Airframers – Page 1622

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    United plans to spend $3 billion on Boeing order

    1996-05-22T00:00:00Z

    Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES UNITED AIRLINES (UAL) is in final negotiations with Boeing for up to 35 aircraft ranging from 757s to 747s and worth around $3 billion. The carrier is also about to open negotiations for the purchase of 30 smaller aircraft. The airline originally hoped ...

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    First Emirates 777 emerges

    1996-05-22T00:00:00Z

    THE FIRST OF SEVEN Boeing 777-200s on order for Dubai-based Emirates Airlines has entered customer-acceptance flight tests. The aircraft is scheduled to be handed over in June, with subsequent deliveries in July and October. Source: Flight International

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    Muddy waters

    1996-05-22T00:00:00Z

    THE GREATEST problem of aircraft-accident investigation is not the disappearance of the evidence into a Florida swamp or the unreadability of data-recorder tapes. It is the demand by the mass media and its customers for instant answers, and the temptation of those on the periphery of the investigation to give ...

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    Air Mauritanie order

    1996-05-22T00:00:00Z

    Mauritania's Air Mauritanie has placed an order for two ATR 42s to replace its Fokker F28 Mk 6000. The airline plans to use the aircraft to increase frequencies on its domestic and international network. Source: Flight International

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    Working relationship

    1996-05-22T00:00:00Z

    Private Israeli airline Arkia has expanded into an international charter operator. Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV THE THREE ONE-STOREY prefabricated office buildings at Dov Airport in Tel Aviv reflect the spartan way in which Israeli private airline Arkia is managed. Arkia was founded in 1950 by Israeli ...

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    Merpati assets

    1996-05-22T00:00:00Z

    British Aerospace's Asset Management Organisation has confirmed that it is in preliminary discussions with Merpati regarding the lease of some BAe 146s. The Indonesian carrier is seeking up to ten 146-200s and -300s to replace its Fokker F27s on regional services. Australian carrier National Jet, the region's largest 146 operator, ...

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    SIA struggles with depressed yields

    1996-05-22T00:00:00Z

    Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE DESPITE RELEASING another strong set of group results for its latest financial year, Singapore Airlines (SIA) admits that its core airline business is coming under intense pressure from increased competition and a strengthening Singapore dollar. The overall group profit climbed by 12%, to ...

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    Wicat pulls in trainer sales

    1996-05-22T00:00:00Z

    WICAT SYSTEMS has secured contracts for McDonnell Douglas MD-80, MD-90 and MD-11 part-task trainers and unveiled plans to develop similar devices for the Boeing 777. SAS Flight Academy, part of Scandinavian Airlines System, has ordered an MD-90 systems trainer for delivery in the third quarter of 1996. It ...

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    Lithuanian/Finnair agree codeshare

    1996-05-22T00:00:00Z

    FINNAIR AND Lithuanian Airlines have agreed to co-operate in the joint development of passenger services between Helsinki and Vilnius, as well as beyond their respective home bases. Marketing and ground-handling activities will be covered, but there are denials that equity stakes will be taken by either airline. ...

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    Embraer begins East European sales drive

    1996-05-22T00:00:00Z

    EMBRAER HAS received letters of intent from potential customers in Russia for two of its EMB-145 50-seat regional jets as part of a marketing campaign in Eastern Europe. The Brazilian company warns, however, that Russian certification is "...subject to how many aircraft are ordered and financed". ...

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    Northrop Grumman teams with DASA

    1996-05-22T00:00:00Z

    Northrop Grumman and Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) have formed a team to produce the E-8 Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) should the US system be selected by NATO for its Airborne Ground Surveillance (AGS) programme. NATO is expected to decide by the end of this year ...

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    BA near to active-noise-control headset decision

    1996-05-22T00:00:00Z

    BRITISH AIRWAYS is expected to place an order for 3,400 active-noise-control headsets for its pilots by the end of this month. Germany's Sennheiser and Bose of the USA are bidding for the contract, which could be worth over £1 million ($1.6 million). The UK airline decided to opt ...

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    UPS may package passengers

    1996-05-15T00:00:00Z

    Graham Warwick/ATLANTA UPS Airlines is considering operating weekend passenger-charter services using otherwise-idle cargo aircraft. As a first move, quick-change conversion kits for five Boeing 727-100 freighters are being considered as a way to increase aircraft utilisation. The results of a study into the feasibility of offering passenger-charter services to tour ...

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    DASA prepares 328 cryoplane

    1996-05-15T00:00:00Z

    DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) is to go ahead with a programme to convert a Dornier 328 turboprop to a hydrogen-fuelled testbed late this year. "The aim is to use the knowhow gained with the Dornier 328...for Airbus applications at a later date," says DASA. The project, now in ...

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    Carib Express ceases operations

    1996-05-15T00:00:00Z

    CARIB EXPRESS, the Caribbean regional in which British Airways held a 20% stake, has been wound up and its aircraft returned to British Aerospace. The airline started operations in February 1995 with three BAe 146-100s leased from BAe's Asset Management Organisation (AMO), operating regional services from Barbados. ...

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    GATX seeks approval for 747F modification

    1996-05-15T00:00:00Z

    Graham Warwick/ATLANTA GATX/AIRLOG HOPES to gain US Federal Aviation Administration approval for a modification to its Boeing 747 freighter conversion by mid-1996. An initial attempt to obtain relief with an airworthiness directive (AD) limiting gross weight failed, and the company is conducting additional structural analysis. ...

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    Regional repercussions

    1996-05-15T00:00:00Z

    Regional jets headline this year's US Regional Airline Association show, with the debut of Embraer's EMB-145 and the debate on turboprop safety. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA MORE THAN 18 months after an American Eagle ATR 72 crashed near Roselawn, Indiana killing all 68 people on board, repercussions of the accident ...

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    Leisure International selects Airbus A321

    1996-05-15T00:00:00Z

    UK CHARTER CARRIER Leisure International Airways (formerly Air UK Leisure) has selected the Airbus A321-200 rather than the Boeing 737-800 for its future fleet needs. LIA declines to comment on the selection, although it confirms that an announcement "is imminent". The airline has replaced its fleet ...

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    Uprated Proton is postponed

    1996-05-15T00:00:00Z

    PLANS TO DEVELOP THE up-rated Proton M geostationary-orbit (GEO) satellite-launch vehicle have been delayed to at least the year 2000 by budget cuts. The Proton M was to have entered the commercial market in 1997, capable of placing 4,500kg into GEO, equipped with improved first-stage engines and the KVD-1 cryogenic ...

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    Aviall continues disposals in quest for core profits

    1996-05-15T00:00:00Z

    Kevin O'Toole/LONDON AVIALL IS TO sell its aerospace-fastener operation, in another step towards its ambition of stripping the group back to its profitable aircraft-parts distribution business. An agreement was signed at the end of April to sell the fasteners-distribution unit to a new company formed ...