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Sibir takes over Siberian carriers
Paul Duffy/MOSCOWSibir, Russia's fastest-growing airline, is expanding again through the effective takeover of more Siberian carriers. It aims to formalise an alliance with a major European airline by the middle of this year. Vladislav Filiov, Sibir's general director, is continuing his strategy of linking airlines into a partnership under the ...
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Glass cockpit ready for take-off
STS 101 Atlantis will be the first Space Shuttle orbiter to fly with the new Multifunction Display Subsystem (MEDS) developed by Honeywell Space Systems when its next mission is launched on 24 April. The new Boeing 777-style glass cockpit will also be added to the Columbia, Discovery and Endeavour orbiters. ...
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Kaman wins MD Helicopters deal
Kaman Aerospace has signed a 10-year agreement with MD Helicopters to supply all of its MD500/600 series helicopter fuselages in a deal worth up to $100 million. The work reduces Kaman's heavy reliance on the SH-2G Super Seasprite and K-Max niche product lines. The agreement forms part of a ...
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Differences
There is no longer any doubt that the safety standards between cargo and passenger operations are massively different - and the latest figures prove it. According to a study by the Netherlands National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR), the most dangerous commercial aviation activity in the world is ad hoc cargo charter ...
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Star move may spell the end of LIAT
Caribbean Star Airlines is to launch an extensive West Indies network with five Bombardier Dash 8 turboprops. Many predict the move could spell the end of its rival, LIAT. The privately owned airline is backed by Texan businessman Allen Stanford and headed by Gilles Filiatreault, previously chief executive of ...
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Marketplace
Druk Air is the first customer for the BAE Systems Avro RJX, ordering two RJX-85s. Deliveries of the 82-seat aircraft will be in November 2001 and January 2002, replacing the Bhutan carrier's two BAe 146-100s. Tunisair has purchased two ex-Emirates Airbus A300-600Rs that had been traded back to the manufacturer. ...
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Routes
Lufthansa was the first European Union airline to re-introduce flights to Belgrade, on 26 March. It serves the city daily from Munich, and has been followed by Alitalia (from Milan and Rome), Olympic Airways (from Athens), and Austrian Airlines (from Vienna). Swissair returned four days earlier, on 22 March, with ...
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Workshop
The Bedek division of Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) is negotiating the conversion of four more Boeing 767-200s from passenger to freight configuration for Airborne Express. The first of 11 ex-All Nippon Airways 767-200s included in the initial contract was delivered to the carrier on 3 April and two additional aircraft ...
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Airbus targets Farnborough air show for launch of A330-100
Guy Norris/SANTIAGO Airbus Industrie hopes to launch its proposed mid-range A330-100 at the Farnborough air show in July, providing the basis of a twin-aisle replacement of the ageing A300-600 and A310. Revealing the plan at the FIDAE 2000 air show in Chile last week, Airbus senior vice-president, commercial, John ...
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EasyJet orders 17 more Boeings
EasyJet has ordered up to 47 Boeing 737-700s, including options and 17 firm orders, as it prepares to create a new hub at Amsterdam Schiphol by the end of the year. The London Luton-based low-cost airline is gearing up for a tripling of traffic to 15 million passengers annually ...
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528JET schedule may rule Fairchild out of Eurowings order battle
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH The Fairchild 728JET family has emerged as Eurowings' favourite for its planned order for up to 30 regional jets. But the carrier says it may have to switch to another manufacturer because the 50-seat 528JET model will not be available until at least 2005. The Dortmund-based ...
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Boeing to detail 717X options
Boeing plans to meet airlines and "partners" in Rome next week to present options for potential future 717X regional jet derivatives as the market continues to push for smaller, rather than larger, family members. Although doubtful of achieving sufficiently low operating costs with the smaller derivatives, Boeing says it ...
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JAL reveals 777X plans
Japan Airlines (JAL) is the first of the Boeing 777X launch customers to reveal its orders, confirming its long-expected deal for up to 10 aircraft. The Japanese flag carrier has placed firm orders for eight 777-300ERs and taken options on two more. Deliveries of the 300-seaters will take place ...
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UPS primes 90 aircraft for ADS-B implementation
Guy Norris/SALEM United Parcel Service (UPS) Airlines aims to have 90 aircraft provisioned for automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) by the end of 2000. It plans to equip all its 230 aircraft with operational systems by the end of 2002 - the deadline for installing collision avoidance systems in US heavy ...
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Aeroflot and Volga-Dnepr plot new courses
Alexander Velovich and Paul Duffy/MOSCOW Aeroflot Russian International Airlines has launched a new corporate strategy with the introduction of its summer timetable. It incorporates the results of a 600-page report produced after a four-month study by US analysts McKinsey. The Russian carrier's new timetable features 450 scheduled weekly flights ...
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El Al faces bleak future as plans to privatise slip down Israel's agenda
Arie Egozi/TEL AVIVIsrael has effectively suspended preparation for the privatisation of El Al, causing the flag carrier's president Joel Feldschu to warn that its entire future may be under threat. Feldschu says that while it remains under state control, El Al - which is banned from flying on the Jewish ...
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Bombardier aims to retain diversity in business boom
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DCBombardier is looking to shore up its non-aviation businesses in an effort to remain diversified in the face of the continued growth of its aerospace sector. Aerospace accounted for almost 60% of the Canadian company's revenues of C$13.6 billion ($9.3 billion) for the year ended 31 January, up ...
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Air Canada loath to sell regional
Chris Jasper/LONDON Air Canada is to put Canadian Regional Airlines (CRA) up for sale "in the near future", although it hopes no buyer will come forward as it plans to fold the carrier into its own regional operation. CRA must be offered for purchase as a condition of Air Canada's ...
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KLM and UTC to expand alliance
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Netherlands flag carrier KLM and United Technologies (UTC) are discussing a major expansion of their nascent maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) alliance, likely to lead to the creation of a joint venture between the Netherlands airline and the US company's Pratt &Whitney unit. The move appears to ...
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LMAAS secures breakthrough into commercial market
Lockheed Martin Aircraft Argentina (LMAAS) expects to begin maintenance work on its first Boeing 737-200 by the end of this month, a crucial step in the company's strategy to diversify into commercial repair and overhaul of airliners and civil engines. The second landmark is expected in late September, when ...