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CityBird threatens Sabena
The dispute between Belgian independent CityBird and its shareholder Sabena has reached a new low, with CityBird planning to file a complaint with the European Commission against what it says is unfair competition. The move follows a row between the carriers over whether CityBird should have notified Sabena about plans ...
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Icelandic flotation
Air Atlanta Icelandic is to be floated. The Iceland-based wet-lease airline has been owned by Capt Arngrimur Johannsson and his wife since its creation in 1986. The company expects to go public in the next 18 months. Icelandic finance house Bünaöarbankinn Veròbréf has been hired to handle preparations for the ...
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Setback for Indonesia
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE Indonesia's Sempati Air has been declared bankrupt as the world's fourth-largest country continues the struggle to revive its ailing airline industry. Domestic rival Merpati Nusantara Airlines is still searching for foreign funding as it also faces possible insolvency, while Garuda Indonesia has yet to finalise its new ...
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GE90 secures exclusive position on 777X
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Boeing plans to begin offering the ultra-long-range 777-200X/300X to airlines by the end of the year, following its selection of General Electric as exclusive engine supplier to the programme. The agreement with GE is for the life of the programme and comes ...
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Pratt & Whitney courts Airbus for A340 variant engine
Pratt & Whitney is in discussion with Airbus Industrie to offer the PW8160 geared fan engine on the A340-500/600 as early as 2003, in a direct challenge to Rolls-Royce's sole position on the aircraft and Boeing's selection of General Electric as its exclusive 777X engine supplier. R-R and P&W ...
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Turmoil strikes Australian AEW&C and airlifter projects
Peter La Franchi/CANBERRA Australia's airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) and new light tactical airlifter projects have been thrown into turmoil following the appearance of a A$2.4 billion ($1.6 billion) hole in forward defence expenditure plans. A top-level upheaval inside the Defence Acquisition Organisation (DAO) has excaberted the situation. ...
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Boeing and Airbus on target for record shipments this year
Boeing and Airbus Industrie are on course to achieve record output this year, with a combined total of 450 jets having been delivered during the first six months. Boeing is heading for its all-time record of 620 deliveries, having shipped 313 aircraft since January. The highest output has come ...
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Global delivery
Bombardier has delivered the first Global Express long-range business jet from its Montreal completion centre. Service entry is about a year later than planned and seven months later than expected when the aircraft received Canadian certification last July. European Joint Aviation Authorities certification was awarded in May. Bombardier is claiming ...
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Ageing airliner census 1999
Time marches on for the world's ageing jet and turboprop airliners Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON The average age of the Western world's fleet of airliners that qualify for this year's census is 25 years. Some individual aircraft types have been subject to more intense scrutiny after recent events or incidents, as ...
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Sound solutions
BFGoodrich's campaign to quieten Boeing 727s is making rapid progress Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Spending serious money to extend the life of an airliner is tough, but spending more to re-engine it is harder. Despite the apparent economic headwind, BFGoodrich's Super 27 Boeing 727 re-engining programme is rapidly gaining momentum and ...
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French navy contract
The French ministry of defence has signed a contract with Sogitec and Thomson Training & Simulation to supply the French navy with two tactical trainers for the Dassault Rafale M carrierborne combat aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Proton failure puts question mark over ISS Zvezda launch
Tim Furniss/LONDON The failure of a domestic Russian launch of a four-stage Proton booster on 5 July has grounded International Launch Services (ILS) and casts doubts on a punctual launch of the International Space Station (ISS) Zvezda service module in November. The US-Russian ILS Atlas fleet is already ...
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Arianespace signs Ellipso deal
Julian Moxon/PARIS Arianespace has signed a unique partnership agreement with satellite telecommunications provider Ellipso, which involves the launch of a constellation of 20 satellites aboard the Ariane 5 and an investment in the system by the launch company. The memorandum of agreement, which covers four launches from early 2002, ...
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Rosetta goes on as NASA retires
The European Space Agency (ESA) has completed the final design of its Rosetta orbiter and is preparing the spacecraft for a comet landing in 2012. NASA recently cancelled its Champollion comet lander project because of budget cuts. Europe "has seized the opportunity the USA always misses", said ESA director ...
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SpaceDev and Lockheed Martin probe low-cost services scheme
SpaceDev and Lockheed Martin have joined forces to investigate the development and marketing of low-cost access to orbit for small payloads. The delivery service will be based on the Lockheed Athena booster and SpaceDev's standardised MiniSIL spacecraft buses. Two SpaceDev craft would fly on the Athena, carrying science and ...
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Starsem gathers new contracts
Globalstar has awarded a contract to Starsem to carry four more satellites on a Soyuz launch in 2001. This follows three launches of four Globalstars each this year. Another three previously contracted Globalstar launches are due later this year. The Aerospatiale-Matra/Arianespace/Samara/Russian SpaceAgency owned Starsem also has contracts for two ...
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Arianespace receives 1,000th Viking engine
Snecma's rocket engine division has delivered its 1,000th Viking rocket engine to Arianespace. It produces three types of Viking for Ariane 4s. Four Viking 5Cs are used to power the first stage and a single Viking 4 propels the second stage, while the Ariane 42L, 44LP and 44L are ...
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Telkom delivery
Lockheed Martin has shipped Indonesia's Telkom 1 communications satellite to Kourou for its delayed launch aboard Ariane 504. The A2100 satellite bus will have to wait until its sister payload, Worldspace's Asiastar, is ready. The 504 launch - the first fully commercial mission of an Ariane 5 by Arianespace - ...
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Malpensa row simmers on as airlines prepare fresh protests
Andy Nativi/GENOA The European Commission (EC) is renewing its interest in Italian moves to switch airline operations from Milan Linate Airport to the expanded airport at Malpensa, just as user airlines, led by Lufthansa, prepare to raise new objections to the plans. The airlines, which include British Airways ...
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Marketplace
Air Nostrum has bought three Fokker 50s off lease from Kenya Airways. The Spanish regional carrier has operated the aircraft on lease from Kenya for a year. Premiair has signed operating leases for three new Airbus A330-300s for delivery next summer. The Rolls-Royce Trent 772B-powered aircraft will be operated ...