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Boeing perseveres as EVA discusses A340 order
EVA Airways has opened contractual negotiations with Airbus Industrie on ordering six A340-500s, plus six options, but has not ruled out placing orders with Boeing. It holds an unsigned letter-of-intent (LoI) for a similar number of proposed 747-200ERXs. Despite EVA having earlier signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with ...
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Iberia delays order plans following Air Europa deal
Iberia Has alleviated its fleet-capacity shortfall in the near term by signing a franchise agreement with its Spanish rival Air Europa, while at the same time delaying its planned acquisition of new aircraft. Iberia has been wet-leasing two Boeing 757s from Air Europa for the past six months, along ...
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KLM finalises rebranding of European partners
KLM is to unveil plans to rebrand its European airline partners, co-ordinating the separate companies' images more closely with its own. Air UK is set to cement its role as the UK arm of KLM by unveiling a new image and renaming itself "KLM UK". The new name will ...
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Work on turbulence detection device advances in Europe
Ian Sheppard/LONDON A new detection device which could allow civil pilots using head-up displays to "see" invisible atmospheric hazards such as wake vortices, windshear and clear-air turbulence (CAT)at long range is being developed by a European consortium led by Sextant Avionique of France. The European Commission (EC)-backed Multifunction ...
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Thrusting ahead
Hurel-Dubois has transferred work on thrust reversers for the Embraer RJ145 regional-jet family to its UK plant in Burnley, Lancashire, from its French site "for financial reasons". The contract, awarded in May 1995 to its International Nacelle Systems joint venture with Shorts Brothers, is worth up to $100 million, says ...
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Airbus output boost
Airbus Industrie financial controller Ian Massey says that the manufacturer's five-year plan includes the target to cut production lead-time for narrowbodied aircraft to six months from the current nine months, while that for widebodied aircraft will be reduced to ten months from the current 15.5 months. Source: Flight International
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Airbus set for A319 order from Royal Brunei
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Royal Brunei Airlines (RBA) has reached a tentative agreement with Airbus Industrie to place an initial order for two A319s, in a move which will affect its wider-ranging selection of a new fleet of widebodies. The airline has accepted an Airbus offer on two A319s available ...
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Airlines want Regional's Saabs
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Two European airlines, Business Air and CityJet, are in negotiations to acquire secondhand Saab 2000s from Regional Airlines, the second-largest operator of the type, which is preparing to standardise on the Embraer RJ145 regional jet. Regional has a fleet of 11 Saab 2000s, including six delivered new to ...
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Routes
-From 21 February Qantas will suspend its twice weekly Brisbane-Jakarta-Kuala Kumpur and Melbourne-Jakarta services, suspend its thrice-weekly Brisbane-Bangkok service and extend its thrice-weekly Perth-Jakarta service to Bangkok, adding one flight a week while suspending its non-stop Perth-Bangkok service. -Dragonair plans to launch a new thrice weekly passenger service from Hong ...
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United includes San Francisco in Express agreement with SkyWest
United Airlines has selected SkyWest Airlines to replace Mesa Air Group's WestAir as the United Express regional carrier in San Francisco, California, from 1 June. SkyWest began United Express operations in October 1997, replacing WestAir in Los Angeles. The carrier says that talks continue with United about also replacing ...
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SIA may beat Indian ban with support for new TATA airline
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has acknowledged that it has a provisional agreement with the TATA Group to provide technical support for its planned start-up carrier, despite an Indian Government ban on allowing any equity investment by foreign airlines. The company stresses that while SIA will provide "assistance and advice," the ...
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Funding cut signals end to Japan regional jet
Japan is preparing to call a halt to its long-running YS-X regional-aircraft study, with the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) refusing to pump further funding into the project beyond the end of the financial year. The Japan Aircraft Development (JADC) consortium is understood to be drawing up ...
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Dasa achieves record figures
AndrzejJeziorski/MUNICH Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) has underlined the turnaround in Germany's long-suffering aerospace industry, revealing record sales for 1997 and promising profits across the group. Full profit figures will be revealed on 8 April, but Dasa chairman Manfred Bischoff claims that the results will exceed expectations, with every business unit back ...
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Boeing faces losses from Douglas Products
Boeing is to take a higher-than-expected charge of $1.4 billion to cover post-merger write-offs on the Douglas Products business, pushing the group to the first annual loss in its corporate history. The charge comes on top of the $1.6 billion already put aside to cover Boeing's own production problems, ...
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Continental and Northwest lead profit surge in USA
Continental and Northwest Airlines remained tight-lipped on their pending alliance talks as the two carriers led the US airline industry in a spectacular round of profit announcements destined to make 1997 the best year on record. Neither of the two airline managements were prepared to answer direct questions on ...
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SAS buys in Finland
In another twist in the fast-consolidating Scandinavian air market, SAS has put down a foothold in Finland with the acquisition of Air Botnia, a small domestic carrier with a fleet of five Jetstream J31s. Source: Flight International
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P&W's Eagle soars to bolster perch in overhaul business
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Pratt & Whitney expects to see its engine-services sales reach $1 billion this year as its Eagle Services business continues to expand in the repair and overhaul sectors. Eagle Services generated roughly $600 million in 1996, representing around 10%of P&W's sales, but will have added another $400 ...
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Snecma returns to profitability
Snecma president Jean-Paul Bechat says that the group is back in profit and may not need to pursue its long-running call for fresh cash from the French Government. He also confirms that the re-organised group is keen to grow. Final figures for 1997 are not yet available, but Bechat ...
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Fair enough ?
What is a slot, and why does the European Commission (EC) want so desperately to become involved in its future? A slot is not a physical entity, it is merely a permission for a particular airline to land an aircraft, or have that aircraft take off, at a particular time ...
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Boeing holds fire on Harpoon upgrade until export decision
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Boeing is awaiting permission to export the AGM- 84 Harpoon Block 2 before launching private-venture development of the upgraded anti-ship missile. An agreement on the missile's releasability is being circulated by the US Department of Defense, Boeing says, and the company has scheduled an internal review for ...