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Widebodies head for Air China
Air China is to begin taking delivery of the first of eight new Airbus Industrie A340-300s and Boeing 777-200s in early October, as part of a wider fleet re-equipment programme. The Chinese flag carrier will take delivery of its first A340 on 8 October, and put the aircraft ...
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Boeing may launch 777-X this year
Guy Norris and Paul Lewis/SEATTLE Boeing is confident that it will launch the 777-200X and -300X within three months. The company rebuts suggestions that the project is slowing down because of market uncertainty and concerns over performance. Programme manager Jeff Peace says: "We are very serious ...
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Boeing outlines five 747 growth options
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DCPaul Lewis/SEATTLE Boeing is discussing with airlines five possible 747 derivatives as it moves towards a decision in early 1998 on which (if any) option to pursue. Airlines are being shown study aircraft with various combinations of capacities for up to 500 passengers and ranges of ...
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PW150A turboprop testing 'is on schedule'
Pratt & Whitney Canada says that the PW150A turboprop, seen here on the company's Boeing 720 flying testbed, is "on schedule for certification by late summer". The large turboprop, rated at 4,840-5,590kW (6,500-7,500shp) will power Bombardier's de Havilland Dash 8 Series 400 regional airliner on its first flight scheduled for ...
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Workshop
++ Air UK Engineering has signed a five-year deal with Skyways to undertake heavy maintenance on the Swedish carrier's fleet of eight Fokker F50s after the UK company successfully completed a year-long contract. ++ Dee Howard has begun heavy maintenance of an Airborne Express Douglas DC-8-63 under an agreement covering ...
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Thai profits fall
PROFITS AT Thai Airways were almost halved over the latest quarter to the end of June, as it counted the cost of a massive increase in salary bills, and the continued impact of fuel price rises. Pre-tax profits slumped to just under Baht413 million ($12 million) over the ...
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Eastern rising
EVA Airways of Taiwan has achieved formidable progress in six years Brent Hannon/TAIPEI EVA Airways, launched with little fanfare in mid-1991, today boasts a fleet of 30, a route network which extends to London, New York and Panama City, and a balance sheet which shows ...
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Taiwanese tourists boost CAL
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON A return in confidence among Taiwanese travellers has lifted profits at China Airlines (CAL)over the first half of 1997, and the airline expects better to come during the rest of the year, which includes Taiwan's peak holiday season. CAL posted pre-tax profits of nearly ...
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Boeing expects to reap Chinese harvest
China is set to announce sizeable new orders for Boeing 777-200, 757-200 and 737-700/800 passenger aircraft during the state visit to the USA in October of the country's president, Jiang Zemin. Boeing is hoping that Jiang's trip will finally give the green light to a large number of ...
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Blanc quits over privatisation
Julian Moxon/Paris Christian Blanc has resigned as Air France chairman because the recently elected French Government has refused to press ahead with privatisation of the state-owned airline. Blanc says that he has a "moral contract" with the Government to proceed with privatisation, arguing that it forms ...
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Airbus and Boeing benefit as ILFC orders new aircraft
International Lease Finance (ILFC) has placed orders for 126 new aircraft, shared almost equally between the Airbus Industrie consortium and Boeing. The orders from the world's largest aircraft-leasing company are for 61 Boeings, worth $4.5 billion, and 65 Airbuses, worth around $3.9 billion. ILFC has 112 airline customers ...
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Air New Zealand looks to alliances to boost profits
Paul Phelan/CAIRNSKevin O'Toole/LONDON Air New Zealand (ANZ)is looking for benefits from its alliance strategy, including closer ties with newly acquired Ansett Australia, to help lift profits this year after posting a major slump in its results for 1996/7. Over the next year, the airline plans to ...
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Europe aims to keep pressure on USA over subsidies issue
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON The European aerospace industry is considering calling for the cancellation of the 1992 transatlantic agreement on aircraft subsidies as one of its options to keep up pressure on the USA in the wake of the Boeing/McDonnell Douglas (MDC) merger, say sources in Brussels. The ...
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Aid for Concorde
British Airways Engineering is testing an artificial-intelligence maintenance aid with the Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde's Rolls-Royce Olympus engines. Source: Flight International
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Boeing looks again at plans for NLA
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing has restarted efforts which could lead to the rebirth of the New Large Airplane (NLA) concept, dropped in 1995 in favour of plans to develop the stretched, re-winged 747-500X/600X. One of the initiatives is aimed at creating "faster, cheaper", processes which would ...
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Greyhound abandons low-cost air service
Greyhound Canada is to end its Greyhound Air low-cost airline operation on 21 September, leaving Kelowna Flightcraft, which flies seven Boeing 727-200s for Greyhound, considering its options. Greyhound Air had lost C$28 million ($19 million) since beginning operations in July 1996, despite achieving good load factors, but is ...
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Condor studies long-range 757
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES German charter airline Condor Flugdienst is studying a longer-range version of the Boeing 757 as well as the recently launched 767-400 as part of a long- term strategy to introduce extended range and higher payload aircraft into its fleet. Condor, which was the ...
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AI(R) holds talks on 70-seater plans
Aero International (Regional) (AI(R) is in last-minute talks with potential partners on its planned Airjet family of regional jets as it nears a decision on whether to go ahead with the 70-seat aircraft. Embraer, Saab and Aerostructures are all competing to supply the wing, although the US firm ...
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P&W effort to improve PW4000 reliability starts to pay dividend
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Pratt & Whitney says that an upgrade effort to counter reliability problems on more than 1,600 PW4000 engines is showing results, with a "dramatic reduction" to in-flight shutdown rates. The upgrade effort, known as the Number 1 reliability programme, involves around 100 service ...
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BA aims to fly Qantas 747-400s in stopover periods
British Airways is seeking clearance from the UK Civil Aviation Authority to allow its pilots and cabin crews to operate Qantas Boeing 747-400s on routes from London Heathrow Airport for an unlimited period. An application to the CAA from BA says that the approval is "-initially to facilitate ...