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Boeing regains popularity in China
Boeing is beginning to enjoy a revival in the number of its passenger aircraft being ordered and leased by Chinese carriers, as political relations between Beijing and Washington continue to show signs of improvement. After a year in which Boeing recorded total sales of only three aircraft in ...
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Air Littoral orders more Regional Jets, evaluates CRJ-X
Air Littoral has signed a $133 million deal with Bombardier Aircraft for seven Regional Jets, with options on a further five. The Montpellier, France-based regional airline is also seriously evaluating the stretched 70-seat Bombardier CRJ-X regional jet. All seven aircraft, which are in addition to the nine Regional ...
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Ministry places launch order for Beriev Be-200
Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations has placed an order with the Beta-Air consortium for seven Beriev Be-200 jet amphibians.The aircraft will be built at the APKSukhoi Irkutsk plant. Along with Irkutsk and Beriev, the Beta-Air consortium also includes Swiss financier ILTA Trade. The order is a further success ...
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AlliedSignal wins $100 million APU/avionics deal
GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) has selected AlliedSignal Aerospace to supply auxiliary-power units (APUs) and avionics for up to 80 Airbus Industrie A320s which the US leasing company plans to buy, in a deal worth around $100 million. The agreement means that GECAS is likely to be one ...
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The big issue
BOEING'S REVELATION that it will not be competing in the very-large-airliner market with a derivative of the 747, thus apparently leaving Airbus Industrie's A3XX with a clear run, has certainly raised more questions than answers. While attention has focused on Boeing's doubts about lack of "sufficient market demand" ...
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Corporate Chinese
The Chinese Government has ordered five Canadair Corporate JetLiners from Bombardier in a deal valued at $116 million. The aircraft, a corporate version of the 50-seat Canadair Regional Jet, will be operated by the military-run China United Airlines and used as government VIP transports. The first three are due for ...
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R-R and airlines wrangle over cost of -524G/H problems
Rolls-Royce is facing demands that it bear the brunt of the massive costs airlines are incurring because of reliability and performance shortfalls of their RB.211-524G/H engines. The problems, which affect more than 100 RB.211-powered Boeing 747-400s and 767-300s, are estimated already to have cost the airlines more than $200 million ...
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AI(R) hunts for Jet risk-sharing partners
Aero International (Regional) (AI(R))has formally launched the search for risk-sharing partners to join the $1 billion development of the proposed new AI(R)Jet family of 58- and 68-seat regional jets. Aerostructures companies from Asia, Europe and North America were invited to a programme briefing at Toulouse on 22 January, ...
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Dragon Airbus
Dragonair of Hong Kong has confirmed an order for a sixth Rolls-Royce Trent 700-powered Airbus A330-300. The new aircraft is scheduled for delivery in late 1998. The airline recently ordered two more Airbus A320s, with options for another five, and it is to lease a fifth A330 from International Lease ...
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Air Nelson swops Saab 340s for DBA aircraft
Air New Zealand subsidiary Air Nelson has begun a roll-over of its Saab 340 fleet, with the disposal of some of its existing aircraft and the acquisition of replacement aircraft from airlines in Europe. The Nelson, New Zealand-based regional has purchased two of Deutsche BA's Saab 340As, and ...
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JAL adds flights
Japan Airlines (JAL) is to introduce an increase in flights to Asian and domestic destinations to meet growing competition. From April, JAL plans to add two new additional weekly flights from Nagoya to both Manila and Singapore, and one more to Bangkok. JAL's fleet of aircraft will increase in size ...
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China Eastern prepares to list in New York and Hong Kong
China Eastern Airlines has taken the initial steps towards a share listings on the New York and Hong Kong stock exchange, which will make it the first mainland Chinese carrier to undergo a public flotation. The Shanghai-based airline has filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission and ...
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Building a new India
Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) boss R N Sharma's announcement at the Aero India '96 show in December that he intended to start negotiations to license-build a 50-seat turboprop, and to buy a stake in a regional-jet programme, raised a few smiles among the Indian press corps. They had heard it all ...
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ASA may increase CRJ commitment
Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA) cites the eventual availability of a 70-seat derivative as one reason for selecting the Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) to meet its 50-seat requirements, and Bombardier is hopeful that the airline will add to the existing 90-aircraft commitment. The Delta Connection carrier will place firm ...
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EMB-145 wins Portugalia verdict over CRJ
Portugalia has selected the Embraer EMB-145 to operate on its expanding regional network from Portugal, following a two-way contest involving the Brazilian aircraft and the Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet. The privately owned carrier says that it will shortly sign firm contracts covering four EMB-145s, for delivery in May, ...
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Bombardier gets Dash 8-400 order boost from Tyrolean
Austria's Tyrolean Airways has become the second European customer, after Wider¿e, for the high-speed, 70-seat de Havilland Dash 8-400 with an $83 million order for four aircraft. The airline, which has also taken an additional four options, will take delivery of the four firm Dash 8s between ...
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Gulf Air restructures fleet and network
Gulf Air is to dispose of six aircraft and cease operating certain routes, as the airline attempts to turn round its heavy losses and reduce its debt mountain. The announcement comes only a week after the four Gulf States which own the airline again failed to agree on terms for ...
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Building for the future
In the race to WIN what promises to be one of the world's largest air-transport markets in the 21st century, aircraft manufacturers in recent years have been busy beating a path to Beijing bearing all manner of industrial and infrastructural inducements. Airbus Industrie is about to take the wraps of ...
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Airbus withdraws USAir's future delivery positions
Airbus Industrie has withdrawn all of USAir's 1998 and 1999 firm delivery positions, as well as support for a planned aircraft lease, because the US air carrier "-has not demonstrated that it will be able to affirm its Airbus aircraft purchase". USAir has told its employees that it ...
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Delta detection
Robotic Vision Systems (RVSI) has received an order from Delta Air Lines for additional ID-1H wide-area ice-detection systems to complete equipment of its Delta Shuttle aircraft. The ID-1H combines a hand-held sensor with a video display to enable de-icing truck operators to locate contamination of critical surfaces. Source: ...