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Asiana defers 777-200/300 deliveries
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Asiana Airlines is to defer delivery of its first Boeing 777 on order because of South Korea's worsening economic difficulties, and will instead acquire additional 767-300ERs and 747-400 freighters. The airline is planning to push back deliveries of its first 777-200/300s by up to two years, ...
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Parts shortages are now 'under control', according to Boeing
Boeing says that parts shortages on its 747 and Next Generation (NG) 737 assembly lines are "approaching manageable levels", and the company plans to proceed with production-rate increases on both aircraft. Full production of the 737NG and 747 has resumed after assembly lines were halted to bring out-of-sequence work ...
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Regionals add CRJs
Two major US regionals have boosted their Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) orderbooks. Atlantic Coast Airlines has converted 12 of its 36 options to fuel growth at Washington's Dulles Airport, for delivery between late 1998 and mid-1999. Comair's CRJ fleet will grow to 80 with the firming-up of 12 conditional ...
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France's Fairlines poised for December start-up
Julian Moxon/PARIS Fairlines, the exclusively first- and business-class French airline, will be launched on 8 December, with services linking Paris/Charles de Gaulle, Milan/ Malpensa and Nice. Initially operating a pair of leased, ex-Sunjet International Boeing MD-81s, but with ambitions to add up to eight more, Fairlines president Francois ...
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New freighter carrier eyes Mahalo licence
A freight airline start-up has put in an offer to buy the operating licences of failed Hawaiian regional airline Mahalo Air. English Worldwide Aviation (EWA), which has been set up by Gemini Air Cargo's former senior vice-president sales and marketing, Michael English, has submitted an offer for the Hawaiian ...
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Bombardier enters the frame to replace Horizon Air's F28s
Ramon Lopez/TORONTO Horizon Air has revealed that it is evaluating the Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) family, as well as the de Havilland Dash 8-400, as possible long-term replacements for its fleet of Fokker F28s. The airline is already a major customer for the 37-seat Dash 8-100/200, with ...
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Japan authority may rethink Saab 2000 inspecton order
Andrew Mollet/TOKYO The Japan Civil Aviation Bureau (JCAB) is reviewing plans to order additional Saab 2000 flight-inspection aircraft, in the wake of the Swedish firm's announcement that it is considering ceasing production of civil turboprops. Japan has already ordered two Saab 2000s for delivery in late 1998 and ...
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Easyjet looks to HUDS
EasyJet is considering fitting the 12 Boeing 737-300s it has on order with head-up displays (HUDs), which would allow them to be operated in Category IIIa conditions from runways equipped only for Category I. The aircraft will be equipped with enhanced ground-proximity warning systems and will probably have Airborne Communications-Addressing ...
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Routes
++ United Parcel Service (UPS) has launched a service to Penang six times a week as an en route extension to its existing operation from the carrier's Taipei hub to Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. ++ New Zealand has signed an open-skies agreement with Malaysia, permitting each national carrier the right ...
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Royal Wings ponders fleet-expansion strategy
Royal Wings will add a second 50-seat Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-300 at the end of 1997, but is considering the larger -400, or a regional-jet type, for its longer-term plans. The airline, which is studying a number of route additions and frequency increases, says that, ultimately, its fleet ...
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Tenders invited to supply 50 regional airliners for Russian airlines
The 70-seat An-140 will be among the candidates vying for selection The Russian Aviation Consortium (RAC), acting for Vnukovo Airlines, Murmansk Airlines and Tyumen Aviatrans, has invited tenders for the supply of 50 regional airliners in the 30-, 50- and 70-seat categories. Ilyushin will offer the Il-114 and ...
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Fine Air gains credit
US cargo airline Fine Air Services has opened a $32.5 million line of credit to help finance expansion in South America, also raising the prospect of it exercising an option to acquire a leased Lockheed L-1011 freighter. Fine Air cancelled a public offering in August after one of its McDonnell ...
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Shugrue is eased out as Pan Am chief
Pan American World Airways has eased out its co-founder and chief executive, Martin Shugrue, to be replaced by airline veteran David Banmiller, who is charged with turning around the start-up's heavy losses and seeing through the merger of operations with Carnival Air Lines. Pan Am confirms that Shugrue has ...
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Frontier bids for WestPac
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC A US bankruptcy-court judge will make a decision on 3 December between rival bids for Western Pacific Airlines. Frontier Airlines, which called off plans to merge with WestPac earlier this year, has switched tack and is bidding to take over its bankrupt would-be partner. WestPac ...
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Boeing's long stretch
Guy Norris/SEATTLE BOEING'S stretched 777-300 carries a list of superlatives almost as long as the aircraft itself. The latest member of the Boeing family is the largest twin-engined aircraft ever built, the world's fastest widebody twin, the longest airliner ever made and the first transport big enough to replace the ...
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Asia's economic haze
Brent Hannon/KUALA LUMPUR Concerns over the state of the once-unstoppable Asia-Pacific airline market were underlined again as the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) met in Kuala Lumpur in mid-November for the 41st assembly of presidents. The latest figures show a 25% drop in collective operating profits over ...
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Boeing slows 777-200X/300X product-development work
Boeing has switched the emphasis of product-development work on the proposed 777-200X/300X ultra-long-haul and stretch derivatives for at least three months. The 300 staff working on the two planned variants are understood to have been switched from new-product development to focusing on reducing programme costs. Sources in Seattle say ...
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CASA joins in negotiations on European regional restructure
Julian Moxon/PARIS CASA of Spain has joined the negotiations on the future of Europe's regional-aircraft industry as a launch decision on the planned Aero International (Regional) (AI(R))Airjet regional jet seems likely to be delayed beyond the original end-of-year deadline. Talks between AI(R) president Patrick Gavin and new CASA ...
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BA prepares for massive tender
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON British Airways is preparing to issue a tender to Airbus and Boeing early in the new year for up to 160 narrow- and widebodied aircraft as it gears up for its long-term fleet-renewal programme. The airline is understood to be finalising an outline of its requirements ...
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MAPO MiG-29s head for Ecuador
MIG MAPO is close to signing a contract to deliver an unspecified number of MiG-29 Fulcrum fighters to Ecuador. Neighbour Peru already operates MiG-29s, which it bought from Belarus.The Latin American country may be looking at the MiG-29SMT version, which started flight trials in November. The aircraft, which has upgraded ...