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Orders
Germania Fluggesellschaft has ordered 12 Boeing 737-700s with deliveries starting at the end of 1997 through to mid-1998, while Bavaria Fluggesellschaft has ordered two Boeing 737-700s. Crossair has ordered 12 Avro RJ100s for delivery starting in September. Brazilian domestics Rio-Sul and Nordeste have ordered one and ...
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FedEx buys big
FedEx is to buy twelve American Airlines' MD-11s over three years from January 1996 after conversion to freighter configuration. The company also holds options with American on a further seven MD-11s with a purchasing decision due between 2000 and 2002. Source: Airline Business
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Gulf drops 777s
In the first blow to Boeing's 777 programme, Gulf Air has cancelled its order for six of the aircraft. The carrier is understood to have been concerned over the cost of integrating the new type in a fleet that already includes the A340s. ...
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Tough finding the right niches
There are encouraging signs of start-ups and expansion in Europe though financial returns and yields are low. Europe's regional airlines are emerging from the recessionary gloom comparatively unscathed. The last three and a half years have seen their share of closures, but on balance the sector is growing. ...
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Age old decision
New aircraft or old? Airline executives are weighing up the options to make the right fleet decisions to last the next decade. Sara Guild contrasts the narrowbody decisions made by Air Canada, Finnair and Northwest.For an aircraft, getting old and creaky used to mean that your owner was about ...
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Heated competition
Privatisation seems to have finally taken hold among airlines in the Caribbean. The resulting US-style management and new competition could spell permanent change for the region. By Mead Jennings.During last February's inaugural celebration for Barbados-based Carib Express, a 90 per cent privately owned regional airline, those in attendance heard the ...
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Coming of age
This worldwide survey of regional airlines, the first of its type, paints a picture of an industry segment that has come of age. The tables reveal a business which carried over 100 million passengers last year, generated nearly $8 billion in revenue, and turned in a net profit of nearly ...
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FedEx faces China crisis
FedEx may have thought it was simply buying Evergreen International's all-cargo route authority to China. In fact, it bought a ringside seat to an aviation row between Beijing and Washington, which had, at presstime, left the carrier unable to operate any China services. Evergreen was the only US ...
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Airline news
American Airlines will start New York/JFK-Buenos Aires services from October three times a week with a B767-300ER. Frequencies are set to rise to six a week by end 1996. Continental Airlines is to launch a daily service from New York/Newark to Manchester, UK from 15 July using a ...
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Air China will go to market
Despite speculation to the contrary, Air China president Yin Wenlong insists the carrier will list on the New York stock exchange and is already being urged to do so by several major international financial institutions. He also says a Hong Kong-based finance house - Yin refuses to identify ...
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'Worst' UK air miss reported
A NEAR-COLLISION between a Suckling Airways Dornier 228 and a Business Air Saab 340 near the UK's Trent VOR navigation beacon was the closest the investigators "...had ever had to consider", according to an Aircraft Proximity Hazard Panel report. The two aircraft were on reciprocal headings on Airway ...
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Dauphin simulator delivered
THOMSON TRAINING & Simulation has delivered its first Dauphin SA.365 naval mission simulator, to an unspecified Middle East customer. Assembled at its new integration hall at Cergy-Pontoise, near Paris, the simulator is equipped with a six-degrees-of-freedom motion base, and is based around the new Space visual system developed ...
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Fairchild and Let drop joint venture plans
FAIRCHILD AIRCRAFT and Czech regional-turboprop manufacturer Let Kunovice have finally dropped long-standing plans for a joint-venture company, according to Let president Zdenek Pernica. Pernica says that the companies have backed away from the plan because the privatisation and restructuring process of the Czech Company was taking too long. ...
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Czechs to drive ahead with MiG-21 upgrade
THE CZECH DEFENCE ministry is to push ahead with a contentious upgrade for at least 24 of its Mikoyan MiG-21 Fishbed fighter aircraft, despite objections that it is a waste of scarce resources. The ministry is expecting to issue a request for proposals (RFP) for an upgrade of ...
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Gentle giant
It seemed remarkable to be flying the 777 a mere year after it was first unveiled, but such has been the pace of the programme from the start. Flight test hours have grown at twice those for previous models, in a schedule of certificating three engine types and early qualification ...
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MarkAir returns to bankruptcy
MARKAIR, THE Alaska-based carrier which emerged from Chapter 11 in 1994, has again sought federal bankruptcy-court protection following a demand for overdue lease payments from General Electric's GE Capital Aviation Service (GECAS). MarkAir filed for Chapter 11 after GECAS warned the carrier that it would repossess four ...
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Southern gateway
The first 11-gate phase of Miami Airport's new concourse A is due to open in June as part of the southern gateway's $2.7 billion expansion and redevelopment programme which is due to last until 2010. Gateway is the operative word at Miami, Florida, which boasts more carriers - ...
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Boeing upsets Asians on regional-jet venture
CHINA AND South Korea are leaning towards co-operation with European manufacturers to develop a planned joint 100-seat regional passenger aircraft, following Boeing's decision to launch the 737-600. The two countries are looking for a Western partner to provide key technology and marketing, in exchange for a 20% stake ...
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Canadian Marconi FMS/GPS qualifies
CANADIAN MARCONI (CMC) says that it has received the world's first primary-means oceanic/remote approval for a flight-management/global-positioning system (FMS/GPS). The US Federal Aviation Administration has granted the approval for a dual CMC CMA-900 FMS/GPS installation in an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-200. Primary-means oceanic/remote approval allows the ...
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KAL sees growth as key to 777 engine order
KOREAN AIR'S (KAL) selection of an engine for its fleet of Boeing 777s was due before 1 May, with future growth potential and commonality likely to be the major deciding factors. KAL has ordered eight 777s for delivery between February 1997 and June 2000 and has taken options ...