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Kuwait Rebuilds
Losses at Kuwait Airways (KAC)reached $100 million in the last financial year to June 1996, as the airline continues to repair the damage to fleet and infrastructure caused by the Iraqi invasion of 1990-1. KAC chairman Ahmed al Mishari says that the true costs of the invasion "-are not yet ...
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Who wants to work that long?
Sir - I have followed with interest the discussion about retirement age for pilots. What I find difficult to understand is why someone would want to work to the ages suggested. Firstly, evidence indicates that life expectancy is significantly reduced as one extends a career beyond 60 (or ...
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Pilot's JAR-FCL: agreement needed
Sir - Mr Payton's letter "Delaying JAR-FCL is not feasible" (Flight International, 15-21 January, P44) leads one to believe that the new licensing system is agreed and that it merely requires conformity by a certain date. The 26 member states of the European Joint Aviation Authorities have yet ...
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Kiwi Airlines
Jack Warren has been named system director of maintenance and engineering for Kiwi International Airlines, of Newark, New Jersey, which restarted scheduled domestic services in January. He was formerly director of maintenance for Polar Air Cargo and, before that, spent most of his career with Pan Am World Airways. ...
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GAMA
Washington DC-based US national trade organisation, the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA), has named Darby Becker director of government and international affairs. Becker was formerly legislative director in the office of US Representative Jerry Costello. Source: Flight International
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Western
Fixed-base operator and US-certificated repair station Western Aircraft, of Boise, Idaho, has appointed Doug Hart chief executive. He also becomes vice-chairman of the overall board for all companies owned by Western owner and chairman Al Hilde. Hart has re-organised the firm into three operating groups: Aircraft Sales, Aircraft Operations and ...
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Boeing
Larry Clarkson, senior vice-president of planning and international development at Boeing, has been named president of newly created company Boeing Enterprises, based at Renton, Washington, which will establish and direct new commercial-aircraft-related business entities. Source: Flight International
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British Airways
David Noyes has been appointed regional director for the UK, Africa and the Middle East at British Airways. He succeeds George Cooper, who became regional director for Europe in early February. Martin George is named marketing director, having held senior posts in the airline's UK and Ireland sales. Source: ...
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ECAC/Eurocontrol agreement is a 'raw deal' for all concerned
European aviation organisations have reacted with scepticism to the recent agreement reached by European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) transport ministers to revise the Eurocontrol convention, and International Air Transport Association (IATA) general director Pierre Jeanniot describes the reforms as being a "raw deal" for airlines and passengers. In ...
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Cargo gets top priority in China
China plans to virtually triple its cargo-aircraft fleet to 660 by the year 2000. The increase forms part of ambitious plans to expand its airborne freight market by around 14% a year, making it the main priority of the national aviation growth strategy. Zhou Baokou, deputy director of ...
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Chinese negotiate for ATR 42/72 production
Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) says that talks are proceeding well with Aero International (Regional) AI(R) over the possible setting up of licensed production of the AI(R) ATR 42 and ATR 72 regional turboprops in China. AVIC vice-minister and executive vice-president, Wang Ang, says that the talks are ...
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Jordan receives C-130H
Jordan has taken delivery of a Lockheed Martin C-130H from the US Government, the latest part of a military-aid package donated by Washington to boost the Arab nation's defence forces. Jordan now has five C-130s and is hoping for more, according to its air force chief-of-staff Maj Gen Mohammad Ababneh. ...
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TEAC records deal for AV-8B video
TEAC HAS RECEIVED a US Navy contract to supply 209 airborne video-tape recorders for US Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas (MDC)AV-8B Harrier IIs. The same system will now be offered to Italy and Spain, both of which countries are operators of the AV-8B. The Navy had planned to exercise ...