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Embry-Riddle opens simulation centre
EMBRY-RIDDLE Aeronautical University's Advanced Flight Simulation Centre has opened at its Daytona Beach, Florida, campus, equipped with a Raytheon Beech 1900D full-flight simulator built by FlightSafety International. The centre is a joint venture between Embry-Riddle and FlightSafety, and offers training to airlines as well as to the university's students. ...
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SAS Commuter set for turboprop order
SAS Commuter expects to finalise its selection of new turboprop aircraft by early September, to enable it to place orders for up to 30 aircraft. Airline chief executive Ole Pedersen says that the competition is between the Aero International (Regional)(AI(R)) ATR 42/72 and Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8 ...
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Made for each other?
Joint ventures between Western and Central European airlines have mostly failed. Yet the region still has growth potential, and may prove to be fertile ground for meaningful partnerships AndrzejJeziorski/PRAGUE The irony of watching consecutive presentations on successful alliance strategies from representatives of Air France and Czech ...
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Malaysian start-ups plan for expansion
Malaysia's two new start-up carriers, AirAsia and Saeaga Airlines, are negotiating for additional passenger aircraft to serve a planned expansion in regional and international routes. AirAsia is understood to have asked manufacturers to submit initial proposals for a mixed fleet of new aircraft. According to industry sources, the ...
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Reversal of fortunes
Max Kingsley-Jones/PARIS Embraer emerged from a successful week at the Paris air show facing the enviable task of having to boost EMB-145 production to match its recent booming sales fortunes. During the show, total firm orders for the Brazilian 50-seat regional jet doubled from 65 to 132, while ...
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Aircraft news
China Aviation Supplies Import and Export Corporation (CASC) has ordered 20 Airbus A321s and 10 A320s, with deliveries between 1998 and 2000. Sichuan Airlines has confirmed it will take two of the A320s. SilkAir has ordered five A320s and three A319s, with options on 10 more Airbus aircraft, with deliveries ...
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Foiled again
France has failed in its second attempt to persuade Fiji's Air Pacific to switch its order for the Boeing 737-700 to the Airbus A320. Source: Airline Business
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A red flag to a bull?
New scheduled operators Spanair and Air Europa have shaken up Iberia's traditional monopoly in the Spanish domestic market. Lois Jones reports from Madrid and Palma de Mallorca on how competition has prompted the Spanish flag carrier to get its act together. Never be fooled into thinking the Spanish market staid, ...
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Domestic dancing
The surge in new entrants to the Colombian market is over but major challenges remain. David Knibb reviews the progress of the five main players. Nowadays Colombians seem naturally optimistic. The heady days of growth are still a fresh enough memory for few to be willing to predict their airlines ...
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Taiwan loses Express role
As Airbus starts firming up the so-called Asian Express joint venture with China, Taiwanese firms are having to face up to the fact that politics have conspired to exclude them from any participation. The European consortium saw its foothold in China considerably strengthened after a state visit by ...
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Financial results
The sale of Continental Airlines shares added US$126m to pre-tax income, which was lowered by $24m by a regional airlines strike. Air France made its first net profit since 1989, but Air France Europe lost $93m despite $50.5m in aircraft sales. Future results will be reported jointly after ...
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Hainan steels for home run
Hainan Airlines was set to become the first airline to make its debut on the Chinese capital markets at presstime. Widely viewed as the country's most promising provincial carrier, Hainan was planning to issue a two-phase public offering designed to raise some US$41 million. Hainan has split its ...
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We win together
Profits and a healthy cash balance once seemed impossible goals for Continental Airlines. Having achieved them, chairman and chief executive officer Gordon Bethune has turned his attention to the fight for global market share. Interview by Richard Whitaker Working together worked! So says the banner headline on the front cover ...
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Frontier loss grows
Losses at Frontier Airlines doubled, to $12 million, over the latest 1996/7 financial year to March. The three-year-old carrier, based at Denver International, Colorado, hopes that three more Boeing 737-300s, bringing the fleet to 11 by the start of 1998, will help profitability, while talks continue over a possible merger ...
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Landing contract
The new Fairchild Dornier 328-300 regional jet is to be fitted with a Messier-Dowty landing gear. The deal is expected to be worth $70 million to the Anglo-French venture over the life of the programme. Source: Flight International
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CIS certification
The CIS has certificated Bombardier's Canadair Regional Jet, the de Havilland Dash 8 series turboprops and the Challenger 604 and 601corporate jets. Source: Flight International
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PW100 checks urged
Following an engine fire on 21 May in a Skywest Airlines Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia, the US National Transportation Safety Board has urged the Federal Aviation Administration to order an immediate one-time inspection of all Pratt & Whitney Canada PW100 turboprop engines. The checks would ensure that the gas-generator case drain ...
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Antonov rolls outfirst An-140 prototype
Anotonov is beginning flight tests of the An-140 turboprop following the roll-out of the first prototype at the Ukrainian design bureau's base in Kiev on 6 June. The An-140 is designed to replace ageing An-24s for passenger and cargo services, offering twice the fuel efficiency and range, as well as ...
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Pakistan again threatens to sue over blocked F-16s
Pakistan has made fresh warnings that it may resort to legal action against the US Government in an effort to recover its investment in 28 Lockheed Martin F-16A/B fighters, the delivery of which has been blocked by Washington. The threat from Islamabad to sue follows Indonesia's decision to ...
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USA corrects Czech F-16 versus F-18 gaffe
US DEFENCE secretary William Cohen has moved to defuse a row over a letter, apparently favouring the Lockheed Martin F-16, sent by a US embassy official in Prague to the Czech defence ministry. The F-16 is being offered in competition with the McDonnell Douglas F-18 for a Czech air force ...