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BMed resurrects BA franchise agreement
BRITISH Mediterranean Airways (BMed) has struck a new agreement with British Airways to operate as a franchise partner on routes between London Heathrow and the Middle East as from April. The two airlines originally agreed to a link for their 1996/7 winter schedules, but the plans were later ...
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CFMI gears up for bumper year
CFM International (CFMI) is stepping up production of CFM56 engines in response to record orders placed during 1996 for 1,280 powerplants valued at $5.5 billion. CFMI president Gerard Laviec says that the company had planned for only "about 700 orders" for the year. As a result of the ...
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Indian Airlines seeks compensation for V2500 performance
Indian Airlines is seeking compensation from International Aero Engines (IAE)for the higher-than-expected fuel consumption of the V2500 engines which power its Airbus A320s. IAE, a joint venture including Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce, declines to comment on the extent of the shortfall, although it is thought to be ...
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Omega Air to launch 707 re-engineing with JT8Ds
Omega Air has signed an agreement with Pratt & Whitney about the re-engineing of its Boeing 707-320 fleet with P&W JT8D-200 engines. The Omega leasing company is the major partner in the US-based consortium "7Q7", which plans to certificate the JT8D-powered version in 1998. Omega, based in Dublin, ...
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RAC sets up Tu-204 leasing-
The Russian Aviation Consortium (RAC) has set up a leasing company to help in its efforts to place the Tupolev Tu-204 with Russian airlines. Certification of the Tu-204Ccargo version and increased-take-off-weight Tu-214 are also now expected in March. The new Moscow Aviation International (MAIC) leasing company has guaranteed ...
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MTR
Hans Fischer has become managing director at joint-venture engine manufacturer MTU Turboméca Rolls-Royce (MTR). He replaces Hartmut Tenter, who becomes head of the Turbo-Union RB.199 programme at Munich, Germany. Fischer was most recently head of sales and marketing at MTU Munich. Source: Flight International
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Honeywell
Honeywell, of Phoenix, Arizona, has named Bill Bouchard director of operations for its Business and Commuter Aviation Systems division, in Glendale, Arizona. He succeeds Roger Custer, who has moved to Honeywell Asia Pacific in Hong Kong as vice-president of manufacturing. Bouchard, with the company since 1979, was most recently marketing ...
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Engine alliance
Pratt & Whitney Space Propulsion has joined Russia's NPO Energomash to form RD AMROSS, a company to produce, market and sell the RD-180 engine. Source: Flight International
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PW306-powered 328 jet gets the go-ahead
Fairchild Dornier is to go ahead with its plans for a turbofan-powered 328, which will enter service in early 1999. The announcement follows the confirmation recently of the selection of Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC)as the engine supplier for the jet-powered derivative of the turboprop aircraft (Flight International, 29 January-4 ...
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Myanmar shelves A320-lease plans
Myanmar Airways International has scrapped plans to lease two Airbus Industrie A320s and instead extended an interim lease agreement with Malaysia Airlines (MAS)for two Boeing 737-400s. In late 1996, the Singapore-Myanmar joint-venture carrier signed a letter of intent with Airbus to lease two A320s for five years. The ...
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Workshop
++ MTU has received a five-year contract from Qantas to support the General Electric CF6-50C2s which power the airline's fleet of Airbus A300B4s. ++ Sabena Technics has signed a long-term contract with Biman Bangladesh Airlines to provide maintenance support for the airline's fleet of two Airbus A310-300s. Sabena Technics will ...
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Bidders jostle for SilkAir order
SilkAir of Singapore has begun evaluating formal proposals submitted by competing airframe and engine manufacturers for a replacement fleet of up to ten narrowbody passenger jets. The Singapore Airlines-owned regional carrier is looking for a new family of 100- and 150-seat aircraft to replace its fleet of Boeing ...
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R-R and SIA approach deal on NGV venture
Rolls-Royce is close to reaching an agreement with Singapore Airlines (SIA) on establishing a joint-venture company to repair and overhaul nozzle guide vanes (NGVs) for Trent turbofan engines. It is understood that the two sides hope to sign a final agreement by the end of this month. The ...
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R-R studies Trent shrink for A340-600/767-X
Rolls-Royce is considering refocusing its development efforts on a new 245-290kN (55,000-65,000lb)-thrust member of its Trent turbofan family, following Boeing's recent decision to cancel the 747-X project, say senior executives at the UK company. R-R's managing director Aerospace Group, Colin Green, confirms that the new derivative, which is ...
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AlliedSignal improves LT101 turboshaft reliability
AlliedSignal claims that its "get-well" effort for the once-troubled LT101 turboshaft has begun to pay dividends, with 1996 reliability levels improving by nearly 50% for the civil fleet compared with 1995 results, and by 20% for engines in service with the US Coast Guard. Specific improvements to the ...
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Breaking through
Breaking the monopolistic stranglehold of national carriers in Asia has never been easy and, for Asiana Airlines, playing second fiddle to Korean Air (KAL) for the past eight years has proved to be particularly hard going. This situation may be about to change though, as Asiana embarks on an ambitious ...
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Eurowings introduces A319
The first of three Airbus A319s was delivered to Eurowings on 27 January, at the Daimler-Benz plant at Hamburg-Finkenwerder, in Germany, where the aircraft are assembled. The three CFM International CFM56-5B-powered aircraft, which were ordered in April 1996, will be configured to seat 142 passengers in a single-class, high-density layout. ...
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SAA reselects RB.211
South African Airways (SAA) has selected the Rolls-Royce RB.211-524H to power two Boeing 747-400s it has on order. The aircraft will be delivered in May and October 1998. The UK company's engines are already fitted to the airline's other -400s. Source: Flight International
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P&WC acquisition
Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) is to acquire part of Portsmouth, UK-based H+S Aviation's small-engine overhaul activities, as part of its "ongoing strategy to create a strong and efficient global service centre network". The sale involves P&WC PW100, PW901A and PT6T overhaul lines. Meanwhile, H+S has formed H+S Proptech, which ...
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Found begins Bush Hawk tests
FOUNDAIRCRAFT Canada's plans to resurrect production of the FBA-2C light utility aircraft have progressed with the flight-testing of a rebuilt example. The Gravenhurst, Ontario-based company is flying the aircraft to collect the information required for re-instatement of the FBA-2C type certificate and the data needed for development of the improved ...