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Code-Sharing Success
Delta Airlines, Austrian Airlines and Swissair have received US approval to begin a joint Washington-Geneva-Vienna code-sharing service on 26 March. Delta and Swissair will sell seat blocks on Austrian Airbus A310 flights. Source: Flight International
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Turbofan Delivery
CFM International delivered its 7,000th CFM56 turbofan early in February. The General Electric/ Snecma joint venture has orders and options for a further 3,000 engines. Source: Flight International
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Frank Costin
Frank Costin, aerodynamicist and structural engineer, has died. Following a career, which started with General Aircraft in Hanworth, London, and moved to sports-car design, he had returned to aviation and had recently test-flown his Dragonfly ultra-light glider. Source: Flight International
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HAS
Kin Caudill has joined Helicopter Aviation Services (HAS), of Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, as director of marketing for Asia, based in Singapore. He was formerly regional marketing manager with Bell Helicopter Asia, also of Singapore. Juan Martinez becomes director for Latin American marketing, at Irving, Texas. Martinez was most recently head ...
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DFS
Ralph Riedle has taken over as chief of the air-navigation-services division of German air-traffic-services agency Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS). Riedle has been in charge of business relations at the agency, having joined the DFS from a background as an air-traffic controller in 1971. He replaces Lothar Ditz, who is to retire. ...
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British Airways
Graham Howat has been appointed general manager commercial at the engineering department of British Airways. Howat, who co-founded and ran Airline Maintenance Associates, a Cambridge-based consultancy, has also been managing director of Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering. Source: Flight International
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FlightSafety
Training company FlightSafety International, of Flushing, New York, has named Rudy Canto director of airline operations. He will be based at the Long Beach centre, in California. Canto was most recently chief pilot at McDonnell Douglas. Source: Flight International
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Alenia
Alenia Spazio of Italy has appointed Antonio Rodot managing director and chief executive and named Guiseppe Viriglio general manager. They both join the board. Rodot, an electronic engineer, was formerly associate general manager, while Viriglio, an aerospace engineer, was previously deputy general manager. Source: Flight International
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Rockwell
Edward Barry has been named vice-president of integrated inertial-navigation systems/global-positioning systems for Rockwell International's Autonetics Electronic Systems division, of Anaheim, California. He was most recently commander of the US Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center at Los Angeles AFB, California. Clayton Jones is appointed senior vice-president for government operations ...
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Sundstrand
Aviation component and subsystem supplier Sundstrand, of Rockford, Illinois, has named Victor Marone vice-president for aerospace programmes. He was previously with the electrical-systems division of Westinghouse, acquired by Sundstrand in 1992. Ronald McKenna has been appointed vice-president for the newly created aerospace business-development organisation. He was formerly vice-president and general ...
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FFV Aerotech
Bob Pike, formerly director of maintenance, has been promoted to vice-president in charge of aircraft maintenance at Maintenance Company, FFV Aerotech, of Nashville, Tennessee. Scott Hall, previously director of sales, becomes vice-president in charge of marketing and sales. Steve Blackstone is appointed director of component maintenance operations. He was formerly ...
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Lockheed
Gordon England will retire on 1 May as president of Lockheed's Fort Worth, Texas, fighter-aircraft division. No reason for his retirement was announced, but it may be related to the planned $10 billion merger between Lockheed and Martin Marietta. England also served as a corporate vice-president. Dan Tellep, Lockheed's chairman, ...
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UK DTI
Roy McNulty has been appointed chairman of the Aviation Committee of the UK Department of Trade and Industry. McNulty is also president of Short Brothers of Northern Ireland, a past president of the Society of British Aerospace Companies and chairman of the UK Defence and Aerospace Technology Foresight panel. Appointed ...
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Pakistani private sector survivors
Sir - I would like to comment on the article "Bhoja Air leases Yak-42s" (Flight International, 25-31 January, P11). Airlines in the private sector started operations in Pakistan in April 1993. Initially, there were four entrants: Aero Asia, Hajveri, Raji and Bhoja. Six months later, semi-private Shaheen emerged. ...
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Justice has been seen to be done
Sir - The Dan-Air Pilots' Action Group (DAPAG) is pleased that the industrial tribunal has found in its favour that former Dan-Air pilots were unfairly dismissed. From the outset the advice of the British Air Line Pilots Association (BAlPA) has been that DAPAG had no case. Since the ...
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Aviall Caledonian
Peter Muirhead (right) has become production director of Aviall Caledonian, the Prestwick, UK-based aero-engine overhaul and repair company. He was formerly with the PA Consulting Group. John Horsburgh (left) has been promoted to director and general manager for the CF6. He was previously general manager for the CF6. David Crews ...
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AAR
Aircraft-equipment supplier AAR, of Elk Grove Village, Illinois, has named James Bacon vice-president for airline programmes. Bacon, most recently an airline consultant, has also served with Continental Airlines and Air California. Michael Hughes is appointed general manager for AAR Pacific, the company's sales and maintenance base in Singapore. He was ...