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777X crew rest plans advance
Boeing is working with an advisory group of 14 airlines towards the final configuration for upper-lobe crew-rest areas for its planned ultra-long range 777-200X/300X family. An advanced flightcrew rest area in the forward upper lobe has been finalised, which will free four first or business class seats, or provide extra ...
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Debis targets Boeing after latest Airbus purchase
Debis AirFinance is seeking to conclude sale and leaseback deals with Classic and Next-Generation Boeing 737 operators as part of efforts to diversify its rapidly expanding aircraft portfolio. The Amsterdam-based DaimlerChrysler subsidiary, meanwhile, has purchased 12 in-service aircraft from Dublin-based Airbus Industrie Financial Services (AIFS), comprising two A340-300s, three ...
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Hong Kong/Beijing bilateral clears way for Dragonair
Mainland China and the Hong Kong Government have swept away a rule limiting Hong Kong carriers to operating one-third of the capacity on routes to the mainland. According to the Hong Kong Government, a new air services arrangement signed with Beijing guarantees that "airlines of both sides enjoy equal ...
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SpaceDev/Boeing link for exploration
SpaceDev and Boeing have agreed a teaming arrangement to investigate opportunities of "mutual strategic interest" in commercial deep-space exploration and exploitation. They will use as the basis for the study a variety of small low-cost missions formulated by SpaceDev, the world's first commercial space exploration company. The two firms ...
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GE90-94B heads for early April certification
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES General Electric hopes to win US Federal Aviation Administration approval for the 94,000lb-thrust (420kN) GE90-94B in early April, pending the successful conclusion of icing tests now entering the final stages of completion at the company's Peeble test site in Ohio. The GE90-94B is aimed at ...
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Hyundai move sets back BAE's Korean Aerospace ambitions
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE A BAE Systems plan to take a stake in Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI) by acquiring one of the companies involved in the merger appears to have been thwarted. South Korean car manufacturer Hyundai Motor is poised to acquire Hyundai Space & Aircraft's one-third stake in the newly created ...
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China Airlines and EVA emerge from Asia's downturn
Brent Hannon/TAIPEI Taiwan's two largest carriers have reported a financially sound 1999. China Airlines (CAL) pulled out of the Asian downturn and posted a pre-tax profit after making a loss a year earlier, and rival EVA Air turned in healthy net earnings. CAL's $91 million pre-tax profit compares with ...
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Fairchild considers new stretch of 928JET
Fairchild Aerospace is considering a stretch of the 928JET as its next addition to the 728JET family, rather than a smaller 55-65-seat version. It won about one-third of new regional-jet business last year, putting the company on a par with rivals Bombardier and Embraer. The proposed 1128JET would extend ...
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P&W abandons work on PW4173 engine
Pratt & Whitney is understood to be suspending development of the growth PW4173 engine and is no longer offering the powerplant to airlines as an option to power the Airbus A330-300 after encountering technical delays and poor market demand. The engine is a 73,000lb-thrust (325kN) growth development of the ...
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American eyes aircraft for Asia
American Airlines is looking at its aircraft acquisition options to extend the range of its fleet to open planned new non-stop routes from Chicago and Dallas/Fort Worth to Asia. The US carrier has applied to the US Department of Transport to operate to Beijing and Shanghai under a revised ...
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Airbus slips delivery plan for A3XX
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Airbus Industrie is targeting October 2005 for first production delivery of the A3XX-100 if it can muster sufficient market support by mid-year for the consortium's supervisory board to commit to a simultaneous launch offer of passenger and cargo variants of the ultra-large aircraft. The October ...
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Poland leans towards used F-16s
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Poland is preparing to issue a formal tender for its 60-fighter requirement amid strong indications that the government favours an offer of used Lockheed Martin F-16s from the USA. Industry sources say Poland's finance ministry has informally agreed to allocate $1.5 billion for the purchase. The ...
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Kenya Airways takes first step towards all-Boeing fleet
Kenya Airways has finalised its long-term fleet renewal plans with a $750 million five-year programme that will see the airline move to an all-Boeing fleet. The decision to acquire a mix of Boeing 737-700s and 767-300ERs was taken two days before the loss of one of its four Airbus ...
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FAA issues MD-11 inspection ADs
The US Federal Aviation Administration is proposing to issue eight additional airworthiness directives (ADs) calling on the inspection of Boeing MD-11 electrical system wiring. The move follows the 1998 crash of a Swissair MD-11 near Halifax, Nova Scotia. An electrical fire is suspected. The FAA says that the ADs ...
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Marketplace
Air Alps Aviation of Innsbruck, Austria, has acquired an ex-PB Air Dornier 328-110 turboprop, in a deal arranged by Aircraft Leasing & Management. The deal boosts Air Alps' (which operates as KLM Alps) fleet of 328s to four. Safair of South Africa has placed two Boeing MD-82s with French carrier ...
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Routes
Swissair is withdrawing its six-times weekly scheduled service between Basle and New York Newark from 26 March, citing poor demand with an average load factor of less than 60%. The flights, operated using an Airbus A310 and codeshared with the Swiss flag carrier's regional subsidiary Crossair, were introduced a year ...
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Start-up SolAir signs for 328/728JETs
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Italian start-up SolAir has become the second announced airline customer for the Fairchild Aerospace 728JET, with a letter of intent for two aircraft, plus two 34-seat 328JETs. The Naples-based carrier plans to begin operations with the two 328JETs from next January, serving Barcelona, Paris, Tirana and ...
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In Brief - Asia-Pacific
Cathay orders Cathay Pacific Airways has ordered three more Airbus A330-300s to help cope with current and forecast rates of passenger traffic growth. The Rolls-Royce Trent 700-powered aircraft are to be delivered early next year. JAL sells DHL stake Japan Airlines (JAL) has sold most of its ...
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Lending a hand
JACK SELLSBY LONDON Fuelled by intense competition, financing from Airbus and Boeing, backed by the export credit agencies, is running at record levels. Europe and the USA have been squabbling for years over the support given to their rival civil aerospace champions Airbus and Boeing. With the manufacturers now neck-and-neck ...
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Cargo on-line
PETER CONWAY LONDON A new system aims to bring air cargo into the Internet age. But is the model right for the market? For the past year, former McKinsey consultant Todd Morgan, together with his colleague Doug Ash, ex-managing director of global freight forwarder MSAS, have been touring airline and ...