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TNT looks at large freighters
TNT Express Worldwide is aiming to introduce its first large freighter aircraft in 1998, if a strategic analysis of the market which it is now undertaking concludes that such a move is required. The express-parcel company, acquired by Dutch postal company KPN late in 1995, is timing the ...
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SASCO completes 30th 747 overhaul for Japan Air Lines
Singapore Technologies Aviation Services (SASCO) has completed its 30th airframe overhaul and modification of a Boeing 747 for Japan Airlines (JAL). Work to date has included 24 section 41 and 10 pylon modifications. JAL, in the meantime, has announced that it is to send a further seven 747-100/200s to SASCO ...
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Flight West Airlines revises jet fleet plans to suit new routes
Australian regional carrier Flight West Airlines is in negotiations with Ansett Australia to buy up to three Fokker F28-4000s which it will operate on new domestic and regional routes. The carrier is also likely to drop its order for Embraer EMB-145 regional jets. The airline plans to use ...
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SIA firms up options for more 777s
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has firmed up options on two more Boeing 777s, increasing the total number of twinjets it has on order to 30. The first aircraft for SIA, seen here on the Everett production line at Boeing, is due for delivery in May. SIA has outstanding options on 31 ...
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PW4090 certificated
The 400kN (90,000lb)-thrust Pratt & Whitney PW4090 engine for the Boeing 777-200 increased-gross-weight (IGW) has been certificated by the USFederal Aviation Administration. The first P&W-powered 777-200IGW will enter service with United Airlines this month. The PW4090 uses the same 2.85m diameter fan as the PW4084, but features improved compressor aerodynamics, ...
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Boeing finalises 767-400ERX
Boeing expects to begin the second phase of windtunnel testing of the 767-400ERX "within the next couple of months" as it works towards a planned May 2000 service-entry for the aircraft, according to programme manager John Quinlivan. Quinlivan also confirms that the company "-has held discussions "with airlines ...
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++ China Southern Airlines has taken delivery of its first General Electric GE90-powered Boeing 777-200IGW, which brings its 777 fleet to five aircraft. Late this year, the airline will become the first to operate the 777 across the Pacific, on the 12,560km (6,800nm) route between Guangzhou and Los Angeles. ++ ...
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Indonesians propose to start Myanmar regional
Indonesia's Triputra Unggul Utama has become the latest South-East Asian company to announce proposals for a start-up joint-venture airline in Myanmar, following similar moves by Malaysian, Singapore and Thai investors. The Indonesian and Myanmar Governments have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to set up a new domestic ...
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Mesa consolidates regional operations
US REGIONAL MESA Air Group has re-organised into four operating divisions, aligned with its codesharing partners. The move comes as Mesa consolidates flight and maintenance operations to comply with regulations upgrading US regionals from Part 135 to Part 121 certification. Four operating divisions and two subsidiaries have been ...
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SAA prepares for privatisation with management restructure
South African Airways (SAA) is undergoing a management restructuring, as part of its move towards privatisation. Talks have been under way for several weeks between SAA, its parent company, Transnet, and the trade unions, which are understood to have produced broad agreement on the main issues involved. "The ...
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IFALPA sparks row over use of TCAS in RVSM airspace
T he International Federation of Air Line Pilots Associations (IFALPA) has sharply criticised the UK Civil Aviation Authority for issuing guidelines which IFALPA claims effectively "-advise or encourage" pilots to disregard traffic-alert and collision-avoidance-system II(TCAS II)resolution advisories (RAs). The CAA guide lines, issued on 25 February, cover operation ...
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Irish lease company orders 12 new 737s
Irish lease-management company Pembroke Capital, of Dublin, has ordered 12 Boeing 737s valued at $504 million. The company, which was formed in November 1993 by ex-GPA employees, will take delivery of four 737-300s and eight -800s between June 1998 and April 1999. Pre-delivery financing for the order will ...
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Cargo gets top priority in China
China plans to virtually triple its cargo-aircraft fleet to 660 by the year 2000. The increase forms part of ambitious plans to expand its airborne freight market by around 14% a year, making it the main priority of the national aviation growth strategy. Zhou Baokou, deputy director of ...
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The importance of independence
Sir - Andrew Tetley, in his letter about the UK Civil Aviation Authority-proposed stick-shaker for the Dassault Falcon 2000 (Flight International, 12-18 February, P55), refers to an important matter of principle which has received little or no public debate. It concerns the ability, or otherwise, of national airworthiness authorities of ...
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In search of the new jet age
Time was when the regional-aircraft industry was focused on who would win the battle to build a family of 70- to 120-seat jet-powered aircraft. Strategists toiled to demonstrate how such a family would sit beneath the fleets of the majors. Much has changed since then. Now, the focus ...
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Lufthansa Cityline
Lufthansa is fighting hub congestion by offering an increasing number of direct city-to-city flights, both within Germany and to destinations in Europe, avoiding its hubs at Frankfurt and Munich. Flying 320 flights daily to European centres on routes for which traffic is too light for a 100-seat aircraft is the ...
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IPTN focuses on higher capacity for N2130 regional family
IPTN has dropped plans to develop a shortened, 80-seat, version of the planned N2130 short-haul jet-airliner and instead opted for a larger-aircraft family with six-abreast seating for between 104 and 132 passengers. The Indonesian manufacturer had intended building three different sizes of N2130, seating 80, 100 and 130 ...
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BAe Airbus delivers first A330-200 wing
British Aerospace Airbus has dispatched the first A330-200 wing from its plant at Chester to Airbus partner Dasa Airbus at Bremen, Germany, for equipping. BAe put the wing in the jig for final assembly in November 1996. The lower-capacity, longer-range A330-200 is scheduled to have its maiden flight in August. ...
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-as board approves 777-200X/300X specifications
Boeing has received board approval to firm up the specifications of its proposed 777-200X/300X growth derivatives and offer them to airlines, as the company gears up towards a possible launch of the new models at the Paris air show in June. Boeing claims that the -200Xwill be the ...
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Airbus sets up an Asian subsidiary for AE-100
Airbus Industrie has established a new subsidiary company, Airbus Industrie Asia (AIA), headed by former Alenia executive Carlo Scaglia, to partner China and Singapore in the development of the planned new A318/AE-100 narrowbody passenger aircraft. AIA has been legally registered in France as a Société bar Actions Simplifiée. ...