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PAL hunts for fresh funding as Northwest turns its back
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Philippine Airlines (PAL) is again involved in a desperate search for fresh financing, as Northwest Airlines shows little interest in coming to the rescue of the stricken national carrier after Cathay Pacific Airways pulled out of investment talks. Cathay has officially confirmed that it has ...
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Pembroke breaks Boeing 717 drought with order for 10
Irish lessor Pembroke Capital has broken the Boeing 717 order drought with an order for 10 of the 100-seat twinjets, for delivery between March 2000 and May 2001. The contract, valued at about $320 million based on list prices, takes the 717's firm order backlog to 65 aircraft. Pembroke ...
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PS-90A overtakes 6,000h milestone
The lead Aviadvigatel/ Perm Motors PS-90A turbofan passed the 6,000h on the wing mark at the end of November, on an Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-96-300 flying a regular scheduled flight. Aviadvigatel general director Yuri Reshetnikov says that the engine will shortly be removed and given a full stripdown examination, a ...
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Routes
-Royal Brunei Airlines gives "the regional economic situation" as its reason for "temporarily" suspending scheduled services between Bandar Seri Begawan in Brunei and Osaka, Japan. -Northwest Airlines is to double its seasonal frequency between Tokyo, Japan and Anchorage, Alaska, by operating two weekly McDonnell Douglas DC-10 flights. -Royal Air Maroc ...
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Swiss World seeks protection from bankruptcy
Swiss World Airways (SWA) suspended operations on 2 December after suffering consistently poor load factors on its single route between Geneva and New York Newark. The airline has informed the Swiss Federal Office for Civil Aviation (OFAC) that it is seeking Chapter 11-style bankruptcy protection through the courts and ...
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Moscow court case brings end to Aeroflot/Transaero union
Alexander Velovich and Paul Duffy/MOSCOW The two-year-old alliance between Aeroflot Russian International Airlines and Transaero has ended, following a Moscow court ruling that Aeroflot must pay Transaero R3 million ($176,000) as a balance of mutual financial claims by the two airlines. In early September, Aeroflot officially informed Transaero ...
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Belgium's City Bird announces first profits
Herman De Wulf/BRUSSELS Belgian long haul airline City Bird is diversifying into main-deck freight operations with a deal to acquire two new Airbus A300-600Fs for delivery in mid-1999. The expansion comes as the low-cost passenger carrier recorded its first net profit since starting operations on 27 March,1997. Last ...
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Frontier share purchase makes Vanguard tie-up a possibility
The main shareholders of Kansas City-based Vanguard Airlines have taken an 8% shareholding in Denver-based Frontier Airlines and hinted about a possible combination of the two regional US airlines. The investors, headed by William Hambrecht, say that it is desirable for Frontier to explore various relationships with Vanguard or ...
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'It's a sad ending', says Mesa as it settles all WestAir claims
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Mesa Air Group has settled all claims by aircraft and equipment lessors against Mesa's defunct WestAir subsidiary for about $15 million. WestAir had operated United Express service for United Airlines until the partnership was dissolved on 31 May, making 43 leased aircraft idle. Jonathan Ornstein, ...
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Government saves Air Namibia
Hilka Birns/CAPE TOWN The Namibian Government has injected N$20-million ($3.7 million) into Air Namibia and has appointed a Malaysian financier to restructure, and re-capitalise the troubled national carrier as a state-owned company. The move takes the airline out of the control of state holding company TransNamib, which has ...
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Deadline looms over subsidy allegations
Rival manufacturers Bombardier and Embraer will complete their presentation of written submissions by 15 December to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over a long-running wrangle involving the alleged use of subsidies to sell regional aircraft. The manufacturers have made a formal submission and rebuttal to the two WTO dispute ...
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Waiting to happen
If airline flight safety is the issue, the US Federal Aviation Administration is almost always a world leader in developing systems to promote it. There is one area - flight operations quality assurance (FOQA) - however, in which it has long wanted to advance, but has been immobilised by circumstances ...
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Lockheed urged to hurry C-130J orders
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Political pressure is mounting on the US Air Force to accelerate its planned purchase of additional new Lockheed Martin C-130J transports by up to four years to fill a shortfall in orders after 2000 and a threatened temporary shutdown in production. Lockheed Martin has existing ...
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F-22 Raptor flight testing clears critical targets
Flight testing of the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor has passed the critical 183h mark, clearing the way for the US Congress to release $800 million in funding for two production representative test vehicles (PRTVs) and long-lead items for the initial Lot I batch of six fighters. The first two ...
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USAF will evaluate CL-327 Guardian
The Bombardier CL-327 Guardian vertical take-off and landing unmanned air vehicle (UAV) has been selected by the US Air Force's UAV Battlelab to demonstrate how such craft can support non-combatant evacuations, humanitarian assistance and other missions. The series of demonstrations will take place next year under the sponsorship of ...
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South Africa unveils Mi-24 Hind upgrade kit
South Africa's Advanced Technologies and Engineering (ATE) has unveiled plans for a sensor and weapons upgrade kit for Mil Mi-24 Hind helicopters. The company expects to complete modification of one aircraft shortly, for use as a marketing demonstrator. Flight tests are due to get under way early next year. ...
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New Zealand approves F-16 lease
Peter La Franchi/CANBERRA New Zealand is to replace its ageing McDonnell Douglas A-4 Skyhawk fleet with 28 Lockheed Martin F-16A/Bs, originally built for Pakistan, under a leasing arrangement announced on 1 December by defence minister Max Bradford. New Zealand will pay just NZ$12.5million ($6.72 million) a year for ...
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Merlin enters Royal Navy service for flying trials
The Royal Navy formally introduced the Merlin HM1 helicopter into service on 1 December at RNAS Culdrose, where the aircraft will begin flying trials with the Intensive Flying Trials Unit, 700M Squadron. The squadron, which is likely to operate four Merlins, will be responsible for introducing service operating procedures ...
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NH90 prototype
The third of five prototype NH90 utility/transport helicopters has taken to the air at Eurocopter's Marignane plant. The aircraft is the first to be fitted with the core avionics system, comprising automatic flight controls, navigation, communication and identification, plant management system and "glass cockpit". The first prototype has now accumulated ...
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ATS trials SH-2S
Aerospace Technical Services (Aerospace) is to instrument and trial the Royal New Zealand Navy's KamanSH-2F(NZ) Super Seasprites at sea, to develop their operating limitations envelope for shipboard operations. The flight trials, which Aerospace expects to complete by the end of next year, will involve 60-85 hours flying on two ships. ...