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Southwest takes first 737 with production head-up system
BOEING HAS delivered the first 737 to be equipped with a Flight Dynamics Head-up Guidance System (HGS) on the production line. The 737-300 was handed over to Southwest Airlines, which has ordered 236 HGS under a $45 million contract. Around 60 of these have already been retrofitted by ...
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Tupolev rolls out Tu-334
TUPOLEV ROLLED out its newest medium-range airliner, the 102-seat twin-turbofan Tu-334, at the MosAero show on 26 August. Intended as a successor to the earlier Tu-134, the aircraft will be operated on routes of up to 3,000km (1,600nm), and will have a maximum take-off weight of 46t. ...
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BFGoodrich advances
BFGoodrich will supply the wheels and brakes for the Embraer EMB-120ER regional turboprop. Operators of older EMB-120s can upgrade to the new brake using a conversion kit, for which the initial customer is Atlantic Southeast Airlines. Source: Flight International
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German airports grow
The Stuttgart-based German Airports Association (ADV) has reported nearly 11% growth in passenger numbers at German airports in the first half of 1995, with the total rising to 51.7 million. Aircraft movements increased by only 4.1%, however, suggesting that load factors have increased significantly. The ADV predicts full-year passenger growth ...
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Air China 707 sale
Air China has sold its two remaining Boeing 707-300 passenger aircraft to Royal Jordanian Airlines for conversion into freighters. The aircraft originally formed part of China's 1972 ground breaking order for ten 707s. One aircraft is still operated by China Southwest Airlines. Source: Flight International
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Suppliers
Pratt & Whitney's PW4168 has received its 180 minute Etops approval for the A330. Shannon Aerospace has secured business as the primary facility for Lufthansa Technik and Swissair for the overhaul of the B737, B757 and MD-80 aircraft. Heavy maintenance work will increase at Shannon, which will also ...
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Aircraft news
IFLC has ordered 54 Boeing 737s - a mix of -600s, -700s and -800s. Deliveries will begin in November 1997 and extend to 2004. Elsewhere LOT Polish Airlines has ordered a B737-400 to add to its 11 strong fleet. Aeroflot plans to operate a second DC-10 freighter by ...
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Airline Business 100 - 1995
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 94 93 Pax ...
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Thriving markets
For the industry as a whole, 1994 was marked by substantial growth, with passenger traffic for the Airline Business 100 carriers increasing by 8.2 per cent and freight tonne km by 16.3 per cent. However there were some meteors, almost all of them smaller carriers whose revenues place them below ...
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Northern Exposure
Alaska Air has slashed its unit costs, revamped its network and moved away from high service levels. Now the carrier must rebuild its balance sheet and rebuff the advances of competitors in an increasingly tough market. Mead Jennings reports from Seattle.John Kelly, president and chief executive officer of Alaska Air ...
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Airline news
British Airways and USAir have expanded their codeshare agreement to include 10 new US destinations. BA has signed a service partnership with Aeromexico. Canadian Airlines has added 17 new daily flights to its codeshare agreement with American Airlines. Services include Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver to Dallas-Ft Worth; Calgary ...
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Asia majors to woo DHL
The Asia-Pacific's major airlines are trying to convince overnight express freight operator DHL Worldwide to modify plans to introduce 12 of its own Boeing 727 freighters into the region, apparently fearing the move will rob them of critical cargo income. Until now DHL has used only commercial uplift ...
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Asia yields to price wars
Asia's halcyon days of high yields look set to end in the conflagration of fare wars as the pressure on prices mounts from four directions. Seven months of flat or falling loads are the main culprit. Traffic is still growing at an annual 8 or 9 per cent, ...
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Garuda fears open house
Already hit by falling profitability Garuda Indonesia has been stunned by a government scheme to allow major rivals virtual open entry into its home market. The carrier has 'protested fiercely' at proposals by minister of transport Haryanto Dhanutirto to invite British Airways, KLM and Japan Airlines to apply ...
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Profits hit USAir cuts ...
USAir's short period of optimism, with its labour problems near resolution, its competitors at bay and its second quarter profit up 717 per cent, was only illusory. The carrier returned to square one in its labour talks in July, Southwest is preparing to enter the Florida market, long ...
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LOT to think about AMR
LOT Polish Airlines has a lot to think about. The most pressing issues are doubts over its cooperation with AMR Corp, its proposed codeshare with American Airlines and the refinancing of its recent fleet acquisition. AMR Corp's ground services management contract with LOT is up for a two ...
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Delta plans another rejig
Delta Air Lines is to restructure its network by leaving five international markets, diminishing its Dallas-Fort Worth hub further, building up the importance of Cincinnati, and transferring more routes to regional airlines. The realignment is part of a continuing effort to maximise the profitable elements of Delta's network ...
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Southwest signs up
Southwest Airlines has awarded GE Engine Services a ten-year, $380 million contract to maintain the CFM56-7 engines which will power the US carrier's fleet of Boeing 737-700s. The work will be performed under GE's Maintenance Cost Per Hour (MCPH) service programme. Southwest will begin taking delivery of 737-700s in 1997. ...
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Kiwi Travel wins approval for tran-Tasman services
KIWI TRAVEL International Airlines has emerged successfully from its dispute with the New Zealand Civil Aviation Authority (NZCAA), finally gaining approval for starting scheduled services across the Tasman Sea to Australia. NZCAA chief Kevin Ward had opposed the granting of a licence, principally until the US Federal Aviation ...
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Loral recorder gains double approval
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LORAL DATA Systems has received US and European certification for its Fairchild A200S solid-state cockpit-voice recorder (CVR). The Sarasota, Florida-based company believes the A200S to be the first 2h-capacity CVR to meet the latest Eurocae ED-56A certification standard. The ED-56A sets new requirements for ...