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Lockheed Martin and Justice Department head for court
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Lockheed Martin and the US Department of Justice (DoJ) are heading for a courtroom showdown over the defence giant's proposed merger with Northrop Grumman after failure to agree a massive programme of divestitures to satisfy competition concerns. Lockheed Martin says that it had offered to ...
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Pan Am can carry on with charter flights
Pan American World Airways has been given a stay of execution by the bankruptcy courts and will continue to operate charter flights as the search goes on for a financial rescuer. The low cost airline terminated the lease of five Boeing 737-400s from International Lease Finance (ILFC) on 23 ...
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Stand together
Aerospatiale, Dasa, CASA and British Aerospace delivered to the governments of France, Germany, Spain and the UK last week their promised thoughts on how they might achieve global competitiveness in the next century. It is now up to those European governments to decide whether the central plank of the industry's ...
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Classic takes shape
Guy Norris/LONG BEACH In June a familiar shape is due to take off on a maiden flight from Long Beach, California. Outwardly it will bear the classic hallmarks of a Douglas-built T-tail twinjet, yet in most respects it is a radically new aircraft. The Boeing 717-200 was once the MD-95. ...
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Ayres picks Alabama site for assembly of the Loadmaster
Ayres is to assemble its LM200 Loadmaster cargo aircraft in Dothan, Alabama. The aircraft manufacturer, which is based in Albany, Georgia, selected Dothan over another Georgian town, Americus, as the site for fuselage manufacture and final assembly of the aircraft. The decision was influenced by a combination of $4 ...
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Busy Socata is forced to delay Tangara
Julian Moxon/PARIS Production of the Socata Tangara light twin is to be delayed by up to a year, as the French manufacturer meets increased demand for subcontracting work and its TBM700 single. French certification of the Textron Lycoming 0-360-A1G6 powered Tangara was obtained in December 1997, with production start-up originally ...
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Ilyushin freighter efficiency fails to impress Aeroflot director
Ilyushin's Il-96T has been brought to earth by criticism of its Alexander Velovich/Moscow THE HEAD OF Aeroflot has warned that the airline will not increase its orders for the Ilyushin II-96T freighter because the aircraft will not offer competitive operating economics. Speaking at a special gathering of Russia's Federal ...
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Sextant gears up for merger
Ian Sheppard/PARIS Sextant Avionique is already gearing up to offer avionics systems from its future sister company Dassault Eléctronique. The initiative is part of the French company's efforts to build a flightdeck package to compete with integrated products offered by major US suppliers. Dassault Eléctronique developed an array ...
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Airbus/Boeing vie for Mexico
Airbus Industrie and Boeing are competing for an order from Aeromexico and Mexicana for up to 100 narrowbody aircraft. The order will be placed by Mexico's CINTRA Group, which owns both carriers. A decision is expected "before June", says Airbus. The deal does not include aircraft for AeroPeru, which is ...
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MAPO MIG to close for five months
MAPO MIG's Moscow factory has closed for at least five months from 1 April because of a lack of orders. The closure comes at a time of rising controversy over the future of the group. The shutdown of the plant was ordered by the general director of the VPK ...
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Russia rules against Ukraine bombers
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Boeing has toned down its optimism over the future of the MD-11 and warns that more problems with Next Generation 737 manufacturing might produce additional delivery delays, making a third consecutive quarterly charge a possibility. There are signs that more lay-offs could follow. Production problems ...
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Continental drift in Brazil
Delta Air Lines is boosting its Latin American presence with a deal to buy 35 per cent of AeroPeru, frustrating rival Continental, which seemed ahead in the race for a stake. Delta's current ties with Aeromexico, and its plans to expand those ties into a broader alliance, probably tipped ...
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Fight in the wild AmWest
America West's flight attendants have rejected an initial pay offer and are back at the negotiating table in a fighting mood. An overwhelming 90 per cent of the America West chapter of the Association of Flight Attendants have rejected a tentative agreement. The main sticking point is pay, says ...
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Focus on Phoenix
America West's ups and downs have made Wall Street nervous, but new revenue management skills, a concentration on Phoenix, and codeshares with Continental and Northwest should allow its healthier performance to continue. Karen Walker reports from Phoenix You can only envy the residents of Phoenix, Arizona. Not only do they ...
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Awas seeks new owners
Abu Dhabi lessor Oasis International, backed by a New Zealand bank, is poised to take over Australian lessor Ansett Worldwide Aviation Service. At the end of February, Ad Scheepbouwer, TNT's chief executive officer, was expecting a sale announcement 'in the next couple of weeks'. Oasis International Leasing, and ...
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BM gets itchy US feet
After a 15 year break, British Midland is planning a comeback on the North Atlantic, with a request for route licences to the US. The airline wants to fly from London/Heathrow to Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Miami, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle and Washington DC. The application ...
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Channel your sales energies
Global networks and distribution advances are forcing airline sales forces to rethink. Organising an airline's sales team used to be a relatively straightforward affair. You established a network of regional offices, which each recruited a team of people to sell the airline, primarily via travel agents who received commission. Sales ...
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Meal made of India deal
The joint board of Air-India and Indian Airlines has shelved the the two airlines' planned merger in favour of a holding company which will integrate the airlines' operations. 'An immediate merger of both airlines would be a disaster. Synergy and close cooperation is a must for the two organisations ...
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Delta jilted at Jap dance
Ink was barely dry on the new Japan-US bilateral before the scramble started to form newly authorised codesharing alliances. Each of Japan's three major airlines has now picked US partners, and Delta Air Lines, which thought it had an agreement with All Nippon, ends up the loser. Delta ...
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A disinherited breed
Deregulation is well advanced in Latin America, but the predicted wave of international Latin startups has hardly been a ripple. David Knibb explains why. We called them 'The New Breed' - those Latin American airlines which emerged on the heels of deregulation to challenge the newly privatised flag carriers. Led ...