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Lease management provider C-S Aviation Services has entered into a five-year tripartite agreement with Air India and Aviation Sales Distribution to perform maintenance on its General Electric CF6-50C2 engines on an exclusive basis. The contract, worth $100 million, stipulates a five-year option to extend the agreement. Air India will perform ...
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Falling down
The boom-bust cycle of airliner production is raising its ugly head again in Seattle, but this time it's not the industry cycle that is ringing the alarm bells around Puget Sound. For although Boeing is set to slash rates by at least 20%, it cannot take solace in the fact ...
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Lack of cable standards bedevils aircraft industry
Geoff Thomas/DUBAI The average single-aisle 150-seat aircraft contains more than 80km of cabling to help meet today's demands for 'touch of a button' cockpit information and user-friendly electronic features. This increase in cabling creates a new set of engineering challenges because 80km of cable weighs around 600kg. In ...
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Emirates turns class into marketable commodity
Mike Martin/DUBAI Emirates will consider taking a stake in other airlines - as it has with SriLankan - but will not rush into new ventures, Emirates chief director Group Services Gary Chapman said at the show. "We will consider opportunities with our feet firmly on the ground," says ...
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US-Italy air accord expected at conference: ATI
Italy and the USA are expected to sign their pending open skies bilateral air agreement during a major conference on 6 and 7 December in Chicago on the future of international aviation. Hosted by the US Department of Transportation, the conference is expected to bring together the transport ministers ...
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Air Canada submits offer: ATI
Air Canada is giving Canadian Airlines' shareholders until 7 December to accept its C$2-per-share bid for its major rival, after mailing the formal offer to the shareholders. The Montreal-based carrier has set up a new company to make the offer. Although the offer is to be funded by Air ...
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Boeing hails China in WTO agreement: ATI
Boeing chairman and CEO Phil Condit is hailing the signing of the agreement that removes US opposition to China joining the World Trade Organisation (WTO), saying it will boost business for US companies. Condit, who serves as chairman of the Task Force on International Trade and Investment, the business ...
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ATR flexes its regional muscles
Little surprise to see Avions de Transport Regional (ATR) here at the airshow (W670) - with 42 aircraft in service and 19 operators in Africa and the Middle East, the company sees Dubai 2000 as the perfect place to do business. ATR is a partnership of Aerospatiale Matra (France) ...
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Marconi HUD system cleared for B737
Tim Ripley/DUBAI Marconi Avionics executives are celebrating being awarded Supplemental Type Certification (STC) by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for full operational use of the HUD 2020 Visual Guidance System (VGS) on Boeing 737-800 aircraft. "The award of STC to Marconi is a major milestone in promoting ...
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Avatar Alliance uses Qatar deal as entrée to Middle East
The region's fastest-growing airline, Qatar Airways, says it will see a significant increase in passenger traffic and cycle counts - good news for suppliers seeking to broaden their customer base in the Middle East. One such who is benefiting from a deal signed here at the show is Avatar ...
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Sicma takes a load off weary feet
Show-goers weary from hours spent tramping around the halls of Dubai 2000 should stop at the Sicma Aero Seat stand (W322)and try out the French company's latest first class seat. Sicma is demonstrating the seat specially developed for the Emirates Airbus Industrie A330-200 fleet. It features a range of electrically-driven ...
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Seat comfort draws on luck of the Irish
Mark Hannant/DUBAI An enterprising Irish company hopes to make long-haul flights more bearable with the unveiling at the show of its self-moulding seat cushioning technology. Long Haul Technologies, part of the Vita Cortex Group, has its airbag-based seat cushions now tested and approved for a 16-G environment and on ...
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Boeing scorns arguments for super-large aircraft
Geoff Thomas/DUBAI Boeing is back... at least according to executive vice-president sales and marketing Seddick Belyamani. Speaking at the show yesterday he said that the Seattle-based company was back on course toward convincing its shareholders that the ills of the past decade are behind them. "Our goal is ...
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Volvo applauds China deal for GE engines
China Airlines' selection of General Electric engines for its 13 new Boeing 747-400 aircraft is good news for Volvo Aero which supplies components for the engine. The order value to the Swedish manufacturer is expected to be $25 million. The total order for CF60-80C2 GE engines is 52. ...
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Big advances in new Honeywell display
Honeywell (E712) is promoting its new CD-820 flight management (FMS) Control Display Unit (CDU) which offers size, weight, power and display improvements over its predecessors. It will be available in February 2000. The CD-820 has a large, full-colour, 13.8in Active Matrix LCD and is designed to interface with Honeywell's ...
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Stamp of approval for B747
The Boeing 747 is set to make a remarkable achievement - when it lands on a doormat. The world's most famous aircraft is to appear on a US postage stamp. The B747 has been selected as part of a public ballot to nominate the most significant technological achievements of ...
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DHL introduces Convairs on Dubai route
DHL Worldwide Express is to triple capacity on its Dubai overnight delivery flights with the introduction of two Convair 580 turbo-prop freighters to the route. Announcing the news at Dubai 2000, DHL's Geoff Kehr says: "The addition of these aircraft to the Dubai route not only greatly increases uplift ...
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BA opts for E&S visual system
US simulator systems manufacturer Evans & Sutherland is riding high at the show following the announcement that British Airways (BA) is to buy, for a second time this year, an E&S visual system for its third B777 training simulator. The order comes just a month after the same image ...
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CAE double deal
Canada's CAE Electronics has done a double deal at the airshow on two full flight simulators (FFS) worth $35 million. Emirates signed up for the world's first Airbus Industrie A330-200 FFS which will be delivered in November 2000. And Jet Airways, a private domestic airline in India, bought a ...
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Aviall wins R-R contract
US-based Aviall has been awarded exclusive 10-year rights to distribute parts for the Rolls-Royce Model 250 turboshaft and turboprop engines. The company says the contract will add $90 million to its net sales in 2000 and that its network of more than 40 customer service centres around the world will ...