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Boeing hints at new models
Boeing Business Jets (BBJ) is considering following up its launch of the BBJ and BBJ2 derivatives of the Next Generation 737 with new models. Steven Hill, Boeing's vice-president customer services, says other models should follow the first two product launches as the market requires. While not elaborating on what BBJ ...
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Bombardier orders top $200m
Bombardier revealed a series of business jet orders at the show, with a value totalling $200 million. The largest single order came from Bombardier sales agent ExecuJet Aviation Group of Switzerland, which ordered 12 Bombardier business aircraft, comprising five Learjet 45s, two Learjet 60s, four Continentals and one Canadair Special ...
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Emirates eyes 120-seater for new regional network
Emirates will shortly start talks with Airbus and Boeing to acquire 120-seat aircraft to launch a network of regional services from its Dubai hub. The carrier is also studying airline alliances, to allow it to decide whether to join a grouping, says Emirates chairman Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum. ...
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Fairchild lands Lebanese Envoy 7 deal
Fairchild Aerospace has won its first sale in the Middle East of the Envoy 7 business jet. The US company announced at the show that the Safadi Holding Group of Beirut, Lebanon, has signed a letter of intent to buy a single corporate version of the 728JET 70-seat regional airliner. ...
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Air Gulf Falcon will launch next month
Air Gulf Falcon is to launch charter operations with nine Boeing 747s next month and is evaluating narrowbody types for expansion next year. The company is to be launched by the Sharjah, United Arab Emirates-based Falcon Air group, which includes Falcon Air Leasing and Falcon Aircraft Maintenance Centre. Air ...
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737 safety probe prompts tests
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing is modifying a 30-year-old ex-United Airlines 737-200 for ground and flight tests of the rudder system as part of a US Federal Aviation Administration-led safety evaluation. The 737 is being leased from Indiana-based Purdue University, which acquired the aircraft after United Airlines retired it in 1997. ...
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NetJets Middle East adds Hawkers
National Air Services (NAS) has signed a $170 million order for 14 Raytheon Hawker 800XPs, taking the NetJets Middle East aircraft portfolio and orderbook to $760 million. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia-based NAS, which operates Executive Jet' s NetJets fractional ownership programme in the Middle East, Turkey and Cyprus, will take ...
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Qatar spares
Components remarketer Avatar Alliance and Qatar Airways have signed an exclusive aircraft spares consignments agreement. Under the terms of the deal, Avatar will exclusively manage sales of Qatar Airways' excess parts inventory from its Atlanta, Georgia, and Amsterdam, Netherlands, bases. Source: Flight International
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Repair overhaul
Kuwait Airways has renewed its Airbus landing gear repair and overhaul contract with Messier Services. The $8 million contract covers Kuwait's fleet of Airbus A300-600s, A310-300s, A320s and A340s. The work will be carried out at Messier's Molsheim plant in France. Messier Services Asia has also won a six-year $5 ...
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Omani Hercules deal
Companies from around the world are competing for a maintenance contract for the Omani air force's Lockheed Martin C-130H Hercules. The bidders include Malaysia's Airod, Hellenic Aerospace Industries of Greece, the UK's Marshall Aerospace, and Singapore Technologies Aerospace (ST Aero). The competition is for a three-year contract involving three aircraft. ...
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South Africa's Denel reveals SAAF's Torgos long-range guided weapon
South African aerospace and defence company Denel has displayed its Torgos long-range stand-off precision guided munition for the first time. The weapon is one of a variety of South African weapons in development by Kentron to equip the South African Air Force's (SAAF) recently ordered Saab/British Aerospace Gripens. Denel's ...
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Ariane 4 notches another success
Arianespace has conducted its 49th consecutive successful launch of an Ariane 4. The Lockheed Martin-built GE-4 communications satellite was launched at only three months' notice by the European launch company on an Ariane 44LP on flight V123 on 13 November. Arianespace, meanwhile, has scheduled the first fully commercial Ariane ...
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Marketplace
DHL Worldwide Express is purchasing two Boeing 757-200 freighters for its European and African networks, from Ansett Worldwide Aviation Services (AWAS) in a deal worth over $60 million. The aircraft, one of which is already leased by DHL for its Dubai/Bahrain-Brussels services, will be delivered in January and March. DHL ...
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Raisbeck LEAPS on 727 slat deployment
Raisbeck Commercial Air Group has won approval for a stand-alone version of its leading edge aerodynamic performance system (LEAPS), which repositions the slats on the Boeing 727. The LEAPS modification shortens the travel of the leading-edge slats by about 60mm and provides performance and noise benefits, says Raisbeck. These ...
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Lessors raise regional jet interest as demand rises
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH The major leasing companies are stepping up talks with Bombardier, Embraer and Fairchild over potential large orders for regional jets as airline demand for 50- to 100-seat aircraft accelerates. Deutsche Bank-owned Boullioun Aviation Services is being tipped by industry sources as a likely front-runner with a ...
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Routes
British Airways is restructuring its Caribbean network from London Gatwick with a redeployment of flights operated under franchise by the paper airline Airline Management (AML) from March. AML services are operated by two-class Boeing 777s, with BA providing pilots and Flying Colours (to be renamed JMC Air) the cabin crew. ...
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Southern Air ready to go after DoT vote
Start-up cargo carrier Southern Air has won US Department of Transportation approval to begin operations, but will have to do so without routes from bankrupt Southern Air Transport (SAT). Services will begin next year. The Columbus, Ohio-based company plans to offer aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance (ACMI) wet-lease services ...
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Tatarstan supports Tu-214 lease scheme
Production of the Tupolev Tu-214 in the Russian republic of Tatarstan is gearing up, following agreements to support production and leasing of the 200-seat twinjet. Meanwhile, local carrier Sibir Airlines is finalising a lease deal for three examples. The Perm and Novosibirsk regions of Tatarstan have signed agreements to ...
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Aviation Sales moves to do deal with Malev's Aeroplex
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Aviation Sales of the USA is discussing a possible tie-up with Malev Hungarian Airlines' Aeroplex maintenance subsidiary, in line with plans to establish a major facility in Europe. The move may threaten a previously announced joint-venture agreement between Aeroplex and Lufthansa Technik (LHT) to overhaul Boeing 737s ...
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Canadian regionals may merge
Brian Dunn/MONTREAL A Toronto-based business group, Regional Airlines Holdings, aims to establish a new national airline by buying and merging the regional carriers of Air Canada and Canadian Airlines. The move would appear viable if the two majors themselves merge. Regional Airlines Holdings wants Ottawa to force Air Canada to ...