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Saudi payment plan
Saudi Arabia has agreed a deferred-payment schedule for its $6 billion purchase of 61 Boeing and McDonnell Douglas airliners for flag carrier Saudia. The initial payment is just $10 million, followed by $67 million in 1997, with the remainder to be paid off over seven years. The deal will be ...
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Talon claws Korean deal from Hawk
SOUTH KOREA is on the brink of leasing Northrop Grumman T-38 Talon trainers rather than purchasing new-build British Aerospace Hawks, and will use the savings to launch the KTX-II light fighter/trainer-aircraft programme. The South Korean air force is understood to be negotiating an agreement, worth $100 million, to ...
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S Korea presses China on choice of Western partner
Paul Lewis/SEOUL SOUTH KOREA IS pushing to reach an agreement with China by mid-November on the selection of a Western partner to help develop the planned Airexpress AE-100 passenger jet. The Korean Commercial-Aircraft Development (KCDC) consortium and Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) are under pressure to ...
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Estonia inaugurates London Gatwick service
ESTONIAN AIR has started scheduled services between Estonian capital Tallinn and London. The arrival of the Boeing 737-500 at Gatwick Airport on 2 November marked the first-ever service between the two cities. Four flights a week are operating to London, two of them via Copenhagen. The Estonian national ...
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Fokker 70 jets in
Air France began Fokker 70 services at London City Airport on October 30, using the 79-seat twinjet to replace ATR 42s on flights to Paris Charles de Gaulle. City has been sold by construction group Mowlem to Irish entrepreneur Dermot Desmond for £14.5 million. Source: Flight International
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JAL orders stretched 777-300
JAPAN AIRLINES HAS ordered five stretched Boeing 777-300s in a deal worth $800 million. It already has ten 777-200s on order, with options for a further ten. The first -200 Model will enter service in the second quarter of 1996, with service entry for the stretched -300 planned for 1998. ...
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Canadian airlines fill capacity
CANADIAN AIRLINES' pilots have ratified a new three-year labour agreement which will save the carrier around C$41 million ($30 million) a year. Under the deal, the carrier's 1,200 pilots have accepted a 5% cut in pay in exchange for shares in the airline. The deal was ...
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BA 777 delivery hopes raised
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES CERTIFICATION testing of the General Electric GE90-powered Boeing 777 is expected to be completed around 7 November, boosting hopes that the delayed first delivery to British Airways could be made by 15 November. Boeing has been conducting virtual round-the-clock flight tests of WA077, ...
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Appointments
Mauricio Botelho has been appointed president and chief executive officer of Embraer. At KLM Cargo, Jan Meurer has been appointed vice president, operations, Enno Osinga is named vice president customer service, and Michael Kimman becomes business systems manager. Sjaak Hofstra becomes operations and marketing director, cargo service centre ...
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EVA enjoys the fruits of youth
If spectacular improvements in efficiency and productivity are a measure of success, then on the surface at least Taiwan's international newcomer EVA Airways appears to be setting new standards. Productivity, measured in terms of revenue per employee, soared 62 per cent last year. Unit costs plunged 21 per cent and ...
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Profit share: a stroke of genius
Singapore Airlines' chairman J Y Pillay has absolutely no doubt that in an unforgiving airline industry, survival rests on the continuing struggle to improve productivity and keep ahead of costs. And there can be little doubt that Pillay's message is getting through at an airline which consistently turns in some ...
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Gains will come from change
KLM has made impressive leaps in efficiency since it launched its cost control programme in 1991. But with the sizeable efficiency boost in the last financial year driven more by expansion than by productivity measures, the carrier is now facing a future of diminishing gains. The carrier is keen to ...
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Growth spurs on drive for cuts
Air Canada, in the midst of a significant growth phase, is attempting to counteract the costs of expansion with employee productivity gains and new technology. Air Canada expects to double its transborder service to the US within the next three years and in recent months has added new flights ...
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More than a fleeting gain?
At Malev Hungarian Airlines, a major improvement in efficiency is one of the main outcomes of a modernisation programme that started back in 1991 but only really started to take root last year. Indeed, commercial director Ferenc Turi says the restructuring has really only just begun in earnest. 'We are ...
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Financial results
Aeromexico was helped by US traffic growth, a stronger peso, and cuts of 600 employees and seven aircraft. Second-quarter net was $98m. Air NZ improved 36% despite the Kobe earthquake and the temporary grounding of its B737s. Alitalia's first-half loss was better than last year's, but ...
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The CAA is targeting New Zealand's poor general-aviation safety record
Aviation morale in New Zealand is sky high, with Air New Zealand among the beneficiaries of economic reform Paul Phelan/Auckland To the casual observer, New Zealand may appear to be the poor relation of its neighbour, Australia. Nothing could be further from the truth, particularly in ...
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DASA is being forced to contract again as it struggles to return a profit
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH IT HAS BEEN a bad year for Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA). After having hopes of profits dashed by the low dollar exchange rate, leading to a record DM1.6 billion ($1.14 billion) first-half loss, the company has now raised the axe over nearly 9,000 jobs and at least ...
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Airbus should not fuss about 737
Up Tempo Sir - I do not understand Airbus Industrie's concern over the fact that, the Boeing 737 is allowed to be certificated to an older standard. Surely passengers will be so appreciative of the new safety standards to which Airbus aircraft are certificated that they will seek ...
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CIS buys 757s and 767s
Boeing has taken orders for 757s and 767s worth almost $400 million from CIS carriers. Two 767-300ERs and one 757 have been ordered by Uzbekistan Airways, while the National Civil Aviation Authority of Turkmenistan has ordered two 757s. The Turkmenistan carrier already operates a single 757 and three Boeing 737-300s. ...
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SIA warms to 777-100X
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE SINGAPORE AIRLINES is showing increasing interest in the extra-long-range Boeing 777-100X, and was given detailed briefings with 12 other major carriers on the aircraft during a "brain-storming" session in Seattle at the start of October. Other airlines attending the 777-100X briefing included Cathay Pacific, ...