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El Al focuses on A319 for short-haul needs
El Al has selected the Airbus A319 over the Boeing Next Generation 737 for its short-haul needs, but hurdles must be overcome before it can finalise an order with the European consortium. El Al has been evaluating the A319/A320 and the 737-700/800 to meet its need for new ...
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Airlines express their concerns over Eurocontrol ATM strategy
Julian Moxon/PARIS Eurocontrol's newly launched air-traffic management (ATM) strategy for the next century is already raising doubts among airline organisations. They are concerned about the agency's ability to overcome competing national priorities among the states which will ultimately implement it. Although the aviation industry gave a ...
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Weber demands new runway at Frankfurt
Lufthansa chairman Jürgen Weber has demanded a new runway at Frankfurt Airport, saying that the airport's capacity is already reaching its limits. Weber says that the airport is not capable of handling more than 70 or 80 take-offs an hour, and has nearly reached this limit. In a ...
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ICAO grasps global safety-oversight
Members of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) have endorsed a wide-ranging plan set of recommendations to expand its Safety Oversight Programme (SOP) and give it policing powers for the first time. During a landmark conference on 10-12 November in Montreal, attended by 148 of the 185 member ...
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Swissair's offer stops Gemini from closing LTU MD-11 deal
A last-minute offer from Swissair for LTU's fleet of four Boeing MD-11s has blocked Gemini Air Cargo's attempt to acquire the aircraft for use as freighters. William Stockbridge, president of US supplemental cargo carrier Gemini, says that his failure to secure the aircraft is "very disappointing". On 17 ...
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Mesaba Airlines boosts Saab 340 backlog for 1998
Mesaba Airlines has firmed up its remaining 22 options for new and used Saab 340s, which will extend Saab's airliner production into late 1998. The Minneapolis-based airline will take delivery of 19 new Saab 340B Plus between February and December 1998, plus three used Saab 340As. The Northwest ...
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++ Tyrolean Airways has placed firm orders with Bombardier for three more de Havilland Dash 8Q series 300s and one Canadair Regional Jet series 200BLR. Deliveries are expected to be completed by the end of this year. The airline is acquiring the Dash 8Qs to accelerate the replacement of its ...
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Delta's Latin plan
Delta Air Lines says that it will increase its services to and from Latin America. The airline is building on its codeshare relationship with Transbrasil and Aeromexico, and is poised to introduce services to Argentina, Chile and Peru, in conjunction with its codesharing partners. Source: Flight International
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Polar resurrects 747 freighter
Polar Air Cargo will put into service in December a Boeing 747-200 freighter which was written off by its insurers a year ago after a mercury spill was found in its cargo bay. The 1979-build 747-200F was being operated by Southern Air Transport when, during routine maintenance in ...
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Swiss World faces delay in services
Swiss World Airways, Geneva's planned rival to Swissair, may have to postpone the start of its services to North America until March because of delays in getting its leased Boeing 767s onto the Swiss register. The carrier, which was proposed after Swissair withdrew most of its long-haul operations ...
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ValuJet/AirTran merger approved
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Valujet has completed the final step in its merger with AirTran Airways, after shareholders from both airlines voted to approve the deal. The new AirTran Airlines emerges into a struggling US low-cost sector, however, which is fighting for new competition- legislation ...
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Air France posts strong sales
Air France reports an encouraging 8.5% growth in passenger revenues and a strong rise in yields over the first half of its financial year to September, raising expectations of a healthy profits performance when the figures are finally announced. The group has promised a full year profit of around Fr1 ...
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Germany questions A3XX site
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Germany's bids for the final assembly of the proposed Airbus A3XX large airliner have become entangled in political arguments over the preferred site for the work. Daimler-Benz Aerospace Airbus (Dasa Airbus) has put forward its Hamburg-Finkenwerder plant as a prime German candidate, competing against ...
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Portugalia may list
Portugalia Airlines (PGA) is looking to list on the Portuguese stock market by the end of 1998, according to local press reports. PGA believes that, by then, its passenger numbers will have reached the 1 million mark, from 750,000 today. Source: Flight International
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Snecma takes on GE in push to double CFM56 maintenance
Julian Moxon/PARIS Snecma is mounting a determined effort to double its share of the increasingly lucrative market for maintaining CFM56 engines, competing head-on with its CFM International partner General Electric. Through its Snecma Services division, formed in January, the French manufacturer says that it intends to ...
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US Airways completes delayed shuttle purchase
US Airways, having sealed its long-awaited pilot deal, is pressing on with the acquisition of the former Trump Shuttle operation, which flies under the group's colours on the US East Coast. US Airways had expressed interest in acquiring the remainder of the shuttle service when it came up ...
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No frills
No sooner had British Airways announced plans to set up its own low-cost operation at London Stansted, than the howls of protest began from the existing no-frills carriers. Their complaint (writ large in whole page newspaper advertisements) is that the BA intends to put them out of business by fair ...
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Lockheed Martin offers ex-RAF C-130Ks
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems has begun reselling up to 25 C-130K Hercules due to be traded in by the Royal Air Force in part-exchange for new-build C-130Js. The US manufacturer plans to submit proposals to 13 different potential buyers in the next four to ...
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F-22 Raptor still suffers overweight problems
The Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor advanced tactical fighter continues to exceed its target weight, but is meeting all of its performance specifications, says Paul Schlein, Lockheed Martin's F-22 deputy air-vehicle product manager. The weight is expected to increase slightly as the engineering and manufacturing development programme continues, but ...
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GE starts F110 upgrade project
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES General Electric has committed to a self-funded qualification programme for an upgraded version of the F110-129 engine to power Boeing F-15E and Lockheed Martin F-16C/D fighters from 2000 onwards. The company originally hoped to tie the launch of the -129EFE (enhanced fighter effort) to the ...