All Fleets articles – Page 946
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Big Skywest order
SkyWest Airlines has ordered 25 Bombardier CRJ 200LRs as a partial replacement for its turboprop fleet and to enable the Utah-based carrier to expand its regional services, including United Express codeshares, to the US West Coast and mountain areas. "Our plan is to use the first five aircraft to replace ...
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Rule change
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC The aero engine service business has undergone a fundamental overhaul since 1995, when manufacturers began to recognise the untapped potential of the aftersales market to boost revenue. Airlines, struggling to cut costs, have been moving meanwhile to spin off their engineering divisions or to exit the ...
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Marketplace
-CIT Group has delivered two Stage 3 hushkitted Boeing 727-200s to Champion Air on seven-year operating leases. -Cabot Aviation has arranged the sale of a 16-year-old, ex-TAP Air Portugal Lockheed L-1011 TriStar 500 to Canadian charter airline Air Transat. The aircraft has been delivered, following a C check, and will ...
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Sirocco re-evaluates strategy
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Sirocco Aerospace and Lufthansa Technik have frozen plans to establish a worldwide support network for the Tupolev Tu-204-120, in the face of the Russian economic crisis. Meanwhile, the German company's sister business, Lufthansa Cargo, confirms that it has decided not to acquire the freighter version of ...
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Airbus forecasts lower sales for 1999 as demand dwindles
Julian Moxon/PARIS Airbus Industrie expects to achieve "significantly lower" sales during 1999, following its record breaking year of orders and deliveries, but insists it will continue the near-50% market share achieved in 1998 in all areas where it competes with Boeing. Commercial vice-president John Leahy declines to predict the ...
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SAS opts for A330/A340s but order awaits cost cuts to bite
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH SAS has selected the Airbus A330/A340 family for its planned long-haul fleet renewal but is holding off signing a firm order until its internal cost cutting targets have been met. The airline has decided to reject Boeing's offer of 10 Boeing 777-200ERs in favour of a ...
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Management actions
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Flight management systems (FMS) are no longer luxury items found only on large airliners, but essential equipment on commercial aircraft of all sizes and ages. The reason is the navigation accuracy now possible and the cost benefits available to airlines in the form of fuel and ...
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CIT Group gears up to place large Airbus/Boeing orders
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC The CIT Group is set to announce an order for up to 50 Airbus and Boeing narrowbody and widebody aircraft, representing the US financing and leasing company's first major purchase of new passenger jets. CIT's planned order is understood to include 25 Airbus A320s and ...
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Pop goes the boom
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON On the face of it, the Airbus and Boeing orderbooks have so far escaped much of the Asian gloom, with a third successive year of solid sales and production records. Order deferrals, however, have already begun, and airliner salesmen are bracing themselves for a tougher time ahead ...
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Thriving business
Andrew Doyle/TEL AVIV In an era when airline bosses preach the merits of focusing on "core activities", Arkia Israeli Airlines has learned to thrive through diversification. As Israel's largest domestic carrier, Arkia built its international charter unit into a major leisure travel business, selling everything from hotel rooms ...
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Swisscargo drops spin-off proposal
Swissair's cargo division, Swisscargo, has ditched proposals to spin off its own freight airline and will instead expand its existing strategy of wet-lease and block space agreements. The tentative plan to set up the cargo airline was studied in 1997, when an initial three of five Boeing 747-300 passenger ...
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PAL talks to resume as President steps in
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE Philippine Airlines' (PAL) creditors have agreed to resume talks to rework the airline's rehabilitation plan, after overwhelmingly rejecting it in their initial analysis, according to the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The announcement follows Philippine President Joseph Estrada signing an executive order making the SEC ...
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Marketplace (1)
-UK remarketing agent Cabot Aviation has purchased Thai Airways International's two eight-year-old ATR 42-320s, which are now being offered for onward sale or lease. -Swedish lessor Indigo Aviation has acquired two Boeing 737-400s which are currently leased to Istanbul Airlines and Italy's Blue Panorama. The aircraft are leased until 2003. ...
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Marketplace (2)
-Hawaiian Airlines has purchased two McDonnell Douglas DC-9-50s from the Italian airline Meridiana, for delivery in February. The airline already operates 13 DC-9-51s on its inter-island route network, and is exempt to the US Stage 2 phase-out noise legislation that takes full effect at the end of 1999, because Hawaii ...
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Orbital Sciences breaks record with $2.5 billion orderbook
Orbital Sciences (OSC) is claiming a record $2.5 billion-worth of new orders in 1998 for space and ground infrastructure systems product lines. Just over half the contracts were for Pegasus, Taurus and suborbital rocket launches and $475 million for sensors, electronics and satellite ground systems. The latest figures bring ...
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Fresh delay threatens A3XX
Julian Moxon/PARIS The Airbus Industrie A3XX is facing further delay as potential customer airlines, confronted by increasingly tough market conditions, retreat from committing to the aircraft in time to support an already delayed late 1999 launch deadline. While the airlines consider their options on timing, the European consortium is believed ...
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Ansett to replace 747-300s with -400s
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS The board of Ansett International has endorsed a plan to acquire two Boeing 747-400s as interim replacements for two 747-300s it leases from partner Singapore Airlines (SIA). The decision removes any near term plans to acquire smaller twinjets. The airline operates the 747-300s between Australia and ...
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Lauda Air bolsters fleet with Next Generation 737s, additional 767
Lauda Air has ordered a further six Boeing Next Generation 737s and an additional 767-300ER in a $519 million deal with the US manufacturer. The carrier, part of the Austrian Airlines group, will take delivery of the 767 in August. Two 737-600s and four 737-700s will be handed over ...
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747 cut forces Northrop Grumman to take pre-tax charge
Northrop Grumman is taking a pre-tax charge of $125 million in the fourth quarter of 1998, mainly because of a reduction in deliveries of fuselages for the Boeing 747-400 programme. A $20 million charge was also taken to cover a cost estimate increase on the Directional Infrared Countermeasures (DIRCM) programme. ...
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Boeing loses ground to Airbus in backing of firm orders
Boeing again sold more aircraft than Airbus Industrie in 1998, but its high delivery rate, combined with cancellations, saw it lose ground to its European rival in terms of firm order backlog. Provisional figures from Airbus suggest its share of the total backlog in the 100-seat plus sector grew ...