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AVIC reacts
In response to complaints that the government is doing too little for China's interior, Aviation Industries of China has agreed to shift the planned assembly site of the AE31X from Shanghai to Xian. But there are doubts over the continued participation of Singapore Technologies, with reports suggesting it is concerned ...
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Push start on the Web
Taking Internet technology to the next level, Lufthansa recently became the first airline to use 'push' technology to send its customers fare data regularly. Individuals who surf the Web, seeking out information on their own, are said to be 'pulling' this data from the Internet. Whenever a Web ...
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Don't just look, book !
Microsoft's Expedia travel Web site is cracking down on people who look but do not book, though instances of this seem to be rare. Josh Herst, group product manager of Expedia, says the site now has over 700,000 members and is posting sales of over $2 million weekly, ...
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Flyers in the ointment
High average load factors are leading US airlines to clamp down on multiple bookings which play havoc with their yield mix. But some more advantageous solutions should be considered. By Bill McKnight, Geoff Murray and Patrick Meynial. Plan ahead. Leave yourself plenty of time. Always check in at the ...
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AZZURRA/Debonair want pan-European alliances
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Start-up carriers AZZURRA Air and Debonair have formed a regional alliance on services between the UK and Italy, which they hope to expand into a pan-European link-up. AZZURRA will begin a new service under a codeshare arrangement between its base in Bergamo, near Milan, ...
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EC promises review after attack on EGNOS
Julian Moxon/PARIS The European Commission (EC)has promised a complete review of the region's plans for global-navigation-satellite systems (GNSS)by the end of the year, following complaints from airlines that the existing programme should be halted. The Association of European Airlines (AEA) raised the issue early in October ...
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Varig entry boosts number of Star Alliance destinations
Brazil's Varig Airlines has joined the growing list of Star Alliance members, with Lufthansa's president Jürgen Weber promising further signatures from "at least one" Asian carrier before the end of the year. The entry of Varig, which flies to every major South American destination, is initially restricted to ...
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Airbus supplement: A3XX
When it enters service in 2003, the A3XX will be the world's biggest civil aircraft. Perhaps more significantly, at least from the commercial point of view, the European giant will complete the Airbus range and remove at a stroke Boeing's long-held monopoly in extra-large people carriers. For three ...
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Airbus supplement: Pioneer to pace-setter
Airbus Industrie's ultimate greatest impact will be on the shape of the European industry, but for much of its history so far the biggest headlines have been about its technology. The driver of much of that headline-grabbing technology has been Bernard Ziegler, who recently retired as senior vice president engineering. ...
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Airbus supplement: Restructuring
Wherever aerospace executives gather to discuss consolidation of Europe's aerospace industry, it will not be long before the talk turns to Airbus Industrie and its anxiously awaited restructuring. Whatever other pitfalls may yet befall Europe on the way towards the holy grail of consolidation, it has become an ...
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Airbus supplement: A300 A310
When Airbus Industrie rolled out its first A300 at Toulouse in September 1972, the aircraft received perhaps less attention from the assembled crowd than it deserved. Parked opposite was one of the prototype Concordes, which was still grabbing headlines around the world. Yet, while the sleek supersonic airliner may have ...
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France requires diesel testing
Julian Moxon/PARIS The first flight of the four-cylinder MR250 diesel engine, under development by Socata and Renault Sport, has been delayed until the beginning of December to allow time for an endurance test demanded by the French certification authorities. Trials of the engine in various configurations ...
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777 suffers new engine troubles
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Pratt & Whitney and General Electric are inspecting their respective PW4090 and GE90 engines for the Boeing 777, after a new series of problems with powerplants on British Airways and United Airlines aircraft. The GE90 suffered a crack in a rotating seal on ...
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Airbus supplement: A319 flighttest
Peter Henley/HAMBURG The 124-seat A319 is the smallest of the Airbus Industrie family of airliners, featuring the same basic flightdeck and similar handling characteristics to all the other Airbus fly-by-wire (FBW)aircraft. A "shrink" derivative of the 150-seat A320, the A319 is offered with the same engines ...
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Hamburg Airlines to fold after partner talks fail
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Hamburg Airlines managing director Udo Klien confirms that the carrier will fold at the end of the year, after the failure of partnership talks with regional carrier Augsburg Airways. Augsburg is now planning instead to extend its Hamburg operations within its existing Team Lufthansa ...
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Pilots warned of software glitch
Flight manuals for the Airbus A320 family are being amended to alert pilots to a "software anomaly" which can cause the aircraft to adopt "an unintended flight path". The US Federal Aviation Administration airworthiness directive (AD), to take effect on 3 November, is sufficiently urgent for the FAA to have ...
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Delta plans HUD choice soon
Delta Air Lines is expected to select a head-up-display (HUD) system for its Boeing Next Generation 737 fleet by early November, as the leading manufacturers scramble to respond to the airline's request for proposals (rfp). Delta is the first of the US majors after Southwest Airlines to opt ...
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North Korea plans to upgrade its air-traffic-control system
The North Korean Civil Aviation Administration is scheduled to complete an initial upgrade of air-traffic-control equipment by the end of the year, in readiness for the start of international flight trials through the Pyongyang Flight Information Region (FIR) in late February. North Korea is modernising communications equipment at ...
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Unions side with Boeing in Sabena order battle
Unions at Sabena have intervened in the fight between Boeing and Airbus to secure a contract to replace the carrier's Boeing 737-200 with a threat of industrial action if the airline decides in favour of the Airbus A319. The Belgian flag carrier is due to make a decision ...
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Free flight-who pays?
Billed as the "Path to Free Flight", the US Federal Aviation Administration's Flight 2000 programme could prove a rocky road for planners of this ambitious demonstration of the future US air-traffic-management system. While agreeing that a large-scale rehearsal of the Free Flight concept is a good idea, lawmakers, operators and ...