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A tale of two startups
Jackie Gallacher Two startup carriers, two philosophies. Ironically, while EasyJet and Debonair have a lot in common, their differences are at the root of the strong rivalry between their chairmen, respectively Stelios Haji-Ioannou - the young and wealthy owner of a Greek shipping company - and Franco Mancassola, an ...
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Mexican spat over codes
Mexico and Washington are coming to blows over codesharing, prompting calls for changes in their bilateral. Discussions were set to resume in December but, according to one Washington source, 'they're talking, but they don't seem to be getting anywhere'. The current US-Mexico bilateral makes no provision for codesharing ...
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Suppliers
Boeing's 777-300 made its maiden flight on 16 October. Solair is to be Delta Air Lines' sole supplier of airframe spare parts in a deal worth $150 million over three years. Pratt & Whitney Eagle Services has acquired Interturbine's Flight Repair Group. Finavitec and Airbus have signed ...
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737-700 undergoes preparation for last JAA test
Boeing is preparing the Next Generation 737-700 for its final test for the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA), with certification now anticipated by the end of December. The aircraft has also had a boost from a major deal with Argentina's LAPA. Boeing says that the aircraft passed the ...
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Unions approve United Express jet operations
United Airlines' pilot unions have cleared the way for Atlantic Coast Airlines (ACA) to launch United Express services with its Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets (CRJ). The regional airline began a United Express regional-jet service between Washington's Dulles International to two Florida points, Nashville and Raleigh-Durham, in late November. ...
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Airlines may link on African ATC problems
Long-haul carriers could soon become involved in modernising Africa's dilapidated air-traffic-control (ATC) infrastructure, following a call by South African Airways (SAA) for airlines regularly flying in African airspace to take a more pro-active safety role. At the same time, South Africa has reported success in improving ground communications ...
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ICAO grasps global safety-oversight
Members of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) have endorsed a wide-ranging plan set of recommendations to expand its Safety Oversight Programme (SOP) and give it policing powers for the first time. During a landmark conference on 10-12 November in Montreal, attended by 148 of the 185 member ...
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Polar resurrects 747 freighter
Polar Air Cargo will put into service in December a Boeing 747-200 freighter which was written off by its insurers a year ago after a mercury spill was found in its cargo bay. The 1979-build 747-200F was being operated by Southern Air Transport when, during routine maintenance in ...
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Snecma takes on GE in push to double CFM56 maintenance
Julian Moxon/PARIS Snecma is mounting a determined effort to double its share of the increasingly lucrative market for maintaining CFM56 engines, competing head-on with its CFM International partner General Electric. Through its Snecma Services division, formed in January, the French manufacturer says that it intends to ...
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No frills
No sooner had British Airways announced plans to set up its own low-cost operation at London Stansted, than the howls of protest began from the existing no-frills carriers. Their complaint (writ large in whole page newspaper advertisements) is that the BA intends to put them out of business by fair ...
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Outrider builds up flight hours
Alliant Techsystems says that its Outrider tactical unmanned air vehicle has completed four test-flights, including its first back-to-back flights and the longest flight to date, 1h 22min. The tests, which used the new UK-built UAV Engines 801R rotary powerplant, verified the performance of the stability-augmentation system. Following design changes, the ...
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Indonesia's IPTN wants gas turbine engine capability
Indonesian aircraft manufacturer IPTN wants to develop a gas-turbine capability as part of its selection of a powerplant for the proposed new N2130 regional-aircraft. IPTN's Universal Maintenance Centre (UMC) is discussing becoming involved in component manufacture and possibly engine assembly. An expanded capability for UMC is part of ...
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Sirocco enters Lufthansa Tu-204 talks
Sirocco Aerospace International is negotiating with Lufthansa Cargo to lease between eight and ten Tupolev Tu-204-120C freighters. A deal which could see the aircraft introduced on Lufthansa's intra-European routes during 1999 is possible in the first half of 1998. Sirocco will not comment on the negotiations. Sirocco already ...
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STAe seeks second overhaul/maintenance site in USA
Singapore Technologies Aerospace (STAe) is planning to acquire a second overhaul-and-maintenance site in the USA in a bid to relieve capacity constraints at its Mobile subsidiary. Speaking at the show, STAe chief operating officer Wee Siew Kim said that the company is in the process of looking for a ...
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Tiltrotor will be used to support oil-production operations
Dubai is to play host to the first company in the world set up solely to operate the Bell Boeing 609 Tiltrotor aircraft. The company, Petroleum Tiltrotors International, is a joint venture between Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Sheikh and an unnamed Dubai oil and gas support company. ...
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Westland will take a look at resurrecting Egyptian Sea Kings
GKN Westland will send an evaluation team to Egypt in the first quarter of 1998 to examine grounded Sea King helicopters with the aim of bringing them back to a flyable state. Egypt has some 30 Sea Kings, a mix of Mk47s, Mk1 and Mk2 Commandos, VIP and electronic-warfare ...
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Bridge building in Baku
Andrew Chuter/BAKU The terminal at Baku's Bina Airport stands like a monument to the collapse of the Soviet Union's writ in Azerbaijan in 1991.The building has lain uncompleted and virtually in ruin, the funds required to complete the project having dried up several years ago with the retreat of ...
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Towards hypersonic flight
Ian Sheppard/LONDON Progress in the development of airbreathing powerplants for hypersonic vehicles has been hampered since the 1960s by unexpected complexities encountered with the scramjet (supersonic-combustion ramjet), until recently the only real candidate for powering such high-speed craft. In an effort to address the impasse, leading international figures in ...
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The Mars burn
Tim Furniss/LONDON British Aerospace Defence wants to sell its Royal Ordnance Rocket Motors division - which supplies about 50% of the world's spacecraft liquid apogee engines and thrusters. Among the potential buyers are Primex, Marquardt and AlliedSignal (Flight International, 5-11 November). The sale offer comes at a time ...
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Secure communications
Tim Furniss/RAF OAKHANGER Matra Marconi Space (MMS) of Stevenage, UK, is completing production of the first of three uprated Skynet 4 UK-dedicated military-communications satellites, which are to be launched on a Boeing Delta booster from Cape Canaveral in January 1998. The Skynet 4D will be followed by crafts ...