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Mesa prepares to incorporate CCAir after stock transaction
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Mesa Air Group has signed a letter of intent to merge Mesa Airlines with Charlotte, North Carolina-based CCAir. The two carriers were already linked through the Barlow Investment partnership, which has minority shareholdings in both. The transaction, valued at about $60 million, which includes $15 ...
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Marketplace
-Austrian Airlines has become the first carrier to take delivery of the recently certificated Pratt & Whitney PW4000-powered Airbus A330-200, with the handing over of the first of four aircraft it plans to acquire. Meanwhile, Korean Air has become the first Asian airline to take delivery of the type, with ...
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Signal test
A test version of the USA's Wide Area Augmentation System signal is being broadcast three months ahead of schedule via an Inmarsat communications satellite. This signal allows testing of system and user equipment. Source: Flight International
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Air Atlantic closes down after Canadian kills agreement
Canadian regional carrier Air Atlantic will cease operations in October, following a decision by Canadian Airlines Inter- national (CAI) to end its long-standing agreement with its regional connector. The void will partly be filled by Inter-Canadian, another regional carrier recently sold by CAI to a group of Montreal investors. ...
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Routes
-Continental Airlines and British Midland have signed a code-sharing agreement for routes between and Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland and New York Newark, via Manchester. -Lufthansa franchise partner Augsburg Airways will launch services from Hof and Bayreuth to Frankfurt, operating Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8 turboprops in Team Lufthansa ...
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Investigation into SilkAir crash narrows
The Indonesian-led investigation into the December 1997 crash of a SilkAir Boeing 737-300 expects to produce a preliminary report by October, with the line of inquiries narrowed down to possible pilot suicide, or mechanical failure in the area of the vertical or horizontal stabiliser. Indonesian Aircraft Accident Investigation Commission ...
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Strikes ground North American airlines
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Brian Dunn/MONTREAL The first week of strikes by pilots at Northwest Airlines and Air Canada have crippled the two carriers' operations. Estimates put the revenue losses in the two unconnected labour disputes at over $150 million by 5 September. Northwest was the first to be ...
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Tata consigns plans for new Indian carrier to scrapheap
The Tata Group has finally thrown in the towel and abandoned plans to launch a privately owned domestic Indian airline in the face of more than three and half years of government procrastination, as well as repeated changes to its aviation policy. Tata dropped plans to launch the new ...
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Fight for control of Transaero heads for court dates in Moscow and Orel
The fight for control of Russian carrier Transaero has gone to court as founder Alexander Pleshakov seeks retribution for his recent ousting by Boris Berezovsky after a hostile take-over of the airline (Flight International, 26 August-1 September). Court action is being taken in Moscow and the southern Russian town ...
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Cubana Tu-154 overrun kills 77
At least 68 people on board a Cubana Tupolev Tu-154M, and nine on the ground, were killed on 29 August when the crew appears to have made a late take-off abort and the aircraft overran the Quito, Ecuador, runway onto a football field. The civil aviation authorities have said that ...
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Workshop
-Hawker Pacific Aerospace's Sun Valley, California, unit will service and repair the landing gear of nine Canadian Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30s under a three-year contract. -Boeing is to invest $34 million in spare parts inventory to stock a new customer services centre, due to open in late 1999 at Amsterdam's ...
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Results dampen Air New Zealand and Ansett prospects
Challenging regional market conditions are expected to continue dampening the prospects of Air New Zealand (ANZ) and its 50%-owned partner Ansett Australia. The tougher conditions were already evident in the results for the 12 months ending 30 June. ANZ relied on marginal improvements to domestic performance to produce a ...
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Asian crisis bites hard into Chinese airlines
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Asian economic woes have finally begun to catch up with the Chinese air transport industry, with the country's two largest carriers China Southern Airlines and China Eastern Airlines sliding into the red in the first half of 1998 as the result of growing overcapacity and deteriorating yields. ...
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Pritzker's truck
The Pritzker family, partner in the Israel Aircraft Indus-tries (IAI) Galaxy business jet programme, is evaluating an investment in IAI's Airtruck cargo aircraft project. The programme is being undertaken for parcels carrier FedEx, and IAI is seeking an investor, along with at least one more customer, to enable it to ...
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SAirLines buys into Italian charter airline Volare
SAirLines, the airline division of the Swiss SAir Group, has bought a 34% stake in Italian charter carrier Volare. The shareholding was acquired on 28 August as part of a capital increase by the Italian airline. The Swiss company says this will provide its own charter carrier Balair/CTA with greater ...
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Time's Up
Awareness of the year 2000 computer problem has reached that level in industrialised nations where any casual mention of the Millennium Bug is likely to elicit accusations of hype. That should worry those nations' airlines, as they fly daily into regions of the world where awareness of the date rollover ...
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Cash crisis threatens F-16 radar
Ramon Lopez/BALTIMORE Northrop Grumman's APG-68(V)X radar upgrade for US Air Force Lockheed Martin F-16s is under threat from lack of funding, despite having won endorsement from the USAF's F-16 programme office and the Air Combat Command. An air force study concludes that an $80 million investment in development ...
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Czechs to buy spares
The Czech defence minister Vladimir Vetchy is to submit proposals to parliament this month to purchase spares for the air force's Sukhoi Su-22 and Su-25 strike aircraft from Russia. Both types are suffering a shortage of parts. Source: Flight International
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Boeing tests reconfigurable control F/A-18E/F
Boeing has completed tests of a reconfigurable flight control system on the F/A-18E/F, which it says will allow the pilot to recover control, and even make a carrier landing, with a combat-damaged aircraft. The tests at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, were part of degraded modes evaluation, during which integrated ...
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Israel studies DC-3 and Super Cub replacements
The Israeli air force has begun evaluating replacement options for its Douglas DC-3 electronic intelligence (ELINT) aircraft and Piper Super Cub trainers. The aircraft under evaluation for the ELINT role include the Bombardier Dash 8, Embraer EMB-120, ATR 42, Fairchild Dornier 328 and Saab 2000. A decision on the ...