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EC to study environment
ALAN GEORGE BRUSSELS The European Commission (EC) has invited bids for a major study of market-based options for reducing the environmental impact of aircraft operations. The move, by the transport directorate (DGVII), comes as part of a wider formulation of environmental policy which will include the issue of a ...
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Free for all
KAREN WALKER WASHINGTON DC US plans for a modernised air traffic control system have undergone a sharp change in direction, making them evolutionary rather than revolutionary and putting the emphasis on government-industry collaboration. Such a programme is more likely to win Congressional support and become a reality. "Ask 10 controllers ...
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Mind the capacity gap
Chris Tarry of Commerzbank unveils a new model to measure the true gap between capacity growth and underlying traffic demand. A constant theme of our analysis over the last few months has been the relationship between capacity - or more precisely excess capacity - and yields. A recent surge ...
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Destination unknown
Replacing its current fleet could be the least complicated issue facing Canadian Regional Airlines as an airline takeover battle looms Paul Seidenman/CALGARY As Air Canada and Canadian Airlines (CAI) face up to each other in what is becoming one of the hardest-fought airline takeover battles in recent years, shock waves ...
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Roton makes first translational flight
Rotary Rocket's Roton Atmospheric Test Vehicle approach and landing demonstrator made its first translational, forward, flight in the envelope expansion programme on 12 October. The craft, which is planned to be a single-stage to low-earth-orbit vehicle, flew 1,310m (4,300ft) along Mojave Airport's runway at a maximum altitude of 72ft ...
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FedEx MD-11 in Subic Bay overrun
A FedEx Boeing MD-11 freighter was destroyed in a landing accident at Subic Bay freeport, Philippines, on 17 October. The tri-jet overran the airport's 2,745m (9,000ft) runway 07 and fell into the sea, sinking quickly. Injuries to the two pilots, the only occupants, are reportedly minor. The aircraft (N581FE), inbound ...
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Delta learns crash lessons with mask deal
Delta Air Lines is to equip all its aircraft with full-face cockpit oxygen masks from BE Aerospace. The move follows a number of fatal fires and comes ahead of an anticipated Federal Aviation Administration ruling on their use. The airline plans to fit the system to all 600 ...
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Continental boss hits out at Airbus A340/ETOPS campaign
Continental Airlines chief executive Gordon Bethune has hit out at Airbus Industrie over its advertising campaign promoting the safety of four-engined aircraft versus twins on Pacific routes. In a letter to Airbus managing director Noel Forgeard, Bethune accuses Airbus of exploiting "the unfounded fears of the travelling public on ...
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USA aims to extend open skies arrangements round the world
The US Government plans to use a forthcoming meeting to spark discussions on broadening the scope of current bilateral open skies agreements into regional or global arrangements. It has previously been reluctant to do this. The gathering of international transport and aviation authorities will take place in Chicago on ...
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Bombardier will decide on regional jets early next year
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Bombardier says decisions on whether to proceed with the 90-seat CRJ-900 and 110-seat BRJ-X regional jets will be taken independently, within months of each other, next year. The Canadian company is offering the CRJ-900 to airlines, but will not have the authority to offer the ...
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Boeing set to launch cockpit upgrades for 'classic' airliners
Andrew Doyle/BRUSSELS Boeing plans to launch major cockpit upgrade programmes for the 737 Classic, MD-80 and McDonnell Douglas DC-9 as airlines begin to address the problem of how to comply with future air navigation requirements. The initiative is being driven by industry moves to establish a "free flight" regime in ...
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Taiwan-Philippines charters set to stop
Charter flights between Taiwan and the Philippines, unaffected by the recent ban on scheduled flights between the two countries due to the row over their air services agreement, are to be suspended by the end of the year. The move will see the severing of the last air links between ...
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Marketplace
Air Canada has received the first of six Rolls-Royce Trent 700-powered Airbus A330-300s. Qatari wet-lease specialist Gulf Falcon Group has arranged to acquire five ex-Japan Airlines Boeing 747s, including two -100s and three -200s, from Itochu Air Lease, for delivery from December. Indigo Aviation has sold two CFM International CFM56-powered ...
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Lufthansa's Lido scoops BA flight planning contract
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH British Airways has chosen Lufthansa Group subsidiary Lido to provide its new advanced flight planning system after a two-year selection process. The UK carrier will use Lido Operation Centre (Lido OC) for all flight planning and dispatch procedures, replacing the SWORD system bought from American Airlines ...
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Injury payment
China Southern Airlines will pay up to HK$5,000 ($645) compensation and medical costs to passengers hurt when a Boeing 757 hit severe turbulence injuring 45 on board, some of them seriously. The aircraft dropped 2,000ft (600m) in 10s from 21,000ft before the captain regained control. The co-pilot, who was not ...
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Burning issues
A new report challenges aviation's complacency about the long-term effect it may have on the atmosphere Julian Moxon/PARIS Look at the sky on a clear day and you are likely to see contrails produced by high-flying aircraft, their criss-cross patterns melting slowly to form light, wispy cirrus-type clouds before they ...
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Saab 2000 hits hangar
A two-year-old SAS Commuter Saab 2000 ploughed into a hangar at Stockholm Arlanda Airport on 8 October while being taxied by two mechanics. The Saab-owned aircraft came to rest halfway through the hangar door, suffering extensive damage to its nose, wing leading edge and engine nacelles, and may be beyond ...
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Falcon 50 engine retrofit firms up
AlliedSignal has signed an agreement with Dassault covering the retrofit of TFE731-40 turbofans to Falcon 50s, as Garrett Aviation Services nears completion of the first re-engining at its Springfield, Illinois site. The -40s replace the original TFE731-3 engines, and produce 24% more cruise thrust, as well as a reducing ...
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Air Botswana fleet is wrecked
Linden Birns/CAPE TOWN Air Botswana has wet-leased aircraft from South Africa's SA Express to reinstate services after almost all its aircraft were destroyed in a bizarre pilot suicide crash last week. An enraged pilot, recently grounded for medical reasons by the small southern African airline, apparently vented his ...
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Liberate ATC operations, urges CANSO
David Learmount/LONDON All air traffic control services must be liberated from direct governmental control, says the Geneva-based Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO), which represents the world's 20 autonomous air traffic services (ATS) providers. CANSO believes the alternative is that the world's air navigation services will die through ...