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Cathay sick-out escalates as airline feels rising cost
The Cathay Pacific Airways pilots' "sick-out" is costing the airline millions of dollars daily, and forcing it to wet-lease aircraft from 10 carriers in an attempt to minimise disruption. The action began on 28 May with the cancellation of three flights by pilots who called in sick, claiming excessive ...
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USA backs Eurocontrol ATM
Julian Moxon/BRUSSELS Eurocontrol has won US support for its approach to a future air traffic management (ATM) system that offers the potential to double airspace capacity by 2015. Presenting the results of its 10-year programme for harmonised air traffic management research (PHARE), the agency says the US Federal Aviation ...
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Chandra cleared for launch
Tim Furniss/LONDON The STS93 Space Shuttle mission to deploy the Chandra X-ray telescope has been cleared to fly on 22 July. The much-delayed Columbia launch has been put on hold because of concerns about its Boeing inertial upper stage (IUS) after a similar stage failed during a US Air ...
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Runners wanted to start Sprint
Production of the FLS Sprint aerobatic trainer could be resumed if new investors are found to acquire the aircraft programme, valued at $2.75 million. The all metal, two-seat side-by-side light aircraft was sold by Swedish overhaul and maintenance company FLS Aerospace in 1997 after a chequered history. The owner, ...
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Mission 212 prototype poised for assembly
Lambert Aircraft Engineering plans to start building the proof of concept Mission M212-100 prototype this month. It is also awaiting certification of the air-cooled Zoche ZO 01A engine to kick-start flight testing next year. The manufacturer, based in Kortrijk, Belgium, has completed destructive wing tests on the single-engined Mission ...
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Western company buys Yak-42s for Moldova lease
A new Irish-based leasing company, Corvette Aviation, has bought two Yakovlev Yak-42Ds from Russian financial group Interros. The two secondhand aircraft are on short-term lease to Moscow-based Bykovo Avia. After refurbishment and overhaul, they will be leased to Air Moldova International, with delivery of the first aircraft slated for June ...
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Cessna may axe AlliedSignal as sole-source supplier
Dave Higdon/WICHITA Cessna Aircraft is reviewing AlliedSignal's sole-source avionics contract for its single piston aircraft. Neither company will comment, but it is believed that Cessna told the avionics manufacturer recently that its contract to supply its Bendix/King products, standard in Cessna's Skyhawks, Skylanes and Stationairs, was under review. The ...
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US authorities diverge on safety priorities
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has published a list of safety policy priorities which differs dramatically from one which was recently released by the US Federal Aviation Administration. The NTSB's "most wanted list" also includes priority recommendations for other transport modes, but the aviation demands include: ...
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China order prompts Britten Norman to resurrect Trislander
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Britten Norman (BN) has relaunched production of its 16-seat Trislander commuter aircraft, following an order from China for three aircraft. Shenyang-based China Northern Airlines has selected the tri-piston-powered aircraft to upgrade its regional services, with deliveries due between September next year and January 2001. The ...
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Pressure builds for single-engine change
David Learmount/LONDON Ten Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) countries, plus Canada and the USA, have submitted proposals to the JAA in favour of reducing restrictions on single-engine turboprop commercial operations. Only the UK has filed against the proposals. The Joint Aviation Requirements Operations (JAR Ops) on the subject will ...
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New Piper stays on target for Malibu Meridian certification
Orders for New Piper Aircraft's Malibu Meridian single-turboprop business aircraft have passed the 100 mark, according to the manufacturer. Deliveries of the machine are scheduled to begin in mid-2000. The backlog topped 100 with an order from Flightline Group of Tallahassee, Florida, which has been appointed the Piper dealer for ...
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Kawasaki partners on civil tiltrotor
Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) has signed an agreement with Aerostructures of Nashville, Tennessee, to manufacture components for the Bell Agusta BA 609 civil tiltrotor aircraft. Aerostructures is responsible for the aircraft's fuselage development. KHI says it will develop the cabin doors and fuselage tailcone under subcontract. KHI is the first ...
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NASA launches virtual control tower
NASA has Placed into service a full-scale virtual reality air traffic control tower, which will be used to study ways of improving airport capacity and safety. The virtual tower is installed at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffat Field in California. "With runway accidents growing 15% a year and ...
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Kosovo notes
Improved weather conditions have increased Serbian air defence activity. As well as heavy anti-aircraft artillery fire, 33 surface-to-air missiles were launched against NATO aircraft on day 64 (26 May). Maj Gen Charles Wald, vice-director of strategy and policy US Joint Staff, says in the first 57 days of the ...
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In brief - Americas
RAA appoints Siegel - The US Regional Airline Association (RAA) has elected David Siegel, president of Continental Express, vice-chairman of its board. New board members include Chuck Johnson of ERA Aviation, Robert Ferguson of Midway Airlines and Greg Taylor of US Airways Express. Cleveland concourse - Continental Airlines has opened ...
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Hong Kong fees fly high
Airlines should not count on any cut in landing fees when Hong Kong's airport authority completes its operational review in June. That is the warning from the authority, which explains that lower-than-forecast traffic means fees must stay high to avoid a shortfall in predicted revenues for the city's Chep Lap ...
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Venezuelans fight over US links
Infighting has intensified between Venezuela's three major airlines over links to the all-important US market. The intensity of these skirmishes stems from Venezuela's transition to multiple designation and a fear by each of these carriers that one of the other two may gain the upper hand. The latest row ...
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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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UK operator Brintel tests EH101 Heliliner
British International Helicopters (Brintel) has completed a week-long trial of the three-engined EH Industries EH101 Heliliner at its Penzance, Cornwall base. The evaluation forms part of the operator's long-term strategy to replace its two Sikorsky S-62Ns. "The trials were successful and the local community responded well, but we are ...
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More GA avionics advances revealed
Avionics manufacturers unveiled a variety of new products at this year's US Aircraft Electronics Association convention, which highlighted the continuing trend of the transfer of airliner avionics capabilities to general aviation cockpits. Garmin International announced four new products at the show, which took place in Atlanta, Georgia, from 12-15 ...