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GB Airways follows BA with A320 family deal
GB Airways has followed the lead of its franchise partner, British Airways, and decided to drop its Boeing 737 fleet in favour of the Airbus A320 family, with a deal for up to 14 aircraft. The airline, which operates franchise flights for BA to North Africa and the western ...
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Equity purchase puts Texas Pacific in GPA driving seat
GPA shareholders have approved an equity purchase which looks set to put US group Texas Pacific in control of the Irish leasing company. If, by the closing date of 19 November, there has been no valid objection to the deal, Texas Pacific will own 62.63% of the Shannon, Ireland-based company's ...
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Marketplace
-Debonair has signed a lease purchase agreement with Air Atlantic parent IMP for the acquisition of three British Aerospace 146-200s, which have become available following the closure of the Canadian regional carrier. The first aircraft will arrive at the end of this month, with the second following in December and ...
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Boeing's Mulally details 'better plan' for profits
Andrew Doyle/SEATTLE New Boeing Commercial Airplanes president, Alan Mulally, has pledged to get the manufacturer's troubled airliner production lines back on track within the next 12 months as part of what he calls his "better plan" for restoring the company's flagging profitability. Mulally, brought in to replace Ron Woodard, ...
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Macedonia in control
Former Yugoslav Republic Macedonia became Eurocontrol's 28th member state on 1 November. It has taken part in projects such as the European Air Traffic Control Harmonisation and Integration Programme and Central Flow Management Unit through its membership of the European Civil Aviation Conference since July 1997. Source: Flight International
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Raisbeck installs Stage 3 mixer for 727 tests
Raisbeck Commercial Air Group has begun flight tests of a Boeing 727-200 fitted with newly developed engine tailpipe forced mixers. The tests are aimed at achieving certification of the company's heavy gross weight (HGW) Stage 3 system by March 1999. The US company says the tests are attracting "serious ...
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Royal Brunei is forced to delay A319s by new management
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Royal Brunei Airlines (RBA) has been forced to postpone taking delivery of two Airbus A319s in the wake of a senior management shake-up within the company, and after having failed to meet payment deadlines to the manufacturer. RBA had been scheduled to take delivery of the ...
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Routes
-Dutch carrier Transavia is to become the first non-Greek airline to operate scheduled domestic services between Greek territories when, from 2 November this year to 27 March 1999, it sets up flights between Rhodes and Heraklion, Crete. -Martinair Cargo will increase both routes and capacity in the Latin American region ...
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Syndicates jostle to advise Thai on sell-off
Six competing international and local financing syndicates have submitted bids to Thai Airways International to advise on the planned long-awaited partial privatisation of the national carrier. The Thai Government has already approved in principle the sale of 23% of the airline to private investors and, potential, strategic partners. Bangkok, ...
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Financial troubles force Transaero to cut back
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW Transaero, Russia 's third largest carrier, has scaled back its operations by about 30%, with further reductions expected to follow in the face of continuing financial problems at the airline and the worsening domestic economy. Among the first services to be dropped are flights on the Moscow-Riga-London ...
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Arnav to supply GlobaLink weather datalink service
Arnav Systems has signed an agreement to provide a weather datalink service to aircraft worldwide via ARINC's GlobaLink communications infrastructure. Arnav already provides its WxLink service to the general aviation market in the USA, using a growing network of low-altitude VHF datalink ground stations. The Puyallup, Washington-based company says ...
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Collins offers pay by the hour support
Rockwell Collins has formed a new business unit to provide a wider range of avionics support services to commercial and military customers. Options to be offered by the new Collins Support Services (CSS) unit include the ability to pay by the operating hour for avionics support. For the first ...
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Speedy communications
Teledyne Controls is to upgrade the MagnaStar airborne telephone system to allow higher data communications speeds. The software upgrade, to be available by year-end, will double the single-channel rate to 4,800 baud and increase the dual-channel rate to 9,600 baud. Source: Flight International
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Universal targets corporate jet market with flightdeck family
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Universal Avionics has launched a bid to become a major supplier of flightdeck equipment for corporate and commercial aircraft with the introduction of its System-1 product line. Building on its UNS-1 flight management system (FMS), Universal's System-1 includes flat panel displays, a terrain awareness and warning system ...
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BAe woos Denel in SAAF fighter deal
Jonathan Rosenthal/JOHANNESBURG British Aerospace is offering to consolidate the South African defence industry alongside the emerging single European defence company, as part of its bid to sell Saab/BAe JAS39 Gripen fighters and BAe Hawk lead-in fighter trainers to the South African Air Force (SAAF). Sources in the South ...
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SAS predicts profits up
Announcing good results for the first three quarters of 1998, the SAS group of Scandinavia forecasts that it expects its profit for the whole year, including capital gains, to be 15-20% higher than that posted for 1997. Meanwhile operating revenue for the year to 30 September showed a 4.7% increase, ...
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Air Niugini reduces debt with Government cash
Papua New Guinea (PNG) has boosted Air Niugini's capital base to over kina60 million ($22 million) with a kina50 million cash injection, as part of a wider effort to restructure the airline. The injection will allow the carrier to reduce its debt to PNG Banking, believed to exceed kina150 million. ...
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SAir Group acquires major Air Europe stake
Marco Messalla/MILAN Swissair parent SAir Group is to grow its increasing portfolio of small European airlines by taking the maximum permitted stake in Italian long-range charter carrier Air Europe, through the purchase of 49.9% of Dutch-based holding company Tegel. The move follows the recent purchase of 44%of France's Air ...
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Calm down
A new and unsettling problem for the airlines - dubbed "air rage" by the media - has been emerging over the last few years. The problem is unsettling because it appears to be global and growing rapidly, and although the airlines can describe it, they cannot define it. This intractable ...
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Teams queue as South Korea rekindles early warning plans
Paul Lewis/SEOUL South Korea's stalled E-X airborne early warning (AEW) programme is attracting renewed international interest, with Boeing/Northrop Grumman seeking US Government approval to offer the 737/MESA, while Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) and Raytheon have broadened their teaming agreement to propose the Airbus A310/Elta Phalcon. South Korea has ...