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LOT looks to purchase jets for speedy regional boost
Andrzej Jeziorski/WARSAW LOT POLISH AIRLINES is planning to acquire a fleet of 50- to 70-seat regional jets, and spin off its regional operations into a separate company, according to vice-president Andrzej Slodownik. The regional-jet purchase is part of a company fleet-strategy plan being drawn up to ...
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Lauda and Austrian make peace
AUSTRIA'S TWO largest airlines, Lauda Air and Austrian, have decided to end years of in-fighting with a plan, to co-operate in some areas. The two airlines have been talking for several months, according to Lauda president and chief executive Peter Thoele, and have now agreed to co-operate, ...
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Asian ATR centre set for year-end
AERO INTERNATIONAL (Regional) says that its Asian ATR training centre, a joint venture with Thai Airways International, will be operational by November. The centre will be located in Thai's simulator base in Bangkok (Flight International, 20-26 December1995). The centre will be equipped with a Thomson Training & Simulation ...
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American in Paris
Boeing is trying to interest Air France in the purchase of the Boeing 777. An Air France Boeing 747 pilot, Andre Groppo of the airline's evaluation division, flew the aircraft between Dubai and Paris in late February. Air France directors, headed by chairman Christian Blanc, also attended a presentation of ...
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Italian Government backs fresh Alitalia union talks
ALITALIA HAS opened new talks with its unions, to be overseen by the Italian Government and based on a more conciliatory, four-point, restructuring plan. Chairman Renato Riverso says that the new plan, which has been approved by the airline's parent, state-holding company IRI, will include a renewed ...
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Indian Airlines spawns domestic subsidiary
STATE-OWNED Indian Airlines is setting up a low-cost regional subsidiary to feed traffic into its major hubs and compete against India's clutch of privately owned start-up carriers. Airline Allied Services is expected to begin operations in March, initially flying four 119-seat Boeing 737-200s, linking regional points with Delhi ...
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American warns on pilfered 757 parts
AMERICAN AIRLINES HAS issued a warning to the air-transport industry that "...stolen and damaged Boeing 757 parts are entering the surplus market". The airline says that there has been extensive looting from the wreckage of its 757 which crashed in mountains near Cali, Colombia, on 20 December, 1995. ...
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Portugalia to decide between 737 and A320
Andrew Doyle/LONDON PORTUGUESE CARRIER Portugalia is considering placing orders for up to seven new-generation Boeing 737s or Airbus A320s, to replace its fleet of six Fokker 100s on lease from GPA. The privately owned airline, which made its first-ever profit in 1995, is expected to ...
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737 price may force China Southern to buy A320s
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CHINA SOUTHERN Airlines is threatening to order Airbus A320/321s unless Boeing cuts the cost of a planned purchase of 25 737-700/-800 passenger aircraft. The Guangzhou-based carrier is understood to have signed a memorandum of understanding with Boeing for 25 new-generation 737s, but has ...
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GE plans for turboprop power growth
GENERAL ELECTRIC is developing two new versions of its CT7 turboprop family, a CT7-9+, which will be certificated later this year, and a more ambitious CT7-11 variant which has been timed for 1999. GE says that the growth programmes will meet the requirements of current CT7-powered, aircraft ...
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Kelowna to fly for Greyhound
BRITISH COLUMBIA-based Kelowna Flight-craft Air Charter, has agreed to operate a low-cost airline, on behalf of bus company Greyhound Lines of Canada. Greyhound Air is scheduled to begin operations on 15 May, with six ex-Continental Airlines160-seat Boeing 727-200s linking Vancouver, Kelowna, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Toronto and Hamilton. ...
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Honeywell predicts Pegasus boom
MORE THAN 700 Boeing 757/767s and McDonnell Douglas MD-90/MD-11s could be retrofitted with Honeywell's newly developed Pegasus flight-management system (FMS), according to the company. The Pegasus FMS has 25 times the throughput capacity and up to 16 times more memory than that of the existing systems and will ...
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Romancing the UK, Air Jamaica fashion
RED CARPETS on the tarmac, on board fashion shows by cabin crew and Mumm's Cordon Rouge champagne in economy class, are the ploys, which the new Air Jamaica intends to use to woo the UK traveler, when the carrier re-introduces a London-Montego Bay-Kingston link on 30 March, after an absence ...
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New conflict looms at Air Inter
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS FAILURE TO AGREE on a new contract for pilots at Air Inter Europe is pulling the financially struggling domestic and regional wing of the Air France Group towards a new crisis. Passenger traffic fell by 7% in 1995, to 15.7 million, largely because ...
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Mesaba puts 328 and 340 on its shortlist
NORTHWEST AIRLINK carrier Mesaba Airlines has shortlisted the Dornier 328 and Saab 340 for an order worth almost $400 million to replace its fleet of 26 Fairchild Metro IIIs and 25 Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-100s. It plans to replace its fleet between June and the fourth quarter of 1998. ...
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Boeing delivers F-22 power supplies
BOEING HAS DELIVERED the first flight-worthy power supplies for the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 common integrated processors (CIPs), which form the heart of the fighter's avionics, sensors and display system. The power supply modules, convert aircraft-standard electrical power to a wattage of up to 400W, which is used to ...
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IPTN speeds up N-2130 regional-jet programme
Paul Lewis/BANDUNG INDUSTRI PESAWAT Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) has advanced the planned entry-into-service date of the proposed N-2130 regional jet by two years, in response to domestic demand and forthcoming foreign competition. With Japan trying to revive its YS-X programme and talks on the Chinese/South Korean ...
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SAS concentrates on fleet requirement beyond 2000
Gunter Endres/LONDON SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES System (SAS) is to study a plan to purchase between ten and 20 long- and medium-range aircraft to add to its fleet starting by the year 2000. The study will examine the case for retaining the Boeing 767 in the SAS fleet ...