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Light fantastic
Page Aerospace is turning the spotlight on several innovative products for the first time at Farnborough at Hall 4/H13. Among them are a digital controller, used by cabin crew to set cabin lighting at the touch of a button. The intensity, location and colour of the lighting can ...
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APU cleared
AlliedSignal's latest APU - the 131-9(B) for the next generation Boeing 737 - has received Technical Standard Order (TSO) authorisation from the FAA, a record 25 months after the programme began. Designed both to start and operate up to 39,000ft (11,900m), the 131-9(B) incorporates more than 50 design recommendations ...
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Alliances key to competitive edge
The concept of ‘global alliances' between airlines has become increasingly evident in the past three years, according to KPMG International Airline Group. This is one of the findings of a survey of 24 international airline CFOs. The report, Strategic Issues and Current Trends in the International Airline Industry, ...
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Promotional upside of the Down Under airshow
The term DownUnder is certainly not perceived as a derogatory description by the Australian aerospace industry, which highlights its strategic proximity to the fast-growing markets of the Asia-Pacific region. The country's aerospace showcase, the fourth Australian International Air Show and Aerospace Expo, to be held from 18-23 February 1997 ...
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Set-up moves into the fast lane
Binocular-toting ‘spotters' must have thought Farnborough ‘96 was cancelled when they saw no sign of major activity on the airfield site this summer. It normally takes at least six months to build the exhibition halls and chalets that make up the show ‘village'. This year the company in ...
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Bell pilots go west in bid to set a double record
If you have already captured the speed record for flying round the world in a helicopter, what might your next challenge be? Texas pilot Ron Bower knows that answer, do it again - this time in the opposite direction. Visitors at Farnborough will know today whether Bower and ...
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Webbed feat
Am-Safe has signed a ‘belting' deal to help improve passenger safety. Phoenix-based Am-Safe, a leading supplier of aviation seat belts and restraints, has purchased the assets of webbing maker Technical Textiles. The acquisition, announced at the Show, improved Am-Safe's capability to respond to a changing market requirements for ...
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Suppliers
Dutch manufacturer Stork is to pay DFl302.5 million ($182 million) to take over Fokker Aviation, the solvent maintenance and support arm of Fokker. Rolls-Royce has signed a memorandum of understanding with Boeing about developing the Trent 900 engine for the stretched B747. Pratt & Whitney's PW4090 ...
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Safety valued
ValuJet has appointed Jim Jensen, the former vice president product support for Douglas Aircraft, as senior vice president maintenance and engineering. Source: Airline Business
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Safety first
British Midland's parent, Airlines of Britain Holdings, has hired Frank Turner, the former managing director of Lucas Aerospace, to oversee the group's maintenance and engineering operation. The new post was created following a review of procedures after bad maintenance led to an emergency landing by a B737 last year - ...
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Cost-cutters save more
As Lufthansa launches an interim cost-cutting campaign to offset a weak first half performance, Swissair aims to cut salaries by 5 per cent after agreeing a pay deal with its pilots. Lufthansa is looking to save DM190 million ($130 million) in the second half of 1996, following a ...
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Fans support spreads
The benefits of the Future Air Navigation System have been slow in coming, but now they are tantalisingly close to being realised and more countries are rallying to the cause.
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Asia's liberal minority
Aeropolitics The US is making headway with its open skies philosophy in Europe but the Asia-Pacific market is proving a tougher nut to crack. Tom Ballantyne looks at the differing regional attitudes to liberalisation with the outside world and then assesses progress on open skies locally. To Asia-Pacific's growth-hungry ...
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Starting over
The second wave of US new entrant airlines is proving more resilient than the first and some venture capitalists are now looking at Europe. Russell Winter offers a formula to make sure aspiring low-cost startups, especially in Europe, find financial backers with deep pockets.Many industry specialists continue to believe that ...
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Off to a head start
After a long wait, deregulation in Europe has spawned a growing number of startup carriers which are now providing a serious challenge to the majors. Lois Jones reports Until now, startup carriers have tended to provoke no more than a bemused glance from Europe's old timers. But the ...
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Profits return
It's been a long haul, but at last the airline industry can rejoice. Last year, the 100 largest airlines made a collective net profit of $5.7 billion, the first positive bottom line since 1989. And the industry's operating profit reached the record level of $15.5 billion, half as much again ...
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Aviastar JV bid in Taiwan
Russia's largest commercial aircraft manufacturer Aviastar is bidding to carve out a niche in Asia by proposing to set up a joint venture aircraft assembly, marketing and maintenance centre in Taiwan. The Russian firm, which already has a marketing presence in Taipei, aims to assemble the medium-range Tu-204 ...
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ANA allies by mix 'n' match
The codeshare service started by All Nippon Airways and Air Canada in August on Osaka-Vancouver marks the growing emphasis the Japanese carrier is putting on expanding its network through alliances. The days when Japan's Ministry of Transport discouraged its carriers from forming such pacts are clearly over, and ...
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North open by year end?
Iata claims to have brokered an agreement to open North Korean airspace to all carriers from December, producing annual savings to effected carriers of US$125 million through flight time savings. The breakthrough comes after 18 months of talks between Iata and Pyongyang. But the scheme may yet face ...
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All together in the Middle East
The collapse in yields to the Indian subcontinent and the Philippines has pushed carriers in the Middle East into a fares pact aimed at stemming the decline. Gulf Air, Emirates and Kuwait Airways agreed at a meeting in Kuwait in June to raise market fares on sectors to ...