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The curtain rises
Coming soon - the next installment in an exciting tale of aircraft engines and orders. Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES This year's Farnborough air show provides the stage for an extraordinary drama, the cut and thrust of which would defy even the most imaginative playwrights of the West End ...
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Slow progress
Progress towards achieving a US/Russian bilateral airworthiness agreement remains slow. Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE USA AND RUSSIA will break no speed records in their marathon efforts to complete a bilateral airworthiness agreement, say US aviation officials involved in the negotiations. While some progress is reported ...
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UPS ups orders
UPS has announced orders for five additional Rolls-Royce RB.211-535E4-powered Boeing 757-200PFs for delivery in 1998, which will bring its orders for the aircraft to 75. The express-parcels carrier operates more than 50 757s, including 35 powered by the Pratt & Whitney PW2000. Source: Flight International
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Regional rivalry
The Embraer EMB-145's Farnborough debut will help to focus attention on regional airliners. Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON WHILE THE 1996 show is the first occasion on which the three major airliner manufacturers - Airbus Industrie, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) - will be exhibiting their latest commercial wares at ...
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X-tended players
Airbus Industrie, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas are all poised to move forward with their X projects. Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDONGuy Norris/LOS ANGELES THE LATEST AIRCRAFT models of the big three airliner manufacturers are all now carrying revenue passengers, and the industry is standing by for the next ...
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Australia and South Africa reach agreement on capacity boosts
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS AUSTRALIA HAS AGREED to several capacity increases on international routes, which will enable carriers to step up the number of services operated. South Africa and Australia have lifted capacity restrictions and approved codeshare arrangements between the two countries. This will enable a fourth ...
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Another Chinese launch fails
Tim Furniss/LONDON CHINA GREAT WALL Industry (CGWIC) failed to place the Hughes HS-376 ChinaSat 7 communications satellite into the correct geostationary-transfer orbit (GTO) after launch aboard a Long March 3 from Xichang on 18 August. China Telecommunications Broadcast Satellite's 24-transponder spacecraft was stranded in orbit, ...
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Korean Air plunges into losses in first-half
KOREAN AIR (KAL) plummeted into losses over the first half of the year, largely as a result of massive foreign-exchange losses from the steady rise of the US dollar so far this year. The South Korean national carrier made a net loss of 254 billion won ($309 million) ...
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Passenger/baggage matching system planned
MICRON Communications has signed a co-operative research-and-development agreement with the US Federal Aviation Administration to develop a prototype positive passenger-baggage matching system. The objective is for the system to recognise automatically when baggage has been placed on an aircraft without the associated passenger, says Boise, Idaho-based Micron. ...
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GE prepares Snecma invitation to A340-600 engine project
Julian Moxon/PARIS GENERAL ELECTRIC Aircraft Engines says that Snecma will "-definitely be invited" to join development of a power plant for the Airbus A340-600, if Airbus Industrie accepts the US company's proposal to supply an engine for the aircraft. Under a six-month exclusivity deal signed ...
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Government is urged to sell further stake in Thai Airways
AN IMPROVING financial performance from Thai Airways is raising calls for the Thai Government to press ahead with a further sale of shares in the national airline. Thai transport minister Wan Mohammed Nor Matha is on record as urging the country's finance ministry to sell some of its ...
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DASA aims to transfer A320 final-assembly to Hamburg
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICHJulian Moxon/PARIS DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) president Manfred Bischoff says that it is a key strategic goal for the company to bring final assembly of the Airbus A320 to its Hamburg plant, effectively making Germany the centre of excellence for narrow-body airliners within a consolidated European industry. ...
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Cargo and Catering departments face Sabena axe
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS SABENA PLANS to shed its cargo and catering departments, with the possibility that they will be merged into the larger operations being run by the carrier's alliance partner and effective owner Swissair. Paul Reutlinger, who was brought in as Sabena president by Swissair ...
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South Korea's air force may revive plans to upgrade F-5s
Paul Lewis /SEOUL THE SOUTH KOREAN air force is considering reviving longstanding plans for an avionics and structural upgrade of its Northrop F-5E/F fighters. South Korean industry sources expect the air force to issue a new request for proposals (RFP) before the end of the ...
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Dollar rise takes toll of SAS profit
SAS HAS BECOME the latest of the northern European carriers to suffer a slump in operating profits, largely blamed on the rise of the US dollar. The Scandinavian carrier ended the first half of the year with operating profits down by nearly 40% at SKr930 million ($142 million) ...
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Failure on Delta JT8D concerns Safety Board
A DELTA AIR LINES Boeing 727 suffered engine surge followed by the uncontained turbine failure of one of its three Pratt & Whitney JT8D-15A engines during a climb from New York's LaGuardia Airport, on 14 August, says the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The incident, the second ...
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A sticky problem
THE WORLD'S LARGEST and most profitable airlines are facing an all-time-great dilemma as the Farnborough Air Show approaches. Should they bow to Boeing's pressure and sign now for its new stretched 747-500/ 600, or should they await the Airbus A3XX? If they buy the Boeing now, they ...
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Alaska spurns MDC for Boeing
ALASKA AIRLINES is negotiating for a fleet of new-generation Boeing 737s, following an apparent decision to sell off its large McDonnell Douglas (MDC) fleet and become all-Boeing by 2000. If confirmed, the move will mean the end of MDC's long-running battle with Boeing to supply Alaska with new ...
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MDC pushes for civil C-17
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is about to request that the rights to its C-17 military transport be transferred from the US Department of Defense to the Commerce Department as a prelude to marketing the MD-17 commercial derivative. The formal request for the transfer ...
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Lufthansa to sell 737-400 fleet in cost-cutting move
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH LUFTHANSA IS TO SELL its fleet of six Boeing 737-400s as part of a major cost-cutting programme under way at the German national airline. According to Lufthansa, cost-cutting probes have exposed unnecessary capacities and unprofitable routes. "We have pinpointed the 737-400 as an ...