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China order thaw on way
Pressure is mounting for Beijing to relax its freeze on new aircraft orders. It looks as if the Civil Aviation Administration of China will permit two, and perhaps all three big carriers, to place firm orders. Senior Air China officials recently visited Toulouse and Seattle in anticipation that ...
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Turnup for the books
Cancellations dropped sharply in 1994 and orders look set to recover this year. But the delivery upturn is still two years away and the outlook remains tough for major and regional aircraft manufacturers alike. Mark Odell reports. No-one expected any different in 1994 as aircraft orders remained in the doldrums. ...
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Airbus aims for domination of jet-airliner market by 2000
AIRBUS FORECASTS that, within the next five years, it will be in a straight fight with US manufacturers, winning half of the world's new jet-airliner orders in a market worth around $50 billion a year. The consortium now has around 30% of new orders, but has plans to ...
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GE90-powered 777 reaches Mach 0.96 in dive
THE GENERAL ELECTRIC GE90-powered Boeing 777 reached Mach 0.96 during a high-speed dive in February, as part of a faster-than-expected expansion of the aircraft/engine flight envelope. "We are well into the test schedule. In fact we're already at the point that we'd normally be at six weeks into ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Boeing seeks waiver over head-impact rules
BOEING HAS requested a temporary exemption from US Federal Aviation Administration head-injury criteria (HIC) certification rules for some economy-class seats on the 777 until May 1996. The company, like others, has been struggling for some four years to find ways of meeting the HIC requirements and has experimented ...
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Marshall wins second order for TriStar freighter work
MARSHALL AEROSPACE of the UK is to convert three Lockheed L-1011-200 TriStars to freighters for International Air Leases (IAL), and the company has also negotiated additional options. The deal is the second major TriStar freight-conversion contract for Marshall, which again beat rival Lockheed Aeronautical Services (LAS) for the ...
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USAir hit by cabin fever
USAir has started a campaign that will result in a downsized fleet and employee roster. This is even with a $2.5 billion concessionary package that has been tentatively worked out with three of its four contract employee groups, an agreement that, sources say, if finalised could still leave the airline ...
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MDC will deliver first MD-90-30
McDonnell Douglas (MDC) is to deliver the first MD-90-30 to launch customer Delta Airlines on 24 February, for service entry in early April. Steve Atkins, MDC twinjet-programmes general manager, says that the goal is to have "98.4% dispatch reliability" within the first six months of service. ...
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Northrop Grumman plans to shed 1,000 more jobs
NORTHROP GRUMMAN is to shed another 1,000 jobs, following the Pentagon's decision to abandon the Tri-Service Stand-off Attack Missile (TSSAM) programme. The group says that the cancellation of the troubled stealth-missile programme should have little impact on this year's financial results, however. The latest cuts ...
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Living dangerously
Apathy has forced take-off performance monitoring to be shelved. David Learmount/LONDON The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says that there were more than 4,000 take-off related accidents and serious incidents involving airliners in the USA between 1983 and 1990, resulting in 1,378 fatalities. ...
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Airbus wins A330 ETOPS tickets
THE AIRBUS A330 has been awarded three simultaneous type-approvals by the European Joint Aviation Authorities for extended-range twin-engine operations (ETOPS). The General Electric CF6-80E1-powered version, which has had a year's service with Air Inter of France and Aer Lingus of Ireland, has won 180min approval. Aer Lingus aircraft ...
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FAA approves Boeing 777 pressure solution
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES A CEILING LIMIT of 25,000ft (7,500m) temporarily placed on the Boeing 777 by the US Federal Aviation Administration after two incidents of cabin decompression has been lifted after the installation of a modified check valve. The FAA imposed the limit after the incidents ...
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Norway puts back plan for North Sea ATC
Kieran Daly/LONDON NORWAY HAS PUT BACK its intended date for mandating positive air-traffic control (ATC) of North Sea helicopter operations, but still intends to go ahead with the plan. The Norwegian civil aviation authority has previously said that the system would be introduced in 1995, but ...
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Questions of cash
Signs of recovery in the airline market may be encouraging talk of a future boom in aircraft ordering, but the industry still has to tackle the ticklish question of where the cash will come from. Even on conservative estimates of aircraft deliveries, the sums involved will be vast. ...
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Norway puts back plan for North Sea ATC
Kieran Daly/LONDON NORWAY HAS PUT BACK its intended date for mandating positive air-traffic control (ATC) of North Sea helicopter operations, but still intends to go ahead with the plan. The Norwegian civil aviation authority has previously said that the system would be introduced in 1995, ...
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Air Macau chiefs resign after row
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE START-UP CARRIER Air Macau has suffered a major setback with the resignation of its chief executive David Young and two other senior managers, following a row over control and direction of the company. Young has quit the joint venture Sino-Portuguese airline only four months ...
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Dornier expects 328-120 approval
DORNIER EXPECTS to receive Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) certification for its improved 328-120 regional turboprop in May and to deliver the first aircraft shortly afterwards to launch customer Formosa Airlines. The Dornier 328-120 is a further development of the recently certificated -110, offering improved runway performance. The ...
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Air France to prune fleet
Julian Moxon/PARIS AIR FRANCE is to cancel all its outstanding orders and options for Airbus and Boeing aircraft, and sell part of its existing fleet as part of the restructuring plan, introduced by its president, Christian Blanc. The programme, introduced in 1994, has already succeeded in reducing ...