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Tongan Lease Share
Royal Tongan Airlines, has entered a lease-sharing deal with Air Pacific of Fiji, to operate a Boeing 737-300 on its Pacific routes. It has also won Australian Government approval to carry revenue passengers on its Sydney-Auckland-Tonga route. Source: Flight International
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World Aviation
Colin Smale-Saunders has become managing director of World Aviation Support, part of the British World Aviation Group, based at Southend, Essex. Smale-Saunders has held positions at Wayne-Kerr, Emphenol and Panduit. Source: Flight International
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Flight
Andrew Doyle has joined Flight International as technical reporter, based at the magazine's London head office. Doyle was previously assistant editor on Airline Maintenance World and the Air Letter. He has an honours degree in aeronautical engineering, and will be responsible for general technical and news reporting. Source: ...
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America West
Douglas Parker has been appointed senior vice-president and chief financial officer of America West Airlines, of Phoenix, Arizona. He was formerly vice-president and assistant treasurer for Northwest Airlines. Source: Flight International
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Intertrade
Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based Intertrade, an aerospace-components redistribution company, has appointed Mike Shojaat senior associate in the avionics-services business unit. He was formerly manager of marketing operations with Rockwell-Collins. Source: Flight International
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Pemco
John Driver has become vice-president for product support at Pemco World Air Services of Birmingham, Alabama, a subsidiary of maintenance company Precision Standard. Driver, who will be based at Denver Colorado, was most recently vice-president for customer support at UK helicopter company Westland. Source: Flight International
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Pace
Pace Airline Services has appointed Rachael Harrison UK operations director and Allan Burck UK sales director. Harrison, with Pace for nine years, was formerly operations manager. Burck, with the company for six years, will be responsible for all UK sales efforts. Both will be based at the Birmingham International Airport ...
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Northwest
Ruthie McKee has been named senior vice-president for customer service and line maintenance at Northwest Airlines, of St Paul, Minneapolis. She was formerly vice-president for customer service, ground operations. Frank Jauregui becomes vice-president for line maintenance. He was previously managing director of international line maintenance. Marilyn Rogers is named vice-president ...
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Thomson UAE Order
The United Arab Emirates' seven Eurocopter AS.565 Panther anti-surface-ship-warfare helicopters now on order are to be fitted with the Thomson-CSF helicopter self-protection system (HSPS). The HSPS incorporates wide-band-signals reception, instantaneous frequency measurement and system control. According to Patrick Henin, assistant director of Thomson's Radar and Countermeasures division, this ...
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Nose to nose
The Paris show is the first major event for over a decade to feature aircraft from both Boeing and Airbus Industrie Kieran Daly/LONDON The significance of symbolic moments should not be exaggerated, but Paris '95 serves as well as any event to mark the start of ...
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Business returns
That there are more than 30 business aircraft on display at Paris suggests a new found sales optimism Forbes Mutch/LONDON After several years of stagnation, even of decline, the corporate-aircraft market, hardest hit of all aerospace sectors during the recession, has at last shown signs of movement. ...
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Empty Space
Just when we've really got something to talk about, we can't go," says Debbie Rahn of NASA's public affairs office for international affairs, explaining that the US space agency has pulled out of this year's Paris air show, for reasons of economic expediency. The timing is unfortunate because ...
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Tunnel vision?
Are Europe's airlines underestimating the impact of high-speed rail services? Andrew Chuter/LONDON If the old maxim that the customer is always right still has meaning, then the airlines that ply the world's busiest air route between London and Paris have a fight on their hands. ...
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Transatlantic tussle
The US defence industry will be putting on a show of strength at Le Bourget Douglas Barrie/London Against the dark background of an aggressive US military marketing push, the debut of the Eurofighter 2000 combat aircraft at Le Bourget still hangs in the balance. The decision is ...