News from FlightGlobal – Page 2567
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Consulting with success
Kenya Airways' successful privatisation is raising hopes for a renaissance in African aviation Kevin O'Toole/LONDON BRIAN DAVIES admits that it was an opportunity that no self-respecting aviation consultant could have resisted. After being called in to lead a six-week study on how Kenya Airways should ...
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American in Paris
Boeing is trying to interest Air France in the purchase of the Boeing 777. An Air France Boeing 747 pilot, Andre Groppo of the airline's evaluation division, flew the aircraft between Dubai and Paris in late February. Air France directors, headed by chairman Christian Blanc, also attended a presentation of ...
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Fairchild delivers Metro 23s to Orca
FAIRCHILD HAS delivered the first of two Metro 23s equipped with an electronic flight-information system. The 23E as the version is known, is also fitted with a digital autopilot and was delivered recently, to Egyptian carrier Orca Air. The airline, which has options on a further four 23Es, will operate ...
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Canada's WestJet ready for take-off
LOW-COST CARRIER WestJet Airlines plans to begin operations in western Canada on 29 February. The Calgary-based airline intends to operate 96 flights a week initially, increasing to 152, between Victoria, Vancouver, Kelowna, Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg. The carrier owns three Boeing 737-200s and has a "substantial pool" of working capital. ...
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Ozone production is of greater concern
Sir - The two recent, and excellent, articles, "A340 findings indicate ozone is 'not being destroyed'" and "Emission control" (Flight International, 17-23 January, P20, and 31 January-6 February, P69), contain some misinterpretations on the MOZAIC (Measurement of Ozone by Airbus In-service Aircraft) programme. Both mention ozone depletion, but, ...
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DGPS approaches
Airport interest in satellite-based precision approaches is growing, as the potential benefits become evident. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA IN 1995, THE INTERNATIONAL aviation community, granted a stay of execution, to the venerable instrument-landing-system (ILS), while paving the way for its eventual replacement, by the global-positioning system (GPS). ...
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Asian ATR centre set for year-end
AERO INTERNATIONAL (Regional) says that its Asian ATR training centre, a joint venture with Thai Airways International, will be operational by November. The centre will be located in Thai's simulator base in Bangkok (Flight International, 20-26 December1995). The centre will be equipped with a Thomson Training & Simulation ...
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Hughes deals change shape of commercial simulator fleet
HUGHES FLIGHT Training in the UK has announced a series of deals, which will result in a reshaping of its commercial flight-simulator fleet. The London Gatwick-based independent training centre, formerly British Caledonian Flight Training has repositioned a Boeing 737-300/400 simulator, from Gatwick to Alaska Airlines' training centre in ...
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Xionix wins United upgrade
XIONIX SIMULATION HAS won a United Airlines contract to upgrade Boeing 747 and 757 auto-flight-systems trainers previously supplied to the carrier. The upgrade will include Xionix' FMC Emulator, which uses actual aircraft flight-management-computer (FMC) software. The personal-computer-based FMC Emulator has been developed jointly with FMC supplier Honeywell and ...
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Virgin European plans June start-up
Andrew Doyle/LONDON VIRGIN EUROPEAN Airways could begin operations in June if it goes ahead with plans to acquire a controlling stake in EuroBelgian Airlines (EBA). The UK airline has confirmed that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to acquire an 80% stake in ...
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Israeli guarantee boosts IAI Turkish F-4 upgrade deal
THE ISRAELI parliament has approved a financing package for the Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom upgrade programme for Turkey in an attempt to advance the stalled deal. Work on the first two aircraft is scheduled to begin in July. The parliament has approved state guarantees ...
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Portugalia to decide between 737 and A320
Andrew Doyle/LONDON PORTUGUESE CARRIER Portugalia is considering placing orders for up to seven new-generation Boeing 737s or Airbus A320s, to replace its fleet of six Fokker 100s on lease from GPA. The privately owned airline, which made its first-ever profit in 1995, is expected to ...
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737 price may force China Southern to buy A320s
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CHINA SOUTHERN Airlines is threatening to order Airbus A320/321s unless Boeing cuts the cost of a planned purchase of 25 737-700/-800 passenger aircraft. The Guangzhou-based carrier is understood to have signed a memorandum of understanding with Boeing for 25 new-generation 737s, but has ...
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US airlines back in profit - for now
US airlines are back in profit, but the lessons of recession linger on. Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE NOTORIOUS business cycles of the airline industry have at last come full circle for the US carriers. Just two years ago, three of the majors were fighting their way out of ...
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Macau link
Korean Air (KAL) has launched a scheduled service three times a week from Seoul to Macau's recently opened airport. KAL has been operating charter flights to Macau since the airport opened on 9 November. A 258-seat Airbus Industrie A300-600R will be used on the new service. Source: Flight ...
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Lauda and Austrian make peace
AUSTRIA'S TWO largest airlines, Lauda Air and Austrian, have decided to end years of in-fighting with a plan, to co-operate in some areas. The two airlines have been talking for several months, according to Lauda president and chief executive Peter Thoele, and have now agreed to co-operate, ...
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AOM battles to stay at orly West
FRENCH INDEPENDENT airline AOM, is stepping up its campaign to stop the Paris airports authority Aeroports de Paris (ADP), forcing it to move from Orly West to Orly South at the end of March. The eviction move is viewed by many as part of a rearguard action ...
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Russia plans to restructure its aviation administration
RUSSIAN FIRST DEPUTY prime minister Oleg Soskovets, has confirmed that his Government is to establish a federal aviation administration, to improve state control of the civil-aviation industry (Flight International, 21-27 February). At a transport ministry meeting to review the results of the air-transport industry in 1995, ...
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Indian Airlines spawns domestic subsidiary
STATE-OWNED Indian Airlines is setting up a low-cost regional subsidiary to feed traffic into its major hubs and compete against India's clutch of privately owned start-up carriers. Airline Allied Services is expected to begin operations in March, initially flying four 119-seat Boeing 737-200s, linking regional points with Delhi ...
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LOT looks to purchase jets for speedy regional boost
Andrzej Jeziorski/WARSAW LOT POLISH AIRLINES is planning to acquire a fleet of 50- to 70-seat regional jets, and spin off its regional operations into a separate company, according to vice-president Andrzej Slodownik. The regional-jet purchase is part of a company fleet-strategy plan being drawn up to ...