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Europe breaks ranks on noise
Europe's controversial action on hushkits could be just the start, as the region prepares to break international ranks to tighten up controls on noise and pollution. Europe's moves to suspend hushkitting have already caused one transatlantic row. But more controversy is in prospect as the European Commission (EC) prepares ...
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Cheating on aviation
Electronic systems continue to transform the airline industry, bringing savings, efficiency gains and-an increase in fraud. The potential to "earn" big money quickly in a multi-million-dollar business like the airline industry has already bred fraudulent activities in the shape of bogus spare parts, false maintenance records and fictitious frequent flyer ...
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Fictitious aircraft
Some transactions that may fall short of criminal fraud can nevertheless result in heavy losses, court actions and deep unhappiness. When businessman Thor Tjontveit and his Dallas-based company Air Alaska (also trading as World Pacific Air Lease Inc) were ordered by a New York court to pay compensatory and ...
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Spanair in the works
Straddling the charter-schedule boundary, Spanair is making a name for itself in Europe while also trying to gain a foothold in the transatlantic market. This will be a pivotal year for Spanair, Spain's fast-growing, charter-cum-scheduled airline. Eleven years old this spring, Spanair started scheduled flights just five years ago, ...
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Premium Sales
With the worst over in the airliner discount wars, John Leahy is focused on securing a premium for Airbus technology. Salesmen stuck with a mundane commodity product must look with green-eyed longing at the airliner market. What could be further from the stack it high and sell it cheap philosophy ...
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All kinds of everything
Boeing believes its comprehensive range of airliners sets it up well for the next industry upturn, when each airline will seek out the product that most closely matches its requirements. All the sizes in all the colours. If Boeing's product range was available in the local department store, even the ...
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Get your aircraft economics right
Operating ageing aircraft can be an expensive business, as cost figures for the US majors clearly demonstrate. But how great is the cost difference between old and new? There has always been a trade-off between the cheap acquisition cost of older aircraft and the slick operating economics of modern types. ...
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Pinto survives power struggle within Varig
The manager of the Brazilian football team knows his job is never safe in a land where defeat is viewed as a national catastrophe. The situation appears to be little different for Fernando Pinto, the president of Varig. Pinto is the fourth Varig president in the last six years and ...
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Iberia gets down to business
With the BA equity deal all but sealed, membership of oneworld under its belt and full privatisation slated by year end, Iberia has much to be cheerful about. But while the Spanish flag carrier reinvents itself as a serious international business airline, it will need to keep a close eye ...
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Maintenance gets smart
Every business has its dark corners. Secret fiefdoms or forgotten Cinderellas, where planning is a black art and true costs difficult to pin down. By tradition, maintenance has been one such corner of the airline industry. The label may be an exaggeration, but the boardroom drive to get a stronger ...
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Delta's retiring Boeings find a new future in freighter role
Pratt & Whitney and the Republic Financial Corp-oration have jointly acquired the rights to 119 Boeing 727-200s being retired by Delta Air Lines. The move secures airframes for conversion to freighters and perpetuates JT9D-15/15A engine overhaul and spares work. Delta is due to withdraw all of its 727s from ...
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Turkish carriers sign for Next Generation 737s
Istanbul Airlines and SunExpress Airlines have become the latest Turkish carriers to make major commitments to the Boeing Next Generation 737 family, with plans to acquire a total of 26 aircraft between them. A firm order for 12 737-800s has been placed by Istanbul Airlines, with options on a further ...
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Honeywell ready to sign LAAS development agreement
Honeywell will sign an agreement in early April with the US Federal Aviation Administration to begin development of the local area augmentation system (LAAS), which will allow the global positioning system (GPS) to be used as the sole source of navigation information. Honeywell has assembled a team which includes ...
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Devaluation forces Varig aircraft and route cuts
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON Brian Homewood/RIO DE JANEIRO Varig Brazil has announced cuts in international services to the USA and Europe and plans to withdraw its fleet of McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 passenger aircraft by the end of the year as a massive Brazilian currency devaluation begins to affect airline traffic. ...
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Aircell venture
Aircell, the joint nacelle company formed in March 1998 by Airbus Industrie and Hispano-Suiza, is to form a new company with Hurel-Dubois subsidiary, Sint, to supply of complete propulsion systems to the consortium. The move aims to consolidate Aircell by incorporating the Toulouse-based Sint, which supplies propulsion systems to Airbus ...
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R-R tackles Trent 700 surge/vibration issues
Andrew Doyle/ZURICH Early operators of Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engines powering the Airbus Industrie A330 twin are working with the manufacturer to eliminate surge, vibration and turbine disk corrosion problems. These have led to a higher than expected number of engine removals recently. R-R has developed solutions for the surge and ...
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Marketplace
Delta Air Lines has taken delivery of its first Boeing 777-200ER ahead of a planned entry into commercial service on transatlantic routes from 1 May. The 277-seat Rolls-Royce Trent-powered aircraft will initially be operated between Atlanta and London and, from September, between Cincinnati and London and Atlanta and Frankfurt. The ...
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Moving on up
Number five worldwide and climbing: can Canada keep up the momentum? When the count is complete, Canada expects to have ended 1998 with the world's fifth largest aerospace industry, ahead of Japan in sales terms - one rung higher than in 1997 and one step closer to its goal of ...
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Mergers
The UK's Dowty Group has bought GE Aircraft Engines subsidiary Tri-Manufacturing for $58 million. The Indiana-based aero-engine components fabricator will be incorporated into TI Group member Dowty's Turbine Engine Components (D-TEC) business. HeavyLift Cargo Airlines, the world's largest outsized-freight operator, has been acquired in a management buyout which values its ...
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Insurers counting on a rise in premiums by end of year
Chris Jasper/LONDON The aviation insurance industry is becoming convinced that the headlong fall in premiums may be poised to hit bottom or even begin a slow recovery, with the market's massive over-capacity also set to be reduced as part of the same process. Since premiums last hit a peak ...