All air transport news – Page 2466
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Continental power
Rolls-Royce has received a $75 million order for RB.211-535E4B engines to power five Continental Airlines Boeing 757s, the first of which is due to be delivered in June 1998. Continental has also placed a contract with Rolls-Royce Canada for the repair and overhaul of the engines of its 21-strong 757 ...
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SAS postpones decision on replacements for 767 fleet
The decision by SAS on a possible replacement for its long-haul fleet of 14 Boeing 767s is now not expected until 1998. A final decision could run into 1999 as the airline looks hard at the cost justification for the investment. The Scandinavian airline expects to take 15-20 ...
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Prospect of sell-off looms for Air Niugini
Papua New Guinea's incoming finance minister Roy Yaki has confirmed that the Government is "seriously looking" at privatising Air Niugini, which he describes as being in "a dire financial situation", and surviving on "daily cash takings". He also confirms reports that the previous PNG Government had "-received a ...
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French cabinet nears decision on aerospace privatisations
Julian Moxon/paris The French Government has promised to reveal its decision on the futures of Aerospatiale and Thomson-CSF before the end of September, and has said that the creation of an Airbus company should be a "priority". The future of the two state-owned aerospace giants has ...
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Prime suspect
Boeing says that it may be late delivering some aircraft this year, because neither it nor its suppliers can keep up with its delivery schedule. Rolls-Royce says that its results are not as good as they should have been because it is working too much overtime and because its suppliers ...
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South Korea considers plan to extend production of F-16s
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE A proposal to extend licence-production of the Lockheed Martin F-16C/D Korean Fighter Programme (KFP) appears to be gaining support, as budgetary pressure grows for the follow-on F-X fighter project to be delayed. A squeeze on South Korean defence expenditure is forcing the ministry of ...
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More than collision avoidance
Harry Hopkins/LONDON An unplanned-for side-effect of the fitting of the traffic-alert and collision- avoidance system (TCAS) to airliners - compulsory already in the USA, and shortly to be so in Europe - is that pilots can have a much greater awareness of the positions of other aircraft around ...
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Maturing nicely
Graham Warwick/Fort Worth Risk will be a deciding factor in who wins the competition to develop the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). An unprecedented effort is under way, therefore, funded by government and industry, to reduce the risk attached to technologies judged critical to meeting the affordability and performance ...
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Boeing fights to stay on schedule
Guy Norris/LOSANGELES Boeing is temporarily transferring "several hundred" assembly workers from the 767 line to the adjacent 747 line as part of an effort to stave off impending delivery delays, which may result in the late handover of at least one of each model this year. ...
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easyJet considers new 737 and A320 in fleet-expansion plans
easyJet has expanded its plans for the acquisition of new Boeing 737s, and is now considering the Next Generation -700, as well as an offer of A320s from Airbus. The company is in final negotiations and says that a firm order should be placed soon. The Luton, UK-based ...
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Japan Airlines sells DC-10-40 fleet to Omega-led consortium
Paul Lewis/SINGAPOREMax Kingsley-Jones/LONDON An Omega Air-led consortium has reached an agreement to purchase Japan Airlines' (JAL) entire fleet of 20 McDonnell Douglas DC-10-40s, for sale or lease and possible conversion into freighters. NI Aircraft Leasing, a subsidiary of Japan's Nissho Iwai, has acquired the rights to ...
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Klimov holds MiG-29 engine talks in Iran
Russian engine design bureau Klimov is in negotiations with Iran for a licence-production agreement for its RD-33 engine, which powers the MAPO MIG MiG-29 Fulcrum. Senior officials from MAPO MIG, of which Klimov now forms a part, confirm that "an RD-33 engine licence-manufacturing agreement in Iran" is being ...
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World 'ignores' life-saving equipment
The Korean Air (KAL) Boeing 747-300 fatal crash at Guam on 6 August has highlighted the need for use of minimum safe-altitude warning (MSAW) systems at airports worldwide, says the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF). There was a fault in the Guam MSAW software when KAL's 747 hit a ...
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SASCommuter confirms selection of 15 Dash-8 400s
SASCOMMUTER confirms that it plans to sign a $350 million deal for 15 Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-400 turboprops, plus 18 options, representing the largest single order to date for the Canadian manufacturer's new high-speed 70-seat aircraft. The Dash 8-400 selection will fill a gap between the mainline ...
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Swissair and Lufthansa study 747 replacements
Airbus could land two more prestige customers for its A340-600 later this year, as Swissair and Lufthansa examine the aircraft to replace their Boeing 747 "Classic" ßeets. Swissair says that it expects to make a decision on the long-term future of its 747-300 ßeet by the year-end. The Ìve aircraft ...
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Global Aircraft puts flexible propeller under test
A flexible self-optimising propeller which combines the advantages of fixed-pitch and constant-speed units is being tested by US firm Global Aircraft of Starkville, Mississippi. Production of the Quasi-Constant-Speed (QCS) propeller, priced at $3,500, is set to start this month, initially aimed at experimental aircraft. Production of units certificated for general-aviation ...
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Airline Business 100 - 1997
Rank Airline Revenue US$M OpResult US$M NetResult US$M net margin % fleet Total emps Revenue Tonne kilometres (mil) Revenue Pax km Pax millions Load Factor % Year End 96 95 Pax ...
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Aircraft news
United Airlines has ordered eight Boeing 767-300s, with four deliveries in 1998, one in 1999 and three in 2000. Air Canada has ordered five Airbus A330-300s and three A340-300s, plus 20 options, with deliveries starting in October 1999. Brit Air has ordered two Bombardier RJ 100s, ...
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Suppliers
Galileo International's initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange raised US$784 million, giving the company a market value of $2.45 billion. Galileo acquired the Traviswiss distribution company for $8 million in July. The Sabre Group is to install its passenger reservation, yield management, passenger control, frequent ...
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Boeing talks up its MD-95
Boeing talks up its MD-95 fter clearing the last regulatory hurdle in Brussels at the eleventh hour, the newly merged Boeing-McDonnell Douglas is making one last bid to breathe new life into marketing efforts for the MD-95. The 'new' Boeing, which began operations on 4 August, has a ...