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    South African defence minister keeps arms door shut on USA

    1998-05-06T00:00:00Z

    South African defence minister Joe Modise has rebuffed US overtures to become a late entrant into its $1.5 billion defence procurement programme. The US Government's decision to drop a longstanding defence embargo earlier this year "-does not go far enough-there are still a lot of restrictions", the minister said at ...

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    Boeing ponders PATS fuel tank acquisition

    1998-05-06T00:00:00Z

    Boeing Enterprises is to decide by the end of next month whether to acquire the long range fuel tank manufacturing and installation business of PATS. Boeing confirms that it is conducting a feasibility study on the potential acquisition. Columbia, Maryland-based PATS holds a contract worth as much as $300 ...

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    Airbus tilts at South African Airways' 777 order

    1998-05-06T00:00:00Z

    Continuing uncertainty over the status of South African Airways' (SAA) order for four Boeing 777-200s is providing Airbus Industrie with an ongoing opportunity to pitch the new A340-500 and -600 to the South African flag carrier. Airbus senior commercial vice-president John Leahy took the opportunity of the show to make ...

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    Transavia takes A310 to bridge 737 delays

    1998-05-06T00:00:00Z

    Transavia, the Dutch all-Boeing operator, has been forced to wet-lease an Airbus A310-300 for five months because of continuing delays in the delivery of its new Boeing 737-800s. The airline had been planning to introduce the new 189-seat 737 at the beginning of its 1998 summer season in April, ...

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    HeavyLift takes A300 for Lufthansa

    1998-05-06T00:00:00Z

     HeavyLift Cargo Airlines has taken delivery of its second Airbus A300B4 freighter on lease from C-S Aviation Services, and signed a contract with Lufthansa Cargo to operate the aircraft on European night-time freight flights. Both aircraft were converted by British Aerospace Aviation Services, and the first has been in ...

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    Rolls-Royce standardises on hybrid RB211 after entry success

    1998-05-06T00:00:00Z

    Rolls-Royce is to discontinue production of older versions of its RB211-524G/H engine after successful service entry of the first of its new hybrid versions, the RB211-524HT, last month. The hybrid engine upon which Rolls-Royce will "standardise" has the same core as the Trent 700, the company's powerplant for the ...

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    Great Lakes takes over Mesa 1900Ds

    1998-05-06T00:00:00Z

    US regional Great Lakes Aviation has agreed to take over at least 15 Raytheon Beech 1900Ds from Mesa Air Group to support expanded United Express operations from Denver International Airport in Colorado. The aircraft will be transferred to Great Lakes in a three way deal involving Raytheon Aircraft. Great ...

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    Supplier News May 1998

    1998-05-01T16:14:00Z

    Gulf Air has signed a $165 million 10-year deal for Sabre to take over its IT functions. Sita has won a US$160 million seven-year contract with Air France to support all its voice and data communications. Boeing's 737-800 now has US Federal Aviation Administration type certification, and the ...

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    National and Avant unite

    1998-05-01T16:10:00Z

    This is the first time LanChile and Ladeco have had any real competition,' says Jesus Diez, president of the Turbus company that owns and manages both National and Avant Airlines. Turbus, which moves a million bus passengers a month, bought National in January when it was floundering from losses on ...

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    Regional Airlines Survey

    1998-05-01T14:42:00Z

    Rank Airline Pass 000 Emp Revenue US$ 000 Net Result US$ 000 Year end Regional fleet details (In service + On order + On option) Significant shareholders Alliances Rank 1 American Eagle ...

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    Thai stews over stake

    1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

    The timing of the planned privatisation of Thai Airways remains unclear amid speculation that British Airways could be interested in taking a stake. Overseas interest in a stake in Thai has been sparked by the proposed raising of the current 10 per cent foreign ownership limit to 30 per ...

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    French open gates to US

    1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Both Continental Airlines and Delta Air Lines were swift to respond to the new US-French bilateral by declaring their intentions to formalise codeshare agreements with Air France. The bilateral, initialled in Paris on 8 April, will allow full open skies to be phased in over five years, and immediately ...

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    Sales and cuts in India

    1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Air-India is drawing up sale and leaseback deals and preparing to slash staff numbers, among a series of desperate measures which aim to alleviate the airline's burden of heavy losses and debt. Air-India has proposed to its owner, the Civil Aviation Ministry, that it sell some of its Boeing ...

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    Crossing into the EU

    1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

    The launch of its French subsidiary will give Crossair greater access to southern European markets and boost its Basle hub. Tom Gill reports. 'Some guys talk about the Star Alliance; well, we have our own new born star.' The star Crossair's president and CEO Moritz Suter is hailing is a ...

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    Rule Britannia?

    1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Backed by their tour operators, UK charter carriers Airtours and Britannia Airways are expanding into European markets like Germany and Scandinavia, pushing prices down and disturbing the cosy status quo. Report by Tom Gill When Britannia began providing intercontinental services out of Germany late last year, alarm bells began ringing ...

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    Brazil battles over fares

    1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Brazilian airlines are seeing their comfortable cartel crumble in the wake of a full-scale fares war which is raging through the country. Several airlines began offering generous discounts on selected flights at the end of last year. But the battle took on a new dimension in March when TAM ...

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    BMA grabs BA capacity

    1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

    British Midland has scored victory over British Airways in the first capacity hearing for a new route entrant, after complaining of an effective duopoly by BA and LOT on London-Warsaw. At a scarce capacity hearing in April, the UK CAA forced BA to concede that its plans to replace ...

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    Asian storm hits Garuda

    1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

    The Asian economic slump is reinforcing industry opinion that the outlook for Indonesian carrier Garuda is bleak. Aviation analyst Nora Chang of HSBC James Capel echoes the general industry view when she rates Garuda's survival chances as 'poor'. But the Indonesian carrier is desperately cutting costs in a bid ...

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    Airline News May 1998

    1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Delta Air Lines started code-sharing with Air Jamaica on 6 April on services from Atlanta, Miami and New York to Montego Bay, Kingston, Barbados and St Lucia, and from Atlanta to Boston, Cincinnati, Hartford, Memphis, and San Francisco. Finnair and Iberia have begun codesharing on Helsinki-Barcelona-Madrid. Northwest Airlines ...

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    Bombardier growth

    1998-04-29T11:59:00Z

    Bombardier Aerospace saw sales increase by around 15%for the 1997/8 year to January, to reach C$4.6 billion ($3.2 billion). Aerospace accounted for more than half the Canadian's group's C$8.5 billion sales and a large slice of its C$420 million profit. Source: Flight International