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ATR to establish training centre in Bangkok
ATR AND THAI Airways International have finalised an agreement for the establishment of a training centre on Thai premises in the capital, Bangkok. The new centre, due to come into operation in September 1996, will provide training of flight crew and maintenance personnel in the Far East and ...
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Avatar eyes bigger logistics role
AIRCRAFT-PARTS reseller Avatar Alliance, formed earlier this year to acquire the Delta Air Lines surplus-parts inventory, is restructuring to offer logistics services to new low-cost airlines. Avatar says that it plans a full set of services, from parts sales through to spares provisioning and management, potentially offering start-up ...
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British World's Viscounts soldier on
BRITISH WORLD AIRLINES (BWA) is now the largest operator of Viscounts, with eight active at the end of 1995. At one stage, BWA and its predecessors operated 18 of the aircraft. Of the eight left, five have been converted to freighters and three soldiers on in passenger guise, ...
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Hawaiian defers
Hawaiian Airlines has deferred to 9 December $7.1 million in McDonnell Douglas DC-10 maintenance and lease payments to American Airlines, to allow more time to negotiate a capital infusion from a private investor group. A letter of intent signed with the group expires on 8 December. ...
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Guangzhou success
Guangzhou Aircraft Maintenance Engineering (GAMECO) has won China's first international third-party heavy-maintenance contract, with an agreement to service two Royal Nepal Airlines (RNA) Boeing 757s. The two-year deal, worth an estimated $3 million, provides A- and C-checks, emergency repairs, component overhaul, the secondment of GAMECO staff to Kathmandu and the ...
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Maintenance tracking
Learjet has unveiled its LASER maintenance-tracking programme following a three-month trial with more than 200 operators. Accessed via modem on the CompuServe on-line service, the LASER identifies upcoming inspections and parts replacements. Learjet will use the system to monitor reliability, with the aim of extending maintenance intervals. Source: ...
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Delta/Lockheed team on L-1011
DELTA AIRLINES AND Lockheed Martin have signed a memorandum of understanding to form a strategic alliance to offer Lockheed L-1011 maintenance and technical support. Delta will continue to perform its own maintenance, while investigating the possibility of providing similar services to other L-1011 operators at its Atlanta, Georgia, ...
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America West lays off 500 maintenance workers
AMERICA WEST Airlines has sacked 500 maintenance workers at its Phoenix, Arizona, headquarters as the prelude to switching heavy maintenance on its fleet of predominantly Boeing 737s to a third-party support company. The airline, which emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1994, will contract out "C" and "D" ...
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Air Liberte takes over Euralair routes
Julian Moxon/PARIS AIR LIBERTE has made the first move towards consolidating France's privately owned airlines with an agreement to take over the scheduled routes of Euralair. Euralair president Alexander Couvelaire calls the deal with Air Liberte "the opening shot in the regrouping of private-airline forces in ...
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Airbus offers composites work to boost MAS bid
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE has offered to transfer, production of composite airframe components to Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Engineering, in a last-ditch effort to secure a deal with the national carrier for up to ten A340s. The offer, made by Airbus president Jean Pierson, centres on the production of composite cargo-compartment ...
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KLM triumphs in competition for stake in Kenya Airways
KLM HAS EMERGED as the winner of a three-cornered competition to take a stake in Kenya Airways. The Kenyan Government still has to rubber-stamp the deal - a move, which is expected before the end of the year. Under the deal, KLM would take a 26% holding in ...
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Honeywell wins American deal
AMERICAN AIRLINES HAS selected the Honeywell/ Trimble HT9100 satellite-based navigation system for a fleetwide retrofit of 340 Boeing 727s and McDonnell Douglas DC-10s and MD-80s. The contract, is the first major fleet satellite-navigation avionics contract awarded, since the introduction of the Boeing/Honeywell FANS 1 system and is the ...
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Rolls-Royce Inc
Stanley Doepke is named director of airline marketing and Bruce McClelland becomes airline-analysis manager at Rolls-Royce Inc, the US arm of the UK aero-engine manufacturer. Doepke was formerly sales director at Fokker Aircraft USA, while McClelland was director of strategic market planning at Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dornier). Frederick Kocher becomes senior ...
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Maintenance support
AirTran Airways has signed a letter of intent to acquire defunct Page Avjet's Orlando, Florida, maintenance hangar, to support its fleet of eight Boeing 737-200s. The Orlando-based airline plans to occupy the hangar in January 1996. Source: Flight International
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Lockheed
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Sector has merged its Aircraft Services company (LMAS), based in Ontario, Canada, with its Skunk Works (LMSW) subsidiary in Palmdale, California, under LMSW president Jack Gordon. The modification and maintenance activities of LMAS will become a division of LMSW under Art Schuetz, vice-president and general manager of ...
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FSI
Keith McGann has been appointed to the newly created position of manager for the maintenance resource-management programme at FlightSafety International (FSI) of New Jersey. He was formerly maintenance training services marketing representative. John Pum becomes regional marketing manager for the south-western region and has established a new office at Ontario ...
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Simuflite
SimuFlite Training International, of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Texas, has promoted Bill Wilhelmi, manager of advanced programmes, to senior manager of marketing and business development. Mark Malkosky has been appointed manager of maintenance training. Malkosky has been with the pilot-training company for three years, most recently as supervisor of maintenance ...
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Boeing tackles 'tail-wag' problem on United 777s
Guy Norris/SEATTLE BOEING PLANS TO MAKE changes to the 777 gust-response system as part of efforts to eliminate a slow yawing motion, or "tail-wag", experienced by crews on the first few United Airlines aircraft. "We sent a team out to fly with the aircraft on revenue ...
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Garuda Indonesia gears up for approaching privatisation
GARUDA INDONESIA is going to turn many of its operations into financially independent business units from 1996, in preparation for the national carrier's eventual privatisation. The state-owned airline has targeted the Garuda Maintenance Facility (GMF) and ground handling as the first two divisions to be given the new ...
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Lufthansa posts profits despite continued exchange-rate trials
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH LUFTHANSA achieved a growth in profits for the first nine months of 1995, despite the massive exchange-rate losses which have blighted German industry all year. The German airline's pre-tax profits, before special items, showed a modest DM4 million ($2.9 million) improvement on the corresponding ...