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UK charter operator Excalibur finally folds
UK CHARTER OPERATOR Excalibur Airways, pilloried in the UK media for two weeks over a series of embarrassing delays, went into liquidation on 26 June. The decision is blamed partly on the "sensationalised media coverage", which followed a scare among passengers over technical problems on a leased McDonnell ...
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Crew disorientation caused Knight Air Bandeirante crash
CREW DISORIENTATION following artificial-horizon failure in turbulent cloud caused the 24 May, 1995, crash of a Knight Air Embraer Bandeirante shortly after take-off from Leeds Bradford Airport in the UK, says the Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) report. There was no other fault, says the report. The aircraft ...
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Eurowings turns first profit
Andrzej Jeziorski/NUREMBERG GERMAN AIRLINE Eurowings, buoyed by strong growth in Europe's regional market, has announced its first profit since its formation from the merger of NFD Luftverkehrs and Regionalflug in 1993. The airline reports a net profit of DM2 million ($1.3 million), reversing a loss ...
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FedEx nears MD-10 decision
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES OVERNIGHT US freight giant FedEx is expected to make a decision by mid-July on the upgrade and conversion of a massive fleet of up to 80 McDonnell Douglas (MDC) DC-10s. The decision over the so-called "MD-10" programme involves upgrading FedEx's current 35-strong ...
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Atlas lease
Atlas Air is to lease a Boeing 747-200 freighter to Thai Airways - the carrier's first - under a $76 million, three-year contract which holds a one-year option. Thai Airways has the option to lease two other aircraft from Atlas Air in two years' time. The deal, with all options, ...
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Virgin service
Euro Belgian Airlines is to start a service linking Rome and Madrid on 2 September, marking the company's first market outside its Brussels hub. The low-fare service will be operated with a new Boeing 737-300, due to be delivered in August, when the company will be formally relaunched as Virgin ...
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Spanish wings
Gamesa Aeronautica of Spain has signed a contract with Sino-Swearingen Aircraft to build the wing for the SJ-30 business jet. The initial contract is valid for ten years, and has a value of Ptas 50,000 million ($400 million). The work will be undertaken at the company's Vitoria-Gasteiz plant, where Gamesa ...
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Tay approval
IPTN's Universal Maintenance Centre at Bandung, Indonesia, has been granted US Federal Aviation Administration approval for the repair and overhaul of the Rolls-Royce Tay 650 engine. This follows Rolls-Royce's own approval to maintain the engine. The Tay 650 powers the Fokker 100 regional airliner, which is operated by Indonesian airlines ...
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LIAT orders DASH 8s
Caribbean regional carrier LIAT has ordered three 50-seat Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-300 turboprops, worth about $43 million. The airline already operates nine 36-seat Dash 8-100s, and six Twin Otters. Source: Flight International
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Bouillioun order
Boullioun Aviation Services has concluded a $350 million contract with Boeing for eight Boeing 737-300s, which marks the first new order placed by the lessor. It is understood that some of the orders could be delivered as the -400 variant. The Seattle, USA-based leasing company, a division of Sumimoto Trust ...
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Aircraft news
UK charter carrier Leisure International Airways has ordered four Airbus A321-200s with deliveries scheduled to start in the first quarter of 1997. Comair has increased orders for Canadair Regional Jets from 45 to 50. The Delta Connection carrier also secured five more options for a total of 25. ...
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Breaking the monopoly
Several startup carriers are attacking Philippine Airlines' former domestic monopoly and have international ambitions. Tom Ballantyne reports.Considering the skies over the Philippines were a stage monopolised by Philippine Airlines as recently as 18 months ago, the nation has since witnessed one of the Asia-Pacific region's most remarkable commercial aviation explosions. ...
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Baltic bandwagon
The three Baltic states have had independence for only five years but the countries' airlines are already jumping on the privatisation bandwagon. Mark Blacklock reports from Latvia and Estonia.Latvia's two main carriers may have shut down less than a year ago, but a passenger studying the departure board at Riga ...
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ANA juggles with slots
When Japan's All Nippon Airways launched daily flights from Osaka's newly opened Kansai airport to Seoul, South Korea in September 1994, the move was far more strategic than commercial. ANA already flew to the Korean capital from Tokyo/Narita and decided to switch its services to Osaka due to ...
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Airline news
Air France Cargo was set to launch a weekly Boeing 747 cargo service from Paris/Charles de Gaulle to Helsinki at the end of May. American Airlines Cargo is to introduce a 4.3 per cent fuel surcharge on its US domestic cargo and priority parcel service charges in July. ...
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Likud victory fires doubts
The Likud election victory in Israel will have profound implications for both El Al's future and plans for Palestine's fledgling air transport sector. Somewhat surprisingly, El Al changed course in its search for capital before the general election at the end of May. The new policy aims to ...
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No trust in a joint venture
Joint ventures proposed by General Electric and Pratt & Whitney to develop an engine for the stretched B747X, and a possible alliance between McDonnell Douglas and Dasa to work on the Airbus A3XX, pose questions about how antitrust laws apply when rivals retain separate identities but pool efforts. ...
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China boost for Japanese
Japan's major airlines have won clearance to use a new air corridor to Beijing which will save them millions of dollars annually in operating costs and could give them a significant competitive advantage over US rivals. Flight times from Japan to the Chinese capital will be slashed by ...
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New Airbus at a stretch
Airbus Industrie and its four owners are preparing for long and complex negotiations about restructuring the partnership. In a report due in July, the four-man committee headed by former Daimler Benz chairman Edzard Reuter will discuss the options, now that the French, German, UK and Spanish governments have agreed in ...
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US ticket tax battle peaks
Several US airlines have been in the odd position of lobbying for the reimposition of a 10 per cent ticket tax, which has not been in effect since the beginning of the year and whose absence was credited for helping spur record carrier profits during the traditionally slow winter period. ...