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Boeing defines 747-400X
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Paul Lewis/SEATTLE Almost 18 months after cancelling the 747-500X/ 600X programmes, Boeing has finally settled on a firm design configuration for the next version of the 747-400, which could be in service in less than three years. The long awaited move increases the maximum take-off ...
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Airbus firms up second engine option for high-capacity A3XX
A second engine option is now officially available from Airbus Industrie on its planned A3XX high capacity airliner, with the firming up of plans to offer the General Electric/Pratt & Whitney Engine Alliance joint venture GP7000 on the aircraft. Airbus signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Engine ...
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American switches to Raisbeck for Stage 3 727 solution
American Airlines has decided against hushkitting its Boeing 727-200s and will instead switch to an aerodynamic modification developed by Raisbeck, which will enable the aircraft to meet Stage 3 noise limits. Jeffrey Lown, vice-president for the Raisbeck Commercial Air Group's Stage 3 system, says the company persuaded American away ...
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Venezuela receives first C212s
Pictured above are the first three CASA C212 Series 400 Aviocar transport aircraft en route on 22 May to the launch customer, the Venezuelan navy. The navy was the launch customer for this version of the C-212, which is fitted with AlliedSignal TPE331-12JR turboprops instead of TPE331-10Rs. The aircraft is ...
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Unwanted Garuda MD-11s and A330s head for new homes
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Garuda Indonesia has reached agreement with Boeing to return six leased MD-11s, which in turn are being placed with Brazilian carriers Varig and VASP. Airbus Industrie is also assisting the Indonesian airline to find homes for six leased A330-300s. The Boeing tri-jets will be withdrawn from service within ...
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Aircraft News
United Airlines has ordered 16 Boeing 777-200s, one 747-400 and six 767-300s. Deliveries are scheduled to commence in the first quarter of 1999 through 2002. KLM has ordered four 737-800s for delivery in 2000. Federal Express has confirmed an order for three MD-11 freighters, the first of which will ...
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As easy as AB
AB Airlines raised $14.7 million in the flotation of 35.6 per cent of its shares on the London Stock Exchange at the end of April. Cash will be used to fund aircraft orders, including six Boeing 737-700s, plus four on option, and for route development. Source: Airline Business
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SAA moves key players
Roger Makings Transnet's board of directors decided to oust Zukile Nomvete from his position as executive director of South African Airways on 8 May, following the airline's dismal performance during his two-year stewardship. Sources within SAA predict that Mafika Mkwanazi, deputy managing director of SAA's parent company, Transnet, will ...
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Korea opens up its skies
David Knibb Both Koreas have taken strides towards liberalisation as South Korea agrees to an open skies bilateral with the US and North Korea allows regular commercial overflights. The South Korea-US bilateral was sealed in late April, after three rounds of tough negotiations in which Seoul successfully held out ...
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Ryanair passes go in Europe
Tom Gill With soaring profits, share price and traffic, Europe's largest and longest established low-cost airline may yet achieve its ambition to be the Southwest of Europe. But as it strives to continue its profitable growth path Ryanair can expect to cross swords with the new British Airways ...
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Time to climb?
Karen Walker From the bottom of the pile, life offers a different perspective. While most US airlines have returned to profitability in the 1990s, the financial haemorrhage at Trans World Airlines has continued. So management was encouraged to note, after announcing 1998's first quarter results, that the words 'beleaguered' ...
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Uganda eyes foreign cash
Tom Gill Uganda Airlines is set to go private, with the sale of a controlling stake slated for mid-year. Six airlines have expressed interest in a yet to be determined majority stake in wholly government-owned Uganda Airlines, according to Michael Opagi, director of the Ugandan government's privatisation unit. The ...
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Boeing feels the pressure
Karen Walker With Boeing's troubles piling up, Airbus threats to become market share leader are no longer the war cries of the underdog. This year, Airbus is likely to take at least 50 per cent of the world market. As Boeing announces another depressing set of results - first ...
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Airline News
EVA Air is due to launch three times weekly flights from Kaohsiung to Ho Chi Minh City and Los Angeles from 11 June. In addition, the Taiwanese carrier is due to start three times weekly flights between Paris and Taipei via Dubai and three times weekly flights between Vienna and ...
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Korean sees hope ahead
David Mann Despite gloomy economic conditions in Korea, Korean Air remains bullish about its prospects. The airline aims to increase its operating revenue to US$3.5 billion this year, up from US$3 billion in 1997. And its optimism does not appear entirely misplaced. Salomon Smith Barney's Peter Negline agrees that ...
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Cargo L-610
Czech manufacturer Let, soon to be acquired by Ayres of the USA, has begun design work on a cargo version of the L-610G regional turboprop. Ayres sees a market for the aircraft in Europe as an express-package feeder, with FedEx a target customer. Ayres says the 40-seat L-610G will be ...
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Routes
-Cityjet is to start daily services to Dublin from the UK's East Midlands Airport on 8 June using a Saab 2000. -Continental Airlines and VASP have signed a code-sharing alliance, which will come into effect on 1 July and enable VASP to sell half the seats on Continental's flights between ...
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Marketplace
-Augsburg Airways has placed orders for six additional Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8s, including two series 200s and four larger series 300s, and taken options on a further seven aircraft. The order represents the ratification and expansion of a deal originally reached in November 1997 for three aircraft. The options ...
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In Love
Continental Express will begin daily Embraer RJ-145 regional jet services from Dallas Love Field, Texas, to Houston, Texas, on 11 June, and to Cleveland, Ohio, on 1 July in competition with Southwest Airlines, which is based at Love Field and operates Boeing 737s. This will be the first time that ...
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Virgin and Go launch London Stansted invasion
Virgin is poised to take over a UK airline, probably Sabre Airways, as its Brussels-based low fare division Virgin Express launches services to London Stansted. The airport could eventually become its UK hub. Meanwhile, British Airways' low fare airline Go has begun to operate at the airport. Speaking at the ...