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LTU drops long range services for winter season
LTU is planning to drop some of its long range services to the USA and Asia during its next winter season because of a fall-off in loads. The German charter airline says it will stop operating to Los Angeles, Denver and Phoenix, as well as Bangkok, although this service ...
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Frankfurt DGPS trials
The German civil aviation authority is about to evaluate a new differential global positioning system (DGPS) ground station at Frankfurt, which is being installed by Daimler-Benz Aerospace. Source: Flight International
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Flight Dynamics confirms ERJ-145
Flight Dynamics has formally announced its selection by Embraer as sole source supplier of head-up-displays for the ERJ-145 regional jet after a long running technical selection battle with GEC-Marconi and Sextant Avionique. The announcement follows the earlier selection of the Flight Dynamics head-up guidance (HGS) system by Luxembourg-based Luxair. ...
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Qantas lines up Asian 747s to counter -400IGW launch delay
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE The Qantas board is to decide shortly on a deal to purchase three surplus 747-400s from Malaysia Airlines (MAS) and Asiana, in lieu of Boeing's failure so far to give a firm commitment to launch development of an increased growth weight (IGW) version of the aircraft. ...
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Japan strike chaos
Japanese air travel was hit last week when pilot unions at three main airlines - Japan Airlines (JAL), All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Japan Air System (JAS) - called strikes over wage negotiations. Some 50 international ANA flights were affected, while 60% of JAS domestic flights were hit. JAL managers ...
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Boeing takes another charge as deliveries slip
Boeing has failed to meet its first quarter delivery target as it attempted to resolve Next Generation 737 production delays, and has been forced to take a further $350 million provision on the programme. The charge comes on top of an earlier $700 million provision against cost overruns on ...
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UK considers Harrier upgrade demonstrator
The UK Ministry of Defence is considering a technology demonstrator programme to modify a British Aerospace Sea Harrier F/A2 with an upgraded Rolls-Royce Pegasus. A fleet retrofit could follow successful trials, and the MoD has previously said that including the Royal Air Force's Harrier GR7s in such programmes would be ...
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Rockwell Collins wins competition for Chinook partial glass cockpit
Boeing Helicopters has selected Rockwell Collins to develop and produce a partial glass cockpit for the US Army's CH-47 Improved Cargo Helicopter (ICH). Rockwell Collins, which previously provided advanced avionics for 11 MH-47D Chinook helicopters, was selected as Boeing's avionics subcontractor in preference to Honeywell and Canadian Marconi. Honeywell ...
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UK procurement chief outlines broad ambitions for UAVs
Ramon Lopez/Bristol UK chief of defence procurement, Sir Robert Walmsley, has spelled out the UK Ministry of Defence's increasing interest in use of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs). "UAVs are capable of providing support to the warfighter or even becoming a replacement for the warfighter and have gained the ...
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Industry funding will pay for LAAS system
Industry will fund development of the global positioning system (GPS) local area augmentation system (LAAS), the US Federal Aviation Administration has decided. LAAS is a ground-based system which checks and corrects GPS signals, allowing precision approach and landing. Teams certificating next-generation landing systems will get FAA help, which ...
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Embraer converts RJ-145 to -135 prototype
The prototype ERJ-135 is being created by the conversion of an ERJ-145 Embraer has begun modification of an RJ-145 prototype at its Sao Jose dos Campos plant to create the first ERJ-135 37-seater. The first ERJ-145 prototype (PT-ZJA), which originally launched flight testing of the regional ...
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FAA voices fears over efforts to fix millennium software bug
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC The US Federal Aviation Administration is concerned that the international aviation community will not be ready in time for the Year 2000 (Y2K) date change, while it has speeded up efforts to put its own house in order to combat the millennium software bug. The ...
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Yugoslav upgrade
Yugoslav Airlines is to upgrade its Boeing 727s and McDonnell Douglas DC-9s with Canadian Marconi CMA-900 global positioning flight management systems, to meet new European area navigation requirements. Source: Flight International
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Polar TCAS
Polar Air Cargo has followed FedEx's example and decided voluntarily to fit its fleet with the TCASII traffic alert and collision avoidance system. Source: Flight Daily News
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Midland 747 offer
British Midland (BM) is considering an offer from an undisclosed Asian airline to take some Boeing 747s on short term wet lease, reports Flight International's sister, on-line service Air Transport Intelligence. BM is also considering offers from Airbus and awaits a bid from Boeing for 767-300ER/400ERs. Source: Flight International
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KLM Boosts 737-800s
KLM has doubled its Boeing 737-800 order to eight. The airline, which has also taken four options, will receive its first -800 in February 1999. Source: Flight International
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Air Niugini nears collapse after Qantas is ignored
Papua New Guinea (PNG) flag carrier Air Niugini continues to edge closer to complete collapse, with the Government apparently setting aside salvage proposals put forward by Qantas. The airline was temporarily rescued from insolvency on 13 March when PNG Prime Minister Bill Skate compelled the country's main bank, PNGBC, ...
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Air New Zealand adds first 737-300
Air New Zealand has introduced the first of three Boeing 737-300s acquired on operating lease, mainly for trans-Tasman services from Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. The first aircraft, leased from GE Capital Aviation Services, began flights at the end of March. It is painted in a "millennium" scheme, incorporating the colours ...
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SIA wants more time to study 777-200X long haul proposal
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Singapore Airlines (SIA) has again postponed a decision on purchase of a new ultra long haul aircraft. The airline wants more time to evaluate a Pratt & Whitney PW4000-powered Boeing 777-200X engine/airframe proposal. US carrier Tower Air, meanwhile, looks likely to be the next airline to ...
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Overnight parcel carriers face noisy opposition
Herman De Wulf/Brussels Express parcel carriers, which fly the bulk of their operations at night, are facing growing opposition in Europe on environmental grounds. The latest development is the rejection by a Bavarian court of an appeal by DHL International against a ban on night operations at Nuremberg Airport, which ...