All Fleets articles – Page 934
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Airbus Industrie received its first firm contract for the new 107-seat A318 in April, when an undisclosed customer placed orders for 57 A320 family aircraft, including 30 A318s, 14 A319s, three A320s and 10 A321s. COPA Airlines of Panama has taken delivery of the first of 12 Boeing 737-700s it ...
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Revolution ahead
Fairchild Aerospace believes the regional jet industry is poised at the "beginning of a revolution" that will be even more dramatic over the next 10 years than in recent times. Carl Albert, Fairchild Aerospace chairman and chief executive, believes the revolution will come in the 50-plus seat sector, where ...
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Airbus still challenged by need to restructure
Kevin O'Toole TOULOUSE At its annual press briefing, Airbus Industrie appeared surprisingly subdued given that it has just achieved its 30-year goal of parity with Boeing. But then there are still plenty of hurdles ahead, not least, its conversion to a commercial company. When an Airbus salesman admits to ...
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Opening Arab skies
Tom Gill JEDDAH Unity among Arab airlines is being tested over proposals for a single aviation market in the region as they struggle against a weak economic background. With the Middle East peace dividend yet to materialise, weak oil prices , a continuing UN economic embargo on Iraq and ...
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Routes - Asia
China codeshare - Australia's Qantas Airways and China Eastern Airlines have signed a commercial agreement for a codesharing partnership. The carriers are to start sharing codes on flights between Australia and China sometime in the "middle of the year". Fiji first - Ansett Australia is to open a new ...
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Fleets - Asia
Taiwan orders - Taiwan's EVA Airways has ordered three Boeing 747-400 freighters for delivery from next year, apparently taking advantage of a good deal on offer (see feature p80). Rival China Airlines is preparing to announce a similar order for 747-400Fs, but it is also expected to order 777s and ...
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Tackling IFE
As aircraft deliveries continue to ramp up, Airbus is aiming to take a tighter grip over the scope for Buyer Furnished Equipment (BFE) - basically the seats, galleys and in-flight entertainment (IFE) systems specified by the customer. Late delivery or faults with such items, especially IFE, has begun to cause ...
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Jockeying for position
Tom Gill While European and US hubs remain buoyed by healthy traffic flows across the Atlantic, the airports of Asia-Pacific have yet to see concrete signs of recovery in passenger numbers to fill the bright new capacity that has been coming on stream. If growth through the world's airports ...
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Airbus deliveries rocket with 2,000th shipment
David Learmount/TOULOUSE Having just delivered its 2,000th aircraft, Airbus Industrie predicts that it will achieve the 3,000 target within three years. Germany's Lufthansa, Airbus' largest single airline customer, took delivery last week of the 2,000th, an A340-300. Deliveries of the whole Airbus range are rolling off the assembly lines ...
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US Q400 order on horizon as targets are bettered
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Bombardier and US regional carrier Horizon Air are negotiating a deal for at least 20 Dash 8 Q400 turboprops. An order from Horizon would represent a critical breakthrough in the North American market for the Canadian manufacturer. Although not confirmed by either party, ...
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Chinese aim to compensate for traffic slump with aircraft leases
Chinese airlines are responding to overcapacity and a slump in domestic traffic by offering aircraft for lease to other carriers. China Southern Airlines, based in Guangzhou, is to wet-lease two of its Boeing 777-200s to Biman Airlines of Bangladesh for carrying passengers on the hadj, starting in July. Chengdu-based ...
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SEAsian carriers recovering
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE Chris Jasper/LONDON South East Asia's major carriers appear to be easing out of the slump which so depressed traffic last year, with Cathay Pacific - the region's most notable victim last year - reporting a 5% increase in passengers during the first quarter of 1998. Thai Airways ...
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Marketplace
American Airlines has placed orders for three additional Boeing 737-800s for delivery in 2000. The 146-seaters will replace three aircraft operated by Reno Air that will not be integrated into American's fleet when the airlines are merged. Beirut-based Trans-Mediterranean Airways (TMA) is seeking finance to fund the acquisition of ...
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Routes
Air Canada launched daily non-stop Airbus A319 services between Chicago and Calgary on 17 May, with plans for twice-daily flights. United Airlines will codeshare on the route. Lufthansa Cargo will reintroduce and increase freighter service to Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, on 31 May, having previously announced that it would suspend flights ...
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Workshop
British Airways has selected its subsidiary BAAE to undertake avionics maintenance of its Airbus fleet. The airline has orders and options on 188 single-aisle A320 family aircraft. Subject to raising the required investment funding, BAAE will undertake the maintenance at its South Wales facility for the next 10 years. Sextant ...
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Estonian builds with CRJ-200s
Andrew Chuter/TALLINEstonian Air is to transform its fleet in the wake of its co-operation agreement with SAS, switching the emphasis away from the Boeing 737 and Fokker 50 turboprop towards Bombardier regional jets. The Tallin-based carrier, 49% owned by Denmark's Maersk Air, with the Estonian Government and the Baltic Cresco ...
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Delta completes acquisition of Atlantic Southeast
Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA) has become a wholly owned subsidiary of Delta Air Lines following the approval of a shareholders' meeting of ASA Holding, the parent company of the regional airline. Delta and ASA have announced schedule changes, beginning on 1 June, that will include ASA jet service to ...
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Fairchild Aerospace predicts business boom
Buoyed by its recent Lufthansa 728JET launch order, Fairchild Aerospace says its option and order backlog will exceed $10 billion by the end of 1999. The company predicts "substantial" new business for its 328JET/428JET family, particularly in North America, where scope clauses changes are expected. "We think it's the ...
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Community Air plans June start
Community Air, a California-based start-up operator aiming to become one of the first to take advantage of newly relaxed US regulations on single-engined, instrument flight rules (IFR) passenger operations, plans to begin flying on 1 June with a fleet of Pilatus PC-12s (above). The carrier intends to connect rural communities ...
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European airlines' profits slip
Julian Moxon/BRUSSELSEuropean airlines remained profitable last year and ordered record numbers of aircraft, but it was a "black" year for punctuality, according to the Association of European Airlines (AEA) Operating profits, at $1.94 billion, were $400 million lower than for the previous year. Although 1997 figures were a record, much ...