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BA considers move in low-fare market
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON British Airways is studying a move which could see it proceed in the low-fare market against new "no-frills" rivals such as easyJet and Debonair. The airline, which is already seeking to cut costs by £1 billion ($1.7 billion) over the next three years, has ...
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FAA approves composite repairs
Ian Sheppard/LONDON An aircraft-repair technique developed by the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico together with composites specialists from Textron Systems, has gained initial approval from the US Federal Aviation Administration as an alternative to riveted aluminium. The bonded composite "doubler" is the result of a three-year FAA-sponsored ...
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Helipro gets 'Shortsky' final assembly under way
Helipro has begun final assembly of the first S-61 Short conversion of the Sikorsky S-61N helicopter to be destined for use on offshore-oil support. A heavylift S-61 Short, which is used mainly for logging work, is already available. The company has delivered six aircraft and has one more on order. ...
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Japanese abandon HOPE spaceplane project
Japan has cancelled the HOPE unmanned spaceplane project as a result of budget cuts. The HOPE was to have been launched on an H2A rocket to provide logistics support for the Japanese element of the International Space Station. There were hopes of following it up eventually with a manned version. ...
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Launch activity includes first GPS 2R
Tim Furniss/LONDON A McDonnell Douglas Delta 2 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral on 23 July carried the first Navstar GPS 2R global- positioning-system-satellite to reach orbit. It is the 42nd in the Navstar series to be launched. The original 2R spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin, was ...
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LHTEC focuses on CTP800 design
Guy Norris/Indianapolis US engine manufacturers AlliedSignal and Allison are completing final-design work on the CTP800 turboprop for the Ayres LM200 Loadmaster freighter, following selection of a Hamilton Standard propeller system. The Loadmaster will be powered by twin CTP800s, a turboprop version of the T800 turboshaft, developed ...
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Airlines adopt AMICOS
Wideroe of Norway has ordered Danish firm Cimber Data's JAM/Prolifics AMICOS system for managing its DHC Dash-8 fleet maintenance. Meridiana has also selected the AMICOS for its maintenance base in Olbia with on-line connection to its base in Florence, Italy, where the AMICOS will be running on an HP9000 Unix ...
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New US taxes may take a toll on airline boom
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON US airlines could be hit with extra taxes of almost $4 billion over the next five years under recommendations from the US Congressional committee set up to establish an alternative to the 10%federal ticket tax. The recommendation, which is expected to become law from ...
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Rotary Rocket wins $6 million backing
ROTARY ROCKET has secured $6 million of initial financing from private investors to begin design of its Roton re-usable single-stage-to-orbit launch vehicle. Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites will build the Roton, which will take off like a conventional booster, but land like an unpowered helicopter. The first flight is scheduled for ...
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Staying put
Calls for the crew of the Russian Mir space station to abandon ship after its recent spate of problems ignore two critical points about human spaceflight: it's bound to be risky, but human intervention is the primary element. Gaining experience in human space operations and learning from technical as well ...
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Tashkent factory develops programme for An-2 restoration
The 243 repair factory in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, has developed a restoration programme for the Antonov An-2 bi-plane and its Shvetsov ASh-62 piston engine. Almost all Uzbeki An-2s are in need of urgent repair, but so far only two airframes have been restored at the factory, which expects to repair 50 ...
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Workshop
++ British Airways Engineering has sold a major proportion of its surplus spares inventory to European Aviation for an undisclosed sum. All the types in the BA fleet, plus the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, are covered in the deal. ++ Monarch Aircraft Engineering has agreed to carry out C checks for ...
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Appointments
All Nippon Airways has named Kichisaburo Nomura as president and chief executive officer and Ryogo Inoue and Hiroshi Sakabe as senior executive vice presidents. Aéropostale has nominated Jean-Marie Mariani as CEO. Daan Meyer will become executive vice president of KLMEngineering and Maintenance, and Max Rens is ...
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Suppliers
British Midland has chosen International Aero Engines' V2500 engine to power its 12 A320s and eight A321s. Airbus has chosen the Rolls-Royce Trent 500 engine to power the A340-500/600. Cathay Pacific Airways has appointed the Sabre Group and IBMas its preferred ITsuppliers for 10 years. ...
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US starts up merge mania
Low-fare, low-cost startups on both the east and west coasts of the US are seeking critical mass through mergers in their struggle for survival. On the east coast, ValuJet's mid-July merger with Airways Corporation allows the Atlanta-based airline to obtain critical mass without technically infringing the growth restrictions ...
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Business revolution
While Ansett Australia is certain to benefit from its relationships with Air New Zealand, United and Singapore Airlines, the carrier knows that internal change is required to ensure a more profitable future. By Tom Ballantyne. When former Cathay Pacific managing director Rod Eddington took control of financially struggling Ansett ...
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Shifting sands
European carriers have taken the lead across the North Atlantic, and major airports like Detroit, Heathrow and Amsterdam have emerged as the clear winners. April Pearson examines the latest data on the US-Europe market. Newly released International Onboard traffic data demonstrates how much the most competitive airline market in the ...
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Union action is ailing BA
British Airways' chief executive Robert Ayling was forced to adopt a more conciliatory tone with the airline's largest trade union, the Transport and General Workers' Union when, during a three-day strike by cabin crew in early July, BA ground staff voted to reject the package of terms and conditions linked ...
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Everyone hit as strikes get a grip
Employee morale slumps; airlines lose hard cash and goodwill; customers suffer. Short of a fatal accident, it's an airline chief executive's worst nightmare. Billions of dollars worth of shiny aircraft sit idly on the ground. Terminal buildings are thronged with displaced customers desperate to find a way to get to ...
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Power to the plans
As the major alliance partners strengthen the ties between their frequent flyer programmes, the combined power of FFPs to influence the all-important business class traveller has made frequent flyer plans more important to global alliances than codesharing. Report by Jackie Gallacher. 'It is the glue to hold the alliance together.' ...