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Southern Pride
British Aerospace Asset Management has sold a second corporate Jetstream 31 to Southern Pride Trucking. The 19-seat regional turboprop will be delivered in June and used to transport the company's NASCAR racing teams throughout the USA. Southern Pride took delivery of the first aircraft in September last year. Source: Flight ...
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Hunter capture
Hunter Aerospace has agreed to acquire Moody Aerospace, manufacturer of the two-seat Moody 96 and four-seat Moody 97 gyrocopters. The acquisition is expected to boost Hunter's profits for 1998 to nearly $2.5 million. Columbia, California-based Moody recently received orders from the Chinese Government for 15 gyrocopters for medical and military ...
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Bombardier growth
Bombardier Aerospace saw sales increase by around 15%for the 1997/8 year to January, to reach C$4.6 billion ($3.2 billion). Aerospace accounted for more than half the Canadian's group's C$8.5 billion sales and a large slice of its C$420 million profit. Source: Flight International
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AB Airlines Floats airline
AB Airlines, the five-year-old UK independent, has listed on the London stock market. AB aims to raise £9 million to pay deposits on new aircraft due to replace its three BAC One-Elevens. Two Boeing 737-300s will arrive in May with deposits paid on six -700s due in 2001. The airline ...
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Air France pilots receive scant sympathy from US colleagues
The US airline pilots association (ALPA) has provided an ambiguous reply to the request by Air France's main pilots' union, the SNPL, for a critical analysis of the carrier's salary structure. The SNPL is objecting strongly to Air France's insistence on a two-tier salary level and a 15% reduction ...
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Airbus lowers A3XX numbers
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Airbus Industrie's latest long range market forecast has maintained a bullish outlook for jet airliner demand over the next 20 years, despite the present Asian economic crisis, but its analysis has shifted towards greater demand for smaller aircraft compared to 1997 predictions, and reduced the size of ...
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ANA Star gazes after signing deals with Lufthansa and United
All Nippon Airways (ANA) has signed its codesharing agreements with Lufthansa and United Airlines, suggesting that it may now join their Star Alliance. At the same time, the airline's pilots are to suspend their strike action. Under the new alliances, ANA will codeshare on 11 routes to the USA ...
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Colombia crash turns spotlight on codesharing
Codesharing and other airline marketing links have come under international media scrutiny following the fatal crash on 20 April of an Air France flight operated by Ecuadorian airline TAME. The Boeing 727-200Adv, carrying 51 passengers and 10 crew, hit high ground in cloud about 3min after take-off from Bogota, Colombia, ...
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King Solomon flies Convair 580
A new specialist Australian airline, King Solomon Airways, will begin operations in May flying between Cairns in northern Queensland and the Solomon Islands' capital Honiara. An ex-Cypress Airlines of Canada Convair 580 will be operated, flying hotel guests on behalf of Brisbane based Island Hotels group. Source: Flight International
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China demands CAAC shake-up
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has been instructed to submit proposals by the end of April on drastic reductions to the size of its organisation, in line with a wider Chinese Government push to cut the country's bloated bureaucracy. China's newly installed premier Zhu ...
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East Europeans set to join single skies
A comprehensive air transport agreement between the European Commission (EC) and 10 East European states has been drafted and could take effect early next year. Frederik Sorensen, head of airline policy at the EC's transport directorate, says that the accord will create "a complete integration" of the countries into ...
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FedEx MD-11 fleet swells to 60 after Swissair and LTU deals
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC FedEx is raising its reliance on the Boeing MD-11 freighter, with a decision to almost double its planned fleet of MD-11Fs to 60 through deals for more new and secondhand aircraft. The US parcels carrier, which now operates 20 MD-11Fs, last week disclosed that it ...
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Airbus ponders commercial market prospects for Beluga
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Super Airbus Transport International(SATIC) and Airbus believe that the growing success of the Beluga's third party cargo charter business could see an external market develop for the aircraft with outsized cargo carriers. The A300-600 based Beluga was designed, built and certificated for Airbus by the Toulouse-based Aerospatiale/Daimler-Benz Aerospace ...
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Marketplace
-Olympic has added its second Boeing 737-300, an ex-Western Pacific aircraft on lease from Boullioun Aviation Services. -Northwest Airlines has concluded a deal with Fortis Aviation's Alliance AirInvest to acquire three ex-Thai International McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30ERs. The three aircraft have been delivered and will enter service later this year after ...
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Legend starts
US start-up Legend Airlines has unveiled plans to build a six-gate "executive terminal" at Dallas Love Field, Texas. The carrier intends to begin interstate services with 56-seat McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30s later this year. Source: Flight International
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Six new entrants win US airport slots
Six smaller US airlines have been awarded coveted take-off and landing rights at Chicago O'Hare International and New York's La Guardia, as part of efforts by the Department of Transportation (DoT)to open up slot-controlled airports to new competition. America West Airlines, Atlantic Coast Airlines (ACA), American Eagle's Simmons Airlines ...
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Eurocontrol tests pilot-controller link
A major step was taken towards operational datalinks for air traffic management (ATM) on 14 April when a Lufthansa Boeing 747-200 en route from Frankfurt to Miami accepted clearances from traffic controllers in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The preliminary Eurocontrol test of the PETAL-II air to ground datalink saw Maastricht ...
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Quiet Wing 727 modification gets FAA approval
The US Federal Aviation Administration has awarded a supplemental type certificate (STC) to DuganAir Technologies for a modification package which allows Boeing 727-100 and -200s to meet Stage 3 requirements without hushkits. The "Quiet Wing System" has been under development for four years. It combines winglet technology developed by ...
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Routes
-Malaysia Airlines has inaugurated its new thrice weekly service to New York's Newark Airport via Dubai, its third North American destination and its first to the US East coast. -Northwest Airlines is to launch a twice weekly non-stop service between Las Vegas and Tokyo from June, taking further advantage of ...
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Concern grows over Sydney noise regime
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Qantas and Ansett have warned of mounting chaos at Sydney's Kingsford Smith Airport following an Australian Government directive on overflying the city's suburbs which has effectively halved off-peak capacity at the airport. Controllers have also raised safety concerns. A new long term operating plan (LTOP) had ...