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Wood Group Aero has won a five-year, $100 million contract to maintain 84 Pratt & Whitney JT8D-17/17A engines powering American Trans Air's Boeing 727s. Air Jamaica has signed a total technical support contract with Lufthansa Technik for its recently acquired Airbus A340-300. The aircraft is leased from International Lease Finance ...
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Boeing focuses on cargo with conversion programme
Guy Norris/SEATTLE Boeing Airplane Services (BAS) plans to launch 757-200SF (special freighter) and 767-200SF passenger to freighter conversion programmes by the end of the year as part of plans to mount a broad attack on the cargo conversion market. It estimates the market could be worth up to $15 ...
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Australia World bids to extend funding deadline
Australia World Airways, the proposed start-up carrier with plans to fly from Melbourne to Sri Lanka, Greece and the Netherlands, wants Australia's International Air Services Commission (IASC) to extend its funding deadline to 20 October. The airline's first application in February 1996 failed because of uncertainties over funding. The ...
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Marketplace
Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA) is boosting its ATR 72-210 fleet with an additional seven aircraft. The ex-Air New Zealand Mount Cook aircraft will join 12 of the type that are already operated by the Delta subsidiary. Air New Zealand Mount Cook is replacing the -210s with ATR 72-500s. US freight ...
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Routes
British Airways will codeshare with Swiss regional Crossair on the London Heathrow-Basle, Switzerland, route from next month when the major drops its own services. Boeing MD-83s will fly the service, which is one of a number of underperforming routes BA is dropping. US low-fare carrier Pro Air will launch the ...
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Odd one out
While Daewoo, Hyundai and Samsung plan to merge their aerospace arms, Korean Air Aerospace is going its own way Andrzej Jeziorski/PUSAN As the rest of South Korea's aerospace industry pursues its imminent merger and the formation of Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI), Korean Air's (KAL) Aerospace division is staying on ...
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Life after USAF
Keeping hold of pilots for their full 20 years of service is proving a problem for the US Air Force DeeDee Doke/LONDON The promise of retirement pay and benefits is proving an insufficient lure to keep the US Air Force's pilots in the service for a full 20 years. In ...
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Packing punch
Air power is the key to modern warfare, but it could be used differently, believes the US commander of the Kosovo air campaign DeeDee Doke/AVIANO AB As US Air Force Lt Gen Mike Short launched his command of the air campaign over Kosovo last March, he expected to ...
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ISS leaves a headache
Astronauts are trying to play down the bouts of sickness they experienced during their visit to the International Space Station in May Tim Furniss/LONDON Several crew members of the Space Shuttle STS96 Discovery became ill during a logistics supply mission and docking with the International Space Shuttle (ISS) in May ...
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Merger Mania
The Top 100 aerospace ranking, compiled by Flight International and leading industry experts IPG Consulting, shows an industry in the grip of consolidation. But how long will merger-mania hold sway - and what comes next? Chris Jasper/LONDON The aerospace industry, conventional wisdom would have it, is in less than ...
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Good practice
A new training system allows US fighter pilots to observe their own combat training sorties DeeDee Doke/RAF LAKENHEATH A new combat training system that allows fighter pilots to sharpen their skills without ground monitoring stations is in action at its first US Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) duty station. This ...
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Shell gets 328JET in Nigeria
Fairchild Aerospace has delivered a 328JET to Shell Petroleum Development of Nigeria. The 32-seat Pratt & Whitney Canada PW306B-powered regional jet has joined two 328 turboprops used by Shell to transport personnel within Nigeria. The company is expected eventually to replace the turboprops with jets.Source: Flight International
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New EC commissioner backs Eurocontrol to run airspace
Julian Moxon/PARIS The new European Commission (EC) Transport Commissioner Loyola de Palacio has come out strongly in favour of a transfer of airspace sovereignty to Eurocontrol as a way of solving the growing air traffic control (ATC) crisis in Europe. In a statement to the European Parliament on 30 ...
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El Al nears decision on widebody fleet
Israeli flag carrier El Al is entering final negotiations with Boeing and Airbus on its medium-sized widebody requirement and is expected to make a selection by the end of September. Boeing proposes three 777-200ERs, plus options on two additional aircraft, which could be 767s, 777s or 747-400s. Sources close ...
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Airbus flies towards FANS approval
Airbus is expecting certification of its FANS-A (future air navigation system) avionics next spring following extensive in-flight trials of the system and the first tests in an operational environment. The system, developed for the A330/A340, supports satellite communications (satcoms), datalink communications and automatic dependent surveillance (ADS). The first operational trial ...
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Mini QAR to slash installation costs
Avionica plans to start production by the end of the year of a quick access recorder (QAR) which, it says, will dramatically cut the unit size and installation costs in civil aircraft. The Miami, USA-based manufacturer says that it expects to soon announce the mini QAR's first customer - a ...
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F-15 excess costs Boeing $225m
Boeing is to take a $225 million charge against third-quarter earnings because of excess inventory on the F-15 fighter programme. The hit is in addition to a previously announced charge of $45 million for F-15 inventory. The company had procured long-lead items in anticipation of export orders for up ...
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Bombardier to sell UK arm
Stewart Penney/LONDON Bombardier is to sell its Bombardier Services UK company which provides flying training and maintenance services to armed forces in the UK and the Middle East. The decision comes shortly after the company received the first four of 99 Grob G115 trainers to fulfil a UK contract to ...
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Airbus SCE plans get stuck as Dasa/CASA near merger terms
Julian Moxon/PARISWith Europe's four Airbus companies due to present plans for the conversion of the consortium into a single company to their respective governments before the end of this month, Flight International has learned that the partners - soon-to-merge DaimlerChrysler Aerospace (Dasa) and CASA apart - have yet to hold ...
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CityBird cargo flight forces Sabena action
Belgian carrier CityBird began wet-lease cargo operations for Lignes Aeriennes Congolaises (LAC), the national carrier of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on 30 July with the delivery of the first of two A300-600 freighters originally destined for Kuwait Airways. Belgian flag-carrier Sabena is planning to sell all shares in CityBird ...