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Royal gets a result from Signature deal
Canadian Charter carrier Royal Airlines expects to add C$100 million ($66 million) a year in revenue from a recent agreement to carry most of the passengers for Signature Vacations of Toronto. Under the agreement, previously held by rival airline Canada 3000, Signature will fill 75% of four Royal Airbus A310-300s ...
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Marketplace
-SilkAir has taken delivery of its first International Aero Engines V2500-A5-powered Airbus A320. The regional division of Singapore Airlines is replacing its Boeing 737-300 fleet with four A320s and four A319s, and holds options on another 10 aircraft. -ING Lease International Equipment Management has sold and delivered an ex-Pan American ...
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Routes
-Alaska Airlines will suspend its once-weekly winter service to the Russian Far East on 8 October, because the recent circumstances with the Russian economy have made its operations uneconomical, says the airline. Alaska plans to provide connecting services to the region through its marketing partner, Reeve Aleutian Airways, when government ...
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Lufthansa clears plans for $2.3 billion fleet expansion
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Lufthansa has cleared plans for $2.3 billion of new aircraft orders for the airline and its regional and freight subsidiaries. A total of 42 new aircraft is to be ordered for delivery from 2000. The airline says that this order is in line with anticipated traffic increases in ...
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TNT introduces A300 freighter on European network
TNT began Airbus A300 freighter operations in early September with the charter of an A300B4-200F from Channel Express on an aircraft, crew, maintenance, insurance (ACMI) lease. The A300 has joined Channel's fleet of two A300Fs following conversion by Daimler-Benz Aerospace Airbus and is being operated on the nightly return service ...
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EVA ditches plans for A340-500
Brent Hannon/TAIPEI EVA Airways has dropped plans to purchase 12 Airbus A340-500 and -600s after posting its first loss in over three years. The privately owned Taiwanese airline was among the launch customers for the new Rolls-Royce Trent 500-powered 313/380-seat A340 family, even though it never got beyond placing ...
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Kendell gets 50-seaters in Ansett's regional reshuffle
Paul Phelan/MELBOURNE Ansett Australia is to restructure its regional operations in a move which will see subsidiary Kendell Airlines acquiring a fleet of 50-seat regional jets. Meanwhile, a decision on Ansett's long-term route and fleet strategy is expected by the year-end. Kendell is finalising a deal for 12 ...
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Air Pacific 737-700 prepared for delivery
The first of three Next Generation Boeing 737s for Fijian flag carrier Air Pacific is being prepared for delivery at Boeing's Renton plant. The South Pacific-based carrier has one 737-700 (pictured) and two -800s on order. Source: Flight International
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Boeing finds home for Garuda 737s
Boeing has found a home for two of the 737-300s that had been destined for Garuda. The manufacturer is also believed to be negotiating to place other aircraft previously destined for the Indonesian carrier with Air New Zealand. Heller Financial has signed a deal for the two "whitetail" 737-300s ...
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Upgrade house Aerostar hunts for strategic partnerships
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Romanian fighter upgrade specialist Aerostar is looking for strategic partnerships in the civil and military sectors, possibly including the sale of equity in the Bacau-based company. On the military side, Aerostar is hoping to build on its experience in the $300 million MiG-21MF Lancer upgrade for ...
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Northwest faces mechanics after pilot deal
Northwest Airlines managers face more unrest as they turn their attention to mechanics who are threatening to strike over pay and work rules. This follows resolution of a pilot strike earlier this month. The 27,000 maintenance workers of the USA's fourth-largest airline, who are represented by the International Association ...
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Kitty Hawk follows Fine Air and drops plans to buy Southern Air
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Kitty Hawk has terminated negotiations to buy financially troubled Southern Air Transport (SAT), after the two companies failed to reach a final agreement. Neither airline would say what led to the decision to break off talks, which started soon after Miami, Florida-based Fine Air Services ...
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P&W sets sights on Airbus next generation narrowbody family
Max Kingsley-Jones and Guy Norris/LONDON Pratt & Whitney is targeting launch of its PW8000 geared turbofan for a new generation Airbus Industrie narrowbody family, believed to be in the early planning stages in Toulouse. Sources at the US engine maker say the company believes that the step change ...
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Airbus flies laminar flow fin
Airbus Industrie has begun flight testing its A320 development aircraft, equipped with a newly developed vertical tailfin, which incorporates laminar flow technology to reduce air friction and significantly reduce fuel consumption. The leading edge of the tailfin is covered with thousands of tiny perforations, and contains an air pump ...
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Russian airlines hit as financial crisis bites deep
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW Russia's civil aviation industry has begun to suffer serious losses, including bankruptcies and lease cancellations, as a result of the economic and political turmoil which has hit the country in the last month. Transaero is to return two of its three McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30s to lessor ...
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American IFE
American Airlines has selected Rockwell Collins' Total Entertainment System as the in-flight entertainment (IFE) system for its new Boeing 777 fleet, with deliveries beginning in early 1999. The airline has also selected the US avionics manufacturer as the supplier of video monitor systems for 75 new Boeing 737-800s and 12 ...
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Raytheon supplies UK with AMRAAM costs
Raytheon of the USA has supplied the UK Ministry of Defence with cost estimates on buying several hundred Amraam AIM-120 B missiles for use on Royal Air Force Panavia Tornado F3s and Eurofighter EF2000s as an interim weapon while a next generation missile is developed. The estimates were delivered ...
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Singapore Pumas move to Australia
The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) has moved a squadron of 12 Eurocopter AS332L Super Puma transport helicopters to the Australian Army Aviation air base at Oakey, Queensland, under an overseas basing agreement with Canberra. Under the 15-year basing agreement, signed with Australia in October 1996, Singapore has ...
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C-S Aviation searches for growth possibilities
US aviation equipment leasing specialist C-S Aviation Services (CSAS) is undertaking rapid and diversified expansion, with plans to buy new aircraft and enter the maintenance business. CSAS was started in 1994 to provide exclusive management services to the S-C Aircraft Group of companies, the combined portfolio of which includes ...
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Deep impact
Max Kingsley-Jones/FARNBOROUGH Airbus Industrie's recent, relentless pounding of Boeing continued through the Farnborough air show week, with the European consortium announcing some $12 billion worth of sales, taking orders past 3,000. The string of recent successes, combined with a new product launch, look set to ensure that Airbus will indeed ...