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Airbus and Boeing fight for key Asiana contract
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE ASIANA AIRLINES of South Korea is near to selecting a new 150- to 180-seat passenger jet-airliner, as the first step in a wider fleet-modernisation programme. The airline has narrowed its choice to the Airbus Industrie A321 and rival Boeing 737-800. The two manufacturers ...
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GECAS may order up to 100 A320s
Julian Moxon/PARIS AIRBUS INDUSTRIE is set to secure between 60 and 100 orders and options for new narrow-body aircraft from GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS), according to sources close to the negotiations (Flight International, 17-23 January). The order would follow on the heels of the huge ...
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Fokker's dream
REPORTS OF Fokker's death may be somewhat exaggerated, but the company's descent into administrative protection does spell the end of two dreams: that the Netherlands Government could somehow sustain a full-competence national aircraft maker, and that Daimler-Benz could be the nucleus of a powerful third Euro-pean aerospace force. ...
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Engine problems ground Swiss Airbuses
SWISSAIR HAS grounded five Airbus A320/321s after cracks were discovered in the turbine section of their CFM International CFM56-5B turbofans. The grounding affects Swissair aircraft recently fitted with the low- emissions dual-annular combustor (DAC). The airline describes the move as precautionary. The aircraft were withdrawn from ...
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Regional raises domestic stakes
Julian Moxon/PARIS FRANCE'S REGIONAL Airlines has joined the list of domestic carriers taking advantage of the 1 January liberalisation of French internal routes. The Nantes-based airline says that it will open several new cross-country routes between Nantes-Lyon, Bordeaux-Marseille, Lyon-Lille and Lyon-Strasbourg in the second quarter. ...
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GE90-powered 777 ETOPS tests in sight
EXTENDED-RANGE twin- operations (ETOPS) testing of the General Electric GE90-powered Boeing 777 could start in February after a series of delays. Boeing says that it is "...still waiting for a decision from the US Federal Aviation Administration reliability-assessment board [RAB]" on whether the tests can get under way. ...
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China turns down Dragonair stake to go it alone
CHINA NATIONAL Aviation (CNAC) has rejected Swire Pacific's offer of a 6% share in Dragonair, and will instead press on with plans to launch its own Hong Kong-based carrier. Beijing-controlled CNAC is reported to have already leased a Boeing 737 from the USA for delivery in March. The ...
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Sonaca faces bankruptcy
BELGIAN aero-structures company Sonaca, has warned its state owners that it faces bankruptcy, without a major rescue plan, including fresh capital and a halving of the work force. The company has drawn up a rescue plan that calls for up to BFr1 billion ($33 million) in new funds ...
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Tahiti's FANS makes headway
Julian Moxon/PARIS FRANCE'S THOMSON-CSF has completed the second phase of Tahiti's new satellite-based oceanic air-traffic-control system, with delivery of the automated data-link component. When complete in early 1997, the Tahiti system will be one of the main components of the South Pacific Future Air Navigation ...
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Airtran picks hushkit
Florida-based hushkit manufacturer AvAero has won an order from Airtran Airways of Orlando to supply five Boeing 737 hushkit shipsets. The order, which also includes options on four more shipsets, includes the replacement of a Nordam-made hushkit with the AvAero system on the first aircraft. "They ...
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A tale of two crises
Could Fokker have performed better if it had followed Avro's lead in cutting quicker and deeper? Kevin O'Toole/LONDON FOKKER MAY NOT appreciate the irony, but its latest crisis has come just as the regional-jet market is showing few signs of life. If a recovery in ...
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DC-9 update
BFGoodrich Aerospace is to supply new landing-gear indication and warning systems for 106 Northwest Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9s. BFG is also to supply fuel-measurement system upgrades for Northwest's 34 Boeing 747s. Source: Flight International
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Raisbeck
Tom Halvorson has joined Raisbeck Engineering as vice-president marketing. Halvorson's 35-year aviation career has spanned marketing, fixed base operations, aircraft sales and regional-airline management. He joins Raisbeck Engineering after 15 years with Western Aircraft of Idaho where he has held a variety of positions, most recently company president. In the ...
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DASA folds its wings
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THE DECISION BY Daimler-Benz, to abandon its Dutch regional-jet associate Fokker to its fate, is the final nail in the coffin of the German company's hopes, of dominating a united European regional aircraft industry. With the policy in tatters, little remains for Daimler-Benz other than to ...
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Boeing counts the cost of airliner-delivery slump
BOEING'S COMMERCIAL aircraft business emerged from a tough 1995 with profits down by more than one-quarter as airliner deliveries continued to slide, a situation worsened by the ten-week machinists' strike. It delivered only 206 airliners over the year - the lowest for a decade - to record nearly ...
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Air India pauses as Airbus renews offer
Air India has postponed a decision on the acquisition of up to 24 long-range aircraft while it considers a revised offer from Airbus Industrie. The national carrier was due to announce a decision following a board meeting in new Delhi on 23 January. The issue slipped off the agenda ...
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US pilot hiring up
Major US airlines almost doubled pilot hiring in 1995, according to Atlanta, Georgia-based Aviation Information Resources (AIR). The consultancy says that 12 majors hired 2,377 pilots, up from 1,266 in 1994. The forecast is for the airlines to hire 2,500 pilots in 1996. Overall, 196 airlines surveyed by AIR hired ...
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Aero Lloyd Airbus
German charter carrier Aero Lloyd took delivery on 16 January of its first IAE V2500-powered Airbus A320. The airline will eventually operate a fleet of six A320s and ten A321s, configured in a single-class layout for 174 and 212 passengers, respectively. The Airbuses will successively replace the existing fleet of ...
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Virgin lays on sleepers
Gunter Endres/LONDON VIRGIN ATLANTIC Airways is to become the first major airline in modern times to install a separate sleeping compartment in its aircraft. The airline will use what is usually the front cargo hold of an Airbus A340-300. The A340 is due to be delivered in 1997. ...
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British Midland to face JAR action
IMPLEMENTATION OF the European Joint Aviation Regulations (JARs) has led to criminal charges being brought against British Midland Airlines by the UK Civil Aviation Authority following a maintenance error in 1995. JARs make companies, rather than individuals, responsible for errors. The BMA mistake caused the emergency diversion and ...