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Names of the game
Independent centres are expanding to meet airline simulator training needs Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DCWhat's in a name? Everything - for the commercial airline flight training industry. A reputable name is the first requirement for any company that wants to set up business training pilots for the world's airlines. This is demonstrated ...
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Poland offers Skytrucks to pay Brazilian debt
Poland is proposing to supply Brazil with around 100 PZL Mielec M-28 Skytruck transports and other defence equipment as part of efforts to pay its $3 billion debt to the South American nation. A senior Polish delegation, comprising finance and economy ministry officials, is due to travel to Brazil ...
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USA aims to link NATO systems
Improved coalition operations are the focus of technology demonstrations planned by the US Department of Defense (DoD). Development of techniques to ensure the interoperability of different airborne ground-surveillance systems to be deployed by NATO nations is one of 11 advanced concept technology demonstrations (ACTDs) to be funded in fiscal ...
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Differences
There is no longer any doubt that the safety standards between cargo and passenger operations are massively different - and the latest figures prove it. According to a study by the Netherlands National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR), the most dangerous commercial aviation activity in the world is ad hoc cargo charter ...
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Sibir takes over Siberian carriers
Paul Duffy/MOSCOWSibir, Russia's fastest-growing airline, is expanding again through the effective takeover of more Siberian carriers. It aims to formalise an alliance with a major European airline by the middle of this year. Vladislav Filiov, Sibir's general director, is continuing his strategy of linking airlines into a partnership under the ...
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Swiss firm scraps plans to sell Pilatus
Switzerland's Oerlikon-Buhrle has shelved plans to sell turboprop aircraft manufacturer Pilatus Aircraft. The Zurich-based company is also changing its name to Unaxis after refocusing on the high-technology sector. The former industrial conglomerate has divested Oerlikon-Buhrle Immobilien, shoemaker Bally and Oerlikon Contraves Defence, a specialist in land-based systems, while establishing ...
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People
Pratt & Whitney Canada has promoted Gilles Ouimet to president and chief executive officer (CEO). He was previously president and chief operating officer. Ouimet succeeds CEO David Caplan, who remains as chairman until 2001. Stefan Zoller, corporate secretary and chief of staff at DaimlerChrysler Aerospace, is to succeed Werner Heinzmann ...
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Alitalia considers KLM merger
Andy Nativi/GENOA Alitalia is to carry out a study into a possible merger with KLM in a move apparently aimed at assuaging Dutch concerns over delays to the privatisation of the Italian flag carrier. KLM is also angry about the curtailed expansion of the new Milan Malpensa Airport, which it ...
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General Motors man to take Lockheed Martin's wheel
Lockheed Martin has gone outside the aerospace and defence industry to appoint its new president and chief operating officer. General Motors executive Louis Hughes has been selected to succeed Peter Teets, who retired late last year due to the company's poor financial performance. Hughes, who takes up his ...
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Embraer strives for extra capacity to beat backlog
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON Embraer is exploring options for bolstering production capacity in the face of a growing civil and military backlog. Adding to this is a new order for up to 80 ERJ-145s placed by Chautauqua Airlines affiliate Solitair. The planned expansion follows a bumper year in 1999, when the Brazilian ...
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China limits fare discounts and plans airline mergers
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE The Civil Aviation Administration of China's (CAAC's) new policy on domestic revenue sharing aims to limit fare discounting in the short term and could lead to the consolidation of the country's airline industry around four major groupings. Beijing has ordered revenue sharing on 100 mainland routes from ...
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Thomson rebuffs first German bid
Thomson Travel Group, parent of UK charter carrier Britannia Airways, has rejected as "wholly inadequate" a proposed €2.2 billion ($2.1 billion) takeover by Germany's C&N Touristic, which is expected to raise its offer. Thomson is advising its shareholders to reject the offer, saying it "sees no purpose in pursuing ...
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Nigerian support
The US Government is to provide Nigeria with a $10 million military air package, including help in restoring the country's eight Lockheed Martin C-130H/-30Hs to operational condition. Source: Flight International
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Romanian increase
Business flights at Banaesa Airport near the Romanian capital Bucharest rose by over 170% last year to 890 movements, compared with 633 flights the previous year. The surge marks the fourth consecutive annual increase at the city airport. Source: Flight International
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Simulator lease
BAE Systems has signed a memorandum to lease a A320 full-flight simulator to Flight Training Systems Chile, a joint venture between Lufthansa Flight Training and LanChile Airlines. The simulator is due for delivery next April and will join a 737-200 device at the centre. Source: Flight International
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Report deepens mystery of Crossair Saab 340 accident
David Learmount/LONDON A quirk in the flight management system (FMS) of the Crossair Saab 340 which crashed near Zurich, Switzerland, on 10 January led the captain to reverse a cleared left turn and turn right instead just before the crash. After the manoeuvre, the right bank quickly became extreme, ...
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New rules calm down 'air rage' passengers
The inexorable rise in passenger disruption on aircraft has been stemmed in "countries where procedures and legislation have been put in place" to combat the problem, says the International Air Transport Association (IATA). As a result, the 64 airports, airlines and other organisations that met at an IATA seminar ...
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Eurocontrol expects fewer delays for summer
Eurocontrol predicts air traffic delays in Europe this summer "significantly lower" than experienced on the continent last summer - the worst period ever for European air traffic delays. Eurocontrol's provisional council, which met late last month to discuss capacity problems, is optimistic of meeting the objective endorsed by Europe's ...
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528JET schedule may rule Fairchild out of Eurowings order battle
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH The Fairchild 728JET family has emerged as Eurowings' favourite for its planned order for up to 30 regional jets. But the carrier says it may have to switch to another manufacturer because the 50-seat 528JET model will not be available until at least 2005. The Dortmund-based ...
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Malév to shake up fleet
Julian Moxon/BUDAPEST Malev's new chief executive, Ferencs Kovacs, is planning major fleet rationalisation as the Hungarian airline prepares for privatisation and entry into a global alliance. "I inherited an airline with five different types," he says. If things go according to plan that will be reduced to Boeing ...