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US regional growth continues in 1994
US REGIONAL AIRLINES report an 8% increase in the passengers boarding in 1994. The Regional Airlines Association (RAA) recorded 57 million boardings industry-wide, generating a 13% increase in traffic to 12 billion revenue-passenger kilometres. RAA figures show a US regional fleet of 2,172 aircraft - a ...
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Nordam is cleared over blade failures
NEW ZEALAND authorities have cleared Nordam's hushkit, of causing turbine-blade failures in the Pratt & Whitney JT8D engines, of Air New Zealand's (ANZ) fleet of Boeing 737-200s. The airline suffered four low-pressure turbine-blade failures on hushkitted 737s (Flight International, 22-28 February), but now appears to be the victim ...
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Boeing/Lockheed Martin halt JAST talks
LOCKHEED MARTIN and Boeing have suspended talks over teaming on the US Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) programme at least until contracts are awarded in mid-1996. The two companies began talks earlier this year, when it became clear that the JAST project was going to absorb the advanced ...
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IHI to become partner in CF34
Ishikawajima - Harima Heavy Industries (IHI) of Japan is to become a major partner in the General Electric CF34-8C turbofan under the terms of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between the two companies. The announcement confirms persistent rumours of imminent IHI involvement in the engine (Flight International, ...
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TNT considers Subic Bay tie-up with FedEx
TNT Worldwide Express is looking to relocate its Philippine-based Asian freight hub from Manila to Subic Bay International Airport (SBIA) and is negotiating a line-haul co-operation agreement with FedEx as part of the move. The company's joint venture Pacific East Asia Cargo (PEAC) carrier is constrained by a ...
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Airbus homes in on future derivatives
GROWTH VERSIONS OF Airbus Industrie's A319 and A340, together with a "shrunk" A330, are emerging as the priority items in the manufacturer's continuing studies of possible new models. A further stretch of the A321 - the so-called A322 - has been ruled out for now, but the consortium ...
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Tan battles on for control of PAL
Philippine Airlines (PAL) chairman Lucio Tan is threatening to take the Government to the country's Supreme Court in his battle to retain majority control of the flag carrier. The Philippine tobacco tycoon controls PAL by virtue of his 51% stake in PR Holdings, which in turn owns 67% ...
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Indian Airlines plans to wet-lease regionals
INDIAN AIRLINES' board of directors has approved a proposal to acquire six 56-seater aircraft on wet lease. The aircraft will be flown on short-haul routes, mainly in India's northeastern sector. The board has also approved a scheme, to form a joint venture with either an international or Indian ...
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UK companies combine for American initiative
Five UK aerospace companies are to form a joint venture, to market their products to North American airframe manufacturers, as part of an UK Government initiative to boost exports by smaller concerns in the aviation sector. Aerospace Systems and Technologies, the Aircraft Research Association, BP Chemicals Advanced Materials ...
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Lockheed Martin ready to consolidate by June
Lockheed Martin chairman Dan Tellep has underlined the newly merged group's commitment to announce decisions on consolidating the businesses "no later than" the end of June. Presenting the group's first-quarter results, the first since the merger was formalised, Tellep calls for "reduction of excess capacity and aggressive elimination ...
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Doubts persist on costs of large- aircraft plans
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE's studies of the A3XX new large aircraft (NLA) are showing encouraging technical results, but have highlighted the difficulty of financing development. A key senior manager says that it is clear that neither Boeing nor a European team can undertake the development programme under conventional financial arrangements. ...
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Lufthansa considers A320s for S America
LUFTHANSA IS considering using the Airbus cross-crew qualification (CCQ) concept to allow it to base A320s in Latin America to operate onward routes from its long-haul services. The airline will begin using Airbus A340s to Caracas, Venezuela, during the next winter timetable, but expects very low load-factors on ...
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Cargo boosts long-haul economics
TWO OF AIRBUS Industrie's long-haul customers are using their aircraft to fly pure-freight services. Cathay Pacific has found the A330 and A340 sufficiently efficient to operate as lower-deck-only freighters once their day-time passenger duties are completed, and Aer Lingus says that it converts one of its three A330-300s ...
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Bombardier and AMR reveal plans for jet-share venture
Bombardier and fixed-base operator AMR Combs are to begin operating a joint- venture fractional-ownership programme in June, following the official launch of the scheme in New York on 3 May. Business JetSolutions, in which customers participate in a shared- ownership programme, will eventually involve the Canadian manufacturer's full ...
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Top executives struggle for power at Kiwi
KIWI INTERNATIONAL Airlines has gone through its second management shake-up of the year, with Byron Hogue resigning as chief executive. Kiwi president Danny Wright assumes Hogue's post. The troubled carrier has offered no explanation for the move, but there are reports of a power struggle between Wright and ...
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Bomber study counts against further B-2s
NORTHROP GRUMMAN'S hopes of an additional procurement of 20 of its B-2 stealth bombers have been dealt a potentially fatal blow, by a congressionally sponsored study, which claims that a follow-on order is unnecessary. The long awaited Institute for Defense Analyses Heavy Bomber Force Study concludes that the ...
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Arrow strikes deal with FAA
ARROW AIR EXPECTS to resume cargo operations by the end of this month following a deal made with the US Federal Aviation Administration. The two sides agreed that Arrow Air would retain its operating certificate if it paid the aviation agency $1.5 million to defray the cost of ...
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737 control-system study produces no crash clues
A REVIEW OF THE design of Boeing 737 flight control has uncovered no flaws, which could have caused the unexplained crashes of two aircraft, says the US Federal Aviation Administration. The critical design review of the flight control system, was prompted by the 1991 United Airlines crash at Colorado Springs ...
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Airbus challenges 737 'grandfather' allowance
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE is bracing itself for a bitter struggle to force the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) to decline "grandfather" certification-rights for Boeing's new 737 family. The consortium is determined to raise the profile of the issue, which has become a key factor in recent airline aircraft-selections. ...
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Double standards
It seems strange that, in an industry, which is rightly obsessed with safety, there should be a disagreement between major players over whether particular safety standards should be applied to particular aircraft. It seems even stranger that the disagreement is based not on when a particular airframe was built, but ...