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Carlyle's defence buy
US investment company Carlyle Group has made its largest defence acquisition to date, with an $850 million deal to buy the United Defense joint venture. A rival General Dynamics bid faced potential anti-trust issues. Source: Flight International
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Singapore/China sign
Singapore and China have signed a memorandum of understanding to expand air services between the two countries by 43% over the next three years. Source: Flight International
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Turkish Airlines grows
New company MNG Airlines Cargo, set up by Turkish conglomerate MNG Holdings, plans to begin flights in October from Istanbul to Frankfurt, London Stansted and Dubai with a leased Airbus A300C4. The airline says it plans to acquire two more A300s and a Boeing 747 in early 1998. ...
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Azal scoops CL-44.
Azerbaijan Airlines (Azal) has acquired the world's only Canadair CL-44 Conroy. The aircraft was owned by Buffalo Airways, although it has recently been in storage. It was delivered in August for transporting outsize cargo to Baku. The airline already operates Ilyushin Il-76s and Boeing 707s in the cargo role. ...
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Blanc quits over privatisation
Julian Moxon/Paris Christian Blanc has resigned as Air France chairman because the recently elected French Government has refused to press ahead with privatisation of the state-owned airline. Blanc says that he has a "moral contract" with the Government to proceed with privatisation, arguing that it forms ...
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Boeing expects to reap Chinese harvest
China is set to announce sizeable new orders for Boeing 777-200, 757-200 and 737-700/800 passenger aircraft during the state visit to the USA in October of the country's president, Jiang Zemin. Boeing is hoping that Jiang's trip will finally give the green light to a large number of ...
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Condor studies long-range 757
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES German charter airline Condor Flugdienst is studying a longer-range version of the Boeing 757 as well as the recently launched 767-400 as part of a long- term strategy to introduce extended range and higher payload aircraft into its fleet. Condor, which was the ...
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Greyhound abandons low-cost air service
Greyhound Canada is to end its Greyhound Air low-cost airline operation on 21 September, leaving Kelowna Flightcraft, which flies seven Boeing 727-200s for Greyhound, considering its options. Greyhound Air had lost C$28 million ($19 million) since beginning operations in July 1996, despite achieving good load factors, but is ...
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New ICAO protocol tackles cross-border leasing 'nightmare'
David Learmount/London An international "regulatory nightmare" has been resolved by a new International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) protocol on cross-border aircraft leasing. The protocol, Article 83 bis, clears the state of the aircraft's registration to agree transfer of the responsibility for the aircraft's safety oversight to ...
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KAL jettisons A300B4s in fleet modernisation
Korean Airlines (KAL) is phasing out all of its Airbus Industrie A300B4s and replacing them with newer, leased A300-600Rs as part of a wider move to modernise its fleet of widebody and narrowbody jet airliners. Ansett Worldwide (AWAS) has acquired two of KAL's eight A300B4s and will take ...
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PAL drops flights
Philippine Airlines (PAL) has suspended services from Manila to Los Angeles and Newark because of "staggering losses" from the drop in the value of the peso, less than a year after their launch. The carrier has been forced to use wet-leased World Airways Boeing MD-11s on the routes rather than ...
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Swiss codeshare
Swissair has signed a codeshare agreement with Malaysian Airlines (MAS) through to Kuala Lumpur, only weeks after comments from the Swiss carrier that it was looking for additional Asian partners. Swissair, which will now sell tickets on MAS flights to Kuala Lumpur, says that there are no immediate plans to ...
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P&W effort to improve PW4000 reliability starts to pay dividend
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Pratt & Whitney says that an upgrade effort to counter reliability problems on more than 1,600 PW4000 engines is showing results, with a "dramatic reduction" to in-flight shutdown rates. The upgrade effort, known as the Number 1 reliability programme, involves around 100 service ...
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Saab pushes 35-seat option
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Saab Aircraft president Gert Shyborger says that Europe should look at the 30- to 35-seat market for its next regional jet, rather than the 70-seat sector being pursued by Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)). The comments come as Saab re-assesses its future in the regional-aircraft ...
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India approves Saras prototype go-ahead
India's state-owned National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) Saras 14-seat twin-turboprop multi-purpose transport aircraft has been cleared for prototype development. A $15.27 million grant for the project's first phase, leading up to the manufacture of a prototype, was cleared by the Indian Technology Development Board . NAL has ...
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PZL-Mielec reveals 30-seater Skytruck stretch
Polish aircraft manufacturer PZL-Mielec has unveiled two new stretched variants of its 18-seat M-28 Skytruck development of the Antonov An-28 twin-turboprop. The M28-03 and M28-04 are being marketed as the Skytruck Plus. The fuselage has been stretched by 1.84m, and the cabin ceiling raised by 0.25m, allowing passengers ...
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Comair consortium wins battle to take over Sun Air
A consortium led by South African regional carrier British Airways Comair has won the race for state-owned Sun Air. Comair, a BA franchise partner, will take a 25%stake in the rival domestic carrier, with another 5%earmarked for Sun Air staff, and the remaining 70%taken by two investment vehicles ...
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FAA hopes to find clues to TWA crash at fuel-safety conference
A three-day fuel-systems-safety conference scheduled for early October may produce clues to the cause of the 17 July, 1996 crash of Trans World Airlines Flight 800, the US Federal Aviation Administration hopes. The Boeing 747-100 crashed off Long Island after leaving New York's Kennedy Airport. In the year ...
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Vietnam Airlines Tu-134 crashes on bad-weather approach at Phnom Penh
David Learmount/London Vietnam Airlines suffered its fourth serious accident since 1990, when a Tupolev Tu-134B crashed on 3 September during a daylight final approach in stormy weather to Phnom Penh's Pochentong Airport in Cambodia, killing all but two of the 66 people on board. Although the ...
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Workshop
++ Air UK Engineering has signed a five-year deal with Skyways to undertake heavy maintenance on the Swedish carrier's fleet of eight Fokker F50s after the UK company successfully completed a year-long contract. ++ Dee Howard has begun heavy maintenance of an Airborne Express Douglas DC-8-63 under an agreement covering ...