All Systems & interiors articles – Page 766
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JFK Reconstructs
CAROLE SHIFRIN NEW YORK Billions of dollars are being pumped into New York's once run-down Kennedy airport to make the USA's east coast gateway fit for the 21st century A largely faded symbol of the new world of international aviation, New York's John F Kennedy International Airport is undergoing a ...
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VASP merger proposal rejected
BRIAN HOMEWOOD RIO DE JANEIRO Brazilian aviation is again in confusion over mergers, with VASP proposing a single holding company for the four main companies and the government's development bank repeating an offer to finance fusion. For the second time this year, Andrea Calabia, president of The Brazilian National Development ...
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Mergers
SAirGroup ground-handling company Swissport International has acquired Irish flag carrier Aer Lingus' London Heathrow passenger and ramp handling business, offered for sale in April. The move follows Swissport's acquisition of DynAir of the USA and equity investment in Serlipsa of Peru and Miascor of the Philippines. Delta Air Lines and ...
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Up to the Minute
KEVIN O'TOOLE CHICAGO A new Internet company is pitching into the battle to sell late available space and hoping to establish a new on-line business model in the process. "We're travel evangelists," says David Miranda, with all the visionary brio that the world has come to expect of a would-be ...
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Emirates eyes 120-seater for new regional network
Emirates will shortly start talks with Airbus and Boeing to acquire 120-seat aircraft to launch a network of regional services from its Dubai hub. The carrier is also studying airline alliances, to allow it to decide whether to join a grouping, says Emirates chairman Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum. ...
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Board poised for A3XX decision
The Airbus Industrie supervisory board is to decide whether to authorise managing director Noel Forgeard to begin soliciting airline commitments for the A3XX at an extraordinary meeting planned for 8 December. If the consortium gets the green light, Forgeard will visit key target customers for the ultra-high capacity airliner ...
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Boeing claims 747-X will catch A3XX
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing is claiming that its new stretched 747-400X design is capable of meeting and even beating the direct operating costs of the all-new Airbus A3XX. The startling assertion is based on revised performance estimates for the 747-400X, plus new, independent airline analysis of the latest A3XX proposals. ...
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Leasing companies drop 767-400ER commitments after poor demand
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Leasing companies General Electric Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) and International Lease Finance (ILFC) have dropped their combined orders for seven Boeing 767-400ERs after failing to find sufficient market interest in the stretched twins. ILFC says it has switched its four remaining -400ER commitments for ...
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737 safety probe prompts tests
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing is modifying a 30-year-old ex-United Airlines 737-200 for ground and flight tests of the rudder system as part of a US Federal Aviation Administration-led safety evaluation. The 737 is being leased from Indiana-based Purdue University, which acquired the aircraft after United Airlines retired it in 1997. ...
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Catching African bugs
Age is beautiful for many African airports, which have avoided the biggest problems in becoming Y2K compliant Michael Wakabi/KAMPALA Africa is never short of contradictions. In the run-up to the year 2000, the very things that made some African airports the laughing stock of yesteryear are the reason that ...
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Airports
A major refurbishment of Tashkent Airport's international terminal will begin in December, with Donald Smith, Seymour & Rooley as engineering consultant. Work is scheduled to be completed in June 2001. Belgian regional airports Liège-Bierset and Charleroi-Gosselies (rebranded as "Brussels South"), both operated by the country's regional government for the Walloon ...
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Oneworld allies seek codeshares
Chris Jasper/LONDON British Airways and its oneworld ally, American Airlines, have filed applications with the US Department of Transportation (DoT) for codeshares on flights serving 75 destinations in the UK, USA, Europe and Africa in a long-awaited move which should breathe new life into the pair's faltering alliance. American ...
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EgyptAir data fail to supply any answers
David Learmount/LONDON Initial evaluation of the crashed EgyptAir Boeing 767-300ER cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and flight data recorder (FDR) has failed to confirm the causes of the dive which began the fatal manoeuvre sequence, says US National Transportation Safety Board chairman Jim Hall. On 17 November, Hall released ...
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UK plans partial ATC sell-off
David Learmount/LONDONUK air traffic control (ATC) is on course for partial privatisation by the middle of next year, with the government last week announcing plans to put a bill transforming the National Air Traffic Services (NATS) into a "public private partnership" before parliament during the 1999/2000 session. As the government ...
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Kuwait buys
The Kuwaiti Ministry of the Interior has ordered two Eurocopter EC135 light twin helicopters to equip its air transport department. The manufacturer points out the EC135 is already in service with 16 police forces around the world, and that Kuwait's armed forces already operate Eurocopter aircraft. The EC135 has attracted ...
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Final Mir, first ISS crews are named
Two Russian cosmonaut crews have been named for the final mission to the Mir space station to be launched in February 2000. The prime crew is rookie Sergei Zaletin and Alexander Kaleri, a Mir veteran. A two-person back-up crew has been named as Salizham Sharipov - who flew on ...
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Matra Marconi wins Helios deal
Matra Marconi Space (MMS) has been selected by the French Defence Agency as prime contractor to supply the ground segment for the Helios II reconnaissance satellite. It is to enter service in 2003 to process data from Helios IB and Helios IIA and B satellites and possibly future military spacecraft. ...
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Vulcan delivers Observer to Italian police force
VulcanAir has delivered its first Partenavia P68 Observer 2 to the Italian State Police, around 18 months after the Casoria, Naples-based company acquired fellow Italian company Aerocosmos, former owner of the P68 type certificate. The Observer 2 piston twin, an upgraded version of the standard Observer model, offers a ...
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Repair overhaul
Kuwait Airways has renewed its Airbus landing gear repair and overhaul contract with Messier Services. The $8 million contract covers Kuwait's fleet of Airbus A300-600s, A310-300s, A320s and A340s. The work will be carried out at Messier's Molsheim plant in France. Messier Services Asia has also won a six-year $5 ...
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Routes
British Airways is restructuring its Caribbean network from London Gatwick with a redeployment of flights operated under franchise by the paper airline Airline Management (AML) from March. AML services are operated by two-class Boeing 777s, with BA providing pilots and Flying Colours (to be renamed JMC Air) the cabin crew. ...