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Turkish Airlines concludes order for 737-800s
Turkish Airlines has confirmed its long-anticipated order for Next Generation Boeing 737s, with the decision to place firm orders for 26 737-800s, plus 23 options. The deal, announced by Turkish Airlines chairman Cem Kozlu, is worth around $2.5 billion and calls for deliveries to begin in June 1998 ...
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IATA fights airport emission rules
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has issued a legal challenge to the new aircraft-emissions surcharges at Switzerland's Zürich Airport. The action is seen as a key test case for the legality of similar penalties proposed elsewhere in Europe. Zürich became one of the first major airports to ...
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Supply Extension
Rolls-Royce has extended its purchasing of Chinese-manufactured components to include steel and light-alloy rings for Adour, RB.211, Tay, Trent 700/800 and V2500 engines. The $10 million contract is in addition to the supply of nozzle guide vanes and low-pressure turbine blades by R-R's joint plant with Xian Aero Engines. ...
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Boeing prepares to fly the first 777-300
Boeing expects to begin flight-testing of the Rolls-Royce Trent 800-powered 777-300 on 16 October, which was rolled out at the Everett, Washington, plant on 8 September. Certification and first delivery to Cathay Pacific is scheduled for May 1998. Meanwhile, the first Pratt & Whitney PW4000-powered 777-300, for All Nippon Airways, ...
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Airbus will increase weight and performance of A340-500/600
Airbus Industrie has completed a review of the A340-500/600's baseline specification, resulting in an increase in design weight and boosting range by some 370km (200nm) to meet requirements from potential customers, such as Singapore Airlines. Alan Pardoe, A330/A340 product manager, says that the review was completed in mid-September, ...
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American Eagle fits its fleet with EGPWS
American Eagle is to equip its regional aircraft with AlliedSignal's enhanced ground-proximity warning system (EGPWS), beginning with the Embraer EMB-145 regional jet. The EMB-145s will be delivered with the EGPWS installed, with the first of 42 aircraft on order due to arrive in February 1998. American Eagle will ...
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Fokker responds to reliability protest
A joint protest by several European operators of Fokker aircraft expressing grievances over poor reliability has forced Fokker Services to introduce support measures. In a letter to Jan van der Giessen, the Dutch company's technical vice-president, the group of airlines - the "Fokker 70/100 Customer Community" - details ...
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Israir wants BAe 146s for international growth
Israir is seeking two British Aerospace 146s to enable it to expand its international operations, and has held discussions with the manufacturer. The Tel Aviv-based private Israeli airline operates three Aero International (Regional)ATR 42s on scheduled domestic flights to Eilat, as well as on charter flights to destinations ...
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US Congress opens Dallas Love Field to Legend Airlines
Texas-based start-up carrier Legend Airlines hopes to select an aircraft type and apply for an operating certificate before the end of October, after the US Congress eased restrictions on services from Dallas Love Field. Legend's plans are dependent upon gaining approval to operate 56-seat, all-business-class, Boeing 737-200s or ...
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Lufthansa Cargo evaluates 747-400F
Lufthansa Cargo Airlines will more than double the number of widebody freighters in its fleet within the next eight years. The German carrier is evaluating the Boeing 747-400 Freighter to replace its 747-200Fs. Karl Ulrich Garnadt, network vice-president of the wholly owned cargo arm of Lufthansa Group, says ...
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Cargolux switches to R-R for new 747's
Cargolux has switched to Rolls-Royce engines for five Boeing 747-400 Freighter orders, plus two options, recently placed with Boeing. The Luxembourg-based cargo carrier has selected the RB.211-524G/HT hybrid engine, despite the fact that the four 747-400Fs already in its fleet are powered by the General Electric CF6-80C2B1F, while ...
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Two Russian Far East airlines plan merger
Two Russian airlines in the Far East, Vladivostok Avia and state-owned Sakhalin Airlines, are preparing to merge. According to Vladivostok Avia's financial director Alexei Katashonov, a merger agreement has been signed, and the new joint airline will be called Dalnevsotochnaya Aviakompaniya (Far East Aviation Company). Katashonov ...
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CNAC is cleared for flotation as airlines face consolidation
China National Aviation (CNAC) has been been given the go-ahead to become the latest Chinese carrier to float on the Hong Kong stock exchange. The move comes as China prepares for a round of consolidation within its crowded airline market. The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), which ...
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KLM signs Braathens and Northwest deals
KLM has firmed up details of its deal to take a 30%stake in Norway's Braathens SAFE, while also giving an official signature to the ten-year alliance commitment with transatlantic partner Northwest Airlines. Under the Braathens deal, first announced in August, KLM will pay NKr749 million ($105 million) for ...
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US racing team picks Jetstream 31 for shuttle
A British Aerospace Jetstream 31 is to be used to shuttle US NASCAR motor-racing teams between events. The 19-seat aircraft has been purchased from BAe Asset Management - Turboprops (AMT) by Southern Pride Trucking, for use by Greensboro, North Carolina-based Petty Enterprises. The aircraft will be delivered in ...
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Fairchild Dornier bypasses 50-seat market
Fairchild Dornier is planning to develop a 70-seat regional jet and has abandoned a scheme to compete in the already-crowded 50-seat market sector with a stretched derivative of its 328JET. The US-German manufacturer will roll out the prototype of its Dornier 328 turboprop-derived 32-seat, Pratt & Whitney Canada ...
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Netherlands unbends on Schiphol noise
The Netherlands Government has reached a last-minute compromise which will allow Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport to breach its strict noise regime, which was threatening to cause chaos in operations in the final three months of the year. The airport says that it will still have to rein in its growth in ...
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Air Flandre signs first order for EMB-135
Air Flandre has become the launch customer for Embraer's short-fuselage EMB-145 derivative, the EMB-135, with a deal for up to 20 aircraft. The Brazilian manufacturer has also revealed a clutch of EMB-145 orders, including 20 for a US leasing company and ten for British Regional Airlines (BRAL). ...
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JSF demonstrators enter manufacturing stage
Boeing and Lockheed Martin are close to "cutting metal" for their respective Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) concept-demonstrator aircraft. So far, Boeing has produced trial sections of thermoplastic-composite wing skin, while Lockheed Martin has received a composite inlet-duct test article produced by subcontractor Alliant Techsystems. The wing lay-up mandrel ...
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GAMECO poised to build engine-test centre
Guangzhou Aircraft Maintenance Engineering (GAMECO) has been given preliminary board approval to build a $108 million engine-test centre, as part of wider investment in expanded overhaul and repair centres for southern China. The company hopes to have the new factory operational by 2000, provided that it is given ...