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Wings West
American Eagle carrier Wings West, of Fort Worth, Texas, has appointed Mary Jordan president. She was vice-president of human resources at American Airlines. Source: Flight International
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Spectrum
Steve Tanner has become president of Spectrum Aviation Management, of Austin, Texas, a specialist in aeromedical design and interior helicopter-completion services. In the industry for 20 years, Tanner spent five years as helicopter marketing manager of Austin Jet Helicopters. Source: Flight International
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British Airways
Ford Ennals has been named director of marketing at British Airways, from mid-July. Ennals, executive vice-president of marketing and business operations for international clothing firm Fruit of the Loom, succeeds Mike Batt, who has become executive vice-president of sales and marketing for Alamo Rent a Car in the USA. ...
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ACI
The general assembly of the European Airports Council International (ACI) has elected Mario Brianza, director-general of SEA Milano, as its new president. He succeeds Eric Kirsch of Belgium. Terry Lovett, managing director of East Midlands Airport of the UK, has been re-elected for a second three-year term on the governing ...
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Slow progress
Progress towards achieving a US/Russian bilateral airworthiness agreement remains slow. Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE USA AND RUSSIA will break no speed records in their marathon efforts to complete a bilateral airworthiness agreement, say US aviation officials involved in the negotiations. While some progress is reported ...
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No substitute for 'airmanship'
Sir -With reference to correspondence regarding training and modern aircraft, I would like, having myself flown, trained, checked and examined on various types of aircraft including currently the A320, to add some comments. all aircraft are flown the same way, are subject to the same conditions/elements and all ...
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A question of US space flight numbers
Sir - You are wrong to say that NASA's STS70 Shuttle mission is the 100th US manned space flight (Flight International, 7 - 13 June, P29). There were 31 US space flights, before the Shuttle flew for the first time in April 1981, and, to date, there have been 67 ...
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United trials ERS
For One-Step FANS UNITED AIRLINES has begun a six-month evaluation of a computer-based electronic-resource system (ERS), developed by Minnesota-based Computing Devices International, on 5 June. The ERS, fitted to a McDonnell Douglas DC-10, is "basically the pilot's interface to the FANS [Future Air Navigation System]," says ...
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A fair fight?
Philippine Airlines battles with competition and domestic deregulation. Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Philippine Airlines (PAL) has suffered more than its fair of share of turbulence over the last 54 years. Buffeted by a succession of political crises, military coups and corrupt mismanagement, control of the airline has routinely ...
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Intertechnique targets USA for expansion plans
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS FRENCH EQUIPMENT manufacturer Intertechnique believes that it is back on course for expansion and is targeting the US market with two small acquisitions already in prospect. The company, which is known for its oxygen masks and its fuel-management and environmental-control systems, emerged from ...
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Hughes rethinks Canadian ATC project
HUGHES AIRCRAFT and the Canadian Department of Transport have agreed to revise the terms of a C$659 million ($478 million) programme to modernise the country's air-traffic-control (ATC) system after the project ran into technical, budgetary and scheduling difficulties. The new deal essentially pays Hughes more to deliver ...
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DoT relaxes rules
THE US DEPARTMENT of Transportation (DoT) will no longer require US carriers to file mechanical delays and flight cancellations as part of normal on-time reporting. The change re-instates reporting requirements, in place until January, when the DoT required major US carriers to include aircraft problems and flight cancellations ...
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Alitalia pilots' dispute gains momentum
THE BATTLE BETWEEN Italian flag carrier Alitalia and its pilots is intensifying, with another round of strikes announced for 23 June. This will have a further impact on Alitalia's balance sheet, which, so far this year, has suffered a reversal of some L50 billion ($30 million), according to ...
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Sub-Orbital Rockets
NASA has awarded Bristol Aerospace, a Rolls-Royce company, a $12.7 million contract for more than 50 Black Brant sub-orbital rocket systems. The Black Brants will be integrated with other Bristol-supplied hardware and NASA-furnished equipment into several configurations, the largest of which is the four-stage Black Brant XII. They will be ...
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BATA claims UK capacity sufficient
RUNWAY CAPACITY at the UK's two prime international airports, London Heathrow and Gatwick, is "close to gridlock", according to a capacity index published by the British Air Transport Association (BATA). BATA chairman David Hopkins says that the figures give a warning to BAA, the operator of London's three ...
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Fokker slashes jet build times
Andrew Doyle/LONDON FOKKER WILL have cut build times for its JetLine family of Fokker 70 and 100 regional jets from 30 months, as it stood in 1992, to just nine months by the second half of 1995, the company claims. The Dutch manufacturer has set three separate ...