Fleets – Page 1049
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Airbus and Boeing fight for key Asiana contract
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE ASIANA AIRLINES of South Korea is near to selecting a new 150- to 180-seat passenger jet-airliner, as the first step in a wider fleet-modernisation programme. The airline has narrowed its choice to the Airbus Industrie A321 and rival Boeing 737-800. The two manufacturers ...
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GECAS may order up to 100 A320s
Julian Moxon/PARIS AIRBUS INDUSTRIE is set to secure between 60 and 100 orders and options for new narrow-body aircraft from GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS), according to sources close to the negotiations (Flight International, 17-23 January). The order would follow on the heels of the huge ...
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Regional raises domestic stakes
Julian Moxon/PARIS FRANCE'S REGIONAL Airlines has joined the list of domestic carriers taking advantage of the 1 January liberalisation of French internal routes. The Nantes-based airline says that it will open several new cross-country routes between Nantes-Lyon, Bordeaux-Marseille, Lyon-Lille and Lyon-Strasbourg in the second quarter. ...
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China turns down Dragonair stake to go it alone
CHINA NATIONAL Aviation (CNAC) has rejected Swire Pacific's offer of a 6% share in Dragonair, and will instead press on with plans to launch its own Hong Kong-based carrier. Beijing-controlled CNAC is reported to have already leased a Boeing 737 from the USA for delivery in March. The ...
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Tahiti's FANS makes headway
Julian Moxon/PARIS FRANCE'S THOMSON-CSF has completed the second phase of Tahiti's new satellite-based oceanic air-traffic-control system, with delivery of the automated data-link component. When complete in early 1997, the Tahiti system will be one of the main components of the South Pacific Future Air Navigation ...
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Airtran picks hushkit
Florida-based hushkit manufacturer AvAero has won an order from Airtran Airways of Orlando to supply five Boeing 737 hushkit shipsets. The order, which also includes options on four more shipsets, includes the replacement of a Nordam-made hushkit with the AvAero system on the first aircraft. "They ...
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Checking the numbers
There are fears that Hong Kong's new airport is already heading for a capacity problem. Chris Yates/HONG KONG IT IS THE WORLD'S single largest project in civil engineering today and one of the most complex combined excavation and reclamation projects in history, requiring the largest fleet of seaborne dredgers, ...
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Delta is debut customer for electro-optical ice detector
ROBOTIC VISION Systems (RVSI) has received its first airline order for the ID-1 wide-area aircraft ice-detection system. Delta Air Lines has ordered four of the hand-held electro-optical systems for use this winter at its main US East Coast airports. Hauppauge, New York-based RVSI says that the Delta order ...
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A tale of two crises
Could Fokker have performed better if it had followed Avro's lead in cutting quicker and deeper? Kevin O'Toole/LONDON FOKKER MAY NOT appreciate the irony, but its latest crisis has come just as the regional-jet market is showing few signs of life. If a recovery in ...
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Bombardier lands new Dash-8 and Regional Jet deals
BOMBARDIER IS to supply private Romanian airline DAC Air with a mix of 50-seat Dash 8-300s and Regional Jets to replace its aging Antonov An-24s. The Canadian company has also landed a Dash-8 deal with UK carrier Brymon Airways. The Romanian deal is potentially worth $425 million, and ...
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Boeing counts the cost of airliner-delivery slump
BOEING'S COMMERCIAL aircraft business emerged from a tough 1995 with profits down by more than one-quarter as airliner deliveries continued to slide, a situation worsened by the ten-week machinists' strike. It delivered only 206 airliners over the year - the lowest for a decade - to record nearly ...
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Brake selection
Korean Air has selected Messier-BFGoodrich carbon brakes for its seven firm-ordered Airbus A330s. Deliveries of the brakes, jointly developed by France's Messier-Bugatti and BFGoodrich of the USA, will begin in February 1997. Source: Flight International
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Air India pauses as Airbus renews offer
Air India has postponed a decision on the acquisition of up to 24 long-range aircraft while it considers a revised offer from Airbus Industrie. The national carrier was due to announce a decision following a board meeting in new Delhi on 23 January. The issue slipped off the agenda ...
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Virgin lays on sleepers
Gunter Endres/LONDON VIRGIN ATLANTIC Airways is to become the first major airline in modern times to install a separate sleeping compartment in its aircraft. The airline will use what is usually the front cargo hold of an Airbus A340-300. The A340 is due to be delivered in 1997. ...
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Garuda finalises MD-11 lease deal
GARUDA INDONESIA has finalised a deal with McDonnell Douglas (MDC) to lease three new MD-11 tri-jets, to replace three similar early-build aircraft owned by General Electric Capital Services (GECAS). MDC is expected to deliver the three General Electric CF6-80C2-powered aircraft at the end of 1996 on a long-term ...
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China tackles S Korea on AE-100 leadership
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CHINA HAS GIVEN South Korea an ultimatum demanding that it concede programme leadership and final assembly of the proposed joint AE-100 passenger aircraft. Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) issued its counterpart, the Korean Commercial Aircraft Development Consortium (KCDC), a "four-principle" declaration during recent bilateral ...
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Regional-jet makers ponder tough BA requirement
THE FIVE AIRCRAFT manufacturers invited by British Airways to bid for a $1 billion order for up to 60 regional jets have been left facing some difficult decisions over how best to meet the UK flag carrier's requirements on delivery schedules and aircraft mix. None of the contenders ...
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Malaysian Boeing choice was driven by capacity criterion
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE AIRCRAFT-SEAT capacity, rather than price, appears to have been the deciding factor in Malaysia Airlines' (MAS) selection of the Boeing 777 over the rival Airbus A340. Boeing had been widely expected for some weeks to win the MAS order with a combination of ...
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Air Libert, plans new routes
Julian Moxon/PARIS FRENCH DOMESTIC airline Air Liberte is poised to take advantage of the 1 January 1996, liberalisation of French skies (to national airlines only) with plans to launch 23 new domestic routes in the first six months of this year. Air Liberte President Lotfi ...
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777 delivery
China Southern Airlines has taken delivery of its first Boeing 777-200. The twinjet will be used on routes from Guangzhou to Shanghai and Beijing. The carrier has ordered six General Electric-GE90-powered 777s, including two -200 versions. Source: Flight International