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Macau bilateral
Macau has signed a bilateral air-services agreement with the USA, opening up the enclave's new international airport to US traffic. The liberal agreement includes extensive fifth- and seventh-freedom rights for US passenger and cargo carriers, in exchange for granting Air Macau access to the USA. Macau has signed bilateral agreements ...
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LOT orders additional 737s
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH LOT POLISH Airlines is expanding its fleet with an order for four new Boeing 737s, including two new-generation -800s, in response to rising domestic and international traffic. The order, believed to be worth $160 million, is for two 144-seat 737-400s and two ...
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Slovakia and Croatia set to join Eurocontrol
SLOVAKIA AND Croatia, are on the verge of becoming the newest members of Eurocontrol, with the acceptance of their membership applications by the air-traffic-control organisation's Permanent Commission. Membership now has to be confirmed by domestic parliamentary ratification procedures, and Eurocontrol says that it hopes that both countries will ...
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Relaunch emphasises Saudi Arabian's new commercialism
Max Kingsley-Jones/JEDDAH IN ITS FIRST major revamp for over two decades, Saudi Arabian Airlines has unveiled a new corporate identity and pledged a new sense of commercialism within the state-owned carrier. The revamp, which includes the dropping of the name Saudia, is described by the ...
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Stork wraps up Fokker Aviation deal
DUTCH ENGINEERING group Stork has sealed its acquisition of the Fokker Aviation business, which groups together the profitable support and components-manufacturing operations which escaped the Fokker bankruptcy in February. The acquisition does not have a direct bearing on the fate of the bankrupt assembly business, but Fokker Aviation ...
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R-R offers Trent 900 on 747-X
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON ROLLS-ROYCE has signed an agreement with Boeing which will see it offer the Trent 900 to power the proposed 747-500/600X in direct competition with the General Electric/Pratt & Whitney joint venture. The planned Trent 900, described as a "low-risk derivative" of the Trent ...
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TWA 747 crash raises spectre of terrorism
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LOCATING THE cockpit-voice and flight-data recorders was the priority following the 17 July crash of a Trans World Airlines (TWA) Boeing 747-100 into the Atlantic Ocean off Long Island, New York. All 210 passengers and 18 crew on board TWA Flight 800 were killed ...
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Japan blames Airbus and China Airlines for 1994 Nagoya Airport accident
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE and China Airlines (CAL) have both been attributed with blame by a Japanese investigation into the April 1994 crash of an A300-600R at Nagoya. A final report issued by Japan's Aircraft Accident Investigation Commission (AAIC) points to deficiencies in the design of the aircraft's flight-control ...
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Crash spoils TWA safety record
THE TWA 747-100 accident on 17 July marks the first fatal crash for the airline in a decade. The last incident occurred in April 1986, when a terrorist bomb exploded on board a Boeing 727 inbound to Athens, killing four passengers, although the aircraft landed safely. Excluding terrorist ...
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Chinese Boeing deal signals relaxation in Sino-US relations
IN A SIGN OF gradual thawing of relations between Washington and Beijing, Air China has ordered three Boeing 747-400s, while McDonnell Douglas (MDC) has agreed to deliver its first MD-90 TrunkLiner to China Northern. The three new Boeing 747-400s are scheduled for delivery in May and August 1997 ...
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GECAS places first order with Airbus
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH GENERAL Electric Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) has placed its first business with Airbus Industrie, with an order for 45 aircraft and another 45 options. GECAS has signed 40 firm orders for the A319/A320/A321 family, with another five for the long-range A340-300, which, at current ...
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Brymon's Puffin in a Dash
BRYMON'S NEWLY CREATED off shore charter division, is operating two Bombardier de Havilland Dash 7s from its Aberdeen base. Brymon Offshore Air Charter has been awarded a $16 million (£10 million) five-year contract by BP Exploration to carry oil workers between Aberdeen and the Shetland Islands. The division's logo features ...
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Rolls-Royce RB.211s in Ulyanovsk
THE FIRST SET OF ROLLS-ROYCE RB.211-535s has been delivered to Aviastar in Ulyanovsk for installation on a production Tupolev Tu-204. The aircraft will be used to complete certification of the R-R-powered Tu-204-200 series. The delivery was timed to coincide with the visit of a business group to finalise talks about ...
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MDC
McDonnell Douglas (MDC) has opened a commercial-aircraft marketing office in Sydney, Australia. It is to be headed by Thomas Epperson, who is appointed vice-president of commercial marketing for South Pacific operations. He has been with the US manufacturer for 30 years, in marketing, government contracts, finance, and as programme manager ...
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THY minibus
THY has added its first narrowbodied Airbuses with the lease of three International Aero Engines V2500-powered A320s from Orix (two) and International Lease Finance (one). The aircraft, which are subleased to the Turkish airline via Translift, are based in Antalya. Source: Flight International
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Spanish 737 order
Spanish inclusive-tour operator Air Europa has ordered ten Boeing 737-800s, worth around $510 million, with options for two more aircraft. Deliveries to the Palma-based airline, which operates ten 737-300s and five 737-400s, will begin in 1998 and continue into 1999. Boeing has announced orders for 312 737-600/700/800s. ...
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Wideroe prepares for traffic expansion with more Dash 8s
NORWEGIAN carrier Wider¿e Flyveselskap has ordered a Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-400 70-seat turboprop for delivery in the third quarter of 1999. The aircraft is part of a $40 million deal which includes two used Dash 8-100s and one used -300. The latter will be delivered by the ...
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A321 ETOPS
The CFM International CFM56 and International Aero Engines V2500-powered versions of the Airbus A321 received 120min extended-range twin-engined operations (ETOPS) European Joint Aviation Authorities approval in May. Meanwhile, the JAA has approved the A320 family's Auxiliary Power International (APIC) APS 3200 auxiliary power unit for 120min ETOPS. Source: ...
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FAA and NTSB continue to spar over FDRS
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC US PASSENGER airlines will be required to retrofit their fleets with enhanced flight-data recorders (EFDRs) within about four years under a US Federal Aviation Administration proposal. The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), meanwhile, continues to criticise the FAA for acting too slowly. ...
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Trent 777 ETOPS testing resumes
BOEING RESUMED extended-range twin-engined operations (ETOPS) testing of the Rolls-Royce Trent 800-powered 777 on 11 July, after foreign-object damage was determined to be the cause of a surge which halted testing on 16 June (Flight International, 3-9 July). Testing for 180min ETOPS clearance is expected to be completed on schedule ...