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Struggle from the rubble
Kuwait Airways is banking on a successful programme of alliances and regional cooperation to reverse recent heavy losses. Doug Cameron reports from Kuwait City. Almost seven years after its liberation, Kuwait City retains an almost haunted look despite its renovation and its return as one of the major commercial centres ...
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Toughing out the boom
In 1997, can the major airlines improve on their performance in the boom year of 1996? Airline Business previews the main issues which will dominate airline executives' thinking in 1997. These are the good times, but life for the average airline manager does not appear to be getting any easier. ...
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Asia rife with labour strife
Industrial unrest is spreading across Asia-Pacific as the region's carriers react to a worrying economic slowdown and stiff competition, compounded by the global hike in fuel costs. At presstime, All Nippon Airways was at loggerheads with its cabin crew unions after wage negotiations broke down: a 24-hour strike ...
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Coded for no competition
A study on codesharing for the European Commission recommends ending the practice on nonstop routes and reducing the number of CRS listings for codeshare flights to one. These are two of the main findings of a study by Amsterdam-based consultants Strategem. Their report finds that codesharing by two ...
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Wheeling out the service
For major airlines seeking high-margin travellers, customer service will be a key to profitability. Still, Philip Festa says pressures within the industry are threatening to squeeze carriers' service levels. Customer service is now the norm throughout almost all sectors of commerce: supermarkets, hotels, banks and fast food chains vie ...
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Is candid Crandall correct about IT?
When Robert Crandall, AMR Corp chairman, noted at the last Iata annual general meeting that 'there is no reason to believe that technology will make airlines more profitable,' there had to have been a few sets of raised eyebrows in the audience. Crandall, after all, is the one credited for ...
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The disadvantages of supersonic travel
Sir - A 350t, 250-seat supersonic transport (SST), more than twice the size of the Aerospatiale/ British Aerospace Concorde was mentioned in an advertisement (Flight International, 4-10 September). You reported a similar concept from NASA of the USA (Flight International, 17-23 April). Could I place these concepts in relation to ...
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Columbia returns with new record
The Space Shuttle Columbia's extended STS80 mission was completed with a landing at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 7 December. The mission duration of 17 days 15h was a new Shuttle record. The prime objectives of the mission were completed successfully. These were to deploy and retrieve ...
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Launcher proposals
EUROPE Aerospatiale, SEP and BPD of France and Italy are discussing the development of the Ariane Complementary Launcher (ACL). The company-funded ACL would place 1,000kg into 800km LEO. ITALY Vega. Italy's proposed solid-propellant satellite launcher, formerly the San Marco Scout. It comprises two Zefiro ...
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Screw loose
A loose 6mm screw caused the jamming of the outer-airlock door of the Space Shuttle Columbia during the STS80 mission, leading to cancellation of two space-walks scheduled to practise International Space Station assembly procedures. The screw was found embedded in the door's gearbox. ...
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Eurocopter France
Eurocopter France (ECF) has been awarded ISO 9001 certification by the German Association for Certificating Management Systems. The certification comes after 18 months of work by ECF, setting up a quality system complying with ISO 9001 standards in design, manufacture and after-sales support. Source: Flight International
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New 737 launch stresses technology and low cost
Max Kingsley-Jones/SEATTLE Boeing CLAIMs that it has put itself "ten years ahead" of Airbus Industrie in the short-haul, jet-powered-airliner technology/low-cost stakes with the official unveiling of its first next-generation 737 (a -700) at its Renton plant, near Seattle, Washington, on 8 December. Sales of next-generation 737s ...
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Emergency-exit changes foreshadowed
David Learmount/LONDON Emergency escape hatches on commercial aircraft used in Europe may have to be modified to make them easier and quicker to open, if the findings from a new UK study are implemented. This could lead to fleet retrofit requirements as well as new-build changes if the ...
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HAL considers taking over assembly of Fokker 50
Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) is considering an approach to the Dutch receivers of Fokker Aircraft to acquire the design, marketing rights, tools and jigs for the Fokker 50 turboprop airliner. The Indian aerospace company's chairman R N Sharma says that an earlier approach to buy the programme was rebuffed ...
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Kato launches Sirocco to lead R-R-powered Tu-204 effort
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW Sirocco Aerospace International has been launched in Moscow by Egypt's Kato Aromatic and its partners, to spearhead marketing for the re-engined Tupolev Tu-204-120. A list price for the aircraft, which is powered by Rolls-Royce RB.211-535s, has been set at around $36 million. The ...
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High resolution
Space Imaging plans to launch its first high-resolution satellite. Tim Furniss/LONDON The race to market high-resolution satellite imagary is on, and the Lockheed Martin-led Space Imaging company, of Thornton, Colorado, aims to win it. With partners Raytheon E-Systems, Mitsubishi and Eastman Kodak, Lockheed Martin is ...
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Flying a legend
Despite being more than six decades old, the Junkers Ju-52 is still going strong. Herman De Wulf/BRUSSELS How long do aircraft last? The legendary Junkers Ju-52/3m tri-motor transport is 60 years old and still extremely popular - especially for pleasure-trips. One airworthy example is operated in Lufthansa ...
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Blindness in its sights
A McDonnell Douglas DC-10 has been made into a well-equipped eye hospital. Eryl Crump/MANCHESTER THE FATE OF AN AGEING airliner is usually either to decline towards the scrap yard via a series of increasingly lower level airlines, or to be turned into a freighter. For one McDonnell ...
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Supersonic resurrection
It seemed as if the Tupolev Tu-144was bound for the scrapheap, but things have now changed. Paul Duffy/MOSCOW When Marshal Boris Bugaev, the Soviet minister of civil aviation, ordered the termination of Aeroflot's Moscow-to-Alma Ata supersonic service in May 1978, it looked like the end of the line ...