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Government delays TAP Air Portugal aircraft order
THE PORTUGUESE Government has postponed at the last minute its decision on whether Airbus or Boeing will supply 22 new medium-haul aircraft for state-owned TAP Air Portugal. An announcement had been due on 18 October, but this has been delayed by a week. TAP will not reveal ...
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America West A320 order is revamped
AMERICA WEST Airlines has concluded an agreement with Airbus Industrie to revise its A320 order, which will see it taking ten additional aircraft, as A319s or A321s under "better financial terms and conditions". According to the agreement, the carrier's existing order backlog for 24 A320s has been reconfirmed, ...
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Inchon incoming
Seoul is struggling to meet targets for its new airport. Paul Lewis/SEOUL THE GROWING IMPORTANCE of Asia as a world economic powerhouse is best illustrated by the fact there are no less than four major new international airports, either being planned or built in the ...
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747 conversions
Boeing has received a contract from All Nippon Airways of Japan for the conversion of one 747-200 to full-freighter configuration - the second of the airline's 747s to be modified. The aircraft will be delivered to Wichita in April 1997 for the conversion work, and is scheduled to be handed ...
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Trent 800 ETOPS
The Rolls-Royce Trent 800-powered Boeing 777 has received 180min extended-range twin-engine operations (ETOPS) approval from the US Federal Aviation Administration. The General Electric GE90-powered 777 gained 180min ETOPS earlier this month. Source: Flight International
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Air India terminates Caribjet wet leases
AIR INDIA HAS terminated its wet-lease contract with Belgium-based Caribjet, which has been flying Airbus A310-300s and Lockheed TriStar 500s on behalf of Air India on certain services. The airline signed a two-year agreement with Caribjet in 1995, which had been scheduled to run to December 1997. ...
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MDC doubts high-capacity need
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) forecasts that the market for the next generation of high-capacity airliners will stand at only 546 deliveries up to 2014. The forecast, contained in MDC's latest outlook for the world's commercial jet-airliner fleet through to 2014, adds to the spat ...
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Pemco will convert UPS 727 freighters for passenger charters
United Parcel Service (UPS) has awarded Pemco World Air Services a contract to convert five Boeing 727-100QF freighters to quick-change configuration for its planned weekend passenger-charter service. Pemco will design and certificate the conversion, and modify the aircraft at its Dothan, Alabama, maintenance centre. The work ...
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BAe succeeds with Airbus cargo conversions
BRITISH AEROSPACE Aviation Services' Airbus A300B4 passenger-to-freighter conversion programme has been boosted by a $25 million order from a US lease-management company, for three conversions. C-S Aviation Services of New York has contracted BAe for the conversion of three ex-Air France A300B4s, to be completed by mid-1997. The ...
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LF507 reliability levels 'not acceptable' says Crossair
Julian Moxon/HANOVER LOWER-THAN-expected despatch reliability of the AlliedSignal Engines LF507 turbofan powering Aero International Regional (AI(R)) RJ100 Avroliners has forced the engine manufacturer to spend $30 million on developing solutions. Crossair president Moritz Suter criticised the engine's 99.3% dispatch reliability during the recent European Regional Airlines ...
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Low Alitalia prices anger low-cost carriers
THE ARRIVAL OF several new low-cost carriers in Italy has prompted flag carrier Alitalia to join the fares war on domestic routes by offering ultra-low prices on some flights. The move, which cuts one-way weekend fares to all destinations to just L99,000 ($66), and to L65,000 on several ...
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Fairchild promises to launch a 30-seat turbofan 328 by 1997
FAIRCHILD DORNIER chairman and chief executive Carl Albert says that there is "no question" about a go-ahead for a 30-seat turbofan version of the Dornier 328 turboprop. "We'll launch it before the end of the year," he says, promising also that a 50-seat stretched version will be launched "about 12 ...
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US Court threatens GAIN safety system
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC David Learmount/LONDON A COURT DECISION ordering USAir to provide lawyers with internal safety-audit data which the airline thought was protected from compulsory public release by the Federal Aviation Administration could seriously damage US efforts to set up an international safety programme. The Supreme ...
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R-R invites Bristol division bids
Brian Dunn/MONTREAL ROLLS-ROYCE Industries Canada is selling its Bristol Aerospace division, saying that the Winnipeg-based company no longer fits its long-term plans. The 30-year-old relationship with Bristol is being cut to allow Montreal-based R-R Canada to concentrate on its main businesses of manufacturing aircraft and industrial ...
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R-R develops a low-emissions combustor for RB.211-535E4B
ROLLS-ROYCE is developing a new combustor for its RB.211-535E4B turbofan, which it claims will reduce the engine's nitrogen-oxide (NOx) emissions by up to 40%. The new variant is due to enter service, powering Condor's first Boeing 757-300, in the first quarter of 1999. According to David Snape, chief ...
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Sabena places new long-haul fleet
Herman De Wulf/BRUSSELS THE RATIONALISATION of Sabena's long-haul-aircraft types is the priority item on the carrier's fleet-planning agenda, with a decision expected soon on standardising on a single type. The long-haul decision is seen as a more urgent than the replacement of its older Boeing 737-200s, ...
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Airbus Industrie creates freight airline for Belugas
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE has set up a subsidiary to operate its A300-600ST (Super Transporter) "Beluga" outsized transports on commercial cargo charters. It is estimated that the new division, Airbus Transport International (ATI), could earn the consortium up to $15 million-worth of revenue each year using spare capacity on the Beluga fleet. ...
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SAS to begin using ADS-B system in 1997
Scandinavian carrier SAS is to equip "at least" ten commercial aircraft, and ground vehicles, with automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) systems in 1997, and plans to equip its new Boeing 737-600s in 1998. The trials are part of the European-Commission-funded North European ADS-B Network programme, which has established a ...
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IPTN plans N270 talks in December
SENIOR OFFICIALS from Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) and its US subsidiary, American Regional Aircraft Industry (AMRAI), plan to meet in mid-December to re-evaluate development of the proposed stretched N270 turboprop. The Indonesian meeting is expected to conduct a complete review of the yet-to-be launched, programme in ...
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MAS sale
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) is understood to be looking to sell its two GE CF6-powered Boeing 747-400 Combis and its single Pratt & Whitney JT9D-powered 747-300 Combi. The airline wants to rationalise its mix of airframes and engines and to implement an all-passenger and all-freighter fleet. The airline's two Rolls-Royce RB.211-powered ...