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New P&W engine powers show 777
Good fortune has shone early on Pratt & Whitney at Farnborough - its newly-certificated PW4090 engines are powering the Boeing 777 in the static display. Flight tests of the 400kN (90,000lb) thrust engine on the 777 began at Boeing's Seattle, Washington factory less than a month ago on 3 ...
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Record orders for Bombardier
Bombardier Regional Aircraft Division (BRAD) is celebrating a bonanza week of sales. At a press conference today, it will be confirming a record-breaking Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8 order for 25 firm and 15 conditional aircraft plus 30 options. The buyer is Horizon Air of Seattle, Washington and ...
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Flying display
Today's flying display (correct at time of going to press): 14.00-16.45: Airbus A330/A340 combined display; Kamov KA-50; Embraer EMB-145; B2A Spirit; Firefly; Super Tucano Hawk 100; Eurofighter 2000; Tornado GR1; Gripen; Harrier GR7; Aero L59; Grob 115TA; F-18 Hornet; YAK 52; Dassault Rafale; Dassault Falcon 2000; Dassault Falcon 900; ...
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P&W orders
Pratt & Whitney has announced a trio of orders for PW4000 engines to power expanded Boeing 747-400 fleets in the Asia Pacific region. Deliveries to Air China of three aircraft powered by PW4056 engines, rated at 250kN (50,000lb) of thrust, will begin in June 1997. In Taiwan, China ...
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Airline Business 100 - 1996
Rank Airline Revenue US$M OpResult US$M NetResult US$M net margin % fleet Total emps Revenue Tonne kilometres (mil) Revenue Pax km Pax millions Load Factor % Year End 95 94 Pax ...
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Aircraft news
General Electric Capital Aviation Services has placed 40 firm orders for Airbus A319s, A320s and A321s, with options for a further 40, plus five firm orders and five options for A340-300s. GATX Capital has placed orders for 10 B737-800s, with options for a further 10, as well as ...
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PAL phased by cargo bias
Struggling Philippine Airlines is fighting to retain its share of the cargo market as it starts to suffer under the impact of the government's liberal air services regime. Reportedly heading for a US$65 million loss in its current financial year, the carrier has appealed to the Civil Aeronautics ...
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Asia's liberal minority
Aeropolitics The US is making headway with its open skies philosophy in Europe but the Asia-Pacific market is proving a tougher nut to crack. Tom Ballantyne looks at the differing regional attitudes to liberalisation with the outside world and then assesses progress on open skies locally. To Asia-Pacific's growth-hungry ...
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Starting over
The second wave of US new entrant airlines is proving more resilient than the first and some venture capitalists are now looking at Europe. Russell Winter offers a formula to make sure aspiring low-cost startups, especially in Europe, find financial backers with deep pockets.Many industry specialists continue to believe that ...
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Financial data
Air Canada's operating profit fell from US$33m to US$27m as domestic yields fell, but the sale of Continental Airlines shares netted C$129 million. America West's record quarterly earnings came as traffic grew 13.8%, load factors rose 3.3 points, yields jumped 4.1%, and unit costs fell 7.5%. ...
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Aviastar JV bid in Taiwan
Russia's largest commercial aircraft manufacturer Aviastar is bidding to carve out a niche in Asia by proposing to set up a joint venture aircraft assembly, marketing and maintenance centre in Taiwan. The Russian firm, which already has a marketing presence in Taipei, aims to assemble the medium-range Tu-204 ...
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Airline news
Canadian Air Cargo and American Airlines Cargo begin an alliance on 1 September. Canadian Air Cargo will be general sales agent for its US partner in Canada and American will be GSA for Canadian Air Cargo in the US, Latin America and the Caribbean. Continental Airlines plans to ...
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Qantas faces union threat
Qantas's management is facing confrontation with unions over a new wage agreement as it launches a drive to try to control costs and improve on disappointing productivity gains. Flight attendants and ground workers have already hinted at industrial action if they fail to win agreement on across the ...
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Romanian regional
DAC Air says that it will take delivery of the first of four 50-seat Canadair Regional Jets in late September. The Romanian regional airline already operates four Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-300s on lease from General Electric Capital Aviation Services, and will take the first of four new Dash 8-300s ...
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easyJet adds
EasyJet has announced further expansion, with the addition of a fourth Boeing 737 (its second 737-300) and extra services to its network, which includes flights from London Luton to Aberdeen, Amsterdam, Edinburgh and Glasgow. The UK start-up airline will introduce the new aircraft in October. Source: ...
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Seven-year countdown
Airbus makes progress towards a launch of its vitally important new large aircraft. Julian Moxon/TOULOUSE THIS AIRCRAFT "-will be the biggest challenge in civil-aviation history", says Jurgen Thomas, head of the new large-aircraft division of Airbus Industrie charged with developing the A3XX. While such words ...
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Farnborough '96 show guide
Compiled by Kate Sarsfield/LONDON SINCE ITS INAUGURATION in 1948, the Farnborough air show has blossomed into one of the largest and most important events on the aerospace calendar. Yet, with other show organisers relentlessly launching new challenges to Farnborough's superiority, the Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC) is ...
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Lebanese events
Lebanese cargo carrier Trans Mediterranean Airlines (TMA) suspended all operations indefinitely on 5 August. The carrier operated a fleet of four Boeing 707-300 freighters and employed 460 people. In 1995, TMA announced that it would suspend 200 employees because of its deteriorating financial condition. Separately, Lebanese flag carrier Middle East ...
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Family favourites
Boeing's new-generation 737is the same, only different Guy Norris/SEATTLE EXACTLY 30 YEARS ago, the first Boeing 737 was taking shape at the company's plant in Renton, Washington. At the time, not everyone was convinced that the "Baby Boeing" gamble would be a winner. The concern ...
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The curtain rises
Coming soon - the next installment in an exciting tale of aircraft engines and orders. Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES This year's Farnborough air show provides the stage for an extraordinary drama, the cut and thrust of which would defy even the most imaginative playwrights of the West End ...