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P&W is main beneficiary as ILFC spends $2 billion on engines
General Electric, Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce have won business worth around $2 billion as International Lease Finance (ILFC) finalises engine deals for aircraft ordered in 1997. The orders cover powerplants for Airbus Industrie A319s, A320s, A321s and A330s and Boeing 737s, 747-400s, 757s, 767s and 777s. P&W is ...
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JAS will cut domestic routes to reduce losses
In a move reflecting the gradual deregulation of the country's air-travel industry, financially troubled Japan Air System (JAS) is to scale back domestic operations this year. An airline source says that JAS is putting the finishing touches to a plan likely to reduce service on 40 to 50 routes by ...
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S Korean carriers drop routes
South Korea's two national carriers are making sweeping cutbacks in international services, as the country's economic difficulties increase. Air New Zealand (ANZ), Ansett International and Qantas have suspended all flights from Australia to Seoul. Asiana Airlines has announced a complete halt to services from Seoul to Europe until at ...
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MEA revises A310 lease agreement
Middle East Airlines (MEA) has agreed a revised deal with Singapore Aircraft Leasing (SALE) over the five-year lease of three Airbus A310-200s. The new agreement reduces the price of the lease from $39 million to $34 million. Agreement has been reached as investigations by the Lebanese public prosecutor into alleged ...
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Marketplace
++ Aer Lingus has signed an agreement with World Airways to provide a Boeing MD-11 on wet-lease to be operated on services between Ireland and the USA between May and October 1998. Aer Lingus has an option to renew the lease for the same period in 1999. ++British Midland has ...
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Quieter Ostend
Ostend, the Belgian airport populated by ageing jet-powered freight aircraft, has banned the operation of all non-Stage 3 Boeing 707 and McDonnell Douglas DC-8s of more than 28 years old. The ban took effect on 1 January. The decision follows growing environmental protest against the rising number of aircraft from ...
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Pan Am revamps strategy with Boeing 737 focus
Pan American World Airways is looking to build on its fleet of Boeing 737s now that it has grounded most of its Airbus A300B4s, and suspended its New York-Los Angeles flights so that it can concentrate on a north-south route network. Pan Am found that the widebody 250-seat A300s ...
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P&W tests new combustor design for JT8D-200
Pratt & Whitney is testing a new combustor design for the JT8D-200-series engine. The new design is expected to reduce nitrous oxide (NOx) emissions by 20% as part of a drive to keep the engine compatible with imminent emissions legislation. The revised combustor is aimed at new-build -200s and ...
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Bucharest Airport upgrade progresses
The first phase of modernisation of Bucharest's Otopeni Airport has been inaugurated by Romanian transport minister Traian Basescu. The $120 million project was carried out by Romairport, a consortium led by Italian Milan Airport managing company SEA. The programme includes the construction of a terminal, developed from an unfinished ...
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SAA prepares to rethink 777 purchase
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON South African Airways (SAA) has widened the brief of the task force set up to re-evaluate its fleet plan to include new Airbus A330/A340 types. This confirms that the long-delayed order for Boeing 777-200s could be revised. The airline says that it will include a smaller ...
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Workshop
++ AMR Eagle's Regional Aircraft Maintenance Center, located at the former K I Sawyer AFB, Michigan, will perform C checks on 12 Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) ATR 72s turboprops operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines. The work began in early December 1997, and each aircraft visit will last for between five ...
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Air France profits roll but alliances come under EC scrutiny
Air France's transatlantic alliances have become the latest to come under scrutiny by the European Commission (EC), although the French flag carrier is pressing ahead with its expansion, buoyed by its recent financial turnaround and the prospect of a private cash injection. Regardless of the EC inquiry, Air France ...
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Finmeccanica cash plan wins backing
Finmeccanica has won backing for its recapitalisation plan following the year-end meeting with its majority owner, Italy's giant state-holding company IRI. The defence/aerospace group has been angling for "up to" L2,000 billion ($1.2 billion) to shore up its ailing finances. The move was finally approved in December by IRI, ...
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Servair reduction
Air France Group indicates that it would be willing to cut its 75.2% holding in the Servair in-flight catering business, which is angling to increase its market presence through deals with other aviation companies. Source: Flight International
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Olympic tackles management problems
Julian Moxon/Paris Olympic Airways is stepping up efforts to resolve its latest management problems in an attempt to unblock its final tranche of state aid and to prepare the airline for the pending liberalisation of the domestic Greek air market. The state-owned carrier lost another president in late December and ...
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Swissair 'back in profit' in 1997
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH The SAir Group says that its core Swissair airline operations are due to show a profit for the first time in eight years when the 1997 results are revealed. The airline points to soaring load factors, which have climbed to 70% from just above 60%, as ...
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Battle stations
Boeing's decision to continue the development of the former McDonnell Douglas MD-95, in the new guise of the 717, has effectively redrawn the battle lines in its war with Airbus Industrie. This takes the civil-aviation giants to a new battleground where their tussle for market supremacy can be continued. ...
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US Army has to slow mine detector work
A substantial budget cut, along with poor test results, has forced the US Army to slow development of the Airborne Stand-off Mine Detection System (ASTAMIDS). The US Army had planned to pick one of four contenders in January to begin 33 months of ASTAMIDS engineering and manufacturing development (EMD). ...
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Cormorant flies ahead in Canada
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Douglas Barrie/LONDON Canada is expected to issue a statement of requirement for its shipborne helicopter during 1998, after its decision to procure the EH Industries EH101 Cormorant for its 15-aircraft search-and-rescue (SAR) requirement. The AW520 commercial version of the EH101 was chosen over Boeing's CH-47 Chinook, Eurocopter's ...
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Slump jeopardises proposed Indonesian deal with Russia
Paul Lewis/Singapore Indonesian contractual negotiations with Russia to purchase 12 Sukhoi Su-30MK fighters have run into difficulty because of the country's rapidly deteriorating economic situation. Russian efforts to seal a deal to sell $500 million-worth of fighters and helicopters to the Indonesian military are being undermined by the ...