All Systems & Interiors news – Page 894
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EMB-145 'exceeds expectations'
EMBRAER'S EMB-145 regional jet is performing better than predicted, the Brazilian manufacturer says. One prototype and two pre-series aircraft are now in flight-test and a fourth EMB-145, is scheduled to have been flown, by 20 March. Engineering director Luis Affonso says that the performance is exceeding specification because ...
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Research pinpoints non-precision risks
David Learmount/AMSTERDAM AIRLINES CARRYING out non-precision approach and landing procedures face a five-fold increase in the risk of a controlled-flight-into-terrain (CFIT) accident compared with precision approaches, according to research by the Netherlands' National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR). The Flight Safety Foundation (FSF), as part of its International ...
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How open skies?
GERMANY HAS become the latest and largest catch in the US drive to sign up Europe to open skies. With this new bilateral safely initialed, the USA has now signed up 11 European nations to open skies, representing 40% of the region's air market. The deal marks ...
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Combi Saab 2000 nears certification
SAAB AIRCRAFT is hoping to complete development and certification of a passenger/cargo combi version of its Saab 2000 turboprop by the end of 1996, in an effort to boost flagging sales. The Swedish manufacturer is proposing two different basic combi configurations. The aircraft can be configured typically for ...
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Flying colours
Errol Cossey, founder of Air Europe and Air 2000, has been appointed group chief executive and chairman, of Manchester UK based holiday company, Flying colours. Terry Soult, a former Air 2000 board member, becomes managing director. Geoffrey Dobson joins the company as finance director and Carolyn Quintaba becomes director of ...
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Jobs on offer
For once job creation is on the agenda. British Airways is taking on 1,000 new employees to continue the build-up of the London/Gatwick hub, which includes the transfer of most of its African network from Heathrow. KLM will add 2,500 cabin crew over the next three years to cover its ...
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Korea expresses Asian jet doubts
The purported partnership between China and South Korea to design and build a 100-seat jet dubbed the Asian Express AE-100 may be close to dissolving, as Singapore Technologies allies with China and the potential western players await the choice of a technology partner. Moo-Sung Yu, president of Samsung Aerospace, confirms ...
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Airline speak: a beginner's guide
In this industry people rarely mean what they say. Here's what they really mean.As airline startups multiply and established carriers recruit new management teams, there is a steady influx of new blood into this industry. Newcomers listening to the old hands talking might make the cardinal error of assuming that ...
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EBA: the new Euro Virgin?
Virgin Atlantic is concerned that its carefully crafted brand image could suffer from the planned foray into low-frills, low-cost operations in Europe by chairman Richard Branson. Virgin Europe, headed by ex-Continental Express boss Jonathan Ornstein, declared an interest in mid-February in buying 80 per cent of Brussels-based EuroBelgian ...
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Strike threat looms in US
A surprise deal between United Airlines and its flight attendants contrasts sharply with pilot-management talks at Delta Air Lines and American Airlines. As of mid-February, those two carriers were locked in federally mediated negotiations as pilots turned up the heat with strike preparations. The most notable points that ...
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Agents for change
All the major computer reservations systems recently signed distribution agreements in China. Elaine White outlines the Chinese travel agent scene and looks at the potential for automating what will become the world's largest travel market.China's travel and tourism industry may be relatively new, but it is already one of the ...
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A weighty premium
No one seems sure how much the interbank premium, which has been imposed on Japanese banks, accounts for their pull-back from aircraft finance, but it seems to be a likely cause. David Knibb reports.Financiers disagree over how much of Japan's fading dominance in aircraft finance is due to its banking ...
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A personal approach
Straight corporate branding could soon be banished to the past as experience in other sectors demonstrates that a personalised approach is far more effective. By David Fraser. There was a time when manufacturers, introducing industrialised technology, created products that were targeted simply at a wide and somewhat ubiquitous audience. Take ...
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Good times, bad times
Northwest Airlines is no longer the highly leveraged, unprofitable carrier of a few years ago, but the carrier faces some tough hurdles in 1996. Jane Levere reports.The scourge of the investment community less than three years ago, Northwest Airlines is now the darling of Wall Street, having streamlined its operations ...
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Never green enough
Airlines may have escaped a global increase in noise and possibly on emission stringencies, but does this open the door for individual airports to impose surcharges at will? Sara Guild reports on the ongoing debate on the environment.Aeroengine emissions and noise have been the subject of countless meetings and reviews ...
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Airline news
Virgin Atlantic will start thrice weekly services from London/ Heathrow to Johannesburg from October. British Airways is to ban smoking on all flights to US and Caribbean destinations, except where more than one daily flight is available. South African Airways has resumed service to Buenos Aires ...
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Bombardier plans improved CL-415
BOMBARDIER PLANS a six-point product-improvement package to diversify the capabilities of the Canadair CL-415 water-scooping amphibious fire bomber. A finite fire-fighting market and interest from Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand (for additional aircraft) and Turkey in "missionised" derivatives has prompted the manufacturer to consider ...
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Extra EA400 tourer nears maiden flight
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH GERMAN AIRCRAFT manufacturer Extra-Flugzeugbau expects to conduct the maiden flight of its Extra EA400 touring aircraft by mid-March. The company says that the aircraft is in a final round of ground tests leading up to its aerial debut. The exact date of the ...
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DGPS approaches
Airport interest in satellite-based precision approaches is growing, as the potential benefits become evident. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA IN 1995, THE INTERNATIONAL aviation community, granted a stay of execution, to the venerable instrument-landing-system (ILS), while paving the way for its eventual replacement, by the global-positioning system (GPS). ...
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Hughes deals change shape of commercial simulator fleet
HUGHES FLIGHT Training in the UK has announced a series of deals, which will result in a reshaping of its commercial flight-simulator fleet. The London Gatwick-based independent training centre, formerly British Caledonian Flight Training has repositioned a Boeing 737-300/400 simulator, from Gatwick to Alaska Airlines' training centre in ...