News from FlightGlobal – Page 2429
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Lufthansa sells off Cargolux stake
Lufthansa's 24.5% stake in Cargolux, the Luxembourg-based freight airline, is to be taken over by SairLogistics, Swissair's sister cargo arm . Talks between the three companies have been going on for several months. The German airline says that it decided to sell because of an "-increasingly divergent strategic ...
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Lufthansa agrees to set up travel venture with Karstadt group
AndrzejJeziorski/MUNICH The supervisory boards of German ßag carrier Lufthansa and Karstadt, the Essen-based retail and travel group, have agreed to set up a new travel conglomerate, to be called C & N Condor Neckermann Touristik. The company will be formed on 1 November, provided that it ...
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France's Regional records growth
France's Regional Airlines, based in Nantes, has recorded a 43% increase in passenger traffic for the first half of this year, along with a 46% growth in turnover. Passengers numbers for the period stood at 293,000, against 408,000 for the whole of 1996, while turnover, standing at Fr412.4 ...
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First F-22 tests end
Initial flight testing of the first Lockheed Martin/ Boeing F-22 fighter has been completed after just two flights, one of which was cut short by telemetry problems. Lockheed Martin decided against a planned third flight in a bid to avoid further delays in delivering the aircraft to the USAir Force's ...
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Delivery delays hit Boeing again
Boeing has been forced to delay delivery of 12 aircraft from this month to the fourth quarter, as it struggles to keep pace with ambitious plans to increase production to 43 aircraft a month by early 1998. The delays are blamed on a combination of inexperienced new workers, ...
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Embraer launches 37-seater
Graham Warwick/ Washington DC Embraer expects to book firm orders for its new EMB-135 37-seat regional jet by the end of 1997. The Brazilian manufacturer has formally launched development of the EMB-135, with a first flight planned for mid-1998, leading to certification and first delivery in the ...
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Spinetta proposed to succeed Blanc
The French Government has proposed ex-Air Inter boss Jean-Cyril Spinetta to be president of Air France, after the resignation of Christian Blanc. He is expected to be confirmed in the position on 24 September. Others, including Marc Rochet, head of British Airways' French subsidiary, TAT, had declined the offer. ...
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Choice of pilots must be objective
Sir - A career in the management of aircraft in the airline business has become a clearly identified professional area where the job description and the profile of the person to fulfil this exacting and responsible management activity can at last be specified. The history of flying aeroplanes ...
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Air China deal boosts CAE's market share
CAEElectronics has sold two full-flight simulators and a flight-training device to Air China in a deal worth C$30 million ($21.7 million). The Boeing 737-800 and 777-200 simulators and 777-200 flight- training device will be installed in Air China's Beijing training centre in late 1998. The Chinese airline has ...
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Airbus/CASC finalise Hua Ou support centre
Airbus Industrie and China Aviation Supplies' (CASC) new Hua Ou Aviation Training and Support Centre in Beijing is in the final stages of being fitted out and is scheduled to begin full operations at the end of October. The joint venture recently received its final approval from China's ...
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US Airways
US Airways, of Arlington, Virginia, has appointed Fred Poole vice-president of heavy maintenance, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was formerly general manager of the United Airlines maintenance centre, based at Indianapolis, Indiana. Source: Flight International
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Deutshe BA
Philip Saunders has been appointed head of marketing and sales for British Airways' German subsidiary, Deutsche BA. Saunders has worked for British Airways since 1990, with responsibility for the development and marketing of various BA routes into Central and Eastern Europe, holding the posts of district manager in St Petersburg ...
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Boeing may launch 777-X this year
Guy Norris and Paul Lewis/SEATTLE Boeing is confident that it will launch the 777-200X and -300X within three months. The company rebuts suggestions that the project is slowing down because of market uncertainty and concerns over performance. Programme manager Jeff Peace says: "We are very serious ...
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AEA hits out as Europe's ATC delays soar
AndrzejJeziorski/MUNICH The Association of European Airlines (AEA) is calling for a fresh drive towards a single integrated European air- traffic-control (ATC) system, in response to rising traffic and record delays in Europe in recent months. Worsening punctuality figures on European routes show a "severe problem", with ...
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Widebodies head for Air China
Air China is to begin taking delivery of the first of eight new Airbus Industrie A340-300s and Boeing 777-200s in early October, as part of a wider fleet re-equipment programme. The Chinese flag carrier will take delivery of its first A340 on 8 October, and put the aircraft ...
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Blanc resignation fails to deflect French Government
The final elements of the merger of Air France and its domestic subsidiary, Air France Europe, went ahead as planned on 12 September. The move followed the resignation of the national carrier's president, Christian Blanc, over the Government's refusal to privatise the airline (Flight International, 10-16 September). A ...
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Chinese independents co-operate to form defensive alliance
Six independent provincial Chinese carriers, led by Hainan Airlines, have signed an agreement to form the country's first co-operative alliance, in a move designed to strengthen their position against competition and take-over moves by larger, state-owned, airlines. The New Star (Xinxing) Air Alliance will consist of Hainan Airlines, ...
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US/Aeroflot dispute
United Airlines has asked the US Department of Transportation to suspend Aeroflot flights to Chicago, San Francisco and Washington, in retaliation for Russia's 1995 decision to bar United's codeshare with Lufthansa for services between the Moscow and the USA, via Frankfurt. More recently, Russia refused United permission to fly over ...
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British World takes delivery of ATP QC
British World Airlines took delivery of its first British Aerospace ATP QC (Quick-Change) on 15 September. A second will arrive in December and "at least another two" in 1998, says sales director Mike Sessions, who adds that the aircraft "-have only been flown for about 20h each". ...
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Zurich leads battle to penalise polluters with landing-fee rise
AndrzejJeziorski/MUNICH Zurich Airport has become the world's first major airport to introduce an emissions charge, amounting to as much as 40% of normal landing fees, for operators of aircraft which fail to meet the highest environmental standards. The charge, introduced from 1 September, is balanced by ...