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Malaysia Airlinesplans to sell aircraft in consolidation plan
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE Malaysia Airlines (MAS)plans to sell three Boeing 747 Combis, one 737-300F freighter and five 737-500s under its fleet consolidation programme. According to MAS vice-president of asset management Razali Harun, the company wants to base passenger operations on 737-400s, 777-200s and Pratt & Whitney PW4000-powered Boeing 747-400s, ...
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Marketplace
Ansett Worldwide Aviation Services (AWAS) has taken delivery of the first of five Next Generation 737-700s it has on order, which has been placed with an undisclosed customer in Asia. AWAS is understood recently to have cancelled at least three of its Next Generation 737 orders. TWA ...
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Routes
British Airways is launching direct once-weekly services from London Gatwick to Havana, Cuba, i n April using Boeing 777s. From May, the airline's London-Baku service will continue on to Tashkent in Uzbekistan. Air Canada is launching daily services between Toronto and San Diego in June, and between ...
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Southwest plans for expansion of non-stop services
Southwest Airlines is to add non-stop services between 20 cities as it continues to take delivery of new Boeing 737-700 narrowbodies. The Dallas, Texas-based low fares carrier expects to take delivery of 29 Next Generation 737s this year, and retire its six oldest 737-200s, taking its fleet to 306 ...
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Dasa sounds death knell for single European company
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Germany's DaimlerChrysler has declared that the European dream of creating a single aerospace and defence company out of the continent's disparate national manufacturers is dead. It says that its aerospace division (Dasa) will instead pursue a deal with Spain's CASA and a possible transatlantic tie-up. DaimlerChrysler ...
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Mergers
Aircraft and engine resale and lease specialist Kellstrom Industries has agreed to buy Certified Aircraft Parts, an aftermarket supplier to the Lockheed Martin C-130/L-100, for $16 million. Both companies are based in Florida. BFGoodrich has acquired Ohio-based Advanced MicroMachines (AMMI), a developer of micro-electromechanical systems integrating electrical ...
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Elisra and Lockheed Martin team on F-16
Israeli company Elisra and Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sanders are to co-operate in developing electronic warfare (EW) suites for new and upgraded F-16s. The deal was agreed in principle during a visit to Israel on 28 March by Micky Blackwell, president and chief executive of Lockheed Martin's aeronautics sector. ...
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Lockheed Martin optimistic about F-22 flight-test delays
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Lockheed Martin believes that it can reduce F-22 flight-test delays caused by manufacturing problems to "a few weeks", despite wing deliveries from Boeing being several months behind schedule. Problems with the large titanium "side-of-body" castings which attach the wing to the fuselage have been solved, ...
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Gripen Aviatronics
Ericsson Saab Avionics has awarded a R6.2 million ($1 million) contract for electronic subsystems for the Gripen to South Africa's Avitronics. The deal covers development and manufacture of a display system power unit. Source: Flight International
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Airlines keep options open
Jack Sellsby/LONDON A wide choice of financial packages brings its own complications Ask an aircraft financier about the best way to pay for an airliner and there is never a simple answer - either in healthy economic times or poor. But airlines may have a surprisingly wide choice of finance ...
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Credit search
Jack Sellsby/LONDON Financing aircraft can be a nightmare for some airlines and a hazard for lenders Airlines spend billions of dollars on new aircraft deliveries each year, and manufacturers - aided by their ever-willing and export-minded governments - ensure comparable amounts of commercial jets are financed. Airlines with ...
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Phoenix Fanjet's future waits on court decision
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON Alberta Aerospace's (AAC) plan to certificate and deliver its single-engined Phoenix Fanjet by the end of the year has been thwarted by a legal battle over the rights to the aircraft, formally known as the Promavia Jet Squalus. Canada's AAC secured a licence agreement with Belgium's ...
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Portuguese flag carrier to join SAirGroup stable
TAP Air Portugal will become the latest European carrier to come under the partial ownership of SAir Group if plans for the Swiss company to acquire a 20% stake in the Portuguese state-owned flag-carrier are approved by the European Commission. SAir Group says it hopes to complete the purchase ...
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Ryanair introduces first 737-800 to expand European network
Ryanair has taken delivery of the first of 25 Boeing 737-800s ordered last year to expand its European network. Ryanair, which operates 21 Boeing 737-200s, including seven Stage 3 hushkitted machines, also has options for 20 737-800s. The airline 33 routes from London Stansted to Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Norway, ...
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ESA signs first Mars Express contract with Matra Marconi
Julian Moxon/PARIS The first contract for the European Space Agency's (ESA) 150 million euro ($161 million) Mars Express programme has been signed with prime contractor Matra Marconi Space. The 60 million euro contract was awarded despite the programme awaiting full approval, expected at the ESA ministerial meeting in ...
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Investors give ultimatum on Iridium performance
Iridium has been given a two-month deadline by its lenders to prove that it can meet revenue and subscriber targets. The Motorola-owned company has been told that it must have $4 million cash revenues, $30 million in accrued revenues and at least 52,000 customers by 31 May. Iridium had 3,000 ...
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Airbus aims to trim A3XX weight
Julian Moxon/PARIS The take-off weight of the Airbus Industrie A3XX will be reduced by 2-3t through the use of a new, high-pressure hydraulic system, if tests being carried out by Aerospatiale at Toulouse prove it to be economically and technically viable. "We have decided to go for a system ...
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Making a mark
Max Kingsley-Jones/DOHA Qatar Airways has restructured from a low-cost operator to a high-quality international carrier The Qatar government recognised that action was needed to ensure that its capital, Doha, was not isolated as the country's economy grew during the early 1990s. While the nation's shared flag carrier, Gulf ...
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Emirates' global vision
Max Kingsley-Jones/DUBAI Emirates had a handful of routes and aircraft when it began in 1985 - now it is a major force and is eyeing the A3XX The Past 14 years have been an exciting ride for Emirates. The airline has topped the growth tables for national carriers ...
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Emerging power
Max Kingsley-Jones/MUSCAT Oman Air is embarked on a programme of expansion and restructuring OMAN, on the Gulf's eastern side, rests in the shadows cast by the cosmopolitan regions to its west, such as Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and Dubai. The country has chosen not to follow its neighbours ...