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Southwest to rule roost
Southwest Airlines denies that expansion plans at Baltimore-Washington are in response to US Airways' new low-cost airline. But Southwest is certainly making it difficult for a competitor to get a toe-in. Southwest currently has six gates at Baltimore airport, and Maryland authorities have granted tentative authority to lease ten ...
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Asians have private ideas
Despite the tough times hitting Asia, Thai Airways and China Airlines are both talking privatisation. Recognising the attraction of currency spreads for foreign investors, Thailand and South Korea are also pondering whether to relax foreign investment limits for airlines. The pressure to privatise Thai Airways comes from the International ...
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FAA scrambles to defuse timebomb
Tick, tick, tick. The millennium bomb is counting down, potentially to wreak havoc just as champagne corks and fireworks explode to welcome in the new century. Like most bombs, until the fuse is lit no-one is quite sure whether this will be a dud or a disaster, but there ...
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US six get big in Japan
Six US airlines and 13 cities will receive a total of 106 new weekly flights to Japan under a tentative agreement inked by the US and Japanese governments, following the signing of the new civil aviation bilateral in February. US carriers gaining new rights are American Airlines, Continental Airlines, ...
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Venezuela starts to stir
Venezuela's efforts to reclaim more international air traffic are not coming easily as local airlines fight over a plan to revive bankrupt Viasa. In February, Brazil's Vasp and local company Venezolana de Comercializacion unveiled a proposal to revive bankrupt flag carrier Viasa, with Vasp to hold a 49 per ...
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Turkish Eeyx
Aerospatiale of France has signed a preliminary agreement with Turkey for co-production of Eryx anti-tank missiles. The deal, revealed by the Turkish defence ministry, is worth around Fr2.6 billion ($420 million) and the ten year production run will be carried out locally by an Aerospatiale-led consortium which includes two Turkish ...
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New TNT hub
TNT began full scale operations from its new courier hub at Liége in Belgium on 2 March, having transferred business from Cologne, Germany, because of a night operating ban. Source: Flight International
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Freighter crash
One of the two Boeing 707-300 freighters (registration SU-PBA) operated by Egyptian carrier Air Memphis crashed shortly after take-off at Mombasa's Moi International Airport in Kenya on 10 March, killing all six crew on board. The aircraft crashed just beyond the airport boundary and burned out. The 707 was taking ...
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FAA approves 737-800
Europe's Joint Aviation Authorities is due to certificate Boeing's 737-800 by the end of March. This follows the award of a type certificate from the US Federal Aviation Administration on 13 March. JAA certification director Klaus van der Spek says that he does not foresee any problems, but cannot give ...
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Latin order
Airbus is poised to finalise a deal worth an estimated $8 billion with three major Latin American airlines for almost 200 A320 family aircraft. TACA group of El Salvador, LanChile and Brazil's TAM are expected to sign a firm order for around 90 aircraft, with options on another 100 aircraft ...
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Jeppesen contract
Jeppesen has signed an agreement with Executive Jet Aviation (EJA) to provide its OnSight flight operations management system for the company's NetJet fractional ownership programme. EJA will acquire all three modules, namely the JetPlan IV flight planning system; wXstation, weather analysis service; and Flight TraX advanced flight tracking system, which ...
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Balkan back for re-sale
Bulgaria has re-opened efforts to privatise its ailing flag carrier Balkan, advertising for international consultants to get the process under way. The airline was first put up for privatisation five years ago amid grand plans for a new Western-built fleet and an overhaul of the route network, but the project ...
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IATA record
The International Air Transport Association says its clearing house reached a record in 1997, with 279 members, settling accounts worth $29 billion. Source: Flight International
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Brussels complaint
Lufthansa's Belgian ground handling unit is reported to have filed a legal complaint after being told by Brussels Airport that it would not be allowed to handle airside business. European legislation to phase out monopolies demands that airlines should be allowed to self handle from the start of this year. ...
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Britannia sale
Canada's Thomson group has finally unveiled plans for the sale of its Thomson Travel arm, which is the UK's largest tour operator and includes Europe's biggest charter airline, Britannia.The travel unit will be floated on the London stock market. Source: Flight International
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Hunting sale
Hunting has sold its engine repair business to Canada's CHC helicopter group. The £25 million ($41.6 million) deal comes as the latest in a string of disposals from the UK group, which is winding down its civil aviation division, and follows the recent sale of its aircraft interiors business. The ...
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Landsat 7 delay
Power supply failures on the Raytheon Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus instrument on NASA's Lockheed Martin-built Landsat 7 remote sensing vehicle will delay its launch indefinitely from July. NASA has cancelled the Clark remote sensing technology satellite project, following the loss of the sister craft, the Lewis, last year. Source: ...
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Kistler test
GenCorp Aerojet has successfully conducted a 145s test firing of the first US-modified Russian NK-33 engine to be used on the first stage of the Kistler Aerospace K-1 re-usable satellite launch vehicle, which will make its first test flights from South Australia's Woomera rocket range later this year. Source: ...
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High hopes
Space Dev of Colorado has received confirmation from NASA that proposals to provide experiments for its Near Earth Asteroid Prospector (NEAP) programme will be considered within the space agency's Discovery programme. The venture is the first by a commercial company to launch a privately financed interplanetary spacecraft. Space Dev has ...
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Europe suffers from safety gap
David Learmount/AMSTERDAM A dramatic difference in safety levels between European states which are members of the Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) group and those which are not has been revealed in a new Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) report. Studying approach and landing accidents, the most common of all accident categories ...