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Iberia flotation slips: ATI
Spainish Minister of Industry Josep Pique has delayed the flotation of flag-carrier Iberia until at least January next year, citing the current state of the markets as the reason. Flotation of the airline was due on 22 November after the resolution of a dispute between majority shareholder Caja Madrid ...
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KAI bids expected: ATI
Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI) says it expects to receive formal bids from potential foreign investors in mid-December as it finalises work on its formation. The company, being formed from the merger of parts of Daewoo Heavy Industries, Hyundai Space and Aircraft and Samsung Aerospace, has been told by potential ...
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Qantas employees take action: ATI
Qantas Airways is facing legal action brought against it by maintenance workers whose duties were transferred to Melbourne when the carrier outsourced the work to a labour hire company there. Qantas is yet to comment on the case, which is said to be the first Federal Court appeal brought ...
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Dundridge to offer electronic warfare training
Tim Ripley/DUBAI Middle Eastern students will be able to participate in a unique electronic warfare training course when Dundridge Training College, Alenia Marconi Systems' (AMS) world-renowned training establishment moves to a new location in Wales next year. "Dundridge is well known throughout the Gulf region - we have trained ...
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Boeing hails China in WTO agreement: ATI
Boeing chairman and CEO Phil Condit is hailing the signing of the agreement that removes US opposition to China joining the World Trade Organisation (WTO), saying it will boost business for US companies. Condit, who serves as chairman of the Task Force on International Trade and Investment, the business ...
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ATR flexes its regional muscles
Little surprise to see Avions de Transport Regional (ATR) here at the airshow (W670) - with 42 aircraft in service and 19 operators in Africa and the Middle East, the company sees Dubai 2000 as the perfect place to do business. ATR is a partnership of Aerospatiale Matra (France) ...
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Marconi HUD system cleared for B737
Tim Ripley/DUBAI Marconi Avionics executives are celebrating being awarded Supplemental Type Certification (STC) by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for full operational use of the HUD 2020 Visual Guidance System (VGS) on Boeing 737-800 aircraft. "The award of STC to Marconi is a major milestone in promoting ...
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Costs, not technology, stall in-flight access to internet
Steve Nichols/DUBAI The Internet is the hot business tool of the 1990s and usage is predicted to continue increasing exponentially in the next millennium. So it is not surprising that passengers are starting to demand Internet access on board aircraft too. Honeywell (E712) is demonstrating its In Flight Email ...
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EADS makes integration a priority
The new European Aeronautical Defence and Space company (EADS) will make integration of the Franco-German partners' assets the priority rather than embark on new mergers, Jean-Paul Gut, Aerospatiale Matra director of defence, military aircraft and space said at the show yesterday. But he says that in the long-term, he ...
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Avatar Alliance uses Qatar deal as entrée to Middle East
The region's fastest-growing airline, Qatar Airways, says it will see a significant increase in passenger traffic and cycle counts - good news for suppliers seeking to broaden their customer base in the Middle East. One such who is benefiting from a deal signed here at the show is Avatar ...
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CFM celebrates a remarkable success story
Geoff Thomas/DUBAI Well within the next decade more than 50% of the world's commercial fleet of airliners will be powered by various versions of the ubiquitous CFM56. Speaking at the show, CFM's president and CEO Gerard Laviec said: "It's a remarkable achievement especially when you consider that the ...
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Attack helicopter contests
Bell Helicopter says development work on the H-1 upgrade programme is on track and the manufacturer is now training its sights on winning two lucrative attack helicopter contests which would provide export customers for the AH-1Z Zulu Cobra. The uprated machine, developed from the AH-1W, is competing in Turkey ...
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Alenia Marconi signs FMT deal
Alenia Marconi Systems has signed a £7 million-plus ($11 million) deal to supply a Full Mission Trainer (FMT) to Racal Defence Electronics. It will be used to provide AEW Observer training to the Royal Navy, which is upgrading its fleet of Westland Sea King AEW Mk2 helicopters with a ...
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Dubai takes Bell 407
Dubai Air Wing is joining the family of Bell 407 light helicopter operators, announcing that it is to take delivery of a single-engine machine before year-end. Hawker Pacific, which represents Bell in the Middle East, announced the sale at the show. Aircraft marketing manager Alan Parsons and general manager, ...
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AGS radar system offer to Middle East clients
Tim Ripley/DUBAI Northrop Grumman is offering Middle East customers a business jet-mounted version of its Joint STARS airborne ground surveillance (AGS) radar system. The US defence electronics giant says the system can be available by the middle of the next decade at a "competitive" price. The company ...
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UAE offset deal makes Dassault a fish-farmer
Mike Martin/DUBAI If you think that sea bream and sea bass are naval missiles, you should change your diet. They play a modest but important role in the $3.4-billion deal in which the UAE is buying 30 Dassault Mirage 2000-9s. Fish farming, not to mention flowers and a business ...
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Sicma takes a load off weary feet
Show-goers weary from hours spent tramping around the halls of Dubai 2000 should stop at the Sicma Aero Seat stand (W322)and try out the French company's latest first class seat. Sicma is demonstrating the seat specially developed for the Emirates Airbus Industrie A330-200 fleet. It features a range of electrically-driven ...
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Singapore site for new gear JV
A joint venture between Singapore Aerospace Manufacturing (SAM) and Messier-Dowty International will produce landing gear assemblies and related components in the Far East from 1 January 2000. SAM's chairman Loh Chuk Yam and Messier-Dowty's chairman and CEO Dominique Paris signed the agreement that will see SAM transferring its landing ...
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Low-light camera makes first appearance
FLIR systems (E520) is showing its UltraMedia LE (UMLE) TV-only surveillance camera at Dubai for the first time. Its low-light capabilities, longer focal length and proprietary gimbal design add to FLIR's range of products for the Law Enforcement market. The UltraMedia series has been the system of choice ...
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Florida shines in more ways than one
They say small is beautiful, and they don't come much smaller than Enterprise Florida's stand (E703). But as director Ken Cooksey points out: "We may be just one state, but we have a lot to offer. The organisation represents 1,400 companies with 90,000 employees, generating $15 billion of revenue - ...