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Air Madeira prepares for transatlantic flights
A new Portuguese airline, Air Madeira, will start operations later this year with a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar 500 on transatlantic charter flights. The airline is also planning to set up a short-haul network. Air Madeira is based in Lisbon and backed by the Portuguese travel group Pestana Hotels. ...
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Atlas Air confirms plans for 747-400 purchase
Atlas Air has confirmed plans to buy new Boeing 747-400 freighters, and has signed a Ìrm purchase contract worth about $1.7 billion for ten aircraft, and options on a further ten. The transaction, which represents the US cargo carrier's first purchase of new aircraft, was forecast earlier this ...
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Virgin Express begins A320 operations
Virgin Express has introduced an Airbus A320 on a wet-lease contract from fellow Belgian charter airline Constellation International Airways. The aircraft is being operated on charters from Brussels in place of Boeing 737s, and that business now represents 40% of the airline's activity. Virgin Express says this enables it "to ...
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Continental goes Boeing
CONTINENTAL Airlines has become the third US major to enter into a long-term, sole-supplier pact with Boeing, following the signature of a letter of intent (LoI) for up to 35 widebodied aircraft to satisfy its future fleet requirements. The estimated value of the deal is more than $3 billion. ...
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EuroLOT primed for take-off as parent suffers 1996 loss
LOT Polish Airlines is preparing to start operations of its regional, low-cost subsidiary EuroLOT in the hope of cutting costs on its shorter routes, after dropping sharply from modest profitability into loss in 1996. EuroLOT, which is expected to become operational early in July, will initially take over ...
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Clinton nominates new FAA administrator and deputy
THE WHITE HOUSE has nominated Jane Garvey as the next US Federal Aviation Administration administrator and George Donohue as deputy administrator. The announcement comes six months after David Hinson quit the top FAA post shortly after US President Bill Clinton's re-election. Garvey is now acting head of the ...
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Air Littoral becomes a Lufthansa partner
Lufthansa has signed a commercial alliance with French regional airline Air Littoral, further strengthening its position in the French market. The deal ends the German flag carrier's hunt for a suitable French partner to expand its services to southern Europe. This will be done through Air Littoral's increasing ...
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Authorities push Air Macau into expansion
Local authorities are pressing start-up carrier Air Macau to expand and diversify its services regionally, in an effort to reduce the Portuguese enclave's overwhelming reliance on traffic between China and Taiwan. After a slow start, traffic at Macau's new international airport is picking up, and is projected to ...
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Marketplace
++ Montreal-based Royal Airlines has sold two Boeing 727s to Texan leasing company Aircorp for C$10 million ($7.25 million), to help pay for three Airbus A310-300s. The carrier still operates five 727s, as well as two Lockheed L-1011 TriStars. ++ Boeing has delivered its 757th 757, a Pratt & Whitney ...
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Customer interest is renewed as first MD-95 takes shape
McDonnell Douglas (MDC) hopes to conduct final negotiations at the Paris air show with potential MD-95-30 customers as production of the first twinjet moves into final assembly. "Our timing is good because we want to place orders 21 months before delivery," says MD-95 vice- president and general manager ...
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MIAT loss
A Mongolian Airlines Harbin Y-12 turboprop crashed on 10 June, killing seven of the 12 passengers and crew aboard. The twin-engined aircraft crashed while trying to land at Mandelgobi Airport, 280km (150nm) south of Mongolia's capital Ulan Bator. Witnesses report the aircraft crashing and exploding several hundred metres short of ...
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Crossair's MD-11
Crossair will use a 257-seat McDonnell Douglas (MDC) MD-11 on wet-lease from its partner Swissair for its weekly service between Zurich and Palma de Mallorca up to October. It replaces a 156-seat MDC MD-83. Crossair, meanwhile, will take delivery of its 25th and last Saab 2000 on 26 June. ...
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Russia's Orient and East Line to merge
Russian airline Orient Avia and one of the country's leading freight carriers, East Line Air, are to merge. The merged airline will concentrate operations at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport. Orient, which flies to Vladivostok and Petropavlovsk in the Far East and Kaunas in Lithuania, from Moscow Sheremetyevo airport, operates ...
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French St Tropez ban sets back Augsburg Airways plans
Augsburg Airways has dropped plans to fly from Munich to St Tropez on behalf of Lufthansa, after the French transport ministry banned aircraft with a take-off weight heavier than 5.7t from the airport. The airline had been hoping to fly a weekly de Havilland Dash 8-100 service to ...
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Tatra delays
High import charges in Slovakia are threatening to delay the deliveries of a Saab 340A and Saab 2000 to Bratislava-based regional carrier Tatra Air. The company flies two Saab 340Bs, and is hoping to get the additional 340 "shortly" with the Saab 2000 to follow in October. Tatra's commercial and ...
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Finalist: Lear Astronics
Finalist: Lear Astronics Location Santa Monica, California, USA Achievement Demonstration of an enhanced-vision system (EVS) providing precision landing and approach on any runway. In 1996 Lear Astronics successfully demonstrated an enhanced-vision system (EVS) which is capable of giving pilots a landing decision height of around 300-400ft ...
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Finalist Rockwell Avionics & Communications
Finalist: Rockwell Avionics & Communications, Collins Air Transport division Location Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA Achievement A multi-mode receiver combining both existing and future landing-aid technology One of the most enduring technical issues for the world airline industry over the past decade has been over ...
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Personality of the year
Winner: Shen Yuankang Title Vice Minister of General Administration of Civil Aviation of China Achievement Helping to strengthen air safety oversight in China's fast-growing civil aviation sector. The improvement in China's levels of air safety has been dramatic over the past three years. The country's civil-aviation ...
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Air transport
Winner: AlliedSignal Aerospace, Commercial Avionics Systems Location Redmond, Washington, USA Achievement Pioneering work on the enhanced ground-proximity warning system (EGPWS) in the fight to reduce fatal aviation accidents. Aviation safety experts have long targeted controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) as the leading cause of aircraft accidents. ...
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Finalist BMW Rolls-Royce
Finalist: BMW Rolls-Royce Location Oberursel, Germany Achievement Bringing the BR710 engine to the corporate-jet market on scheduleOnly six years after starting out as a new joint venture, BMW Rolls-Royce received European certification for the BR710 engine on board the Gulfstream V. Remarkably, the certification, which took ...