Airframers – Page 1502
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Classic takes shape
Guy Norris/LONG BEACH In June a familiar shape is due to take off on a maiden flight from Long Beach, California. Outwardly it will bear the classic hallmarks of a Douglas-built T-tail twinjet, yet in most respects it is a radically new aircraft. The Boeing 717-200 was once the MD-95. ...
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Ayres picks Alabama site for assembly of the Loadmaster
Ayres is to assemble its LM200 Loadmaster cargo aircraft in Dothan, Alabama. The aircraft manufacturer, which is based in Albany, Georgia, selected Dothan over another Georgian town, Americus, as the site for fuselage manufacture and final assembly of the aircraft. The decision was influenced by a combination of $4 ...
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Sextant gears up for merger
Ian Sheppard/PARIS Sextant Avionique is already gearing up to offer avionics systems from its future sister company Dassault Eléctronique. The initiative is part of the French company's efforts to build a flightdeck package to compete with integrated products offered by major US suppliers. Dassault Eléctronique developed an array ...
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Airbus/Boeing vie for Mexico
Airbus Industrie and Boeing are competing for an order from Aeromexico and Mexicana for up to 100 narrowbody aircraft. The order will be placed by Mexico's CINTRA Group, which owns both carriers. A decision is expected "before June", says Airbus. The deal does not include aircraft for AeroPeru, which is ...
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MAPO MIG to close for five months
MAPO MIG's Moscow factory has closed for at least five months from 1 April because of a lack of orders. The closure comes at a time of rising controversy over the future of the group. The shutdown of the plant was ordered by the general director of the VPK ...
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Focus on Phoenix
America West's ups and downs have made Wall Street nervous, but new revenue management skills, a concentration on Phoenix, and codeshares with Continental and Northwest should allow its healthier performance to continue. Karen Walker reports from Phoenix You can only envy the residents of Phoenix, Arizona. Not only do they ...
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BM gets itchy US feet
After a 15 year break, British Midland is planning a comeback on the North Atlantic, with a request for route licences to the US. The airline wants to fly from London/Heathrow to Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Miami, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle and Washington DC. The application ...
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Channel your sales energies
Global networks and distribution advances are forcing airline sales forces to rethink. Organising an airline's sales team used to be a relatively straightforward affair. You established a network of regional offices, which each recruited a team of people to sell the airline, primarily via travel agents who received commission. Sales ...
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Meal made of India deal
The joint board of Air-India and Indian Airlines has shelved the the two airlines' planned merger in favour of a holding company which will integrate the airlines' operations. 'An immediate merger of both airlines would be a disaster. Synergy and close cooperation is a must for the two organisations ...
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Brave faces
The Asian slowdown is giving suppliers a chance to take stock of their many new ideas. Meanwhile, the regional jet phenomenon continues to grow. Karen Walker reports. For the commercial airliner manufacturers, observes one industry analyst, getting through the recent Asian Aerospace show was all about 'brave faces and nervous ...
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UK low costs counter Go
While Ryanair signals it will not concede any ground to British Airways' planned low-cost operation, Go, at London/Stansted, EasyJet is firing the first shots in a legal battle to prevent BA from cross-subsidising Go. With Go yet to reveal details of its routes, in late February Ryanair announced plans ...
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Asians sell up to survive
Malaysia Airlines and Asiana have both effectively abandoned any fleet strategy, and are putting their entire fleets up for sale in bids to overcome the Asian economic slump. Meanwhile Malaysia's regional airlines have hit severe problems while, ironically, a new Fiji-based startup still aims to brave the economic storm. ...
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Second Asia tier tumbles
Doomsday gloom as heavy as last summer's smoke hangs over southeast Asia's second tier airlines. Rising currency costs and plunging traffic are hammering carriers in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and the Philippines. 'We will not be able to make it until April,' warns Benny Rungkat, secretary general of the ...
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Southwest to rule roost
Southwest Airlines denies that expansion plans at Baltimore-Washington are in response to US Airways' new low-cost airline. But Southwest is certainly making it difficult for a competitor to get a toe-in. Southwest currently has six gates at Baltimore airport, and Maryland authorities have granted tentative authority to lease ten ...
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Freighter crash
One of the two Boeing 707-300 freighters (registration SU-PBA) operated by Egyptian carrier Air Memphis crashed shortly after take-off at Mombasa's Moi International Airport in Kenya on 10 March, killing all six crew on board. The aircraft crashed just beyond the airport boundary and burned out. The 707 was taking ...
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FAA approves 737-800
Europe's Joint Aviation Authorities is due to certificate Boeing's 737-800 by the end of March. This follows the award of a type certificate from the US Federal Aviation Administration on 13 March. JAA certification director Klaus van der Spek says that he does not foresee any problems, but cannot give ...
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Latin order
Airbus is poised to finalise a deal worth an estimated $8 billion with three major Latin American airlines for almost 200 A320 family aircraft. TACA group of El Salvador, LanChile and Brazil's TAM are expected to sign a firm order for around 90 aircraft, with options on another 100 aircraft ...
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Europe suffers from safety gap
David Learmount/AMSTERDAM A dramatic difference in safety levels between European states which are members of the Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) group and those which are not has been revealed in a new Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) report. Studying approach and landing accidents, the most common of all accident categories ...
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High altitude blade cracking may delay 717
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES BMW Rolls-Royce has been forced to redesign high pressure compressor (HPC) blades in the BR715 turbofan for the Boeing 717-200 after cracks developed in the 717's tests. The problem could delay the first flight. The problems, uncovered during high altitude tests in the UK, affect the third ...
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Atlantic plays the name game again and Atlantic Airlines is born
Atlantic Airlines is the new operating name for a Coventry, UK, based company which has previously operated under a variety of titles. "Some people call us Air Atlantique, others Atlantic Cargo, Atlantic Airways, Air Corbiere or Atlantic Air Transport," says chairman Mike Collett. Atlantic Airlines, which operates a fleet that ...