Fleets – Page 1047
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TWA will replaced L-1011 fleet with 757s
TRANS WORLD AIRLINES (TWA) is to acquire 20 Pratt & Whitney-powered 757-200s - ten purchased from Boeing and ten leased from International Lease Finance - to replace its 14 Lockheed L-1011s and some Boeing 727s. The carrier will also hushkit 28 McDonnell Douglas (MDC) DC-9-30s, and is negotiating with MDC ...
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R-R considers Asian Trent 777 centre
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE ROLLS-ROYCE IS studying development of a coordinated regional engine-overhaul and repair capability for Asian airlines operating the Trent 800-powered Boeing 777. The UK engine maker is trying to persuade carriers to adopt a co-operative approach to Trent engine maintenance, by establishing complementary, rather ...
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ValuJet expands fleet
VALUJET AIRLINES has purchased nine McDonnell Douglas (MDC) DC-9-30s and two MD-83s in deals which will take its fleet to 58 aircraft by the end of the first quarter of 1997. MDC helped locate the aircraft under the terms of ValuJet's launch order for 50 MDC MD-95s, deliveries of which ...
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Mesaba puts 328 and 340 on its shortlist
NORTHWEST AIRLINK carrier Mesaba Airlines has shortlisted the Dornier 328 and Saab 340 for an order worth almost $400 million to replace its fleet of 26 Fairchild Metro IIIs and 25 Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-100s. It plans to replace its fleet between June and the fourth quarter of 1998. ...
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SAS concentrates on fleet requirement beyond 2000
Gunter Endres/LONDON SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES System (SAS) is to study a plan to purchase between ten and 20 long- and medium-range aircraft to add to its fleet starting by the year 2000. The study will examine the case for retaining the Boeing 767 in the SAS fleet ...
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Trent leasing
The Rolls-Royce Trent has been selected by Singapore Aircraft Leasing to power six Boeing 777s ordered by the company. The deal completes a clean sweep for R-R in South-East Asia. It also has orders from Singapore Airlines, Malaysian Airline Systems and Thai International for Trents to power 777s. ...
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Singapore pushes West to support AE-100
SINGAPORE WANTS prospective Western partners to commit to taking a greater stake in the development, production and marketing of China's planned AE-100 regional jet. Singapore Technologies (ST) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) to take a 10% share in the programme. ...
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FlightSafety adds Regional Jet
FLIGHTSAFETY International (FSI) is to install its first Canadair Regional Jet flight simulator at its Cincinnati, Ohio, training centre. Cincinnati is the home base of regional carrier Comair, the largest operator of 50-seat Regional Jets, with 29 in service, 16 more on firm order and options for a further 25. ...
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Ansett fleet plans defined
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS ANSETT AUSTRALIA has detailed interim plans to increase its widebody fleet to provide a 10% capacity increase on key business routes. The carrier also wants to reduce its fleet from eight to five types, and to retire its Stage 3 Boeing 727s and Fokker ...
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IAE steps up V2500 campaign
INTERNATIONAL AERO Engines (IAE) is engaged in around 30 active sales campaigns and, in 1996, it hopes to equal or exceed 1995's record sales effort when V2500 orders worth more than $1.6 billion were taken. "We are active right around the Pacific rim in 1996 and we see ...
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Embraer confident about its future
EMBRAER EXPECTS to have launched a finance and leasing operation to support sales of the EMB-120 Brasilia turboprop and EMB-145 regional jet by the time of the first delivery of the latter aircraft late this year. The Brazilian manufacturer is already starting to establish the structure of the ...
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Dornier orders
Dornier Luftfahrt has won new Dornier 328 orders from customers in France and Italy. Italian start-up regional carrier Minerva has placed two firm orders for delivery in the second quarter, and one option. Dijon-based Proteus has ordered a further two aircraft, which it will fly for Europair from April as ...
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Airbus closes on A330-200 sale
AIRBUS CLAIMS to be in final negotiations with Korean Air (KAL) and two other unidentified international carriers to place the first orders for the recently launched A330-200 "shrink". According to Airbus senior vice-president John Leahy, KAL is looking for between 12 and 15 A330-200s, and up to six ...
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Infrastructure
Winner: Airways Corporation of new Zealand Location: Wellington, New Zealand Achievement: Implementing the first satellite-based oceanic traffic control system, opening up the use of Future Air Navigation Systems in the Pacific. Airways Corporation of new Zealand has become the first air-traffic-control organisation to install a satellite-based oceanic ...
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Systems & components
Winner: Messier-Bugatti Location: Velizy, France Achievement: Head-up display for first 737 Category IIIB certification SEXTANT AVIONIQUE'S head-up flight-display system (HFDS) allowed L'A‚ropostale to become the world's first carrier to gain certification for Category IIIB operation of Boeing 737-300s, in September 1995. The judges ...
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DASA wants Airbus to scale down large-aircraft plans
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE partner Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) wants the consortium to drop its A3XX 500- to 650-plus-passenger aircraft study in favour of a 400- to 550-seat aircraft to rival new stretched variants of the Boeing 747 now under study. The DASA move comes in the wake of recent bruising ...
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Boeing nears launch order for 747 stretch 747
Guy Norris/SINGAPORE BRITISH AIRWAYS, Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines are close to negotiating launch orders with Boeing for the 747-600X, the stretched version of the present 747-400 and the first major derivative of the 747. The airlines will meet Boeing in early April at a crucial meeting ...
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MDC reveals its long-term plan for MD-11 plan
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is in the final stages of defining two new versions of the MD-11, which will enable the company to compete head-to-head with Airbus and Boeing in the Boeing 747-100/200 replacement market and the emerging extra-long-range market. "We got to the point that we had to ...
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BA to equip European fleet with TCAS 2
BRITISH AIRWAYS WILL announce this week that it is fitting traffic-alert and collision-avoidance systems (TCAS 2) to its 116-aircraft short-haul fleet The airline is the first major European carrier to order the TCAS 2 for its entire fleet. Its 102 long-haul aircraft are already fitted with the system, ...
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Air Transport
Winner: Bombardier Regional Aircraft Location: Ontario, Canada Achievement: Helping carriers to exploit the benefits of open skies, with new low-cost, direct air services using the 50-seat Canadair Regional Jet. FROM THE OUTSET, Bombardier designed its 50-seat Canadair Regional Jet to help airlines open up new ...