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Czech Government allows Ayres to have Let
US agricultural and cargo aircraft builder Ayres is set to purchase Czech manufacturer Let Kunovice after agreeing terms with the Government in Prague. A deal is due to be signed by the end of May. Ayres is expected to take a 93% stake in the Aero Holdings-owned company. Fred Ayres, ...
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New investor steps forward for Pan Am
Pan American World Airways has found a new investor prepared to rescue it from bankruptcy protection. US rail freight group Guilford Transportation Industries has outlined plans to buy the failed low-cost carrier for nearly $24 million. Pan Am, which filed for bankruptcy court protection on 26 February, says its ...
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Hughes attempts lunar fly-by rescue plan for Asiasat
Tim Furniss/LONDON Hughes is attempting to rescue the Asiasat 3 communications satellite, stranded in a useless orbit after a launch failure last December, by flying it around the moon to reposition it in an operational geostationary orbit (GEO). The AsiaSat 3 was stranded in a 51¼ inclination, 201 ...
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Boeing ponders PATS fuel tank acquisition
Boeing Enterprises is to decide by the end of next month whether to acquire the long range fuel tank manufacturing and installation business of PATS. Boeing confirms that it is conducting a feasibility study on the potential acquisition. Columbia, Maryland-based PATS holds a contract worth as much as $300 ...
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Airbus tilts at South African Airways' 777 order
Continuing uncertainty over the status of South African Airways' (SAA) order for four Boeing 777-200s is providing Airbus Industrie with an ongoing opportunity to pitch the new A340-500 and -600 to the South African flag carrier. Airbus senior commercial vice-president John Leahy took the opportunity of the show to make ...
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South African defence minister keeps arms door shut on USA
South African defence minister Joe Modise has rebuffed US overtures to become a late entrant into its $1.5 billion defence procurement programme. The US Government's decision to drop a longstanding defence embargo earlier this year "-does not go far enough-there are still a lot of restrictions", the minister said at ...
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Contract with the future
David Learmount/LONDON Shortages of skilled personnel are rife in the air transport industry in most parts of the world. Licensed engineers and high quality flightcrew - people with skills that cannot be created overnight - are back in demand and employers' reluctance to operate strategic training policies has led to ...
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Across the spectrum
Dave Higdon/LAKELAND, FLORIDA Sport aviation's annual spring fling, the US Experimental Aircraft Association's Sun 'n' Fun Fly-In, attracted more than half a million aficionados who witnessed, among other things, the relaunch of the Wing Derringer and unveiling of a "flying motor home", the Private Explorer. Rain and humidity did little ...
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Alliance fever
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Ever since US Airways announced that it was in talks with American and United Airlines just over two years ago, the world has been awaiting another round of consolidation in the US airline industry. Albeit a little delayed, it now appears to have taken off in earnest ...
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Maintenance Directory
Ian Sheppard/London Despite its current economic troubles, Asia looks set to continue to attract the attention of airframe and engine maintenance providers anxious to cash in on a region that will continue to be a pace setter in the dash for global air transport growth over the next few ...
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Supplier News May 1998
Gulf Air has signed a $165 million 10-year deal for Sabre to take over its IT functions. Sita has won a US$160 million seven-year contract with Air France to support all its voice and data communications. Boeing's 737-800 now has US Federal Aviation Administration type certification, and the ...
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National and Avant unite
This is the first time LanChile and Ladeco have had any real competition,' says Jesus Diez, president of the Turbus company that owns and manages both National and Avant Airlines. Turbus, which moves a million bus passengers a month, bought National in January when it was floundering from losses on ...
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Regional Airlines Survey
Rank Airline Pass 000 Emp Revenue US$ 000 Net Result US$ 000 Year end Regional fleet details (In service + On order + On option) Significant shareholders Alliances Rank 1 American Eagle ...
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Sales and cuts in India
Air-India is drawing up sale and leaseback deals and preparing to slash staff numbers, among a series of desperate measures which aim to alleviate the airline's burden of heavy losses and debt. Air-India has proposed to its owner, the Civil Aviation Ministry, that it sell some of its Boeing ...
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BMA grabs BA capacity
British Midland has scored victory over British Airways in the first capacity hearing for a new route entrant, after complaining of an effective duopoly by BA and LOT on London-Warsaw. At a scarce capacity hearing in April, the UK CAA forced BA to concede that its plans to replace ...
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Brazil battles over fares
Brazilian airlines are seeing their comfortable cartel crumble in the wake of a full-scale fares war which is raging through the country. Several airlines began offering generous discounts on selected flights at the end of last year. But the battle took on a new dimension in March when TAM ...
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Rule Britannia?
Backed by their tour operators, UK charter carriers Airtours and Britannia Airways are expanding into European markets like Germany and Scandinavia, pushing prices down and disturbing the cosy status quo. Report by Tom Gill When Britannia began providing intercontinental services out of Germany late last year, alarm bells began ringing ...
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Chile's high flier
The Chilean economy and its national flag carrier now feel strong enough to insist on US antitrust immunity for the proposed alliance with American Airlines as a precondition for open skies. David Knibb reports from Santiago. Like the Andean condor, Chileans are a rare breed. Among Latin Americans the ...
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Crossing into the EU
The launch of its French subsidiary will give Crossair greater access to southern European markets and boost its Basle hub. Tom Gill reports. 'Some guys talk about the Star Alliance; well, we have our own new born star.' The star Crossair's president and CEO Moritz Suter is hailing is a ...
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Delta's quick fix?
Delta Air Lines' new chief executive Leo Mullin is getting to grips with the idiosyncrasies of the airline industry and rapidly addressing issues like service and low staff morale. But his options on the alliances front look limited. Karen Walker reports. 'This is a very strange industry,' remarked Delta ...