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EC expresses 'serious doubts' about Lufthansa/SAS alliance
THE EUROPEAN Commission (EC), has written to Lufthansa and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS), expressing "serious doubts" about the two airlines' planned strategic alliance. Although the EC says that it is "unlikely" to reject the proposed alliance completely, it may impose conditions. The details of the EC's concerns are ...
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Vietnam signs for Fokker 70s
VIETNAM AIRLINES HAS signed a contract to purchase two Fokker 70 twinjets for use on domestic routes and as Government VIP aircraft. The deal, reportedly worth $50 million, calls for the two 70-seat aircraft to be delivered by the first quarter of 1996. Vietnam Airlines plans to use ...
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Hot Bird tanks
Propellant tanks are being installed in Eutelsat's Hot Bird 2 satellite at Matra Marconi Space (MMS), Stevenage UK. MMS is also building the Hot Birds 3 and 4 (Flight International, 26 July-1 August). The 20 Ku-band transponder Hot Birds will be co-located at 13°E in geostationary orbit to provide direct-to-home ...
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Asiasat 2 launch is delayed after Long March finding
THE LAUNCH OF THE Asiasat 2 communications satellite aboard a Chinese Long March 2E has been delayed until later this year following the release of the findings of the accident to a 2E on 26 January. The destruction of the launcher and its Hughes-built ApStar 2 satellite at ...
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India's prime minister launches bid for Malaysian contracts
INDIAN PRIME MINSTER Narasimha Rao has visited Kuala Lumpur to lobby the Malaysian Government on a bid by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to win micro-satellite work. Antrix, ISRO's commercial arm, signed a memorandum of understanding earlier this year with a Malaysian consortium to undertake a feasibility ...
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Poles eye Falcon to fulfil fighter need
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THE POLISH ministry of national defence has confirmed that it is considering buying 100 Lockheed F-16C/D fighters from the USA to replace aging Mikoyan MiG-21 Fishbeds. Poland needs a new multi-role combat aircraft to replace 220 MiG-21s in fighter, ground-attack, training and reconnaissance ...
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Red Arrows on migration
CONCERNS surrounding the future base of the Royal Air Force Red Arrows display team are likely to be eased by a Defence Export Sales Organisation and industry-sponsored initiative to send the team on a globe-trotting tour, beginning in September. After appearances in Turkey and Greece, the display team will head ...
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UK eyes used AH-64s
Douglas Barrie/MIDDLE WALLOP THE BRITISH ARMY Air Corps (AAC) could eventually supplement its procurement of attack helicopters by picking up secondhand McDonnell Douglas AH-64A Apaches from US Army stocks. In an exclusive interview with Flight International, Maj. Gen. Simon Lytle, Director Army Aviation, made it ...
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Zagreb Abandoned
Austrian Airlines has joined Lufthansa and Swissair in suspending its flights into Zagreb, in response to the worsening situation between Croatia and Serbia over Krajina. Flights were suddenly suspended on 3 August, leaving return passengers to make their way back to Vienna by train or rented cars. Air travelers still ...
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Russian Aviation Consortium flexes its muscles to push Tu-204 sales
Paul Duffy/SHANNON THE NEWLY formed Russian Aviation Consortium has called for the resignation of transport minister Vitali Yefimov following his opposition to the grant of state funding for Tupolev Tu-204 production. A new plan to fund Tu-204 sales is also proposed. The consortium, which won ...
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Loral to upgrade USAF's GPS ground system
LORAL FEDERAL Systems has won a US Air Force contract, potentially worth $400 million, to upgrade and maintain the global-positioning system (GPS) ground-control system. The Gaithersburg, Maryland based company will replace the mainframe-based operational-control segment with an open, distributed, architecture based on high-performance workstations. The upgraded ...
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Sun Country pioneers the use of GPS
MINNEAPOLIS-BASED Sun Country Airlines is the first carrier to obtain operation approval to use the global-positioning system (GPS) for navigation in oceanic and remote airspace. The US Federal Aviation Administration granted approval after a demonstration flight on 25-26 July from Boston, Massachusetts, to Santa Maria, Portugal. The flight ...
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USAir changes tack on unions...
USAIR HAS ABANDONED efforts to win $2.5 billion in union concessions over the next five years, and plans instead to negotiate labour savings in contract talks. The decision to drop the talks with four unions follows disclosure of a $113 million second-quarter net profit. Union workers appear to ...
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Avia becomes Africa's latest casualty casualty
AVIA AIRLINES has filed for bankruptcy protection, becoming the latest casualty in the chequered history of recent South African start-ups. The independent airline, which used a leased Boeing 747SP from South African Airways, began operations in May, flying three times a week from Johannesburg to London Gatwick. ...
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Pilot changes
THE EUROPEAN airline-pilot market - much to the chagrin of the pilots - is still very much a buyer's market. There are some signs that it is freeing up, with some major airlines starting to recruit (or at least showing an interest). There is not, however, a widespread shortage of ...
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Market boost kills Boeing cost-cutting plan
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES BOEING RECENTLY considered closing its Renton final-assembly line and moving 757 production to Everett, Washington, and 737 work to Wichita, Kansas, as part of a cost-cutting plan. The scheme was abandoned, as it became clear, that aircraft orders were starting to improve. The ...
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IPTN receives European approval for CN-235-110
THE INDUSTRI PESAWAT Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) version of the Airtech CN-235-110, has received its first internationally recognised certification, with the granting of JAR 25 type approval, by the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA). JAR 25 certification follows a two-year validation programme, designed to boost the Indonesian CN-235's sales ...
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Wilcox wins WAAS deal
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration has awarded Wilcox Electric a $475 million incentive-fee contract to develop and produce the world's first wide-area augmentation system (WAAS), which makes the global-positioning system (GPS) usable for all phases of civil flight. Award of the contract ...
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Delta reduces international routes in effort to cut costs
DELTA AIR LINES is to streamline its domestic and international route networks, including the axing of unprofitable services to five European and Asian cities, as part of cost-cutting efforts. The rationalisation, which is to be introduced with the winter schedule in October, will end European services to Hamburg ...
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Communications Test
NASA and a McDonnell Douglas-led team have completed the first full-compatibility demonstration test between the International Space Station's S-band communications and the tracking and data-relay satellite system. Source: Flight International