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KAL jettisons A300B4s in fleet modernisation
Korean Airlines (KAL) is phasing out all of its Airbus Industrie A300B4s and replacing them with newer, leased A300-600Rs as part of a wider move to modernise its fleet of widebody and narrowbody jet airliners. Ansett Worldwide (AWAS) has acquired two of KAL's eight A300B4s and will take ...
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PAL drops flights
Philippine Airlines (PAL) has suspended services from Manila to Los Angeles and Newark because of "staggering losses" from the drop in the value of the peso, less than a year after their launch. The carrier has been forced to use wet-leased World Airways Boeing MD-11s on the routes rather than ...
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Swiss codeshare
Swissair has signed a codeshare agreement with Malaysian Airlines (MAS) through to Kuala Lumpur, only weeks after comments from the Swiss carrier that it was looking for additional Asian partners. Swissair, which will now sell tickets on MAS flights to Kuala Lumpur, says that there are no immediate plans to ...
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P&W effort to improve PW4000 reliability starts to pay dividend
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Pratt & Whitney says that an upgrade effort to counter reliability problems on more than 1,600 PW4000 engines is showing results, with a "dramatic reduction" to in-flight shutdown rates. The upgrade effort, known as the Number 1 reliability programme, involves around 100 service ...
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Saab pushes 35-seat option
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Saab Aircraft president Gert Shyborger says that Europe should look at the 30- to 35-seat market for its next regional jet, rather than the 70-seat sector being pursued by Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)). The comments come as Saab re-assesses its future in the regional-aircraft ...
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India approves Saras prototype go-ahead
India's state-owned National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) Saras 14-seat twin-turboprop multi-purpose transport aircraft has been cleared for prototype development. A $15.27 million grant for the project's first phase, leading up to the manufacture of a prototype, was cleared by the Indian Technology Development Board . NAL has ...
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PZL-Mielec reveals 30-seater Skytruck stretch
Polish aircraft manufacturer PZL-Mielec has unveiled two new stretched variants of its 18-seat M-28 Skytruck development of the Antonov An-28 twin-turboprop. The M28-03 and M28-04 are being marketed as the Skytruck Plus. The fuselage has been stretched by 1.84m, and the cabin ceiling raised by 0.25m, allowing passengers ...
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Comair consortium wins battle to take over Sun Air
A consortium led by South African regional carrier British Airways Comair has won the race for state-owned Sun Air. Comair, a BA franchise partner, will take a 25%stake in the rival domestic carrier, with another 5%earmarked for Sun Air staff, and the remaining 70%taken by two investment vehicles ...
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FAA hopes to find clues to TWA crash at fuel-safety conference
A three-day fuel-systems-safety conference scheduled for early October may produce clues to the cause of the 17 July, 1996 crash of Trans World Airlines Flight 800, the US Federal Aviation Administration hopes. The Boeing 747-100 crashed off Long Island after leaving New York's Kennedy Airport. In the year ...
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Vietnam Airlines Tu-134 crashes on bad-weather approach at Phnom Penh
David Learmount/London Vietnam Airlines suffered its fourth serious accident since 1990, when a Tupolev Tu-134B crashed on 3 September during a daylight final approach in stormy weather to Phnom Penh's Pochentong Airport in Cambodia, killing all but two of the 66 people on board. Although the ...
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Workshop
++ Air UK Engineering has signed a five-year deal with Skyways to undertake heavy maintenance on the Swedish carrier's fleet of eight Fokker F50s after the UK company successfully completed a year-long contract. ++ Dee Howard has begun heavy maintenance of an Airborne Express Douglas DC-8-63 under an agreement covering ...
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Low-cost Air South files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
Air South has become the latest of the low-fare US start-ups to run into trouble, filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection at the end of August, just days after its third anniversary. The carrier was forced to suspend operations and ground its leased fleet of seven Boeing 737-200s, ...
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Air New Zealand looks to alliances to boost profits
Paul Phelan/CAIRNSKevin O'Toole/LONDON Air New Zealand (ANZ)is looking for benefits from its alliance strategy, including closer ties with newly acquired Ansett Australia, to help lift profits this year after posting a major slump in its results for 1996/7. Over the next year, the airline plans to ...
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Taiwanese tourists boost CAL
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON A return in confidence among Taiwanese travellers has lifted profits at China Airlines (CAL)over the first half of 1997, and the airline expects better to come during the rest of the year, which includes Taiwan's peak holiday season. CAL posted pre-tax profits of nearly ...
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ML Group bows out of aviation industry with sale to Cobham
The UK's ML group is quitting aviation, with the sale of its aerospace and marine division to the acquisitive Cobham, formerly the FR Group. The £37 million ($23.1 million) acquisition brings with it the Slingsby name and a niche business in weapons-release equipment. ML Aviation, a major European ...
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Lufthansa sells off Hapag Lloyd
German national airline Lufthansa has sold its 17.95% stake in travel and tourism firm Hapag Lloyd to Preussag, in the run-up to the creation of a new travel conglomerate in partnership with tour operator NUR. Lufthansa says that its decision to sell the stake, already agreed by the ...
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GE gets Greenwich
General Electric completed its $530 million acquisition of Greenwich Air Services, as promised on 2 September, but is still waiting for a vote by UNC shareholders on whether to join the engine maintenance giant. That vote is expected this month. Source: Flight International
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Lufthansa share sale
The German Government has set in motion the final phase of privatisation for Lufthansa, with the sale of its remaining 37.5%due to take place on 11-12 October. The offer, which is expected to raise around DM5 billion ($2.8 billion), is aimed primarily, but not exclusively, at German investors. ...
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Thai profits fall
PROFITS AT Thai Airways were almost halved over the latest quarter to the end of June, as it counted the cost of a massive increase in salary bills, and the continued impact of fuel price rises. Pre-tax profits slumped to just under Baht413 million ($12 million) over the ...
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Back to business
Europe's aerospace executives left for their summer break amid the high drama of the European Commission threatening a trade war over the Boeing/McDonnell Douglas merger. As they now return to their boardrooms, the drama is over and the temptation is to enjoy the calm. It is a temptation which they ...