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Sizing up all the options
I agree with the basic message of 'Stop Downsizing' by Scott Brandt (Airline Business, October 1995). No significant improvement in the maintenance cost structure has been accomplished - not only over the last five years but in the last 25 years!Bearing in mind that the major ...
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New Mexico chair
Ernesto Martens Rebolledo replaces Jose Luis Llamosas Portilla as chairman of Aeromexico, according to Aviation Latin America & Caribean. Rebolledo is president of a Banco Serfin subsidiary - one of the airline's major creditors. Source: Airline Business
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Alaskan shift
Alaska Air Group has appointed John F Kelly as chairman, president and chief executive. He will hold the same post at Alaska Airlines and continue as chief operating officer of the carrier. Kelly, who also takes up the chairman's role at Horizon Air Industries, replaces Raymond Vecci. ...
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Olympic event
Prof Rigas Doganis has taken over the presidency and chairmanship of Olympic Airways, replacing Theodoris Tsakiridis. Doganis was formerly head of air transport at Cranfield University in the UK. Source: Airline Business
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El Al at last
El Al has emerged from bankruptcy after more than a decade, leaving new chairman, Joseph Chiehanover, to appoint a board and guide the carrier to privatisation. Source: Airline Business
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Japanese tie
Japan Airlines and Thai have signed an agreement in which both carriers will expand the Nagoya-Bangkok service they operate jointly and launch a joint Osaka/Kansai-Bangkok service. In addition, Thai will operate Fukuoka-Bangkok for the partnership. Source: Airline Business
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Runway debate
Amsterdam/Schipol has received Dutch government approval for its fifth runway, with a stipulation the airport's capacity is limited to 40 million passengers annually. Meanwhile UK Secretary of State for Transport Dr Brian Mawhinney has ruled out a third runway at London/Heathrow. He wants attention focused on 'less environmentally damaging' options ...
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Norse code
After less than a year in the industry, SAS president and chief executive Jan Stenberg is well on course to meet the target set in the cost cutting programme initiated by his interim predecessor Jan Reinås. Including the proceeds from the disposal of non-core activities such as SAS Service Partner, ...
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Heat Rejection
Loral Vought has been awarded a $13.3 million extension-contract to redesign six heat-rejection system radiators for the international space station. The 1,050kg, 3m-long radiators will extend to 25m in orbit and will be capable of releasing 11kW of excess heat using a pumped liquid-ammonia heat-transfer system. ...
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Cellular Go Ahead
The US Federal Communications Commission has granted licences to Motorola, TRW and Loral/Qualcomm to operate the worldwide hand-held cellular-telephone satellite systems Iridium, Odyssey and Globalstar, but not to Constellation Communications and Mobile Communications. Inmarsat plans a competitive system, called Inmarsat P. Source: Flight International
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New-Generation F-18 Trainer
An advanced McDonnell Douglas (MDC) F-18 operational flight trainer, in which pilots can practise and be scored on air-to-air and air-to-ground weapons delivery and electronic countermeasures, has been delivered to the US Naval Reserves by Hughes Training. The unit delivered to the New Orleans Naval Air Station on 18 February ...
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Second C-17 Squadron
The first McDonnell Douglas C-17 transport has been delivered to Charleston AFB, South Carolina, for the formation of the second operational C-17 squadron. The 14th Sqn of the 437th Airlift Wing is switching to the C-17 from the Lockheed C-141. It will be operated alongside C-17s of the 17th Airlift ...
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GB Airways
GB Airways, now a British Airways franchise carrier is adding four per week services to the Spanish destinations of Valencia and Murcia in the northern summer. Source: Flight International
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Austrian Airlines
Austrian Airlines is beginning services from Vienna to Beijing and Almaty, while Austrian rival Lauda Air is starting a daily Salzburg-London Gatwick service. Source: Flight International
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Air Engiadina
Air Engiadina of Switzerland is transferring its Berne-London service from London Stansted to London City Airport using the Dornier 328. Source: Flight International
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Air Canada
Air Canada is increasing its transatlantic and transpacific capacity for the northern summer by 18%. Toronto-Tel Aviv and Toronto-Montreal-Brussels are new services. There are capacity and frequency increases on routes to Madrid, Osaka, London, Glasgow, Zurich, Berlin and Vienna. Source: Flight International
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Bell Taiwan Deal
Bell Helicopter Textron is to set up a helicopter-maintenance plant in Taiwan in collaboration with Air Asia. Source: Flight International
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Peeking in the backyard Peeking in the backyard
Sir - Before James Weber accuses the French Directorate General of Civil Aviation and Airbus Industrie of "...letting aircraft continue to crash while they work out what is happening", he should look at his own "backyard". Despite growing evidence that the Boeing 737 rudder system may have contributed to a ...