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Troubled Fairlines has to stop scheduled services
French business class airline Fairlines has run into fresh financial problems after being forced to stop payments on its leased aircraft. The carrier has terminated its scheduled routes from Paris. The airline, which started operations at the beginning of the year, has been trying to replace its scheduled services ...
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Fokker 100s enable Gill Airways to expand Air France franchise
Gill Airways has agreed with Air France to a major expansion of its franchise programme next year, following its deal to acquire its first jet fleet with the lease of three Fokker 100s. The independent UK regional airline, based in Newcastle, has signed a deal with debis AirFinance, arranged ...
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Russia offers GLONASS share
Julian Moxon/PARIS Russia has made an unprecedented offer to Europe to share control of its Glonass global navigation satellite system (GNSS) as part of a deal to co-operate on the development and operation of the second generation GNSS-2. Anatoli Chilov, chief adviser to the Russian RKA civil aviation ...
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Kendell picks Canadair Regional Jet to take over Ansett routes
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Australian regional airline Kendell has selected the Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) over Embraer's RJ-145 and placed an order for up to 24 aircraft. Meanwhile, Adelaide-based National Jet Systems (NJS) is about to introduce the first of up to four ERJ-145s. The Ansett-owned regional has placed firm orders ...
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Marketplace
-Detroit-based ProAir will add a third Boeing 737-400 in December, leased from Boullioun. The secondhand aircraft will be used to increase frequencies and for expansion. -US regional Trans States Airlines has exercised six options for the 50-seat Embraer RJ-145. Its original contract, signed in February, included nine firm orders and ...
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EVA considers Myanma buy-out
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE EVA Airways of Taiwan is in discussions to invest in and take over the operations of Myanmar Airways International (MAI) from the carrier's Brunei-backed Singapore joint venture partner Highsonic Enterprises. Senior sources within the Taiwanese airline confirm that a team has been dispatched to MAI to ...
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AIRPortland chief
Portland, Oregon-based start-up AIRPortland has appointed former Pan Am president and chief executive, David Banmiller, as head. The airline plans to operate transcontinental services early next year from Portland to New York and later to Boston and Washington DC. Source: Flight International
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PAL lays out revamp plans
Brent Hannon/MANILA Philippine Airlines (PAL) will reduce its fleet to 13 aircraft and become a strictly domestic airline unless it can find an investor willing to take a 40% stake. If it finds an backer, it would keep 22 aircraft and fly overseas routes, says PAL senior vice-president of ...
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Domestics ignore international opening
The Philippines' three domestic airlines do not plan to fly overseas despite the vacuum left by Philippine Airlines (PAL), which discontinued its international routes at the end of September. All three have permits to fly internationally, but are deterred by poor business prospects. "The Asian economic crunch and the ...
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Engine surges trigger directives from FAA
Uncommanded engine acceleration and the risk of engine shutdown has prompted an emergency airworthiness directive (AD) requiring a software upgrade for the CFM International CFM56-7B engine's electronic engine control (EEC), says the US Federal Aviation Administration. The engines are fitted to the Next Generation Boeing 737 family. Also required within ...
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Workshop
-Pratt & Whitney is creating a unified service operation for civil and military engine customers. The Engine Services organisation will merge traditional support and spares functions with the services formerly offered by Pratt & Whitney Eagle Services. -H+S Aviation, the Portsmouth, UK-based engine repair organisation, has agreed with Sundstrand Aerospace ...
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Boeing builds profits and 737s as 747 slips
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Boeing is to reduce the production rate of the 747-400 from five to three and a half aircraft a month by the second quarter of next year in the face of a continuing soft market, particularly in the Asia region. Company chairman Phil Condit warns that ...
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Raytheon sells Montek as restructuring bites
Raytheon is to sell its Montek subsidiary to Moog for $160 million cash. Located in Salt Lake City, Utah, Montek supplies aircraft flight control actuation systems, missile steering controls, as well as other products for the aerospace industry. Montek became part of Raytheon through its acquisition of E-Systems in ...
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Snecma snaps up stake in Sabena company
Sabena is to spin off the engine repair and maintenance business of Sabena Technics into an independent business and sell a 50% stake to French engine builder Snecma. The new operation will be based at the Zaventem, Brussels, engine facilities run by the Belgian airline. The partners plan to ...
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Winning fractions
The business aviation community seems at last to be waking up to the ultimate win-win business solution - fractional ownership. So much so that the concept itself is on the cusp of driving one of the biggest transformations in business travel and the business aviation industry at large - and ...
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US Army plans UH-60Q Dustoff
The US Army has successfully completed operational testing of the Sikorsky Aircraft UH-60Q medical evacuation (medevac) helicopter and will modify 357 in-service UH-60As to the new standard from 2002. Sikorsky reconfigured four UH-60A Black Hawk utility helicopters to the UH-60Q "Dustoff" standard for integration of new mission equipment, including ...
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Modifications delay Japan's XF-2 prototypes
The Japanese Technology Research Development Institute (TRDI) is working on a series of modifications to its four XF-2A/B flight test prototypes, causing further delays to the flight test schedule. Work includes structural reinforcement to the aircraft's wing-tip for rolling pull-out manoeuvres and the reshaping and positioning of underwing missile pylons ...
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Sukhoi develops new multirole naval two-seat Flanker variant
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW The Sukhoi design bureau is developing a new two-seat side-by-side multirole naval fighter based on the Su-27IB prototype, claims the bureau's general director, Mikhail Simonov. The new model will have a conical, rather than a flattened "platypus" nose, housing a multimode radar. The Su-27IB (also designated ...
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Kuwaiti Mirage sale
Boeing has begun assembly of the forward fuselage of the second X-32 joint strike fighter demonstrator, two months after the first X-32's centre fuselage was assembled at the company's St Louis plant. Assembly of the second (X-32B) forebody is scheduled to be completed by next summer for final assembly . ...
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Upgraded Indian MiG-21 takes off from Sokol for first trials
Howard Gethin/LONDON The first flight of an upgraded MiG-21 for the Indian air force took place on 6 October at ANPK's Sokol plant in Nizhni Novgorod, Russia. Preparations are under way for live firing trials of Vympel R-73 (AA-11 Archer) infrared short-range and R-77 (AA-12 Adder) active-homing medium range ...