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Delta/ALPA agree pay
Delta Air Lines and the US Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) have reached tentative agreement on "industry leading rates of pay" for pilots flying the Next Generation Boeing 737. Delta pilots had threatened not to fly the 72 737-800s on order when deliveries begin next year. Source: Flight International
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Emirates training
Emirates Airlines has agreed a one-year ab initio training contract with Western Michigan University. Eight cadets are to join an Aer Lingus course in August, bringing to 72 the number of international pilots being trained at the US school. Source: Flight International
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Top 50 airlines - Top tens
TOP 1997 PROFIT-MAKERS... Rank Airline group Net profit $m 1 AMR/American Airlines 985 2 United Airlines 949 3 Delta Air Lines 934 4 British ...
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Top 50 airlines
Financial performance of the world's top 50 passenger airlines ranked by sales -1997 in US$ million - revised 1 August 1998 Group/Airline Sales ($m) Operating profit/loss Operating margin Net profit/loss Year end 1997 change 1997 ...
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Top 50 airlines - Regional
Selected Asian airline scheduled passenger statistics - financial years Rank/Airline Traffic Capacity Load factors Yields Unit costs Year RPK m change change 1997 change ¢/RPK change ¢/ASK* ...
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Space pedigree
Jean-Marie Luton joined the French National Scientific Organisation in 1961 and was detached to the Ministry of Industrial and Scientific Development 10 years later. In 1974, he joined French space agency CNES, eventually becoming assistant director-general 10 years later, before joining Aerospatiale as director of space programmes. Luton returned to ...
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JSF Primes share benefits of Technology maturation effort
Reducing risk is a major objective of the concept demonstration phase of the JSF project. To that end, the programme office is funding technology maturation (TechMat) projects, the results of which are being shared by the two design teams. Among the largest of these, exceeding $100 million, is the ...
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Contractors seek credit for cost initiatives
Industry is hoping to persuade the Government cost-estimating community to change its conservative habits and give credit for the new manufacturing initiatives vital to achieving JSF affordability goals. It is an issue that has dogged the US Air Force's Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 programme, with budget watchdogs refusing to factor ...
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Making the move
The runway lights at Kai Tak will go out in the early hours of 6 July, bringing to a close a distinguished 73-year history. During the night, some 30 aircraft will make the short flight to Chek Lap Kok, 25km (13nm) to the west, in readiness for a 0630 start ...
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BFGoodrich expands
BFGoodrich is to build a new $66 million plant in Spokane, Washington, to increase its production of carbon discs for aircraft brakes by up to 80%, starting in late 1999. Source: Flight International
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AlliedSignal wins MMR
AlliedSignal Aerospace has won US Federal Aviation Administration approval for its Quantum Multi-Mode Receiver (MMR), which combines instrument landing and global positioning systems. Source: Flight International
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Sempati first to shut down
Sempati Air ceased operations in early June, becoming the second airline casualty of the Asian currency crisis and the first in Indonesia. Transportation minister Giri Suseno broke the news about the shutdown. 'It is impossible for Sempati to continue operations in the current difficult situation,' he told the Jakarta ...
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Fastener relief
The US Government has amended a proposed fastener quality act to exempt aerospace from costly duplicate inspections, where the National Institute of Science and Technology would have overridden the authority of the Federal Aviation Administration on the issue. Source: Flight International
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Hornet joined
Final assembly of the first production Boeing F-18E/F has begun with the joining of the centre/aft fuselage, built by Northrop Grumman, to the forward fuselage. Source: Flight International
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Island of competition
Air Mauritius still enjoys government protection as the sole local scheduled carrier and has successfully seen off a recent challenge to this position from local upstarts African Island Airways (AIA). The idea for a second, regional Mauritian carrier was first floated in July 1995 by local entrepreneur Georges Chung. ...
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Pacific specific
Qantas Airways outbid Air New Zealand and British Airways for an extra 28.6 per cent stake in Air Pacific, Fiji's flag carrier. This brings Qantas' control of Air Pacific to 46 per cent. Fiji's government retains 51 per cent. Source: Airline Business
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Withered of Oz
Australia is feeling the impact of the Asian crisis. Recent figures from the Department of Transport show a 2.2 per cent fall in international passengers compared to a year ago after month on month rises since 1991. Source: Airline Business
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Future Thais
Thailand's prime minister Chuan Leekpai has pledged his government will build a regional airport in Chantaburi province despite the country's economic woes. Opponents of the scheme point to other unprofitable Thai regional airports and claim this airport will go the same way. Source: Airline Business
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Brill BRAL deal
The sale of a 60 per cent stake in British Regional Airlines to institutional investors will raise about £54 million ($88 million), of which £20 million will go to the airline and the rest to existing shareholders, including chairman Sir Michael Bishop. Source: Airline Business
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Boeing bail out
Boeing has failed to find new customers for the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 and will stop manufacturing it in 2000, meaning the loss of nearly 4,000 jobs. The new 100-seater MD-95, now renamed the Boeing 717, will be the only McDonnell Douglas commercial aircraft in production after 2000. Source: Airline ...