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US overflying charges spark protests
US Government plans to raise $100 million annually from foreign carriers by charging for use of Federal Aviation Administration-controlled oceanic airspace have raised a storm of protest from 20 governments, and most of the 170 carriers which the International Air Transport Association says would be affected. Airlines fear ...
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Fuel-tank safety checks initiated
About 2,000 of 6,000 aircraft operated by 68 airlines worldwide will be inspected over the next three years for the type of fuel-system defects suspected of causing the crash of a Trans World Airlines Boeing 747-100 in July 1996. The Aircraft Fuel Systems Safety Programme will involve checks ...
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Jamaica's Cat 1 rating brings Delta deal nearer
Air Jamaica is moving ahead with plans for a co-operation agreement with Delta Air Lines after the USA upgraded Jamaica's safety-oversight rating to Category 1. The deal with Delta, announced in July, had been on hold until the US Federal Aviation Administration's international aviation-safety assessment team was satisfied ...
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KAL steps up plans for new narrowbody
Korean Air Lines (KAL) is accelerating plans to phase out its entire fleet of Fokker 100s and Boeing MD-82/83s with the purchase of up to 40 replacement narrowbody aircraft. Industry sources say that KAL's evaluation has intensified in recent weeks and that a type selection is expected by ...
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Midway boosts CRJ as Dash 8 production is slowed down
Bombardier is to step up production of the Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ), but cut back on output of its de Havilland Dash 8 regional turboprop. The decision to increase CRJ production from five to six a month in 1998 came as Midway Airlines ordered ten aircraft, taking Bombardier's ...
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Northwest Airlink considers regional jets for Express I subsidiary
Northwest Airlines hopes to decide by the end of 1997 on new 50- to 69-seat aircraft to equip its Northwest Airlink subsidiary, Express Airlines I, operating from Memphis, Tennessee. Aircraft being considered include the Saab 2000 high-speed turboprop, the Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet and Embraer EMB-145 regional jet. ...
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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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US Congress opens Dallas Love Field to Legend Airlines
Texas-based start-up carrier Legend Airlines hopes to select an aircraft type and apply for an operating certificate before the end of October, after the US Congress eased restrictions on services from Dallas Love Field. Legend's plans are dependent upon gaining approval to operate 56-seat, all-business-class, Boeing 737-200s or ...
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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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CNAC is cleared for flotation as airlines face consolidation
China National Aviation (CNAC) has been been given the go-ahead to become the latest Chinese carrier to float on the Hong Kong stock exchange. The move comes as China prepares for a round of consolidation within its crowded airline market. The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), which ...
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Ministers turn down EC open-skies request
Europe's transport ministers have turned down a request from the European Commission (EC) to broaden the remit of its open-skies talks with the USA to include negotiations on traffic rights. EC transport commissioner Neil Kinnock hopes to raise the issue again at the next meeting, in December. Kinnock ...
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Netherlands unbends on Schiphol noise
The Netherlands Government has reached a last-minute compromise which will allow Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport to breach its strict noise regime, which was threatening to cause chaos in operations in the final three months of the year. The airport says that it will still have to rein in its growth in ...
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Prestwick incentive
Glasgow Prestwick International Airport in Scotland is trying to encourage carriers to launch transatlantic services from the airport by offering to pay them some £1 million ($1.6 million) a year if they make a five-year commitment. Source: Flight International
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MAS Virgin freighter
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) and Virgin Atlantic launched a twice-weekly joint freighter service on 1 October. Source: Flight International
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Boeing studies 777-200X 'sleeper' options
Guy Norris/SEATTLE Boeing has begun talks with potential 777-200X customers over lower-lobe options for its ultra-long-range derivative of the twinjet, with sleeping space for up to 40 passengers and crew. Boeing is now seriously examining the long-discussed possibility of passenger sleeping accommodation, needed mainly because of ...
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AirAsia maps out future openings for new widebodies
Malaysian start-up carrier AirAsia is planning to acquire two widebody aircraft in early 1998 to expand services within Asia and open up flights to the Middle East and Europe. The airline says that it has signed a letter of intent with an unidentified third-party broker to sublease two ...
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Confusion surrounds privatisation of Air Niugini
The privatisation of Papua New Guinea flag carrier Air Niugini has been thrown into confusion after the sacking of the airline's board by the country's new transport and civil-aviation minister, Philemon Embel. In a separate move, he has also turned down a request by Australian regional Flight West ...
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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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Air Iceland created
A Fokker 50 is seen in the livery of recently created Air Iceland, the merged company of the national airline's island network and Norlandair Iceland. The new airline inherits four former Icelandair Fokker 50s with three Fairchild Metro IIIs, two de Havilland Canada Twin Otters and two Piper Chieftains of ...
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Eurowings wins domestic skirmish
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Lufthansa is to open up its Miles & More scheme to passengers on competing smaller airlines flying internal German routes, bringing to a close a test case under investigation by state competition authorities. A complaint was raised with the authorities in May by Lufthansa's ...