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Chicago revisited
KAREN WALKER CHICAGO Transport ministers from around the world joined airline and industry chiefs in Chicago in December to discuss how to shed the bilateralism legacy of the historic 1944 Chicago Convention and also move beyond the current open skies regime to multilateralism. US Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater lost few ...
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In Brief
Steeper downturn predicted The US Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) is predicting a worse downturn in sales of US civil aircraft in 2000 than had been expected. In his annual year-end review and forecast, AIA president John Douglass said sales of US civil aircraft, including engines and parts, are expected ...
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New Beginning
GÜNTER ENDRES ATHENS With the belated opening up of the Greek market, a clutch of independent operators is starting to mount a serious challenge to flag carrier Olympic Airways Until 1998, Greece had been virtually untouched by the European liberalisation process. Apart from a partial deregulation in 1991, which permitted ...
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War with no winners
HORMUZ MAMA BOMBAY With the high season in full swing, India's domestic airlines may be wondering whether last year's cut-throat fare war was really worth it. Indian Airlines, Jet Airways and Sahara Airlines co-existed peacefully until India's economic woes caused traffic to plummet last year. Following a rapid rise ...
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A sense of balance
CHRIS TARRY COMMERZBANK IN LONDON The traffic forecasting model developed by Commerzbank and Airline Business highlights the extent to which capacity ran ahead of demand in 1999. But the coming year could bring markets back to balance. If further evidence was needed over the pain that excess seat capacity can ...
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Iberia sells Binter to local consortium
BARRY CROSS LONDON Parent state holding company SEPI has given Iberia approval to sell regional subsidiary Binter Canarias to a consortium of local businessmen. The price of Ptas5.5 billion ($35 million), plus Ptas800 million in dividends - the equivalent of 65% of the 1998 profit - is just ...
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In Brief
Asiana offer Asiana Airlines expects to raise 375 billion won ($325 million) through an initial public offering of 50 million shares. Shares were made available early in December ahead of a listing on South Korea's secondary Kosdaq share market at the end of the month. Public and institutional investors ...
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EC rethink on safety body
ALAN GEORGE BRUSSELS Further delays in the establishment of the proposed European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) seem inevitable following an intervention by the new Transport Commissioner Loyola De Palacio. She now wants the EASA to be established as part of the European Commission (EC), reversing the previous compromise by which ...
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Olympic Lynchpin
GÜNTER ENDRES ATHENS Rod Lynch has been brought in to Olympic Airways to avert a Greek tragedy. The sight of a Scotsman sitting behind the desk once occupied by Aristotle Onassis, whose picture still dominates the chief executive's office, is striking. Yet the contrast between the Greek billionaire shipping magnate, ...
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Cause and effect
The aircraft ghosts in to land, the loudest sound being the squeal of tyres on touchdown. Engine noise, so long the bane of aircraft and airport developers alike, has been banished to the history books. What is more, the only significant emission from this generation of powerplants is completely ...
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Germany shapes engine of the future
Germany is easing the way forward for its aero-engine companies to design cleaner, quieter, more efficient powerplants over the next decade Germany's Engine 3E (E3E) programme was launched to ensure that the country's aeroengine companies, BMW Rolls-Royce (now R-R GmbH) and MTU, are prepared for the demands that will ...
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Satcoms progress
Back in the 20th century, they said people would not want telephones on airliners; that they did not wish to be contactable while they dozed in comfort or ate a fine meal. How times have changed. In the 21st century, passengers slip on virtual reality glasses and join the crew ...
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Brazil's carriers do battle over frequent flier plans
BRIAN HOMEWOOD RIO DE JANEIRO Last year's deep recession forced Brazil's carriers to abandon their cut throat fares war but BTAM, VASP, Varig and Transbrasil have now all turned to heavy promotion of their frequent flier programmes. Varig says 2.5 million passengers are registered on its Smiles scheme, up from ...
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Partners in IT
KEVIN O'TOOLE LONDON IT suppliers are reworking their relationships with airline customers, looking for long-term partnerships based on measures of business success. SITA is joining the revolution Speak to a supplier of information technology (IT) these days and you are likely to hear some highly untechnical language. Once the talk ...
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My view - Terry Stinson, Chairman and Chief Executive, Bell Helicopter Textron
As we enter the next millennium, it is worth reflecting on just how far the helicopter industry has come. This is truly a field in its infancy. It is only 53 years since the Bell 47 was certificated as the world's first commercial helicopter. With wooden blades and an old ...
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Our wacky world
Innovation is alive in Australia but some unusual designs have been confined to the drawing board Australia, the nation which brought you a flying farm-tractor called the Airtruk and a stagger-wing trainer called the Eagle, is at it again. Innovation is alive and well down under, despite market conditions ...
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Marketplace
Air Seychelles has signed a 10-year lease deal with ILFC for a General Electric CF6-80C2-powered Boeing 767-300ER, for delivery in April 2001. Swiss charter carrier Edelweiss Air has agreed to lease a new Airbus A330-200 from CIT Group from the fourth quarter of 2000. The Rolls-Royce Trent 772B-powered A330-200 is ...
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Ibis rolls out Ae270
Ibis Aerospace, the joint venture of Czech company Aero Vodochody and Taiwan's Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC), rolled out its Ae270 single-engined turboprop in Prague on 10 December. The Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-42A-powered aircraft, the first of five prototypes, will begin flight testing in February, with US and Czech ...
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Tangara delayed 'indefinitely'
Francois Legros/PARIS Socata, the light aircraft subsidiary of France's Aerospatiale Matra, has delayed indefinitely certification of its TB360 twin-engined Tangara. Chairman and chief executive Philippe Debrun says Socata "preferred to mobilise its energy and skills in aircraft that are ready and can be sold at once, rather than deploying ...
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Boeing adds 163 'unidentified' orders to swell backlog list
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Boeing has added 163 aircraft to its firm order backlog by revoking its policy of not listing sales to unidentified customers. The aircraft, ordered over the past two years, are valued at $9 billion. The US manufacturer says its move to "adopt an industry-wide practice" ...