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Merpati assets
British Aerospace's Asset Management Organisation has confirmed that it is in preliminary discussions with Merpati regarding the lease of some BAe 146s. The Indonesian carrier is seeking up to ten 146-200s and -300s to replace its Fokker F27s on regional services. Australian carrier National Jet, the region's largest 146 operator, ...
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Embraer begins East European sales drive
EMBRAER HAS received letters of intent from potential customers in Russia for two of its EMB-145 50-seat regional jets as part of a marketing campaign in Eastern Europe. The Brazilian company warns, however, that Russian certification is "...subject to how many aircraft are ordered and financed". ...
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British Midland reveals Eurostar impact
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON BRITISH MIDLAND (BM) admits that competition from the Channel Tunnel rail link from London to Paris and Brussels effectively halved its potential profits in 1995, but group chairman Sir Michael Bishop says that the airline has now weathered the worst of the Tunnel's impact. Although the airline managed ...
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Saab/BAe, Lockheed vie for Hungary business
HUNGARY WILL ISSUE a request for proposals (RFP) in July for up to 36 fighters to replace its obsolete Mikoyan MiG-21s. Leading candidates for the procurement include the Saab/ British Aerospace JAS39 Gripen, and the Lockheed Martin F-16. Peter Anstiss, director of sales and marketing support at ...
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Swissair considers stake in new low-cost Italian carrier
SWISSAIR IS IN talks with Italy's new low-cost carrier, Noman, on commercial links which may lead to it taking a share of up to 33% in the airline. Noman, which was formerly known as Fortune Aviation, began scheduled passenger operations on 22 January, offering no-frills services between ...
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Northrop Grumman teams with DASA
Northrop Grumman and Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) have formed a team to produce the E-8 Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) should the US system be selected by NATO for its Airborne Ground Surveillance (AGS) programme. NATO is expected to decide by the end of this year ...
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SIA struggles with depressed yields
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE DESPITE RELEASING another strong set of group results for its latest financial year, Singapore Airlines (SIA) admits that its core airline business is coming under intense pressure from increased competition and a strengthening Singapore dollar. The overall group profit climbed by 12%, to ...
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Order dropped
GPA has dropped 26 orders from its Boeing backlog. The lessor has cancelled orders for 11 737-300s, seven 757s and eight 767-300ERs. These orders had already been subject to a deferral. Source: Flight International
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ILFC strengthens
International Lease Finance (ILFC), the fast-growing aviation arm of the giant American Insurance Group, reports that revenues leapt by 28%, to $1.4 billion during 1995. The leasing company says that leasing rates continue to improve as the supply of "...good Stage 3 aircraft has substantially diminished". ILFC posted pre-tax profits ...
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Muddy waters
THE GREATEST problem of aircraft-accident investigation is not the disappearance of the evidence into a Florida swamp or the unreadability of data-recorder tapes. It is the demand by the mass media and its customers for instant answers, and the temptation of those on the periphery of the investigation to give ...
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Wicat pulls in trainer sales
WICAT SYSTEMS has secured contracts for McDonnell Douglas MD-80, MD-90 and MD-11 part-task trainers and unveiled plans to develop similar devices for the Boeing 777. SAS Flight Academy, part of Scandinavian Airlines System, has ordered an MD-90 systems trainer for delivery in the third quarter of 1996. It ...
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Working relationship
Private Israeli airline Arkia has expanded into an international charter operator. Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV THE THREE ONE-STOREY prefabricated office buildings at Dov Airport in Tel Aviv reflect the spartan way in which Israeli private airline Arkia is managed. Arkia was founded in 1950 by Israeli ...
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BWIA drops EMB-145 plans, renegotiates A340 order
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON BWIA HAS ABANDONED its intentions to operate up to ten Embraer EMB-145s and is rethinking its plans for an Airbus long-haul fleet. The airline, however, discounts rumours that it is talking to Boeing again. The Caribbean-based carrier, which signed a letter of intent ...
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Leisure International selects Airbus A321
UK CHARTER CARRIER Leisure International Airways (formerly Air UK Leisure) has selected the Airbus A321-200 rather than the Boeing 737-800 for its future fleet needs. LIA declines to comment on the selection, although it confirms that an announcement "is imminent". The airline has replaced its fleet ...
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DASA prepares 328 cryoplane
DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) is to go ahead with a programme to convert a Dornier 328 turboprop to a hydrogen-fuelled testbed late this year. "The aim is to use the knowhow gained with the Dornier 328...for Airbus applications at a later date," says DASA. The project, now in ...
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NTSB criticises FAA on 737 FDR
NATIONAL Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), chairman Jim Hall has criticised the US Federal Aviation Administration, for rejecting the Boards call for an immediate upgrade, of Boeing 737 flight data recorders (FDRs). Proposed new rules about the retrofit of modern FDRs on commercial passenger-carrying aircraft will soon be issued ...
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GATX seeks approval for 747F modification
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA GATX/AIRLOG HOPES to gain US Federal Aviation Administration approval for a modification to its Boeing 747 freighter conversion by mid-1996. An initial attempt to obtain relief with an airworthiness directive (AD) limiting gross weight failed, and the company is conducting additional structural analysis. ...
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Boeing sets decision date for new versions of 777
Guy Norris and Paul Lewis/SEATTLE BOEING IS targeting September for a decision on development of either the 777-100X "shrink" or higher gross weight -200X derivative as its new ultra-long range passenger aircraft. A continuing product development study of the two new proposed 777 family members ...
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Regional and utility aircraft directory
Fokker's demise is the most dramatic in a series of upheavals taking place throughout the regional-aircraft industry Compiled by Andrew Doyle and Jennifer Pite/LONDON Graham Warwick/ATLANTA FOKKER IS DOWN, the count almost over, but the winner is far from clear: not the customers left with unfulfilled orders for ...
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Aviall continues disposals in quest for core profits
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON AVIALL IS TO sell its aerospace-fastener operation, in another step towards its ambition of stripping the group back to its profitable aircraft-parts distribution business. An agreement was signed at the end of April to sell the fasteners-distribution unit to a new company formed ...