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Unions agree to Alitalia facelift
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Andrea Spinelli/GENOA ALITALIA'S UNIONS have given a tentative go-ahead to the airline's increasingly urgent restructuring plans, agreeing to accept cost-cutting in exchange for three places on the board and an eventual 20% stake in the group. The deal was finally thrashed out on ...
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UK study shows advantage of combined GPS/Glonass
COMBINED GLOBAL-positioning-system (GPS)/Russian Glonass receivers can significantly boost the integrity of real-time satellite-based differential-navigation systems in aircraft, says a UK team which recently completed what are believed to be the world's first flight trials of such a system. The UK Civil Aviation Authority's Institute of Satellite Navigation (ISN), ...
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Boeing prepares to offer 747-500/600MD
Guy Norris/SEATTLE BOEING IS to seek board authority to offer the "Major Derivative" (MD) 747-500/600 in July, but may be forced to extend the development timescale by more than a year to incorporate more advanced technology, at the insistence of its airline advisory group. Boeing ...
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Crash casualties
THE CRASH of a ValuJet McDonnell Douglas DC-9 in Florida in May is turning out to have an impact far beyond the regrettable loss of 110 lives and an aircraft. That is not because the crash itself was extraordinary (although the coincidence of circumstances which add up to the likely ...
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Brunei FANS-1 upgrade is first on 'Classic' 747
Andrew Doyle/LONDON THE Brunei royal family has ordered the world's first Future Air Navigation System-1 (FANS-1) upgrade for a "Classic" Boeing 747. Work on the modification, which is being performed by Lufthansa Technik, is under way. The aircraft, a 747SP, is being fitted with ...
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Rivals set to benefit from ValuJet suspension of operations
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON VALUJET HAS built its main hub at Atlanta Harts-field, and at its peak, the airline represented about 8% of the passenger traffic at the airport, ranking it second only to Delta Air Lines. With ValuJet flights unavailable, "price-sensitive" customers from Atlanta have been ...
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Fertile ground
Canada's Radarsat has been such a success that a second satellite is planned. Tim Furniss/LONDON IN JUNE, CANADA'S Spar Aerospace-built remote-manipulator-system robot arm was operated on yet another Space Shuttle mission, the STS77/Endeavour. Marc Garneau, one of Canada's four space travellers, was aboard for the ...
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Jet setting
Following its N250 turboprop, IPTN has started work on an 80- to 130-seat regional jet, Paul Lewis reports from Bandung. In a country besieged with bureaucracy and straining to meet the transportation needs of its 190 million inhabitants, Bacharuddin Habibie, head of national aerospace manufacturer Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara ...
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Boeing plans for further FANS-1 certification
BOEING IS PLANNING to certify future Air Navigation System 1 (FANS-1)-equipped versions of its 757s and 767s by late 1997, possibly as part of a joint US Federal Aviation Administration/European Joint Airworthiness Authorities effort. The US company is developing an improved version of its FANS-1 avionics package to ...
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-IPTN's N250
-IPTN's N250 will be a winner, if performance figures match the aircraft's characteristics IF THERE IS any lingering cynicism, over the destiny of IPTN's N250 programme, a visit to the company's design, manufacturing and flight-testing site at Bandung, Indonesia, would be likely to put it to rest. The site ...
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Reutlinger lays down cost goal for Sabena
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS SABENA PRESIDENT Paul Reutlinger has laid out details of the new cost-cutting targets and fleet rationalisation being demanded by new partner Swissair in a bid to bring the Belgian carrier back to profitability by 1998. Reutlinger says that Sabena needs to shave ...
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PW206 to power Bell 427
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The PRATT & WHITNEY Canada PW206D turbo-shaft engine has been selected by Bell Helicopter Textron to power its new light twin, the Bell 427. The 450kW (600shp) PW206D was chosen over the Allison Model 250-C22+ and the Turbomeca Arrius 2 to power ...
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ValuJet to reduce maintenance contractors
Karen Walker/ATLANTA VALUJET AIRLINES, in response to criticism from the US Federal Aviation Administration is to cut the number of outside maintenance contractors it uses. An interim report, by the FAA on ValuJet's maintenance and safety procedures, highlights discovered since the Atlanta, Georgia-based airline came ...
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Debonair makes low-cost fares and quality promise
DEBONAIR, THE LATEST UK start-up hoping to bring the US low-fares experiment to Europe, has promised fares of 50-70% below existing levels. The airline is planning to launch services from London Luton on 19 July, with free flights on its routes to Barcelona, Munich and the Dusseldorf ...
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Competitive codes
American Airlines chairman Bob Crandall was more wrong than he was right when he said 15 months ago: "Code-sharing is profoundly anti-competitive and, in the long term, will inevitably reduce the number of air carriers competing for your business. When airlines team up and code-share, they are able - by ...
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Open skies crucial to BA/American deal
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON NEWS OF THE British Air-ways and American Airlines code-sharing deal and the promise of a US/UK open-skies agreement has sparked off a round of intense lobbying from competitors on both sides of the Atlantic, hoping to make gains from a new bilateral. BA ...
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Dornier redesigns Metro as 228 faces the axe
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH FAIRCHILD AIRCRAFT, which took over 80% of turboprop manufacturer Dornier Luftfahrt on 5 June, looks set to kill the Dornier 228 programme. Dornier is to help design a new version of the Fairchild Metro. The unpressurised 19-seat 228 "probably" has no future, says ...
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Special edition
Chicago-based clothing manufacturer Fruit of the Loom has taken delivery of its first Bombardier Canadair Special Edition extended-range corporate version of the Regional Jet. The aircraft has a 12-passenger interior layout. Source: Flight International
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Ceaseless turmoil
Europe's SOHO spacecraft is showing that the Sun is proving tobe a surprisingly dynamic star. Tim Furniss/LONDON EVERYONE IS IMPRESSED by the SOHO's performance, says Roget Bonnet, the European Space Agency's (ESA) director of science. "By the end of the mission, we shall know the Sun far better ...
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Home run
Delta Air Lines is welcoming the 1996 Olympics to its home town of Atlanta, Georgia, with a major sponsorship operation. Karen Walker/ATLANTA FEW COMPANIES EPITOMISE the corporate USA as neatly as Delta Air Lines, with its under-stated red, white and blue livery and conservative reputation. The appearance, therefore, ...