All air transport news – Page 2711
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Austrian Airlines
Austrian Airlines has confirmed that it is to acquire four 79-seat Fokker 70s, with options on a further four. Deliveries of the first two Rolls-Royce Tay-powered aircraft are due in September and October 1995, with the second pair to arrive in March 1996. The type has now attracted 44 orders ...
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Safety must be paramount
Sir - I refer to your editorial "Difference of opinion" and the article "ATR tests rival types to challenge FAA actions" (Flight International, 21 December, 1994-3 January, 1995). It is my view that the French Directorate General of Civil Aviation's (DGAC's) primary focus is the support of French products, with ...
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Rolls-Royce
John Sandford has returned to head up Rolls-Royce's US operation as president and chief executive. He left the USA two years ago to become managing director of the Rolls-Royce Aerospace Group at Derby, UK. He succeeds George Davis, who is to retire. Source: Flight International
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Corporate Tay 727
Dee Howard is re-engineing an Australian-based executive Boeing 727-100 with Rolls-Royce Tay turbofans to meet Stage 3 noise limits. It is the US firm's first conversion for a passenger 727 and is based on the 727 Quiet Freighter developed for United Parcel Service. The US-registered aircraft is being re-engined under ...
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Caribbean Start-Up
Start-up Caribbean regional carrier, Carib Express, is to begin services on 15 February, employing 100 staff. The first of its British Aerospace BAe 146s was due to arrive on 10 February, permitting daily services between Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St Lucia and St Vincent. The second and third aircraft are due ...
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Bavaria Fluggesellschaft
German leasing company Bavaria Fluggesellschaft has ordered two Boeing 737-700s, worth a total of $80 million, with orders for two more "subject to later confirmation". The deal takes orders for the -600/-700/ -800 series to 91. Source: Flight International
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Biman Bangladesh
Biman Bangladesh Airlines has signed for two Airbus A310-300s, with Pratt & Whitney PW4000 turbofans, for delivery in the second and third quarters of 1996. It is the first order for the type in more than a year. Source: Flight International
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Standard Aero
David Shaw, has been appointed president, of gas-turbine overhaul company Standard Aero, of Manitoba, Canada. He has previously held positions with Pratt & Whitney Canada, as well as Garrett Canada. Source: Flight International
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Reliable Upgrade Reliable Upgrade
Coltec Industries' Chandler Evans Control Systems division is offering to exchange the Allison 250 turbine-engine main fuel-pump for a new, more reliable and maintainable, pump "for about the price of an overhaul". Source: Flight International
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Section 41 Success
Singapore Aviation Services (SASCO) has signed two contracts, worth S$8 million ($5.5 million), for section 41 modification to two South African Airways Boeing 747s and a Middle East Airlines 747. SASCO will also perform engine-pylon modifications to the aircraft. It has signed a letter of intent to carry out similar ...
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Appointments
James Wey has been appointed junior vice president Europe for Taiwan's Eva Air. Rono Dutta has been appointed United Airline's senior vice president planning following the departure of Rakesh Gangwal to Air France; James Hartigan Jr becomes vice president cargo. Daniele De Giovanni has been named ...
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Orders/Leases
SA Airlink has ordered nine Jetstream 41 aircraft, worth $63 million, for delivery between February and September 1995. Swissair has ordered an MD-11, scheduled for delivery in March 1997. Jetstream International Airlines has ordered 20 Dornier 328s, with an option for an additional 20. Elsewhere, Lone ...
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MD-80 operators prepare for ice
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA US OPERATORS OF the McDonnell Douglas (MDC) MD-80 are gearing up for fleet-wide installation of systems designed to prevent the formation of over-wing icing. Two systems have now been approved by the US Federal Aviation Administration as alternative means of compliance with an ...
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Air Macau chiefs resign after row
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE START-UP CARRIER Air Macau has suffered a major setback with the resignation of its chief executive David Young and two other senior managers, following a row over control and direction of the company. Young has quit the joint venture Sino-Portuguese airline only four months ...
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United expands shuttle operations
SHUTTLE BY UNITED is to expand its frequencies in eight US West Coast city-pairs and connect San Francisco, California, with Phoenix, Arizona, beginning in early February. The short-haul discounted air service has expanded from its initial 184 daily departures when it started operations in October 1994, to 342 ...
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Saginaw ghost
A mystery from the past may have relevance for the present. David Learmount/LONDON When Capt. Harvey "Hoot" Gibson's aircraft, a Trans World Airlines Boeing 727-100, suddenly rolled out of control and dived 32,000ft (10,000m), Gibson had to pull more than 5g before recovering control at ...
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Hughes wins contracts for four communications satellites
Tim Furniss/LONDON HUGHES SPACE and Communications International has maintained its lead in the satellite-manufacturing market with contract awards to build three HS-601 and one HS-376 communications satellites for Luxembourg, Malaysia and Afro-Asian Satellite Communications (ASC). The deals bring orders for the three-axis HS-601 to 38 ...