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Sabena postpones flightcrew relocation
Sabena's plans to shift pilots and cabin attendants to a Swissair payroll by 1 January, 1998, to reduce the Belgian carrier's airline's high labour costs, have been postponed. The hold-up threatens plans for the airline to return to profit by 1999. Sabena secretary-general Patrick du Bois says that ...
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Alitalia turns in profit after ten years of making losses
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Andrea Spinelli/Rome After a decade of losses, Alitalia has turned in a net profit of L163 billion ($92 million) for the first half of the year. Chief executive Domineco Cempella promises better to come, raising the prospect of early privatisation of the state-owned Italian flag carrier. ...
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USAF considers DC-X and X-33 for military-spaceplane testing
Boeing and Lockheed Martin have received US Air Force contracts to begin developing technologies and concepts for a military spaceplane. The Integrated Technology Testbed programme is aimed at demonstrating military-spaceplane operational concepts early next century. Boeing's demonstrator concept uses a re-usable rapid-response launch vehicle, derived from ...
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Aged to perfection?
Dave Higdon/WICHITA Flying from Clark County Airport in southern Indiana to a Kentucky state park a mere 110km (60nm) away hardly seemed a fair way to sample a Raytheon Beech Bonanza B36TC - let alone this loaded, 50th-anniversary edition. Certainly nothing to challenge the six-seat Bonanza's big speed, ...
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Schools in
Efforts to raise air-transport industry standards in China have not only been confined to the pilot, but have extended across the workforce. New training initiatives and investments have been targeted at high-level executives, middle-level managers, operations staff, down to line mechanics. China's call for help has been answered ...
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Cooking up business
The move to ATR 72s has so far been successful for Mount Cook Airline's crews and passengers Paul Phelan/CAIRNS A fleet of five to six Boeing 737-400s or Airbus A320s, and 13-14 Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) ATR 72s, calculates one air-transport analyst, would far better fit Air New ...
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Private pioneers
Tim Furniss/LONDON Sixteen organisations in Argentina, the UK and the USA are competing for a $10 million prize to be won by becoming the first to finance privately and build a spacecraft which can carry three people on a suborbital flight to an altitude of 100km. The prize ...
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Irish Police adds Ecureuil to fleet
The Irish Police air-support unit (ASU) has taken delivery of a Eurocopter AS355N Ecureuil 2. The aircraft will join the ASU's Pilatus Britten-Norman Defender 4000, which was delivered in August. Both aircraft are equipped with infra-red thermal imaging, recording cameras, searchlights and global- positioning navigation systems. Source: Flight ...
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Error mars India's space hopes
Tim Furniss/LONDON India launched its first fully operational satellite on an indigenous booster on 29 September, but a leak in the fourth stage of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) caused a 113kt (210km/h) velocity underperformance, which resulted in the craft being placed into the wrong orbit. ...
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Boeing expects to cut ISS
Ramon Lopez/FLORIDA Boeing estimates that it can generate $25 million in annual cost savings through consolidation of International Space Station (ISS) activities. The efficiencies are made possible by Boeing's acquisitions of McDonnell Douglas and Rockwell International's space unit, which were major subcontractors, says John McLuckey, president ...
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OSC plans Orblink launch for 2002
Orbital Sciences (OSC) plans to launch seven Orblink communications satellites into medium-Earth orbit in 2002 to provide global broadband services, including electronic mail, Internet access and imagery transmission. The company has applied to the US Federal Communications Commission to operate the $900 million Orblink constellation from 9,000km circular ...
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Appointments
Philip Chen will succeed Simon Heale as deputy managing director at Cathay Pacific Airways from mid-March. Heale takes up the position of finance director at Swire Pacific. Stanley Hui will replace Chen as Dragonair's chief executive from 1 February 1997, while Hui's role as chief operating officer of Air Hong ...
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Engine deal
Rolls-Royce Canada has signed maintenance contracts worth more than $17 million, the biggest of which is a $10-million, seven-year deal with Gulfstream Aerospace covering repair and overhaul on Spey, Tay and BMW-Rolls Royce BR710 engines on Gulfstream IIs, IIIs, IVs and Vs. The deal includes the offering of used-engine warranties ...
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BA harmony
British Airways has reached agreement with its main cabin crew union following a damaging strike this summer. Source: Airline Business
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Minuteman derivatives
The US Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center's Launch Test Programme Office has awarded Orbital Sciences (OSC) a $206 million contract to develop and launch derivatives of the Minuteman inter-continental ballistic missile for suborbital and orbital missions. OSC will combine residual M55 Minuteman 2 first stages with Minuteman 1 ...
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The people's airline
The new climate at employee-owned United, instilled by chairman Gerald Greenwald, has not filtered through to the airline's grass roots nor brought any obvious great advantages over US rivals. But the airline's strategy looks sound and profitability is at an all-time high. By Karen Walker. Gerald Greenwald, United Airline's ...
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Delta bends to new head
'Bent, but not broken' is how Delta Air Lines' new president and chief executive, Leo Mullin, sums up the airline's current performance, identifying customer service improvements as a priority. As a newcomer to the airline industry it comes as no surprise when he puts his own spin on ...
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Airline news
Austrian Airlines and Swissair have confirmed taking a 18.37 per cent stake in Ukraine International Airlines through a holding company in which Austrian Airlines holds 77.78 per cent and Swissair 22.22 per cent. KLM will inaugurate twice weekly services to Abidjan and to Nagoya via Sapporo from April ...
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Fair's fare is the business
In sharp contrast to the wave of low-cost startups sweeping through Europe, a Paris-based carrier is set to start Europe's first dedicated business class service. Fairlines is to start scheduled business services this November from Paris/Charles de Gaulle to Nice and Rome/Fiumicino using 70-seater MD-81s. The aircraft will ...