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Aviareps enters leasing business
AVIAREPS, THE UK-based airline representation group, has acquired a Boeing 737-300 from GE Capital Aviation Services for use in the Portuguese market where it has no link-up with a local airline. The aircraft, contracted out to tour operators throughout Europe, is based in Portugal and is flown by ...
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ELk flies to Finland
Estonian airline Eesti Lennukompanii (ELk) is scheduled to start a new route in July, offering a twice-weekly service between the capital, Tallinn, and Turku in Finland. The airline is using a Czech-built LET-410. Source: Flight International
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Hong Kong/Australia call a truce
AUSTRALIA AND Hong Kong have called a truce in their dispute over Qantas' fifth-freedom rights beyond Hong Kong to Singapore and Bangkok. The two Governments have now taken the unusual step of agreeing to scrap their air-services agreement ahead of its expiry date, assenting to a six-month truce ...
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Sabena eyes pact with VLM
SABENA HAS STARTED discussions with struggling Antwerp-based regional VLM over a possible collaboration pact. Both airlines deny that a take-over or equity injection is on the agenda. Some observers, however, question the motives of Sabena, suggesting that its co-operation strategy is a ploy to keep the small independent ...
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Wet-leased Tu-134 crashes in Nigerian storm
A HARKA AIR Services Tupolev Tu-134 twinjet wet-leased from the Russian Komiavia group crashed in a rainstorm at Lagos, Nigeria, on 24 June, killing 16 passengers. The aircraft, which was on a scheduled domestic flight from Kaduna, landed at Lagos International Airport in rain and a heavy crosswind, ...
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British World to expand fleet
BRITISH WORLD Airlines is considering expanding its fleet early in 1996, to meet increasing demands in the UK charter market for aircraft in the 130-seat range. The Southend, Essex-based firm is believed to be looking for three aircraft in the Boeing 737-200 class, having had its fleet of ...
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An-70 programme wins support
RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT finance for the Ukrainian-developed Antonov An-70 propfan-powered military transport seems likely to materialise following a meeting between Russian prime minister Victor Chernomyrdin, and Konstantin Titov, the governor of Russian province Samara, where a production line is to be based. Russia and Ukraine signed a deal in ...
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Boeing wins first round of JAA certification row over new 737
David Learmount/LONDON BOEING HAS WON the first round of a battle to have its new 737 family of aircraft declared as derivatives by the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA). The move will allow the US company to claim "grandfather rights" and avoid having to meet current safety regulations ...
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TWA refiles
Trans World Airlines (TWA) has won the backing of its creditors to go ahead with its "pre-packaged" Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, aimed at smoothing the airline's latest restructuring plan. Creditors had feared that they would be left vulnerable if an unplanned filing took place during the debt-for-equity restructuring. TWA plans ...
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Solitair rescue plan hits new snags
EFFORTS TO BAIL OUT Solitair, the Swedish aircraft lessor, have run into further setbacks, with its planned rescuer, Vestar Capital, pulling out from underwriting the troubled company's share issue. Vestar had agreed to buy a 25% share of Solitair from GPA and to underwrite the company's rights issue. ...
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Cleaning up
The international civil-aviation community is bracing itself for the next imposition of environmental standards for aircraft. These new standards should lead to a significant reduction in the impact of airliners on the environment, which can only be welcomed. Unfortunately, there is a danger that individual pressure groups pandering to local ...
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Raytheon light jet will have composite fuselage
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT'S new light business-jet, internally designated the PD 374, will have an all-composite fuselage and be powered by uprated Williams Rolls-Royce FJ44 turbofans. Rockwell-Collins will supply the integrated avionics, including flat-panel displays. The PD 374 is intended as a direct competitor to ...
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Space sector absorbs most of Lockheed Martin cost cutting
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LOCKHEED MARTIN'S space sector will bear the brunt of a consolidation plan intended to save $1.8 billion a year through the elimination of 12,000 jobs and the closure of 12 plants and laboratories over the next five years. The plan will cost $1.7 billion, the company ...
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Satellite-navigation-approach first for Alaska Airlines 737-400
AN ALASKA AIRLINES Boeing 737-400 has been flown successfully on satellite-navigation (satnav)-based instrument approaches to a 300ft (90m) decision height at Juneau, Alaska without using any ground-based navigation aids. The pioneering flight was undertaken by Boeing and Smiths Industries as a proof-of-concept demonstration to the US Federal Aviation ...
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Shuttle docks with the Mir
MARKING THE FORMAL end of the space race, a record ten people were orbiting the Earth aboard a single spacecraft as the US Space Shuttle Atlantis/STS 71 docked to the Russian Mir 1 space station on 29 June. The assembly of a 223t spacecraft in orbit was the ...
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Military aircraft bosses ousted at Daimler-Benz
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THREE SENIOR executives have left Daimler-Benz Aerospace's (DASA's) military-aircraft division following board dissatisfaction with the operation's performance. Division president Klaus-Jurgen Wolfert is to go, along with head of development Wolfgang Kuny and finance and contracts chief Reinhold Faltlhauser. The three are expected to leave ...
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Air France gives Europe to Air Inter
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS AIR INTER, traditionally France's domestic trunk airline, is to become the Air France Group's low-cost European operation, if plans unveiled by the Group's chief executive, Christian Blanc, go ahead. Blanc says that the operation would be running by 1997, when the intra-European-Union "open-skies" policy ...
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German budget committee clears Eurofighter financing at last
THE GERMAN parliamentary budget committee has finally cleared Government funds to cover the costs of the 1992 reorientation of the Eurofighter programme. The committee has twice rejected the proposal to pay DM375 million ($270 million) - a sum agreed after months of wrangling between the defence ministry and ...
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United
Judy Bishop has been named vice-president for North America sales at United Airlines, of Chicago, Illinois. She was formerly regional manager for passenger sales. Dan Walsh becomes vice-president for the North America East Region. Walsh, who will be based in New York, was previously Los Angeles, California, regional manager for ...
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STAR-1 weapon tested on F-16
TAAS, FORMERLY ISRAEL MILITARY Industries, has test flown the STAR-1 anti-radiation weapon on a Lockheed Martin F-16. The carriage trials are part of a plan to develop the weapon, a variant of the company's Delilah decoy, for customers requiring a stand-off capability for air-defence suppression missions. The system will be ...