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Big four split over labour
In their talks with labour unions, four US majors are achieving widely divergent results. FedEx and Delta have resolved protracted negotiations with their pilots. However, American Airlines is still deadlocked with its pilots after almost two years of talks. United Airlines' flight attendants have narrowly defeated a new contract with ...
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Sale to new World order
In a bid to get out of the airline business, WorldCorp is hoping to sell its 59 per cent stake in World Airways and concentrate on its computer business. 'Our parent company has basically taken the lead of its main shareholder group [which wants] to position WorldCorp as ...
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Chill winds hit Geneva
Political niceties have given way to economic realities as Swissair concentrates its longhaul activities in Zürich, moving several international destinations from Geneva. 'There is a change in the economic environment in this business and we are no longer in a position to pay attention to political considerations,' says Martin Bisang, ...
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US smarts at Euro success
The European aerospace industry is flexing its muscles in the wake of the Fokker collapse with an apparent double success in China and the emergence of a real challenge to the monopoly of the B747. Equally significant, the Dutch manufacturer may yet see in 1997, as it continues the search ...
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Going, going . . .
EuroBelgian Airlines' owners NEI and City Hotels have agreed to sell 90 per cent of the shares to Virgin European Airways subject to due diligence and approval from the Belgian competition authorities. Approval was due on 30 April. Reports suggest Virgin will pay $60 million for the stake. ...
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UK minnows challenge BA
British Airways is facing a double dose of action under European legislation from two of its UK rivals. In a case due before the UK High Court in mid-April, Air UK is suing BA for planning four daily services between London/Gatwick and Edinburgh. Air UK refuses to comment ...
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Funds returned
The USA has returned $124 million to Pakistan as a first installment in a promised $658 million refund for Lockheed Martin F-16s which had been embargoed and were never delivered to Pakistan. Source: Flight International
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Italian upgrade
Raytheon Electronics Systems has received a $21 million Alenia contract to supply software for a $110 million programme to update Italy's Hawk air-defence-missile systems, managed by the Paris-based NATO Hawk Production and Logistics Organisation. Source: Flight International
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Tokyo codeshare
All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Delta Air Lines plan a Los Angeles-Tokyo code-sharing/blocked-seat deal, beginning on 1 September, under which Delta will purchase seats on ANA's daily Boeing 747-400 flights and ANA will purchase seats on Delta's six weekly McDonnell Douglas MD-11 flights. Source: Flight International
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Frontier lease
US start-up carrier Frontier Airlines has leased two additional Boeing 737-200s from GECAS, taking its fleet to nine. The Denver, Colorado-based airline has also completed a $3 million private placement to raise funds for additional aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Delta approves
Delta Airlines' pilots have approved a new four-year contract, which provides increased job security, and a seat on the board, in exchange for concessions to allow Delta to start low-cost short-haul operations to compete with low-fare carriers. Source: Flight International
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Water in space
The European Space Agency's Infrared Space Observatory has recorded a space first with the detection of more than 20 water-vapour emission lines in the far infra-red spectrum around the pulsating cool red-giant star, W Hydrae, 300 light years away in the constellation of Hydra Transbrazil. Source: ...
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The X-prize
The X-Prize Foundation, has been established to find private benefactors, to provide $10 million funding to award to the first private team, to build a re-useable space craft to carry three people on a sub-orbital space-flight, "...doing for space what the Orteig Prize, "won by Lindbergh" did for aviation", say ...
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NATO Harmonisation
The US Department of Defense is drawing up requests for proposals (RFPs) for the equipment needed by Eastern European nations to harmonise their military and civil airspace-control systems. The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia are the first four countries to agree to step up civil/military and cross-border co-operation as ...
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Aviall sale
Curtiss-Wright has agreed to purchase Aviall's Miami-based Accessory Services business. The unit will become a division of actuator manufacturer Curtiss-Wright Flight Systems. Source: Flight International
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GE on F-15E
General Electric has completed qualification flight tests of its F110-129 engine on a US Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-15E at Edwards AFB, California, after 44h and 19 sorties. The programme was used to assess engine/aircraft handling, including tests at high Mach numbers and altitudes and manoeuvre transient testing during, which ...
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JPATS hydraulics
Raytheon Aircraft has selected Dowty Aerospace to supply most of the hydraulics system for the Beech Pilatus PC-9 MkII trainer selected for the 712-aircraft US Air Force/Navy Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (JPATS) programme. The contract could be worth more than $40 million. Source: Flight International
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Concord cats
British Airways has ordered a Smart CATS automatic-test-equipment system from Israeli firm Rada, to support the Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde. BA has previously bought two systems for maintenance of its Boeing fleet. Source: Flight International
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BAe
Allan MacDonald has been appointed managing director for marketing and sales for the Association of South-East Asian Nations and Southern Africa at British Aerospace. He was formerly director of regional marketing and, before that, managing director of Jetstream Aircraft. Jerry Wooding becomes managing director for marketing and sales in the ...
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Ansett NZ
Kevin Doddrell has been named chief executive at Ansett New Zealand, replacing Rick Ellis, who is to take up a senior executive position with Ansett Australia, based in Melbourne. Doddrell, a former managing director of U-Bix Business Machines, has acted as consultant to Ansett New Zealand for the past four ...