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Fair comparisons are needed on Airbus aircraft
Sir - I read the article "Battle of the big twins" (Flight International, 22-28 November, P16), which contains a number of errors and misleading comments. The airliners competing for the 300- to 350-seat market are the Airbus Industrie A330 and A340, the Boeing 777-200A, -200B and -300, ...
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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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Boeing regroups as strike ends
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES BOEING IS WORKING flat out to catch up on delayed airliner deliveries and resume production after 32,000 machinist-union workers voted overwhelmingly on 13 December to return to work . The 68-day strike stopped deliveries of more than 30 airliners and suspended production ...
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From Brabazon to Viscount
VICKERS TURNED the 1942 Brabazon Committee's requirement for a postwar Brabazon IIB into the winning VC2 design. Originally, it was to have Napier Naiad, Armstrong Siddeley Mamba or Rolls-Royce Dart engines, but it went into service with the Dart. The prototype V630 was flown on 16 July 1948, and was ...
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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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Irish connection
AIR BRISTOL SUBSIDIARY AB Shannon inaugurated a twice-daily service between London Gatwick and Shannon on 7 December, responding to demand for additional capacity between London and the mid-west of Ireland. The new service, flown with a BAC One-Eleven leased from Bournemouth-based European Aviation, is receiving the full start-up support of ...
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Virgin plans receive cool reception
AIRLINE ANALYSTS have greeted with scepticism the declaration by Virgin Atlantic Airways that it plans to lease or buy up to $5 billion-worth of aircraft within the next three years in a bid to become one of the world's leading long-haul carriers. The airline has announced plans to ...
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JAA group will define tests for evacuations
JAA group will define tests for evacuations NEW CRITERIA for cabin emergency-evacuation tests are to be defined by the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) to enable the safety of a greater variety of exit configurations to be accurately assessed, according to JAA secretary-general Klaus Koplin. After a 12 ...
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Ryanair UK plans foray into Europe
RYANAIR UK IS planning a substantial expansion of the low-fare, no-frills, service concept pioneered in Europe by its Irish parent company. While keeping details under wraps until plans have been finalised, Ryanair UK managing director Tim Jeans confirms that more UK routes and a determined foray into Europe ...
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TAT posts further heavy losses
BRITISH AIRWAYS' French regional partner TAT has revealed that it again racked up heavy operating losses, of Fr583 million ($117 million), over the last financial year, up to the end of March 1995. The deficit, which has been recorded on sales of nearly Fr1.9 billion, is the second ...
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Nakanihon repeat
Nagoya-based Japanese commuter airline Nakanihon Airline Service has ordered and taken immediate delivery of a third Fokker 50, for its routes from Nagoya to Toyamu, Takamatsu, Yonago, Fukushima and Hakodate. The airline, which is owned 80% by Meitetsu and 20% by All Nippon Airways, took delivery of its first Fokker ...
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Slovenian stimulus
Deutsche Lufthansa and Slovenian carrier Adria Airways have signed a long-term co-operation agreement. From 1 January 1996, two daily frequencies from Frankfurt and a daily service from Munich to Ljubljana will be operated by Adria Airways under a code-share, and schedules will be coordinated to provide better connections to Lufthansa ...
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MDC details test plans for F-18E/F
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) expects to fly the second F-18E Super Hornet by 16 December. Flight testing of the first F-18E is expected to resume shortly after repair of an environmental-control-system bleed door, failure of which caused the 29 November first flight to be cut short. ...
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Vietnam poised to sign up for Regionair A320-200s
VIETNAM AIRLINES is expected this month to sign a lease with Singapore company Regionair for ten Airbus A320-200s, to replace eight similar aircraft now reaching the end of their leases from European airlines. Air Vietnam's requirement will mean an imminent order with Airbus, as Regionair has no other ...
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Boeing defines plans for a 'simple' 777-300 stretch
Guy Norris/SEATTLE DETAILED PLANNING for the design of the stretched Boeing 777-300 is to be completed by mid-February 1996. Half of the design will be released to manufacturing by September, and major assembly is due to begin in late March 1997. Boeing is keeping the ...
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Qantas will fly to India again
QANTAS HAS made sweeping schedule changes, which will include the carrier resuming services to Bombay via Singapore from next July, ending a six-year absence from India. A direct Boeing 747-400 flight from Melbourne to Johannesburg will be the first from Australia's East Coast. The three existing flights depart ...
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Canadian agrees on further cost cuts
CANADIAN AIRLINES International has reached a 38-month agreement with its 3,100 ticket agents, airport agents and crew schedulers to reduce costs by more than C$17 million ($13 million) a year. The carrier's pilots, dispatchers and simulator technicians have all signed agreements, which are expected to save the airline ...
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CityLine hands turboprop operations to Contact Air
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH LUFTHANSA CITYLINE is to hand over its Fokker 50 operations to partner Contact Air to enable it to concentrate on jet-airliner operations. In a related move, Contact Air is to return five de Havilland Dash 8-300s to the Canadian manufacturer. The move, approved ...
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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 ...