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Greek dance for chairmen
Doug Cameron The lure of leading Olympic Airways out of trouble is proving too strong for some to resist; the Greek flag carrier will have been through two new chairmen before the end of January. Unsatisfied with the many applicants for the chief executive's post, Olympic has combined ...
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Angst up in the Andes
Peru is trying hard to attract foreign capital by opening its skies, but its policies are not uncontested and Peru's military may have plans of its own. David Knibb reports from Lima. Deregulation Peruvian-style is not for the faint of heart. Seventeen local airlines have failed in eight years and ...
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Lufthansa say in SAA?
Roger Makings Lufthansa is set to enter the fray for a stake in South African Airways' partial privatisation, due to be finalised by October this year. Lufthansa had consistently denied that it was interested in buying into SAA, saying acquisitions were 'not its style - we prefer to ...
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SIA shares its profits
Tom Ballantyne Asia's big profit-maker Singapore Airlines is to end its dual stock exchange listing by merging its local and foreign shares, providing the move doesn't impact Singapore's air service agreements. Mathew Samuel, the airline's legal and administration director, confirms that SIA is 'actively considering whether or not ...
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Cheap thrills with no frills
Lois Jones Low-cost startups are beginning to looking extremely vulnerable as more majors launch low-cost subsidiaries, ignoring the argument that the independent players should instead be left to satisfy the demand for low fares in underserved markets. By Lois Jones. To your corners, please. To the left of the ring ...
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Thai hold is loosened
Tom Ballantyne Thailand's government is moving towards domestic and international open skies this year, starting with a move to end a virtual monopoly held by flag carrier Thai Airways International on major domestic routes. Thai transport and communication minister Suthep Thueksuban has proposed a new aviation policy, allowing ...
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US hubs need to be consolidated
Karen Walker Driven as they are by the shareholder, the major US carriers will no doubt sit up and take notice of a new report from a Wall Street analyst that assesses their growth potential, and therefore investment worth, based on the relative strengths and weaknesses of their hubs. ...
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Ranger UAV simulated
Switzerland's Oerlikon Contraves is developing a mission simulator for the Israel Aircraft Industries Ranger unmanned air-vehicle (UAV) ordered by the Swiss armed forces. The device, representing the ground-control station, is due to be delivered in 1999. Source: Flight International
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Aeroservice relocates
Miami, Florida-based Aeroservice Aviation Center has begun construction of a $5 million aviation-training and avionics-repair base to replace a leased site at Miami International Airport. Scheduled for completion in June, the new centre will have ten flight-simulator bays. Source: Flight International
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Hampton graduates
The first students have completed the two-year aviation-maintenance degree course developed jointly by Hughes Training, now a unit of Raytheon Systems, and the Aero-science Center of Virginia's Hampton University to give hands-on training in large-aircraft maintenance. Source: Flight International
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NATCO trains Atlas
Atlas Airlines has relocated its Boeing 747-200 simulator to Northwest Aerospace Training (NATCO) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. NATCO is to train all Atlas 747-200 and 747-400 pilots and market spare capacity on the Atlas simulator, which has Level C approval. Source: Flight International
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GE grabs Simuflite
GE Capital Services has agreed to acquire SimuFlite Training International from SATGroup. Formed in 1981 by Singer-Link, SimuFlite was acquired bySouthern Air Transport in 1991 and now operates 17 business-aircraft simulators at Dallas/ Fort Worth Airport, Texas, and a Lockheed Martin C-130/L-100 simulator at Marietta, Georgia. Source: Flight ...
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Glenn confirmed
The flight of 77-year-old John Glenn - the USA's first man in orbit in February 1962 - as a payload specialist aboard the Space Shuttle STS95/Discovery in October, has been confirmed by NASA. The STS95 will also feature a reflight of the Spartan free-flying satellite, which was lost, then retrieved, ...
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FSI wins V-22 deal
Bell Boeing has selected FlightSafety International (FSI) to supply a full-flight simulator for the MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor transport. The device will be delivered to the US Marine Corps air station at New River, North Carolina, and supported by FlightSafety Services. FSI was selected over Hughes (now Raytheon), which developed the ...
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Joint SIGINT test
The US Navy has begun flight testing of TRW's High Band Prototype (HBP), part of the Joint Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Avionics Family, in a Lockheed EP-3EAries. The Navy plans to deploy the HBP outside the USA in May for more testing. Source: Flight International
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UK Apache CMWS
Lockheed Martin Sanders is to supply its AAR-57 common missile-warning system (CMWS) for integration with GEC-Marconi Avionics' HIDAS defensive-aids system for the British Army's Westland/Boeing WAH-64D Longbow Apache attack helicopters. The contract covers 58 shipsets, each with four passive ultra-violet sensors. Source: Flight International
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Congress up in arms
US Government moves to relax its arms-sales policy in Latin America is drawing fire from the US Congress, which is seeking to restore the sales restrictions. The Congress is urging the White House to reverse the new foreign-military-sales policy. In 1997, the White House eased the 20-year-old ban on the ...
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Lynx upgrade
The Royal Danish Air Force has awarded GKN Westland a $36.5 million contract covering an airframe-replacement programme and power- plant modifications on its fleet of eight Lynx helicopters, to bring them up to the Super Lynx standard Source: Flight International
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Russian replacement
Col Gen Anatoly Karnukov has replaced Col Gen Piotr Deineken as commander-in-chief of the Russian air force. Karnukov was commander of the Moscow Air Defence military district. The air force and the air-defence force, previously two separate services of the Russian armed forces, are being merged during 1998. Karnukov, a ...
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Italian airlines profit
Latest forecasts suggest that Alitalia's 1997 profits could reach L500 billion ($280 million), more than twice earlier predictions. The carrier's board has now finalised plans for the final part of its recapitalisation, which could raise L1,000-2,000 billion from shareholders depending on the final price. Air Europe is also expected to ...