All news – Page 7770
-
News
Midway plans to lease A320s to operate from Raleigh-Durham
MIDWAY AIRLINES is to operate a fleet of Airbus Industrie A320s from its new hub operation at Raleigh-Durham Airport, North Carolina, recently acquired from American Airlines. The Chicago-based carrier is initially leasing four International Aero Engines (IAE) V2500-A1-powered A320s from Orix. The first two A320s will arrive in ...
-
News
Lockheed and Boeing discuss fuselage project
LOCKHEED AND Boeing are in talks over a joint bid to build and demonstrate an advanced aft-fuselage design for the US Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) programme. The two companies are already engaged in talks over combining their entire JAST efforts into a single team. "We are now ...
-
News
FAA adopts GPS plan for Olympic helicopters
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration has adopted as a major project plans to develop a low-level airspace system for Atlanta, Georgia, to enable helicopters to be used to overcome traffic congestion expected during the 1996 Olympic Games. The joint government-industry project will develop a network of helicopter routes ...
-
News
Canada will introduce charges for overflights
THE CANADIAN Government is to introduce overflight charges to airlines using its airspace, as part of a restructuring in advance of the privatisation of its Air Navigation System (ANS). The Government confirms that it will privatise its C$800 million ($575 million)-a-year ANS when it releases its plans for ...
-
News
Asian airlines plan co-operation
SENIOR EXECUTIVES from many of Southern Asia's airlines have met in Sri Lankan capital Colombo in an attempt to reach agreement on co-operation in several key areas of business. The 27-28 February meeting, attended by executives of Air India, Indian Airlines, Royal Nepal Airlines, Pakistan International Airlines, Biman ...
-
News
Saab hives off aircraft and defence units
THE SAAB-SCANIA group is being broken up, the Saab aircraft and defence businesses being split into a separate company from the Scania truck and bus operation and from Saab Automobiles. The two new companies will be held directly by the Investor Group, the powerful Swedish holding company controlled ...
-
News
Fokker slashes costs in new restructuring plan
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Fokker has embarked upon a radical programme of restructuring, job cuts and site closures in a bid to pull itself back into profit by mid-1996. Losses have been mounting at the Dutch manufacturer as output has dwindled to only 50 aircraft a year - ...
-
News
Passenger growth has accelerated, says FAA study
A NEW US FEDERAL Aviation Administration's 12-year growth forecast for US commercial aviation shows that passenger numbers grew faster in 1994 than at any time since 1987. "The commercial-aviation industry breathed a collective sigh of relief in fiscal year 1994 as most sectors of the industry recorded their ...
-
News
Upbeat UK operators urged into Europe
The UK Government has pledged backing for its business-aviation operators in ensuring a "level playing field" in Europe when full cabotage is introduced in 1997. The promise was delivered at the annual conference of the General Aviation Manufacturers and Traders Association, which urged its members to exploit the ...
-
News
BAe and DASA go wing to wing for FLA work
Douglas Barrie and Kevin O'Toole/LONDON BRITISH AEROSPACE and Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) are to compete in a wing design "fly-off" for the Future Large Aircraft (FLA) military transport. The result will have a critical impact on the UK's final decision on whether to rejoin the programme. The ...
-
News
Oil loss forces down BMA 737
RAPID ENGINE-OIL loss on both engines forced a British Midland Airways Boeing 737-400 crew to make an emergency landing at London Luton Airport on 23 February. UK Civil Aviation Authority records show that blanking plates had not been replaced after borescope inspections of the two engines, and that ...
-
News
Swissair in regional/charter shake-up
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH SWISSAIR HAS HANDED over its regional-jet operations to its Crossair subsidiary. In a second strategic move, Swissair and Crossair will absorb the loss-making charter flights of Balair/CTA - effectively ending the latter's operations. Both moves are aimed at cutting costs and restoring group profitability. By the ...
-
News
Costly competition
Airbus chief Jean Pierson's recent hint that not all is proceeding smoothly within the Future Large Aircraft (FLA) consortium seems to be borne out by confirmation that the UK and Germany are locked in a desperate battle over the wing for Europe's proposed military transport. On the surface, such competition ...
-
News
F-22 engine order
Pratt & Whitney's Government-engines and space- propulsion division, based in West Palm Beach, Florida, has received a US Air Force contract to build 27 F119 turbofans for the nine flight-test Lockheed F-22s. Deliveries will begin to Lockheed in September 1996 and will be completed by 30 April, 1999, shortly after ...
-
News
Hexcel re-emerges
Composites specialist Hexcel, which emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February, turned a $64.3 million operating loss into a $7.5 million profit in 1994. Net losses were cut from $86 million, to $30 million. Source: Flight International
-
News
Thomson set for loss despite growth
THOMSON-CSF reports a steady growth in sales for 1994, but the French defence- electronics giant is still on course to show a large net loss for the year because of its 19% holding in the troubled Credit Lyonnais bank. Thomson says that group sales rose by 6.2% over ...
-
News
Eurofighter share wrangle continues
DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) and British Aerospace are continuing to wrangle over Eurofighter workshare, with DASA having been forced to sacrifice at least production of the aircraft's fin and the centre-line pylon. DASA is struggling to come to terms with problems over the disparity between its 33% development workshare, ...
-
News
Transaero gives warning on profit shortfall
INDEPENDENT RUSSIAN airline Transaero has warned that its 1994 financial results will fall short of targets laid out at the start of the year. Although passenger numbers more than doubled, to over 530,000, Transaero president Dr Alexander Pleshakov says that the airline was affected by "an unfair taxation ...
-
News
Joining the club
Allison Engines has become a commercial-turbofan manufacturer for the first time with the certification of its AE 3007C by the US Federal Aviation Administration. The 33.5kN (7,500lb)-thrust turbofan is produced in two slightly de-rated versions for the Cessna Citation X business jet at 28.5kN, and just over 32kN for the ...
-
News
Launch go-ahead
The third Japanese H2 booster will be launched on 15 March, after delays caused by technical problems with one of its payloads, the Space Flyer Unit. The other payload is the GMS 5 weather satellite. The launch, during an unprecedented period outside the usual January-February and August- September windows, was ...