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Fit to survive
LanChile is determined to flourish in the an unpredictable economic climate that has already claimed two airlines David Learmount/SANTIAGO DE CHILE Latin American airlines are punch drunk. They have been successively hit by precarious home economies, a diving Brazilian currency, the Asia-Pacific economic crisis and a wave of ...
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Training objectives
LanChile trains its engineers at Santiago in a school run by Lufthansa Technik. This is likely to be expanded to become a maintenance training centre for the region. In the past, says Cueto, maintenance engineers came from Chile's air force. Pilot needs so far have been met by former ...
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SITA members say yes to IT separation
SITA members have approved plans to form its information technology businesses into a separate company, raising the prospect of substantial windfalls for airlines when the new entity goes on the stock market. The move has been prompted partly by SITA's success in creating Equant, which provides data services to ...
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Airline stance stalls UK-US bilateral talks
The UK has cancelled talks on a new air services treaty with the USA after failing to persuade UK carriers to adopt a position likely to lead to agreement on a liberal "open skies" bilateral. Formal negotiations had been due to resume in Washington DC during the week beginning ...
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Greek start-up chooses 717 for fleet expansion
Greek start-up Axon Airlines has launched services with two leased Boeing 737-700s, and is set to expand operations with up to five Boeing 717s. The Athens-based privately owned carrier gained its air operator's certificate last month, and is initially operating services to Brussels, Milan, Paris and Rome, with two ...
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Kosovo Apaches come under US Army fire
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC US Army Boeing AH-64A Apache attack helicopter pilots were undertrained and ill-equipped to engage Serb forces in Kosovo, according to a report written by Brig Gen Richard Cody, who led Task Force Hawk in Albania. The internal memorandum that was sent to Gen Eric Shinseki, the US ...
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Airlines continue Y2K compliance fight
The US airline industry has notified the Clinton Administration that all year 2000 (Y2K) compliance work should be completed by 31 August. The move comes as other organisations prepare to file their findings on the worldwide status of the industry. US aviation officials say the situation in the rest ...
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EC gives green light to BAe and Marconi
The European Commission's (EC) competition directorate has approved the civil side of the planned $12.7 billion merger between British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems, the defence electronics and aerospace arm of GEC. The military element of the merger escaped scrutiny in April, after the UK Department of Trade and ...
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Allied forces
Things just don't seem to be getting any better when it comes to getting a cohesive European defence structure. Calls for a better equipped and more militarily capable Europe, by Adm Guido Venturoni, the chairman of NATO's military committee, and UK defence secretary George Robertson, merely echo pleas that have ...
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Korean Air signs for pilot training
Korean Air (KAL), struggling to improve its safety record, has signed a $30 million pilot training contract with FlightSafety Boeing, a joint venture between Boeing and FlightSafety International. The carrier has suffered 12 serious accidents since 1990, leading to a management reshuffle in April. The five-year contract, signed in ...
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US carriers agree to passenger rights plan
Prodded by US lawmakers and the Administration of US President Bill Clinton, the USA's major airlines have adopted voluntary measures designed to address a growing number of complaints by passengers and to stave off consumer protection legislation. The industry plan is aimed at heading off Congressional proposals to write passenger ...
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BA 777 crews to get new rest area
A novel upper lobe crew rest area, designed by B/E Aerospace for the Boeing 777, has been launched into production with an order from British Airways. The airline is to retrofit 16 777-200ERs with compartments in overhead spaces above the main cabins. The compartment houses eight sleeping bunks and two ...
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Marconi still keen on Super 7 contract
Marconi Avionics still wants to tender to supply the radar and avionics suite for the Chengdu FC1/Super 7 fighter, but says that it is prevented from doing so by a lack of information on a clearly defined weapon systems for the proposed joint Sino-Pakistan programme. The UK manufacturer confirms ...
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Romania extends Brasov deadline
Romania has given Bell until next month to resubmit a proposal to take over state-run aerospace manufacturer IAR Brasov and establish a licence production line for the AH-1W SuperCobra attack helicopter. Bell presented fresh proposals to the Romanian prime minister on 23 June, and was given a 60-day extension ...
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Sterling's strength saves UK costs
The strength of sterling against the US dollar will reduce the cost of the UK Ministry of Defence's 25 most significant procurement programmes by £185 million ($317 million), forecasts the National Audit Office (NAO) in its Major Projects Report for last year. Procurement of GKN Westland WAH-64DApache Longbow attack ...
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Pilot fatigue probed in safety investigation at American
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC American Airlines and US federal aviation safety officials are reviewing the carrier's operations over the past six years to determine if any factors link two fatal crashes and some serious incidents in which it has been involved. A National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigation is ...
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First 767-400ER gets into shape
The wings, body sections and tail of the first Boeing 767-400ER have been joined together on the production line at Boeing's plant in Everett, near Seattle. The 767-400ER, which seats up to 304 passengers in a two-class arrangement, is 6.4m (21ft) longer than the 767-300ER. The first example is to ...
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Atmospheric pollution set to worsen, study predicts
Julian Moxon/PARIS The effect of aircraft on global atmospheric pollution in the next century has been assessed in detail for the first time in a report by an international group of scientists. The main finding of "Aviation and the Global Atmosphere", prepared by the Zurich, Switzerland-based Intergovernmental Panel ...
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UK court convicts in-flight mobile user
An airline passenger has been convicted of endangering an aircraft in flight by refusing to turn off a mobile telephone. Airlines have been watching the case, brought under Article 55 of the UK Air Navigation Order concerning endangering an aircraft or its passengers, with trepidation because of the implications if ...
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American will test new medical kit
American Airlines will launch an in-flight trial of Remote Diagnostic Technologies' (RDT) Tempus 2000 medical monitoring and transmission device this summer. The airline is the first to commit to an in-service trial of the product, which allows cabin crew to transmit to experts on the ground data from an ...