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KAL suffers new blow as 747 skids off runway
Korean Air's (KAL) safety record was dealt a further blow when a Boeing 747-400 suffered major damage and passenger injuries on landing at Seoul's Kimpo Airport on 5 August. The incident occurred only days after a high-level flight operations shake-up and as KAL considers a $21.5 million flight operations reform ...
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BM Engineering makes third party breakthrough
BM Engineering has agreed a five-year maintenance support contract with Norwegian start-up charter operator Color Air. The deal represents the company's first third party base maintenance contract since setting up last year as as a separate corporate entity from parent airline British Midland. Color Air has two ex-TACA Boeing ...
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Flying Colours team assumes control after Airworld merger
A boardroom reshuffle resulting from the take-over of UK charter airline Flying Colours by Airworld has seen the departure of two Airworld directors. Flying Colours managers have been appointed to most senior positions, despite the airline being taken over. The move, which follows the June take-over of Flying Colours ...
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Marketplace
-Aer Lingus will take delivery of a new General Electric CF6-80E1-powered Airbus A330-200 in May 2000 on a six-year lease from International Lease Finance, with extension options. -Kitty Hawk Air Cargo has completed conversion of an ex-Middle East Airlines (MEA) Boeing 747-200 combi to cargo configuration at its Oscoda, Michigan, ...
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Celestial Internet
Tim Furniss/LONDON Of all the advances in satellite communications since Telstar, the most interest is being created by the $9 billion Teledesic programme. Now that Teledesic has assembled a powerful industrial team to build and launch its 300-satellite constellation, the project is moving into high gear. Teledesic's copyrighted "Internet in ...
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Wolf captures new managers and reviews 728JET progress
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH John Wolf, the recently appointed chief operating officer of Fairchild Dornier, has shaken up the company's regional jet programmes with new management appointments and a review of the company's approach to the 728JET project. Three new programme managers have been appointed - two of them Wolf's ...
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And now for something . . . completely different
The term 'survivor' may be sorely overused in the airline industry, but it remains the most appropriate description for AirTran Airlines, the product of a merger with the ill-fated ValuJet whose once-bright future ended abruptly in 1996 with a controversial crash in a Florida swamp. Not that there is ...
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Airline revolution gathers pace
When we launched Airline Business magazine 13 years ago, Carl Icahn had just taken over TWA; People Express was looking at acquisitions; Japan Airlines was losing its international monopoly; British Airways, Singapore Airlines and Malaysia Airlines were about to be privatised; Britain and France had signed a new air services ...
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Policy stirs Tata's hopes
With the announcement of a new aviation policy by the right-wing Indian government, the civil aviation ministry has reopened the Tata Airlines file. Tata proposes that foreign institutional investors pay Rs 2.78 billion (US$65.5 million) for a 40 per cent equity stake in the airline, leaving Tata Industries with ...
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Thai unties foreign knot
One year since the flotation of the Thai baht sparked the Asian meltdown, the Thai government has amended the country's 1954 Aviation Act to allow foreigners to control up to 49 per cent of Thai Airways. According to transport and communications minister Suthep Thuagsuban, the move is proof of ...
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Japan's economy faces overhaul
Japan is facing a crisis of historical proportions. The dramatic fall in the value of the yen and the long-term decline in the value of the companies which make up the Nikkei stock market index are simply symptoms of far-reaching changes taking place in the way in which the country ...
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EDS at BA Engineering
EDS has won a 10-year contract for information technology support for British Airways Engineering's global operations. It will initially focus on Year 2000 compliance issues. EDS will also establish a laboratory for developing computer systems intended for the maintenance industry. Source: Flight International
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Standard maintenance
Winnipeg, Canada-based Standard Aero has become the first authorised maintenance centre with a certified test cell for all models of the Allison 250 turboshaft/ turboprop family. Source: Flight International
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Burbank completes 707 hushkit work and expects STC soon
Burbank Aeronautical (BAC) has completed flight tests of its Stage 3 Boeing 707 hushkit and expects to receive a supplemental type certificate (STC) by late August. Work has now begun on a McDonnell Douglas DC-8-50/61 kit. The STC will be obtained by Quiet Skies, a company established by Burbank ...
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Chinese study European overhaul proposals
China Southern Airlines is reviewing plans to invest in an engine test and overhaul facility while it considers separate joint venture proposals from MTU and Sochata. SR Technics, in the meantime, is pursuing a maintenance joint venture with China Eastern Airlines, as Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering (HAECO) and Shandong Airlines ...
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Debonair looks for frequent flier links
Low-cost UK carrier Debonair has emerged from its meeting to discuss setting up a joint frequent flier programme for the independent airline sector, declaring that it has up to 15 European carriers on board, including Virgin Express and Air Malta. Potential deals are also in place to extend the scheme ...
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Dollars and sense
The ARAC studied use of inert gases (including nitrogen and exhaust gases), fuel "scrubbing" and "washing" the ullage space above the fuel, which are methods of purging oxygen from the tank. Scrubbing fuel at the airport fuel farm offered little added protection while use of foam would reduce aircraft payload ...
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Workshop
-Hawker Pacific Aerospace has won a $5 million five-year contract to repair and service landing gears on 16 UPS Airlines Boeing 747 freighters. It will perform the work at its facility in the UK. The company has also secured a $6 million five-year landing gear maintenance contract from SAS, LOT ...
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New owners pledge PBN expansion
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON Pilatus Britten-Norman (PBN) has been sold to a private investment company for an undisclosed sum, ending months of speculation over the utility aircraft manufacturer's future. London, UK-based Litchfield Continental has acquired PBN from Switzerland's Pilatus Aircraft, which has owned the Bembridge, Isle of Wight-based aircraft manufacturer ...
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Star Alliance aims to build on Asia-Pacific links
The global Star Alliance is moving to consolidate its presence in the Asia-Pacific region, with some small but critical bilateral co-operation agreements and approvals either being finalised or close to be being concluded. Founding Star partner Lufthansa has announced a code-sharing agreement with Air New Zealand (ANZ) on routes ...