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Virgin Atlantic will start thrice weekly services from London/ Heathrow to Johannesburg from October. British Airways is to ban smoking on all flights to US and Caribbean destinations, except where more than one daily flight is available. South African Airways has resumed service to Buenos Aires ...
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Consulting with success
Kenya Airways' successful privatisation is raising hopes for a renaissance in African aviation Kevin O'Toole/LONDON BRIAN DAVIES admits that it was an opportunity that no self-respecting aviation consultant could have resisted. After being called in to lead a six-week study on how Kenya Airways should ...
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American in Paris
Boeing is trying to interest Air France in the purchase of the Boeing 777. An Air France Boeing 747 pilot, Andre Groppo of the airline's evaluation division, flew the aircraft between Dubai and Paris in late February. Air France directors, headed by chairman Christian Blanc, also attended a presentation of ...
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Extra EA400 tourer nears maiden flight
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH GERMAN AIRCRAFT manufacturer Extra-Flugzeugbau expects to conduct the maiden flight of its Extra EA400 touring aircraft by mid-March. The company says that the aircraft is in a final round of ground tests leading up to its aerial debut. The exact date of the ...
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Fairchild delivers Metro 23s to Orca
FAIRCHILD HAS delivered the first of two Metro 23s equipped with an electronic flight-information system. The 23E as the version is known, is also fitted with a digital autopilot and was delivered recently, to Egyptian carrier Orca Air. The airline, which has options on a further four 23Es, will operate ...
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Canada's WestJet ready for take-off
LOW-COST CARRIER WestJet Airlines plans to begin operations in western Canada on 29 February. The Calgary-based airline intends to operate 96 flights a week initially, increasing to 152, between Victoria, Vancouver, Kelowna, Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg. The carrier owns three Boeing 737-200s and has a "substantial pool" of working capital. ...
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Ozone production is of greater concern
Sir - The two recent, and excellent, articles, "A340 findings indicate ozone is 'not being destroyed'" and "Emission control" (Flight International, 17-23 January, P20, and 31 January-6 February, P69), contain some misinterpretations on the MOZAIC (Measurement of Ozone by Airbus In-service Aircraft) programme. Both mention ozone depletion, but, ...
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DGPS approaches
Airport interest in satellite-based precision approaches is growing, as the potential benefits become evident. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA IN 1995, THE INTERNATIONAL aviation community, granted a stay of execution, to the venerable instrument-landing-system (ILS), while paving the way for its eventual replacement, by the global-positioning system (GPS). ...
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Playing tag
Karen Walker/ATLANTA THE US FEDERAL AVIATION Administration plans to award two contracts in March for competitive development of a system which "tags" returns from an airport surface-movement radar with aircraft identity. AlliedSignal and Cardion plan to bid for the airport-traffic identification system (ATIDS), one element of the FAA's ...
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Asian ATR centre set for year-end
AERO INTERNATIONAL (Regional) says that its Asian ATR training centre, a joint venture with Thai Airways International, will be operational by November. The centre will be located in Thai's simulator base in Bangkok (Flight International, 20-26 December1995). The centre will be equipped with a Thomson Training & Simulation ...
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Hughes deals change shape of commercial simulator fleet
HUGHES FLIGHT Training in the UK has announced a series of deals, which will result in a reshaping of its commercial flight-simulator fleet. The London Gatwick-based independent training centre, formerly British Caledonian Flight Training has repositioned a Boeing 737-300/400 simulator, from Gatwick to Alaska Airlines' training centre in ...
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APU selection
Air Canada has selected the AlliedSignal Engines 36-300 auxiliary power-unit (APU) for 35 Airbus A319s on order, in a deal exceeding $25 million. Air Jamaica has selected Auxiliary Power International's APS 3200 APU for four Airbus A320s it has on order. Source: Flight International
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Rohr deal
BMW Rolls Royce has selected Rohr to supply nacelles and thrust-reversers for the BR715 engine powering the McDonnell Douglas MD-95. Test hardware will be delivered later this year, with engine certification scheduled for September 1998 and first aircraft deliveries for mid-1999. Source: Flight International
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Mauritian sale
Air Mauritius' last Boeing 747SP, has been sold to Qatar Airways by Cambridge, UK-based remarketer Isis Aviation Services. Built in the 1980s, the 747SP joined the Air Mauritius fleet in June 1990 and was operated on long-haul services, until it was replaced by an Airbus A340, late in 1995. ...
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TRO strikes courseware deal with FSI
FLIGHTSAFETY International (FSI) has agreed to use TRO Learning's library of computer-based pilot- and maintenance-training courseware at its simulator centres. FSI will also market TRO's courseware to its airline clients. Minneapolis, Minnesota-based TRO has developed pilot-training courseware for the Airbus A300-600, A310, A320, A330 and A340, Boeing 737-300/400/500, ...
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Xionix wins United upgrade
XIONIX SIMULATION HAS won a United Airlines contract to upgrade Boeing 747 and 757 auto-flight-systems trainers previously supplied to the carrier. The upgrade will include Xionix' FMC Emulator, which uses actual aircraft flight-management-computer (FMC) software. The personal-computer-based FMC Emulator has been developed jointly with FMC supplier Honeywell and ...
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Virgin European plans June start-up
Andrew Doyle/LONDON VIRGIN EUROPEAN Airways could begin operations in June if it goes ahead with plans to acquire a controlling stake in EuroBelgian Airlines (EBA). The UK airline has confirmed that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to acquire an 80% stake in ...
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Israeli guarantee boosts IAI Turkish F-4 upgrade deal
THE ISRAELI parliament has approved a financing package for the Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom upgrade programme for Turkey in an attempt to advance the stalled deal. Work on the first two aircraft is scheduled to begin in July. The parliament has approved state guarantees ...
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Portugalia to decide between 737 and A320
Andrew Doyle/LONDON PORTUGUESE CARRIER Portugalia is considering placing orders for up to seven new-generation Boeing 737s or Airbus A320s, to replace its fleet of six Fokker 100s on lease from GPA. The privately owned airline, which made its first-ever profit in 1995, is expected to ...
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737 price may force China Southern to buy A320s
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CHINA SOUTHERN Airlines is threatening to order Airbus A320/321s unless Boeing cuts the cost of a planned purchase of 25 737-700/-800 passenger aircraft. The Guangzhou-based carrier is understood to have signed a memorandum of understanding with Boeing for 25 new-generation 737s, but has ...