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Garuda pushes to renegotiate 737 leases
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE Garuda Indonesia is in talks with the US Export-Import Bank, Boeing and General Electric to renegotiate leases on six Boeing 737s. The airline says talks attended by airline president Abdul Gani and president commissioner Robby Djohan began on 11 December in Seattle, focusing on credit terms ...
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AirOne results
Italian airline AirOne has reported a turnover increase of 40% for the first nine months of this year, to L226.7 billion ($135 million) compared with the same period last year. The carrier has also recorded an operating profit for the first time in its three years of operation. The L5.8 ...
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General Atomics flies ELINT Predator
General Atomics has test flown a Predator unmanned air vehicle adapted to carry specialised Radio Frequency payloads for a wide range of applications, including electronic intelligence gathering (ELINT). The Predator carried a suite of antennas during the flight evaluation, including three mounted on each wing and a single antenna integrated ...
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Airbus warns A300-600 users after airborne reverse
Airbus has issued a service bulletin (SB) requiring A300-600 operators to de-activate thrust reversers after a Korean Air aircraft suffered reverser deployment after take-off. The A300s affected are those with Pratt & Whitney 4000 engines, for which P&W also makes the reversers. The event occurred shortly after take-off from ...
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Airports
-Augsburg Airport, near Munich, is to undergo a DM50 million ($31 million) upgrade. It will involve the introduction of a new passenger terminal, a runway extension to accommodate aircraft up to the size of the Airbus A319, and the installation of instrument landing systems at both ends. Work is due ...
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Delayed maintenance blamed for Nigerian 707 engine loss
Herman De Wulf/BRUSSELS Delayed C-check maintenance on a Nigerian Boeing 707-320C freighter is being linked to the loss of its No 3 engine over Southern Belgium on 14 October. Belgian accident investigators say that the IAT Cargo aircraft, which made an emergency landing at Ostend, should have had ...
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Kendell Saab 340 roll turns spotlight on icing
The Australian Bureau of Air Safety Investigation (BASI) is treating as "very serious" an incident in which a Kendell Airlines Saab 340 carrying 30 passengers stalled and rolled almost inverted in light icing conditions on 11 November, injuring a flight attendant. The Kendell flight was in a holding pattern, ...
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KLM reveals plans for cargo alliance
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON KLM has revealed a three-stage plan that will lead to the setting up of a standalone cargo airline early in the next decade in a joint venture with its alliance partners, Alitalia and Northwest Airlines. The plan is part of the recently finalised link between KLM ...
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Marketplace
-Boullioun Aviation Services has ordered three Boeing 737-300s, to increase its orderbook with the manufacturer to 63. The -300s will be delivered in the second half of 1999. -Varig has leased a Boeing 737-700 from GE Capital Aviation Services. -French charter airline Euralair will take delivery of the first of ...
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Pembroke breaks Boeing 717 drought with order for 10
Irish lessor Pembroke Capital has broken the Boeing 717 order drought with an order for 10 of the 100-seat twinjets, for delivery between March 2000 and May 2001. The contract, valued at about $320 million based on list prices, takes the 717's firm order backlog to 65 aircraft. Pembroke ...
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PS-90A overtakes 6,000h milestone
The lead Aviadvigatel/ Perm Motors PS-90A turbofan passed the 6,000h on the wing mark at the end of November, on an Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-96-300 flying a regular scheduled flight. Aviadvigatel general director Yuri Reshetnikov says that the engine will shortly be removed and given a full stripdown examination, a ...
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Routes
-Royal Brunei Airlines gives "the regional economic situation" as its reason for "temporarily" suspending scheduled services between Bandar Seri Begawan in Brunei and Osaka, Japan. -Northwest Airlines is to double its seasonal frequency between Tokyo, Japan and Anchorage, Alaska, by operating two weekly McDonnell Douglas DC-10 flights. -Royal Air Maroc ...
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Swiss World seeks protection from bankruptcy
Swiss World Airways (SWA) suspended operations on 2 December after suffering consistently poor load factors on its single route between Geneva and New York Newark. The airline has informed the Swiss Federal Office for Civil Aviation (OFAC) that it is seeking Chapter 11-style bankruptcy protection through the courts and ...
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Moscow court case brings end to Aeroflot/Transaero union
Alexander Velovich and Paul Duffy/MOSCOW The two-year-old alliance between Aeroflot Russian International Airlines and Transaero has ended, following a Moscow court ruling that Aeroflot must pay Transaero R3 million ($176,000) as a balance of mutual financial claims by the two airlines. In early September, Aeroflot officially informed Transaero ...
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Belgium's City Bird announces first profits
Herman De Wulf/BRUSSELS Belgian long haul airline City Bird is diversifying into main-deck freight operations with a deal to acquire two new Airbus A300-600Fs for delivery in mid-1999. The expansion comes as the low-cost passenger carrier recorded its first net profit since starting operations on 27 March,1997. Last ...
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Frontier share purchase makes Vanguard tie-up a possibility
The main shareholders of Kansas City-based Vanguard Airlines have taken an 8% shareholding in Denver-based Frontier Airlines and hinted about a possible combination of the two regional US airlines. The investors, headed by William Hambrecht, say that it is desirable for Frontier to explore various relationships with Vanguard or ...
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Government saves Air Namibia
Hilka Birns/CAPE TOWN The Namibian Government has injected N$20-million ($3.7 million) into Air Namibia and has appointed a Malaysian financier to restructure, and re-capitalise the troubled national carrier as a state-owned company. The move takes the airline out of the control of state holding company TransNamib, which has ...
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Deadline looms over subsidy allegations
Rival manufacturers Bombardier and Embraer will complete their presentation of written submissions by 15 December to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over a long-running wrangle involving the alleged use of subsidies to sell regional aircraft. The manufacturers have made a formal submission and rebuttal to the two WTO dispute ...
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Waiting to happen
If airline flight safety is the issue, the US Federal Aviation Administration is almost always a world leader in developing systems to promote it. There is one area - flight operations quality assurance (FOQA) - however, in which it has long wanted to advance, but has been immobilised by circumstances ...
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Lockheed urged to hurry C-130J orders
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Political pressure is mounting on the US Air Force to accelerate its planned purchase of additional new Lockheed Martin C-130J transports by up to four years to fill a shortfall in orders after 2000 and a threatened temporary shutdown in production. Lockheed Martin has existing ...