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Ansett nears final decision in Airbus-Boeing order contest
The battle between Airbus Industrie and Boeing to provide a new fleet of up to 16 large twinjets to Ansett of Australia appears to be drawing to an end, with a decision expected within weeks. The re-equipment project, aimed at replacing Ansett's domestic Boeing 767-200s and its international Boeing 747-300s ...
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Brit'Air order launches Canadair stretched CRJ
FRENCH REGIONAL airline Brit'Air is the launch customer for the stretched, 70-seat Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ)Series 700, with a firm order for four aircraft. The Canadian company says that it has options and conditional orders for a further 28 aircraft, plus memoranda of understanding for another 35, ...
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Mystery in the East
Far from encouraging foreign airlines to invest in India's burgeoning civil-aviation industry, the much-heralded new aviation policy recently announced by India's United Front Government has confused and bewildered overseas investors. India's powerful Cabinet Committee On Foreign Investment (CCFI) has announced that foreign airlines will no longer be permitted ...
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ValuJet expands
ValuJet Airlines is continuing to rebuild its route structure with plans to serve Akron/ Canton, Ohio, from Atlanta, Georgia, beginning on 6 March. ValuJet has also announced that it intends to re-enter the Atlanta-Boston and the Washington-Boston markets. Source: Flight International
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DAT disposal
Sabena will sell its fleet of nine Embraer EMB-120 Brasilias operated by its Delta Air Transport subsidiary, following KLM's decision to terminate DAT's contract to operate the four-times daily feeder route between Antwerp and Amsterdam Schiphol from 1 April. KLM City Hopper will serve the route with Saab 340 turboprops. ...
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Maintenance Directory Part 1, The Americas
MAINTENANCE AND overhaul companies in North and South America are benefiting from the return to profitability of the region's airlines. While cost-cutting measures such as outsourcing main- tenance have slipped down the airlines' priority lists as profits have soared, overhaul companies say that business has improved since the recession's end. ...
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SITA: Dedicated to communicating
From the start, airlines could not be efficient without good contactability. The need for better company communications, over developing long routes, gave birth in 1949 to SITA (once known as the Societe Internationale de Telecommunications Aeronautiques) - a non-profit-making co-operative, among major airlines - to provide self-managed communications. It has ...
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Aeronet: Development of a network
SITA's AeroNet is a centrally managed data network capable of handling and routeing high volumes of complex - and often commercially sensitive - digital data streams from sophisticated applications. It might be compared with the newest databus in civil aircraft - where a point-to-point bus system, such as the Arinc ...
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AA pilots are ready to abandon talks
Round-the-clock negotiations between American Airlines management and the Allied Pilots Association, a union which represents some 9,000 of the airline's flightcrew, had still failed to produce a new contract 18h before a threatened 15 February strike was due to begin. The talks have become bogged down on pay ...
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Oscillations force BA 777 back to Heathrow
Oscillations force BA 777 back to Heathrow The UK air-Accident Investigation Branch is looking into a mysterious in-flight incident involving a British Airways Boeing 777-200A, which was forced to turn back to London Heathrow in October 1996 after suffering uncommanded rudder movement. BA and Boeing have so far ...
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BAe flies its first converted A300B4 freighter
British Aerospace's Filton, UK-based division, BAe Aviation Services, flew its first converted Airbus A300B4 freighter on 23 January, and hopes to be able to secure approval from the US Federal Aviation Administration and UK Civil Aviation Authority approval by the end of March. The conversion of the first ...
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BMed resurrects BA franchise agreement
BRITISH Mediterranean Airways (BMed) has struck a new agreement with British Airways to operate as a franchise partner on routes between London Heathrow and the Middle East as from April. The two airlines originally agreed to a link for their 1996/7 winter schedules, but the plans were later ...
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Rescued Kiwi takes expansion slowly
Kiwi International Airlines, which re-introduced scheduled passenger services to four US cities at the end of January, plans a gradual expansion of its fleet and destinations over the next three months. Kiwi was forced to suspend all scheduled services in October 1996 after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy ...
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Fly by net
The AeroNet, SITA's latest data-communications system, could be the aviation industry's answer to the Internet. Long established as a provider of data communications for the aviation industry, SITA recently had a self-contained, high-performance data network grafted on to its support structure. Called the AeroNet, it is aimed at eradicating paper ...
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Spare a thought
Airlines in Europe are becoming increasingly reliant on third-party component support services. Maintaining a comprehensive spare-parts inventory for a modern airline is an expensive business, particularly for a small- or medium-sized operator. Many expensive components may be languishing in storage, under-used but held in case an unforeseen failure grounds an ...
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IAI's expanding Commodore moves into SabreTech's Miami site
Commodore Aviation, the overhaul subsidiary of Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI), is expected to complete a deal acquiring the troubled SabreTech's maintenance operation at Miami International Airport within the next two weeks. The IAI unit, which is based at Miami International, will move into SabreTech's much larger site after ...
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Myanmar shelves A320-lease plans
Myanmar Airways International has scrapped plans to lease two Airbus Industrie A320s and instead extended an interim lease agreement with Malaysia Airlines (MAS)for two Boeing 737-400s. In late 1996, the Singapore-Myanmar joint-venture carrier signed a letter of intent with Airbus to lease two A320s for five years. The ...
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Guatemalan start-up
Mayan World Airlines has taken the first of two AI(R) ATR 42s, to launch regional services in Guatemala. The Guatemala City-based start-up will initially serve Flores from its base, and plans to expand services soon. Source: Flight International
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Air Niugini finalises order for Dash 8s
The planned order by Air Niugini of Papua New Guinea (PNG) for two Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-200s is to be finalised, after delays during final contract negotiations. The airline has been negotiating the order with Bombardier for some months to replace its fleet of de Havilland Dash ...
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Bidders jostle for SilkAir order
SilkAir of Singapore has begun evaluating formal proposals submitted by competing airframe and engine manufacturers for a replacement fleet of up to ten narrowbody passenger jets. The Singapore Airlines-owned regional carrier is looking for a new family of 100- and 150-seat aircraft to replace its fleet of Boeing ...