Airframers – Page 1508
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Il-76/747 collision: who was to blame?
Sir - In response to the letter from Capt F W Pike (Flight International, 13-19 August, P48), and other previous statements about the Chimkentavia Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 freighter mid-air collision with a Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747-100B near Delhi, India, in November 1996, I must comment on the quick reaction ...
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Aircraft news
Boeing has signed a deal with American Airlines, granting the US manufacturer sole supplier status for jet aircraft until 2018. As part of the deal American has placed firm orders for 12 B777s, four B767-300ERs, 12 B757-200s, and 75 B737-600/700/800s. The US carrier has also taken so-called purchase rights on ...
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Thanks a billion
ILFC has placed orders with Airbus and Boeing valued at some $8.5 billion. The lessor has ordered 50 aircraft in the A320 family and 15 A330-200s. Boeing received an order for 31 B737s, 12 B767s, 10 B777s and two B747s. Source: Airline Business
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Saab sets its jet deadline
Saab's days as a turboprop manufacturer are numbered, with the Swedish company working to an early 1998 deadline to join one of two regional jet programmes. Gert Schyborger, Saab Aircraft's president, confirms that the struggling 2000 programme will be the company's last turboprop venture and says he will ...
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Cargo flux?
The dedicated freight operator Cargolux is banking on an all-B747-400F fleet and alliances to put it on a firmer footing in this notoriously unstable sector. MarkOdell reports from Luxembourg on the carrier's chances. Look beyond the seemingly perpetual decline in yields and the overcapacity that plagues the cargo industry and ...
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Shanghai set for overseas
Shanghai-based China Eastern Airlines is finally to face homegrown international competition from local rival Shanghai Airlines, just as the first example emerges of close cooperation among a group of provincial Chinese carriers. After years of lobbying Shanghai Airlines has won approval from Beijing to launch international flights and ...
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PAL calls for total US ban
Philippine Airlines has called on Manila to suspend flights by US carriers into the Philippines, as a result of US Federal Aviation Administration restrictions which are causing major losses on trans-Pacific services. The appeal came within days of PAL announcing it was abandoning some flights to the key ...
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UPS wrapped up by people power
Record profits, yes. But a record number of labour headaches also. That is how 1997 is turning out for most of the US major carriers, and some industry observers are wondering whether the tide has turned in favour of organised labour. Just ask United Parcel Service. While still licking the ...
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Airline news
Austrian Airlines and Swissair have confirmed taking a 18.37 per cent stake in Ukraine International Airlines through a holding company in which Austrian Airlines holds 77.78 per cent and Swissair 22.22 per cent. KLM will inaugurate twice weekly services to Abidjan and to Nagoya via Sapporo from April ...
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Fair's fare is the business
In sharp contrast to the wave of low-cost startups sweeping through Europe, a Paris-based carrier is set to start Europe's first dedicated business class service. Fairlines is to start scheduled business services this November from Paris/Charles de Gaulle to Nice and Rome/Fiumicino using 70-seater MD-81s. The aircraft will ...
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Gulf Air aims salvo at Delhi
Gulf Air has fired a broadside at the Indian government's insistence that the Arab carrier sell its 20 per cent stake in Jet Airways, just as New Delhi looks set to bring an end to the ownership debacle by reversing the ban on foreign airlines holding stakes in Indian carriers. ...
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Italians go to the markets
Italian charter carrier Air Europe is preparing for an initial public offering, while flag carrier Alitalia is still on the lookout for private investors. Air Europe is to float 35 per cent of its shares on the Milan stock exchange and in 'several markets abroad' by December this ...
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News prices Qantas out
Ansett New Zealand's owner News Corporation is considering a float of its entire holding in the carrier after scaring off Qantas with the asking price. Efforts by Qantas to secure a permanent toehold in New Zealand's domestic market by buying Ansett NZ appear to have foundered on a ...
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Corporate market beckons for 328JET
Fairchild Dornier expects an annual market for as many as 16 of the corporate version of its 32-seat 328JET regional aircraft. The company launched the executive aircraft project at the NBAA show (Flight International, 24-30 September). No orders are yet in hand, but the first Pratt ...
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Boeing 757-300 takes shape at Renton factory
Major assembly of sub-components for the first Boeing 757-300 will begin at Boeing's Renton, Washington, assembly site in November. Manufacturing has already begun at the plant with the loading of the front left-wing spar into an automated spar-assembly tool. "This is breaking new ground for the aircraft," says ...
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Air Malta strategy rethink leads to Avro RJ disposal
Air Malta has abandoned the hub strategy pursued by its previous chairman, and is undertaking a fleet shake-up which will see its Aero International (Regional) Avro RJ70s transferred to Italian subsidiary AZZURRAair, replacing RJ85s. In 1994, under the leadership of the then chief executive Joe Tabone, Air Malta ...
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Alitalia brings A320s into Airbus contract
Marco Massela/ROMEJulian Moxon/PARIS Alitalia is negotiating with Airbus Industrie for the conversion of its 23 outstanding A321 orders to include some smaller A320s, which would be the Italian carrier's first order for the 150-seat member of the Airbus narrowbodied family. The airline is also examining its longer-term strategy ...
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Smog causes air chaos in Asia
Dense smoke from massive forest fires in Borneo and Sumatra is severely disrupting air transport across much of South-East Asia, forcing the closure of some smaller airports and the cancellation or delay of many domestic and regional flights. A thick haze generated by the fires has blanketed Brunei, ...
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Condor prepares for low-cost subsidiary
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Condor Flugdienst, the charter subsidiary of Lufthansa, is expected to found a Berlin-based subsidiary airline within weeks. According to Condor, plans are being finalised for a low-cost airline, to be called Condor Berlin, which will compete against rivals such as Aero Lloyd and Air ...
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Fairchild advances preliminary design work for stretched 528JET
Fairchild Dornier is close to completing the preliminary design of its stretched 50-seat 528JET derivative, with the outstanding issue of engine selection expected to be resolved soon. Earl Robinson, Fairchild Dornier's senior vice-president for product development, says that the company hopes to select a powerplant by early December. ...