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PAL overrun adds to Pacific Rim troubles
David Learmount/LONDON A Philippine Airlines (PAL) Airbus Industrie A320 ploughed off the end of the runway at Bacolod, Philippines, on 22 March, killing three people on the ground. Large numbers of passengers and people living just outside the airport, where the aircraft came to a halt, were seriously injured, ...
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Safety concerns prompt ICAO to rethink pilot licence rules
David Learmount/FRANKFURT The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) is proposing to change fundamentally the basis on which pilot licences are issued. The move is a response to rising concerns over safety, said a senior executive of the organisation at a Flight International conference in Frankfurt. Future pilot licences ...
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Routes
-Crossair will operate Swissair services to Baku in Azerbaijan, Riga in Latvia, Samara in Russia and Tbilisi, Georgia from 1 May. Meanwhile, Crossair has added a weekday Basle-Malaga via Geneva service, and two flights a week to Gerona. -Gulf Air will introduce a twice-weekly service on 4 July alternating between ...
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Virgin Express brings back French flights
Virgin Express has re-introduced services between Nice and Brussels by reviving its French subsidiary. Air Provence Charter, which was a joint venture involving EBA Eurobelgian Airlines when Richard Branson took EBA over in 1996, will initiate the service using a French registered Boeing 737-300 under the name of Virgin ...
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EasyJet eases into second home in Switzerland
No-frills UK carrier easyJet has secured a 40% stake in charter operator TEA Switzerland from owner Airfinance. The London Luton-based airline intends to relaunch TEA as easyJet Switzerland as soon as it can exercise an option for a controlling stake. The move follows easyJet's failed attempt to acquire Air ...
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Cost cutting pays off as Gulf Air climbs back into profit
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Gulf Air edged back into profit during 1997 after a cost-cutting campaign overcame two years of financial crisis. The carrier's troubles began to unfold in 1995, when it recorded operating losses of $135 million, running up another deficit of $58 million in 1996. Ahmed Bin Saif Al Nehyan, ...
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Lockheed Martin and Justice Department head for court
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Lockheed Martin and the US Department of Justice (DoJ) are heading for a courtroom showdown over the defence giant's proposed merger with Northrop Grumman after failure to agree a massive programme of divestitures to satisfy competition concerns. Lockheed Martin says that it had offered to ...
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IAI in profit
Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) recorded its first profit in five years with 1997 figures which show net earnings of $24.3 million. The results are a significant turnaround from 1996 when losses amounted to $42 million. Sales in 1997 amounted to $1.691 billion, much of it in exports. Some $600 million ...
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Pan Am can carry on with charter flights
Pan American World Airways has been given a stay of execution by the bankruptcy courts and will continue to operate charter flights as the search goes on for a financial rescuer. The low cost airline terminated the lease of five Boeing 737-400s from International Lease Finance (ILFC) on 23 ...
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Manage people better, says survey
The UK aerospace industry has kickstarted another phase of its plan to improve business performance by pressuring companies to develop people management strategies. The initiative, launched by the Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC), follows an industry survey of people management. The survey concludes that companies that integrate ...
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Snecma exceeds forecasts after years of losses
French engine manufacturer Snecma has ended five straight years of losses with better than expected profits, mainly the result of the strong sales of CFM56s for the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 families. Consolidated net income for 1997 stood at Fr750 million ($122.5 billion), a Fr250 million increase over ...
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Stand together
Aerospatiale, Dasa, CASA and British Aerospace delivered to the governments of France, Germany, Spain and the UK last week their promised thoughts on how they might achieve global competitiveness in the next century. It is now up to those European governments to decide whether the central plank of the industry's ...
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USAF tests new tactics in EFX '98
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The US Air Force will explore new fighting concepts, including the use of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) for tactical missions, during the Expeditionary Force Experiment '98 due to take place in September. The experiment will cost an estimated $40 million to conduct. While military exercises ...
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Alenia seeks export customers for Super AMX development
Andrea Spinelli/GENOA Alenia is proposing development of a new version of the AMX combat aircraft for the export market. The company has already made proposals to South Africa and Venezuela for sale of the upgraded aircraft. At the same time the Italian air force is considering the future of the ...
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Study panel draws the curtain on B-2 purchases
The US Air Force should not purchase additional Northrop Grumman B-2 stealth bombers, according to an independent panel appointed by Congress to consider the issue. The Long Range Air Power Review Panel was charged with evaluating the adequacy of the US bomber force and determining whether B-2 bomber production should ...
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US Navy wants new carriers to support CTOL and STOVL
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC A US Navy study has concluded that its next generation aircraft carrier, the CVX, must be able to support conventional take-off and landing (CTOL) and short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) operations. The study also says that the USN's future carrier-deployed air wing must total ...
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France urges BAe/Dassault unit
Julian Moxon/PARIS The idea of an eventual merger between the combat aircraft divisions of British Aerospace and Dassault Aviation has been given a boost by French minister of defence Alain Richard. Citing the consolidation in military aircraft that has taken place in the USA as "illuminating", Richard says ...
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USA launches advanced rotor systems research
Advanced helicopter rotor systems are to be developed for existing and future US military rotorcraft in the Helicopter Active Control Technology (HACT) programme launched by the US Army late last month. The US Army says that the overall objective of the project is to develop and demonstrate an active, digital, ...
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Cost explosion threatens plan to upgrade German Lynx fleet
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Germany's planned upgrade of its navy's fleet of 17 GKN Westland Sea Lynx Mk 88 helicopters is being threatened by soaring costs, with the price rising by 110% above original estimates. The defence ministry is refusing to accept the price rise, driven by an increase in ...
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Laser teaming
A TRW/Boeing team will compete against Lockheed Martin for development of the Space Based Laser Readiness Demonstrator (SBLRD). The TRW/Boeing team has received a six-month, $10 million study contract from the US Air Force to define concepts for the SBLRD spacecraft, which is intended to show the technical feasibility of ...