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Indian Airlines subsidiary to acquire 50-seat turboprops
ALLIANCE AIR, the new low-cost regional subsidiary of Indian Airlines, is planning to acquire a fleet of 50-seat turboprops for domestic feeder routes. Alliance Air, previously dubbed Airline Allied Services, had an April launch with the first of 12 Boeing 737-200s to be transferred from its parent ...
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Boeing settles baseline for 747-500X/600X designs-
Andrew Doyle/LONDON BOEING HAS INCREASED the range of its 747-600X and reduced the size of the -500X following consultations with its airline working group. The revised configurations are now being offered as the baseline aircraft to potential customers. The move follows the US manufacturer's recent ...
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Delta orders Nordam hushkits for 737s
DELTA AIR LINES has finalised its Boeing 737 hushkit plans, placing an order with Nordam for Stage 3 sets for up to 55 aircraft, which will enable its entire 737-200 fleet to be equipped. The airline has placed a firm contract with Nordam for 25 hushkit sets, plus ...
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Asiana to take its first Boeing 767 Freighter
ASIANA, THE LAUNCH CUSTOMER for Boeing's 767-300 General Market Freighter, will take the first of two aircraft this month. Based on the 767-300F package freighter developed for UPS, the General Market Freighter has cargo-handling systems on both main and lower decks, and incorporates environmental-control-system changes to enable live animals and ...
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FAA moves ahead with local-area GPS teams
FOUR TEAMS HAVE received contracts to support US Federal Aviation Administration development of the local-area augmentation system (LAAS) which is needed to provide Category II/III precision-approach capability using the global-positioning system (GPS). The delayed contracts awarded to Harris, PRC, Raytheon and Wilcox pre-qualify the teams to bid on task orders ...
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Concorde celebration
Seen (left) is Brian Trubshaw, chief test pilot of the Anglo-French Concorde, with (centre) Capt Jeremy Rendall, who completed his last British Airways Concorde flight on 20 July, landing at RAF Fairford, in the UK. With them are the crew of the first British Airways commercial Concorde flight, in 1976, ...
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Malaysia seeks EGPWS change
Brent Hannon/HONG KONG MALAYSIA AIRLINES is seeking to be launch customer for AlliedSignal Aerospace's new enhanced ground-proximity warning system (EGPWS) on the Boeing 777. There may not be time, however, to incorporate the system into aircraft in production. Malaysia has requested a change to its 777 ...
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Shorts hands over composite rudder
SHORTS HAS DELIVERED the first all-composite rudder for the Boeing 737-600/700/800 family. The component is around 1m longer than the 737-300/400/500 composite rudder, contains fewer structural components and requires fewer man hours to manufacture. Belfast, UK-based Shorts supplies parts for all of Boeing's commercial aircraft programmes, including undercarriage doors for ...
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Costly contests
THE UK'S RECENT AWARD of a clutch of key defence contracts has raised many questions. Not least of those is whether the present system of competitive tendering has had its day. The political realities and mounting development costs in today's defence market suggests that it has. Competitive tedering may have ...
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Dornier signs up to develop Envisat instruments
Dornier Satellite Systeme (DSS) has signed a DM1.5 billion ($1 billion) contract with the European Space Agency to develop the instrument payload for the Envisat 1 polar-orbiting environmental satellite, which is scheduled to be launched by an Arianespace Ariane 5 in 1999. The 8,000kg spacecraft - being built ...
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DHL eyes widebody freighters for European operations
DHL AIRWAYS is targeting late 1997 or early 1998 to introduce widebodied freighters on to its European network, as it seeks to modernise and upgrade its fleet. The US-based package carrier operates some 50 aircraft on its European cross-border network, including 24 Stage 3 Boeing 727-100/200 freighters. Two more -200Fs ...
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ValuJet puts fleet on sale
VALUJET AIRLINES is trying to sell or lease the bulk of its McDonnell Douglas DC-9s and MD-80s. The low-cost carrier was operating 51 aircraft when it was grounded on 17 June, but plans to resume service by mid-August with a maximum of 15 DC-9-32s. The airline plans ...
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Turnaround in Mexico
Mexicana is 75 years old this year Geoffrey Jones/MEXICO CITY MEXICANA, THE OLDEST airline in North America, celebrates its 75th anniversary this year. Under the new leadership of chief executive Fernando Flores, Mexicana has an optimistic vision for the future as it consolidates its market strengths, both ...
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Westpac order
Western Pacific Airlines (WestPAC) has ordered 12 Fairchild Dornier 328 turboprops, with options for 12 more, for its new commuter unit, Mountain Air Express. Source: Flight International
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Aircraft news
Garuda Indonesia has signed orders for six Boeing 777-200s, to be delivered between 1997 and 1999, and 17 B737-300s and B737-500s, planned for delivery between 1997 and 1999. It also has taken options on six B747-400s. Egyptair's additional order for three Boeing 777s is for delivery between May and August ...
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Asia's triple owner shift
Three major Asian carriers have signalled a new round of ownership changes to help fund up to $9 billion of aircraft orders. Garuda has begun a major restructuring ahead of privatisation, Philippine Airlines plans a public share offering, and Malaysia Airlines may sell 10 per cent of its stock to ...
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Can Blanc do it BA's way?
Christian Blanc must have cast an envious glance across the water to his counterpart at British Airways after the UK carrier stopped a strike by its pilots at the eleventh hour. Still the Air France chairman may yet have divided the disgruntled pilots at Air France enough to push through ...
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Bow to no man
Pieter Bouw, the president of KLM, will need all his knowledge of the industry to rise above the crisis in the relationship with Northwest Airlines, growing competition from other hubs and US-European alliances, and insufficient market share in Europe. Interview by Jackie Gallacher. Airline Business: KLM's operating result declined ...
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Canada's hair of the dog?
Canada's federal cabinet has overruled a National Transportation Agency decision and allowed coach operator Greyhound to launch a low-cost, no-frills airline that became Canada's fourth scheduled trans-continental carrier in early July. The NTA had previously blocked Greyhound's plans by ruling that the company could not obtain its own ...