News from FlightGlobal – Page 2533
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Relaunch emphasises Saudi Arabian's new commercialism
Max Kingsley-Jones/JEDDAH IN ITS FIRST major revamp for over two decades, Saudi Arabian Airlines has unveiled a new corporate identity and pledged a new sense of commercialism within the state-owned carrier. The revamp, which includes the dropping of the name Saudia, is described by the ...
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R-R offers Trent 900 on 747-X
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON ROLLS-ROYCE has signed an agreement with Boeing which will see it offer the Trent 900 to power the proposed 747-500/600X in direct competition with the General Electric/Pratt & Whitney joint venture. The planned Trent 900, described as a "low-risk derivative" of the Trent ...
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Deja deja vu
THE JAPANESE AND US Governments are once again going to the edge in the latest round of bilateral-air-service negotiations by threatening each other with sanctions and counter-sanctions. The news has been greeted by industry observers, in Tokyo and Washington, with a collective cry of "here we go again". ...
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Crash spoils TWA safety record
THE TWA 747-100 accident on 17 July marks the first fatal crash for the airline in a decade. The last incident occurred in April 1986, when a terrorist bomb exploded on board a Boeing 727 inbound to Athens, killing four passengers, although the aircraft landed safely. Excluding terrorist ...
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Chinese Boeing deal signals relaxation in Sino-US relations
IN A SIGN OF gradual thawing of relations between Washington and Beijing, Air China has ordered three Boeing 747-400s, while McDonnell Douglas (MDC) has agreed to deliver its first MD-90 TrunkLiner to China Northern. The three new Boeing 747-400s are scheduled for delivery in May and August 1997 ...
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USA and Japan near F-2A accord
US AND JAPANESE Government negotiators are close to reaching a breakthrough, over work-share for the Mitsubishi F-2A/B support fighter, allowing production of the new aircraft to begin. An agreement, was expected to be struck in Washington on 25 July, ending months of arduous negotiations, which had been in ...
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GECAS places first order with Airbus
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH GENERAL Electric Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) has placed its first business with Airbus Industrie, with an order for 45 aircraft and another 45 options. GECAS has signed 40 firm orders for the A319/A320/A321 family, with another five for the long-range A340-300, which, at current ...
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Taiwan and Lockheed Martin sign C-130-co-operation deal
TAIWAN HAS SIGNED an industrial co-operation agreement with Lockheed Martin, worth close to $90 million, as part of its planned purchase of four new C-130H-30 transport aircraft. Lockheed Martin has proposed a range of projects to Taiwan's Industrial Development Bureau. Areas of co-operation under discussion include assistance with ...
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Spanish 737 order
Spanish inclusive-tour operator Air Europa has ordered ten Boeing 737-800s, worth around $510 million, with options for two more aircraft. Deliveries to the Palma-based airline, which operates ten 737-300s and five 737-400s, will begin in 1998 and continue into 1999. Boeing has announced orders for 312 737-600/700/800s. ...
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Wideroe prepares for traffic expansion with more Dash 8s
NORWEGIAN carrier Wider¿e Flyveselskap has ordered a Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-400 70-seat turboprop for delivery in the third quarter of 1999. The aircraft is part of a $40 million deal which includes two used Dash 8-100s and one used -300. The latter will be delivered by the ...
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BA tones up alliance defence
British Airways' proposed tie-up with American Airlines could be the most scrutinised partnership in airline history Kevin O'Toole and Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON RARELY CAN AN AIRLINE alliance have whipped up such controversy. Since it was announced, the proposed tie-up between British Airways and American Airlines has been drawing unprecedented ...
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Air Malta outlines plans for Azzura Air
AIR MALTA has purchased two AI(R) Avro RJ85s to start its new Italian-based venture AzzuraAir. The airline expects to add a third aircraft to the order by the end of July (Flight International, 22-28 May). Joseph Tabone, the Air Malta chairman, says that he expects to launch AzzuraAir ...
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FAA and NTSB continue to spar over FDRS
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC US PASSENGER airlines will be required to retrofit their fleets with enhanced flight-data recorders (EFDRs) within about four years under a US Federal Aviation Administration proposal. The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), meanwhile, continues to criticise the FAA for acting too slowly. ...
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Asian governments are offered Saeaga shareholding
MALAYSIAN timber tycoon Ting Pek Khiing has offered the governments of Brunei, Indonesia and Philippines each a 10% stake in his struggling start-up regional carrier Saeaga Airlines. Ting's offer follows recent talks between Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohammad and Philippine president Fidel Ramos on establishing a joint regional ...
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Trent 777 ETOPS testing resumes
BOEING RESUMED extended-range twin-engined operations (ETOPS) testing of the Rolls-Royce Trent 800-powered 777 on 11 July, after foreign-object damage was determined to be the cause of a surge which halted testing on 16 June (Flight International, 3-9 July). Testing for 180min ETOPS clearance is expected to be completed on schedule ...
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WestPac agrees big 328 deal
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH DORNIER LUFTFAHRT has secured the first new orders for the Dornier 328 turboprop since a majority of the company was sold to Fairchild in June. Western Pacific Airlines ("WestPac") has placed an order for up to 24 328s, which it selected over the Aero International (Regional) ...
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Airbus keeps pace with Boeing-
Kevin O'Toole and Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON AFTER A POOR SHOWING of aircraft orders in 1995, Airbus Industrie appears to have held its own against Boeing in the first half of 1996, while the overall jet-airliner market continues to recover for both manufacturers. Although the headline figures show ...
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Test of faith
NO-ONE BENEFITS when accident-investigation agencies clash over the cause of an air crash. The arguments may be based on genuine grievances, but they only serve to deflect attention from the wider issues at stake. It has happened this week because the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has ...
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Hub crack is blamed for MD-88 fan failure
A FATIGUE crack in the fan hub is the likely cause of the uncontained failure of a Pratt & Whitney JT8D-219 powering a Delta McDonnell Douglas MD-88. Two passengers were killed and four injured when the left-engine fan disintegrated, sending debris into the cabin during the take-off run of Flight ...
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ValuJet bids to resume flying with smaller fleet
VALUJET AIRLINES hopes to win the US Federal Aviation Administration's approval to resume service as early as the first week of August. It has submitted a plan to the FAA's Atlanta, Georgia, regional office describing how the grounded low-fare carrier would resume flights with about 15 aircraft. More ...