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Nice and easy
UK low-fare, no-frills startup EasyJet is continuing its rapid expansion with the launch of daily flights from London/Luton to Nice and Barcelona from early June. One-way fares start at $31. Source: Airline Business
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ATC: food for thought
The diverse worlds of air traffic control and airline catering meet with the extraordinary acronym of Eatchip, which, much to the disappointment of food aficionados, stands for European Air Traffic Control Harmonisaton and Improvement Programme. All of a sudden, the usually lugubrious air traffic control sector has moved ...
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FLIR for UH-1H
FLIR Systems has been awarded a US Navy contract for up to 100 thermal-imaging navigation sensors, potentially worth $45.5 million, for US Marine Corps Bell UH-1H helicopters. Source: Flight International
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Funds returned
The USA has returned $124 million to Pakistan as a first installment in a promised $658 million refund for Lockheed Martin F-16s which had been embargoed and were never delivered to Pakistan. Source: Flight International
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Italian upgrade
Raytheon Electronics Systems has received a $21 million Alenia contract to supply software for a $110 million programme to update Italy's Hawk air-defence-missile systems, managed by the Paris-based NATO Hawk Production and Logistics Organisation. Source: Flight International
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Tokyo codeshare
All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Delta Air Lines plan a Los Angeles-Tokyo code-sharing/blocked-seat deal, beginning on 1 September, under which Delta will purchase seats on ANA's daily Boeing 747-400 flights and ANA will purchase seats on Delta's six weekly McDonnell Douglas MD-11 flights. Source: Flight International
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Frontier lease
US start-up carrier Frontier Airlines has leased two additional Boeing 737-200s from GECAS, taking its fleet to nine. The Denver, Colorado-based airline has also completed a $3 million private placement to raise funds for additional aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Delta approves
Delta Airlines' pilots have approved a new four-year contract, which provides increased job security, and a seat on the board, in exchange for concessions to allow Delta to start low-cost short-haul operations to compete with low-fare carriers. Source: Flight International
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Water in space
The European Space Agency's Infrared Space Observatory has recorded a space first with the detection of more than 20 water-vapour emission lines in the far infra-red spectrum around the pulsating cool red-giant star, W Hydrae, 300 light years away in the constellation of Hydra Transbrazil. Source: ...
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The X-prize
The X-Prize Foundation, has been established to find private benefactors, to provide $10 million funding to award to the first private team, to build a re-useable space craft to carry three people on a sub-orbital space-flight, "...doing for space what the Orteig Prize, "won by Lindbergh" did for aviation", say ...
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NATO Harmonisation
The US Department of Defense is drawing up requests for proposals (RFPs) for the equipment needed by Eastern European nations to harmonise their military and civil airspace-control systems. The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia are the first four countries to agree to step up civil/military and cross-border co-operation as ...
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Aviall sale
Curtiss-Wright has agreed to purchase Aviall's Miami-based Accessory Services business. The unit will become a division of actuator manufacturer Curtiss-Wright Flight Systems. Source: Flight International
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GE on F-15E
General Electric has completed qualification flight tests of its F110-129 engine on a US Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-15E at Edwards AFB, California, after 44h and 19 sorties. The programme was used to assess engine/aircraft handling, including tests at high Mach numbers and altitudes and manoeuvre transient testing during, which ...
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JPATS hydraulics
Raytheon Aircraft has selected Dowty Aerospace to supply most of the hydraulics system for the Beech Pilatus PC-9 MkII trainer selected for the 712-aircraft US Air Force/Navy Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (JPATS) programme. The contract could be worth more than $40 million. Source: Flight International
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Concord cats
British Airways has ordered a Smart CATS automatic-test-equipment system from Israeli firm Rada, to support the Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde. BA has previously bought two systems for maintenance of its Boeing fleet. Source: Flight International
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BAe
Allan MacDonald has been appointed managing director for marketing and sales for the Association of South-East Asian Nations and Southern Africa at British Aerospace. He was formerly director of regional marketing and, before that, managing director of Jetstream Aircraft. Jerry Wooding becomes managing director for marketing and sales in the ...
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Ansett NZ
Kevin Doddrell has been named chief executive at Ansett New Zealand, replacing Rick Ellis, who is to take up a senior executive position with Ansett Australia, based in Melbourne. Doddrell, a former managing director of U-Bix Business Machines, has acted as consultant to Ansett New Zealand for the past four ...
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Polar Air Cargo
Peter Hansen is named vice-president for Asia at Polar Air Cargo, of Long Beach, California. He was formerly regional director of cargo sales for the Caribbean, Central America and Mexico at American Airlines and, before that, he spent 17 years with Flying Tigers. Source: Flight International