News from FlightGlobal – Page 2591
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India prepares for change to CNS/ATM
David Learmount/SEATTLE INDIA HAS DRAWN up plans to replace its terrestrial air-traffic-control (ATC) system with a global-navigation satellite-system (GNSS)-based communications, navigation and surveillance/air-traffic management (CNS/ATM) by 2015. A Government study shows that the new system has the potential to yield tenfold increases in system air-traffic capacity ...
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Sextant HFDS certificated
SEXTANT AVIONIQUE has achieved French certification of its head-up flight-display system (HFDS) for Category IIIB landings in the Boeing 737-300. Launch customer Aeropostal has carried out the first commercial flight using the system. Aeropostal flies passengers by day, converting its aircraft to freight configuration for night-mail services. Director-general ...
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Swissair and Sabena World launch joint sales effort
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS SWISSAIR AND BELGIAN Sabena World Airlines are to launch a joint sales operation and offer shuttle services linking Brussels with Zurich and Geneva in 1996. Code sharing is also to be introduced on long-haul flights to the Middle East, Far East and South America. ...
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USA and Thailand talks make 'major progress'
The USA and Thailand have announced "major progress" in talks to agree the basic framework for a new bilateral agreement. As a result, negotiators have been instructed to begin formal negotiations at soon as possible. The two countries have been at loggerheads for several months over the deal. ...
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EVA order signed
Eva Air of Taiwan has formally signed a contract to purchase six McDonnell Douglas MD-90s. The previously announced deal calls for the delivery of the first aircraft in October 1996 and the final two by the first quarter of 1997. Source: Flight International
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Caribbean airlines make fleet plans
Graham Warwick/MIAMI NEWLY PRIVATISED Caribbean airlines Air Jamaica and BWIA International Airways are moving ahead with fleet replacements and acquisitions of local regional carriers. Progress was detailed at the SH&E/Airline Business conference on Latin American aviation in Miami, Florida, held on 2-3 November. Air Jamaica has ...
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BA's Marshall eases back into non-executive role
British Airways chairman Sir Colin Marshall is to hand over his executive responsibilities to the group's current managing director, Bob Ayling, on 1 January, 1996. Under the changes, Ayling becomes chief executive, and Marshall becomes non-executive chairman. Ayling is a solicitor who joined BA in 1985 as legal director. He ...
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Boeing triumphs in S African contest
BOEING HAS EMERGED as the winner of the South African Airways (SAA) aircraft competition with an order for seven 777-200s and two extra 747-400s. Engines have yet to be selected, says SAA, but the airline has asked for proposals from General Electric, Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce, with ...
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Air Greece almost breaks even after first year of operation
AIR GREECE, one of the new batch of privately owned Greek start-up carriers, says that it came close to break-even over its first year of operations to September 1995. The airline had sales of GDr2.1 billion ($9 million) over the year, carrying nearly 121,000 passengers on its scheduled ...
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Brunei plans to expand
THE BRUNEI Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) is drawing up a three-phase expansion plan to develop the country's airport into a regional hub. Brunei wants to develop the airport following the formation of the East ASEAN Growth Area (EAGA), formed between Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. Under the ...
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Road to Damascus
Lord Hesketh, the charismatic chairman of British Mediterranean Airways, celebrates the airline's first anniversary in style. Guynter Endres/BEIRUT and DAMASCUS BRITISH MEDITERRANEAN Airways' charismatic chairman Lord Alexander Hesketh might not be the archetypal airline boss, but he has achieved success in one of the ...
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Vnukovo completes privatisation
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW VNUKOVO AIRLINES has become the first of Russia's state-owned carriers to complete its privatisation, with the sale of a 41% stake to a Russian investment company for $150 million. The holding was purchased by VIL, a little-known Russian trading company, after the privatisation auction ...
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AeroMexico reverses losses despite passenger decline
AEROMEXICO, FRESH from its financial restructuring, has delivered a third-quarter net profit, despite another heavy fall in passenger numbers. The Mexican airline turned around 1994's losses to end the September quarter with net profits of NP143 million ($20 million). The result leaves the carrier close to break-even so ...
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Northwest action to block hostile bids angers KLM
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON SPECULATION OVER an impending shake-out in the US airline industry has sharpened with attempts by Northwest Airlines to put a cap on the amount any one shareholder can own in the carrier. The move has already run into controversy, with Northwest's partner KLM preparing ...
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Lufthansa to establish Munich hub
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH LUFTHANSA IS planning to introduce intercontinental flights and broaden its European services from Munich, Germany's third-largest airport. The move will effectively turn the Bavarian capital into the airline's second hub after Frankfurt, says Lufthansa. The carrier cites Munich Airport's modern infrastructure, positive development forecasts ...
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New York bound
Cathay Pacific Airways plans to launch its long-awaited service to New York from 1 July, 1996, following the recent signing of a new air-services agreement between Hong Kong and the USA. The service will operate five times a week via Vancouver, initially with a Boeing 747-400. The Hong Kong carrier ...
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JAL and ANA deliver an upbeat message
Japan Airlines (JAL) and All Nippon Airways (ANA) have given upbeat reports for the first half, reflecting signs of recovery in the Japanese economy. JAL's sales grew by a healthy 6.7% over the six months to September and the airline is forecasting that revenues for the full 1995/6 ...
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S Korea presses China on choice of Western partner
Paul Lewis/SEOUL SOUTH KOREA IS pushing to reach an agreement with China by mid-November on the selection of a Western partner to help develop the planned Airexpress AE-100 passenger jet. The Korean Commercial-Aircraft Development (KCDC) consortium and Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) are under pressure to ...
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Estonia inaugurates London Gatwick service
ESTONIAN AIR has started scheduled services between Estonian capital Tallinn and London. The arrival of the Boeing 737-500 at Gatwick Airport on 2 November marked the first-ever service between the two cities. Four flights a week are operating to London, two of them via Copenhagen. The Estonian national ...