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Cypriot charter set to take off
A new, independent, Cyprus-based charter operator, Capital L Airlines, is to begin operations from the island after the Cypriot civil aviation authority's approval of a one-year operating license. The airline, a subsidiary of tour operator Louis Tours, will launch charter flights from European points to Larnaca and Paphos on ...
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FAA may get $300 million bonus in Transport budget
A planned $300 million budget increase for the US Federal Aviation Administration on top of the $9.8 billion it received in the 1998 financial year is in the pipeline from the Department of Transportation (DoT). The DoT's requested total budget of $51 billion this financial year includes $10.1 billion for ...
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Independent risk assessment backs GPS navigation system
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC An independent risk assessment by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has concluded that, with some improvements and augmentations, the Global Positioning System can be "...the only navigation system installed in the aircraft and the only navigation service provided by the US Federal Aviation Administration." ...
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Light shines at end of Greek air traffic tunnel
Julian Moxon/PARIS Additional reporting David Learmount/LONDON Pan European air traffic control (ATC) delays, resulting from traffic logjams over Greece, should be reduced considerably during the summer, following an employment agreement between air traffic controllers and the Greek civil aviation authority. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) infrastructure ...
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Airlink BN-2 Islander 'breaks up in flight'
All 11 occupants were killed when a Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander operated by Papua New Guinea domestic carrier Airlink crashed on 3 February after apparently breaking up in flight. The aircraft was en route from Hoskins to Kandrian, when it crashed into a plantation some 32km (20 miles) south-west of ...
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Marketplace
-Ansett Australia has confirmed it will lease two Boeing 747-400s from Singapore Airlines, to replace the two 747-300s it leases from the same carrier. The two aircraft will be operated on Ansett's daily services between Sydney and Osaka, returning via Brisbane, and on its five-times weekly Sydney-Hong Kong services. -American ...
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American delivery
American Airlines accepted delivery of its first Boeing 737-800 on 5 February, its 800th jet aircraft produced either by Boeing or the former McDonnell Douglas. The 737-800 is the first of 100 on firm order by American. Source: Flight International
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Routes
- All Nippon Airways (ANA)has applied for a Government go-ahead for its planned codeshare partnership with Varig, in the run-up to joining the Star Alliance by October. The two airlines plan to begin codesharing on two Varig-operated services from Rio de Janeiro to Nagoya and Tokyo, starting on 28 March. ...
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Aeroflot power battle rages, finances probed
Aeroflot Russian International Airlines has sacked two senior managers as part of an ongoing battle for control of the airline. Aeroflot, Russia's leading airline, has also launched an internal audit, which Moscow sources suggest may reveal evidence of financial mismanagement. Commercial director Alexander Krasnenker and his deputy Leonid Itskov ...
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Eaton acquires Aeroquip-Vickers
Diversified engineering company Eaton is to acquire hydraulics specialist Aeroquip-Vickers in a deal worth around $1.7 billion. The transaction is expected to close in April. Cleveland, Ohio-based Eaton says the acquisition will create an aerospace hydraulics business with sales of $700 million and an "unparalleled" systems capability. The consolidation ...
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Mergers
-National Jet Systems (NJS), the Australian regional carrier, has purchased a large minority stake in Ireland's CityJet for a sum estimated at between Ir£4 million ($5.8 million) and Ir£6 million. The holding is understood to be in excess of 40%. CityJet will still look to expand its relationship with Air ...
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Mesa/CCAir deal moves ahead
The Mesa Air Group expects to complete its $53 million acquisition of Charlotte, North Carolina-based CCAir in May. The two carriers, which have entered into a merger agreement, were linked through the Barlow Investment partnership, which has minority shareholdings in both. The all-stock transaction, announced last August, remains subject ...
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Northrop revenues flat until after 2000
Northrop Grumman, reporting lower 1998 sales of $8.9 billion, expects revenues to remain at the same level for the next two years. Lower sales at its commercial aircraft unit are projected to hold the company's revenues at around $9 billion for 1999 and 2000, after which it expects to see ...
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US majors caution despite strong performances
Chris Jasper/LONDON Most of the USA's top 10 airlines showed strong profits in 1998, but there were enough negative indications by the end of the year among the ranks of the major carriers to cause even the best performers to sound a note of caution for 1999. Of ...
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Clipped wings
NASA's decision to slash its funding for aeronautics research should be seen as a warning cry for the US aircraft industry- and as a clarion call for its European counterpart. The agency was only able to transfer funds from aeronautics research to the Inter-national Space Station because it was ...
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R-R powered Super An-124 offered
UK cargo airline Air Foyle and Antonov are proposing a Rolls-Royce powered variant of the An-124 heavy transport aircraft, designated An-124-210, to meet a UK Royal Air Force requirement for a short-term strategic transport aircraft (STSA). The proposal involves an upgraded aircraft, with Rolls-Royce RB211-524HT turbofans rated at 258 ...
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Electric brakes
BF Goodrich, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and the US Air Force Research Laboratory have flight demonstrated electrically actuated brakes and a digital brake control and anti-skid system on a Lockheed Martin Block 40F-16 fighter, the first time electric brakes have been flown on standard aircraft. An all-electric braking system would lead ...
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F-16 and C-17 are big winners in Pentagon's FY2000 budget plan
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The US Department of Defense (DoD) fiscal year 2000 budget plan contains several unexpected procurement decisions for the US forces. They include additional Lockheed MartinF-16C/Ds, Boeing C-17 transports and one Northrop Grumman Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) aircraft that were not planned for ...
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Carrier study
The French Ministry of Defence is to carry out a feasibility study into the construction of a second aircraft carrier, to follow the nuclear-powered Charles de Gaulle, which began sea trials on 25 January. "Two carriers are needed to ensure a permanently available capability," says defence minister Alain Richard, adding ...
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Japan to develop medium transport aircraft
Andrew Mollet/TOKYO The Japan Defence Agency (JDA) is aiming to secure funding to develop a long-range, medium-sized transport aircraft to replace the Air Self Defence Force's Kawasaki C-1. It hopes to seek budgetary allocations from fiscal year 2000 for the project. The JDA declines to say how much ...