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Guizhou to expand as China Southern takes control
Guizhou Airlines is preparing for a major expansion of its aircraft fleet and domestic network following an agree- ment for China Southern Airlines to acquire a controlling interest in the Chinese provincial carrier. The Guiyang-based airline has received the first of three Boeing 737-300s on a seven-year dry lease ...
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Iranian carrier negotiates for ex-PAL A300B4s
The Iranian charter airline Mahan Air is close to finalising a deal for three Airbus A300s as part of its fleet restructuring from Russian to Western equipment. The five-year-old airline, based in Kerman, southern Iran, operates an all-Russian fleet of two Tupolev Tu-154Ms and two Ilyushin Il-76s. Negotiations are ...
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Jet Airways prepares to lease ATR 72s
Ian Sheppard/LONDON Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Jet Airways is close to signing a deal with ATR to lease eight new ATR 72 turboprops for an initial period of three years. This is the first move by the privately owned Indian domestic airline to form its own feeder fleet. Raj Desai, Jet Airways' ...
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Lockheed Martin drops acquisition
Douglas Barrie/LONDON Lockheed Martin has abandoned its attempt to acquire Northrop Grumman, exasperated with US Government opposition to its proposed $8.3 billion deal. After what has proved to be more than 12 months of fruitless negotiation, Lockheed Martin walked away from the planned acquisition on 16 July, describing ...
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Marketplace
-Continental Airlines has taken delivery of its first of 28 Boeing 737-800s. -Airtours International has confirmed its order for two additional Rolls-Royce Trent 700-powered A330-200s, bringing its orders for the type to four. The second batch will be delivered in the fourth quarter of 1999 for operation by Airtours' Danish ...
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More Asian carriers negotiate order deferrals
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Korean Air (KAL) and Singapore Airlines (SIA) are negotiating with Airbus Industrie and Boeing to defer up to 16 widebody aircraft due for delivery in 1999 and 2000, as Asia's economic downturn takes its toll on air traffic. Industry and airline sources suggest that KAL is ...
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Nuclear experts aid air safety
Ian Sheppard/LONDON Sandia National Laboratories is helping the US Federal Aviation Administration to devise a new approach to airline safety which the FAA hopes will assist its 3,500 inspectors in tracking safety trends and predicting airline operating deficiencies. Calling on its knowledge from decades of systems engineering work ...
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Pacific ambitions
Guy Norris/GUAM Below the warm, crystal-clear waters of Bikini Atoll lagoon lies the mammoth Second World War aircraft carrier USS Saratoga. Almost 270m long, she is bigger than the Titanic and is the world's largest diveable underwater wreck. Resting upright on the bottom, her bridge is a mere 12m below ...
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PAL rescue plan goes into extra time
Philippine Airlines (PAL) has been given US and Philippine bankruptcy protection until the end of July, allowing the local Securities Exchange Commission (SEC)-appointed "rehabilitation committee" extra time to finalise and present a financial rescue plan. The troubled national carrier is temporarily shielded by the SEC from any claims made ...
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Pressure points
International pressure is mounting for the process of aircraft accident investigation to be opened up, just as it is increasing on those countries seen to be underperforming in airline safety. It is vital to understand the positive and negative effects of this pressure for transparency, however. Investigators themselves are ...
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Proteus confirms options to take Fairchild Dornier 728JETs
Proteus Airlines, the fast-growing French carrier which is a launch customer for the Fairchild Dornier 328JET, has confirmed its commitment for 10 options on the 70-seat 728JET. It is also "positioned" on the yet-to-be-launched 90-seat version. The decision to move to larger aircraft is part of the airline's strategy ...
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TrunkLiner future lies in the balance as China nears decision
The future of the troubled Boeing MD-90 TrunkLiner programme is hanging in the balance with the Chinese Government expected to decide the fate of the programme shortly. Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) is facing the prospect of its second major setback in recent months after the collapse of the ...
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Virgin Express aims for Ireland
Ian Sheppard/LONDON Brussels-based low-cost carrier Virgin Express will this month apply for a Republic of Ireland air operator's certificate (AOC). This will see the airline establish a new base in Ireland at a fraction of the cost of operating from Belgium. The airline says it has no intention ...
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Double standards
Any remaining doubts that action on airline safety is needed in South Asia and Asia-Pacific have been dissolved by the accidents that occurred in the first six months of 1998. After the 2 February Cebu Pacific Air fatal accident, the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) broke its characteristic neutral silence ...
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EC allows American/BA alliance in exchange for Heathrow slots
Carriers on both sides of the Atlantic are stressing that there is still all to play for despite the European Commission's long-awaited ruling on the British Airways and Lufthansa transatlantic alliances. Major US airlines are already gearing up to lobby the US Department of Transportation to increase access to ...
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Aeropostal enters widebody world with A310s
Venezuela's LAV Aeropostal has added its first widebodied types - two Airbus A310s - on lease from Airbus Industrie. The Latin American airline has concluded a deal to acquire two 11-year-old Pratt & Whitney PW4000-powered ex-Pan Am/ Delta Air Lines A310-300s on five-year leases from Airbus Industrie Leasing. Deliveries ...
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Bombardier rethinks turboprop marketing
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Bombardier has acknowledged the need to rethink the marketing strategy for its de Havilland Dash 8 family as the growing success of regional jets makes selling turboprops airliners more difficult. "The road is going to be bumpy, as the excitement is around jets," says Bombardier ...
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Boeing catches up with 737 output
Boeing is working its way through the backlog of Next Generation 737s built before last-minute modifications, including a revised horizontal stabiliser leading edge and novel upward opening emergency exits, which were required for US and European certification. Twenty of the 28 737-700s completed before certification have now been delivered with ...
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Launch of Falklands airline is put back
Plans to launch an airline to serve the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic from the South American mainland have been postponed until later this year. British South Atlantic Airlines (BSAA) had been planning to start operations between the Islands and Sao Paulo, Brazil, in April with a wet-leased ...
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Fairchild Dornier challenges Embraer on interest benefits
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Fairchild Dornier has lodged a complaint with the European Commission against the Brazilian Government's Proex export support scheme, which the US/German company says gives rival regional aircraft manufacturer Embraer an unfair advantage. Meanwhile, Fairchild Dornier has landed a deal to supply US airline Midwest Express with up to ...