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Training China Southern
Wicat is to supply computer-based training hardware to China Southern Airlines' Zhuhai centre for Boeing 777 training. The equipment will also provide, 737 flight training and 737 and 757 flight-management system "free-play" simulations. Source: Flight International
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Air Canada Financing
Air Canada has signed its $1,466 million export-credit lease-financing agreement for the six Airbus A340s and 25 A319s ordered in 1994. The deal was arranged, by a syndicate of French, German and UK banks. The aircraft will arrive between November 1996 and May 1998, by which time the airline believes ...
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Back In Business
Finland's only independent airline, Air Botnia, has resumed passenger services after coming close to bankruptcy. The restructured regional carrier, under new management and believed to have re-scheduled its debts, provides domestic services, operating three Embraer EMB-110 Bandeirantes. Source: Flight International
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Lockheed Martin
Marillyn Hewson has been named director of commercial practices at Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems, of Marietta, Georgia. She was formerly business manager for operations. Source: Flight International
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Currency instability: the realities
Sir - While I generally find Flight International to be accurate, I was surprised to read "Dollar distress" (Flight International, 31 May-6 June) concerning the impact of recent worldwide currency movements on the aircraft industry. Your suggestion that aviation companies should "price in a wider mix of yen, deutschmarks or ...
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Atlas adds to 747 freighter fleet
US CARGO AIRLINE Atlas Air has purchased three Boeing 747-200 Combis from Alitalia for conversion to full freighter configuration. The first converted aircraft is expected to enter service in the third quarter of 1995, and all three are to be in service by early 1996. The purchases take ...
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Fokker chooses Collins GPS for JetLine
FOKKER HAS SELECTED Rockwell-Collins' AVSAT-900 flight-management/global-positioning system (FMS/GPS) as standard on its JetLine series of regional aircraft. The Collins system will replace a Honeywell FMS in the Fokker 70 and 100, beginning with 1997 deliveries. Fokker is the launch customer for Collins Commercial Avionics' AVSAT satellite-based avionics. The ...
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Aviareps enters leasing business
AVIAREPS, THE UK-based airline representation group, has acquired a Boeing 737-300 from GE Capital Aviation Services for use in the Portuguese market where it has no link-up with a local airline. The aircraft, contracted out to tour operators throughout Europe, is based in Portugal and is flown by ...
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Sabena eyes pact with VLM
SABENA HAS STARTED discussions with struggling Antwerp-based regional VLM over a possible collaboration pact. Both airlines deny that a take-over or equity injection is on the agenda. Some observers, however, question the motives of Sabena, suggesting that its co-operation strategy is a ploy to keep the small independent ...
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British World to expand fleet
BRITISH WORLD Airlines is considering expanding its fleet early in 1996, to meet increasing demands in the UK charter market for aircraft in the 130-seat range. The Southend, Essex-based firm is believed to be looking for three aircraft in the Boeing 737-200 class, having had its fleet of ...
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Boeing wins first round of JAA certification row over new 737
David Learmount/LONDON BOEING HAS WON the first round of a battle to have its new 737 family of aircraft declared as derivatives by the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA). The move will allow the US company to claim "grandfather rights" and avoid having to meet current safety regulations ...
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Satellite-navigation-approach first for Alaska Airlines 737-400
AN ALASKA AIRLINES Boeing 737-400 has been flown successfully on satellite-navigation (satnav)-based instrument approaches to a 300ft (90m) decision height at Juneau, Alaska without using any ground-based navigation aids. The pioneering flight was undertaken by Boeing and Smiths Industries as a proof-of-concept demonstration to the US Federal Aviation ...
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Air France gives Europe to Air Inter
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS AIR INTER, traditionally France's domestic trunk airline, is to become the Air France Group's low-cost European operation, if plans unveiled by the Group's chief executive, Christian Blanc, go ahead. Blanc says that the operation would be running by 1997, when the intra-European-Union "open-skies" policy ...
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Vnukovo forms link with ARIA
MOSCOW-BASED Vnukovo Airlines has announced a deal with Aeroflot-Russian International Airlines (ARIA) to co-operate on Russian domestic, intra-CIS routes, and some international services. The international destinations are those in Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. Co-operative arrangements are intended to improve passenger services, enable sales-office sharing, ...
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Has ValuJet broken the mould?
ValuJet has been rewriting the rules for low-cost US start-ups, but for how long can it keep on growing? Kevin O'Toole/ATLANTA ValuJet's success has been remarkable by any standard. With its own distinctive brand of low-cost operations, and scant regard for conventional wisdom, the start-up carrier has stormed ...
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Boeing flies 767 freighter
THE BOEING 767-300F freighter made its first flight from Everett to Boeing Field in late June. Boeing says that the 2h 29min "flawless" flight begins a relatively short test effort which is expected to include 60 flight hours and 300 ground-test hours. Three aircraft will be involved in ...