News from FlightGlobal – Page 2626
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Avro tackles RJ100 London City Airport weight limit
AVRO INTERNATIONAL Aerospace is working to boost the RJ100's payload capacity for operations at London City Airport, by introducing a new 33° flap setting for take-off, and reducing airframe weight. The work is being carried out to enable Crossair to operate its recently ordered RJ100s into the airport ...
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Jeppesen launches on-line dispatch aid
JEPPESEN HAS launched a new OnSight integrated operations- management and flight-dispatch system for airline and fleet-operators. The OnSight delivers on-line flight-management and dispatch information in near-real time, via Unix-compatible workstations. The Denver, USA-based international aviation-information services company says that the OnSight is offered as a modular system, including ...
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ARIA starts up at Shannon
AEROFLOT RUSSIA-International Airlines (ARIA) has begun operation of its hub at Shannon, Ireland. Aircraft from Moscow, St Petersburg, Minsk and Minerahne Voda were flown into the Irish airport, to connect with an onward Ilyushin Il-62 service to New York, Chicago and Miami. Services from several other cities and airlines are ...
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Aero Vodochody stays cautiously optimistic
CZECH AIRCRAFT manufacturer Aero Vodochody warns that its finances remain weak after posting further losses for 1994, but believes that recovery is now in prospect. Following the collapse of Communism, Vodochody's aircraft output plummeted from more than 240 units, to a low point of two in 1992. ...
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Helikopter Service sales up
ACQUISITIONS HELPED Helikopter Service raise its sales by one-third in 1994, and the company claims that it is on course to emerge as the world's largest commercial-helicopter organisation. The Norwegian operator posts sales of just under NKr1.8 billion ($290 million) for 1994, but expects to reach the NKr2.4 ...
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KLM profits news marred by strike action
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON KLM HAS REVEALED record profits, although some of the shine was taken off the announcement by pilots staging a second one-day strike. The Dutch carrier reports net profits of DFl470 million ($300 million) for its financial year to the end of March, staying ...
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SITA network boosts Sabre
AMERICAN AIRLINES and global communications network company SITA have agreed, on a $50 million deal linking 6,000 locations worldwide, into the massive Sabre computer reservations system via the SITA network. The system is owned by American's parent AMR. Sabre's data-network services managing director Don Wilkins says: "We selected ...
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Eastern Europe agrees
UKRAINE AND Hungary have signed a new air-services agreement to replace the defunct convention signed with the former Soviet Union. The agreement designates Malev of Hungary and Air Ukraine as the sole carriers on scheduled routes between the two countries. Source: Flight International
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BAe/ATR finalise deal as Germany looks to Asia
THE REGIONAL-aircraft joint venture between British Aerospace and ATR partners Aerospatiale and Alenia has been signed and intense negotiations are now expected to take place at the Paris air show over bringing Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) into an enlarged consortium. Speaking in the run-up to the air show, new ...
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No definition
The European Commission (EC) does not want member nations of the European Union (EU) to negotiate bilateral air-transport agreements with foreign countries - especially with the USA. It has long wanted to take on that duty itself, on behalf of the EU as a whole. The trouble is that the ...
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GE90 test delay could hold up 777
Guy Norris/Los Angeles BOEING AND General Electric are believed to be making contingency plans, for a possible delay in the certification and delivery of the first GE90-powered 777 following a fan-balance problem experienced during ground tests. Test flying of the two GE90-powered Boeing 777 test ...
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Qantas Airlink
Qantas has appointed Barry Mayo as general manager of its regional subsidiary, Australian Airlink. Mayo was formerly managing director of Insight International Tours. Previously, he represented Garuda Indonesia regionally for six years and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines for eleven years. Source: Flight International
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Maintenance Record
US maintenance specialist Greenwich Air Services has posted record results for the six months ended 31 March, with sales more than doubling, to $83.1 million, and net income up to $2.4 million, from $1.6 million for the same period in 1994. Source: ...
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Genesis Fails
East Midlands, UK-based regional carrier Genesis Airways has ceased operations eight months after starting scheduled flights to Belfast, Northern Ireland, using a British Aerospace Jetstream 31. Genesis began operating as Prospair, in 1990. Source: Flight International
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Malaysian Bilateral
Malaysia and Canada have signed a bilateral air-services agreement for direct service between Kuala Lumpur and Vancouver. Malaysia Airlines (MAS) plans to launch a twice-weekly service in November. Source: Flight International
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Tongan Lease Share
Royal Tongan Airlines, has entered a lease-sharing deal with Air Pacific of Fiji, to operate a Boeing 737-300 on its Pacific routes. It has also won Australian Government approval to carry revenue passengers on its Sydney-Auckland-Tonga route. Source: Flight International
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Flight
Andrew Doyle has joined Flight International as technical reporter, based at the magazine's London head office. Doyle was previously assistant editor on Airline Maintenance World and the Air Letter. He has an honours degree in aeronautical engineering, and will be responsible for general technical and news reporting. Source: ...
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Northwest
Ruthie McKee has been named senior vice-president for customer service and line maintenance at Northwest Airlines, of St Paul, Minneapolis. She was formerly vice-president for customer service, ground operations. Frank Jauregui becomes vice-president for line maintenance. He was previously managing director of international line maintenance. Marilyn Rogers is named vice-president ...
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Nose to nose
The Paris show is the first major event for over a decade to feature aircraft from both Boeing and Airbus Industrie Kieran Daly/LONDON The significance of symbolic moments should not be exaggerated, but Paris '95 serves as well as any event to mark the start of ...
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Tunnel vision?
Are Europe's airlines underestimating the impact of high-speed rail services? Andrew Chuter/LONDON If the old maxim that the customer is always right still has meaning, then the airlines that ply the world's busiest air route between London and Paris have a fight on their hands. ...