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Boeing to detail 717X options
Boeing plans to meet airlines and "partners" in Rome next week to present options for potential future 717X regional jet derivatives as the market continues to push for smaller, rather than larger, family members. Although doubtful of achieving sufficiently low operating costs with the smaller derivatives, Boeing says it ...
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UPS primes 90 aircraft for ADS-B implementation
Guy Norris/SALEM United Parcel Service (UPS) Airlines aims to have 90 aircraft provisioned for automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) by the end of 2000. It plans to equip all its 230 aircraft with operational systems by the end of 2002 - the deadline for installing collision avoidance systems in US heavy ...
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FAA looks at LAAS to replace Cat I WAAS
US Federal Aviation Administration officials are considering whether alternatives such as the Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS) would be a better and cheaper way of achieving Category I approach capability than the troubled Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS). WAAS acceptance testing was halted in January because of excessive false ...
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'Classic' winglet flight tests set
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Aviation Partners Boeing (APB) is to start flight tests of a winglet-equipped Boeing 747-200F in mid-May and flight tests of a similarly equipped 737-200 by July. The joint venture aims to offer blended winglets for retrofits to "Classic" 737 and 747 fleets. The leased 747 will be ...
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Aeroflot and Volga-Dnepr plot new courses
Alexander Velovich and Paul Duffy/MOSCOW Aeroflot Russian International Airlines has launched a new corporate strategy with the introduction of its summer timetable. It incorporates the results of a 600-page report produced after a four-month study by US analysts McKinsey. The Russian carrier's new timetable features 450 scheduled weekly flights ...
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Bombardier aims to retain diversity in business boom
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DCBombardier is looking to shore up its non-aviation businesses in an effort to remain diversified in the face of the continued growth of its aerospace sector. Aerospace accounted for almost 60% of the Canadian company's revenues of C$13.6 billion ($9.3 billion) for the year ended 31 January, up ...
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El Al faces bleak future as plans to privatise slip down Israel's agenda
Arie Egozi/TEL AVIVIsrael has effectively suspended preparation for the privatisation of El Al, causing the flag carrier's president Joel Feldschu to warn that its entire future may be under threat. Feldschu says that while it remains under state control, El Al - which is banned from flying on the Jewish ...
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Students crash in new JAA exams
David Learmount/LONDON Failure is rife among European student pilots taking the new Joint Aviation Authorities written examinations for their commercial pilot licences. A European pilot training school says it normally expects 75-78% of its students to pass all the exams first time, but fewer than 50% have succeeded, even ...
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Delta signs massive CRJ deal
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Delta Air Lines has signed a $10 billion, 500-aircraft, regional jet deal with Bombardier which will provide Delta Connection carriers with 40-, 44- and 50-seat versions of the Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) 200, and 70-seat CRJ700s. The yet-to-be launched 90-seat CRJ900 is not included. Delta ...
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Europe proceeds with hushkit ban
Julian Moxon/PARIS The European Union (EU) is on a collision course with the USA over noise regulations after the European Parliament voted on 30 March for a proposed ban to go ahead on limiting the operation of hushkitted aircraft. Last-minute talks between senior European and US officials failed to ...
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Airbus targets Farnborough air show for launch of A330-100
Guy Norris/SANTIAGO Airbus Industrie hopes to launch its proposed mid-range A330-100 at the Farnborough air show in July, providing the basis of a twin-aisle replacement of the ageing A300-600 and A310. Revealing the plan at the FIDAE 2000 air show in Chile last week, Airbus senior vice-president, commercial, John ...
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FAA Bill approved
Following a three-year fight, the US Federal Aviation Administration's $40 billion three-year reauthorisation Bill has been approved by both the House and the Senate and looks set to be signed into law by President Bill Clinton. The Bill represents a triumph for FAA Administrator Jane Garvey, who has fought hard ...
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A people business
The departure of Bob Ayling from British Airways may have had more than one simple cause, but his apparent lack of ability to motivate staff and sell his vision provide important lessons as the airline looks for a new head. It may be a well-worn maxim, but the airline ...
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KLM gives profit plan details
COLIN BAKER LONDON KLM has detailed its plans to bring the airline back to profitability next year. The measures include a cost-cutting programme and a change in fleet deployment to bring total savings of DFl700 million ($307 million). The airline says the measures, aimed to tackle rising fuel costs, ...
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US majors fight for new China routes
KAREN WALKER WASHINGTON DC The availability of rights for 10 new weekly non-stop flights between the USA and China has pitched US passenger airlines into an unusual battle against cargo carriers. Under an updated US-China aviation agreement, China is granting the US Government the 10 new flights as well ...
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Canada proposes tougher rules
DAVID KNIBB SEATTLE Canada's transport administration, Transport Canada, proposes to rewrite the country's aviation laws, but the Competition Bureau thinks it is not enough. In response to Air Canada's takeover of Canadian Airlines, a parliamentary committee has completed a review of the laws. Ottawa believes these need revision to ...
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Struggling VASP looks to domestic market
BRIAN HOMEWOOD RIO DE JANEIRO VASP, Brazil's third-biggest airline, is struggling to maintain its credibility after a run of embarrassing problems caused by an apparent lack of cash. The beleaguered airline, which has cut several international routes and returned four Boeing MD-11s, nearly had its landing rights suspended at Brazilian ...
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Taiwan-Philippines dispute back on
Scheduled flights between the Philippines and Taiwan have again been halted as a dispute over capacity has re-erupted. China Airlines, EVA Airways and Philippine Airlines all suspended services between Taipei and Manila in mid-March, one month after resuming them. This followed a settlement to a dispute between Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics ...
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All parcelled up
PETER CONWAY LONDON The long awaited shake-out in the logistics sector could be about tore-write the rules for airline cargo departments and express operators alike When Ocean Group and NFC, two UK companies with global logistics businesses, announced a merger a month ago, it probably did not create much ...
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Back from the Brink
NICHOLAS IONIDES JAKARTA President-director Abdulgani, at the helm of Garuda Indones President-director Abdulgani does not mince his words about Garuda Indonesia's troubles over the past few years. "If changes had not happened, Garuda may have collapsed - it really was that serious. Garuda has had deep financial and big ...