All Systems & interiors articles – Page 868
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Gulf Air split put on hold
Gulf Air's future remains in doubt as Abu Dhabi still looks set to succeed in its bid to take control of the carrier. The bid by the oil-rich Emirate was put on hold following new objections from Qatar and Oman. Concerned about their ability to grow their own ...
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Free for all over the mega-alliance
What a mess. The lobbying machines pushing for and against the proposed American Airlines-British Airways alliance have moved from overdrive into hyperdrive. Thousands of trees have been felled to produce the paper required for submissions, opinions, complaints and press releases. Shares in Panasonic jumped through the roof as regulatory agencies ...
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Atlantic trio boost links
Swissair, Austrian Airlines and Sabena have enhanced their integration with a joint order for up to 29 Airbus A330s and the launch in February of a joint North Atlantic operation with Delta Air Lines. Officially, the A330 order follows a joint evaluation, but in practice Sabena has closed ...
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Web fever
Business gurus like to portray the Internet as the best marketing opportunity ever and most airlines and aerospace companies have jumped onto the bandwagon. Richard Whitaker goes surfing to see what is on offer, and Jane Levere discusses the trend towards airlines using the Internet for distress sales of inventory. ...
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No unity over Rio Grande
Mexicana and Aéromexico have each entered or expanded separate alliances with US airlines, signalling that they plan to continue competing against each other across the US-Mexico border. These pacts revive questions about the carriers' commitment to their joint Alas de America alliance with AeroPeru. Aéromexico has expanded its ...
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Skating on thin ice
Competition, high costs, declining yields, and powerful unions are weighing heavily on SAS, but salvation could lie in its growing alliance grouping. It must be like hoarding a treasure chest, only suddenly to find a queue of people knocking on your door demanding a share of the booty. SAS ...
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US pilots are out for profit
Record profits and the use of regional jets are at the root of troubled pilot union negotiations at both American Airlines and United Airlines, and American could suffer a strike. The relationship between American's management and the Allied Pilots Association has changed dramatically since early January, when APA ...
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Tan tough on PAL unions
Philippine Airlines chairman Lucio Tan has displayed characteristic toughness in dealing with the carrier's three unions and has secured a four-year accord after three months of brinkmanship talks. Tan has given the unions a rude awakening after years of capitulation by the carrier's former government owners. Tan set ...
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Emergency exits: no new dangers
Sir - I refer to the last paragraph in the article "Emergency-exit changes foreshadowed" (Flight International, 18-31 December, 1996, P12). The UK Civil Aviation Authority requires (not recommends, as stated) operators to ensure that Type III exit row seats are allocated only "-to passengers who appear capable of ...
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Bell aims for double success with new light twin
BELL HOPES TO emulate the success of the 407 with its new light twin-turbine helicopter, the Model 427. At just under $2 million, the price goal is even more challenging than that for the 407, because the 427 is essentially an all-new aircraft. The 427 will be certificated simultaneously to ...
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AlliedSignal wins $100 million APU/avionics deal
GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) has selected AlliedSignal Aerospace to supply auxiliary-power units (APUs) and avionics for up to 80 Airbus Industrie A320s which the US leasing company plans to buy, in a deal worth around $100 million. The agreement means that GECAS is likely to be one ...
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JAL chooses BEA
Japan Airlines (JAL) has selected BE Aerospace's (BEA) MDDS inflight entertainment system for installation on three Boeing 747-400s which are due for delivery to the Japanese carrier in 1998. The airline is also considering retrofitting the system on its 747-300/400 fleet, according to Wellington, Florida-based BEA. ...
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Bell begins assembly of new 427 light twin
BELL HAS BEGUN major assembly of the first prototype Model 427 light twin-turbine helicopter. The aircraft is to be flown at Bell's Canadian commercial-helicopter plant in December 1997. Two prototypes are planned and simultaneous Canadian, European and US certification is scheduled for December 1998. The first production 427 ...
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Cathay will launch FANS 747 flights by year's end
Cathay Pacific Airways plans to finish equipping its entire fleet of Boeing 747-400s with future-air-navigation system (FANS-1) equipment by March and hopes to be operating on the first communications, navigation and surveillance/air-traffic-management (CNS/ATM) route across the northern Pacific Ocean by the end of the year. The Hong Kong ...
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MDC lines up MD-80 freighters
McDonnell Douglas (MDC) has had "informal" talks with China Eastern Airlines about the setting up of a cargo-modification line for MD-80s in Asia, and particularly China. Although freighter versions of the DC-9 were built, MDC has never delivered a main-deck cargo-door-equipped MD-80. The talks are believed to have ...
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The big issue
BOEING'S REVELATION that it will not be competing in the very-large-airliner market with a derivative of the 747, thus apparently leaving Airbus Industrie's A3XX with a clear run, has certainly raised more questions than answers. While attention has focused on Boeing's doubts about lack of "sufficient market demand" ...
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Sabena denies Swissair rumours
Sabena chief executive Paul Reutlinger has denied growing speculation that Swissair is preparing to pull out from the alliance with its struggling Belgian partner if the carrier's unions fail to agree on new working conditions and wage structures. Rumours of a possible pull-out were revived by confirmation that ...
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New Piper launches Seneca V
TWO YEARS AFTER starting work on the aircraft, New Piper Aircraft has unveiled its Seneca V cabin-class piston twin, its first new product since emerging from the bankruptcy of the former Piper Aircraft (Flight International, 8-14 January). "We look at the Seneca V as a dual-purpose aircraft, with ...
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MDC goes digital
McDonnell Douglas has selected Avtech to supply a digitally controlled audio system for the MD-95 100-seat airliner. The system manages flightdeck communications and uses a databus to connect the audio control panels to the remotely mounted audio management unit. Source: Flight International
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Japanese airlines finalise low-cost plans
Japan Air System (JAS) and Japan Airlines (JAL) are planning to incorporate new low-cost subsidiary carriers shortly, in the face of growing domestic liberalisation and the entry of new competing start-up airlines. JAS also announced that its new subsidiary operation, Harlequin Air, was to have been established on ...