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GV tests low visibility landing system
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DCGulfstream will begin flight testing an enhanced vision system (EVS) low-visibility landing aid on a Gulfstream V business jet later this month. The company plans to certificate the EVS on the GV by year-end, and on the GIV-SP later next year. Gulfstream believes it will be the first ...
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Japan's anti-tank OH-1 study heralds further delay to AH-X
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE The Japanese Ground Self-Defence Force (JGSDF) is studying the use of the OH-1 airframe as a basis for its AH-X future attack helicopter programme, the schedule for which has slipped again. According to Japanese defence sources, the OH-1 could be modified to become a replacement for ...
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Materiel gains
Airbus Industrie Materiel Support has overhauled its image and is embracing the Internet to boost customer service Andrew Doyle/HAMBURG Airbus Industrie Materiel Support plays a key role in European consortium Airbus' growing sales success. As vice-president Peter Kloepfer puts it, the division is "never a deal maker, but we ...
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Military Aircraft Directory Part 1
Ongoing competitions and the Kosovo crisis underline the continuing need for transports, tankers and surveillance aircraft. Part two of the directory will survey fighter and trainer aircraft. Stewart Penney/LONDONTransport and support aircraft attract fewer headlines than their fighter and bomber brethren, but they play a vital part in the make-up ...
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Virgin aims for O'Hare
Virgin Atlantic Airways, which is adding capacity to New York, will provide a service out of London Heathrow to Chicago O'Hare in November, subject to US Government approval. Source: Airline Business
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Stansted bids for long haul
London Stansted has launched a three year campaign, with a survey of more than 3,000 local businesses, to attract medium and long haul routes. Stansted believes that its substantial European network can provide feed into the networks of the three global alliances already present at Stansted. Source: Airline Business
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A world apart
Karen Walker WASHINGTON DC Despite three years of intense talks with the UK, US open skies negotiators admit they are no further forward. The lack of progress is a major setback in the US Administration's declared goal for open skies agreements around the globe. But talks continue elsewhere, albeit with ...
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NZ signs unlimited deal
New Zealand has signed liberal air services agreements with Belgium and Ireland. The former provides for an unlimited capacity and no restrictions on routes offered between the two countries and unrestricted codeshare rights. The Ireland agreement offers the same opportunities but also gives airlines from each side cabotage rights. ...
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Japan replaces KLM codeshare
Japan Airlines is to replace a codeshare with KLM with one for the same routes and frequencies with Iberia in a move that further extends its ties with the oneworld alliance. The switch, from the start of the winter timetable on 1 November, covers services between Amsterdam and Madrid and ...
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Austrian's shifting alliances
Austrian Airlines says it and other Qualiflyer members must reassess their alliance strategy following the Delta-Air France tie-up announced in June. It has been invited to join the new Franco-US tie up. Source: Airline Business
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JAR-FCL to cause "chaos"
Pilot unions predict "chaos" and the "possible loss of jobs for an untold number of pilots in Europe" as a result of the implementation of the pan-European standard for pilots licences (JAR-FCL) by the Joint Aviation Authorities July 1. The European Cockpit Association fears that some European aviation authorities are ...
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BA's Italian job still on
A BA source says the troubled plan to set up an Italian airline is still alive. Details will be revealed in September. Source: Airline Business
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Gearing up for the millennium
At the eye of the hurricane it is very calm - at the edges there is a lot of wind. So says KLM, predicting that New Year's day 2000 is likely to be calmer than the frenetic build-up may suggest. There is optimism elsewhere that aviation will indeed be ready ...
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Airport loan
Hong Kong's Airport Authority has secured a HK$6.5 billion ($835 million) syndicated loan to help cover day-to-day operations through a massively oversubscribed dual-tranche facility. The authority manages Hong Kong's year-old Chek Lap Kok Airport. Source: Airline Business
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Bankrupt Sempati
Indonesia's grounded Sempati Air has been officially declared bankrupt with debts of 1.6 trillion rupiah ($240 million). The carrier, once the country's largest private operator, suspended services in mid-1998. Source: Airline Business
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Kobe plan approved
Japan's transport ministry has approved the start of reclamation work for a new domestic airport in Kobe. Work is to begin this month and the airport is expected to be opened in 2005. It is to be built on 270Ha (667 acres) of reclaimed land, with a single 2,500m (8,200ft)-long ...
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Delaying the inevitable
Europe's latest crisis in air traffic control looks unlikely to be its last unless the region faces up to the need for long-term solutions. Air traffic control (ATC) authorities have been forced to resort to crisis management. At the route of the problem is the patchwork nature of the ...
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SAA will keep Qualiflyer options open
Roger Makings JOHANNESBURG Although South African Airways (SAA) has chosen Swissair as its strategic equity partner, the airline says it is in no rush to join the European Qualiflyer alliance or any other grouping. SAA chief executive Coleman Andrews says the airline will keep its options open for as long ...
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Ground handling goes acquisition crazy
Tom Gill LONDON SAirGroup's move to buy Dynair, a major US ground handler, accelerates the market's rapid consolidation. SAirGroup's Swissport International, which claims to have become the world's largest ground handler as a result of the acquisition, also absorbed Amsterdam Schiphol-based Dutchport and the operations of France's Air Littoral ...
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JetBlue takes on Big Apple
Carol Shifrin NEW YORK The largest metropolis of the USA - New York City - is about to gain its first low-fare, home-town airline in more than a dozen years. JetBlue Airways, the best-financed of any start-up since US airline deregulation, plans an early 2000 launch from New York's underused ...