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Qatar Airways decides on strategy for growth
Qatar Airways, fresh from a series of top management appointments, says that it will finalise its new long-term strategy after a board meeting in January, with the aim to "triple the size of the airline" by the end of 1997. The moves follows the appointment of Akbar ...
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Clinton faces reshuffleof aviation advisors
US President Bill Clinton faces having to replace a series of key aviation advisors during his second term, following top-level resignations in the transportation department. Transportation Secretary Federico Peña and defence chief William Perry are among the cabinet members who have already informed Clinton of their planned departures. ...
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TriStar gets ready for major restructuring
TriStar Airlines, which recently returned three of its four British Aerospace 146s, says that it will soon announce a major restructuring of its operations and a move into new markets, with the acquisition of larger aircraft. The Las Vegas, Nevada-based airline, which began operations in 1995, says that ...
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Government forces union ballot in effort to rescue Canadian International
In a last-ditch effort to rescue Canadian Airlines International, the Government has stepped in to force the Canadian Autoworkers Union (CAW) to ballot members over important wage cuts. The decree came hours before a 4 December midnight deadline for all 16,400 Canadian employees to accept a sliding-scale ...
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Finnair vacates hotel business
Finnair is flying away from its hotels and restaurants Finnair is selling control of its hotel and restaurant business as part of a broader restructuring of the group which has seen its airline profits virtually halved over the past six months. The bulk of the ...
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German Government turns up heat on Airbus restructuring
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH The German Government is linking the provision of further aeronautics-research funding to the restructuring of Airbus Industrie and the launch of the A3XX, putting further pressure on the Airbus partners to reach agreement on the establishment of a new commercial structure for the consortium. ...
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Malaysia profits remain steady
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) just managed to hold profits steady over the first half of its 1996/7 financial year, but the group promises to emerge "stronger and leaner" in 1997 as restructuring continues. The group's net profit over the six months to the end of September dipped slightly ...
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BAe joins take-over of German naval group
British Aerospace confirms that it has signed to join a consortium formed to take over German defence-electronics grouping STN Atlas Electronik, in a strategic move designed to increase its naval-systems business. BAe is joined in the consortium by the Rheinmetall industrial group, with financial backing from utility ...
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Trinova buys EEMCO for $35 million
US motion-control specialist Trinova has continued its acquisition spree with the purchase of actuator manufacturer Electrical Engineering & Manufacturing (EEMCO). Trinova says that the deal is part of a strategy to double its aerospace business to more than $600 million by 2000. Maumee, Ohio-based Trinova has now acquired ...
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UK tax increases anger airlines
UK tax increases anger airlines UK Government plans to double airport departure tax have angered airlines which claim that the country will now have the highest rates in Europe. A departure tax was first announced in the UK budget two years ago, set at ú5 ...
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France will offer multi-year Rafale/Tiger procurement
Julian Moxon/PARIS The French Government is offering multi-year procurement of the Dassault Rafale fighter and the Eurocopter Tiger anti-tank helicopter as a sweetener to its demand for major cost savings in both programmes. The Government proposal also supports setting up a single production line for ...
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Lockheed Martin and Hughes combine on IRST
Lockheed Martin and its principal subcontractor Hughes Aircraft are developing a shipboard infra-red search-and-track (IRST) system to combat incoming anti-ship cruise missiles. Under a $15 million, two-year contract, Lockheed Martin will develop and test an engineering demonstration model of the IRST. After completing phase one of engineering ...
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Germany sets up RMPA study to identify Atlantic successor
Germany is to phase out its Atlantics from 2005 Andrzej Jezorski/MUNICH German system-development house ESG has been given a Government contract to carry out a feasibility study to look at potential airframes and systems for a new German maritime-patrol aircraft (MPA). The German ...
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Belgian air force
The Belgian air force is re-forming 1 Wing at Beauvechain, only months after the unit was disbanded following a restructuring of the service ordered by the defence ministry. The 1 Wing has ceased to be Belgium's dedicated interceptor wing. This responsibility has been taken over by 2 Wing at Florennes ...
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South Korea makes double choice of missiles for its F-4s
In a surprise conclusion to its stand-off weapon competition, South Korea is to purchase both the Rockwell AGM-130 and Lockheed Martin/Rafael AGM-142 air-to-surface missiles to equip its McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom fighter-bombers. The procurement, worth $250 million, represents South Korea's first purchase of the weapons, which will enhance the Phantom's ...
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China works on active air-to-air missile
China is working on an active radar-guided air-to-air missile, with the China Leihua Electronic Technology Research Institute (CLETRI) to develop an active radar-guided seeker. The seeker, for use on what CLETRI describes as the AMR-1 missile, was shown at the Zhouhai air show. It uses a flat-plate antenna with a ...
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Sukhoi presses on with fifth-generation designs
Co Gen Deinekin (left) and Mikhail Simonov met this year to discuss the S-32 The latest design iteration of the S-32? The above impression represents an early S-32 iteration Alexander Velovich/MOSCOWDouglas Barrie/LONDON Sukhoi is continuing to pursue research into advanced "fifth-generation" ...
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Northrop Grumman sues the Pentagon
Northrop Grumman has filed a $750 million lawsuit against the US Department of Defense, seeking to recover losses it incurred on the AGM-137 Tri-Service Standoff Attack Missile (TSSAM) programme which the US Air Force cancelled in 1995. The company says that the US Government violated its own procurement ...
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Growing ambitions
Emirates has achieved a phenomenal rate of growth during its first ten years, achieving profit in all but its second year. Paul Phelan/Dubai Since its inception in 1985, Dubai-based Emirates Airlines has, on average, doubled in size every three and half years and made a profit in all ...
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Coming of age
The Orient Airline Association, after years of relative silence, has now found its voice. Oriental airlines are finding strength in unity Paul Lewis/BRISBANE The Orient Airline Association (OAA) has been in existence for some 40 years, but only in the past 24 months has it ...