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East West in US deadlock
The vagaries of the youthful private Indian aviation sector are starting to manifest themselves in the courts, as the number of cases of litigation against the independents by foreign lessors starts to rise. The most prominent case that has come to court is between East West Airlines and ...
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Is it just pie in the sky?
When an airline can save $1.5 million a year by serving salads without a lettuce liner which nobody eats anyway, you know that cost-cutting has begun to bite. These days, catering represents quite a dilemma for airlines. The marketeers say food remains a way for airlines to differentiate ...
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Chill winds hit Geneva
Political niceties have given way to economic realities as Swissair concentrates its longhaul activities in Zürich, moving several international destinations from Geneva. 'There is a change in the economic environment in this business and we are no longer in a position to pay attention to political considerations,' says Martin Bisang, ...
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US smarts at Euro success
The European aerospace industry is flexing its muscles in the wake of the Fokker collapse with an apparent double success in China and the emergence of a real challenge to the monopoly of the B747. Equally significant, the Dutch manufacturer may yet see in 1997, as it continues the search ...
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UK minnows challenge BA
British Airways is facing a double dose of action under European legislation from two of its UK rivals. In a case due before the UK High Court in mid-April, Air UK is suing BA for planning four daily services between London/Gatwick and Edinburgh. Air UK refuses to comment ...
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Urgency mounts for Alitalia state cash as losses grow
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE FULL EXTENT of Alitalia's losing battle with its massive debts became clear as the group revealed further losses for 1995. The extent of the deficit makes an injection of fresh capital essential if the airline is to continue operating. Although the group's headline loss was held to ...
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USA tries again to close F-16 Indonesian sale
US GOVERNMENT officials are hoping that a planned visit to Indonesia by the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff will revive the flagging deal to sell nine embargoed Lockheed Martin F-16A/Bs which had been destined for Pakistan. Gen John Shalikashvili is due to visit Indonesia in early May ...
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Airship deal at final stage
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC AIRSHIP manufacturing will resume in the UK as soon as a UK investor group finalises its purchase of designs, patents and other assets of Westinghouse Airships. The transaction (Flight International, 10-16 April) will be completed shortly, says Roger Munk, who is leading ...
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Bedek backs 707 as tanker platform
Douglas Barrie/TEL AVIV ISRAEL AIRCRAFT Industries' Bedek group is to stay with the Boeing 707 airframe as the basis for its tanker-conversion business, following internal studies into alternative airframes. Despite the age of the 707 design, senior Bedek officials believe that the airframe still provides ...
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The benefits of glass cockpits
Sir - I get the impression from David Learmount's article "Cracked glass" (Flight International, 3-9 April, P30) that glass-cockpit aircraft today are less than flawless and that there is a revolution, not just an evolution, needed to bring them back on track. Research into cockpit layout and the ...
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China wants Airbus Industrie to join AE-100 programme
Paul Lewis/TOULOUSE CHINA HAS ASKED AERO International (Regional) (AI(R)) to modify its regional-jet partnership proposal to include Airbus Industrie, to improve marketing and after-sales support for the planned Air Express AE-100. The involvement of Airbus is among key demands made by Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) during recent discussions with ...
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Cargo conundrum
Steady growth is predicted for world air-cargo market. Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURERS and conversion specialists are watching the burgeoning growth in world air-cargo traffic with eager anticipation. Every forecast points to steady and continuous growth, but not all agree on whether most of it will be ...
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Winglet benefits
Winglets could bring operational benefits to the Boeing 747-200F. Guy Norris/SEATTLE Aviation Partners, a Seattle-based modification company specialising in advanced winglet designs, is developing a lightweight winglet for the Boeing 747-200F. The company predicts that the revised wing could yield a 7% cruise-drag reduction, among ...
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Preaching conversion
Buoyant demand spawns new wave of widebody freighters. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA SO FAR, THE WIDEBODY freighter-conversion market has been dominated by the Boeing 747. Now, a new wave of widebody freighters is being rolled out of modification centres to meet the buoyant demand for cargo aircraft. ...
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Profitable Dassault keeps quiet on Aerospatiale link
FEW CLUES HAVE emerged as to the state of Dassault Aviation's enforced merger talks with Aerospatiale from chairman Serge Dassault's unveiling of an increasingly healthy financial results for 1995 . Dassault refers only briefly to the negotiations with Aerospatiale, which have been more or less forced on his ...
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Ryanair negotiates to find new shareholder
IRISH LOW-FARE airline Ryanair is in discussions with a major airline, thought to be British Airways, for the sale of a 25% stake. An announcement is possible within a month. The move has taken observers by surprise, even though BA has been steadily building its franchise operations through ...
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EU tightens foreign safety
David Learmount/LONDON EUROPEAN UNION (EU) airports might be empowered to carry out safety checks on foreign airlines in the same way that EU ports already check ships under the port state-control system, says the European Commission (EC). The safety check is one of several proposals, ...
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Bhoja commuter network is close
PAKISTANI CARRIER Bhoja Air, is close to establishing the country's first commuter network, with negotiations to acquire three 50- to 60-seat turboprop aircraft about to be completed, says deputy managing director Syed Hasan. Bhoja Air proposes to base the aircraft in the Punjab and to develop much-needed air ...
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Embraer wins savings from new labour deal
EMBRAER'S EMPLOYEES have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a new labour contract, which the Brazilian manufacturer says will improve manufacturing costs on the EMB-120 and the new EMB-145 50-seat regional jet. The agreement involves the loss of 350 administrative and support jobs, while production workers will take a ...
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Puel moves on from AI(R)
AFTER 15 YEARS at the head of Franco-Italian regional-aircraft consortium ATR - now Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) - Henri-Paul Puel is leaving the post to direct Aerospatiale maintenance subsidiary Sogerma. He will be replaced, by Patrick Gavin formerly Aerospatiale's director of industrial and technology strategy. Puel was central ...