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Finmeccanica to buy Fiar stake
FINMECCANICA, IS preparing to buy the remaining 20.5% of Italian defence electronics company Fiar, which it does not already own. The purchase will allow Finmeccanica to complete another phase, of its long running restructuring, with Fiar becoming the focus for a new radar and electronics grouping. Analysts estimate ...
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Two-crew Il-96 flightdeck near as Ilyushin studies twinjet
ILYUSHIN IS DUE to fly in December the first production-standard Il-96M, with a Western two-man cockpit and avionics suite from Rockwell's Collins Commercial Avionics. The Russian bureau is also giving a fresh push to plans for a twin-engined version of the aircraft, now dubbed the Il-98, which could ...
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The strong performers
As more and more airports become profit-driven there is a greater demand for productivity comparisons. Andrew Lobbenberg and Anne Graham present an analysis of 25 European airports.Many European airports have been transformed over the past 10 years. As a sector they have changed from government utilities into a dynamic commercially ...
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Many happy returns
After keen investor interest, Australian flag Qantas was all set to become fully traded on the stock exchange from 31 July, and under immediate intense pressure to provide the projected return on investment. Tom Ballantyne reports.As Qantas began its first twelve months as the world's most recently privatised airline in ...
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The great Gats
Despite the complexities, experience with the Gats in aviation so far shows it should not be written off as a vehicle for multilateral liberalisation. Ron Katz reports. The General Agreement on Trade in Services (Gats) and its annex on air transport services came into force for the majority of Gatt ...
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The right balance
Profits and losses dominate the headlines, but balance sheets give a better long term view of a company's health Ian Milne explains.In the rapidly changing, increasingly results-oriented airline industry most attention is paid to operating performance, in the shape of the profit and loss account, in assessing the immediate success ...
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New game in town
Last November's takeover of the US Congress by Republicans has made for strong partisan politics and even aviation, traditionally a bipartisan affair, is showing signs of rancour. Mead Jennings reports. If there is one person who signifies that Congress now leans to the right following the Republican takeover last November, ...
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Holding back the tide
Relations between Europe's major airlines and their flight deck crews have reached an all-time low, as pilots resist cost cuts and changes to scope clauses. A return to profit by US carriers looks set to damage relations with their pilots too. Mark Odell assesses the pilots' case.Overpaid, overreacting and overhead. ...
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Profits hit USAir cuts ...
USAir's short period of optimism, with its labour problems near resolution, its competitors at bay and its second quarter profit up 717 per cent, was only illusory. The carrier returned to square one in its labour talks in July, Southwest is preparing to enter the Florida market, long ...
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LOT to think about AMR
LOT Polish Airlines has a lot to think about. The most pressing issues are doubts over its cooperation with AMR Corp, its proposed codeshare with American Airlines and the refinancing of its recent fleet acquisition. AMR Corp's ground services management contract with LOT is up for a two ...
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EC to act on Nordic link
The European Commission has set out the conditions it will impose before approving the proposed alliance of Lufthansa and SAS, while Transwede and Finnair are putting on a brave face about the prospect of a northern European giant operating in their backyard. The Commission has notified Lufthansa and ...
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GB Airways
GB Airways, a British Airways franchise operator, has promoted Anne Davies to deputy cabin services manager for the airline. For the last five years she has been a cabin service co-ordinator. Source: Flight International
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Meeting demands
Airbus Industrie rolls out the A319 to complete its present range of airliners. Julian Moxon/TOULOUSE IN JUST 25 years since its creation in December 1970, Airbus Industrie has fielded a range of airliners spanning 124-350 seats, knocked McDonnell Douglas (MDC) into third place in ...
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Laser gyro at the core of Honeywell ADIRS
HONEYWELL'S GG1320 LASER GYRO, developed for the Boeing 777, forms the core of the company's new air-data/inertial-reference system (ADIRS) (Flight International, 23-29 August) selected by Boeing for the 737-600/-700/-800 family. The new gyro is also included in Honeywell's VIA 2000 integrated avionics system. Source: Flight International
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African aviation
The African aviation industry has been preaching about regional co-operation for years: it could soon happen. Kevin O'Toole/Johannesburg In the middle of August the African aviation community met in Johannesburg to discuss its future. There was nothing new about the issues. The industry, like much else within the ...
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KLM/Garuda intensify co-operation
KLM ROYAL Dutch Airlines and Garuda Indonesia have strengthened their long-established commercial co-operation with a new agreement signed in Jakarta on 23 August, following the conclusion of talks between Garuda's president Soepandi and Pieter Bouw, president of the Dutch carrier. Bouw was in Indonesia as part of a Dutch trade ...
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Airbus shows DGPS in Africa
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE has demonstrated precision approaches and landings with an A340 guided by a differential global-positioning system (DGPS) at Mmabatho in South Africa. The trial took place as South African Airways moved into the final stages of selecting its new long-haul replacement aircraft. Airbus used a Sextant Avionique ...
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Regional winner?
Embraer's first public flight of its EMB-145 was acclaimed by observers. Graham Warwick/SAO PAULO JUDGING BY the reactions of regional-airline executives attending the 18 August roll-out and first public flight of the EMB-145 regional-jet, Embraer has produced a potential winner - if the newly privatised Brazilian ...
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Kamov reveals two-seat Ka-52 mock-up
KAMOV HAS unveiled an engineering mock-up of its two-seat, fully combat-capable Ka-52 derivative of the Ka-50 (Hokum), with company officials claiming that the new helicopter will be equipped with a millimetre-wave (MMW) radar. Meanwhile Mil, which still claims to be contesting the Russian army requirement, unveiled the first ...