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EVA orders
EVA Airways of Taiwan has ordered two more Boeing 747-400 passenger aircraft and has announced plans to buy another two McDonnell Douglas MD-11 freighters. Deliveries will begin at the end of 1997 and increase EVA's fleet to 34 aircraft in total, including 14 747s and eight MD-11s. The Taiwanese airline ...
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End of Korea for Fokker
Korea's Samsung may turn to purchasing the turboprop operations of one of the European manufacturers following the collapse of its plans to buy Fokker's remaining assets. Fokker's administrators ended discussions with Samsung on 28 November after Fokker suppliers declined to accept further orders because of the uncertainty surrounding ...
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JAL plans new carrier
Japan Airlines (JAL) plans to establish a new low-cost subsidiary carrier in March, in the face of growing domestic competition. The new carrier hopes to cut air fares by up to 20% on trunk services to Sapporo and Fukuoka, by using foreign crews and flight attendants and scaling back in- ...
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Caught on camera
There may be more than a safety aspect to the use of external video-cameras on aircraft. David Learmount/LONDON The CIRCUMSTANCES of the" British Airtours disaster at Manchester in August 1985 led the UK Civil Aviation Authority to investigate the installation of external aircraft-surveillance video cameras. About a decade ...
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Indonesian orders boost Space Systems/Loral
Indonesia's PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara, of Jakarta has ordered one M2A satellite from Space Systems/Loral for its Multi Media Satellite System, plus long-lead parts for a second craft, and options for a further five satellites in a deal worth $350 million (Flight International, 2-8 October, 1996). Loral will ...
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Toughing out the boom
In 1997, can the major airlines improve on their performance in the boom year of 1996? Airline Business previews the main issues which will dominate airline executives' thinking in 1997. These are the good times, but life for the average airline manager does not appear to be getting any easier. ...
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Boeing pulls off twin coup
Boeing is turning up the heat on rival Airbus with two groundbreaking deals. The US manufacturer has signed American Airlines up to a 22-year exclusive pact and removed its only domestic rival by pulling in McDonnell Douglas to help in the design and development of future widebodies. Reaction ...
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Polls leave Thai with Bill
A change of government has rubbed salt into Thai Airways International's wounds. Lack of political clearance forced the carrier to postpone its US$4.7 billion fleet revamp and accept penalties of some $40 million. The latest setback for the mostly state-owned carrier comes on top of disastrous fourth quarter results which ...
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Bespoke fortunes
Effective, efficient hubs are vital to most US majors' profitability. But do they operate in everybody's best interests and is stronger regulation needed? Karen Walker reports. You either love hubs or hate them. A government department has accused the US majors of continuing to use their hubs to raise fares ...
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Airline news
Austrian Airlines and Swissair have confirmed taking a 18.37 per cent stake in Ukraine International Airlines through a holding company in which Austrian Airlines holds 77.78 per cent and Swissair 22.22 per cent. KLMwill inaugurate twice weekly services to Abidjan and to Nagoya via Sapporo from April 1997 ...
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Syrian Arab Airbus
Syrian Arab Airlines is reported to have signed a contract for six Airbus A320s in Damascus on 8 December. The aircraft, which are scheduled for delivery from the second half of 1998, will replace the airline's fleet of Boeing 727s. Source: Flight International
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Ziegler bows out of Airbus
Bernard Ziegler, one of the original forces behind the development of Airbus Industrie, has retired after a 26-year career with the consortium. He will be replaced as senior vice-president, engineering, by Alain Garcia. Ziegler joined Airbus during the development of its initial aircraft - the A300 - as head of ...
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Air transport
If 1996 was the year in which aircraft orders at last started rolling again from the world's airlines, then 1997 is due to be the year in which airliner manufacturers begin to increase production rates in earnest. Despite two years of growing backlogs, deliveries from Airbus, Boeing and ...
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AI(R) courts Saab for new regional-jet programme
Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) has made what are described as "serious overtures" to Saab Aircraft to join the European consortium as a risk-sharing partner in its forthcoming regional-jet programmes. While neither side will confirm the talks officially, it is understood that British Aerospace, one of the three existing ...
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Philippine cargo airline aims to start up services in April
Philippine Aeronautics Development (PADC) and a Japanese ground-handling company have reached an initial agreement to establish a new Filipino cargo airline to operate between the two countries, in competition with FedEx. State-owned PADC has signed a memorandum of understanding with International Airline System Service (IASS) to launch the ...
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Blue Dart aims to create more capacity
Blue Dart Aviation is planning to increase capacity in the next few months, with the acquisition of additional aircraft and the introduction of more routes. The Indian express-package operator, the country's FedEx global service partner, is evaluating bigger aircraft for its fledgling fleet, and considering additional routes. A ...
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Malaysia Airlines gears up for overhaul on 777 service-entry
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) plans to begin implementing an overhaul of its operations, to coincide with the entry into service of the Boeing 777-200IGW this year. The sweeping changes will include a rationalisation of MAS aircraft and engine types, with the phasing out of some of its Boeing 747-400/300s, ...
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GE wins Asiana 747/767 order
General Electric has secured a consolation prize from Asiana Airlines in the shape of additional Boeing 747 and 767 engines, following its recent loss to Pratt & Whitney of a much larger powerplant deal for the Boeing 777 and Airbus Industrie A330. The deal covers new CF6-80C2 engines ...
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Atlas upgrades 747s with fuel indicators
BFGoodrich Aerospace's Aircraft Integrated Systems division has been selected to supply upgraded fuel-quantity indication systems (FQIS) for four Atlas Air Boeing 747-200s which are due to be converted into freighters at the Boeing Modification Responsibility Center in Wichita, Kansas. The FQIS retrofit is based on the system developed ...
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Dash 8-400 cash
Bombardier has won C$57 million ($42 million) from the Canadian Government in repayable launch aid for the 70-seat stretched -400 version of the de Havilland Dash 8. Bombardier and the government of Ottawa will fund C$400 million of the development cost, with the remaining C$200 million coming from risk-sharing partners, ...