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Estonian Air gears up to operate Boeing 737 as it aims to ditch Russian fleet
ESTONIAN AIR IS about to send the first of 25 pilots to Seattle for conversion training to prepare for their new duties flying the Boeing 737-500. The carrier expects to slash the number of its aircrew from 80 to 37, as it does away with the need for ...
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Ansett Australia to retire F28s
Ansett Australia is to begin retiring its Fokker F28 fleet, scrapping five 1000- and 3000-series aircraft by the end of the year. Seven Fokker F28-4000s and five Boeing 727-200s, all due for retirement under Stage 3 noise rules in 2002, will remain in the fleet, but their earlier ...
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Gulf revives air-defence plan plans
THE GULF Co-operation Council (GCC) states have revived a plan to integrate their respective air-defence ground environments. US defence contractor Hughes has again been contracted to study the requirement. Hughes originally carried out the six-nation GCC-funded study into integrating the countries' stand-alone air-defence networks in 1988. This work, ...
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Marshall Islands order drives Saab to tackle ETOPS
SAAB AIRCRAFT is working to achieve extended-range twin-engine operations (ETOPS) certification for its Saab 2000 turboprop to allow extended flight over water. Executive vice-president Johan Oster says that 90min ETOPS qualification is needed for Air Marshall Islands, which has ordered two aircraft for operations over the Pacific. ...
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Bilateral Impasse
As US air-services negotiators, return from an apparently promising meeting with their British counterparts, and the European Commission (EC) suddenly discovers that it doesn't like what the US negotiators have agreed with the rest of Europe, a new question arises. Who really talks for Europe, and who really talks for ...
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Back To Beijing
Qantas Airways was due to resume flying to Beijing on 28 March, after an absence of eight years. The resumption of services to the Chinese capital ends a long-running battle over rights to the route, between Qantas and one-time challenger Australia Air International and, later, Ansett Australia. Source: ...
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Lufthansa transforms financial results
LUFTHANSA PRODUCED its promised return to profits in style, with a set of results ahead of expectations. The now-privatised German carrier underlined its financial transformation by revealing that it has halved debts and almost doubled cash flow over the past year. Full group figures will not be released ...
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JAL Doubles 737 Order
Japan Airlines (JAL) has doubled its previously announced Boeing 737-400 order, from two to four aircraft, worth $180 million. The first two 737s are scheduled for delivery in May and June, followed by the remaining two aircraft in July 1996 and February 1997. JAL announced plans in April 1994 to ...
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Air La Expands
Air LA says that it is close to finalising a $6 million deal to acquire Conquest Airlines, a Texas-based carrier with a fleet of Fairchild Metro-liners. The deal comes only weeks after Air LA acquired Capitol Airlines based in St Paul, Minnesota. When both acquisitions are complete Air LA will ...
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Reno Loses
Battles between Southwest Airlines and the United Shuttle for California's low-fares market has taken its toll on Reno Air. The fledgling regional operator saw net losses almost double to $14 million in 1994. Source: Flight International
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Pacific bus stops
Hawaiian operators plan to tap a predicted growth in South Seas tourism. Guy Norris/HONOLULU Hawaiian guitar music wafts across the palm-fringed beach near Waikiki on a balmy afternoon. High overhead, locally based airliners look like partners in paradise as they shuttle to neighbouring islands. ...
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Cathay issues cost warning despite rise profit rise
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CATHAY PACIFIC Airways has issued further warnings over falling yields and rising costs, despite reporting a 4% increase in net profits for 1994. Profits ended the year broadly in line with analyst expectations at HK$2.4 billion ($310 million), but Cathay chairman Peter Sutch ...
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Keeping in touch
Air-to-ground telephones for airline passengers are becoming more commonplace. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA Passengers on certain British Airways flights are the first in the UK to enjoy something US air travelers have come to expect - air-to-ground telephones on aircraft. BA is the first airline to put ...
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Wake analysis shows little hope of growing capacity
LASER-BASED ANALYSIS of aircraft wake-vortices at London Heathrow Airport suggests that there is little hope of increasing runway capacity by reducing separations. Researchers believe that real-time provision of vortex information to controllers could sometimes assist with tactical air-traffic control (ATC), but few, if any, strategic gains are realisable. ...
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Qantas profit clears the way for privatisation
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE QANTAS AIRWAYS reports a profit increase of nearly 80% over the first half of its financial year, clearing the way for the Australian Government to sell its remaining 75% stake. The results, likely to be the last before the long-awaited share flotation, shows ...
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Canadian Airlines wins two-thirds of US slots
CANADIAN AIRLINES HAS been awarded two-thirds of the 24 free airport-slots open to Canadian airlines as part of the bilateral air agreement signed recently with the USA. Air Canada has been allocated the remainder. Canadian will serve six of ten free slots at Chicago O'Hare and ten of ...
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NOx emissions up, says DLR expectations
AIRCRAFT ARE emitting more nitrous oxide into the atmosphere than expected, although the resulting atmospheric damage remains insignificant, says the German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR). In an interim report on its research into harmful substances in aviation, the DLR says that jet aircraft worldwide emit 2.8 million tonnes ...
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Fokker losses hit record
High in 1994 FOKKER SANK TO record losses in 1994 as the group struggled to cope with plummeting aircraft sales and "cut-throat" competition. Nearly DFl 1.4 billion ($790 million) were wiped off the Netherlands manufacturer's sales over the year, as the number of aircraft deliveries were ...
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Austrian Airbus
Austrian Airlines has taken delivery of the two Airbus Industrie A340s it ordered in 1991. They are the carrier's first ultra-long-range aircraft, and will be used on direct routes from Vienna to Tokyo, Johannesburg and Beijing. Delivery was delayed by around a year. Airbus has now delivered 51 A340s to ...