All air transport news – Page 2601
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Air New Zealand starts returning grounded 737s to service
AIR NEW ZEALAND (ANZ) expects to be back to full capacity by 12 March, following the grounding of ten Boeing 737-200s with Nordam hushkits (Flight International, 22-27 February). The aircraft were grounded following a series of turbine failures on the Nordam-hushkitted Pratt & Whitney JT8D-15A in a six-month ...
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Midway plans to lease A320s to operate from Raleigh-Durham
MIDWAY AIRLINES is to operate a fleet of Airbus Industrie A320s from its new hub operation at Raleigh-Durham Airport, North Carolina, recently acquired from American Airlines. The Chicago-based carrier is initially leasing four International Aero Engines (IAE) V2500-A1-powered A320s from Orix. The first two A320s will arrive in ...
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Lockheed and Boeing discuss fuselage project
LOCKHEED AND Boeing are in talks over a joint bid to build and demonstrate an advanced aft-fuselage design for the US Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) programme. The two companies are already engaged in talks over combining their entire JAST efforts into a single team. "We are now ...
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Saab hives off aircraft and defence units
THE SAAB-SCANIA group is being broken up, the Saab aircraft and defence businesses being split into a separate company from the Scania truck and bus operation and from Saab Automobiles. The two new companies will be held directly by the Investor Group, the powerful Swedish holding company controlled ...
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Fokker slashes costs in new restructuring plan
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Fokker has embarked upon a radical programme of restructuring, job cuts and site closures in a bid to pull itself back into profit by mid-1996. Losses have been mounting at the Dutch manufacturer as output has dwindled to only 50 aircraft a year - ...
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Upbeat UK operators urged into Europe
The UK Government has pledged backing for its business-aviation operators in ensuring a "level playing field" in Europe when full cabotage is introduced in 1997. The promise was delivered at the annual conference of the General Aviation Manufacturers and Traders Association, which urged its members to exploit the ...
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Oil loss forces down BMA 737
RAPID ENGINE-OIL loss on both engines forced a British Midland Airways Boeing 737-400 crew to make an emergency landing at London Luton Airport on 23 February. UK Civil Aviation Authority records show that blanking plates had not been replaced after borescope inspections of the two engines, and that ...
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Swissair in regional/charter shake-up
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH SWISSAIR HAS HANDED over its regional-jet operations to its Crossair subsidiary. In a second strategic move, Swissair and Crossair will absorb the loss-making charter flights of Balair/CTA - effectively ending the latter's operations. Both moves are aimed at cutting costs and restoring group profitability. By the ...
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Costly competition
Airbus chief Jean Pierson's recent hint that not all is proceeding smoothly within the Future Large Aircraft (FLA) consortium seems to be borne out by confirmation that the UK and Germany are locked in a desperate battle over the wing for Europe's proposed military transport. On the surface, such competition ...
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Thomson set for loss despite growth
THOMSON-CSF reports a steady growth in sales for 1994, but the French defence- electronics giant is still on course to show a large net loss for the year because of its 19% holding in the troubled Credit Lyonnais bank. Thomson says that group sales rose by 6.2% over ...
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Transaero gives warning on profit shortfall
INDEPENDENT RUSSIAN airline Transaero has warned that its 1994 financial results will fall short of targets laid out at the start of the year. Although passenger numbers more than doubled, to over 530,000, Transaero president Dr Alexander Pleshakov says that the airline was affected by "an unfair taxation ...
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Baikal profitable
Flight International would like to make clear that the "Baikal" aviation company listed as going bankrupt in a recent Russian aviation feature did not refer to Baikal Airlines. The reference (Flight International, 15-21 February) was to Baikal Avia in Irkutsk, which was one of several small Russian aviation companies which ...
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Boeing seeks waiver over head-impact rules
BOEING HAS requested a temporary exemption from US Federal Aviation Administration head-injury criteria (HIC) certification rules for some economy-class seats on the 777 until May 1996. The company, like others, has been struggling for some four years to find ways of meeting the HIC requirements and has experimented ...
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ARIA faces privatisation
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW PRIVATISATION AND fleet renewal remain at the top of the agenda for Aeroflot-Russian International Airlines (ARIA), says chief executive Vladimir Tikhonov. He adds that the first step in the privatisation process will take place shortly with the issue of shares to airline's staff. Employees ...
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Indian to sell 737s
Indian Airlines says that it is to sell six of its Boeing 737s as part of a fleet-modernisation programme which would see the carrier use the cash to acquire 50-seat turboprops. Indian wants the turboprops to boost the operations of its short-haul division created out of the now-defunct state-owned carrier ...
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EMB-145 assembly advances
ASSEMBLY OF THE FIRST Embraer EMB-145 regional turbofan is continuing towards completion. Various fuselage subassemblies built by Embraer and its partners, Enaer of Chile and Sonaca of Belgium, are in the process of being mated ahead of installation of the first wingset being delivered by Spanish company Gamesa. The EMB-145 ...
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Appointments
Ian Shiu has been named as general manager marketing and sales at Dragonair. Tom Davenport has been appointed to head up the Pratt & Whitney and MTU mid-thrust family engine project. Edmond Soliday has been named as United's vice president corporate safety and security. ...
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Orders/Leases
All Nippon Airways has ordered 10 Airbus A321s with eight options for delivery from 1998. At the same time the carrier deferred delivery of five A340s, due to begin in 1996, to beyond 2000. Biman Bangladesh Airlines has ordered two A310-300s powered by PW4000 engines. Delivery is scheduled ...
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Suppliers
Rolls-Royce Aero Engine Services has won overhaul contracts worth $98.6 million. Airtours, China Eastern and Britannia Airways have all signed new long-term contracts, while Air 2000 and American Trans Air are extending existing contracts. Lockheed Aeromod Centers has won a contract to perform heavy maintenance on ...
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Samsung considers joining four-seat Skycar project
SOUTH KOREA'S Samsung Aerospace, has agreed to study the feasibility, of jointly developing a four-seat vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft with US designer, Moller International. Davis, California-based Moller, has been developing the ducted-fan Skycar since 1983 and has invested $35 million in the programme to date. ...