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Eurowings protests over teaming of Augsburg Airways and Lufthansa
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Eurowings has accused Lufthansa of misusing its partners in a "senseless" attempt to suppress competition, after the announcement of the German flag carrier's new partnership with Augsburg Airways. South German regional carrier Augsburg is to become Lufthansa's first Team Lufthansa franchise partner, flying from ...
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Air Liberte restructures network with route reductions
Air Liberté has revealed major changes to its route structure as part of its plan to avoid bankruptcy (Flight International, 2-8 October). Routes between Paris Orly and Montpellier and Bordeaux-Nice will be suspended immediately, along with several international routes, including Toulouse-Dakar and Bordeaux-Abidjan. Frequencies will also ...
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Pakistan profit pledge
Pakistan International Airlines has pledged to pull itself out of losses over the next year through a mix of spending cuts and expansion. A new service to Chicago is pending, and there are plans to serve five other US cities, as well as possible destinations in Australia, South Africa and ...
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ARIA 'still wants to buy Tu-204s'
Aeroflot Russian International Airlines (ARIA) has long-term plans to buy Tupolev Tu-204s, says the carrier's general director Marshal Yergeny Shapsahnikov. The plan was outlined in a public statement designed to diffuse the political row over the airline's recent order for ten Boeing 737-400s (Flight International, 25 September - 1 October). ...
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US Safety Board sees need for post-Cali crash modifications
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says that newly certificated long-haul commercial passenger aircraft should have an automatic system for retracting speed brakes if the pilots start an emergency climb. The system could have saved the American Airlines Boeing 757, which crashed ...
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GE90-powered 777 is given ETOPS approval
Boeing has received 180min extended-range twinjet operations (ETOPS) approval for the General Electric GE90-powered Boeing 777 from the US Federal Aviation Administration. British Airways plans to begin ETOPS service with the 777 in late October, on transatlantic services from London to Boston. ETOPS approval of the "A-market" 777-200 ...
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Kiwi files for Chapter 11 as ValuJet resumes flights
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Kiwi International Airlines has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, blaming rising debts and the fall-out from the ValuJet crash and the grounding of Kiwi aircraft. Ironically, the filing took place on 30 September, the day that ValuJet returned to the air and at ...
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Taiwan patriot
Taiwan plans to deploy the first three batteries of modified Raytheon Patriot PAC-2 Plus air-defence missile systems at the end of 1999, says the country's defence minister Chiang Chung-ling. Taiwan also plans to take delivery of its first Stinger-based Boeing Avenger missile system the same year. Source: Flight ...
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E-8 JSTARS needs improvement, say USAF evaluators
Northrop Grumman's E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) requires "significant improvements" to meet its performance requirements, says a US Air Force test report. The US Department of Defense (DoD) has approved production of 19 JSTARS aircraft despite an operational-evaluation report, which is critical of the system's capability (Flight ...
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Firm sale
Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE) has finalised its purchase of eight Airbus Industrie A320s and four A321s (Flight International, 19-25 June, P6). The deal calls for the first delivery in January 1998 and includes options for a further 12 aircraft. SALE is expected to make its engine selection shortly, choosing ...
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Honeywell talks to Lockheed Martin about APALS involvement
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES HONEYWELL IS IN talks about becoming involved in Lockheed Martin's Autonomous Precision Approach and Landing System (APALS). The US avionics company confirms: "There have been talks, and we are certainly kicking it around." The discussions are led by Honeywell's Business and Aviation Systems ...
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WestJet back
Transport Canada has lifted the impending suspension of WestJet Airlines after the low-cost carrier appointed a person responsible for maintenance, and implemented an approved maintenance system. Calgary-based Westjet grounded its four Boeing 737s in September when Transport Canada found maintenance violations. Source: Flight International
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Racal sells DVORs
Racal has announced orders for its newly launched MkIII Doppler VHF omni-directional ranging (DVOR) equipment with sales of single systems for Kuala Lumpur's Sepang International Airport and another Malaysian customer; Mount Pleasant Airport in the Falkland Islands; Sïo Paolo and Seira De Mar in Brazil; Praslin in the Seychelles; and ...
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Germany orders seven Super Lynx
The German Government is to buy seven GKN Westland Super Lynx helicopters for the German navy. Final contract signing is expected by the middle of October. The new helicopters will be designated Super Lynx Mk88As, and will serve alongside 17 Sea Lynx Mk 88s. According to the German ...
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In the swim at Ghelendjik
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW The already crowded international calendar of air shows has received another addition - and Beriev has rolled out its Be-200 twin-turbofan amphibian from the IAPO factory in Irkutsk, even though the aircraft is probably six months away from a first flight. Originally, the multi-role ...
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Rockwell consolidates Collins avionics business
Rockwell has brought together its Collins avionics and communications businesses into a single business unit, in a re-organisation, which follows the sale of the remainder of the group's aerospace interests to Boeing. The two Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based units, Collins Commercial Avionics and Collins Avionics & Communications, together with ...
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FBS wins UK training
THE FR Aviation, Bristow, Serco (FBS) team has won a ú400 million ($625 million) contract to run the ab initio helicopter flying training for the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) for the next 15 years. Shorts and Bond teamed with Hunting were also competing for the business. The ...
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Phoenix fix boosts GEC plans
Douglas Barrie/LONDON GEC and Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) are in talks over potential teaming arrangements covering future unmanned- air-vehicle (UAV) projects. GEC's long-term plans to meet UAV requirements received a fillip with the UK Ministry of Defence's (MoD's) decision to proceed with the ú250 million ($390 ...
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Damage fears resurface with RAF Tornado F3 crash
Douglas Barrie/LONDON The crash of a Royal Air Force Panavia Tornado F3 is again raising concerns as to the extent to, which a group of aircraft was inadvertently seriously damaged by contractor Airwork during maintenance on the aircraft. The Tornado was being flown by British Aerospace ...
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Lyulka Saturn
Lyulka Saturn has developed a thrust-vectoring version of the AL-31F engine that powers the Sukhoi Su-27. Designated AL-37F, a pair of the power plants have been fitted to a modified Su-27M, dubbed the Su-37 by the design bureau. The AL-37F has thrust-vectoring in pitch only, although the bureau ...