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-Delta Air Lines and Venezuela's Aeropostal have agreed to provide codeshare service between Atlanta and Caracas, beginning on 2 April. The deal is subject to government approval. -United Airlines has selected Air Wisconsin, its new subsidiary, Mountain Air Express, and Great Lakes Aviation, to replace Mesa Airlines on United Express ...
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Boeing beats Airbus to clinch large Ryanair order
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Pricing and commonality issues were behind Ryanair's selection of the Boeing 737-800 over the Airbus A320, in a deal which will see the the Irish low fare airline taking up to 45 of the Next Generation 737 models. Deliveries start next year. The airline, which operates ...
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SilkAir probe focuses on suicide
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE There is growing speculation that pilot suicide could have been responsible for the crash in December of a SilkAir Boeing 737-300 which nose-dived into the Musi River in Sumatra. As a result, the Indonesian-led investigation into the crash, in which 104 people died, has begun to focus ...
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Workshop
-SR Technics, the Swissair affiliate, has secured a contract with Boeing to install the two crew Honeywell Advanced Common Flightdeck on DC-10s being converted to MD-10 specification for US freight carrier FedEx. The deal involves 10 firm orders and 15 options. In a related deal, Singapore Technologies' Alabama, Georgia based ...
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Delta Air Lines takes stake in Aeroperu
As part of strategic efforts to build its presence in South America, Delta Air Lines has agreed to acquire a 35% stake in Aeroperu and enter into a 10-year marketing agreement. Delta's stake will match that of Aeromexico. Both foreign carriers will be represented on Aeroperu's board of directors. ...
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Alitalia talks to the EC about release of state-aid restrictions
Alitalia has taken initial soundings from the European Commission (EC) over the prospect of releasing its state-aid restrictions if the Italian carrier moves towards privatisation, possibly within the next year. Chairman Fausto Cereti is understood to have raised the issue in Brussels during talks over the airline's compliance with ...
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BBA adds H+S to aviation services business
Engineering and transport group BBA has taken a further step in building up its regional aviation services business by buying UK aero engine overhaul operation H+S Aviation. Last year, H+S says, it repaired more than 700 engines and 800 propellers, largely for the regional and general aviation markets. Its ...
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SunJet backers make move for Kiwi
Aviation Industries, the US airline investment vehicle that is backing Sun Jet's re-emergence from bankruptcy, has increased its stake in Kiwi International and is to negotiate the purchase of the low cost carrier. Kiwi re-emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July with backing from private investor Charles Edwards, who ...
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West to escape Asian slump
US credit rating agency Moody's has added its voice to concerns over the impact of the Asian crisis on the airline industry. It argues, however, that US and European carriers may escape the slump relatively unscathed. Those carriers most heavily dependent on intra-Asian traffic are due to face the ...
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Lufthansa
Year-end figures from Lufthansa lived up to expectations as the group added DM1 billion ($545 million) to pre-tax profits, taking the total to DM1.6 billion. The improvement was backed by an 11% rise in sales on long haul passenger markets, and a record 73.5% load factor as the airline and ...
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Ratier-Figeac acquired
Hamilton Standard has acquired full ownership of French aerospace flight controls and equipment business Ratier-Figeac, in which it has held a minority stake for more than 40 years. The company manufactures controls and components for aero engines, civil and military aircraft and had sales of more than $110 million last ...
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Fair shares ?
Rather late in the day, the US flightcrew training industry has woken up to the fact that Europe is preventing it from taking a direct slice of the Continent's massive new unified market, and it is crying foul. A battle is about to be joined in which politics is ...
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Dassault targets ASRAAMs for Rafale
Dassault Aviation is considering integrating the Matra BAe Dynamics Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missile (ASRAAM) for export variants of the Rafale combat aircraft. Dassault says that the missile "is available as part of the weapons suite, depending on negotiations". The costs of integrating the missile "would probably have to ...
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Diamond Back flight tests scheduled for 1998
GEC-Marconi Dynamics plans to conduct company-funded flight tests of its Diamond Back smart-bomb wing kit at a US military range within the next 12 months, says John Cleveland, the company's project manager. Under development for the last four years, the Diamond Back attachment could be used to extend the ...
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Problems keep Chengdu F-10 on the ground
Chinese aircraft manufacturer Chengdu is carrying out fast taxi trials of its F-10 combat aircraft at its site in southern China, but unspecified problems have so far kept the aircraft from making its maiden flight. Taxi trials of the F-10, which is effectively a derivative of the Israel Aircraft ...
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F-22 manufacturer offers US GAO cost re-assurance
Lockheed Martin/Boeing officials have told US General Accounting Office auditors that delays in the F-22 Raptor's flight test programme should not raise the cost of engineering and manufacturing development (EMD), which is capped at $18.9 billion. The first flight of the F-22 was three months late, and flight testing ...
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Italy pushes ahead with work on integrated air defence network
The Italian air force is aiming to have its integrated air defence radar network in place, and operational, by the end of 1999, with a new command centre at Poggio Renatico. The air defence network is being modernised with 16 improved radars: four Lockheed Martin FPS-177s and two Hughes ...
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JDA seeks cash to fund future attack helicopter programme
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE The Japan Defence Agency (JDA) is seeking initial funding in its next budget to begin a formal study of future attack helicopter requirements. Interested local and foreign suppliers are already formulating a range of options with which to respond. Full-scale funding for the AH-X programme is expected ...
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Daewoo tools up for KTX-1
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Daewoo Heavy Industries of South Korea plans to complete development and operational flight testing of the KTX-1 turboprop basic trainer by September. It is already preparing tooling, in advance of an anticipated final government go-ahead to begin production in 1999. A fifth and final prototype was ...
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UK discusses participation in US decoy project
Ramon Lopez/ORLANDO The UK and US Governments are in discussions over a potential memorandum of understanding for UK participation in the Miniature Air-Launched Decoy (MALD) programme. US industry officials say that the UK is expected to join the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) programme by mid-1998. ...