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DASA wants Airbus to scale down large-aircraft plans
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE partner Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) wants the consortium to drop its A3XX 500- to 650-plus-passenger aircraft study in favour of a 400- to 550-seat aircraft to rival new stretched variants of the Boeing 747 now under study. The DASA move comes in the wake of recent bruising ...
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MDC reveals its long-term plan for MD-11 plan
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is in the final stages of defining two new versions of the MD-11, which will enable the company to compete head-to-head with Airbus and Boeing in the Boeing 747-100/200 replacement market and the emerging extra-long-range market. "We got to the point that we had to ...
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BA to equip European fleet with TCAS 2
BRITISH AIRWAYS WILL announce this week that it is fitting traffic-alert and collision-avoidance systems (TCAS 2) to its 116-aircraft short-haul fleet The airline is the first major European carrier to order the TCAS 2 for its entire fleet. Its 102 long-haul aircraft are already fitted with the system, ...
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Corporate strategy
Winner: Lockheed Martin Location: Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Achievement: Taking consolidation of the world aerospace defence industry to a new scale with the success of its giant merger. There is little doubt that the merger of Lockheed and Martin Marietta was the landmark event of 1995 for the ...
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Air Transport
Winner: Bombardier Regional Aircraft Location: Ontario, Canada Achievement: Helping carriers to exploit the benefits of open skies, with new low-cost, direct air services using the 50-seat Canadair Regional Jet. FROM THE OUTSET, Bombardier designed its 50-seat Canadair Regional Jet to help airlines open up new ...
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Boeing examines longest-range 777 yet
BOEING IS studying an ultra-long-range 777-200 as a possible alternative to the development of the smaller-capacity short-bodied -100X. The study has been prompted by airline demand for an ultra-long-haul aircraft combining the range of the -100X with the higher capacity of the -200. Boeing hopes that the move ...
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Aer Lingus / Delta share
Delta Airlines has signed a codeshare agreement with Aer Lingus, under which the US airline will buy blocked space on the Irish flag carrier's services between New York and Shannon/Dublin. Joint services will begin 1 May, subject to US Government approval. Source: Flight International
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Sabena brought to a halt by pilot strike. . .
Herman De Wulf/BRUSSELS BELGIAN NATIONAL carrier Sabena is paralysed by the fourth strike since November. This time the pilot's union, ABPNL, is opposing the hiring of four pilots by regional subsidiary DAT to fly the new Avro RJ85. The latest series of conflicts began when the ...
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Russia's air-traffic volume continues to fall
TRAFFIC VOLUMES in Russia have fallen for the fifth successive year, according to the Russian Transport Department's 1995 annual report, due to be published on 16 February. The latest decline leaves passenger numbers at barely one-third of 1990's peak, when 90.7 million boardings were recorded in Russia, then part of ...
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Dash for growth
Bombardier Regional Air-craft landed a double coup at the show, confirming an order from Great China Airways of Taiwan for six de Havilland Dash 8-400s, with options on a further six. The aircraft will replace Dash 8-300s operated by the Taiwanese carrier. The second deal is with Japanese carrier Ryuku ...
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...as Air France risks unrest
AIR FRANCE PRESIDENT Christian Blanc has renounced long-standing agreements with pilots of subsidiary domestic carrier Air France Europe (the new name for Air Inter) risking further strike action at the airline. Blanc wants to bring Air Inter Europe into line with the existing union agreements with Air France ...
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China plans ATM tests
CHINA WILL conduct trials of a satellite-based air-traffic-management (ATM) system in Xi'an between 17 and 19 March as part of long-term plans to develop a complete communications, navigation, surveillance (CNS)/ATM airspace infrastructure. The Xi'an demonstration will be performed by an international team led by Rockwell's Texas-based Communication Systems division (CSD) ...
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Knight Air sells routes to expand engineering business
LEEDS/BRADFORD Airport, UK-based Knight Air has sold its four domestic routes and is concentrating on expanding its engineering business. The four routes, to Aberdeen, Belfast, Isle of Man and Southampton, together with Knight Air's two new Jetstream 31s, have been taken over by Manx Airlines Europe and will be operated ...
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CNAC negotiates 737 lease for Hong Kong start-up
CHINA NATIONAL Aviation (CNAC) is understood to be close to finalising an agreement with General Electric Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) to lease a Boeing 737-500 for its planned Hong Kong airline The start-up carrier, to be named China Hongkong Airlines, plans to dry-lease the 737 for five years. ...
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Ryanair rebuffed by Irish Government
RYANAIR, THE independent low-fare Irish airline, is to re-assess its expansion plans for Dublin following the rejection by the Irish Government of its plan for a second city airport at Baldonnel's Casement Aerodrome, now used by the Irish Air Corps. Chairman Tony Ryan had proposed the move, to ...
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Arrow freighter
Arrow Air has taken delivery of its first Lockheed Martin L-1011-200F freighter, for use on the cargo airline's principal Miami-San Juan route. Source: Flight International
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FedEx go-ahead
China's civil aviation administration has given FedEx permission to launch its first air-cargo service to Beijing and Shanghai from the USA in early March, using a Boeing 747-200. FedEx is the only US-based cargo carrier allowed to operate into China, having acquired the right from Evergreen. The carrier plans eventually ...
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Metros for Malaysia
Asia Pacific Airlines, has added four new 19-seat Fairchild Metro 23s, to facilitate its expansion into local scheduled services. The Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia based company has been operating a single Metro 23, since the middle of 1995. The new aircraft will be delivered with a 50kg reduced operating weight. ...
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BWIA to Brazil
BWIA international Airlines has launched a weekly McDonnell Douglas MD-83 service from Trinidad and Barbados to Sao Paulo, Brazil, fulfilling a primary goal of its privatisation plan. It will use larger aircraft, or add frequencies for the new market. Source: Flight International
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3X Jet patents dissimilar-engine twinjet concept
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA A US patent HAS been granted to 3X Jet for an unconventional propulsion-system concept for twin-engine aircraft. The configuration uses two different-sized jet engines mounted on the aircraft centreline and is claimed to offer reduced operating cost, improved climb performance and range, and increased cruise-altitude ...