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Hawaiian set to post profit
American Airlines has reprieved Hawaiian Airlines for the fourth time over $6.9 million in payments due on its leased DC10s, as the carrier continues its restructuring efforts after emerging from bankruptcy 14 months ago. The payments Hawaiian owes American represent lease and maintenance charges that accumulated late last ...
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Express trial grinds to halt
After a year's trial of its innovative Lufthansa Express product, the German carrier has cherry-picked parts of the pilot scheme for a revamp of its domestic operation. A poor performance halted the extension of the pilot to the whole system as originally planned. The German flag carrier was ...
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Airline news
Singapore Airlines has started twice-weekly services to both Cairns and Macau using A310 aircraft. SilkAir has launched a twice-weekly service between Singapore and Vientiane in Laos with Fokker 70s. ANA is seeking regulatory approval to start services between Osaka/Kansai and Rome. The carrier has also completed ...
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International tactics
Taiwan's international carriers are engaged in a bitter battle for market share. Paul Lewis/TAIPEI COMPETITION IS heating up between Taiwan's two established international players, flag carrier China Airlines (CAL) and four-year-old Eva Airways. Ambitious fleet-expansion plans, the opening up of profitable trunk routes to Hong Kong and ...
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Enough is enough for falling economy- class standards
Sir - I congratulate Mr Bamberg on his letter about British Airways' expenditure on first-class improvements (Flight International, 11-17 October, P49). I frequently fly London-Sydney (in economy and business class). BA and Qantas offer poor long-haul economy class and the seats are no better than a London Hyde Park deck ...
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Indecision rules in Asia
China and South Korea must overcome major stumbling blocks if they are to realise their ambition of building a 100-seat aircraft. Paul Lewis/BEIJING TIME IS RUNNING out for two of Asia's aspiring aviation nations. One year after announcing ambitious plans to share the building of ...
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Latest Galileo failure threatens the Cassini
Tim Furniss/WASHINGTON DC A FAULTY TAPE recorder aboard NASA's $1.4 billion Galileo spacecraft could prevent much of its data and images being returned from the planet Jupiter this December, after its protracted six-year journey across the solar system. Should it prove impossible to correct the ...
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IR energy to be used for de-icing
AN AIRCRAFT DE-ICING system in which infra-red (IR) heaters are used instead of environmentally damaging glycol-based fluids is ready to become operational at airports at Rheinlander, Wisconsin, and Rochester, New York. A prototype, developed by Process Technologies of Cheektowaga, New York, has already been tested at Greater Buffalo ...
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Meggitt displays Gulfstream deal
Andrew Doyle/FAREHAM GULFSTREAM HAS selected Meggitt Aerospace's secondary flight-display system as an option for its GIV and GV business jets, following the completion of flight trials earlier this year. The deal follows Cessna's recent decision to include the system in the Citation X business jet. The ...
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Embraer plans ambitious growth
Julian Moxon/BAVENO THE NEW PRESIDENT of Embraer, Maurice Botelho, says that the newly privatised Brazilian manufacturer should return to sales of $700 million within five years, helped by an expansion in the European market. "That's what we earned in the past, and there's no reason ...
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FAA expected to issue AD for CF6
AN AIRWORTHINESS directive (AD) to inspect the high-pressure spool of General Electric CF6 engines is expected to be issued by the US Federal Aviation Administration following recent engine failures on an Egyptair Airbus A300 and a Thai International Airways McDonnell Douglas DC-10. The AD follows recommendations by the ...
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UPS expects instant ETOPS for 767
Guy Norris/LOUISVILLE UPS Airlines has "tentative approval" from the US Federal Aviation Administration for instant 180min extended-range twinjet operations (ETOPS) with its new General Electric CF6-80C2-powered Boeing 767-300ER freighter. If approved, the UPS 767 will become the second twinjet after the United Airlines 777-200 to ...
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BA looks to desert 146s for quieter life
Gunter Endres/LONDON BRITISH AIRWAYS IS considering bringing up to 18 British Aerospace 146s into its fleet as noise regulations start to bite on European routes flown to by its UK regional service. The airline will have to stop its Boeing 737-200s flying between Birmingham and ...
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Chinese start recruiting for Hong Kong start-up
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CHINA NATIONAL Aviation (CNAC) is pressing ahead with plans to establish a Hong Kong-based international airline, at the same time as negotiating to purchase a 10% stake in Dragonair The new CNAC carrier, provisionally named China Hong Kong, has already begun to recruit ...
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Germany begins MiG-29 maintenance work
THE RUSSO-GERMAN MIG AIRCRAFT Product Support (MAPS) joint venture has received the first Mikoyan MiG-29 fighter for maintenance work at its site in Manching, southern Germany. The aircraft delivered on 16 October, belongs to the German air force's 73 fighter squadron and is one of 24 MiG-29s in German service, ...
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Kuwaiti UH-60L purchase falters
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Graham Warwick/ATLANTA SIKORSKY'S EFFORT to sell an armed version of its UH-60L Black Hawk to Kuwait is being blocked by the US Department of Defense (DoD), which is reluctant to release laser-designator systems for export to the Gulf state, say sources close ...
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Flights from Taiwan to China via Macau gain approval
TAIWAN HAS concluded a five-year commercial air agreement with Macau, which permits for the first time "through flights" to China, using the same aircraft. Under the agreement, signed on 17 October, start-up carrier Air Macau will be permitted to fly from Taipei or Kaoshiung to Macau and ...
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Austrian receives Fokker 70 amid revamp
IN TANDEM WITH TAKING DELIVERY of its first Fokker 70 regional jet (christened the X-Large Fokker-Jet), Austrian Airlines has introduced a revised corporate image. The new design, created by GGK Vienna and UK consultancy Davies & Baron, features Austrian Airlines titles in anthracite grey on the winter-white fuselage, preceded by ...
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747-X plans gather speed
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES MAJOR BOEING 747 operators have been called to Boeing's Seattle headquarters in mid-November for meetings on the proposed -500X and -600X stretched derivatives, as plans for the possible 1996 launch of the next-generation 747 gather pace. Those attending include British Airways, Cathay ...
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SIA shifts 'Y-aircraft' goalposts
SINGAPORE AIRLINES (SIA) has changed the requirements for its "Y-aircraft" competition and increased the number of aircraft required, to cover a wider range of weight and size options. Rival airframe and engine manufacturers have all resubmitted their tenders to meet SIA's new requirement for a larger family of ...