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Southwest hushes
AvAero has been selected by Southwest Airlines to supply Stage 3 hushkits for 20 Boeing 737-200s. The airline's all-737 fleet includes 50 737-200s, and options have been placed for 14 more shipsets. Source: Flight International
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Air Nelson swops Saab 340s for DBA aircraft
Air New Zealand subsidiary Air Nelson has begun a roll-over of its Saab 340 fleet, with the disposal of some of its existing aircraft and the acquisition of replacement aircraft from airlines in Europe. The Nelson, New Zealand-based regional has purchased two of Deutsche BA's Saab 340As, and ...
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British Mediterranean continues partner search
British Mediterranean Airways (BMed) is working to overcome the failure of its planned franchise agreement with British Airways by instigating the expansion plans originally envisaged as part of the link-up (Flight International, 18-24 September 1996, P9), and is continuing its search for a new airline partner. Des Hetherington, ...
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An-38 production at Novosibirsk
The second and third of Antonov's 26-seat An-38 regional airliners are in final assembly at the Novosibirsk plant in southeastern Russia. The second aircraft (pictured) is the first to be equipped with the Russian Omsk TVD-20 turboprop engines, and is expected to join the flight-test programme this year. The first ...
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Polar Logistics serves Antarctica with Hercules
Polar Logistics has started direct passenger and cargo flights between Cape Town, South Africa and Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, using a Lockheed Martin L-100-30 Hercules leased from Southern Air Transport. The 4,230km (2,300nm) flight takes around nine hours, carrying a 6.8t payload. Polar, which specialises in "high-latitude" operations, initially plans ...
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NTSB reveals Comair Brasilia crash clues
Starboard engine overspeed appears to have been the triggering factor for the 9 January Comair Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia (N265CA) crash in which all 26 passengers and three crew died, according to US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators. The twin-turboprop, which was operating a Delta Connection flight to ...
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Alliance launched
Austrian Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Sabena and Swissair, will start their Atlantic Alliance programme on 1 February, harmonising reservation, sharing income and streamlining fare policies. On 15 May, Sabena will inaugurate codeshared scheduled services from Brussels to Cincinnati, Ohio. Delta will restructure its operations at Frankfurt (Germany), and add services ...
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JAL adds flights
Japan Airlines (JAL) is to introduce an increase in flights to Asian and domestic destinations to meet growing competition. From April, JAL plans to add two new additional weekly flights from Nagoya to both Manila and Singapore, and one more to Bangkok. JAL's fleet of aircraft will increase in size ...
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Perm Airlines introduces Tu-204-100
Perm Airlines (PAL) has introduced a single PS-90-powered Tupolev Tu-204-100 (RA-64017) which is being operated by Vnukovo Airlines, primarily on charters from Moscow to Tenerife, Canary Islands. It is understood that PAL's Tu-204 is leased from the engine maker Aviadvigatel/Perm Motors, which acquired the aircraft from the manufacturer Aviastar in ...
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China Eastern prepares to list in New York and Hong Kong
China Eastern Airlines has taken the initial steps towards a share listings on the New York and Hong Kong stock exchange, which will make it the first mainland Chinese carrier to undergo a public flotation. The Shanghai-based airline has filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission and ...
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UK ignores EC warning on BA
The UK Government has brushed aside warnings from the European Commission (EC) that it could be taken to court if it approves the proposed British Airways alliance with American Airlines, without imposing tougher conditions to ensure transatlantic competition. The spat has also exposed more fundamental legal questions over the extent ...
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Government clears way for full Lufthansa privatisation
The German Government has passed a new Bill, proposed by transport minister Matthias Wissmann, aimed at clearing the way for a full privatisation of the national airline Lufthansa. The airline group says that its shares could be available on the stock market this year once the new legislation ...
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AirOne takes on Noman
Italian domestic airline AirOne has strengthened its challenge to Alitalia on the key Milan-Rome route with a deal to take on the operations of small domestic carrier Noman. Despite its size, Noman has built up a 4%market share on the Milan-Rome route, helping to add to AirOne's existing 25%, and ...
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Engine loan
The Canadian Government is to provide Pratt & Whitney Canada with a $109 million repayable loan, two-thirds of which will be used to help finance development of the PW150 turboprop engine to power Bombardier's Dash 8-400 high-speed, 70-seat, regional airliner. The loan will be repaid from royalties on engine sales. ...
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SEP rockets into Snecma
Snecma has completed the takeover of rocket engine and advanced materials venture Société Européen de Propulsion (SEP), which now becomes a wholly owned group subsidiary. SEP, in turn, will take over Snecma's brakes subsidiary, Messier-Bugatti, to create what is claimed will be Europe's largest aviation and automobile braking company. ...
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Message to Saturn
The European Space Agency (ESA) is inviting members of the European public to write and sign short personal messages for a CD-ROM to be fitted to the Huygens probe scheduled to be flown towards the planet Saturn in October and land on the ringed-planet's moon, Titan, in 2002. ...
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Auxiliary Power Units Directory
Flight International has for the first time compiled a directory of gas turbine auxiliary power units (APUs) used in commercial airliners, and regional and business aircraft, worldwide. An APU is a dedicated unit which provides electrical and pneumatic power for main engine starting, ground operations and inflight back-up systems. The ...
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Competing powers
"The EC competition commissioner's interest in the BA/AA alliance is curious - the competition department has failed to involve itself in more significant airline competition issues." By seeking to stamp his authority on the proposed alliance between British Airways and American Airlines, the European Commission (EC) competition commissioner, ...
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Sophisticated Skyhawk
What was Cessna Aircraft thinking, critics asked 25 years ago, believing that it could sell sophisticated business jets? This was a company known most for its simple single-engine aircraft. When Cessna Citation 500s started showing up on ramps in the early 1970s, sceptics ridiculed the straight-wing aircraft's lack of sophistication ...
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Building a new India
Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) boss R N Sharma's announcement at the Aero India '96 show in December that he intended to start negotiations to license-build a 50-seat turboprop, and to buy a stake in a regional-jet programme, raised a few smiles among the Indian press corps. They had heard it all ...