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Eva races to first profit
FAST-EXPANDING Eva Air has turned in profits a year ahead of schedule, only four years after its launch as Taiwan's first privately owned carrier. The airline has also announced it is to launch a new airline in Panama by the end of the year. The carrier, ...
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Dangerous rush for ETOPs
Sir - Having read several articles concerning extended-range twinjet-operations (ETOPS) aircraft, I have been increasingly disturbed by the headlong rush which appears to be being conducted by the world's airlines into ETOPS operations. The US Federal Aviation Administration is being applauded for changing the rules to allow the ...
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Brake deal
AlliedSignal Aerospace has agreed, to form a joint venture with China Aviation Supplies and the Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials, to manufacture brake products in China, for domestic and export markets. AlliedSignal, meanwhile, is to supply wheels and brakes for three Shanghai Airlines Boeing 737-300s. Source: ...
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Boeing
Boeing president Phil Condit will assume the additional role of chief executive, taking over from Frank Shrontz, who has served in this position since April 1986. The long-expected move makes Condit only the seventh person to lead the company in its 80-year history. Condit has served as president and a ...
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Thai Airways plans fleet shake-up over five years
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE THAI AIRWAYS International is to purchase 21 new jet-powered airliners and dispose of 31 older aircraft, under a five-year fleet-rationalisation plan approved by its directors. The carrier's 1996-2000 long-term plan calls for a reduction from 14 to six baseline aircraft types and a ...
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BAe calls for Airbus restructuring
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON AIRBUS INDUSTRIE must start to rework its consortium structure and finances, before going ahead with the launch of a new A3XX large-aircraft project, says British Aerospace chief executive Dick Evans. There is little prospect of BAe approving a new Airbus programme "...unless there ...
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Desert Dash 8s
Saudi Aramco has ordered three Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-200s, to support oil exploration and production operations in Saudi Arabia. Deliveries will begin in July, and the aircraft will be convertible to medical-evacuation, cargo, cargo/passenger or passenger configuration. The aircraft will be operated in temperatures of more than 50¡C, and ...
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Second Trent 777 returns to Seattle after testing
THE SECOND Rolls-Royce Trent 800-powered Boeing 777 was expected to return to Seattle on 1 March after undergoing 91 route sectors with Cathay Pacific Airways. Boeing is striving to achieve early extended-range twin-operations (ETOPS) clearance for the aircraft. By the end of February, the Trent 777 had undergone ...
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JAL takes keys of first 777
JAPAN AIRLINES WAS HANDED the keys to its first Boeing 777-200 at a ceremony in Seattle on 16 February. The aircraft, which has 389 mainly economy seats, will begin services between Tokyo's domestic hub at Haneda and Kagoshima on 26 April. The airline has ten 777-200s on order and another ...
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Recorder reveals clue to 757 crash
A FAULTY AIR-SPEED indicator has emerged as a possible factor in the 6 February crash of a Boeing 757-200 in the Caribbean, which claimed 189 lives. Dominican Republic accident investigators, aided by the US National Transportation Safety Board, say that data from the recently retrieved cockpit-voice recorder ...
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THE GE 747 testbed
THE SHEER SIZE AND extra capacity of General Electric's Boeing 747 test-bed gives it an obvious advantage over its smaller predecessors. "It is five, or even ten times, as efficient as the 707," comments Phil Schultz, GE flight-test organisation (FTO) chief pilot. "We can run five or six objectives in ...
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Northwest takes A320s and defers A330 deliveries
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC NORTHWEST AIRLINES has postponed and may eventually cancel delivery of 16 Airbus A330s in favour of acquiring 20 more A320s and hushkits for its 32 Boeing 727-200s and McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30s. The decision puts in doubt the US carrier's intentions of ever ...
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Combi Saab 2000 nears certification
SAAB AIRCRAFT is hoping to complete development and certification of a passenger/cargo combi version of its Saab 2000 turboprop by the end of 1996, in an effort to boost flagging sales. The Swedish manufacturer is proposing two different basic combi configurations. The aircraft can be configured typically for ...
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Surplus European F-16s may go to eastern Europe
Douglas Barrie/LONDON Andrzej Jeziorski/WARSAW LOCKHEED MARTIN is examining the use of surplus F-16A/Bs drawn from stocks in Belgium and the Netherlands to offer in fighter competitions in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. Belgium has around 32 early-model F-16s, and the Netherlands up to ...
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EMB-145 'exceeds expectations'
EMBRAER'S EMB-145 regional jet is performing better than predicted, the Brazilian manufacturer says. One prototype and two pre-series aircraft are now in flight-test and a fourth EMB-145, is scheduled to have been flown, by 20 March. Engineering director Luis Affonso says that the performance is exceeding specification because ...
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Aircraft news
GE Capital Services has ordered 102 B737s, including 82 next generation models, and five B777s. The company has options on a further 76 B737s in a $4 billion deal. Vietnam Airlines will take 10 A320s on operating leases from Regionair and 3 B767-300s from Gecas. KLM ...
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BAe joins assets
British Aerospace has placed its BAe 146 jet sales and leasing arm, Asset Management Organisation, and its turboprop sales and leasing company, JSX Capital Corporation, into one division. Tony Rice will head BAe Asset Management. Source: Airline Business
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On the upswing
Richard Whitaker and Sara Guild review the financial and traffic performances of the 40 airlines which have so far released data covering all or part of 1995. If 1994 was the year of recovery for the airline industry, for most carriers 1995 saw profits return with a vengeance. Ten out ...
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No haste, just speed
Having sealed its partnership with KLM, Kenya Airways is wasting no time in completing its privatisation and entering the next phase of its development. Jackie Gallacher reports.Kenya Airways is in a hurry. It aims to complete its privatisation by the end of March, and to outline the main priorities for ...
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A few home truths
Full liberalisation of the domestic markets of all the third package signatory states is just over a year away but Europe's leading economy is already in its third year of fully-fledged domestic competition. Mark Odell reports. The prospects for new competitors in the German internal market appear bleak after liberalisation ...