer. CFM's overwhelmingly strong position in the narrowbody market seems to bear that out, but what Laviec now has to concentrate on is maintaining that ...
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No brakes on Messier-Bugatti in global market
Asian Aerospace exhibitor Messier-Bugatti (Stand A411), which is owned by Snecma, is now the world's leading supplier of carbon brakes, with around 30% of its possible global market. Airbus has certified Messier-Bugatti carbon brakes for each of its aircraft types and Dassault also specifies them for the Mirage 2000 ...
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ANA to set up own APU servicing centre
All Nippon Airways (ANA) has struck a deal with Sundstrand to set up its own aircraft auxiliary power unit (APU) maintenance and repair unit at its main plant at Haneda, Tokyo. This is the first time an airline company has set up its own APU servicing centre. ANA ...
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Q and A with Sikorsky's Gene Buckley
As president and chief executive officer of Sikorsky Gene Buckley, left, is one of the most influential men in the aerospace industry today. He talked to Paul Derby about his attitude to the fierce competition which exists in the helicopter market, his views on the future of the RAH-66 Comanche ...
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Swearingen's Asia target
Why opt for secondhand when you can have a brand new executive jet for just $3.5 million With 103 firm orders - 60 per cent from the USA and 40 per cent from Europe - in its slipstream so far, Sino Swearingen is hoping its SJ30-2 will capture the ...
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Textron confirms buying of Boeing helicopter business
Bell Helicopter Textron confirmed at the show yesterday that it is to buy a "substantial portion" of Boeing's commercial helicopter business. The deal, agreed by the two companies in the USA on Wednesday, will see Bell acquire the MD-500 and MD-600 series of turbine singles, but excludes the MD-900 ...
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Hamburg boost lifts Airbus to a record level of output
The Hamburg final assembly line of the Airbus Industrie A321 and A319 is to raise production from six aircraft a month to 11 by the end of this year. It will mean that together with the A320 line in Toulouse, Airbus will achieve a record 18 single-aisle aircraft a ...
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Battle
Reacting to the news, European competitors say the consolidation underlines existing battle lines. "We are used to fighting our corner in this market," says Eurocopter's Marc Jouan. "We have great confidence in our products and we see nothing to change that view." Sikorsky president Gene Buckley has already taken ...
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New simulator for SAS
One year from now, SAS Flight Academy's centre in Stockholm will begin using its second Boeing 737-600/700/800 Full Flight Simulator. SAS has announced the order for the second simulator, to be manufactured by CAE Electronics, at Asian Aerospace '98. SAS Flight Academy currently has a total of 15 Full Flight ...
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Economic crisis puts region's deals at risk
Geoff Thomas Manufacturers were continuing to put on a brave face at the show yesterday, despite ever-strengthening indications that the region's economic turmoil is indeed having an effect on the industry. Beyond the obvious threats to airliner orders, it was being suggested that seemingly unrelated moves like Cathay ...
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Partners forecast strong demand for EC120B Colibri
Geoff Thomas Now celebrating its first century of sales, the Eurocopter EC120B Colibri helicopter is making its formal debut at the show. The single-engine EC120B is a new generation 1.5-tonne aircraft with 4/5 seats and it was designed from the outset with performance, safety, comfort and affordability in mind. Partners ...
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Parker move
Parker move Parker Aerospace has announced at the show the opening of a regional office in the south of France. The Toulouse business centre will provide local support for French customers including Dassault, Snecma, Airbus Industrie and Eurocopter. Parker Aerospace designs and manufactures hydraulic, fuel and pneumatic ...
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Face the Facts with... Edmond Marchegay
Edmond Marchegay wears three hats: President of Intertechnique, president of the French equipment industry and commissaire general of the French industry group here at Asian Aerospace '98. He talked to Mike Martin about the revolution which has swept through the French aerospace equipment sector, the market situation in Asia-Pacific and ...
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Global 'extranet' spreads technological advances
Mark Hannant The space race not only put a man on the moon, it also famously gave the world Teflon and the non-stick frying pan, perhaps the greatest example of everyday benefits from aerospace technology. The industry has always been a leader and possibly no more so than in the ...