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Japan prepares for domestic battles after deregulation
Andrew Mollet/TOKYO The Japanese Government is preparing to deregulate domestic air fares in fiscal 1999 in a move that analysts say will serve to further stiffen competition in an already highly contested market. A draft report from a transport ministry panel has urged the lifting of restrictions that ...
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Maersk takes Europe's first Boeing 737-700
Maersk Air is in talks with Boeing over contractual penalties after taking delivery of its first Boeing 737-700 five months later than originally scheduled, on 2 March. The US manufacturer met problems in certification of the type, including unexpected snags with the horizontal stabiliser. The Copenhagen airline is expecting to ...
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Marketplace
-British Airways regional partner Maersk Air has ordered two additional Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) Series 200LRs for delivery in early 1999. The move marks a continuation of the company's BAC One-Eleven replacement programme, which began late last year with an order for three CRJ-200s. -Alaskan carrier Taquan Air will ...
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Japan prepares first North Korean flights
Japan has agreed to open its first route into North Korean airspace following the successful completion of international trial flights through the Pyongyang flight information region (FIR). The new route, tentatively designated B332, will run due north from point Miho within the Tokyo FIR, through neighbouring South Korean airspace, ...
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United Airbus boost
United Airlines has signed up for 30 more Airbus A320 family aircraft. The purchase, worth more than $1.33 billion, will boost its order for the single aisle models to 111. The new deal includes 20 A320s and 10 A319s for delivery in 2000 (seven A320s) and 2001 (13 A320s and ...
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R-R studies -535 derivative
Ian Sheppard/LONDON Rolls-Royce (R-R) is studying the development of a major RB.211-535 derivative which it believes could offer an 8% reduction in specific fuel consumption (SFC) by incorporating the core being developed for the new Trent 500. The -535 is available on the Boeing 757 and Tupolev Tu-204. ...
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Routes
-The US Transportation Department has allowed seven weekly flights each to American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and Continental Airlines for US-Tokyo services following the new US-Japan bilateral agreement. American will inaugurate its Chicago-Tokyo Narita service on 1 May, Delta is to start its new daily Atlanta-Tokyo service on 3 June, ...
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Indonesian gloom forces Sempati Air to retrench
Sempati Air Transport has axed all international routes, laid off nearly 60% of its staff and reduced its fleet to just five Boeing 737-200s as Indonesia's deepening economic crisis threatens many of the country's smaller carriers with bankruptcy. Privately owned Sempati cut around 1,000 of its 1,700-strong workforce from ...
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UPS develops people carrying package for charter companies
UPS aims to double the number of weekend charter passengers it carried last year under contract to US cruise lines, tour operators and professional sports organisations. The carrier, better known for transporting parcels than people, is conducting charter flights with five Boeing 727-100 freighters, modified to accept a quick ...
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European airline trio shows profit turnaround
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON After eight years of wavering finances, punctuated by some spectacular losses, Alitalia's turnaround has begun to take shape with a solid profits performance in 1997. The news comes as part of a series of better results for European airlines, including Swissair and Sabena. Alitalia, which a ...
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Record figures lift French aerospace industry
Julian Moxon/PARIS The French aerospace industry has revealed some of its its best ever performance figures, with industry body Gifas president Jean-Paul Béchat promising the trend will continue over the next two years. Overall sales for 1997 increased by more than 19% to Fr130 billion ($21 billion). Orders were up ...
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Lufthansa travel arm sold to Kuoni Reisen
Lufthansa and its partner Karstadt have sold their jointly owned travel subsidiary Euro Lloyd Reisebüro to Swiss holding company Kuoni Reisen. It clears the way for their new C&N Touristik travel venture. Lufthansa is being forced to back out of other travel ventures, including the sale of stakes in ...
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Reno pins hopes on new boss
Reno Air has become the latest of the US low fares airlines to undergo a management shake-up, appointing a new chief executive to help steer the struggling carrier back to profits. The Reno board says that it decided that the carrier "would benefit from a change in leadership", especially ...
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Thomson-CSF looks for partner
Carol Reed/PARIS Denis Ranque, Thomson-CSF's new chairman, has pledged to find a strategic international partner, with GEC high on the list of favoured candidates Ranque was in buoyant mood as he unveiled a threefold increase in the group's profits for 1997, arguing that the French group is now ...
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Privatise now
It looks like strong arm tactics are about to be employed to try and get France to agree to privatise Aerospatiale as a precondition for its integration with its UK and German partners, British Aerospace and Daimler-Benz Aerospace, to form a European super company. As one German industry insider ...
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US Air Force works on passive AMRAAM
Douglas Barrie/LONDON The US Air Force is developing a secondary passive anti-radiation seeker for the Raytheon AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM). The Passive Adjunct Seeker Antenna project is led by the USAF's Wright Laboratories Armament Directorate. A demonstration of the passive seeker antenna has already been ...
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Bidders line up for $1 billion Hercules special operations deal
The US Air Force is expected to award a $1 billion contract in June for long term contractor support for five special operations variants of the Lockheed Martin C-130 aircraft. The draft request for proposals (RFP) for the Integrated Weapon System Support Programme (IWSSP) was issued last year, and ...
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Decoy test finds heat snag
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Flight testing of the ALE-50 towed decoy on the Boeing F/A-18E/F has revealed that heat from the engine exhausts burns through the cable when afterburners are engaged, and can melt cable insulation and short out power to the decoy when engines are on full unreheated power. The ...
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Global Hawk air vehicle finally spreads its wings
The Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical Global Hawk unmanned air vehicle (UAV) flew for the first time at Edwards AFB, California, on 28 February despite several small anomalies which shortened the inaugural flight. The Global Hawk, a high altitude long endurance (HALE) UAV, flew for 56min, although the initial mission was planned ...
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Israel will evaluate 707 replacements
The Israeli air force is preparing a fleet replacement programme for the 13 ageing Boeing 707-300s it operates in transport, electronic warfare (EW), electronic intelligence and tanker roles. The service is planning to gradually replace the 707s with a newer generation Boeing type selected from the 737, 757 or ...