All Business Jets articles – Page 663
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Gulfstream in MidEast jet share
Karen Walker Gulfstream intends to introduce a fractional ownership scheme to the Middle East next year in a venture with Executive Jet and a group of Middle East investors, it was announced at the show yesterday. The programme, which allows people to purchase fractional shares from a pool ...
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First Middle East user for Citation X
The first Cessna Citation X to be operated in the Middle East will be operated by Arabian Support and Services (ASASCO), it was announced at the Show yesterday. ASASCO executive director Mansour Ibrahim Al-Tassan arrived from Saudi Arabia to sign the contract. "The Citation X is ...
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Executive market debate heats up
The Middle East is shaping up to be the site for the latest skirmish between Boeing and Airbus, in the shapes of their respective entries into the heavy end of the executive market. The Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) variant of the 737-700 and the Airbus A319CJ (Corporate Jet) ...
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Global Express a hit in Mid-East
Bombardier is expected to announce more sales today for its Global Express, which will fly into the show to join the company's line-up of business jets in the static display. Michael Graff, president of Bombardier's business aircraft division, says the new sales will be to Middle East customers, ...
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Systems maker surveys scene
Universal Avionics Systems Corporation is making a pioneering appearance in Dubai to "test the water" for its family of UNS-1 flight management systems, says Rolf Bickel, the Arizona-based company's international marketing director. Each of the systems includes an integral 12-channel GPS receiver and allows seamless operation throughout all ...
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Any takers for VIP Boeing?
Karen Walker When Thomas Hirschmann says he is seeing stars, he's talking pretty serious business. An example of that business can be seen here at the Dubai Air Show in the shape of a VIP-configured Boeing 727-100 that is looking for a buyer. It ...
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DC-Dubai in one hop sets another record
Karen Walker Contrary to what you might have read in the newspapers, US-Middle East relations took a big step forward this week. For the businessman who has urgent work in both regions, Gulfstream has good news. The Gulfstream V that is being displayed at the Dubai ...
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Tyrolean opts for more Bombardier aircraft
Austrian regional airline Tyrolean Airways has placed a firm order for three 50-seat Dash 8Q Series 300 and one 50-seat Canadair Regional Jet Series 200B LR aircraft with Canada's Bombardier Regional Aircraft. The value of the order is approximately $65 million. Deliveries of the four aircraft will be ...
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Just LOOk at this attention to detail
Alan Peaford When you are spending $35 million on the most beautiful business aircraft in the skies today, you want to be sure that the manufacturer has concentrated on every little detail- down to the smallest cabin on the aircraft. And on the Gulfstream V, making ...
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Gulfstream is riding high on GV's successes
Karen Walker With 39 world and US national records to its name, the Gulfstream V is certain to attract attention at Dubai '97, where the aircraft is making its debut public appearance in the Middle East. Basking in the GV's spotlight will be Bill Boisture, the ...
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Loadmaster freighter starts to take shape
Alan Dron Metal is now being cut for the first components of the Ayres LM200 Loadmaster freighter, reports the company. It had been hoped to use Dubai '97 - the first time the company has attended the show - as the platform from which to announce ...
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Insider trading
The business-aircraft industry is booming. Aircraft orders are rising and, if recent predictions are to be believed, this trend will continue until the turn of the century. Sales of secondhand aircraft are also scaling new heights. The knock-on effect is naturally felt by the business-aircraft interiors market, in completions for ...
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Challenge well met
Bombardier says that the Canadair Challenger 604 is "the fastest-selling Challenger ever". It is also the furthest-flying, and the two are not unconnected. With the 604, the Canadian company finally has exploited the full potential of the Challenger design, and is reaping the reward with an increased share of the ...
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CityLine ponders Avro RJ future
Lufthansa CityLine is to make a decision by the middle of 1998 on whether to keep its fleet of Avro RJ85s in service after buying new 70-seat regional jets. The company says that fuel and maintenance costs for the Avros are high because of their four engines, and ...
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Alliance spreads into Central Africa
Alliance Express, the regional arm of East African multi-national carrier Alliance Air, has taken over the operations of Government-owned Air Rwanda. Meanwhile, completion of the planned merger of Alliance with the two national airlines of its shareholders, Uganda and Tanzania, is now looking unlikely. Alliance Express ...
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Dubai' 97 show guide
Dubai 97 is being held at Dubai International Airport, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, between 16 November and 20 November. The show will be open each day between 09.00 and 18.00. The event is being organised by Fairs and Exhibitions (1992), 6 Broadstone Place London W1H 3FJ, UK; tel: ...
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Workshop
++ Aeronavali has been selected by Ten Forty to convert 20 ex-Japan Air Lines McDonnell Douglas DC-10-40s to cargo, for delivery between 1998 to 2005. ++ Amarillo, Texas-based Leading Edge Aviation Services has opened its fifth paint hangar, becoming the first independent commercial-aircraft painting centre in the USA able to ...
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Marketplace
++ Finnair's sale/lease-back deal for four Boeing MD-80s (Marketplace, Flight International, 29 October-4 November, P14) is valued at FIM350 million ($67.3 million), with the annual values of the lease rentals worth some FIM43 million ++ Midway Airlines is disposing of its single leased Airbus A320. The aircraft is leased from ...
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Gulfstream delivers
Gulfstream Aerospace says that its firm-order backlog at the end of the third quarter of 1997 remained unchanged from a year ago, at 89 aircraft, but its value declined to $2.8 billion from $3 billion in 1996, because of increased deliveries of the more expensive Vs. The Savannah, Georgia-based company ...
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KLM plans regional changes
KLM will finalise plans by the end of the year to re-organise its regional-airline partners under one umbrella operation. Details of the initiative, which is being led by Air UK at London Stansted, are still being thrashed out, but in one option a single identity could be adopted. ...
