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Troubled Olympic may defer 737-800 deliveries as new team arrives
Julian Moxon/PARIS Olympic Airways, struggling with financial and management problems, is considering deferring delivery of eight new Boeing 737-800s for up to a year. The Greek flag carrier, which remains 100% government-owned, says the decision on whether to delay delivery "must await the arrival of a new consulting team ...
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PIA turns to Cathay Pacific for 747-300 lease
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has signed a letter of intent with Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways for the lease of five Boeing 747-300s as interim replacements from mid-April for the carrier's six 747-200Bs. PIA has long been planning a 747-200 replacement programme, examining the Boeing 747-400 and 777 and Airbus ...
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Royal Air Maroc fine-tunes fleet renewal requirements
Emma Kelly/CASABLANCA Royal Air Maroc (RAM) will finalise its long-haul fleet requirements by June. It is close to completing its fleet plans for the next 13 years, but is "fine-tuning" its needs, says chairman and chief executive Mohamed Hassad. The Moroccan flag carrier has decided that its major requirement ...
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U-Land faces grounding over Taiwan airport fee payment
Brent Hannon/TAIPEI Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics Administration is expected to ground domestic carrier U-Land Airlines this month if it fails to pay the $760,000 it owes in airport fees. The CAA, which is also threatening helicopter operator Asia Pacific Airlines over an outstanding $35,000, has rescheduled U-Land's debt several ...
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Airlines move to fill Channel Islands vacuum
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS Aurigny Air Services and VLM are looking to capitalise on KLMuk's decision to reduce its Channel Islands operations, with new routes to the UK mainland and Continental Europe. Channel Islands-based Aurigny has applied to replace KLM uk on services between Guernsey and London Stansted from April. Jersey ...
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Aerospatiale unveils blueprint for new business structure
Julian Moxon/PARIS Andrew Doyle/BONN Aerospatiale is to spin off its major operations into four wholly owned subsidiaries in a move it says is intended to aid the reorganisation of the European aerospace and defence industries. The new subsidiaries are to be known as Aerospatiale Airbus, Aerospatiale ATR, Aerospatiale ...
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Alenia and Dasa form strategic link with Hellenic Aerospace
Alenia Aerospazio and DaimlerChrysler Aerospace (Dasa) have separately formed strategic alliances with Hellenic Aerospace Industries (HAI), covering a range of civil and military programmes. HAI already supplies Airbus parts to the German company. The relationship will be expanded to cover participation in Dasa's ongoing upgrade of Greek McDonnell Douglas ...
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Lufthansa plans capacity rise despite decline in yields
Andrew Doyle/BERLIN Chris Jasper/LONDON Lufthansa is planning to buck the European trend and increase capacity by 13% with the introduction of its summer schedules, despite sharing industry concerns over declining yields. Other European - and US - majors have been saddled with excess capacity over the past 12 months ...
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Brazilian offer
Brazil is to allow foreign companies to rent its Alcantara launch site. Brazilian airports authority Infraero, which administers the site on the north-eastern coast, says it has signed a letter of intent with Fiat Avio of Italy, which would allow the company to use the site by the end of ...
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Spacehab drums up first Space Station research customer
The first customer has been signed up for the Spacehab commercial space research facility aboard the International Space Station. The Colorado School of Mines' Center for Commercial Applications of Combustion in Space will use the Spacehab-funded furnace, known as Space-Drums, to process exotic glasses and ceramic materials in microgravity. ...
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Go-ahead for Hubble repair mission
NASA has given the go-ahead for an emergency mission to service the Space Shuttle's Hubble Space Telescope to be launched in October. The mission will replace all six gyros on the Hubble. The telescope has already lost two gyros and a third is giving problems. If the Hubble loses ...
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Clusters prepared for launch by Soyuz
DaimlerChrysler Aerospace's Dornier Satellitensysteme division has completed the first of four Cluster 2 science satellites due to be launched in mid-2000. The satellites will be launched in pairs on Russian Soyuz boosters operated by the Samara/Aerospatiale/Arianespace Starsem consortium. The four original Clusters were lost in the failure of the first ...
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ICO Hughes launches confirmed
ILS International Launch Services has won orders from Hughes to launch two more worldwide mobile communications satellites into medium earth orbit on Atlas IIAS and Proton boosters for Inmarsat affiliate ICO. The new orders mean that ILS is to launch six of the satellites - four by Protons and two ...
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IMC poised to secure funding for Centaur
IMC Warrior is "close" to securing about £15 million ($24 million)to kick-start full-scale development of its six-seat Centaur light amphibious aircraft. "We are confident that the funding will be in place by the end of the year," says Centaur designer James Labouchere. The UK company, which has already flown ...
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Airbus seeks exit rule changes
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH David Learmount/LONDON Airbus Industrie is trying to persuade European and US regulatory authorities to modify certification rules to allow it to build the A340-600 with the same number of emergency exits as the smaller -300, despite the fact that the new variant seats nearly 100 more passengers. To ...
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Ex-Warsaw Pact trio of states join NATO
The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland were formally admitted into NATO on 12 March, with their air forces becoming part of the alliance's integrated air defence system. All three countries and Romania have recently commissioned new air sovereignty operations centres, command and control bases with new US-supplied hardware, to ...
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Lufthansa eyes new 767 options
Guy Norris/SEATTLE Lufthansa is studying a possible new version of the Boeing 767 being evaluated as a potential spin-off development of the new -400 entering production. The German flag carrier could be interested in a longer-range version of the 767-300ER and an extended-range variant of the -400ER, which ...
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Asian unrest leads to Australian forces going on alert
The Australian Government has called for all Royal Australian Air Force strategic and tactical level air transport to be available for deployment at 28 days' notice, as part of a major upgrade to national defence preparedness. The upgrade in readiness - to the highest levels supported by Australia since ...
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USAF wants cash to modernise bomber fleet
The US Air Force says it will not need a new long-range bomber until 2034, provided it gets funds to modernise its 190 Boeing B-52s, Rockwell B-1Bs and Northrop Grumman B-2s. Briefing Congress on its long-term bomber plan, the USAF says it will need almost $2.3 billion for improvements ...
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Airline chiefs to be told likely causes of next accident
David Learmount/LONDON The UK's airline bosses are to be told by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) what is the most likely cause of their companies' next fatal accident. The unprecedented safety warning - to come at a meeting scheduled for 19 March - is aimed at ensuring the airlines ...