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Labour strife hits Europe
Cancellations are set to continue at Olympic Airlines if the question of staff shortages is not resolved, while labour strife is also plaguing Virgin Express. Olympic's unions are demanding that the airline reinstate the 64 seasonal flight attendants it fired in February. At presstime, the airline was forced to ...
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Mesa faces tough times
A new board of directors at Mesa Air Group is flexing its muscles in a bid to respond to challenges facing the carrier. The airline's new board includes Virgin Express chief executive officer Jonathan Ornstein and Virgin Express director, James Swigart. Larry Risley and his wife, both co-founders of ...
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Looking peaky
In its third straight year of profit, the airline industry broke all records last year. But some Asians are suffering and tougher times may be ahead. Richard Whitaker reports. It's early days yet and many carriers have not yet reported full-year financial results for 1997, but it is clear that ...
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Milan moves in to manage
A consortium headed by the Milan airport operator SEA has won a 30 year concession to manage Argentina's 33 state-owned airports. The winning consortium is called Argentina 2000. SEA holds a 30 per cent stake, US ground handling company Ogden 28 per cent, and local partner Corporacion America Sudamericana ...
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MetroJet set to propel US
US Airways' new airline, MetroJet, will throw down the gauntlet to the US champion of low-costs, Southwest Airlines, when it launches operations out of Baltimore-Washington on 1 June 1998. Details of US Airways' low-cost competitive response hold no surprises, according to analysts. By launching a service out of Baltimore ...
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Weakened by taxation
Growing profits at many airlines have led to an increase in the taxes levied by governments and a rash of new charges. Tom Gill assesses the current state of affairs worldwide.'An airline is like a fat cow - everyone is milking it.' Like most airline executives, Franco Mancassola of UK-based ...
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P&W starts geared turbofan revolution
Karen Walker Pratt & Whitney will unveil details tomorrow of its new PW8000 geared turbofan, the engine which it says will "-change the rules of the game." P&W has made the unusual decision to launch the PW8000 without a customer. But company president Karl Krapek says it is time to ...
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Embraer scoops an $810million order from Business Express
Embraer earned its place as the show's most successful exhibitor in new contract terms yesterday when it revealed an $810-million order from US regional carrier Business Express. This takes the value of Embraer's show announcements to more than $1.3 billion. Over glasses of champagne, Mauricio Botelho, Embraer president ...
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Boeing sees good potential in region's air cargo market
The financial turmoil of Asia-Pacific is not reflected in any downturn in air cargo forecasts. The market remains stable, Boeing's James Edgar, regional director, cargo marketing, said at the show yesterday. The broader picture shows world air cargo traffic tripling over the next 20 years. "In fact, the ...
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Multi-billion deal for Airbus?
Airbus and International Aero Engines are believed to have sealed a major multi-billion-dollar deal with three Latin American airlines for 100 A319/A320/A321s equipped with the V2500 turbofan. LanChile of Chile, Taca of El Salvador and TAM of Brazil have joined forces for this particular purchase in an effort to ...
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Hamburg boost lifts Airbus to a record level of output
The Hamburg final assembly line of the Airbus Industrie A321 and A319 is to raise production from six aircraft a month to 11 by the end of this year. It will mean that together with the A320 line in Toulouse, Airbus will achieve a record 18 single-aisle aircraft a ...
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Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE)
Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE) is to consider a Singapore and New York Stock Exchange listing in 2000 as a capital-raising exercise to help boost its portfolio. Managing director John Willingham says SALE has no definitive plans to list at the moment, although owners Singapore Airlines (SIA), Boullioun Aviation Services ...
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ANA to set up own APU servicing centre
All Nippon Airways (ANA) has struck a deal with Sundstrand to set up its own aircraft auxiliary power unit (APU) maintenance and repair unit at its main plant at Haneda, Tokyo. This is the first time an airline company has set up its own APU servicing centre. ANA ...
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CFM focuses on loyalty to beat the opposition
"When the customers are happy with you, then they come back to you." That's an observation by Gerard Laviec, CFM International's president and chief executive officer. CFM's overwhelmingly strong position in the narrowbody market seems to bear that out, but what Laviec now has to concentrate on is maintaining that ...
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Preston sells second TAAM to Boeing
The Preston Group (Stand C132) has announced at the show the sale of a second Total Airport and Airspace Modeller (TAAM) licence to Boeing. Boeing has been using TAAM since 1994 to satisfy the needs of its commercial airline customers by simulating potential projects in the modernisation of air traffic ...
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No brakes on Messier-Bugatti in global market
Asian Aerospace exhibitor Messier-Bugatti (Stand A411), which is owned by Snecma, is now the world's leading supplier of carbon brakes, with around 30% of its possible global market. Airbus has certified Messier-Bugatti carbon brakes for each of its aircraft types and Dassault also specifies them for the Mirage 2000 ...
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Overhaul specialist expands with international contracts
Alitalia Technical Operations division has secured contracts to overhaul two Continental Airlines DC-10s at its Rome maintenance centre and is optimistic that it will win a longer term commitment from the US carrier. One contract is for a C-check, the other a D-check. Winning a more substantial contract would satisfy ...
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Lockheed Martin wants to make new friends
Strong international partnerships are still the ambition of Lockheed Martin, says Micky Blackwell, president of the company's Aeronautics Sector. During a whistlestop one-day visit to Asian Aerospace, he says: "We are looking for partnerships as stepping stones to other things". Blackwell points to recent link-ups with Australian, Italian ...
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CAE simulators
Canada's CAE Electronics has received a contract from Delta Airlines for four flight simulators. CAE will design and manufacture one Boeing 777-200 FFS and three 777-200 Flight Training Devices (FTD), to be installed at the airline's new state-of-the-art training centre in Atlanta, Georgia. The order follows the recent ...
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F-16's future hinges on this year's sales
Tim Ripley This year is a "watershed year" for Lockheed Martin's F-16 Fighting Falcon programme if the company's best-selling fighter is to stay in production beyond the year 2001 and win up to 600 new orders. Lockheed Martin's Fort Worth, Texas, plant has orders to keep it working to 2001, ...