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Oman Air adds ATRs to aid regional expansion
The Muscat-based partially privately owned airline has placed firm orders for two ATR 42-500s with options on four more, which can be taken as the larger ATR 72-500. The two firmly ordered aircraft will be delivered later this year, with the options due in 1999. Oman Air general manager ...
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GE overhaul network continues to expand
General Electric is continuing the aggressive expansion of its engine overhaul and maintenance network by forming GE Varig Engine Services, a new joint company to be located at the Brazilian airline's Galeao International Airport overhaul site in Rio de Janeiro. The company is being formed through its recently acquired ...
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IATA networks with SITA
IATA has chosen SITA as its preferred, corporate networking partner for the supply of products and services. The three-year agreement will, by the end of the year, include integration of IATA's Montreal, London, Geneva, Miami and Singapore offices via SITA's global network. Other IATA offices will be connected via ...
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$85m RJ deal boosts Avro
Mike Martin British Aerospace Regional Aircraft announced the sale of three Avro RJ100 aircraft at Farnborough '98 yesterday. The $80 million deal was with Swissair Group leasing arm Flightlease and the aircraft will be delivered in July, September and October, 1999. The order may have a deeper significance ...
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Airbus wins the battle, but the war goes on
Karen Walker and Mike Martin Farnborough '98 turned into the show that Airbus Industrie was able to relish, but which Boeing might want to forget.. Boeing's problem was mainly one of timing, however. The company came to the show still smarting from highly public production problems and the ...
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Airlines choose the new FMS
Seven major airlines have chosen the new Flight Management System (FMS), produced jointly by Sextant Avionique and Smiths Industries, for their Airbus fleets. Air France, America West, Asiana, China Northwest, China Southwest, US Airways and one other undisclosed US major, have bought the system for both retrofit use and ...
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Russian Zenit crash blow to Boeing's Sea Launch
Tim Furniss The failure of a Russian Zenit 2 booster during launch yesterday with the loss of 12 Globalstar mobile communications satellites, may force Boeing to carry a dummy satellite on its First Sea Launch flight, a booster based on the Zenit 2 and equipped with an additional third ...
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Delta to offer one premium class on long-haul flights
Delta Air Lines plans to replace its existing intercontinental first- and business-class service with "new, premium two-class service" in the spring of 1999. The new in-flight cabin service product will replace the two premium classes that Delta offers today on long-haul services with one. The marketing effort will include ...
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Star Alliance selects Unisys for IT project
The Star Alliance airline group has moved ahead in its first joint information technology project, choosing Unisys to develop a pilot implementation for a new integrated communications network called Starnet. With Starnet, the Star Alliance carriers expect to be able to provide seamless travel, code-sharing and global recognition of ...
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Sun-Air third ATP
Sun-Air of Scandinavia, a British Airways franchise airline, is buying its third ATP aircraft from British Aerospace Asset Management. The latest purchase will be deliverd to Billund, a Denmark based airline, in November. It will be used to operate charters between Denmark and Norway, from Europe's newest airport ...
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Lucas licensed to make PDU for B747s
Lucas Aerospace will manufacture and market power drive units (PDUs) for Elektro-Metall Export's (EME's) Boeing 747-100, -200F/C and -400F aircraft under the terms of a licensing agreement signed at the show. The licence permits Lucas Aerospace to manufacture the PDU in the US and to market them in the ...
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Chemical stocks
Many hundreds of chemicals and plastics are used in the manufacture and maintenance of aircraft and a new service - at an air show for the first time - is available to handle and deliver stocks. Chemchain, from B&K (Hall 4, Stand G4) offers total chemical management for aerospace ...
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More problems detailed at HK airport inquiry
The public inquiry set up to investigate the troubled opening of Hong Kong's new airport at Chek Lap Kok has heard further evidence of apparent mismanagement. Yeung Kwok-keung, Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals (HACTL) deputy managing director, has spoken of bungled fire safety tests that ultimately led to the ...
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Air Canada continues search for Air Alliance buyer
Air Canada is still seeking a buyer for its Air Alliance subsidiary, three months after putting the unprofitable Quebec-based regional on the block. The company continues to drain Air Canada's resources, despite annual sales of around $35 million. A strike last year resulted in the loss of several million ...
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Thai Airways prepares for revamp
Thai Airways International chief executive Mahidol Chantrangkun is preparing a sweeping proposal designed to revamp the airline's domestic and international operations. Mahidol, who also serves as the Thai government's permanent secretary for transport, is heading the working group tasked with addressing repeatedly delayed privatisation plans, loss-making routes and outstanding ...
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UPS deal heads $8bn Airbus spree
Karen Walker Airbus Industrie chalked up yet another coup yesterday when it announced two multi-billion-dollar deals and secured a new customer, United Parcel Service (UPS), which has selected the A300-600 freighter for its widebody fleet. Wednesday's UPS order, worth $4.8 billion, combined with a $2 billion order from ...
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American Eagle to launch Dallas-Houston Hobby jet service
American Eagle is beginning jet service between Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston's Hobby Airport on 7 December with Embraer ERJ-145s. Although the regional carrier - the world's largest - is initially only replacing two of 11 daily turboprop round-trip services between the two airports, American Eagle says it will add ...
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US government to file suit against Northwest, Mesaba
The US government is to file suit against Northwest Airlines and its affiliate Mesaba Airlines in a bid to force the resumption of air services to 13 cities affected by the continuing Northwest pilots' strike. The suit is to be filed by the Department of Transportation (DOT) and the ...
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FAA wants to lead
TEXT: Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Despite intense domestic criticism of its lateness in getting to grips with the year 2000 computer problem, the US Federal Aviation Administration sees itself leading the world's aviation industry safely into the new century. Exactly what the USA will do to safeguard American travellers ...
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Kinnock's slot sale
European Union transport commissioner Neil Kinnock says that he wants to see a formal and legal structure created for slot trading, but says this could take up to three years to set up. This revelation comes after British Airways had been told by the European Commission that it should not ...