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Traffic fall defeats Russian airlines' restructuring plan
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW New figures on the state of the Russian airline industry make sobering reading - although the improved performance of a handful of carriers, achieved in a harsh economic climate, suggests there may be grounds for cautious optimism. Russian passenger traffic fell 3.7% last year compared with 1998, ...
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Morrow Aircraft close to Boomerang twin funding
Morrow Aircraft is close to securing extra funding needed to resume development of its Rutan-inspired Boomerang piston twin. But first deliveries are still set for late 2002, despite the delay in clinching the required investment. Dale Johnson, Morrow's vice-president of product management, says: "We are at the point where ...
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Canadian plans to update ageing fleet
Canadian Airlines has unveiled plans for a multi-billion dollar acquisition to replace up to 70 ageing aircraft over the next five years. The move follows its takeover by rival Air Canada, and a joint fleet-renewal order may be under consideration. The plan has been disclosed by new president ...
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Eastern Caribbean Express ready for regional flights with Dash 8s
Eastern Caribbean Express plans to start flying on 18 April in support of parent Air Jamaica. The St Lucia-based airline will initially operate two Bombardier Dash 8-100s on lease from the manufacturer and has plans for a third. According to general manager Eugene Pieterse, the carrier will initially operate from ...
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Virgin Australia agrees 737-700 leasing deal
Virgin Australia has agreed a A$540million ($333 million) long-term operating lease deal with International Lease Finance (ILFC) for 10 Boeing 737-700s, with the option to switch to the larger 737-800. The deal, confirmed by new chief executive Brett Godfrey, calls for deliveries to begin next March. The aircraft will ...
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767-400ER schedule set back
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing faces a delay to its 767-400ER certification and delivery schedule in the wake of its recently resolved engineering employees' strike. Before the 40-day strike by Society for Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace members, Boeing was on target to certificate the -400ER in April and deliver ...
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Airbus A318 undergoes low-speed windtunnel tests at Toulouse
Low speed windtunnel testing of the Airbus A318 is under way at ONERA's Le Fauga facility near Toulouse, in France with a 1/11th scale model of the 107-seat twinjet. Powered by the Pratt & Whitney PW6000 or CFM International CFM56-5 engine, the A320 derivative will have its first flight in ...
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Olympic to lease 15 737-700/800s
Olympic Airways is to take 15 Next Generation Boeing 737s on 10-year leases from GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) to replace ageing Boeing 727s and 737-200s. As part of the deal, the Greek flag carrier is to cancel firm orders for eight 737-800s that had been due for delivery ...
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ERJ-145 makes Crossair debut with operational tests
Crossair's first Embraer RJ-145 is undergoing operational tests from the Swiss regional's base at Basle-Mulhouse. The 49-seater was scheduled to enter service on 26 March, with initial destinations including Manchester, Madrid, Birmingham, Copenhagen, Oslo, Hamburg and Valencia from Basle. Source: Flight International
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Southern success
Argentinian, Brazilian and Chilean companies lead in putting South America's aerospace industry on the map Paul Lewis/SANTIAGO Guy Norris/CORDOBA The South American aerospace industry has won recognition in recent years as a major player on the international scene, thanks in part to the success of Brazilian manufacturer Embraer. Two other ...
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Routes
All Nippon Airways plans to reduce capacity on unprofitable routes, or suspend them, this year and introduce a Tokyo-Osaka shuttle service. The airline is to introduce an Osaka-Honolulu service from 26 March and will increase capacity on routes from Tokyo to Bangkok, Frankfurt and Washington DC. Frequencies will be cut ...
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Marketplace
Frontier Airlines has confirmed its deal for up to 36 Airbus narrowbodies, announced in October (Flight International, 27 October - 2 November). The Denver-based low-cost carrier has placed a firm order for five 114-seat, Pratt & Whitney PW6000-powered A318s and six 132-seat, CFM International CFM56-5-powered A319s. Options have been taken ...
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A tale of two countries
Deregulation has had differing results for Chile's and Argentina's airlines Paul Lewis/SANTIAGO Guy Norris/BUENOS AIRES Chile and Argentina offer contrasting pictures of the state of civil air transport in South America. The former is held up as a textbook example of successful deregulation, having embraced open skies and ...
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Cathay Pacific order plans take shape
More details about Cathay Pacific Airways' impeding widebody orders have emerged. The airline has a immediate need for more Asia-Pacific capacity, as well as longer term ultra-long haul requirement (Flight International, 14-20 March). According to Cathay corporate development director Antony Tyler, an order will be concluded by mid-May covering ...
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Struggling LTU to replace Boeing fleet with Airbuses
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH LTU is to undergo a radical fleet restructuring which will see the loss-making German charter-carrier operating an all-Airbus fleet by the end of 2002. SAirGroup leasing company Flightlease has taken responsibility for fleet management at LTU and expects to finalise plans within the next two weeks ...
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French aerostructures pressed to consolidate
The French aerostructures industry showed strong growth last year as Airbus Industrie, its key customer, continued to improve market share. But the sector is under increasing pressure to consolidate as the airframer targets efficiency improvements ahead of the A3XX launch. Hurel-Dubois co-operates with Latécoère and Socata on Airbus components and, ...
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Nav Canada aims for North Atlantic ADS datalink trials
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Nav Canada hopes to begin full operational trials with automatic dependence surveillance (ADS) over the North Atlantic in early May, followed by controller-pilot datalink communications (CPDLC), with the upgrade of its Gander Automated Air Traffic Control System. "We are targeting being operational on 7 May. ...
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MD-80s avoid disaster at Oslo
David Learmount/LONDON Three Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) Boeing MD-80s came close to a multiple collision at Oslo Gardemoen Airport on 8 March, endangering the lives of over 300 passengers and crew. The incident is being investigated by the airline and the aviation authorities, according to SAS' chief pilot for the ...
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Ilyushin draws up PS-90 re-engining programme for Il-76 freighter
A re-engining programme for the Ilyushin Il-76 freighter is being put together by the Ilyushin design bureau and TAPO Chkalov plant, based at Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The two organisations are negotiating a business plan with Russian and CIS freighter operators covering the re-engining of 40-60 Il-76s. The 50t (110,000lb)-payload freighter's ...
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Italian carrier wraps up 747-400 order
Alitalia has finalised its long-awaited order for Boeing 747-400s with a deal for up to eight aircraft, to be delivered from early next year. The order is part of a L2,000 billion ($1.1 billion) fleet upgrade agreed by the board in mid-1999, covering new 747-400s to replace its ageing ...