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United feast
United Airlines has won a US$1 million contract from LSGLufthansa Service/Sky Chefs to test whether inflight food service can attract passengers on transcontinental routes in the US. United, which beat proposals by Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines, will start the test in early 1997. Source: Airline Business
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Dirty tricks row hits SA
South African Airways, with its domestic market share under pressure after its two domestic rivals forged international alliances, is fighting back with allegations of dirty tricks against Comair and heavy discounting on domestic sectors in the peak period. In a move that revives memories of the acrimonious battle ...
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Slow ahead on fares hike
The foundations for liberalisation may be in place but there's still a long way to go. That's the basic message of the European Commission's first report on the development of the single market, which has attracted fierce criticism for its lack of depth. The report pinpoints the continued ...
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Joined at the seams
Management Information is the key to easing the lot of the long-suffering passenger, argues Kieron Brennan. Airlines should draw on methods used in related sectors to enable them to fully develop the concept of the 'seamless' journey. You're a tycoon, living in Grand Cayman. Suddenly, one morning, a major business ...
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Universal Avionics offers fivefold improved GPS/Glonass system
A new satellite-navigation system, promising a fivefold improvement in accuracy, has been unveiled by Universal Avionics. The GNSS-2400 uses the US global-positioning system (GPS) and its Russian equivalent, the Glonass. The working prototype was proven during a flight from Switzerland to Florida, and demonstrated at the show. ...
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SW-4 takes off
After years of false starts and delays, Polish industry is moving into the light helicopter market. Andrzej Jeziorski/WARSAW On a blustery Tuesday, 29 October, the Polish press and selected guests gathered at helicopter manufacturer PZL-Swidnik's factory near Lublin to watch an event crucial to the future of the ...
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Air France agrees to take up to 20 777s
Air France will take more Boeing twins, but is moving up from 767 to 777 Julian Moxon/PARIS The French Government has approved Air France's decision to buy up to 20 Boeing 777s (including options), as part of its long-range-fleet renewal programme. The airline has placed orders ...
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AMJ BAe 146s are to be given satellite-navigation capability
British Aerospace Asset Management-Jets (AMJ) is developing a cockpit upgrade for early-build BAe146s, based around the introduction of an AlliedSignal satellite-based navigation system. The upgrade will allow operators of the BAe leasing unit's 146s, particularly in Europe and Australia, to cope with the progressive worldwide phase-out of the VLF Omega ...
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A virtual threat
USAir orders up to 400 Airbuses; American Airlines takes 103 Boeings now, with up to 630 in total in the next 22 years; Continental, 90 Boeings; GECAS, 45 Airbuses; Ansett Worldwide Aviation Services, 25 Boeings- Is the air-transport industry showing robust and welcome signs of recovery, or unhealthy and unwelcome ...
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Germany economy
Lufthansa has selected B/E Aerospace's Seating Products division to supply economy-class seats for four Boeing 747-400s, scheduled for delivery in 1997. The German flag carrier's fleet of 18 Airbus A340-200/300s is also equipped with Florida, USA-based B/E Aerospace's Innovator 1 seats. Source: Flight International
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EC supports compromise over status of JAA and Eurocontrol
Kevin O'Toole/Brussels THE EUROPEAN Commission (EC) says that it is supporting a compromise deal to establish the region's Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) and Eurocontrol as official international bodies, but which stops short of creating single European authorities. Proposals for a reformed JAA are due to be ...
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Display progress
Guy Norris/PHOENIX Graham Warwick/CEDAR RAPIDS Another busy day begins for the corporate-jet crew. Today's flight will take them from Dallas to New Orleans and on to Washington DC, weather permitting. The chief pilot moves the cursor to a "soft key" on the multi-function display (MFD) and selects weather ...
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Pedigree preserved
Peter Henley/LUTON By the time British Aerospace sold its corporate-jets business to Raytheon in 1993, the BAe 125 8-14 passenger twinjet had gained a formidable reputation. Since 1962, when the original de Havilland DH 125 was first flown, 850 customers from more than 40 countries had purchased various ...
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Hunting new pastures
Max Kingsley-Jones/Coventry On 17 October, Hunting Cargo Airlines retired its remaining Vickers "VC9" Merchantman (Vanguard) freighter when the last operational example was flown to the Brooklands Museum in Surrey, south-west of London, for preservation. This marked the end of a 20-year association with the four-engined turboprop for the ...
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Air Methods delivers modular medical interior for MD900
Air Methods has delivered its first modular, multi-function, medical interiors to operators of the McDonnell Douglas MD900 Explorer helicopter in Europe and the USA. Boise Life Flight in Idaho, and HSD in Germany, have taken delivery of Explorers equipped with the new multi-role interiors. Denver, Colorado-based Air Methods ...
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Raytheon unveils all-new Hawker
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA Raytheon Aircraft has launched development of the Hawker Horizon "super mid-size" business jet to replace the current Hawker 1000. The first flight is scheduled for late 1999, leading to US certification in the second quarter of 2001. Raytheon is planning to build 20-25 aircraft a year. ...
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Blanc insists on fleet mixture
Julian Moxon/Paris Air France president Christian Blanc has made it clear to the French Government that he wants to order a mix of Boeing 777s and Airbus A340s as part of the flag carrier's fleet-renewal programme. Up to ten of each type are likely to be ...
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The sequence of events leading to the mid-air collision
The Boeing 747, one of eight Series 168Bs (ie, the -100B) operated by Saudi Arabian, departed New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport at around 18.33 local, and headed on a westerly course (270¹) from the Delhi VOR navigation beacon (DPN). The 747, which seems to have been operating ...
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Reasons for A3XX wing arrangement
Sir - Airbus Industrie is glad to see the interest that the A3XX is creating among Flight International readers. This is reflected in the recent proposals for the wing arrangement which we have read in your magazine. Since the mid-1980s, during the development of the A3XX, various configurations ...