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BA goes to FLS for maintenance deals
British Airways and its low-cost subsidiary Go have agreed major maintenance contracts with FLS Aerospace. The move comes as BA retrenches its maintenance operation after several years of attempting to turn it into a standalone profit centre. The five-year Go contract is a ground-breaking deal for both sides, with ...
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Marketplace
-British Airways has wet-leased a Boeing 737-300 from Air Atlanta Icelandic for its 1998 summer season. The aircraft is based at London Gatwick and will be operated on services to Gothenburg in Sweden. -Monarch Airlines is wet-leasing a Boeing MD-11 from World Airways for its 1998 summer season to operate ...
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Qantas confirms plans for three more 747-400s
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Qantas has finalised its short term fleet plans, confirming it will acquire three Boeing 747-400s from Asian carriers "in the very near future", and ruling out acquiring any new type in the next three years. Chief executive James Strong says the purchase will be additional to ...
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SIA deal confirmed
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has confirmed its long-expected deal for up to 10 Airbus A340-500s in a $2 billion purchase. The airline selected the Airbus over the Boeing 777-200X to operate direct services between Singapore and the US West Coast. The airline will place firm orders for five aircraft for delivery ...
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Air New Zealand sells 747 Classics to Virgin
Air New Zealand (ANZ) has sold its five Boeing 747-200s to Virgin Atlantic Airways as as part of its fleet modernisation programme. The five 16-17 year old Rolls-Royce RB211-524D4-powered 747s will join Virgin between March 1999 and January 2001. The UK carrier operates six older Pratt & Whitney JT9D-powered ...
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Workshop
-GE Engine Services has signed a 10- year contract, potentially worth as much as $1 billion, with Continental Airlines to overhaul CFM International CFM56 engines powering the carrier's Boeing 737s, and the CF6s which power its Boeing 767s and McDonnell Douglas DC-10s. -Royal Nepal Airlines has awarded Beijing-based Aircraft Maintenance ...
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Lufthansa Cargo returns to profit
Lufthansa Cargo has successfully turned its business around, with the announcement of a DM194 million ($110 million) pre-tax profit for 1997. The company recorded the profit on a turnover of DM3.9 billion for regular business. Including income from the sale of its stake in Luxembourg's Cargolux, the company beat the ...
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List grows for stake in Thai International
Northwest Airlines' name has been added to the list of leading contenders to take a stake in Thai Airways International, a Government official in Bangkok has revealed. Supachai Panitchpakdi, the country's permanent secretary for finance, revealed earlier this month that the US airline is a front runner, along with ...
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Star Alliance adds Australasian net
Air New Zealand (ANZ) and Ansett Australia are to join the Star Alliance in March 1999, adding a comprehensive Australasian presence to its rapidly growing network. ANZ already has various agreements with Star members. It has an alliance with United Airlines, a "strategic partnership" with Air Canada and frequent ...
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Corsair A330 order
Corsair is poised to become a new Airbus customer, with an order for two A330-200s to boost its long haul charter fleet. The French carrier operates an all-Boeing fleet of 737s and 747s on short and long haul charters for its parent company, tour operator Nouvelles Frontiers. The airline has ...
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Embraer studies market for larger regional jet
Graham Warwick/SAO PAULO Embraer will decide within a year whether to develop a larger member of its regional jet family. Speaking at the roll-out of the 37-seat ERJ-135 on 12 May, president Mauricio Botelho said: "We think there is a market, but we are not sure if it is ...
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Fairchild Dornier gives the go-ahead to 428JET project
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Fairchild Dornier is to launch the 42-seat 428JET programme at the Berlin International Air Show (ILA) as the centrepiece of a series of announcements on its regional jet programmes. The company is also expected to reveal a stretch of the 90-seat 928JET and new potential customers for ...
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PW4098 snags may delay 777-300
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Certification of the Pratt & Whitney PW4098-powered Boeing 777-300 is expected to be delayed following the last-minute discovery of problems with the engine during testbed runs at the powerplant maker's East Hartford site in Connecticut. The engine "-was performing very well on the flying testbed", ...
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Controlling the future
David Learmount/LONDON There was a deafening silence from UK National Air Traffic Services (NATS) between 5 April and 13 May. At the beginning of the period, NATS had somewhat nervously announced that it had run the first full "operational" test of the much delayed new en route air traffic ...
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Out of the ashes
Julian Moxon/BEIRUT A visit to downtown Beirut to see at first hand the reconstruction that is now taking place is a powerful way of understanding something of the spirit that lies behind the rebuilding of the Lebanese national carrier, Middle East Airlines. Twenty years of indiscriminate shelling left more than ...
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SAS Lithuanian pact
SAS and Lithuanian Airlines have agreed to co-operate and aim to form a "strategic partnership" by 1 September. The Lithuanian flag carrier will co-ordinate its route network with SAS, while the agreement includes reciprocal ground handling and code-sharing arrangements. The Lithuanian Government hopes to float 49% of the airline this ...
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FAA takes emergency action on Boeing wiring
The US Federal Aviation Administration has issued emergency airworthiness directives (ADs) ordering inspections of fuel tank wiring in over 1,000 older Boeing 737s, 747s and 767s. The action follows the chance discovery of a damaged wire conduit during investigations to find the source of a fuel leak on a ...
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Air Europe increases fleet with 777-200ER lease
Air Europe (Italy) is boosting its fleet of Boeing twinjets with a move up to the 777-200ER. The Milan-based airline has signed a 10-year lease deal for two aircraft with International Lease Finance, for delivery in 1999. The carrier's fleet of six leased Boeing 767-300ERs are deployed on scheduled ...
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Aeroflot introduces 737-400
Aeroflot Russian International Airlines has introduced its first Boeing aircraft acquired directly from the US manufacturer, one of 10 Boeing 737-400s ordered by the airline. The remainder of the 131-seaters will be introduced by February 1999 to be operated on European routes. The Russian carrier has been operating two leased ...
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Airtours anticipates summer with 747
Airtours International has boosted its summer 1998 season charter capacity with the damp lease of a Boeing 747-200 from Air New Zealand (ANZ) for operation on transatlantic flights from Belfast, Cardiff and Manchester. The 416-seat 747, which is being crewed by ANZ pilots and Airtours cabin staff, is being flown ...