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Lufthansa board clears plans for long-range fleet expansion
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Lufthansa's supervisory board has cleared plans to expand the airline's long-range fleet with a launch order for the Airbus A340-600, plus additional Boeing 747-400s. The order, worth at least DM3.6 billion ($2 billion), is for ten stretched A340-600s and five 747-400s. It means that Lufthansa's long-range ...
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Malaysia closes on Avro stake
Paul Lewis/LANGKAWI British Aerospace has signed a potentially wide-ranging agreement with the Malaysian state-owned investment house Kazanah Nasional Berhad. It could lead to Kazanah taking up to a 50% stake in the UK company's Avro International aerospace division and producing locally parts for the Avro RJ regional-jet range. ...
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Western Pacific wins court approval for re-organisation
Western Pacific Airlines has won bankruptcy court approval for its own re-organisation plan, backed by the Smith Management Company (SMC), after the withdrawal of a rival bid from Frontier Airlines. Frontier helped to precipitate WestPac's descent into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in October when it withdrew from a merger. ...
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British Airways outlines short-haul fleet details
British Airways has confirmed some details of its planned tender for new aircraft, revealing that it will issue a formal request for proposals (RFP) to Airbus Industrie and Boeing early in 1998 for at least 50 120- to 160-seat aircraft. The airline confirms that it is in discussions with ...
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Dornier signs new deal to supply Airbus parts
The Dornier division of Fairchild Dornier has signed a five-year contract with Airbus covering parts manufacture for the consortium's entire product line. Fairchild Dornier says that the contract is worth some DM500 million ($285 million) to the company, and covers the delivery of parts for 1,400 aircraft up to ...
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Bedek aims to convert twinjets and seeks co-operation with Boeing
The Bedek division of Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) is looking to move into the market to convert Boeing twinjets to freighters, and wants to work with the US manufacturer. Boeing is known to be looking at the setting up of an after-market 767 freighter-conversion line alongside that of the ...
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Eurofighter aims for Singapore sale
Eurofighter is scheduled shortly to begin making formal presentations on the EF2000 to the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF), to meet the service's requirement for a Northrop F-5E/F replacement. Singapore is understood to have requested an EF2000 briefing as part of its preliminary evaluation of candidate next-generation fighters. ...
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Airbus launches more safety aids
Julian Moxon/TOULOUSE Airbus Industrie plans to introduce a variety of new automated functions to all production aircraft from 1998 in a move aimed at improving safety. Coupled with improved pilot feedback and training, the initiatives are aimed at reducing the number of human-error accidents, which Airbus calculates account ...
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Crossair adds more aircraft to
Crossair has finalised plans to boost its fleet, with deals to acquire up to 14 additional aircraft, including Saab 2000s, Aero International (Regional) Avro RJ100s and Boeing MD-83s. The Swissair regional subsidiary, based at Basle, operates a fleet of some 65 aircraft, including Saab 340s, Saab 2000s, British Aerospace ...
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Iberia hopes pay deal will clear way for 727 replacement order
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Iberia is optimistic that it will complete contract negotiations with staff shortly, enabling an order for Airbus Industrie or Boeing narrowbodies to be finalised early in 1998. The airline says that it is evaluating the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737-800 to replace its 28 Boeing 727-200s, ...
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P&W plans for hybrid PW4000
Guy Norris/EAST HARTFORD Pratt & Whitney is planning a new family of hybrid PW4000 engines to meet the thrust requirements of widebodies under study by Airbus Industrie and Boeing. News of the development emerged as the company gave its long-awaited commitment to develop a 454kN (102,000lb)- thrust engine for ...
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Currency crisis delays Saeaga's launch plans and A320 purchase
Malaysia's Saeaga Airlines is postponing plans to order new Airbus Industrie A320s, and the launch of its first scheduled international services, in the face of the recent Asian currency crisis and economic downturn. "We're looking to buy five A320s, but this has now been deferred," says Ting Pek Khiing, ...
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Tarom A310 crash pilot was 'incapacitated'
Pilot incapacitation, combined with a mechanical fault, caused the Tarom Romanian Airlines Airbus Industrie A310-300 crash which killed all 60 people on board, according to investigators in Bucharest. Lack of aircrew response to an extreme nose-down attitude, which developed during the climb shortly after take-off from Bucharest, has led ...
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ING sells A300s to fund updated portfolio
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON The equipment-leasing division of Dutch financial institution ING is disposing of the Airbus A300B4s in its portfolio to fund an expansion of newer aircraft for its operating-lease business. ING Lease International Equipment Management (IEM) has sold eight of its 12 ex-Eastern Airlines A300B4-200s to A300 freighter-leasing ...
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Boeing plans to push up 777-200 weight
Boeing is planning a further incremental increase in the 777-200IGW (increased gross weight)'s maximum take-off weight (MTOW), in an effort to meet improved range and payload performance requirements from Air France, which is already a customer, and potential client Qantas. The proposed new weight offering would increase the MTOW ...
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P&W A330-200 flies
Airbus Industrie flew a Pratt &Whitney-powered A330-200 for the first time on 4 December from Toulouse. The aircraft is fitted with the PW4168, one of three engine types to be offered on the A330-200. A General Electric CF-6-80E1-powered aircraft has been flown, while a Rolls-Royce Trent-powered version will be ...
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Garuda stands by DC-10 pilot
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Garuda Indonesia Airlines has indicated that it will contest any charges of criminal manslaughter which may be brought against one of its pilots, who is blamed by a recent Japanese report for the 1996 fatal crash of a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 at Fukuoka Airport. Three Japanese passengers were ...
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Routes
++ United Parcel Service (UPS) has launched a service to Penang six times a week as an en route extension to its existing operation from the carrier's Taipei hub to Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. ++ New Zealand has signed an open-skies agreement with Malaysia, permitting each national carrier the right ...
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Royal Wings ponders fleet-expansion strategy
Royal Wings will add a second 50-seat Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-300 at the end of 1997, but is considering the larger -400, or a regional-jet type, for its longer-term plans. The airline, which is studying a number of route additions and frequency increases, says that, ultimately, its fleet ...
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Easyjet looks to HUDS
EasyJet is considering fitting the 12 Boeing 737-300s it has on order with head-up displays (HUDs), which would allow them to be operated in Category IIIa conditions from runways equipped only for Category I. The aircraft will be equipped with enhanced ground-proximity warning systems and will probably have Airborne Communications-Addressing ...