All aerospace news – Page 1991
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Bow to no man
Pieter Bouw, the president of KLM, will need all his knowledge of the industry to rise above the crisis in the relationship with Northwest Airlines, growing competition from other hubs and US-European alliances, and insufficient market share in Europe. Interview by Jackie Gallacher. Airline Business: KLM's operating result declined ...
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Rivals in a state
What should airlines do when their competitors benefit from state aid? Gerrit Schohe argues that the current system for approving state aids requires an overhaul, but suggests that Commission decisions can be challenged successfully. One of the biggest controversies in the European aviation industry arose when the European Commission ...
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Extra lift
Atlas Air has found a winning formula: acquire used Boeing 747-200 freighters and operate them profitably on behalf of major airlines. Jane Levere reports. Some people say Atlas Air, the Golden, Colorado-based cargo carrier, is really in the taxi business rather than the air freight business. However you describe the ...
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Slow to plug in
It's not surprising that Asia Pacific's electronic distribution push is being spearheaded by Japan, a country renowned for its leadership in the business of high technology. The nation's airlines have already made ticketless travel and self-service check-in and ticketing part and parcel of flying the country's domestic skies. All Nippon ...
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Ancient and modern
Saudi Arabian's new name and image are the latest components in a programme of wholesale change at the airline. Director general Dr Khaled A Ben-Bakr talks to Richard Whitaker. When it comes to changing things, Dr Khaled Ben-Bakr isn't reticent. Last year's order for $6 billion worth of new aircraft ...
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Smart cards to chip in
European carriers tend to wait for the thumbs-up from their US counterparts before pursuing any new trend. Yet the advanced stages of development of some of the carriers' electronic distribution products in Europe underscores their confidence in the huge potential this area has for transforming the business. The 'me-tooism' of ...
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Airline news
Unijet Group is to take over full ownership of Leisure International Airways by the end of April 1997, increasing its shareholding from the current 40 per cent. Continental Airlines introduced a daily route from New York/Newark to Quito via Bogota, a weekly flight to Düsseldorf, and second daily ...
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Wired for a new era
Last April, Dr Julius Maldutis, the airline analyst for Salomon Brothers who's never at a loss for superlatives, labelled electronic distribution the US airline industry's 'third revolution,' behind deregulation and the introduction of the jet. If an industry-wide on-line auction system for unsold seats existed, it would have added $5.7 ...
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Canada's hair of the dog?
Canada's federal cabinet has overruled a National Transportation Agency decision and allowed coach operator Greyhound to launch a low-cost, no-frills airline that became Canada's fourth scheduled trans-continental carrier in early July. The NTA had previously blocked Greyhound's plans by ruling that the company could not obtain its own ...
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The whole holy grail by halves
What a difference a year makes. Just 12 months previously transport commissioner Neil Kinnock was faced with a majority of member states opposed to granting Brussels its holy grail - the external negotiating mandate for bilateral air service agreements. In mid-June, he won over enough support to start negotiations with ...
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Contrary Mary in eye of the storm
Mary Schiavo, the erstwhile US Department of Transportation investigator general who has become nationally known for her high-profile criticism of the Federal Aviation Administration since the 11 May crash of ValuJet 592, has been good for the US airline industry. Such a statement could be considered heretical, especially amongst ...
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'Old alliance' stands firm
With new major alliance competition threatening, Northwest Airlines and KLM are moving towards reconciliation after a prolonged period of board-level friction that threatened the viability of the seven-year-old partnership. However, before implementing new steps such as cargo integration, both sides are waiting for the resolution of KLM's opposition to a ...
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K-C Aviation
Service company K-C Aviation, of Dallas, Texas, has named Charles Emering regional sales manager for the north-eastern region. He was previously director of maintenance for Atlantic Aviation Flight Services of Teterboro, New Jersey. Charles Emering is named regional sales manager for the north-eastern region at maintainer and overhauler ...
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FAA approval
The US Federal Aviation Administration has certificated Interstate Electronics' IEC 9002 global-positioning system flight-management system, approving it for en route, terminal and non-precision approach navigation. The system is aimed mainly at the air-transport retrofit market as well as larger corporate aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Predator crash
A US General Atomics Predator unmanned air vehicle crashed on 24 July in north-eastern Bosnia, near Brka in Moslem-Croat Federation territory, while on a reconnaissance mission. Source: Flight International
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Sabena contract
Sabena Technics has received a contract from KLM covering the overhaul of two Boeing 737-300s. D-checks cover 12,000 to 20,000 man-hours and take about four weeks. In addition, KLM has signed an option to have four more aircraft overhauled in 1997. These would cover two more 737-300s and, possibly, two ...
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Suspect parts
The supply of "rogue" aircraft parts is back in the spotlight following New Zealand's grounding of some helicopters. Paul Phelan/NELSON A FATAL helicopter crash in New Zealand has triggered the grounding of about 5% of civil helicopters in that country, the suspension of engineers' licences ...
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The Top Fifty Airlines
The world airline industry made record profits in 1995, but will the boom last? The signs are mixed from this year's ranking of the world's top 50passenger-airline groups. Kevin O'Toole/LONDON IT HAS TAKEN a long time to arrive, but recovery in the world airline industry appears to ...
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Aerospatiale tests ARD spacecraft
AEROSPATIALE HAS completed the first descent and recovery test of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Atmospheric Re-entry Demonstrator (ARD) spacecraft in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Sicily. The ARD was dropped from a stratospheric balloon at 82,000ft (25,000m) and, after a free-fall of 33,000ft, its parachutes ...
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Darkstar UAV software bugs mean 12-month flight hiatus
THE LOCKHEED Martin/ Boeing Darkstar long-endurance unmanned air vehicle (UAV) will not be flown before May 1997, to enable the US team to conduct an in-depth audit of all hardware and software. Repairs made since the April crash will be verified in an informal critical-design review due ...