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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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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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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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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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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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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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Finnair records double profits as passenger numbers boom
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Finnair saw profits more than double over the first half of its financial year, making it the latest northern European airline to benefit from a passenger boom which has already contributed to record results for Lufthansa and gains at SAS over the latest quarter. Finnair posted ...
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Slow Dash
Pelangi Air has put on indefinite hold the delivery of three completed Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-300s until operational and shareholding issues are resolved. The 50-seat turboprops, ordered in 1995, had been due for delivery in June and July, but have been delayed by Malaysia Airline moves to acquire a ...
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IATA establishes N Korean trials
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has invited five Asian and US carriers to participate in flight trials through North Korea's Pyongyang Flight Information Region (FIR), following the installation of a new direct-communications landline to South Korea. A Cathay Pacific Airways Boeing 747-400 freighter, en route from Anchorage to ...
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Global warning
As the world's environment experts began to assemble in Kyoto, Japan, for the United Nations (UN)summit on global warming, amid the general pronouncements on climate change come some timely reminders that aviation remains firmly among the industries on the target list for environmental activists. Among its other positioning papers ...
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Malaysia leaseback
Malaysia Airlines has concluded a sale and leaseback agreement with General Electric Capital for six of its Boeing 737-500s. The airline has also signed an agreement to purchase a Boeing Business Jet, making it the first Asian customer for the corporate version of the 737. Source: Flight International
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Marketplace
++ Aeromar has placed orders with Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) for two more ATR 42-500s, plus four options, for delivery during 1998. The airline already flies eight ATR 42s, including two -500s. ++ Sun-Air has introduced the first of two secondhand British Aerospace ATPs on lease from BAe Asset Management ...
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AB Airlines will acquire up to 13 737s for network expansion
AB Airlines will introduce the first of up to 13 Boeing 737s in April 1998, as it expands its operations from its London Stansted and Gatwick bases. The UK airline, which introduced services from Gatwick to Berlin Schönefeld in early December, will add three seven-year-old 737-300s in April 1998, ...
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Airtours International closes on order for A330-200
Airtours International is believed to have selected the Airbus A330-200 for its long-haul fleet needs, and is in negotiations on an order for up to three aircraft. The UK charter airline, based in Manchester, has been evaluating the Airbus long-haul twinjet, along with the Boeing 777-200IGW (increased gross weight), ...
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Asiana defers 777-200/300 deliveries
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Asiana Airlines is to defer delivery of its first Boeing 777 on order because of South Korea's worsening economic difficulties, and will instead acquire additional 767-300ERs and 747-400 freighters. The airline is planning to push back deliveries of its first 777-200/300s by up to two years, ...
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Boeing slows 777-200X/300X product-development work
Boeing has switched the emphasis of product-development work on the proposed 777-200X/300X ultra-long-haul and stretch derivatives for at least three months. The 300 staff working on the two planned variants are understood to have been switched from new-product development to focusing on reducing programme costs. Sources in Seattle say ...
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Japan authority may rethink Saab 2000 inspecton order
Andrew Mollet/TOKYO The Japan Civil Aviation Bureau (JCAB) is reviewing plans to order additional Saab 2000 flight-inspection aircraft, in the wake of the Swedish firm's announcement that it is considering ceasing production of civil turboprops. Japan has already ordered two Saab 2000s for delivery in late 1998 and ...
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SAS Commuter looks to Dash 8-300X to replace Saab 2000s
Ramon Lopez/TORONTO SAS Commuter underlined plans to standardise on the Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8 family for its regional-fleet needs at the unveiling ceremony of the new 70-seat Series 400, when it revealed that it will dispose of its 50-seat Saab 2000s when their leases expire early in the ...
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Bombardier enters the frame to replace Horizon Air's F28s
Ramon Lopez/TORONTO Horizon Air has revealed that it is evaluating the Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) family, as well as the de Havilland Dash 8-400, as possible long-term replacements for its fleet of Fokker F28s. The airline is already a major customer for the 37-seat Dash 8-100/200, with ...