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Liability still in question
The TWA crash in mid-July underscores the uncertainty that still surrounds airline liability, despite progress made on Iata's voluntary agreement on unlimited liability. The agreement was signed after the crash, so won't affect claims against TWA. But the carrier could still follow the example of American Airlines, which ...
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Aviastar JV bid in Taiwan
Russia's largest commercial aircraft manufacturer Aviastar is bidding to carve out a niche in Asia by proposing to set up a joint venture aircraft assembly, marketing and maintenance centre in Taiwan. The Russian firm, which already has a marketing presence in Taipei, aims to assemble the medium-range Tu-204 ...
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Air Afrique states case
We have been deeply upset by the article 'Eleven oust Afrique boss' (Airline Business, June) commenting on Yves Roland-Billecart's departure from Air Afrique. Roland-Billecart's decision to resign was a consequence of the resolution from the Ministers of Transport of Air Afrique's owner states to separate the functions of chairman ...
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All together in the Middle East
The collapse in yields to the Indian subcontinent and the Philippines has pushed carriers in the Middle East into a fares pact aimed at stemming the decline. Gulf Air, Emirates and Kuwait Airways agreed at a meeting in Kuwait in June to raise market fares on sectors to ...
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TWA resists Pan Am rerun
After years of proving detractors wrong and just as the carrier was showing signs of recovery, TWA is once again fighting to prove that it can survive, following the crash of Flight 800 off New York's Long Island on 17 July. In the three weeks that followed the ...
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Running for cover
The war in former Yugoslavia highlighted some problems for that invention of the previous decade, political risk insurance for aircraft lenders. Angus von Schoenberg tells how the insurance product has developed and matured. Political risk insurance (PRI) as a form of security for aircraft financiers is no longer the new, ...
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ValuJet's long shadow
US The crash of ValuJet Flight 592 in May has had more impact on the US airline industry than any other commercial aviation tragedy. Mead Jennings explores the longer-term repercussions of the ValuJet affair. The repercussions of the crash of a 27-year-old ValuJet Airlines DC-9 in Florida's Everglades, which killed ...
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Mandela inspires trade into Africa
After more than a decade of being regarded as a lost cause, there are increasing signs that sub-Saharan Africa is making a return to the global economic and political system. In the 1990s, apart from periodic bouts of brutal violence in countries as diverse as Rwanda, Burundi, Liberia and Nigeria, ...
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Airline news
Canadian Air Cargo and American Airlines Cargo begin an alliance on 1 September. Canadian Air Cargo will be general sales agent for its US partner in Canada and American will be GSA for Canadian Air Cargo in the US, Latin America and the Caribbean. Continental Airlines plans to ...
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China's links are at stake
The clearing of the aeropolitical clouds over Hong Kong may be having a downwind effect in Taiwan, where direct air links with China (PRC) are moving from political rhetoric to actual preparation. Wang Guixiang, chairman of China National Aviation Corporation and new chairman of Dragonair, was the first ...
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Qantas faces union threat
Qantas's management is facing confrontation with unions over a new wage agreement as it launches a drive to try to control costs and improve on disappointing productivity gains. Flight attendants and ground workers have already hinted at industrial action if they fail to win agreement on across the ...
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Aerotaca Saab
Aerotaca Airlines is to introduce a used Saab 340B, acquired through Saab Aircraft of America. The ex-Aer Lingus 340B joins the Bogota, Colombia-based airline's fleet of two de Havilland Canada Twin Otters, one Beech C90 and one Fairchild FH-227, operating services to Yopal and Bucaramanga. The addition of ...
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Romanian regional
DAC Air says that it will take delivery of the first of four 50-seat Canadair Regional Jets in late September. The Romanian regional airline already operates four Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-300s on lease from General Electric Capital Aviation Services, and will take the first of four new Dash 8-300s ...
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easyJet adds
EasyJet has announced further expansion, with the addition of a fourth Boeing 737 (its second 737-300) and extra services to its network, which includes flights from London Luton to Aberdeen, Amsterdam, Edinburgh and Glasgow. The UK start-up airline will introduce the new aircraft in October. Source: ...
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MDC
Former astronaut Richard Covey has been appointed director of the McDonnell Douglas Aerospace Houston, Texas, division. Covey, who was formerly deputy programme director for Unisys Information Management Services' space operations, also in Houston, replaces George Kersels, who has left the company. Source: Flight International
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Swearingen
Jack Braly, president of Beech Aircraft from December 1990 to August 1993, has joined Sino Swearingen Aircraft (SSAC) as president and chief executive officer. Braly comes to the Taiwan-backed US company, which is developing the SJ30-2 light business-jet, from Rockwell International, where he was general manager of the North American ...
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Seven-year countdown
Airbus makes progress towards a launch of its vitally important new large aircraft. Julian Moxon/TOULOUSE THIS AIRCRAFT "-will be the biggest challenge in civil-aviation history", says Jurgen Thomas, head of the new large-aircraft division of Airbus Industrie charged with developing the A3XX. While such words ...
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Farnborough '96 show guide
Compiled by Kate Sarsfield/LONDON SINCE ITS INAUGURATION in 1948, the Farnborough air show has blossomed into one of the largest and most important events on the aerospace calendar. Yet, with other show organisers relentlessly launching new challenges to Farnborough's superiority, the Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC) is ...
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Lebanese events
Lebanese cargo carrier Trans Mediterranean Airlines (TMA) suspended all operations indefinitely on 5 August. The carrier operated a fleet of four Boeing 707-300 freighters and employed 460 people. In 1995, TMA announced that it would suspend 200 employees because of its deteriorating financial condition. Separately, Lebanese flag carrier Middle East ...
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Family favourites
Boeing's new-generation 737is the same, only different Guy Norris/SEATTLE EXACTLY 30 YEARS ago, the first Boeing 737 was taking shape at the company's plant in Renton, Washington. At the time, not everyone was convinced that the "Baby Boeing" gamble would be a winner. The concern ...