All air transport news – Page 2457
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MAS Virgin freighter
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) and Virgin Atlantic launched a twice-weekly joint freighter service on 1 October. Source: Flight International
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Cargolux 747-400Fs
Cargolux Airlines has placed firm orders for a further five Boeing 747-400F freighters, to replace its three -200Fs and adding to its existing fleet of four -400s. The first two aircraft are due for delivery in late 1998, replacing 747-200Fs. The carrier will have an all-747-400 fleet of ten aircraft ...
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Luxair Embraers
Embraer has received an order for four 50-passenger EMB-145 regional jets from Luxair of Luxembourg, which is planning to gradually phase out its Fokker 50 fleet. The first two aircraft are due to be delivered in August and September 1998, and it will receive the other EMB-145s in 1999 and ...
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Approval for Next Generation 737 slips back to late October
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Certiffication of Boeing's Next Generation 737 has been delayed until later this month by late structural and control-system modifications, spare-parts shortages and continued evaluations by the European Joint Aviation Authorities. The company had hoped that the first member of the new family, the ...
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Boeing studies 777-200X 'sleeper' options
Guy Norris/SEATTLE Boeing has begun talks with potential 777-200X customers over lower-lobe options for its ultra-long-range derivative of the twinjet, with sleeping space for up to 40 passengers and crew. Boeing is now seriously examining the long-discussed possibility of passenger sleeping accommodation, needed mainly because of ...
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AirAsia maps out future openings for new widebodies
Malaysian start-up carrier AirAsia is planning to acquire two widebody aircraft in early 1998 to expand services within Asia and open up flights to the Middle East and Europe. The airline says that it has signed a letter of intent with an unidentified third-party broker to sublease two ...
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BAe Aviation Services wins further Airbus A300 conversion work
C-S Aviation Services has doubled its orderbook with British Aerospace Aviation Services (BAeAS) for Airbus A300B4 freighter conversions, with a $150 million contract for 11 firm orders, plus options on a further ten. Filton, UK-based BAeAS now has 21 conversion orders from C-S which will be undertaken on ...
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Chinese lobby for Airbuses
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE China Aviation Supplies (CASC) has begun the process of allocating a second batch of recently ordered Airbus Industrie A320/A321s, while China Southwest Airlines has signed an agreement to take three Airbus A340-300s previously destined for China Eastern Airlines. The state-owned corporation is being lobbied ...
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El Al sets deadline for decision on narrowbodies
El Al will decide before the end of the year whether to order Next Generation Boeing 737s or Airbus A320 family aircraft to satisfy its need for 125- to 150-seat aircraft for operation on services to Europe. The Israeli national airline is evaluating the 737-700/800, along with the ...
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IAE powers to giant share of ILFC order for Airbus narrowbodies
International Aero Engines (IAE) has landed one of its largest single orders, by taking the major chunk of the engine business from the recent International Lease Finance (ILFC) deal for 50 Airbus A320 family aircraft. The US leasing company concluded an order in September for 31 A319s (some ...
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Marketplace
++ BAe Asset Management - Jets has concluded the cash sale of three BAe 146-100s in deals worth a total of $21 million. Jersey European Airways has purchased two -100s off lease. A third -100 has been sold in the US for use as an executive transport. ++ El Al ...
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US Airways and ALPA save A230 purchase
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC US Airways and its pilots broke an impasse on labour negotiations at the eleventh hour, saving the US carrier's planned $14 billion purchase of up to 400 A320-family aircraft from Airbus Industrie. The sixth-largest US airline and negotiators for the Air Line Pilots ...
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ARIA tries to temper privatisation plans
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW Aeroflot-Russian International Airlines (ARIA) general director Valery Okulov says that the carrier is trying to tone down Russian Government plans for a wholesale privatisation auction in 1998, while at the same time the airline is pressing ahead with plans to raise cash in European and US ...
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Alitalia turns in profit after ten years of making losses
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Andrea Spinelli/Rome After a decade of losses, Alitalia has turned in a net profit of L163 billion ($92 million) for the first half of the year. Chief executive Domineco Cempella promises better to come, raising the prospect of early privatisation of the state-owned Italian flag carrier. ...
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Boeing steps up Central European F-18 effort
Andrezj Jeziorski/MUNICH Boeing has added momentum to its F-18 marketing campaign in Central Europe, signing industrial agreements in the Czech Republic and Poland covering future co-operation. The US company has struck an agreement with the Polish Aviation Institute (IL), outlining co-operation in 20 advanced-technology fields related ...
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F/A-18E/F tests show 'falling-leaf' immunity
Flight testing of the Boeing F/A-18E/F has reached the half-way point and demonstrated the aircraft's immunity to the "falling-leaf" departure problem which it suffered by earlier models, according to the test team reporting at the 41st Society of Experimental Test Pilots meeting in Beverly Hills, California, on 25-26 September. ...
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Pilot reflects on first flight of Raptor
Initial pilot reaction to the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor is that is an aircraft "quick in roll and acceleration, yet very stable with excellent control" in formation flying and approach configuration, says chief test pilot Paul Metz. Describing the 58min first flight on 7 September, Metz says that ...
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Russians order French equipment for MiG-ATs
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW MAPO-MIG has agreed to buy Snecma/Turboméca Larzac 04-R20 engines and Sextant Avionique avionics for the first ten MiG-AT advanced trainers, in an agreement which may be underwritten by Fr400 million ($67.5 million) in French Government export guarantees. The Russian air force has declared its ...
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Aged to perfection?
Dave Higdon/WICHITA Flying from Clark County Airport in southern Indiana to a Kentucky state park a mere 110km (60nm) away hardly seemed a fair way to sample a Raytheon Beech Bonanza B36TC - let alone this loaded, 50th-anniversary edition. Certainly nothing to challenge the six-seat Bonanza's big speed, ...
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Schools in
Efforts to raise air-transport industry standards in China have not only been confined to the pilot, but have extended across the workforce. New training initiatives and investments have been targeted at high-level executives, middle-level managers, operations staff, down to line mechanics. China's call for help has been answered ...