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Delta and Korean Air wrap up assistance deal
Korean Air (KAL) has finalised a $20 million agreement for Delta Air Lines to give assistance with the overhaul of the South Korean flag carrier's flight operations and training. Under the deal, the US carrier will help overhaul KAL's flightdeck operations, cabin services and safety from 1 October. The ...
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Marketplace
-SilkAir has taken delivery of its first International Aero Engines V2500-A5-powered Airbus A320. The regional division of Singapore Airlines is replacing its Boeing 737-300 fleet with four A320s and four A319s, and holds options on another 10 aircraft. -ING Lease International Equipment Management has sold and delivered an ex-Pan American ...
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Myasishchev reveals M-60 based GP-60 design
Piotr Butowski/WARSAWRussia's Myasishchev design bureau has designed a passenger/cargo aircraft based on the high altitude M-60 which it designed in the 1980s. The design features long unswept wings, a wide "lifting body" fuselage, and two high bypass ratio turbofans installed side by side above the rear part of the fuselage. ...
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Routes
-Alaska Airlines will suspend its once-weekly winter service to the Russian Far East on 8 October, because the recent circumstances with the Russian economy have made its operations uneconomical, says the airline. Alaska plans to provide connecting services to the region through its marketing partner, Reeve Aleutian Airways, when government ...
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Saudi Arabian studies 717 for regional services
Saudi Arabian Airlines is focusing attention on its short- haul regional requirements, with the Boeing 717 reportedly under serious consideration. The airline began a fleet renewal process late last year which will see 29 Boeing MD-90s, five Boeing 747-400s and 23 777-200s introduced through to 2001. The airline originally ...
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Honeywell remains optimistic on satellite system
Honeywell believes that a failure to approve the global positioning system (GPS) for sole means use because of concerns over jamming will not harm the long-term market prospects for its satellite landing system (SLS). The company says improved versions of the SLS, now under development, will overcome problems with ...
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TEA eases into schedules as it prepares for identity change
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH TEA Switzerland is to begin scheduled operations in November in the run up to its withdrawal from the charter market and a change of identity to become easyJet Switzerland. The change will also see the disposal of its Boeing 737-400, and the addition of four new 737-300s from ...
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Thailand unifies air traffic control
Thailand has handed over complete responsibility for air traffic control services to Aeronautical Radio of Thailand (Aerothai), unifying for the first time coverage of the country's entire flight information (FIR) region and at all 37 civil airports. The decision removes approach and aerodrome control at 31 municipal airports from ...
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Pauknair 146 accident
A British Aerospace 146-100 of Spanish regional carrier PauknAir has crashed in north-east Morocco on approach to Melilla Airport in the Spanish enclave of Melilla. The 1983-built aircraft was inbound from Malaga, Spain, in good weather at about 09:00 local time on 25 September. All 34 passengers and four ...
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Branson seeks US rule changes
Virgin Atlantic chairman Richard Branson has launched a crusade to remove restrictions on foreign ownership of US airlines, so that he can start up a US domestic carrier. Branson visited Washington DC on 24 September to begin lobbying Congress to amend the "antiquated and outmoded" regulations prohibiting foreign ownership ...
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Sun Air shareholders reject Comair merger
Hilka Birns/CAPE TOWN Shareholders at Sun Air have decided against a merger with rival South African carrier, Comair, which already owns 25% of the recently privatised state-owned airline. Sun Air's major shareholder, the Rethabile black empowerment group, says it is unwilling to relinquish its foothold in the airline ...
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Air Littoral set for development after SAir Group takes stake
Julian Moxon/PARISThe SAir Group has taken a 44% stake in French regional airline Air Littoral, giving it an entry into the south of France market and meeting the loss-making carrier's need for recapitalisation and development funding. The move came after speculation that another French independent, Britair, was in line to ...
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Repair merger
American Aircarriers Support, a spare parts supplier, is to acquire Florida-based American Jet Engine Services, an overhaul and repair facility, and Global Air Spares and Atlantic Airmotive, distributors of engines and parts. Source: Flight International
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South Korea seeks overseas investment in new venture
South Korea's aerospace industry is seeking to attract foreign investment in its planned amalgamation by offering competing European and US manufactures up to a 50% stake in the new single entity to be formed by Daewoo Heavy Industries (DHI), Hyundai Space & Aircraft and Samsung Aerospace. The three South ...
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Royal gets a result from Signature deal
Canadian Charter carrier Royal Airlines expects to add C$100 million ($66 million) a year in revenue from a recent agreement to carry most of the passengers for Signature Vacations of Toronto. Under the agreement, previously held by rival airline Canada 3000, Signature will fill 75% of four Royal Airbus A310-300s ...
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Thomson embarks on major defence electronics revamp
Julian Moxon/PARIS Newly formed Thomson-CSF's defence electronics group is to undertake a major reorganisation in a bid to raise productivity and profitability and reduce costs. According to company president Denis Ranque, the measures have been designed to "-improve our range of products, systems, services and equipment and to maintain ...
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Boeing/Flight Safety head for training take-off
Boeing and FlightSafety International (FSI), parent companies of global airline-training joint venture FlightSafety Boeing (FSB) Training International, say phase one of the start-up initiative will be completed in January 1999. The milestone will be marked by the transition of the former FSI training centre at Kunming, China, to FSB ...
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Healthy future ?
The European regional airline industry has once again beaten all records, with this year's European Regions Airline Association (ERA) meeting in Hanover, Germany, reporting double digit growth in passenger traffic, re-equipment by carriers with new regional jet aircraft and reasonable profit margins. The health of the regionals is traceable ...
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Boeing wins RAAF command and reporting deal
Boeing Australia has been selected as the prime contractor for the development of a new air defence command and reporting system for the Australian military, a move likely to boost its bid for the Royal Australian Air Force's (RAAF) airborne early warning and control requirement. The project, Air 5333, ...
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Greek power
The Greek army has selected AlliedSignal's I55-714A turboshaft for seven recently ordered Boeing CH-47D Chinook heavylift helicopters. The engine, also selected by the Netherlands, Singapore and UK armed forces, delivers 22% higher power than older T55-712s, with a reduced maintenance cost, says the company. The -714A has a maximum power ...