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BA places a no strike bet
British Airways' plan to reap £1 billion a year in efficiency savings by March 2000 could suffer a severe blow if two separate ballots of cabin crew and ground staff, the latter over the airline's plan to sell its catering operations, result in support for strike action. Both ...
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We win together
Profits and a healthy cash balance once seemed impossible goals for Continental Airlines. Having achieved them, chairman and chief executive officer Gordon Bethune has turned his attention to the fight for global market share. Interview by Richard Whitaker Working together worked! So says the banner headline on the front cover ...
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What's left for France?
Is it a case of plus ça change or will the new French socialist government compromise Air France's planned privatisation and the integration of the Airbus consortium? The French airline industry is waiting with bated breath to see whether France's new socialist prime minister, Lionel Jospin, is a ...
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Leap of faith
Having been forced to abandon its multi-company structure, the Mesa Air Group is now concentrating on new developments, like its operation at Fort Worth.Karen Walker talks to chairman Larry Risley. Larry Risley, chairman and chief executive officer at Mesa Air Group, has become an expert hurdles jumper over the last ...
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Power play
Greenwich Air Services has secured a ten-year deal with Britannia Airways for the repair and overhaul of General Electric CF6-80A2 and -80C2 engines. The contract value is put at around $85 million. Greenwich, which is in the throes of a takeover by General Electric, has also signed a $40 million ...
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Maintenance venture
GE Engine Services and EVA Airways have signed a memorandum of intent to explore the formation of an engine- overhaul and maintenance venture in Taiwan. The deal, in which EVA would have the majority stake, will handle engine overhaul for EVA and other airlines. Source: Flight ...
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Airbus waits for orders before committing to growth A340s
Airbus Industrie says that it needs a "significant" number of orders for the new A340-500/600 versions of the A340 before committing to full development and production. Despite that, sales chief John Leahy is "optimistic" that sufficient airlines to justify the $2.5 billion development cost will commit to the ...
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AMR Eagle divides regional-jet order: Embraer wins key deal
AMR Eagle has divided its long-awaited order for regional jets between Embraer and Bombardier, although the Brazilian manufacturer has won the key competition to supply 50-seaters. AMR Eagle will take delivery of the first of 42 firmly ordered EMB-145LRs, powered by the Allison AE3007A1 engine, in February 1998, ...
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Work begins on low-maintenance Adour
Rolls-Royce and Turboméca have launched development of a new low-maintenance version of the Adour 871 turbofan which powers the British Aerospace Hawk and McDonnell Douglas T-45 trainers. The Adour 900 will offer 4,000h between overhauls to meet what R-R military-engines chief Terry Graham describes as a demand for ...
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Atlantic Coast Airlines raises cash for jets
ATLANTIC COAST Airlines (ACA) has announced a $50 million bond issue designed to help support the introduction of regional jets into the fleet and the repurchase of shares owned by aircraft manufacturer British Aerospace, which had been obliged to bail out the airline. Washington DC-based ACA, which operates ...
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Apprentices have earned licences
Sir - I was pleased that Jim McKenna, UK Civil Aviation Authority head of engineer licensing, responded to my letter on European Joint Aviation Requirement (JAR)-66 aircraft maintenance basic licences (AMBL) (Flight International, 11-17 June, P144)) -although the point of my letter was missed. I was not highlighting ...
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Pratt & Whitney pushes claims for AE31X with PW6000 plan
Pratt & Whitney has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) as part of efforts to bolster its chances of having the PW6000 selected for the Sino-European AE31X regional-jet programme. The US company says that "discussions are under way on what parts and ...
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Pemco teams to solve FAA cargo directives
Pemco World Air Services has teamed with Hamilton Aviation and Wagner Aeronautical to resolve the technical issues which will be raised by the US Federal Aviation Administration airworthiness directives (AD) concerning third-party Boeing 727 freighter conversions. Pemco is expecting two ADs from the FAA. The first, focusing on ...
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Jordanian raises new capital to fund fleet
Royal Jordanian has completed an important refinancing package of its Airbus A310 leases which will provide capital to fund the acquisition of new long-range twinjets in 1998. The airline, which says that it has a desperate need to update its long-range fleet of five 220-seat Lockheed L-1011 TriStar ...
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Saab shapes up for the future
Saab Aircraft hopes to complete a study by the end of the year aimed at mapping out its future strategy. Gert Schyborger, who took over the reins as president at the Swedish civil-aircraft manufacturer earlier this year, says that until the study is complete he will not be ...
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Premier air show lives up to its reputation
Paris has maintained its reputation as the pick of the air show bunch in the opinion of a cross-section of companies manning stands in the various halls. Peter O'Dea from French company Amp, a leading producer of electrical and electronic interconnection systems, says: "This is without doubt the best ...
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Noises off
American firm Blast Deflectors (Hall 3/F16a) is promoting a new Airport Noise Protection Unit which can be designed, manufactured and installed in less than six months. "During aircraft maintenance a run-up engine procedure is often required which can be very noisy," explains vice president Christopher Lynn. Many American ...
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Asiana Engines
Asiana Airlines has renewed a contract to have its CF6-80C2 engines overhauled by Lufthansa Technik (LHT). The two companies have extended their current co-operative agreement into the year 2001. The order is for the overhaul of all 66 engines of Asiana's Boeing 747-400s and 767-300s. Source: ...
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IT experts issue warning on 'millennium bomb'
A wave of activity to try to defuse the "millennium bomb" is coming, a leading company said at the show. And there are warnings from information technology (IT) experts based in Britain about problems faced by the aerospace industry trying to tackle the date change problem. ...