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Uganda eyes foreign cash
Tom Gill Uganda Airlines is set to go private, with the sale of a controlling stake slated for mid-year. Six airlines have expressed interest in a yet to be determined majority stake in wholly government-owned Uganda Airlines, according to Michael Opagi, director of the Ugandan government's privatisation unit. The ...
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Caught in the loop
Lois Jones There's no denying it - from movies to massacres, from hamburgers to heart disease cures, from diets to democracy, the United States leads the way while the rest of the world is inclined to follow. So what happens now that this 'Land of the free' has suddenly ...
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Airline News
EVA Air is due to launch three times weekly flights from Kaohsiung to Ho Chi Minh City and Los Angeles from 11 June. In addition, the Taiwanese carrier is due to start three times weekly flights between Paris and Taipei via Dubai and three times weekly flights between Vienna and ...
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Cargo L-610
Czech manufacturer Let, soon to be acquired by Ayres of the USA, has begun design work on a cargo version of the L-610G regional turboprop. Ayres sees a market for the aircraft in Europe as an express-package feeder, with FedEx a target customer. Ayres says the 40-seat L-610G will be ...
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Boeing breaks 4,000 sales mark for 737s
Sales of the Boeing 737 have passed through the 4,000 mark as a result of top-up deals from various Next Generation 737 customers. American Airlines has concluded a deal for 25 more 737-800s, bringing its total 737 orders to 100. The newly ordered aircraft will arrive between January 2000 ...
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Air One and Swissair move closer to alliance
Marco Messalla/ROME Swissair and Italian independent Air One expect to finalise details of a strategic alliance by the end of May in a move which is expected to see the Swiss flag carrier take a share in the airline. The Italian carrier was created in 1995 in a ...
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China re-jig delays TrunkLiner and throws AE31X into limbo
Paul Lewis/BEIJING Max Kingsley-Jones/TOULOUSE The pending major shake-up of China's state-run aerospace industry is set to again delay the Boeing MD-90 TrunkLiner programme and prolong discussions with Airbus Industrie Asia on co-development of the AE31X regional jet. The new Chinese Government of premier Zhu Rongji has ordered a ...
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British Midland V2500 fails after only 150h
Ian Sheppard/LONDON An International Aero Engines (IAE) V2500-powered Airbus A321-200 operated by British Midland (BM) suffered an in-flight engine failure on 15 May shortly after departure from Heathrow Airport. The 147kN (33,000lb)-thrust V2533-A5 powered aircraft had been in service only 20 days and had flown around 150h with the UK ...
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Air Wisconsin 328s start
Air Wisconsin has begun operations with its new fleet of Fairchild Dornier 328-120s on feeder services for United from its Denver hub. Earlier this year the airline took over the operations of Mountain Air Express, which had operated the 328s from Denver as the regional subsidiary of the now defunct ...
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Canada 3000 loses business to Royal
Canada 3000, the Toronto-based charter airline, has lost the business of major customer Signature Vacations, which will switch to rival Royal Aviation this year. Signature, the Toronto-based subsidiary of UK tour operator First Choice (Air 2000's parent), has been a major customer for Canada 3000 since the carrier was launched ...
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Boeing warns on China hopes
Paul Lewis/BEIJING Boeing is sounding a warning that earlier expectations of a large new order for aircraft from China in June could be affected by a marked slowdown in local airline traffic growth and the knock-on effects from Asia's wider economic difficulties. The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) ...
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Lufthansa eyes 747-400 freighter
Shahe Ouzounian/FRANKFURT Lufthansa Cargo says it will need to replace its fleet of Boeing 747-200Fs early in the next decade, with the 747-400 freighter the prime candidate, even though the German operator considers the aircraft "too expensive". Wilhelm Althen, chairman of the executive board, says that its fleet ...
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Fresh funds promise brighter prospects for Ilyushin II-114
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW The future prospects of the Ilyushin Il-114 have improved after a deal to fund production of the 64-seat twin turboprop and the creation of a consortium to market and develop the aircraft. Ilyushin has signed a letter of intent with Incombank, one of the leading Russian private banks, ...
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Marketplace
-Augsburg Airways has placed orders for six additional Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8s, including two series 200s and four larger series 300s, and taken options on a further seven aircraft. The order represents the ratification and expansion of a deal originally reached in November 1997 for three aircraft. The options ...
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CAL orders frozen
China Airlines (CAL) has been ordered by Taiwan's transport ministry not to order any new aircraft until it has improved its operations and safety standards. This move is the Taiwan Government's latest to force the carrier to upgrade its safety standards. CAL has suffered two major widebody accidents since April ...
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P&W corrects PW4098 cracks and confirms 777-300 delay
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Paul Lewis/SEATTLE Pratt & Whitney estimates that corrections to cure cracked compressor stators in the PW4098 discovered in April will push deliveries of the first heavyweight Boeing 777-300 to Korean Air (KAL) back by almost three months, to December. "It's a cast part, and we've ...
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Honeywell will lead real time weather display project
Real time global weather patterns displayed on the flightdeck are on the cards after NASA approval of a development plan by a Honeywell-led team. The work, which promises improved safety and fuel savings, is a part of the space agency's Aviation Safety Programme, which was created in 1997 with ...
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Routes
-Cityjet is to start daily services to Dublin from the UK's East Midlands Airport on 8 June using a Saab 2000. -Continental Airlines and VASP have signed a code-sharing alliance, which will come into effect on 1 July and enable VASP to sell half the seats on Continental's flights between ...
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US Airways may forge fresh alliance with British Airways
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC US Airways could forge a new marketing alliance with British Airways as a result of the projected tie-ups by both carriers with American Airlines. The deal would go ahead only under certain conditions, says Stephen Wolf, head of US Airways Group. The prospect of a ...
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Virgin and Go launch London Stansted invasion
Virgin is poised to take over a UK airline, probably Sabre Airways, as its Brussels-based low fare division Virgin Express launches services to London Stansted. The airport could eventually become its UK hub. Meanwhile, British Airways' low fare airline Go has begun to operate at the airport. Speaking at the ...