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Crossair tries back door
Swiss regional carrier Crossair has taken a 35 per cent stake in a proposed French startup carrier, in an attempt to improve its access to the European Union market. Initially, Euro Continental Airways would operate two Crossair Saab 2000s from major French cities to the French sector of ...
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Tough task to fill Hinson's shoes
Nobody is supposed to be indispensable, but it appears that former Federal Aviation Administration administrator David Hinson's shoes are proving more challenging to fill than most. Hinson relinquished his post on 8 November; his deputy, Linda Daschle, made it clear she was not interested in the top job ...
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Delta deal fires debate
Delta Air Lines' decision to sign up with Boeing for 20 years prompted analysts to coo their approvals. But one former Capitol Hill veteran worries that this deal will only stoke the antitrust debate over the proposed Boeing- McDonnell Douglas merger. Mike Korens, managing director at consultants GKMG ...
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Digest
Delta Air Lines has extended its SkyMiles FFP to Air France and Korean Air, while British Airways and American Airlines have extended their FFP links. British Airways introduced two daily flights from Manchester to Warsaw and two weekly flights from London/Gatwick to Krakow. In return LOT Polish Airlines ...
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American Eagle joins the jet set
Phew. It was a tough negotiation, as all union talks are. A strike was avoided only after presidential intervention. Nobody is entirely happy with the outcome. But there is a palpable sense of relief throughout the industry that American Airlines and its pilots have, at last, reached an accommodation. ...
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US user fees rock Canada
Canadian government has requested an urgent meeting with the US Federal Aviation Administration over proposed new overflight fees that Ottawa sees as 'highly discriminatory'. From 19 May, the FAA will begin charging fees for aircraft which fly through US airspace, but do not take off or land in ...
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GEC-Marconi unveils smart-bomb wing kit
GEC-MARCONI Dynamics wants to interest McDonnell Douglas (MDC)in a wing kit to expand the footprint of the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM). The company has already worked with MDC on windtunnel testing of its Diamond Back wing kit under the US Air Force's Small Smart Bomb (SSB) programme. ...
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Hughes unveils plans for long-range Maverick
HUGHES HAS DETAILED study plans to increase the range of its AGM-65 Maverick missile by up to 30%, or about 13km (7nm), using a combination of enhanced rocket motors and wings. Hughes has asked rocket-motor makers Alliant, ARC and Thiokol to evaluate potential improvements, ranging from higher-energy propellants to "stretched ...
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'Prudent' Canadian Airlines defers ten A320 deliveries
CANADIAN AIRLINES International is delaying the delivery of ten new aircraft which it had planned to acquire from Airbus Industrie by 1999. The Calgary-based airline is negotiating with Airbus to reschedule delivery of the A320s, which would have required $394 million in cash or new financing over the ...
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TAM seeks widebodies for new Miami route
BRAZIL'S TAM Group is negotiating to acquire between two and four widebodied aircraft for a Sao Paulo-Miami, Florida, route which it hopes to begin operating by early 1998. Talks are under way with Airbus and Boeing. TAM says that 1997 will be a "year of consolidation". In 1996, ...
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IAE aims to reduce costs of maintaining V2500-A1
International Aero Engines (IAE) aims to reduce maintenance costs for the out-of-production V2500-A1 turbofan by up to 25% by the end of 1998 through initiatives ranging from improved repair techniques and use of advanced materials to new part-exchange schemes and shorter turn-around times. "We've identified a broad range ...
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Malaysian open-skies
Malaysia and the USA have reached an open-skies agreement. Malaysian transport minister Ling Liong Sik says that it is hoped that the agreement will be implemented later this year. The USA has already signed a similar accord with Singapore and is targeting other Asian countries. Source: ...
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Improved safety
Taiwan's civil-aviation safety-oversight system has been upgraded to Category 1 under the US Federal Aviation Administration's International Aviation Safety Assessment programme, signifying that it is fully compliant with International Civil Aviation Organisation's standards. Under its Category 2 assessment, flights to the USA had been subjected to extra FAA surveillance. ...
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Low cost boom
Passenger numbers on low-cost airlines Debonair and easyJet soared at their London Luton Airport base in the year to 31 March, pushing the airport's scheduled service figures up by 129%. Luton's overall passenger-growth was 40%, says airport chief executive Frank Pullman. "We have been successful in attracting airlines like easyJet ...
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Transbrasil aims to profit from radical restructure
BRAZILIAN CARRIER Transbrasil, which lost 7% of its domestic market in 1996, is planning a major shake-up to increase revenues and cut expenses. The airline, which is owned by its president and founder Omar Fontana, says that it is looking for partners to inject cash. The carrier plans ...
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Dragonair starts to assert its independence
Dragonair of Hong Kong has begun to signal its growing independence from former sister carrier Cathay Pacific Airways, by assuming control of more of its own operations and opening new routes into China. Mainland Chinese interests, led by China National Aviation (CNAC), assumed full majority control of Dragonair ...
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Volga-Dnepr considers propfan for An-124
Volga-Dnepr is considering re-engineing its seven Antonov An-124-100 Ruslan heavy freighters with Kuznetsov NK-93 ducted-propfan engines. Volga-Dnepr president Alexei Isaikin says that company technical specialists have visited engine- maker Dvigateli NK of Samara to evaluate the status of NK-93 development and the feasibility of the re-engineing programme. ...
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Kansai nears saturation after only three years
Japan's new Kansai International Airport is already near maximum capacity, less than three years after opening, but the construction of second runway and passenger terminal cannot be completed until 2007 at the earliest. The $13 billion airport, built 5km (3nm) offshore on reclaimed land in Osaka Bay, is ...
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Aurigny searches for successor to Trislander
Aurigny Air Services, the UK Channel Islands-based regional airline, is seeking bids for a replacement within the next few years for its ageing fleet of nine Pilatus Britten-Norman BN2A-III Trislanders. The airline wants a new, rugged, 19-passenger aircraft able to cruise at around 160kt (300km/h), offer a range ...
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Sextant courts China with AVIC proposal
France's biggest avionics manufacturer, Sextant Avionique, has made an unprecedented offer for an "across-the-board" alliance with Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) for local development and manufacture of avionics for civil aircraft and helicopters. The offer, which comes a month before French president Jacques Chirac visits China, parallels overtures ...