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Euro-continent is slow to recover
The long period of expansion for the global economy, which began in the United States five years ago, looks set to pickup momentum again this year and next as the Japanese business machine springs back to life. However, the performance of the industrial countries as a group looks distinctly patchy ...
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UPS closes on Taipei hub
The decisions by United Parcel Service and DHL to launch Asian hubs commit all four of the big express cargo carriers to the Orient. The question now is which of the differing strategies will work and whether they will avoid the bloody shakedown that followed a similar scramble four years ...
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Market-led links are longer lasting
The most successful alliances to date were based on more than just fashion.Producing a comprehensive list of airline alliances can be frustrating. Just as you are outputting the last version of the tables, Northwest announces a deal with Air China. Then, after the tables are finally finished, British Airways announces ...
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Euro majors sweat it out
A block on state aid, job cuts and cash shortages. Just three big headaches that should ensure the managements of the struggling European majors endure a long, hot summer. Olympic Airways has become the first carrier to suffer the ignominy of having a tranche of its state aid ...
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Virgin buys into Europe
With the Virgin Group's takeover of 90 per cent of Euro-Belgian Airlines (EBA), continental Europe is getting its first taste of the US low-fare, short-haul carrier craze. In return, the US management team of Brussels-based Virgin Express is getting its first taste of the vagaries of the European market. ...
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In the end, the safe way is to go-around
Sir - It is obvious, after reading the series of letters on non-precision and precision approaches, that a wide variety of pilots reads Flight International. All approaches, whether precision or not, start from an altitude where obstacle clearance is guaranteed and, from there, on descend towards the airfield ...
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Embraer profits
Embraer president Mauricio Botelho has declared that the company's privatisation is working after a much-improved set of first-quarter results. Revenues rose by 41% to $76 million, while losses fell back to $26 million. In the first quarter of 1995 the company had racked up losses of $116 million. The institutions ...
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...and Dash-8 sales
Abu Dhabi Aviation has purchased two Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-200s, worth $25 million, for delivery in February/March 1997, for offshore-oil support in the United Arab Emirates. Source: Flight International
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AI(R) hot and high
Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) has received US certification for the "hot-and-high" ATR 42-500 and delivered the first of eight to Continental Express. Bombardier has delivered the first "quiet-cabin" de Havilland Dash 8Q to Mesa Air. Source: Flight International
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IPTN gets go-ahead for STOL-airliner programme
INDONESIA'S IPTN HAS received permission to begin development of a purely commercial short take-off and landing (STOL) aircraft, with a capacity of more than 20 seats, to replace machines in the de Havilland Twin Otter class. The project will target a new type, rather than a redevelopment of an existing ...
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RAA wants icing AD extended to cover more than turboprops
SENIOR US OFFICIALS from the Regional Airline Association (RAA) are pressing the US Federal Aviation Administration to extend a new airworthiness directive (AD) on severe icing to all commercial aircraft, rather than singling out turboprops. The RAA feels that the AD, which requires guidance for pilots on how ...
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CFM hits back at IAE claims as V2500 is flown on Airbus A319
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES CFM INTERNATIONAL is challenging the competitive claims of International Aero Engines (IAE), as the manufacturer of V2500 celebrates a successful first flight on the Airbus A319 at Toulouse on 22 May. The planned culmination of the 200h A319 flight-test programme in December, ...
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AI(R) aims for launch of regional-jet in 1997
AERO INTERNATIONAL (Regional) (AI(R)) says that development of a 58- to 85-seat regional-jet family is its "main goal", with a market study already under way and a launch pencilled in for the Paris air show in June 1997. The plan is to work towards an in-service entry ...
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Small, but is it beautiful?
ALL OF A SUDDEN, the discussion is about small jets. Not just the 100-seater which China and Korea, or China and Singapore, want to build with European help. Not just the rival 100-seater, for which Boeing and Bombardier may link up with Japan. Not just the 100-seater which IPTN wants ...
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Snecma and P&WC reveal regional turbofan details
SNECMA AND PRATT & Whitney Canada are planning to begin deliveries of the proposed SPW14 joint-venture engine early in the year 2000, to match the projected introduction of the Aero International (Regional) (AIR(R)) 70 regional jet. The SPW14 is the only all-new turbofan under consideration for the ...
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Malays say 'no' to F-5 upgrade
THE MALAYSIAN Government has rejected as too expensive a local-industry initiative to upgrade its air force's remaining Northrop F-5E/F fighters. Malaysian defence minister Syed Hamid Albar has ruled out as too expensive a M$500 million ($200 million) plan to modify the F-5E/F as a lead-in fighter trainer. Funding ...
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IPTN aims N270 stretch at US buyers
IPTN IS OFFERING a further stretch of the N250 regional turboprop, aimed at the US market. The 70-seat N270 is being marketed by American Regional Aircraft Industry (AMRAI), 40% owned by the Indonesian manufacturer, with a launch planned for the third quarter of 1996, leading to first delivery in the ...
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Maersk emerges as winner in Estonia
A CONSORTIUM headed by Denmark's Maersk Air has emerged as the winner of the race to take control of Estonian Airlines. Scandinavian Airlines System had battled to win the privatisation contest, to secure its grip on the Baltic. Maersk Air, together with Danish investment group Baltic Creco, is ...
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Boeing re-opens Japan link in regional-jet bid
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE BOEING HAS JOINED with Bombardier and Japan Aircraft Development (JADC) to launch a series of studies into developing a 90- to 110-seat aircraft to compete with Europe and China. The US manufacturer is understood to be conducting three parallel studies into possible development of new or derivative regional ...
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IAE will power China Southern A320s
INTERNATIONAL AERO Engines (IAE) has won a third major Asian carrier competition, with the China Southern Airlines' selection of the V2500 powerplant for its new fleet of Airbus A320s. China Southern is understood to have opted for the V2525-A5 over the competing General Electric/Snecma CFM56-5B. An official announcement ...