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Noise about noise
David Learmount/LONDON Trade wars rarely end in a clear victory. In the first skirmish of the hushkit war, the USA has beaten back Europe, but the European Commission(EC) looks like a foe which has retreated to regroup rather than to lick its wounds. At issue is an EC ...
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Free flight
The UK's new air traffic services supremo believes privatisation is the way forward for ATC David Learmount/LONDON Airlines are condemned to face serious air traffic control delay in European airspace for the foreseeable future unless there is a revolution in how policy decisions governing the continent's air traffic services ...
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New identity
Airbus is awaiting a decision on its bid to build Europe's Future Large Aircraft Julian Moxon/PARIS When the response to the formal request for proposals for the Future Large Aircraft (FLA) military transport was delivered to Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Turkey and the UK on 29 January, there was ...
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Holding on
Mexico's aviation industry is battling regulations as well as competitors Roberto Mena/MEXICO CITY Despite significant advances in the past four years, Mexico's commercial aviation industry is struggling. Not only does it face intense competition from the onslaught of international carriers following deregulation, but government regulators seem determined to crush it. ...
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UK military flies with Thomson
Thomson Training & Simulation (TTS) has teamed with the UK's Defence Evaluation Research Agency (DERA) to market a low-cost simulation system designed for military flight training, mission rehearsal and systems evaluation. The Air Combat Evaluation System (ACES) combines manned simulators with computer-generated forces in a simulated battle environment. Uses ...
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CAE finds South African help for A109 simulator
CAE Electronics is to co-operate with a South African company to develop a mission simulator for the Agusta A109, selected by the South African Air Force to meet its light utility helicopter (LUH) requirement. The Canadian company has signed an agreement with Midrand-based African Defense Systems (ADS) to co-develop ...
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Australia aims to reduce training risks with Cubic aid
Cubic Defense Systems will provide an air combat training system (ACTS) for the Australian Defence Force. The US company will first complete a $3 million risk reduction study, with contract award expected next year. Cubic has teamed with British Aerospace Australia and Georgia Tech Research Institute to complete the ...
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Exclusion zone
The unusual became the unprecedented last week when Boeing, having launched its original 777 programme giving airlines the choice of three competing engines, decided it would revert to a single exclusive supplier for a new variant of the aircraft, to the exclusion of the two rival powerplant manufacturers. This is ...
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A3XX GP7000 powerplant set for key core test in January
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES The General Electric-Pratt & Whitney Engine Alliance plans to begin critical core rig tests of the GP7000 engine for the Airbus Industrie A3XX and Boeing 747-400X next January. The core rig tests were originally due to begin in the fourth quarter, but have slipped to ...
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Aeroel enters the jet age with two 737s
Private Israeli airline Aeroel Airways is expanding operations with its first jet aircraft. The seven-year-old Tel Aviv- based carrier has purchased two Boeing 737-200Advs from El Al for a combined cost of $13 million. The first aircraft will enter service with Aeroel before the end of July, with the ...
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Iberia takes A321 for European services
Iberia has introduced the first of 19 Airbus A321-200s on to its European network. The 186-seat CFM International CFM56-5-powered aircraft will supplement the airline's 24 A320s and were ordered as part of a $2.6 billion deal last year for up to 76 A320 family aircraft. The airline placed firm orders ...
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Workshop
Air France Industries has concluded a seven-year agreement with Airtours International for the provision of full component repair and exchanges services to support the Airbus Industrie A320 and A321 fleet of aircraft operating within the Airtours Group. The fleet comprises 24 aircraft flying throughout Europe, North America and Canada. This ...
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Philippines start-up ready to go
Paul Phelan/MANILA A new Philippines-based charter carrier plans to begin services at the end of this month with two McDonnell Douglas DC-10s. Intercontinental Pacific Airways (IPAI) aims to start operating a passenger and freight charter network from the former US Clark AB, about 85km (50 miles) north of the ...
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African Star licence continues, despite troubles
Hilka Birns/JOHANNESBURG South Africa's Department of Transport (DoT) is continuing to process the licence application of African Star, despite the start-up's chief executive facing charges of contravening the country's Customs & Excise Act. Investigators refuse to comment on the case, but sources say that the diversion of duty-free ...
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Air Niugini leases National Jet RJ70
Avro RJ70 National Jet Systems has placed one of its two Avro RJ70s on lease with Air Niugini. The 70-seater is operated on daily services between Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (PNG), and Cairns, Australia, in place of a Fokker F28. The aircraft is also flown to Honiara, Solomon Islands, ...
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Germany's DFS eyes Euro ATC liberalisation and NATS tie-up
Andrew Doyle/LANGEN German air traffic services provider Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS)is interested in forming a strategic alliance with the UK's National Air Traffic Services (NATS), as part of efforts to kick-start the rationalisation of Europe's fragmented air traffic control (ATC) infrastructure. "We think that, in the longer term, we ...
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Aeromexico and Mexicana join rival alliance groupings
Chris Jasper/LONDON Roberto Mena/MEXICO CITY Mexicana Airlines has become the tenth airline to sign with the Star Alliance, while the country's second major carrier, Aeromexico, is set to become a founder member of the Delta Air Lines/Air France global alliance, likely to be launched later this year. Mexicana will ...
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SAirGroup to buy stake in TAP rival Portugalia
TAP Air Portugal and regional rival Portugalia are set to work together for the first time after SAirGroup's deal to take a 42% stake in the latter from majority owner Grupo Espirito Santo. The Swiss company already has a deal to buy 20% of TAP from the Portuguese Government, although ...
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Mergers
Aviation Sales is to buy Kitty Hawk's airframe and JT8D engine maintenance operations in Oscoda, Michigan. The $21.5 million deal includes a three-year agreement for airframe and engine maintenance on the airline's 34 Boeing 727s. The FHL Division of Claverham in the UK has formed a joint venture with Italy's ...
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Austrian checks on alliance options after Franco-US deal
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Austrian Airlines may ditch its Qualiflyer alliance partners in favour of a rival grouping - partly due to the recent Air France-Delta Air Lines tie-up and partly as a knock-on effect of an Austrian Government block on plans by Qualiflyer leader SAirGroup to increase its share in the ...