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Garuda joins Asian recovery
Garuda Indonesia claims to have broken-even last year, reversing seven years of losses. The carrier's president, Abdulgani, says preliminary, unaudited, figures for 1999 show a 600 million rupiah ($83,000) net profit, after 1998's two trillion rupiah ($275 million) net loss. He says recent restructuring efforts are paying off. Abdulgani ...
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In Brief - Americas
Hawaii gains bilateral rights Washington is inviting foreign airlines to serve Hawaii outside existing bilaterals. Airlines from any country except the UK may now fly to Honolulu and Kona, and from there to the US mainland. Washington hopes these new rights will help boost Hawaii's economy. United e-commerce ...
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Airbus finally takes a lead
Airbus has taken the lead in its long-running annual order battle with Boeing and is drawing level on backlog, but there is still all to play for as the two manufacturers head into 2000. The battle has been fought out for the best part of three decades, but as ...
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Sun Air recovery hopes hit by SAA deal with Safair
ROGER MAKINGS JOHANNESBURG The saga over the liquidation of South African domestic carrier Sun Air has taken a further twist. Liquidators claim to have unearthed a deal between South African Airways (SAA) and leasing company Safair which effectively kills any chance of revival for the defunct carrier. SAA's bid ...
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Transmile Air revamps fleet to focus on cargo
Malaysian carrier Transmile Air is restructuring its fleet to concentrate on cargo operations in the Asia-Pacific region. The airline, which until now has operated seven Boeing 737-200s, took delivery of its first Boeing 727-200 Adv, an ex-THY Turkish Airlines aircraft, on 22 January. Aircraft project and planning controller ...
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Boeing aims for February launch of 777 derivatives
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing is working towards a launch decision on the ultra-long-range 777X programme at a board meeting set for 28 February. The long-delayed launch is needed by the end of March if Boeing is to keep the 777X effort on track for service entry in September ...
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Dash 8Q-400 deliveries hit by manufacturing delays
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Bombardier has informed a key Dash 8Q-400 customer that production problems delaying deliveries of the 70-seater by up to four months will take longer to rectify than expected. Augsburg Airways expected to receive its first aircraft in June, but was told last week by Bombardier ...
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US Airways A330s get their P@ssports
Airbus Industrie has started to install Sony Trans Com's P@ssport interactive in-flight entertainment (IFE) system on the first of US Airways' A330-300s. Installation of the fully interactive IFE system on the A330 - the first aircraft to feature P@ssport throughout the cabin - follows the approval of the system's software ...
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Air Bosna set for fleet renewal with Airbus A319 deal
Air Bosna is Airbus Industrie's first announced customer this year, committing for two A319 narrowbodies, plus two options. Deliveries are set for 2003. Sarajevo-based Air Bosna, the national carrier of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, will operate its CFM International CFM56-5-powered A319s in a two-class, 132-seat configuration. ...
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Aeroflot eyes new Tu-214 for fleet renewal plans
Aeroflot Russian International Airlines is studying a scheme to lease nine Tupolev Tu-214 twinjets from 2003 to help with its fleet renewal programme. The Tu-214, built by KAPO- Kazan Aircraft Production Factory in Tatarstan, is an increased weight version of the Aviadvigatel PS-90-powered Tu-204-100 produced by Aviastar in Ulyanovsk. ...
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Ailing Lockheed Martin cuts 2,800 jobs
Lockheed Martin has streamlined its aeronautical and space systems businesses and is to eliminate more than 2,800 jobs in a bid to reduce costs by $200 million a year. The US giant saw net profit drop 62% to $382 million last year. It hopes the restructuring will help improve performance. ...
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Austria's Rheintalflug gears up to take extra ERJ-170s
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Rheintalflug is preparing to confirm options on six more Embraer regional jets in a move likely to see it join the list of customers for the 70-seat ERJ-170. "We are quite sure that we are going to convert all these options into firm orders," says Rheintalflug marketing manager ...
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Mesa picks ERJ-145 for feeders
The Mesa Air Group plans to standardise its US Airways Express feeder operations around the Embraer RJ-145 following finalisation of a long-awaited deal for up to 100 of the Brazilian-built regional jets. The Phoenix-based carrier has ordered 36 of the 50-seat ERJ-145s with options on 64 more, which can ...
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Workshop
Guangzhou Aircraft Maintenance Engineering (GAMECO) has won approval for Airbus A320 and A321 maintenance up to C3 check level and Boeing MD-11 line maintenance from the European Joint Aviation Authorities. The approval is reflected in revised JAR-145 certification, which the Sino-US joint venture has received, having been certificated to this ...
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Routes
Austrian Airlines is initiating two transatlantic flights at the end of March from Vienna. Daily services to Chicago O'Hare will be introduced, along with five weekly services to Washington Dulles. KLM uk's low-cost carrier buzz, which launched services earlier this month, is starting three new routes - Jerez, Montpellier and ...
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Preparing for safety
The 1990s was a decade of preparing for better airline safety rather than delivering David Learmount/LONDON The number of airline accidents worldwide increased by 28% in the 1990s compared with the 1980s, and fatalities rose by 12.5%. A total of 11,950 people died in 480 accidents during the ...
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Mergers
US motion control systems specialist Parker Hannifin is to buy Commercial Intertech for $366 million in cash and stock, plus the assumption of $107 million of debt. Both companies are based in Ohio. Parker has made 42 acquisitions in the last six years. The takeover of Helicopter Services of the ...
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Marketplace
Air Cairo has leased three more Rolls-Royce RB211-powered Tupolev Tu-204-120s from Sirocco. The carrier already has three Tu-204-120s in service - two passenger models and a freighter. Two of the new aircraft are expected to join the passenger examples which are already subleased to Egyptair for use on North African ...
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Regionals get new rival
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Former Fairchild Aerospace executive Earl Robinson has returned to the regional aircraft ring by unveiling an ambitious $660 million plan to develop a family of 55-110-seat jets to compete in an overcrowded market. Robinson is heading a start-up company called Alliance Aircraft and claims to ...
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Fuel prices mar US results
Chris Jasper/LONDON The spiralling cost of aviation fuel prevented the USA's major carriers from improving their performances in 1999, although they reported largely positive results. Share disposal windfalls saved the net results of most, however. American Airlines' parent AMR, the world's biggest airline group in terms of turnover, saw ...