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Airlines want Regional's Saabs
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Two European airlines, Business Air and CityJet, are in negotiations to acquire secondhand Saab 2000s from Regional Airlines, the second-largest operator of the type, which is preparing to standardise on the Embraer RJ145 regional jet. Regional has a fleet of 11 Saab 2000s, including six delivered new to ...
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Routes
-From 21 February Qantas will suspend its twice weekly Brisbane-Jakarta-Kuala Kumpur and Melbourne-Jakarta services, suspend its thrice-weekly Brisbane-Bangkok service and extend its thrice-weekly Perth-Jakarta service to Bangkok, adding one flight a week while suspending its non-stop Perth-Bangkok service. -Dragonair plans to launch a new thrice weekly passenger service from Hong ...
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United includes San Francisco in Express agreement with SkyWest
United Airlines has selected SkyWest Airlines to replace Mesa Air Group's WestAir as the United Express regional carrier in San Francisco, California, from 1 June. SkyWest began United Express operations in October 1997, replacing WestAir in Los Angeles. The carrier says that talks continue with United about also replacing ...
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Funding cut signals end to Japan regional jet
Japan is preparing to call a halt to its long-running YS-X regional-aircraft study, with the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) refusing to pump further funding into the project beyond the end of the financial year. The Japan Aircraft Development (JADC) consortium is understood to be drawing up ...
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Dasa achieves record figures
AndrzejJeziorski/MUNICH Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) has underlined the turnaround in Germany's long-suffering aerospace industry, revealing record sales for 1997 and promising profits across the group. Full profit figures will be revealed on 8 April, but Dasa chairman Manfred Bischoff claims that the results will exceed expectations, with every business unit back ...
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Boeing faces losses from Douglas Products
Boeing is to take a higher-than-expected charge of $1.4 billion to cover post-merger write-offs on the Douglas Products business, pushing the group to the first annual loss in its corporate history. The charge comes on top of the $1.6 billion already put aside to cover Boeing's own production problems, ...
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P&W's Eagle soars to bolster perch in overhaul business
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Pratt & Whitney expects to see its engine-services sales reach $1 billion this year as its Eagle Services business continues to expand in the repair and overhaul sectors. Eagle Services generated roughly $600 million in 1996, representing around 10%of P&W's sales, but will have added another $400 ...
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Snecma returns to profitability
Snecma president Jean-Paul Bechat says that the group is back in profit and may not need to pursue its long-running call for fresh cash from the French Government. He also confirms that the re-organised group is keen to grow. Final figures for 1997 are not yet available, but Bechat ...
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Lockheed Martin plans C-130J world sales tour
Lockheed Martin will launch a world tour with the C-130J in February in a bid to stimulate sales for the improved Hercules transport aircraft. The 15-week tour will be conducted in five stages, using a US Air Force aircraft which is not involved in the continuing commercial-certification flight-test programme. ...
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Pakistan threatens legal action on F-16s
Pakistan has renewed threats to sue the US Government for the return of $656 million paid for 28 undelivered Lockheed Martin F-16s. According to local reports, the Pakistani prime minister has approved plans to file a lawsuit in the USA within "the next few weeks". The US Department of ...
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Agusta power
Peter Gray/CASCINA COSTA DE SAMARATE Although it has been said before, the statement that "if it looks good, it flies good" certainly applies to the Agusta A109 - and particularly to the Power version. The outside shell has changed little since the first-prototype days of 1971, but as I ...
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Ultimate mobility
Tim Furniss/LONDON Making a mobile telephone call to and from anywhere in the world is about to become reality. Motorola's Iridium satellite system should be declared operational this year. Market studies indicate, however, that satellite services may not make as great an impact as first thought. The sixth Boeing Delta ...
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Japan takes delivery of the first Colibri
The first Eurocopter EC120B Colibri light helicopter was delivered on 23 January to Japan's Nozaki, with Eurocopter claiming orders for "more than 100" aircraft in the 11 months since marketing began. USFederal Aviation Administration certification of the five-seat Colibri is imminent, the helicopter being one of the first cleared ...
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Sales soar for Robin's aerobatic Akrotech
Julian Moxon/PARIS Sales of the new Akrotech Cap 222 aerobatic competition aircraft, now being produced by France's Avions Robin, have exceeded expectations, with seven orders notched up before certification. "We're sold out to July," says Avions Robin president Jean-Paul Pellissier, "and we are seeing a great deal of interest ...
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India's Taneja rolls out first locally produced P.68
India's Taneja Aerospace and Aviation (TAAL) rolled out the first indigenously produced Partenavia P.68 on 20 January and hopes to receive Indian civil-aviation authority certification by the end of the month. The light twin's roll-out, which took place at TAAL's plant in Hosur, near Bangalore, had originally been planned ...
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AI(R) partnership teeters as ATR looks to break with BAe
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Andrea Spinelli/GENOA ATR is on the verge of extracting its sales and marketing from Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) and may move to abandon its two-year-old venture with British Aerospace. The partners are to hold an initial meeting by 30 January to review the future of AI(R) following the ...
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Asian crisis sees Asiana drop A330
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Asiana Airlines is scrapping its plans to purchase Airbus A330s and is cutting back drastically on an Airbus A321 order. Overall, the number of cancelled aircraft orders and deferred deliveries in Asia continues to grow, with Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE) rescheduling Boeing 777-200 deliveries and Thai Airways ...
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Rekkof seeks way back for Fokker production
Efforts are under way to restart production of the Fokker 70 and 100 airliners. The initiative is being led by Jaap Rozen Jacobson, chairman of Belgian airline VLM. A new Dutch company, Rekkof (Fokker spelled backwards) Restart, is seeking funds and negotiating with potential suppliers. In a bid to ...
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United's Airbus boost
United Airlines is expected to finalise an order soon for 50 more Airbus A320-family aircraft, to boost its orders for the single-aisle models to 131. The airline now operates four A319s and 41 A320s, powered by International Aero Engines V2500s. Source: Flight International
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Airbus line-up
Lagardère president Nöel Forgeard will succeed Jean Pierson on 1 April as managing director of Airbus. Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) chairman Manfred Bischoff will replace Edzard Reuter as chairman of the supervisory board and Dasa's Dietrich Russell will replace Volker von Tein as chief operating officer. Meanwhile, Denis Ranque is to ...