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EasyJet raises stakes with 737-300 deal
Easyjet, the UK low-cost operator, has placed a major follow-on order with Boeing for at least 15 Next Generation 737s, which will boost its fleet to over 30 aircraft within five years. The deal includes firm orders for 15 737-700s worth some $650 million, with options for a similar ...
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Flying Colours team assumes control after Airworld merger
A boardroom reshuffle resulting from the take-over of UK charter airline Flying Colours by Airworld has seen the departure of two Airworld directors. Flying Colours managers have been appointed to most senior positions, despite the airline being taken over. The move, which follows the June take-over of Flying Colours ...
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Domestic rivalry in Japan gets fiercer
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Competition in the Japanese domestic airline market is set to hot up, following the first Government approval in 35 years for a new carrier. The go-ahead for a second start-up carrier is also pending, with two more new entrants planning to fly in 2000. Skymark Airlines ...
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Marketplace
-Aer Lingus will take delivery of a new General Electric CF6-80E1-powered Airbus A330-200 in May 2000 on a six-year lease from International Lease Finance, with extension options. -Kitty Hawk Air Cargo has completed conversion of an ex-Middle East Airlines (MEA) Boeing 747-200 combi to cargo configuration at its Oscoda, Michigan, ...
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FAA engine inspections
The US Federal Aviation Administration is to implement eight airworthiness directives (AD) aimed at reducing engine failures. The first batch of ADs apply to 26,000 Pratt & Whitney JT8Ds and JT9Ds, General Electric GE90s and CF6s, IAE V2500s and CFM International CFM56s. Source: Flight International
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PW4098 approved
Pratt & Whitney has received US certification for the 436kN (98,000lb)-thrust PW4098 turbofan, the most powerful in the PW4000 series, which will enter service on a Korean Air Boeing 777-300 in December. Source: Flight International
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Arkia plans for Nigerian carrier
Israel's largest private carrier, Arkia, has revealed plans to start an airline operation in Nigeria and at the same time to boost its fleet with new aircraft, including Boeing 757-300s. The airline operates 12 de Havilland Dash 7 turboprops, four Boeing 737-200s and a leased 757-200 on regional scheduled ...
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Routes
-United Airlines will cease its daily services between Honolulu and Osaka in October as a result of the Asian economic downturn and losses on the route. -Cathay Pacific Airways has been cleared to begin services between Hong Kong and San Francisco in December, with Airbus A340-300s. -British Airways has been ...
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US Airways builds Express operation
US Airways is leasing 11 secondhand Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-100 turboprops from the manufacturer as part of a move to expand two regional carriers owned by the Group. The 11 ex-Mesaba aircraft will be divided between Allegheny Airlines, which feeds US Airways at Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Washington ...
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Mesa shareholders reject sale or merger
The new management at Mesa Air Group have seen off a potential shareholder rebellion after the defeat of a vote on proposals to hire an investment banker to explore a merger or sale of the regional airline operation. The proposal, tabled at the annual shareholders meeting on 28 July, ...
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Turkey and Greece scan AEW requirements
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Manufacturers of airborne early warning aircraft are competing in Greece and Turkey for contracts worth at least $1.4 billion. The bidding involves a wide range of surveillance aircraft, from the Boeing 737 and 767 to a militarised Embraer EMB-145. Meanwhile, it has emerged that Turkey and Australia ...
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Alenia allies with Australia's Tenix
Alenia Aerospazio and Australia's leading defence group, Tenix, have agreed to form an alliance "-initially focused on single source manufacture of Alenia assemblies "for the C-27J transport aircraft. The company is developing the C-27J, an upgraded version of the Alenia G222, with Lockheed Martin. The aircraft is shortlisted for ...
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Lockheed Martin offers Israel F-16 tie-up
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Lockheed Martin is offering to work with Israeli industry on F-16 upgrades as part of an industrial offset package tied to its bid to sell more aircraft to the Israeli air force. "We are working towards a joint approach [to F-16 upgrades], but we have ...
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Indonesia pulls out of Flanker deal
Indonesia has finally scrapped moribund plans to order 12 Sukhoi Su-30K Flanker fighters and eight Mil Mi-17-IV helicopters from Russia, following the recent appointment of a new air force chief of staff. Negotiations with Rosvoorouzhenie have been in limbo since the start of the year as a result of ...
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Celestial Internet
Tim Furniss/LONDON Of all the advances in satellite communications since Telstar, the most interest is being created by the $9 billion Teledesic programme. Now that Teledesic has assembled a powerful industrial team to build and launch its 300-satellite constellation, the project is moving into high gear. Teledesic's copyrighted "Internet in ...
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Low-cost fractional ownership scheme launched in USA
A new fractional ownership scheme has been set up in the USA, providing business aircraft at less than half the cost of existing programmes. AVLink, a College Station, Texas-based management company, has started operating one Cessna Citation 1 and has plans to add more to the fleet. "We ...
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Wolf captures new managers and reviews 728JET progress
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH John Wolf, the recently appointed chief operating officer of Fairchild Dornier, has shaken up the company's regional jet programmes with new management appointments and a review of the company's approach to the 728JET project. Three new programme managers have been appointed - two of them Wolf's ...
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737 booms with Boullioun buy
Guy Norris/SEATTLE Firm sales of Boeing's Next Generation 737 reached 995 on 28 July, with a deal for up to 60 aircraft worth $2.6 billion from Washington-based leasing company Boullioun Aviation Services. The deal included firm orders for 30 aircraft and options on 30 more, with first deliveries ...
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EC unveils alliance plan details
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON The European Commission (EC) has published details of its proposed conditions for the British Airways and Lufthansa-led transatlantic alliances, including a call for the governments involved to open up national airports to other European carriers wanting to start US services. The official publication of the proposals, ...
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JAL takes delivery of its first Boeing 777-300
Japan Airlines has become the third airline after Cathay Pacific and All Nippon Airways (ANA) to take delivery of a Boeing 777-300, with the handover of its first of five Pratt & Whitney PW4090-powered aircraft on 28 July. JAL's second aircraft will be delivered this month. The P&W-powered 777-300 ...