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French open gates to US
Both Continental Airlines and Delta Air Lines were swift to respond to the new US-French bilateral by declaring their intentions to formalise codeshare agreements with Air France. The bilateral, initialled in Paris on 8 April, will allow full open skies to be phased in over five years, and immediately ...
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Suffering from exposure
As the Asian crisis bites deeper, the potential impact on the values of widebody aircraft in particular is only just beginning to become apparent to investors. Report by Angus Williamson. The financial and economic crisis affecting several of the East Asian 'tiger' economies has so far produced muted repercussions ...
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Avensa roots for routes
The Venezuelan supreme court is set to rule on Avensa's challenge to an attempt by General Moises Orozco, minister of transport, to revoke its 1987 award of European routes. Avensa did not operate those routes during a period when former flag carrier Viasa was also flying to Europe. Orozco ...
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US to defuse time bomb?
The US Federal Aviation Administration admits that the year 2000 computer issue needs to be addressed on an international basis but is reluctant to take a leadership role. Instead the FAA suggests that the International Civil Aviation Organisation might be a better candidate. The FAA's reluctance stems from two ...
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Invision advance
InVision Technologies' newest automated explosive detection system, the CTX 5500 DS, has successfully completed US Federal Aviation Administration certification testing. The company has sold units to the UK's BAA and to the Israeli Government. Source: Flight International
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Samsung wing parts
Samsung Aerospace has signed a $30 million contract with Boeing to supply wing structures for the 767-400ER until 2006. The company will supply parts worth $13 million from October until 2001, possibly to be followed by a further $3 million each year to 2006 in spares. Source: Flight International
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Teledesic investment
Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has invested $200 million in the $9 billion, 288-satellite Teledesic, world- wide two way broadband low Earth orbit communications satellite system. Source: Flight International
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Record re-entry
Russia's Cosmos 2348 photo-reconnaissance satellite returned to Earth on April 14. Launched last December, the satellite was in orbit for 119.5 days, around 30 days longer than the previous record holder, Cosmos 2331. Russia does not now have a low-orbit photo reconnaissance satellite operating in orbit, says the Molniya Space ...
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Eutelsat contract
Eutelsat, the European satellite communications organisation, is to launch the Europesat 1 multimedia satellite into a 29¹E geostationary orbit in mid-2000. Matra Marconi Space will build the 36-transponder craft, which will compete with the Astra satellites operated by Luxembourg-based SES, which will introduce digital services from a new slot at ...
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Mission Impossible
France has cancelled plans for the $3 billion Horus joint Franco-German radar reconnaissance satellite because of budget cuts which have slashed six other non-space military programmes. Source: Flight International
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Bombardier orders
Bombardier has received a firm order for nine Canadair 415 firefighting amphibious aircraft from the Government of Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources. The contract, which includes training, spares and support, is valued at about $225 million. Deliveries will continue through to the end of the year. Source: Flight International
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Eight join jet fleet
Jet Aviation has added eight aircraft to its managed fleet. The company will manage the operation of a Challenger 604, two Gulfstream IIs and a GIV-SP on behalf of their owners. Additionally, three GIIs and a Learjet 55 will be available for charter. The company now has over 145 aircraft ...
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BE-200 Flight Plan
The first flight of the Beriev Be-200 twin turbofan amphibian, which was rolled out in September 1996, has slipped further and is now scheduled for June. Alexei Fedorov, chairman of the Russian design bureau, says the aircraft is undergoing ground testing of its electrical systems. Meanwhile, the twin engined Be-103 ...
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Southern Pride
British Aerospace Asset Management has sold a second corporate Jetstream 31 to Southern Pride Trucking. The 19-seat regional turboprop will be delivered in June and used to transport the company's NASCAR racing teams throughout the USA. Southern Pride took delivery of the first aircraft in September last year. Source: Flight ...
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Hunter capture
Hunter Aerospace has agreed to acquire Moody Aerospace, manufacturer of the two-seat Moody 96 and four-seat Moody 97 gyrocopters. The acquisition is expected to boost Hunter's profits for 1998 to nearly $2.5 million. Columbia, California-based Moody recently received orders from the Chinese Government for 15 gyrocopters for medical and military ...
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Bombardier growth
Bombardier Aerospace saw sales increase by around 15%for the 1997/8 year to January, to reach C$4.6 billion ($3.2 billion). Aerospace accounted for more than half the Canadian's group's C$8.5 billion sales and a large slice of its C$420 million profit. Source: Flight International
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AB Airlines Floats airline
AB Airlines, the five-year-old UK independent, has listed on the London stock market. AB aims to raise £9 million to pay deposits on new aircraft due to replace its three BAC One-Elevens. Two Boeing 737-300s will arrive in May with deposits paid on six -700s due in 2001. The airline ...
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Air France pilots receive scant sympathy from US colleagues
The US airline pilots association (ALPA) has provided an ambiguous reply to the request by Air France's main pilots' union, the SNPL, for a critical analysis of the carrier's salary structure. The SNPL is objecting strongly to Air France's insistence on a two-tier salary level and a 15% reduction ...
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Airbus lowers A3XX numbers
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Airbus Industrie's latest long range market forecast has maintained a bullish outlook for jet airliner demand over the next 20 years, despite the present Asian economic crisis, but its analysis has shifted towards greater demand for smaller aircraft compared to 1997 predictions, and reduced the size of ...