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Air Canada secures hold on Canadian's Tokyo slots
Air Canada has achieved one of the main goals in its bid for Canadian Airlines International by buying Canadian's landing slots at Tokyo's Narita Airport, enabling it to launch direct Toronto-Tokyo services. The deal will also provide cash-strapped Canadian with bridging finance until its C$92 million ($62.5 million) takeover ...
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AMR plans to spin off Sabre information technology arm
American Airlines' parent AMR is to spin off its computer reservations and IT subsidiary Sabre as a separate company, allowing it to focus on the airline and its sister regional airline, American Eagle. AMR will spin off its 83% interest in Sabre early next year by distributing its 107 ...
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NASA selects New Millennium mission
NASA will fly an enhanced "revolutionary" Earth observation instrument, the Geostationary Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer, as the New Millennium Programme's $105 million Earth Observing 3 mission in 2003. The imager will test advanced technologies for measuring temperature, water vapour, wind and chemical composition to improve weather forecasts and make ...
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Portugal joins
Portugal has become the fifteenth member state of the European Space Agency (ESA). The country is interested in contributing to space science, technology, remote sensing, telecommunications and navigation programmes. Before becoming an ESA member, Portugal was involved in navigation applications through a bilateral co-operation agreement signed with ESA in 1996. ...
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Bad weather blamed for Air Açores ATP crash in Azores
Bad weather appears to have played a part in a SATA Air Açores accident in the Azores Islands on 11 December. The British Aerospace ATP (CS-TGM) crashed into the steep-sided Pico de Esperanca at about 1,100ft (330m) altitude on the island of Sao Jorge, killing all 31 passengers and ...
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Boeing's third milestone
Boeing was planning to deliver the last MD-80 series twinjet from Long Beach, California, on 21 December, marking the third major milestone in as many weeks for the company's narrowbodied aircraft. The final MD-83 is the 1,191st in the -80 series, and the last of 26 aircraft delivered to ...
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SAS Commuter's first Dash 8 Q400 prepares to enter service
The first of at least 19 Bombardier Dash 8 Q400s is poised to enter service with SAS Commuter. Certification by Europe's Joint Aviation Authorities has cleared the way for deliveries of the high-speed 70-seater to begin (Flight International, 15-21 December). The Q400s will operate from Copenhagen and Stockholm. Source: Flight ...
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No failures revealed on 767, says NTSB
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Analysis of sounds on the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of the crashed EgyptAir flight 990 has yielded no evidence of an explosion or mechanical failure, says the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Investigators are unable to provide an explanation for what appears to have ...
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IAE studies options for V2500 applications beyond A320
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES International Aero Engines (IAE) is studying options on longer-term potential developments of the V2500 engine to power a new generation of aircraft to replace the Airbus Industrie A320 and Boeing 737 families. The move comes after the Pratt & Whitney/Rolls-Royce-led consortium dropped its initial "-A7" growth ...
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Merpati considers help from SIA
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE Singapore Airlines (SIA) may be called in to act as management consultant to troubled Indonesian carrier Merpati Nusantara, according to the Indonesian Government. "It is possible that SIA may co-operate with Merpati," says Indonesian communications minister Agum Gumelar, who ruled out a rumoured similar tie-up with ...
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CF34-8C1 approval
General Electric has received US Federal Aviation Administration certification for the CF34-8C1, marking the end of a three-year test effort. The engine is in flight test on 70-seat Bombardier's Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) 700, for which it is rated at 56.4kN (12,679lb) and 61.3kN at maximum take-off auxiliary power reserve ...
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Irish lessor Pembroke confirms its deal to boost 717 orders
Pembroke has placed orders for 15 more Boeing 717-200s and taken a further 15 options, raising its total commitment for the 100-seater to 50 aircraft, of which half are firm orders. The Irish lessor's plans for the follow-on order have been revealed exclusively by Flight International in September (1-7 ...
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Workshop
FLS Aerospace (FLSA) and Rockwell Collins Aviation Services have joined forces to pursue and provide nose-to-tail maintenance and support in Europe. Meanwhile, FLSA has received a €5.1 million ($5.09 million), three-year contract from the UK arm of Maersk Air, covering heavy maintenance of five Boeing 737-500s based at Birmingham, UK. ...
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Russia plans manual Y2K override
Alex Velovich/MOSCOW Russia's Federal Service of Air Transport (FSVT) will have extra staff on 31 December/1January to take over air traffic control and other procedures manually if necessary, says FSVT director Vladimir Andreyev. Although the FSVT is predicting a smooth Y2K transition for Russian commercial aviation, only half of ...
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Brazil looks at aircraft carrier replacement
Brazil has begun talks with France over the replacement of the South American country's only aircraft carrier, the Minas Gerais. The discussions took place during meetings considering a wide range of co-operative projects. The French Direction General de l'Armements (DGA) proposed a $50 million deal to transfer the 32,000t ...
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F-18 to get USN life extension
Paul Lewis/PATUXENT RIVER The US Navy plans to extend the structural life of about one-quarter of its fleet of Boeing F/A-18C/D Hornet fighters until at least 2019 to make up for the shortfall in planned follow-on Super Hornet numbers. The navy plans a "destructive tear-down" of a Hornet in 2000 ...
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Monitor offset
Sikorsky has teamed with Canadian Aerospace Group International to offer Portugal co-production of the Monitor jet trainer as part of a bid to sell 12 S-92 maritime patrol helicopters to the Portuguese air force. The Monitor - based on the Bede BD-10 kitplane - forms part of a proposed industrial ...
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Where to build
Vital decisions have yet to be made on A3XX assembly Andrew Doyle/HAMBURG Julian Moxon/TOULOUSE The location for final assembly of the A3XX remains the only major technical decision for the consortium following the 8 December decision to go ahead with a limited commercial offer to the airlines. The original ...
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In the front seat
Flight International samples Airbus' new flight desk technology for the A3XX Peter Henley/TOULOUSEAirbus Industrie has built up vast experience in the design and production of fly-by-wire commercial aircraft. A bedrock philosophy behind the consortium's ever-expanding family has been to achieve maximum commonality between cockpits. This means pilots can fly ...
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Settling in
The problems that have plagued Hong Kong's new Chek Lap Kok Airport are being resolved Andrzej Jeziorski/HONG KONGThe new Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) has been surrounded by controversy from the outset. A disastrous opening period, high airport charges, slow traffic growth and simmering worries about weather phenomena have threatened ...