All air transport news – Page 2220
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Mergers
– Miami-based cargo carrier Fine Air has agreed to buy fellow freight specialist Arrow Air, also of Miami, for $115 million. Both airlines provide scheduled and ACMI services, with Fine Air generating $116 million in revenues during its last financial year and Arrow, a subsidiary of International Air Leases (itself ...
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Trans World still making a loss after a decade
Trans World Airlines (TWA) says that it remains pledged to slimming down its operations after sustaining a tenth successive net loss in 1998. The company ended the year $120.5 million in the red and lost $79.1 million net in the last quarter alone. The St Louis, Missouri-based carrier blames ...
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USA mounts new bid for NATO JSTARS
Northrop Grumman has supplied data on Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) derivatives to the USAir Force programme office as part of a revised proposal to sell the system to NATO for the Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) project. The next NATO Conference of National Armament Directors, scheduled ...
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Changing times
Paul Lewis/KARACHI Pakistan's national carrier must reform radically to survive Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has embarked on an ambitious programme of reform to revitalise its finances, its fleet and its services in the face of mounting competition from rival carriers in the domestic and international markets. It is the most ...
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Scramjet progress
Julian Moxon/PARIS Scramjet revival has re-awakened the dream of the SSTO concept for the millennium The dream of a single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) vehicle first came into the public eye with US President Ronald Reagan's vaunted National Aerospaceplane (NASP) programme. That dream faded as funding dried up and it became ...
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NASA awards cockpit contract
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC NASA has awarded Avidyne and AvroTec a contract to develop a low-cost glass cockpit for general aviation aircraft. Team members Lancair and Raytheon will handle aircraft certification issues, and both AlliedSignal and Rockwell Collins will help with symbology development. The "highway in the sky" contract ...
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Launch timing of A3XX hit by market turn
Airbus Industrie has confirmed a delay in its launch timing for the 480- 660-seat A3XX programme, saying "- the market is not ready for it yet". Airbus' A3XX timetable had called for a "substantial programme decision" to be taken early in 1999, to enable it to launch the project's industrialisation ...
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Bombardier increases production
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON Bombardier Aerospace, buoyed by a record $1.3 billion sale of Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) 200LRs to Northwest Airlines, is increasing production of the 50-seat aircraft to eight a month. The US carrier, based in Minneapolis, has announced a firm order for 54 CRJ-200LRs and has taken options on ...
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Singapore Link 16 move angers USA
Singapore has rejected a US offer of the Link 16 tactical datalink in favour of a cheaper Israeli alternative. The decision has angered officials in Washington and could threaten to undermine future interoperability with US military forces. The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) is understood to have decided ...
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Airbus consortium faces new delay to formation of SCE
Chris Jasper/LONDON The transformation of Europe's four-nation Airbus consortium into a single corporate entity (SCE) could be delayed until mid-2000 or beyond, senior sources at British Aerospace (BAe) have revealed. BAe chairman Sir Richard Evans openly admits the shift to SCE status is unlikely this year, while other ...
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Demand for civil helicopters 'robust'
Two engine manufacturers are forecasting continued robust demand for civil helicopters despite concerns over some operating sectors. AlliedSignal Aerospace is projecting deliveries of 2,350 new turbine-powered helicopters over five years from 1999 to 2003, while Rolls-Royce (formerly Allison) has produced a broadly similar forecast for 5,410 civil deliveries over ...
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Brazil's Embraer opens up Melbourne office
Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer has opened an office in Melbourne, Victoria, to cover operations in Asia and Australasia. The company says that the office is to become Embraer's fourth major international representation after Brazil, the USA and France. It is intended to give service and support to the company's ...
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Flightwest delivery
Flightwest Airlines has taken delivery of the first Fokker 100 on the Australian register. The aircraft was bought from Chase Manhattan Bank and refurbished by KLM. A second aircraft is due to be delivered in late March. The two aircraft will be used to launch non-stop services from Brisbane to ...
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Building a base
Pakistan builds on the capabilities of local support for combat aircraft Paul Lewis/KAMRA When the Pakistan air force received its first Nanchang F-6 from China at the end of 1965, it quickly realised that a fighter with an 800h mean time between overhauls (TBO) would need to be supported locally ...
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Augsburg eyes Dash 8-Q400
Andrew Doyle/TORONTO Lufthansa franchisee Augsburg hopes to secure deal for larger aircraft by April Augsburg Airways has entered negotiations with Bombardier Aerospace for five Dash 8-Q400 turboprops after selecting the type for its 70-seater requirement. Meanwhile, the fast-growing German regional has converted options into firm orders for ...
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PIA talks to SIA on leasing 747-300s
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is negotiating with Singapore Airlines (SIA) on a possible leasing deal covering up to six Boeing 747-300s. The carrier says it is in advanced talks and wants to take the aircraft as early as March. The -300s would replace all but two of PIA's fleet ...
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Routes
Swissair is to suspend some flights to Hong Kong, citing high user charges at Chek Lap Kok Airport. The Swiss flag carrier's two weekly Boeing MD-11 Zurich-Mumbai, India-Hong Kong services are to stop operations from 24 March. Lauda Air, SAS, United Airlines and Varig have already reined in some Hong ...
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Ryanair launches routes and aims to double fleet
Caroline Mclaughlin/LONDON Ryanair expects to double its number of 737s within four years Ryanair, Europe's largest low fare airline, is to launch six new routes to destinations in three countries. The routes are part of an expansion plan which will see the airline double its fleet within ...
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China bans new aircraft orders
The Civil Aviation Administration of China has frozen airline capacity this year. New aircraft purchases are barred and about 40 aircraft are to be withdrawn from service. The official China Daily newspaper says the CAAC is trying to combat industry losses caused by overcapacity by imposing the ban. Wang ...
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BAe selects AS907 for RJ-X update
British Aerospace (BAe) Regional Aircraft has selected the all-new AlliedSignal AS907 turbofan to power the upgraded Avro RJ-X regional jet it is studying, rejecting Pratt & Whitney Canada's PW308. An announcement was expected on 16 February. The UK manufacturer is thought to being planning to launch the RJ-X programme ...