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SAA springs surprise with Boeing decision
ROGER MAKINGS JOHANNESBURG South African Airways (SAA) has acquired 21 Boeing 737-800s, plus 21 options, raising eyebrows among observers who expected the carrier to buy Airbus A320s. SAA chief executive Coleman Andrews claims that Boeing's offer was clearly ahead on price, but some in South Africa remain suspicious over the ...
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Life at the top
KAREN WALKER SINGAPORE Airbus is right to feel proud of its 1999 performance, as it overtook Boeing on new orders. But the fight to stay on top will be fierce. If Airbus Industrie's managers find the heights to which they climbed in 1999 overwhelming, they show no signs of vertigo ...
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Atlantic Coast for Louisville
United Express carrier Atlantic Coast Airlines is starting regional jet services between Washington Dulles and Louisville from 8 June. It plans a four times daily roundtrip service. Source: Airline Business
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SALE strikes deals
Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE) has mandated its largest financing facility in a deal with the European Export Credit Agency (ECA). The $185 million 10-year facility will fund new deliveries of five Airbus A320s and one A321. The deal is SALE's first ECA guaranteed transaction and was arranged by Halifax, ...
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Dragonair fleet expansion challenges Cathay Pacific
Nicholas Ionides ATI SINGAPORE Hong Kong's Dragonair has confirmed a major fleet expansion in what observers say is a clear sign that the carrier intends to mount a more direct challenge to the dominance of the former colony's de facto flag carrier, Cathay Pacific Airways. China-controlled Dragonair announced details of ...
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Hungary for a change?
Tom Gill BUDAPEST With a new chief executive and new investors on the horizon, things might be looking up for Malév Ferenc Kovacs is cautiously confident. Appointed Malév's chief executive in October after 23 years with the company, he is well aware of the many false starts that the Hungarian ...
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Soft Landing
Tom Gill and Colin Baker LONDON There are all the classic signs of a downturn in the cycle, with aircraft prices weakening and deliveries slowing, but this time it looks more like a gentle decline rather than bust When the airline industry cycle last turned down a decade ago, it ...
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Eastern Caribbean Express ready for regional flights with Dash 8s
Eastern Caribbean Express plans to start flying on 18 April in support of parent Air Jamaica. The St Lucia-based airline will initially operate two Bombardier Dash 8-100s on lease from the manufacturer and has plans for a third. According to general manager Eugene Pieterse, the carrier will initially operate from ...
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767-400ER schedule set back
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing faces a delay to its 767-400ER certification and delivery schedule in the wake of its recently resolved engineering employees' strike. Before the 40-day strike by Society for Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace members, Boeing was on target to certificate the -400ER in April and deliver ...
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Spain set for regional battle
Andrew Doyle/GERONA Boeing is close to securing a second European airline customer for its 717 following Spanish regional start-up AB Bluestar's announcement that it intends to order six of the twinjets and take nine options. Spanish rival Air Nostrum, meanwhile, has concluded a major deal with Canada's Bombardier ...
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Airbus A318 undergoes low-speed windtunnel tests at Toulouse
Low speed windtunnel testing of the Airbus A318 is under way at ONERA's Le Fauga facility near Toulouse, in France with a 1/11th scale model of the 107-seat twinjet. Powered by the Pratt & Whitney PW6000 or CFM International CFM56-5 engine, the A320 derivative will have its first flight in ...
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ERJ-145 makes Crossair debut with operational tests
Crossair's first Embraer RJ-145 is undergoing operational tests from the Swiss regional's base at Basle-Mulhouse. The 49-seater was scheduled to enter service on 26 March, with initial destinations including Manchester, Madrid, Birmingham, Copenhagen, Oslo, Hamburg and Valencia from Basle. Source: Flight International
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Delta continues rebranding with another livery revamp
Delta Air Lines has unveiled another new corporate livery on a Boeing 777-200 as part of a wider "customer-focused" re-branding effort launched last month. The airline is one-third of the way through repainting its 586-strong fleet with a revised scheme, launched three years ago. The latest revamp removes the words ...
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FedEx studies head-up displays
FedEX is examining options to fit up to 290 of its jet aircraft with head-up displays (HUD) or enhanced vision systems (EVS). The programme has been launched to improve safety, permit operations to lower weather minima and broaden situational awareness. It was prompted by recent landing accidents involving the ...
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Carriers queue for La Guardia
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Continental Airlines and Delta Air Lines are moving quickly to claim additional slots promised for regional services at New York's La Guardia Airport as the result of newly approved Congressional legislation. Contained in the US Federal Aviation Administration reauthorisation Bill is a provision to grant ...
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Zvezda is cleared for launch despite poor safety levels
Tim Furniss/LONDON NASA has cleared the launch in July of the Russian Zvezda service module for the International Space Station (ISS), despite US concerns about the failure of the Zvezda and Zarya modules to meet NASA safety standards, such as noise levels and pressurisation integrity. NASA says it ...
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East Europe leads move towards seamless ATC
Julian Moxon/BUDAPEST Hungary has inaugurated its new £40 million ($62 million) air traffic control centre at Budapest's Ferihegy Airport as pressure mounts for the creation of a "seamless" central European ATC area in the region. The Matias ATC centre, supplied by Thomson Airsys, has opened a year later than ...
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Marketplace
Air Luxor has purchased a second Lockheed L-1011 TriStar 500 from Novair, in a deal arranged by Cabot Aviation. The disposal of Novair's last TriStar 500 is being finalised. Cathay Pacific is understood to be in discussions with Boeing over acquiring the original Boeing 777-200 test aircraft which is ...
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BAE approves regional launch
Emma Kelly/LONDON BAE Systems hopes to announce the launch airline for its RJX regional jet family in the next three weeks following the formal launch of the Avro RJ derivative on 21 March. Peter Connolly, BAE Systems senior vice-president for sales and marketing, says an order for the ...
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US Airways gets set to form international partnership
Ramon Lopez/TOULOUSE US Airways will become a partner in an international airline alliance in the next few months, says chairman Stephen Wolf. At the same time, the airline is gearing up for long-haul expansion with the delivery of the first of up to 30 Airbus A330-300s. Until now, ...