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Kiwi expands fleet
Kiwi International is formalising plans for the acquisition of new aircraft types as it prepares to undertake gradual expansion. The airline will acquire four more aircraft to add to its fleet of eight Boeing 727-200s, with the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 or Fokker F28 being considered. Kiwi says that ...
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Spinetta gets 'free hand' for more-commercial Air France
Julian Moxon/paris The French Government has confirmed the new president of Air France, Jean-Cyril Spinetta, in his post and given him unprecedented control over the running of the airline. It has also asked him to prepare for a "partial" opening of capital to the workforce and outside investors ...
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Virgin Express plans to join public bandwagon
Virgin Express is to become the latest of Europe's low-cost carriers to seek a public listing ,with plans to launch on the Brussels stock exchange and the USNASDAQ exchange. Start-ups UKDebonair and Belgian's City Bird have sought listings on Europe's EASDAQ, while Ireland's Ryanair has also recently floated. ...
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Balancing Act
Boeing is losing money because it's making too many airliners; Saab is losing money because it's making too few. Both are victims of a market which refuses to conform to the normal laws of economics - but each could benefit from the other's woes. Boeing's ...
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Airbus supplement: A330 A340
When Airbus first discussed the A340 seriously with potential customers in the mid-1980s, "...the maximum range requirement was not much more than 6,000nm [11,100km]," recalls Airbus vice president strategic planning Adam Brown. "By launch in 1987 this had grown to 6,600nm [12,200km], and the A340-300 now in production can fly ...
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Airbus supplement: A3XX
When it enters service in 2003, the A3XX will be the world's biggest civil aircraft. Perhaps more significantly, at least from the commercial point of view, the European giant will complete the Airbus range and remove at a stroke Boeing's long-held monopoly in extra-large people carriers. For three ...
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Airbus supplement: Restructuring
Wherever aerospace executives gather to discuss consolidation of Europe's aerospace industry, it will not be long before the talk turns to Airbus Industrie and its anxiously awaited restructuring. Whatever other pitfalls may yet befall Europe on the way towards the holy grail of consolidation, it has become an ...
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Airbus supplement: Airbus; 25 years after take-off
Airbus Industrie has come a long way since its first aircraft, the A300, took to the air 25 years ago this week, on 28 October, 1972. What was once regarded as something of a curiosity by its rivals across the Atlantic has emerged as the only world challenger to the ...
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BA boosts Gatwick by transferring 777-200s
British Airways is to widen the role of Airline Management (AML), its low-cost joint venture which operates long-haul routes from Gatwick Airport, as part of an expansion which will see BA's capacity from London's second airport increase by 25% from mid-1998. It has confirmed plans to transfer five ...
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NATS moves to limit 'brain drain' to Eurocontrol
UKair-traffic controllers are seeking to take legal action against moves by their employer, National Air Traffic Services (NATS), to head off a potentially crippling drain of staff by preventing its employees getting new jobs at Eurocontrol. Eurocontrol advertised for controllers throughout Europe early this year and received up ...
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Rada places Smart Cats in Los Angeles
Israeli test-equipment company Rada is expanding its network of testing sites, with a second US centre, at Los Angeles International Airport, to be established in co-operation with Hong Kong company New Reef. The first US testing station at Miami is now operational, and the two centres will together ...
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Airbus supplement: Airbus history
When the seeds which were to spawn today's Airbus Industrie were first being sown in the mid-1960s, the term "air bus" was a generic expression adopted by the industry to describe a short- to medium-range airliner proposed to meet increasing demand on busy European air routes such as London to ...
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Hamburg Airlines to fold after partner talks fail
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Hamburg Airlines managing director Udo Klien confirms that the carrier will fold at the end of the year, after the failure of partnership talks with regional carrier Augsburg Airways. Augsburg is now planning instead to extend its Hamburg operations within its existing Team Lufthansa ...
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Debonair and Azzurra
European regional airlines, Debonair and Azzurra Air, are set to announce an alliance on routes between the UK and Italy. An announcement is scheduled to be made on 22 October. Debonair, based in Luton, serves Rome and connects to Copenhagen via Munich. It operates seven British Aerospace 146-200s. Azzurra Air, ...
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Airbus aims at A320 production boost
Airbus Industrie chief operating officer Volker Von Tein has raised the possibility of an increase in the production rate of the A320 family from the planned 18 per month - but only if the consortium secures an order for 120 aircraft from US Airways. The current rate of ...
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Airbus to rule at German Britannia?
Britannia Airways is considering an all Airbus fleet to expand its new German charter market service. The carrier, which launches its operation with a flight from Berlin-Schonefeld on 3 November using a Boeing 767-300ER, could decide to switch to the European built aircraft by 1999. The foray into ...
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Spanish omelette
Spanish national carrier Iberia will join with domestic carrier Aviaco and privately owned Eastern Spain airline Air Nostrum on 26 October to operate codeshared domestic and international services with a combined fleet of 160 aircraft flying 700 services daily. Source: Flight International
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Japanese airlines cut back on domestic routes as rules ease
Japan's three largest airlines have started to cut back their operations on domestic routes, following a decision by the Government earlier this year to ease regulations dictating where carriers can fly. Japan Airlines and Japan Air System began their cutbacks this month, with the former suspending flights between ...
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North Korea plans to upgrade its air-traffic-control system
The North Korean Civil Aviation Administration is scheduled to complete an initial upgrade of air-traffic-control equipment by the end of the year, in readiness for the start of international flight trials through the Pyongyang Flight Information Region (FIR) in late February. North Korea is modernising communications equipment at ...
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Free Flight AID
Airline-owned communications company ARINC, and MITRE, the quasi-government think-tank, have created SkySource, a new company aiming at reducing operating costs, decreasing flight delays and increasing safety by providing a single, integrated source of aeronautical information for airspace users and the US Federal Aviation Administration. Source: Flight International