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Singapore Singles
Cessna has received an order for six 172R Skyhawks from Singapore Airlines for its Perth, Australia-based flying college. The piston singles will join five Skyhawks already in service. Source: Flight International
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Hawaiian twinjets
Hawaiian Airlines has confirmed its planned order for 13 Boeing 717s and taken rights to purchase another seven of the twinjets. Deliveries will begin in February 2001 and conclude by the end of the year. The 123-seaters will replace 15 McDonnell Douglas DC-9s. Orders for 717s total 143. Source: Flight ...
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Sumitomo assists
Flight International's sister on-line service, Air Transport Intelligence, reports that Japanese engineering firm Sumitomo Precision Products will assist Hamilton Sundstrand in developing and producing the air conditioning package for the Embraer RJ-170/190 regional jet family. Sumitomo will be responsible for the system's heat exchanger, the condenser and the high-pressure water ...
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Belgium WEU offer
Belgium is to contribute a squadron of 12 Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter-bombers and 11 Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules transports to the European Rapid Intervention Force. Defence ministers from the 15-nation Western European Union (WEU) decided to form the force at a meeting in Lisbon on 28 February. A 60,000-strong force ...
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Continental orders
Bombardier has chalked up 54 orders for its Continental super mid-size business jet since its launch last June. Certification and first deliveries are planned for 2002. Source: Flight International
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Restored Islander
The Britten-Norman Aircraft Preservation Society has "rescued" the first production Islander from Puerto Rico and has begun restoring the 33-year-old model to flying condition. The aircraft, originally delivered to Aurigny Air Services in August 1967, was flying in Puerto Rico until 1997, delivering food and medical supplies to the surrounding ...
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Loadmaster slips
Ayres' Loadmaster utility aircraft is expected to fly in the third quarter of this year, leading to certification at the end of next year - a slip of about 12 months from the original schedule. The fuselage and the wing of the first Loadmaster have been mated following delivery ...
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Black Brant
The Canadian Space Agency flew a Geodesic programme mission into the upper atmosphere on 26 February using a Black Brant 12 suborbital booster launched from Poker Plat, Alaska. The 20m (65ft)-long Bristol Aerospace-built four-stage sounding rocket reached an apogee of 1,000km (620 miles) to observe the auroa borealis. The 17min ...
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What's so special?
Passenger service levels are back on the agenda, with major airlines on both sides of the Atlantic under customer pressure to raise their game. But that may be only a symptom of a deeper need for airlines to look again at what differentiates their product. What is the difference ...
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China eases limits on Hong Kong carriers
Hong Kong and its rulers in Beijing have negotiated an air services "arrangement" that allows for a major increase in flights to and from the former UK colony and the Chinese mainland. The accord was signed in Beijing on 2 February and took immediate effect. Hong Kong's secretary for ...
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Threat to single cargo platform
A three-year initiative aimed at developing a seamless, door-to-door system for conventional air cargo could be in jeopardy if a meeting in Los Angeles on 24 February votes as expected. At stake are plans by the International Air Transport Association's special interest group, Cargo 2000, to create a ...
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In brief, International
Freight merger Lufthansa and Deutsche Post are looking at a pooling of their logistics operations which could see DHL International, Lufthansa Cargo and Air Express International brought under a single structure. The German post giant and Lufthansa each have a 25%stake in express delivery specialist DHL International, while Deutsche ...
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Fairchild leads charge for 100-seater market
The 100-seat airliner market debate was freshly stirred at Asian Aerospace 2000 as the regional aircraft manufacturers showed themselves to be ever more confident about their prospects in this controversial sector. In a far cry from two years ago, when the regional manufacturers insisted that they would not risk ...
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Continental doubles order for regionals
US regional Continental Express opened Asian Aerospace 2000 with a new order for 100 Embraer regional jets, doubling the number of small jets it has on firm order. The $1.8 billion deal takes Continental Express' total confirmed orders for ERJ-145s and 135s to 200. It will continue to take ...
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Air Canada tightens grip on Canadian
David Knibb Seattle Canadian Airlines is disappearing as an independent company as Air Canada proceeds to convert it into a wholly owned subsidiary under a new management team and brand. Air Canada has appointed Paul Farrar, a restructuring specialist, as Canadian's new chairman. Paul Brotto becomes chief operating officer. ...
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Avensa flights suspended
Avensa's financial condition has forced it to suspend all flights to Europe. The Venezuelan airline returned its two McDonnell Douglas DC-10s to their lessor in early February. By some accounts the lessor seized them, but Avensa insists it returned the jets as their leases expired. Either way, this is ...
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Domestic fares fall as Japan deregulates
NICHOLAS IONIDES ATI SINGAPORE Japan's major carriers are to introduce new discount fares for domestic travel from April following a revision to Japanese aviation laws. The changes to aviation laws were made official on 1 February, when the current approval system for domestic fares was replaced with a filing ...
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Indian Airlines stake attracts interest
RAVI PRASAD NEW DELHI The Indian Government's latest plans to sell an equity stake in Indian Airlines this year has drawn interest from major Indian corporations. These include Sahara Group of Industries, parent company of Sahara Airlines; the Tata Group, which had planned to launch an airline in a joint ...
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In Brief, Asia-Pacific
KAL chairman jailed Korean Air (KAL) chairman Cho Yang-ho has been sentenced to four years in prison. Cho has also been fined 30 billion won ($27 million). while the carrier has been fined 80 billion won as part of the largest tax evasion scandal in South Korean history. Cho ...
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BA underscores its African presence
ROGER MAKINGS JOHANNESBURG British Airways and its oneworld alliance could be about to strengthen its challenge in sub-Saharan African, following the UK carrier's decision to buy into regional partner Comair. BA plans to take an 18% stake, worth around R168 million ($28 million) in Johannesburg-based Comair, which signed as a ...