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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Making waves
Not only has Mexican carrier Aeromar survived the recession, but it has done so by expanding. Gilbert Sedbon/MEXICO CITY AFTER SURVIVING the Mexican economic crash of 1995, Transportes Aeromar, the country's newest domestic carrier, is back in a growth pattern aimed at breaking through the 1 million ...
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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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Agents for change
All the major computer reservations systems recently signed distribution agreements in China. Elaine White outlines the Chinese travel agent scene and looks at the potential for automating what will become the world's largest travel market.China's travel and tourism industry may be relatively new, but it is already one of the ...
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Jumbo threat spurs Airbus
Boeing's recent sales successes in Asia with the B777 and B747 are forcing Airbus to consider an early launch for its A3XX project, as the US manufacturer prepares to stretch its largest jet. While Airbus and its partners ponder the viability of their $8 billion programme, Boeing is ...
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More aircraft up for Sale
Singapore Airlines' leasing joint venture, Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (Sale), is in expansion mode and could have 50 aircraft in its portfolio within five years. Current plans envisage 25 widebodied aircraft by 2001, but Sale is considering entry into the narrowbody market which could result in a doubling ...
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Airline news
Virgin Atlantic will start thrice weekly services from London/ Heathrow to Johannesburg from October. British Airways is to ban smoking on all flights to US and Caribbean destinations, except where more than one daily flight is available. South African Airways has resumed service to Buenos Aires ...
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Good times, bad times
Northwest Airlines is no longer the highly leveraged, unprofitable carrier of a few years ago, but the carrier faces some tough hurdles in 1996. Jane Levere reports.The scourge of the investment community less than three years ago, Northwest Airlines is now the darling of Wall Street, having streamlined its operations ...
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Fokker's future hangs in balance
Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker is fighting for survival as a split emerges between the two main partners in the proposed Asian Express 100-seat aircraft project. Richard Whitaker reports from the Asian Aerospace show in Singapore.The 30 companies considering bids for all or part of crisis-torn regional aircraft manufacturer Fokker face ...
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Lessors less committed
For the first time in years, operating lessors are placing major aircraft orders again without advance lease commitments and amid warnings that history may repeat itself. General Electric Capital Aviation Services (Gecas) has ordered 107 Boeing aircraft, and is reportedly close to making a large Airbus order. Singapore ...
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Cuts start to pay at TWA
Restructuring at TWA is finally beginning to bear fruit as Delta Air Lines slows its broad '7.5' cost-reduction programme. But both carriers have been hard hit by one-time costs associated with layoffs, outsourcing, fleet retirements and, especially for TWA, new technology investment. At St Louis-based TWA, there are ...
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Order doubts slay dragons
China's smaller carriers are in a life or death struggle to gain Beijing's approval for what they expect will be a limited number of aircraft orders this year. The outcome of the battle looks likely to settle which airlines survive and which are swallowed by others. And the ...