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Comair lists in Jo'burg
Comair is to become the first South African carrier to seek a listing, and is to debut on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange this July. Comair's chairman, Dave Novick, hopes the listing will value the company in excess of R1 billion (US$200 million). A prospectus was expected to be issued ...
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Chinese join global pack
Chinese flag carrier Air China has become the first Chinese airline to enter fully into an international alliance, but its decision is likely to trigger similar alliance moves from other Chinese carriers. Air China is set to join a strategic alliance with Northwest Airlines and its partners Continental Airlines, ...
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China stops cheap deals
So much for China's experiment with deregulated air fares. Wide-open pricing, which led to discounts of up to 50 per cent, ended in May when the Civil Aviation Administration of China tightened limits on how much airlines could vary ticket prices. Last November the CAAC gave airlines an almost ...
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A common cause
Arianespace's chairman says that the company must forge partnerships to maintain its market share Tim Furniss/PARIS Arianespace of France and Antrix, the commercial wing of India's Department of Space, signed an agreement on 11 June to pursue a plan to market jointly the Indian Space Research Organisation's Polar ...
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Cathay coy over partner
Cathay Pacific remains coy about which global alliance grouping it will ally itself with as speculation mounts over potential bedfellows. Cathay's alliance talks are progressing with virtually all major carriers and groupings in the industry, and a decision will be made within six to nine months, says Cathay managing ...
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Open for business
The success of Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok, due to open on 6 July, will depend on keeping costs down Paul Lewis/HONG KONG Hong Kong's new international airport makes its operational debut on 6 July - the culmination of a remarkable eight-year undertaking. The $20 billion infrastructure investment was initiated ...
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BAe sets up joint venture to develop Chinese markets
Ian Goold/LONDON British Aerospace has established a joint venture designed to position the group to develop new aerospace and aviation opportunities in China and to strengthen links with the country's developing industry. The move follows last year's similar effort to develop relationships with Malaysia, initially through regional aircraft ...
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BAe tests RJ parts production at TAPO
Ian Sheppard/London British Aerospace Regional Aircraft has dispatched the first raw material to Uzbekistan's Tashkent Aircraft Production factory (TAPO), which will produce 20 shipsets of nose-section components for the Avro RJ regional jets. The parts are now produced by Avro supplier Midcast Engineering of Maesteg, South Wales, but, ...
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ARIA fumes over tax delays
Aeroflot-Russian International Airlines (ARIA) has hit out at the Moscow Government for delaying signature of a decree exempting the airline from paying taxes on imported aircraft. Speaking during the delivery of ARIA's first Boeing 777, director-general Valeri Okulov (son in law of Russian president Boris Yeltsin) criticised the Government, saying: ...
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US alliances face scrutiny
The US General Accounting Office has planted serious seeds for concern in politicians' minds by claiming that proposed US domestic alliances could mean a reduction in competitive service to almost 101 million American passengers. The GAO highlights the Delta Air Lines/United Airlines partnership as especially worrying because of its ...
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Airline News
All Nippon Airways is set to launch services from Osaka/Kansai to Xiamen and to Shenyang via Dalian; and from Tokyo to Qingdao, Saga and Yonago, all in July. Air France launched a twice weekly service from Paris/CDG to Shanghai on 11 May. It will become three times weekly from ...
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Aer Lingus is to lose Team
With the disposal of an unprofitable non-core subsidiary finally on the horizon, Aer Lingus now has to confront the bigger questions of ownership and alliances. At presstime the management of the Irish flag carrier had still not convinced the 1,550 strong workforce of its unprofitable aircraft maintenance arm, Team, ...
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Air Wisconsin adds to fleet with CRJs
Air Wisconsin has placed a firm order for four 50-seat Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets (CRJs), worth $84 million. The US regional will fly the aircraft under the United Express banner from Denver, Colorado, from the first quarter of 1999. Air Wisconsin says that the CRJ allows service to ...
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Additional Chinooks bound for Australia
Boeing is to provide the Australian Defence Forces with two additional Boeing CH-47D Chinook heavy-lift helicopters as part of a $45 million contract signed on 19 June. The deal covers two of six CH-47Ds that were being built for an unnamed customer which cancelled the purchase. The other four ...
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Unloading procedures tip Polar 747 balance
Non-standard unloading procedures appear to have caused a Polar Air Boeing 747 freighter to adopt a spectacularly high nose attitude on the ramp at New Delhi airport, India, during the night of 6-7 June. Ground engineers who inspected the aircraft have reported that main-deck cargo pallets seem to have been ...
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Kelowna sells stretched Convair 5800s to IFL
Kelowna Flightcraft has sold its two stretched, re-engined Convair 5800 freighters to US cargo operator IFL Group. The first aircraft is already in service with Pontiac, Michigan-based IFL's Contract Air Cargo. The second is being repainted at Flightcraft's Kelowna, British Columbia, plant ready for delivery. The Canadian company ...
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Next Generation 737 CFM56 failure was a 'one-off', says CFMI
Initial investigations into the failure of a bearing on a new CFM56-7 powering a Maersk Air Boeing 737-700 show that the incident was a "one-off", says CFMInternational (CFMI). The Maersk aircraft, delivered to the Danish operator in early March, suffered "a complete failure of the number four bearing" on ...
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'Production issues' put 757-300 first flight back by three weeks
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES First flight of the stretched 757-300 has slipped three weeks and is now planned for about 24 July, because of "production related issues", says Boeing. The manufacturer says that the aircraft "-is not the problem", but that overall production issues at the site in Renton, Washington, are ...
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P&W delivers revised PW4098 for next 777-300 flight tests
The second of two upgraded Pratt & Whitney PW4098 turbofans was expected to be delivered to Boeing by late June, to allow flight tests of the 777-300 to resume in July, following a two-month delay caused by the discovery of cracked compressor stators in April. The powerplant was originally ...