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Insurers face record claims bill
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE GROWING COST of passenger-liability claims has begun to raise alarm in insurance markets, following early predictions that 1994 was a record year for airline losses. The total bill for major hull and liability losses on Western-built passenger jets leapt to more than $1.5 ...
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Creditors baulk at TWA proposals for recovery
TRANS WORLD Airlines (TWA) has run into fierce opposition from some creditors to its restructuring plan, which would see some of the carrier's $1.8 billion debt converted to equity. TWA hopes to reduce its debt by $500-600 million by offering creditors an increased stake in the airline. A ...
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ATR/BAe ready to tie regional-airliner knot
Kieran Daly/LONDON ATR AND BRITISH Aerospace are on the verge of announcing the long-awaited combination of their regional-airliner activities. Under the deal, BAe's Jetstream operation will merge with the Franco-Italian consortium. Its Avro regional-jet division will also be brought into the deal, possibly through a joint marketing arrangement. ...
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Alitalia pilots to strike over wages
ALITALIA PILOTS planned a . strike on 18 January, in an attempt to apply further pressure on the carrier's management to concede pay increases in return for productivity improvements. The strike threat comes amid talks between Alitalia and its two pilots' unions over the need for major cost-savings ...
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Russia steps up action on safety regulations
THE RUSSIAN Government is to hold hearings in February on the creation of a new set of airline regulations aimed at bringing urgent improvements to safety levels among the 410 carriers now operating within the country. Gennady Zaitsev, deputy director of the Russian transport ministry's department of air ...
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Re-engined Il-86s return to agenda
FIVE RUSSIAN airlines have confirmed renewed interest in re-engineing their Ilyushin Il-86s with CFM56 turbofans. According to Il-86 chief designer Igor Katyrev, the five responded to a business proposal from Ilyushin, pointing out the advantages of replacing the Kuznetsov NK-86s with the CFM56s. The Western powerplants, ...
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R-R wins China Yunnan 767 deal
CHINA YUNNAN Airlines is to become the second operator of Rolls-Royce-powered Boeing 767s when it takes delivery in May 1996 of the first of three aircraft on firm order. The subsequent RB.211-524H-powered -300s will be delivered in June 1996 and January 1997. Until Yunnan's order, only British Airways ...
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SABCA chosen to carry out Indonesian F-5 upgrade
INDONESIA has chosen SABCA of Belgium as a systems integrator to upgrade 12 Northrop F-5E/F fighters. A contract is to be finalised shortly. SABCA, together with Smiths Industries, was shortlisted in December after a year-long evaluation (Flight International, 21 December, 1994 - 3 January, 1995, P16). Other companies ...
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FAA acts on PW2000 icing in Boeing 757
US OPERATORS of Pratt & Whitney-powered Boeing 757s are being required to perform engine run-ups in cold weather to remove ice which may form in the compressor. The US Federal Aviation Administration has issued an emergency airworthiness-directive (AD) following incidents in which ice broke loose from low-pressure-compressor stators ...
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Modern-cockpit history
Cathode-ray-tube (CRT) flight-instrument displays and digital-technology flight-management systems arrived in operational airline cockpits only in 1982. Digital fly-by-wire control arrived less than seven years ago, in 1988. Today, however, the instrument displays of the Boeing 767, 757 and Airbus Industrie A310/A300-600 (the order in which the aircraft entered ...
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Eastwest Service
Germany's newest carrier, Erfurt-based Eastwest Airlines, has begun a five-times-weekly direct service from Berlin Tempelhof to Rotterdam. From 9 January, the airline is operating a Dornier 328 turbo-prop service from Monday to Friday - the only direct air link between the two cities. Source: ...
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Government study recommends tougher Indian offset demands
Vivek Raghuvanshi/NEW DELHI INDIA HAS a multi-billion dollar requirement for new civil aircraft, but its manufacturing industry risks missing out on offset- contract opportunities, according to a Government-sponsored study. The report, from the National Aerospace Laboratory (NAL) and Technology Information Forecasting and Assessment Council, says ...
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Rudder ruled out in Coventry
UK INVESTIGATORS are virtually certain, that control difficulties played no part in the crash of an Air Algerie Boeing 737-200 on approach to Coventry Airport. They have found no evidence of rudder-control malfunction in the 21 December 1994, accident and believe that the aircraft's impact with an electricity ...
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Lessons from the cockpit
Airbus has learned a lot about the "glass cockpit", but there is much more to be gleaned. David Learmount/LONDON In little more than a decade, a breathtaking change has taken place in airliner-cockpit design, and in flight management and control technology, but some pilots believe ...
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Broadening horizons
Times are hard at home, so All Nippon Airways is looking abroad for its growth. Kieran Daly/Tokyo and Kansai Throughout the world, governments are cheerfully embracing the concept of instant deregulation of their air-transport services. The consequences of this are sometimes dramatic, frequently unforeseen and, ...
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Avionics sensors certificated
ROCKWELL-Collins Series 900 avionics sensors have been certificated on the Boeing 747-400. Approval on the Boeing 777 is scheduled for April 1995 and certification efforts are under way on the 757 and 767, Collins says. The Series 900 product line covers VHF communication and navigation, high frequency and ...
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Airbus cockpit/control milestones
1982 Garuda Indonesian Airlines takes delivery of its uniquely ordered A300B4-200s, the world's only two-crew conventional-cockpit wide-bodied type, which has a fully electro-mechanical (E-M) instrument fit but a "forward-facing crew-cockpit" (FFCC) employing the revolutionary "dark, quiet cockpit" (DQC) design philosophy. In the DQC, selector-switch lights turn off, when a system ...
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MGM Grand Air sold off
MGM GRAND, THE US hotel and casino operator, has sold its luxury charter airline, to Michigan based American International Airways (AIA). Despite the relaunch in 1994 of scheduled routes to Las Vegas, MGM Grand Air had been losing money. The deal includes the fleet of three ...
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Weak demand forces Air Hong Kong to cut fleet
CARGO CARRIER Air Hong Kong has cut its fleet from three to two Boeing 747 freighters as it continues to suffer from poor demand and heavy financial losses. The 747-100F is to be returned early to leasing company GE Capital Aviation, as the carrier is able only to ...