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Honeywell software tackles knock-on effects of delays
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Honeywell is showing airlines a software suite that promises to reduce substantially the knock-on effects of delays caused by air traffic control (ATC) or weather. The company is conducting simulations with major North American carriers and hopes to launch formally the "airline resynchronisation system" later ...
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Airbus guns for 60% market share after business surge
Guy Norris/SANTIAGO Airbus Industrie aims to secure as much as 60% of the world's large civil airliner market in the future, and is confident that Boeing's share may drop to 40%. "We have moved to our goal of 50-55% of the market, and I really think airlines want to ...
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Poland offers Skytrucks to pay Brazilian debt
Poland is proposing to supply Brazil with around 100 PZL Mielec M-28 Skytruck transports and other defence equipment as part of efforts to pay its $3 billion debt to the South American nation. A senior Polish delegation, comprising finance and economy ministry officials, is due to travel to Brazil ...
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Differences
There is no longer any doubt that the safety standards between cargo and passenger operations are massively different - and the latest figures prove it. According to a study by the Netherlands National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR), the most dangerous commercial aviation activity in the world is ad hoc cargo charter ...
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Sibir takes over Siberian carriers
Paul Duffy/MOSCOWSibir, Russia's fastest-growing airline, is expanding again through the effective takeover of more Siberian carriers. It aims to formalise an alliance with a major European airline by the middle of this year. Vladislav Filiov, Sibir's general director, is continuing his strategy of linking airlines into a partnership under the ...
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People
Pratt & Whitney Canada has promoted Gilles Ouimet to president and chief executive officer (CEO). He was previously president and chief operating officer. Ouimet succeeds CEO David Caplan, who remains as chairman until 2001. Stefan Zoller, corporate secretary and chief of staff at DaimlerChrysler Aerospace, is to succeed Werner Heinzmann ...
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Alitalia considers KLM merger
Andy Nativi/GENOA Alitalia is to carry out a study into a possible merger with KLM in a move apparently aimed at assuaging Dutch concerns over delays to the privatisation of the Italian flag carrier. KLM is also angry about the curtailed expansion of the new Milan Malpensa Airport, which it ...
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China limits fare discounts and plans airline mergers
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE The Civil Aviation Administration of China's (CAAC's) new policy on domestic revenue sharing aims to limit fare discounting in the short term and could lead to the consolidation of the country's airline industry around four major groupings. Beijing has ordered revenue sharing on 100 mainland routes from ...
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Simulator lease
BAE Systems has signed a memorandum to lease a A320 full-flight simulator to Flight Training Systems Chile, a joint venture between Lufthansa Flight Training and LanChile Airlines. The simulator is due for delivery next April and will join a 737-200 device at the centre. Source: Flight International
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528JET schedule may rule Fairchild out of Eurowings order battle
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH The Fairchild 728JET family has emerged as Eurowings' favourite for its planned order for up to 30 regional jets. But the carrier says it may have to switch to another manufacturer because the 50-seat 528JET model will not be available until at least 2005. The Dortmund-based ...
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Malév to shake up fleet
Julian Moxon/BUDAPEST Malev's new chief executive, Ferencs Kovacs, is planning major fleet rationalisation as the Hungarian airline prepares for privatisation and entry into a global alliance. "I inherited an airline with five different types," he says. If things go according to plan that will be reduced to Boeing ...
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Marketplace
US low-cost carrier Vanguard Airlines has exercised purchase options on two of six Boeing 737-200Advs covered by a letter of intent signed with US Airways Leasing & Sales last November. Algeria's Khalifa Airways has signed a letter of intent with Sabena for the lease of the airline's two Airbus A340-200s, ...
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Routes
Palestinian Airlines has initiated services between Gaza and Larnaca and will add Rome and Istanbul to its network this year. French train operator SNCF and United Airlines have added eight new destinations to the Paris Charles de Gaulle-Lyon route. From the end of March, Angers, Le Mans, Rennes, Poitiers, Tours, ...
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KLM and UTC to expand alliance
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Netherlands flag carrier KLM and United Technologies (UTC) are discussing a major expansion of their nascent maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) alliance, likely to lead to the creation of a joint venture between the Netherlands airline and the US company's Pratt &Whitney unit. The move appears to ...
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E-Questions
The early aerospace e-commerce pioneers are convinced that online business is set to transform the aerospace industry and if they don't have a dotcom they don't stand a chance of effectively competing in the billion-dollar aerospace industry of the future. But once the excitement surrounding this new way of doing ...
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Spread of A320s leads to power struggle among maintainers
The growing influx of International Aero Engine (IAE) V2500-powered Airbus A320s is generating intense competition among powerplant maintenance companies vying for a share of the potentially lucrative after-sales support market. LanChile, TAM and Grupo Taca have collectively ordered 103 A319/A320s and hold options on another 84, all powered by ...
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Raytheon wins data system ground work
Raytheon is to provide the ground network infrastructure for the Faisat satellite-based wireless data system being developed by Final Analysis. The deal includes a "significant" equity investment to be made by Raytheon in Lanham, Maryland-based Final Analysis. Raytheon will be subcontractor to General Dynamics Information Systems, an investor in ...
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Overload 'caused Mars failures'
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Flaws in NASA's "faster, better, cheaper" approach overloaded programme management at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and contributed directly to the failures of the Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander, says the report by the Mars programme independent assessment team (MPIAT). The US space agency ...
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Seamless system
Central European nations are pushing for a unified ATC system Julian Moxon/BUDAPESTThe European air transport community is looking to central Europe to provide an example of what Eurocontrol is trying to achieve elsewhere. The latest step in unifying a large portion of European airspace involves seven historically diverse countries that ...
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Baggage space limitations hit DaimlerChrysler A319CJ
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH DaimlerChrysler Aviation has had to remove four of the 48 seats installed in its recently delivered Airbus A319 Corporate Jet (CJ) because there is insufficient space in the cargo hold for passengers' baggage. The Stuttgart-based operator is looking, meanwhile, at the possibility of launching intra-European flights ...