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Parachute training, 1947--and kite-ballon-popping, 10th...
Parachute training, 1947--and kite-ballon-popping, 10th RAF Display, Hendon, 1929 French delegation with Tom Sopwith, Brooklands, 1932 Yuckspeak Series of 1,000,000 "Your expected future contribution may not advance the strategic interests of the company" = Goodbye It may be too late already (sorry about the absence, Nephews and Nieces), but British ...
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Argentina receives local A-4AR
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Lockheed Martin Aircraft Argentina has delivered the first locally upgraded A-4AR to the Argentine air force. Eight aircraft upgraded in the USA by Lockheed Martin Skunk Works are already in service with the air force at Villa Reynolds AB. The latest aircraft is the first ...
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EC dismisses Olympic gripes
Julian Moxon/PARIS The European Commission (EC) has come in for further criticism over its latest decision to unblock the final tranche of state aid for Olympic Airways, but Brussels has brushed off complaints that it is going softon government handouts, pointing to new conditions being imposed on the Greek ...
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Scaled Composites takes HALO up to 12,000ft on first flight
Guy Norris/MOJAVE Scaled Composites' Proteus proof of concept, high-altitude, long operation (HALO) aircraft made a successful first flight from the company's Mojave base in California on 26 July. The all-composite, canard configured aircraft is one of the most bizarre to emerge from the Burt Rutan stable. Piloted by ...
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Afghan veto stymies Delta/Swissair code-share
The US Federal Aviation Administration has issued a revised regulation banning US carriers and registered aircraft from flying over the northern half of Afghanistan, including the use of two newly opened international air routes across the centre of the country. The move has already forced Delta Air Lines and Swissair ...
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Expanding Air Europa Express wants to double its ATP fleet
Balearic regional Air Europa Express plans to double its fleet of British Aerospace ATPs to 12 aircraft by early next year to cope with expansion on the Spanish mainland. The Palma de Majorca-based airline launched services in late 1996 as one half of a two-pronged regional operation set up ...
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Japan strikes
Flight crew unions at Japan Air System and Japan Airlines are planning a series of one day strikes. Both airlines claimed the industrial action would not affect scheduled flights. Source: Airline Business
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Fiji sees double
Fiji has approved a second international carrier. Starting in November, Fiji Airways plans to fly from Nadi to Singapore, Mumbai and London with an Airbus A310 and Boeing 747-300 leased from Singapore Airlines. Fiji Airways is owned 60 per cent by Fijians and 40 per cent by UK company PanAsia ...
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JAL cleans up
Shareholders at Japan Airlines' annual meeting accepted without dissent management's advice that now was the time to write off US$894 million in accumulated losses and debts so the company could start its new year with a clean slate. Source: Airline Business
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Peru seconds it
Aero Continente has become Peru's second international airline. It will operate daily between Lima and Miami using Boeing 727s and 737s. Aero Continente sought 21 weekly frequencies, and has asked transport minister Antonio Paucar Carbajal to reconsider his grant of only seven. Source: Airline Business
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Reid back to US
Frederick Reid, president of the Lufthansa airline, is leaving to become Delta Air Lines' marketing chief. Source: Airline Business
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KLM buys, sells
KLM is to buy back the 12 per cent share of its ordinary equity owned by the Dutch government, and will sell its 34 per cent indirect share in Unijet Group to First Choice Holidays. Source: Airline Business
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Passages out
Singapore Airlines, Cathay Pacific and Malaysia Airlines are to end their Passages frequent flyer programme. Source: Airline Business
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Pay review
TWA and the Air Line Pilots Association have come to a tentative agreement. Alpa says pay will rise from 60 to 90 per cent of the industry average by 2002. Two years of pay negotiations between Northwest and its pilots have stalled. The Air Canada Pilots Association has balloted its ...
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Aircraft News
Korean Air has ordered 11 Boeing 737-800s and 22 737-900s, plus five options for a mix of these aircraft types. Deliveries are scheduled to commence August 2000 through to July 2005. China Aviation Supplies has ordered 10 737s. Condor Flugdienst has ordered one 757-300 for delivery in the last quarter ...
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AA goes for Aerolineas
American Airlines has been cleared to proceed with its acquisition of 8.5 per cent of Aerolineas Argentinas. However, the Department of Justice's go-ahead comes with restrictions that will limit American's influence over the Argentinian carrier and its national market. The DOJ has forced American to restructure its deal so ...
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And now for something . . . completely different
The term 'survivor' may be sorely overused in the airline industry, but it remains the most appropriate description for AirTran Airlines, the product of a merger with the ill-fated ValuJet whose once-bright future ended abruptly in 1996 with a controversial crash in a Florida swamp. Not that there is ...
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No dumb deals
American Airlines' new chairman and chief executive officer, Don Carty, is keen to stress that it's business as usual since the smooth handover from the high-profile Robert Crandall to his heir apparent. But business as usual for American, of course, includes a slow struggle to put in place its proposed ...
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Asia cuts its capacity
Asian airlines are continuing to downsize their existing fleets and defer new aircraft deliveries in a bid to bring capacity in line with shrinking demand. But deliveries of new aircraft for the next five years will still produce a net increase in the size of Asia's overall fleet. Carriers ...
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Avensa wins court battle
Venezuela's Supreme Court has ruled that Avensa has the right to European routes awarded 11 years ago, even though it did not fly those routes over most of that time. General Moises Orozco, the recently dismissed minister of transport, tried to revoke Avensa's 1987 award of routes to Lisbon, ...