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Testing Contract
Aerospatiale Aeronautique has signed a contract to supply an ATEC Series 6 automated test system to China Southern Airlines to support Airbus A320 and Boeing 777 avionics maintenance. Source: Flight International
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Falcon Contract
Garrett Aviation has clinched its fifth factory-authorised service-centre contract with Dassault Falcon Jet. The company's Long Island, New York, centre will provide maintenance and inspection work on all Falcon models. Source: Flight International
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ARIA covers Il-96M delay with leased 777s
Aeroflot-Russian International Airlines (ARIA) is to take two GE90-powered Boeing 777-200s on a seven-year lease from International Lease Finance. The aircraft will be delivered in 1998 and will initially give the airline capacity to cover for the expected delay to the delivery of the first of 17 Iluyshin Il-96Ms it ...
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BWA discusses ATP franchise
British World Airlines (BWA) is considering launching franchise operations in 1998, as it introduces the first of two recently acquired 68-seat British Aerospace ATP turboprops. The Southend, UK-based airline specialises in leasing, aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance (ACMI) operations, as well as providing an air-operator's-certificate (AOC) service. BWA's ...
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Fokker responds to reliability protest
A joint protest by several European operators of Fokker aircraft expressing grievances over poor reliability has forced Fokker Services to introduce support measures. In a letter to Jan van der Giessen, the Dutch company's technical vice-president, the group of airlines - the "Fokker 70/100 Customer Community" - details ...
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Lufthansa Cargo evaluates 747-400F
Lufthansa Cargo Airlines will more than double the number of widebody freighters in its fleet within the next eight years. The German carrier is evaluating the Boeing 747-400 Freighter to replace its 747-200Fs. Karl Ulrich Garnadt, network vice-president of the wholly owned cargo arm of Lufthansa Group, says ...
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KLM signs Braathens and Northwest deals
KLM has firmed up details of its deal to take a 30%stake in Norway's Braathens SAFE, while also giving an official signature to the ten-year alliance commitment with transatlantic partner Northwest Airlines. Under the Braathens deal, first announced in August, KLM will pay NKr749 million ($105 million) for ...
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GAMECO poised to build engine-test centre
Guangzhou Aircraft Maintenance Engineering (GAMECO) has been given preliminary board approval to build a $108 million engine-test centre, as part of wider investment in expanded overhaul and repair centres for southern China. The company hopes to have the new factory operational by 2000, provided that it is given ...
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US Airways
Frederick Sine is Arlington, Virginia-based USAirways' new vice-president for line maintenance, in charge of the day-to-day maintenance of the carrier's fleet. For the past two years he has been executive vice-president of Atlanta, Georgia-based aircraft-parts supplier Avatar Alliance. Source: Flight International
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BAe Aviation Services wins further Airbus A300 conversion work
C-S Aviation Services has doubled its orderbook with British Aerospace Aviation Services (BAeAS) for Airbus A300B4 freighter conversions, with a $150 million contract for 11 firm orders, plus options on a further ten. Filton, UK-based BAeAS now has 21 conversion orders from C-S which will be undertaken on ...
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European countries set up group to promote air-safety standards
The UK Civil Aviation authority, France's Bureau Veritas and Germany's Air Eurosafe have signed an agreement creating a new group to promote aviation safety worldwide. The three organisations have agreed to pool their expertise and resources to support the air-safety work being carried out by the International Civil ...
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Long-range MD-90
Boeing has handed over the first MD-90-30 Extended Range (ER) to Cairo-based AMC Aviation, a charter subsidiary of Egypt's Aircraft Maintenance. An auxiliary 1,720kg fuel tank boosts range to 4,000km (2,170nm). AMC is scheduled to receive a second -30ER in October 1998 and holds two additional -30ER options. ...
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Alitalia turns in profit after ten years of making losses
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Andrea Spinelli/Rome After a decade of losses, Alitalia has turned in a net profit of L163 billion ($92 million) for the first half of the year. Chief executive Domineco Cempella promises better to come, raising the prospect of early privatisation of the state-owned Italian flag carrier. ...
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Schools in
Efforts to raise air-transport industry standards in China have not only been confined to the pilot, but have extended across the workforce. New training initiatives and investments have been targeted at high-level executives, middle-level managers, operations staff, down to line mechanics. China's call for help has been answered ...
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Cooking up business
The move to ATR 72s has so far been successful for Mount Cook Airline's crews and passengers Paul Phelan/CAIRNS A fleet of five to six Boeing 737-400s or Airbus A320s, and 13-14 Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) ATR 72s, calculates one air-transport analyst, would far better fit Air New ...
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Appointments
Philip Chen will succeed Simon Heale as deputy managing director at Cathay Pacific Airways from mid-March. Heale takes up the position of finance director at Swire Pacific. Stanley Hui will replace Chen as Dragonair's chief executive from 1 February 1997, while Hui's role as chief operating officer of Air Hong ...
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Engine deal
Rolls-Royce Canada has signed maintenance contracts worth more than $17 million, the biggest of which is a $10-million, seven-year deal with Gulfstream Aerospace covering repair and overhaul on Spey, Tay and BMW-Rolls Royce BR710 engines on Gulfstream IIs, IIIs, IVs and Vs. The deal includes the offering of used-engine warranties ...
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Gently down stream
As with the engine manufacturers, consolidation among major airframe producers is likely to be followed closely by bold moves to secure dominance in the after sales market. Report by T Wakelee Smith and Jonathan Culley.It may be hard to believe. But with the recent absorption of McDonnell Douglas into ...
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Aeropostal row hots up
The punches are getting lower in the fight for control of Aeropostal, with an arrest warrant issued against its president and legal proceedings mounting. Aeropostal's president and 51 per cent shareholder, Nelson Ramiz, is currently running the airline from Aruba as he faces arrest on his return to Venezuela to ...