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Qantas quells runway rumours - ATI
Qantas Airways says Thai aviation authorities have finally released the flight data recorder (FDR) from its Boeing 747-400 that was involved in a September landing incident at Bangkok airport. "Our investigators are now carefully analysing a considerable amount of technical information relating to critical aspects of the flight, the landing ...
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Kuwait Airways, PAL link for Bangkok-Manila flights - ATI
Kuwait Airways (KAC) and Philippine Airlines (PAL) are entering into a co-operation agreement under which PAL passengers will be carried on the Kuwaiti carrier¹s flights between Bangkok and Manila - flights operated only because of the need for a technical stop. A PAL source says from Manila that the agreement ...
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Orders bonanza hope in wake of a Middle East travel boom
Alan Peaford/DUBAI Passenger air travel in the Middle East will grow at a faster rate than Europe or North America according to Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group. This will mean a huge demand for new aircraft over the next 20 years. Boeing spokesman Mark Hooper, addressing a pre-show briefing, says ...
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Eastern seeks waiver
China Eastern Airlines is seeking an exemption from a new government tax on aircraft operating leases to allow it to revive a plan to acquire Airbus A340-600s from International Lease Finance (ILFC). Industry sources told ATI last week that the tentative deal under which the Shanghai-based carrier would lease four ...
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FedEx expands China ops
DUBAI Federal Express (FedEx) is continuing its expansion drive in China with the formation of a joint venture with Da Tian W Air Service Corporation to provide express delivery services. FedEx says the joint venture company , Federal Express - DTW, based in Beijing, provides "fast, time-definite and reliable ...
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Shell riding high on Sukhoi
Mark Hannant/DUBAI Shell is flying at Dubai 2000 - on the wings of a Sukhoi Su-29. The Su-29, sporting the Shell red and yellow pecten, appears in the daily display flown by Rehan Van Tonder who's taking time out from his day job as a pilot with Emirates. Shell has ...
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Alphas set to better Hawks in UAE deal?
Tim Ripley/DUBAI An Anglo-German dogfight looks on the agenda at Dubai 2000 over the fate of the United Arab Emirates requirement for new ground attack aircraft. Germany is now the hot favourite to win the lucrative deal with an offer of 32 ex-Luftwaffe Dassault Alpha Jet trainers, which looks ...
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Face the facts with...Chuck Grieve
Maurice Flanagan, Group Managing Director of Emirates, the Dubai-based international airline, believes the general public is being badly-served in many parts of the world for a variety of reasons Q: Have alliances grown too strong? A: I think alliances, if they're not controlled, would be the same as cartels. ...
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KAL chairman arrested on tax charges - ATI
Korean Air (KAL) chairman Cho Yang-ho, 50, has been arrested on charges of evading taxes and embezzling millions of dollars. Prosecutors say Cho's younger brother Cho Su-ho and their father Cho Choong-hoon have also been implicated in the scandal, which is said to be the largest tax evasion case ...
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End in sight to Pacific region slump
A new ICAO survey released this week shows that the downturn in business on trans-Pacific routes could soon end. The number of passengers on Pacific routes is expected to rise from 26 million in 1998 to 72 million in 2014, and those on intra-Asia/Pacific routes from 67 million to 145 ...
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Airports
An Italian Government decree is set to ban all night flights between 23:00 and 06:00 at Italian airports from early next year. Airports have six months to adapt to the new regulations, after which only special flights (government or emergency/medical flights) will be allowed during the banned period. There will ...
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Go focuses on 737-700 or A319 for long-term fleet plans
UK low-fare airline Go expects to finalise its long-term fleet plans early next year. This will enable it to begin introducing a new fleet of Airbus A319s or Boeing 737-700s in 2001. The airline was set up in May last year by British Airways as a low-cost short-haul subsidiary ...
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Rockwell Collins heads for I²S first
Rockwell Collins and Lufthansa affiliate Condor expect to receive German certification of the Integrated Information System (I2S) by mid-November. Certification, which follows a successful test flight on a Condor A320 in September, will pave the way for the launch of a year-long operational trial of the advanced information management system ...
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External payload
Lockheed Martin has confirmed a new configuration of its proposed VentureStar single-stage-to-orbit reusable launch vehicle (Flight International, 13-19 October). The craft will carry an external payload bay up to 19m (60ft) long and 10m wide to provide greater fuel efficiency and greater mission flexibility. With the external payload bay removed, ...
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ARINC moves into airline passenger cabins with BT link
Communications specialist ARINC, better known for its cockpit services, is expanding its activities into the passenger cabin through an alliance with UK telecommunication giant BT. Under the deal, ARINC will be the preferred distributor of BT's aeronautical services in the USA. BT provides telephone, facsimile and in-flight entertainment (IFE) ...
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Tenzing aims for e-mail flight trials next year
Internet service provider Tenzing plans to launch flight trials of its in-flight e-mail/Internet services by next September. The Redmond, Washington-based company demonstrated its FlightConnect e-mail service for the first time at the World Airline Entertainment Association (WAEA) show last month. It has signed up an airline for flight trials, says ...
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Swissair hangs up satphones
Swissair is removing the satellite communications (satcom)-based in-seat telephones installed on its narrowbody Airbus fleet due reliability problems and a lack of passenger demand. The in-seat phones will be removed from January, but one bulkhead-installed phone will remain on each aircraft, says Don McLaren, Swissair in-flight entertainment and communication ...
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Express way to success
Airlines catering for luxury travellers have often gone to the wall. Midwest Express, however, is thriving. Paul Seidenman/MILWAUKEE Since US airlines were deregulated, a few carriers have tried to offer a single-class service catering to the demands of high-fare business travellers. Generally, these luxury operations have been unsuccessful. ...
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IAE puts turbofan back on the drawing board
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH International Aero Engines (IAE) has dropped plans to launch a higher-thrust variant of its V2500 turbofan by the end of this year after failing to develop a satisfactory business case. It has refocused studies of the proposed "-A7" version of the engine, unveiled at the Paris ...
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Regional deal heralds China breakthrough
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Paul Lewis/WASHINGTONBombardier has signed a breakthrough deal with China's Shandong Airlines to supply five Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) series 200s. It will also look at establishing a dedicated training centre as local interest in regional aviation picks up. The Jinan-based provincial operator is the first Chinese carrier to ...