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Boeing prepares to offer 747-500/600MD
Guy Norris/SEATTLE BOEING IS to seek board authority to offer the "Major Derivative" (MD) 747-500/600 in July, but may be forced to extend the development timescale by more than a year to incorporate more advanced technology, at the insistence of its airline advisory group. Boeing ...
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BAC Express takes Fokker F27
BAC EXPRESS AIRLINES HAS introduced a Fokker F27 into its fleet, because of its need for larger freight capacity following the winning of a new Royal Mail contract in Edinburgh. The Gatwick, UK-based airline received its Fokker F27 Mk500 in May 1996, and will start freight services this month, from ...
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Baltic finnish
Lithuanian Airlines has become the last Baltic airline to establish an alliance, signing a marketing deal with Finnair for flights between Vilnius and Helsinki and beyond. Unlike the recent agreements between Latvia's Air Baltic and Scandinavian Airlines System, and Estonian Air and Maersk Air, no equity stake is involved. The ...
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Virgin Express builds on EBA's success
EURO BELGIAN AIRLINES (EBA), the low-cost carrier acquired in April by Richard Branson to launch his long-awaited Virgin Express operation, has revealed figures for 1995 which show that its no-frills scheduled services captured more than 20% of the market on its key routes from Belgian capital Brussels. ...
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TEA extends its Vietnamese links
CHARTER AIRLINE TEA Switzerland has extended its association with Vietnam's second carrier, Pacific Airlines. Since 1 June the South East Asian airline has been wet-leasing a TEA Boeing 737-300, in addition to a 737-200 operated since December 1995. Pacific Airlines uses the TEA aircraft on domestic services ...
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Boeing plans for further FANS-1 certification
BOEING IS PLANNING to certify future Air Navigation System 1 (FANS-1)-equipped versions of its 757s and 767s by late 1997, possibly as part of a joint US Federal Aviation Administration/European Joint Airworthiness Authorities effort. The US company is developing an improved version of its FANS-1 avionics package to ...
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New study identifies high-risk CFIT categories of operation
David Learmount/LONDON An accident involving controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), is most likely to happen to a single-crew operation in Africa flying a non- precision approach without a ground-proximity warning system (GPWS) says a so-far-unreleased report which quantifies CFIT risks. ...
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Aerospace in Indonesia
Aerospace in Indonesia is racing to keep up with the country's growing economy, writes Paul Lewis in Singapore. INDONESIA IS A COUNTRY unmatched by any of its South-East Asian neighbours. With an expanding population of some 190 million, a rich and bountiful supply of natural resources and a growing ...
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Garuda and Boeing strike a deal on outstanding orders
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE GARUDA INDONESIA has reached an agreement with Boeing to cancel and defer outstanding orders for 15 747-400s and 737-400s, in exchange for 17 new 737-300/500s. As part of the renegotiated deal, Garuda will swap one of its six unfilled 747-400s orders for five ...
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French independents join forces for competition
Julian Moxon/PARIS French independent airlines AOM and Air Libert, are moving closer to an accord which may see the two carriers form an alliance to compete with the Air France Group. A deal could be signed by the end of June. The two have been ...
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BA franchising forays into South Africa
BRITISH AIRWAYS' franchising operation has made its first non-European foray, signing an agreement with South Africa's leading independent airline, Comair. The franchise, which starts on 1 October, sees Comair remaining independent with no BA equity investment. Southern Africa is an important market for British Airways, and Comair, ...
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FLS supports Air 2000's rotables
FLS AEROSPACE HAS expanded its position as a component-support prime contractor with the signing of a five-year deal with Air 2000. The agreement takes Europe's largest independent maintenance company into the Airbus Industrie A320 rotables business for the first time. The component-support work for Air 2000 arrives on ...
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Alitalia boss sets deadline for rescue plan
ALITALIA CHIEF executive Domenico Cempella has set a deadline of 20 June for pilots' unions to present an alternative rescue plan for the carrier and to agree a solution. Cempella laid out his own restructuring plan in May shortly after taking up the reins at Alitalia (Flight International, ...
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Air Canada rethinks modification plans for its DC-9-30
AIR CANADA MAY retain and upgrade 15 of its 35 aging McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30s rather than replace them one-for-one with Airbus Industrie A319s as previously planned, according to executive vice-president and chief operating officer Robert Milton. "We're holding back on a decision to sell [the last] 15 of ...
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Greyhound Air finally receives approval
Greyhound Air, a new Canadian low-cost domestic carrier, plans to begin operations on 8 July, following long-awaited Government approval. The airline, operated by Kelowna Flightcraft Air Charter for bus company Greyhound Lines of Canada, had planned to begin services on 15 May (Flight International, 21-27 February, P10), but ...
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British Midland sets out the cost of Europe's duopolies
BRITISH MIDLAND Airways has released a report demonstrating that fares to Paris, Europe's busiest city, have increased significantly faster on routes where only two airlines compete. The report, which analyses the effect of competition on the 40 busiest city pairs, finds that lowest business-class fares rose by 48% ...
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Debonair makes low-cost fares and quality promise
DEBONAIR, THE LATEST UK start-up hoping to bring the US low-fares experiment to Europe, has promised fares of 50-70% below existing levels. The airline is planning to launch services from London Luton on 19 July, with free flights on its routes to Barcelona, Munich and the Dusseldorf ...
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Open skies crucial to BA/American deal
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON NEWS OF THE British Air-ways and American Airlines code-sharing deal and the promise of a US/UK open-skies agreement has sparked off a round of intense lobbying from competitors on both sides of the Atlantic, hoping to make gains from a new bilateral. BA ...
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Reflecting the true costs of airport modifications
Sir-In your article, "Airlines force Boeing to raise 747-600X range" (Flight International, 22-28 May, P13), you mention the Airports Council International's (ACI) new report, Costs and Capacity Implications of New Large Aircraft for Airports. I would like to clarify a point on the average capital cost per new-large-aircraft ...
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SA Airlink KwaZulu-Natal link
SA Airlink's agreement to operate the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government's recently ordered Jetstream 41 (Flight International, 5-11 June), will fit in well with existing operations, says Airlink's joint managing director Barry Webb. SA Airlink already operates a fleet of ten British Aerospace Jetstream 41s and two Dornier 228s, and serves several ...