All Systems & interiors articles – Page 893
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Financial analysts are divided on Delta Air Lines figures
FIRST-QUARTER results from Delta Air Lines, which included a massive write-down to cover the last major chunk of its cost-cutting drive, have raised a mixed response from financial analysts. The carrier reported its best-ever operating results for the first quarter, but the net profit came in below ...
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Air France Europe 'may disappear', says Blanc
Julian Moxon/PARIS AIR FRANCE Group president Christian Blanc has threatened the workforce of Air France Europe with the "disappearance" of the airline if Draconian measures to restore performance are not under- taken in the next two years. At a board meeting on 25 April, Blanc ...
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ANZ optimistic over Ansett buy-out
Air New Zealand (ANZ) has set a 30 June target date to complete its stalled NZ$350 million ($241 million) buy-out of TNT's 50% stake in Ansett. In April, the New Zealand Commerce Commission blocked ANZ's bid because it would have resulted in the carrier also acquiring 50% of domestic competitor ...
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AST becomes the first victim of UK training policy
David Learmount/LONDON THE UK'S OLDEST flying training school has become the first victim of a Government policy loophole enabling UK pilots to gain UK commercial pilot's licences in foreign training establishments. The 60-year-old Air Services Training (AST) at Perth, Scotland, announced on 26 April that ...
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New Sabena chief warns that costs must be reduced
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS SABENA'S NEW president, Paul Reutlinger, has warned staff that the ailing carrier needs to shave billions of Belgian francs from its cost base. Reutlinger, who joined Sabena from Swissair after Pierre Godfroid's resignation, says that the carrier needs to make annual savings of ...
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Hughes victor as FAA switches WAAS deal
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DCGraham Warwick/ATLANTA WILCOX ELECTRIC says that its $475 million Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) contract was terminated by the US Federal Aviation Administration because the agency became "a victim of its own experience" of cost and schedule overruns on previous programmes. The FAA ...
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Low-fare Europe?
Kevin O'Toole/BRUSSELS IT WAS ONLY a matter of time before the US "no-frills" experiment began to take root in Europe's rapidly deregulating market. Pioneers have already emerged, offering the kind of no-frills point-to-point services which shot Southwest Airlines, ValuJet and others to fame in the USA. ...
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Afrique rebels
Flight crew, cabin crew and ground staff unions at Air Afrique are threatening strike action in a bid to topple the carrier's president Yves Roland-Billecarte and his management team following the failure of a number of rescue packages, according to the International Transport Workers Federation. The carrier is predicting losses ...
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Eurocopter starts on modified BK117
EUROCOPTER GERMANY has started assembly of a highly modified BK117, to meet the time-scale requirements at one of the bidders for the UK Ministry of Defence's (MoD) £400 million ($610 million) tri-service Defence Helicopter Flying School (DFHS) competition. The winner is to be announced in June, with the ...
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Revamped Beechjet 400A delivery imminent
RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT WILL deliver this month the first Beechjet 400As with a redesigned interior providing increased passenger and crew comfort, reduced noise and vibration and improved systems accessibility to minimise downtime during inspections. The cabin has centre club seating with reclining and swiveling chairs. Crew seating is also improved. ...
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Airborne chooses TIMCO for 767 conversion work
US AIRCRAFT-modification specialist TIMCO says that it has been selected by Airborne Express to develop a freighter conversion for the Boeing 767. Express-package carrier Airborne has acquired 12 ex-All Nippon Airways 767-200s for $290 million, including modification, and plans to acquire between ten and 15 additional aircraft for a total ...
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Very-large-aircraft adaptability poser
Sir - The editorial "Missing a trick" (Flight International, 17-23 April, P3), proposing a European involvement in the Lockheed Martin C-141 replacement, seems to raise the more fundamental question of whether a new civil transport could be adaptable to military requirements. While the tanker role presents few ...
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Airline news
Lufthansa is launching an on-line reservation service that can be accessed through either a CD-ROM format or through the Internet or other on-line services. Distribution of the CD-ROM is in conjunction with travel agents, who will be able to customse their own versions of the disc. South African ...
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Latin American lead
Increasingly creative financial mechanisms and new products that insure against political and contractual risks, are providing incentives for private sector investment in Latin American and Caribbean airports. By Ellis Juan.As the air transport sector continues its rapid expansion in an increasingly globalised economy, the entry of fast-growing new participants like ...
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The benefits of glass cockpits
Sir - I get the impression from David Learmount's article "Cracked glass" (Flight International, 3-9 April, P30) that glass-cockpit aircraft today are less than flawless and that there is a revolution, not just an evolution, needed to bring them back on track. Research into cockpit layout and the ...
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Big four split over labour
In their talks with labour unions, four US majors are achieving widely divergent results. FedEx and Delta have resolved protracted negotiations with their pilots. However, American Airlines is still deadlocked with its pilots after almost two years of talks. United Airlines' flight attendants have narrowly defeated a new contract with ...
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Chill winds hit Geneva
Political niceties have given way to economic realities as Swissair concentrates its longhaul activities in Zürich, moving several international destinations from Geneva. 'There is a change in the economic environment in this business and we are no longer in a position to pay attention to political considerations,' says Martin Bisang, ...
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CLK ponders runway two
Forecasters are about to release new traffic estimates that could dictate whether Hong Kong accelerates work on a second Chek Lap Kok runway, which would strengthen its claim as an international hub, as the geopolitical transition now underway in the region begins to undermine its role as the gateway to ...
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Europe's cost crisis
What does it take to ensure the start up of a profitable low-cost carrier in Europe? Hugh Parry looks at the pitfalls and compares the cost of operating in Europe to what is on offer in the US.Imagine an airline based at London/Heathrow flying to Paris 15 times a ...
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Dealing in Deutsche marks
The German tax lease market is growing, and providing an important source of aircraft funds, but there are fears that any liberties taken with structures could lead to tighter regulation by the tax authorities. Trevor French reports.It doesn't often happen that the arcane world of aircraft finance hits the front ...