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PAL faces home threat
Faltering deregulation in the Philippines will receive a boost this month with the startup of the first serious domestic competition for the country's flag carrier. Grand International Airways (GrandAir), set up by a group of former senior Philippine Airlines officials, will operate two Airbus A300s on a four ...
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United expands shuttle operations
SHUTTLE BY UNITED is to expand its frequencies in eight US West Coast city-pairs and connect San Francisco, California, with Phoenix, Arizona, beginning in early February. The short-haul discounted air service has expanded from its initial 184 daily departures when it started operations in October 1994, to 342 ...
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Crisis over - don't let up
Airline industry fortunes may be on the upturn, but much work remains. Here are our 10 commandments. At long last, there's something to be optimistic about. For many airlines, traffic has returned, costs have been cut, and the bottom line is looking, well, better than it has for a ...
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Hughes wins contracts for four communications satellites
Tim Furniss/LONDON HUGHES SPACE and Communications International has maintained its lead in the satellite-manufacturing market with contract awards to build three HS-601 and one HS-376 communications satellites for Luxembourg, Malaysia and Afro-Asian Satellite Communications (ASC). The deals bring orders for the three-axis HS-601 to 38 ...
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Crash cause may never be known
Ramon Lopez/PITTSBURGH THE CAUSE OF the 8 September, 1994, crash of a USAir Boeing 737-300 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is unlikely ever to be known for certain, according to US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators. The aircraft inverted and dived to earth from 6,000ft (1,800m), killing all ...
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Fedex Increases Capacity
FedEx is to replace two of three McDonnell Douglas DC-10Fs used on daily transatlantic services with higher-capacity MD-11 freighters, one based at London Stansted and one at Paris Charles de Gaulle, and is considering adding a fourth aircraft on the North Atlantic early in 1996. Source: ...
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Nagoya crash victims prepare to sue CAL
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CRASH VICTIMS' relatives and survivors of the China Air Lines (CAL) Airbus Industrie A300-600 accident on 26 April, 1994, at Nagoya, Japan, say that they are to sue the carrier for pilot error. The action coincides with publication of the first draft of ...
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Boeing warns over production cuts
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON BOEING EXPECTS airliner sales to fall again this year and warns that production rates may have to edge down further if some financially troubled US airlines fail to recover. The airlines have not been named by Boeing, but Continental Airlines has admitted that ...
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Leasing success boosts turnaround for BAe regional-aircraft operations
BRITISH AEROSPACE'S success in turning round its ailing regional-aircraft operations has been further underlined by a record performance from its leasing organisations, which manage the regional jet and turboprop fleets still held on the group's books. The idle fleet of BAe 146 regional jets has been eliminated ...
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Bargain carriers establish hubs away from bases
US LOW-COST CARRIERS, Midway and ValuJet Airlines, are establishing new hubs. Chicago-based Midway has reached agreement with American Airlines to lease gates at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, North Carolina, while Atlanta-based ValuJet has begun operations from Washington Dulles International Airport. Midway plans to shift most of its operations from ...
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ATR-BAe link rocks Europe
If, as expected, the long-awaited alliance between ATR and British Aerospace's Jetstream division goes ahead, the deal should provide the spark for the rationalisation of the entire European regional aircraft industry. At presstime, there were strong indications an agreement would be signed before the end of January. One ...
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Asia's revival
Most Asian carriers should return to healthy profits, if they can contain costs. After four years of belt tightening, Asia-Pacific airlines are looking to the new year as a period of real revival, although managements believe trading conditions will remain tough. They also concede stringent measures will have to be ...
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Universal Approval
Universal Navigation has received US Federal Aviation Administration approval for its UNS-1M navigation-management system fitted with a 12-channel global-positioning-system receiver. The system has been certificated on the Embraer EMB-120. Source: Flight International
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Alitalia steps up pressure on pilots
ALITALIA IS understood to be preparing to wet-lease further Boeing 767s, unless its pilots agree to accept a package of concessions on wages and working practices. The Italian carrier has already leased two 767s, together with crews from Ansett Worldwide Air Services (AWAS) to fly on transatlantic routes. ...
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Litton works on GLS for Airbus
LITTON IS WORKING with Airbus Industrie to certificate by December a worldwide non-precision-approach (NPA) capability, using the global-positioning system (GPS), on the A300/A310 and A330/A340. The capability is based on integration of Litton Aero Products' LTN-2001 GPS receiver and LTN-101 Flagship laser inertial-navigation system (INS). Litton says ...
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France offers Mirages to Philippine air force
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE FRANCE HAS offered to sell an undisclosed number of surplus Dassault Mirage F.1 fighters to the Philippine air force as replacements for its badly depleted fleet of Northrop F-5A/Bs. The ex-French air force aircraft form part of a larger package of defence-equipment sales ...
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Air France to prune fleet
Julian Moxon/PARIS AIR FRANCE is to cancel all its outstanding orders and options for Airbus and Boeing aircraft, and sell part of its existing fleet as part of the restructuring plan, introduced by its president, Christian Blanc. The programme, introduced in 1994, has already succeeded in reducing ...
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The year ahead
After the five toughest years this business has ever known, surely 1995 will be the year of recovery. Well, maybe. Certainly this year promises more than any since 1989, but only selected carriers will benefit. The major economies can expect the winning combination of steady growth, stable oil prices and ...
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Agreement will improve BAe's financial fortunes
WITH THE ATR alliance under its belt, British Aerospace believes that it is close to stemming the losses from its regional-aircraft operations, which brought the UK group close to collapse two years ago. The most immediate financial impact from the alliance will come from BAe's decision to close ...
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TEAM spirit returns to Aer Lingus staff
TEAM AER LINGUS reports that it is back in business and beginning to rebuild its third-party maintenance work, following the labour disputes which brought the Irish maintenance operation near to closure in 1994. As part of the 1994 Aer Lingus survival plan, the TEAM workforce had been ...