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UPS to fit freighter fleet with satellite navigation systems
United Parcel Service (UPS) is to equip its 229 freighters with next-generation satellite navigation systems using the global positioning system (GPS)-based wide-area augmentation system (WAAS). The equipment will be made by the US express parcels specialist's subsidiary UPS Aviation Technologies (UPSAT). Development of the GPS/WAAS combination is expected ...
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P&WC Il-114 cleared
The CIS Interstate Aviation Committee issued the type certificate on 27 December for the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW127H-powered version of the Ilyushin Il-114 twin turboprop. The 64-seater variant, dubbed the Il-114-100, started flight tests in January last year. It is produced by the Tashkent-based TAPO Chkalov plant in Uzbekistan, ...
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Clear air ahead for turbulence detector
Honeywell aims to develop a system within three years that will be able to detect clear air turbulence (CAT), for which there are no predictive warning systems available. The company plans to certificate a combined microwave and infrared radar to detect all types of turbulence, including CAT. It has ...
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Urgent GE90 removal starts on worldwide 777-200 fleet
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC General Electric has begun removing the first of 90 GE90 engines from the worldwide Boeing 777-200 fleet after turbine blade separations caused two in-flight shutdowns and one turnback. The problems, all of which afflicted 777-200ERs operated by Saudi Arabian Airlines, were caused by ...
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Crystal clears way for mid-year start
US start-up carrier Crystal Airways aims to begin all business-class services using Boeing 757 and 767 twinjets from the US east coast by the middle of this year. Tim Rivers, president and chief executive of Tampa, Florida-based Crystal, says flights will be launched from Tampa to Baltimore Washington International ...
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Canada 3000 aims to fill void left by Canadian takeover
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Canada 3000 Airlines is positioning itself to become the country's second international carrier. It plans a major expansion in scheduled services and fleet size, following the recent takeover of Canadian Airlines by Air Canada. Toronto-based Canada 3000 has unveiled plans to launch services to India, Japan and ...
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KLM uk's no-frills buzz gets off the ground
Buzz, the new low-cost subsidiary of KLM uk, began operations on 4 January with promises of "strong market growth" in the European low-cost sector over the next five years. Based at London Stansted, UK, the carrier competes with the existing UK-based low-cost airlines Ryanair, easyJet and British Airways subsidiary Go. ...
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Year-end Boeing deals bolster order intake
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON The "big two" airliner builders - Airbus Industrie and Boeing - passed the 800 order mark between them in the closing days of 1999. Both manufacturers also achieved their output targets, delivering a record 914 aircraft between them. Boeing spent last month rapidly gaining ground on ...
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Boeing plans 'automotive' line for 717
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing is finalising confidential plans to introduce a new production concept for the 717-200 twinjet that uses methods adopted by the automotive industry and which have never been applied to an aerospace line. The company aims to have everything in place for the switchover to the new ...
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Aegean wraps up Air Greece takeover
Greek independent Aegean Aviation has completed its takeover of Air Greece, announced in October, doubling its size and making it the second largest airline in the country after state-owned Olympic Airways (Flight International, 20-26 October, 1999). Aegean now holds 96% of Air Greece - formerly owned by shipping company ...
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TWA looks at stretched 757s to replace ageing 767 fleet
Guy Norris/LONG BEACH TWA is "in discussion" over the possible acquisition of Boeing 757-300s as part of a fleetwide modernisation plan aimed at settling the composition of its narrowbodies for the next 10 years. The airline is considering the 240-seat twinjet as a replacement for its ageing 767-200 ...
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Routes
America West will begin services from its Phoenix hub to Hartford, Connecticut, in April, using an Airbus A319. British World Airlines has been awarded a five-year contract from Integrated Aviation Consortium to transport oil workers between Aberdeen and Scatsta in the Shetland Islands from April. Up to three British ...
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Marketplace
Debis AirFinance has selected the CFM International CFM56 to power 10 of the 30 Airbus A320 family aircraft it has on order. Martinair has taken delivery of a Rolls-Royce RB211-powered Boeing 757-200 on a four-year lease from ING Lease International Management Equipment. Negotiations are under way for a second example. ...
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Instrument failure suspected in crash
David Learmount/LONDON A faulty attitude director indicator (ADI) on the captain's side appears to have been a major factor in the Korean Air (KAL) Boeing 747-200 freighter crash on 22 December near London Stansted Airport, UK, according to details in a UK Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) interim bulletin. ...
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Uganda slashes services ahead of SAA takeover
Michael Wakabi/KAMPALA Ailing Uganda Airlines has reduced its services to a minimum in anticipation of its takeover by South African Airways (SAA) in March. A top-level meeting between Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni and an SAA delegation last month appeared to iron out remaining obstacles to the deal. Uganda is to ...
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Union opposition kills Elta/Elisra plans
Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV Plans to form a joint marketing company to handle the sale of early warning systems offered by Israel's Elta and Elisra have failed because of fierce opposition from trade unions at state-owned Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI), Elta's parent. Elisra's owner, Koor - Israel's largest industrial concern ...
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Investor alliance clinches Fairchild takeover
Regional jet maker Fairchild Aerospace is to be bought by an alliance led by US investment firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) and German insurance company Allianz. The $1.2 billion deal, plans for which were revealed by Flight International in October, will provide funding for Fairchild's 728JET family. The ...
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Bangladesh air force receives first four MiG-29 Fulcrums
Bangladesh has received the first four of eight MAPO MiG-29 Fulcrum fighters. The air force ordered the aircraft and a support package last June in a $125 million deal. The remaining four MiG-29s are due for delivery next month. Following the order, the opposition party tried to block the ...
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JSF programme aims for more countries as EMD stage nears
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC The Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme will be open to wider international involvement once full-scale engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) is launched in April 2001. Meanwhile, efforts are being made to sign the nine nations participating in the concept demonstration phase up to EMD. "We're ...
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El Al resists US pressureand opts for Trent
Israeli flag carrier El Al is buying Rolls-Royce Trent 800s to power three Boeing 777-200ERs on firm order, despite efforts by the US Government to have the powerplant selection overturned in favour of the General Electric GE90 (Flight International, 15-21 December 1999). The R-R Trent-powered 777s will be delivered ...