All Fleets articles – Page 902
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Face the facts with Gerard Laviec
Paris '99 will be something of a show anniversary edition for engine manufacturer CFM International. The company - a joint venture between General Electric and Snecma - is celebrating its 25th birthday, the 20th anniversary of its first orders, and during the show it will deliver the 10,000th CFM56 engine. ...
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Sabena expands Schreiner franchise deal
Dutch regional airline Schreiner Airways is re-organising its franchise agreement with Sabena as it moves to expand its feeder operations under the new Sabena Connect brand. Schreiner operates four 50-seat Bombardier Dash 8-300s for Sabena on wet-lease and franchise services, but plans to add more aircraft and routes from ...
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Cathay on schedule as dispute ends
Cathay Pacific is aiming to return to a full flight schedule as soon as possible following the eleventh-hour resolution of a long-running pay dispute with its pilots. Cathay's flights have been severely disrupted since 28 May by pilots calling in sick, citing excessive stress because of the dispute. Pilots ...
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Training centre bound for Malaysia
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) and FlightSafety Boeing Training International (FSBTI) are to create an aviation training joint venture in Kuala Lumpur, it was announced at the show yesterday. MAS executive vice-president Dato Bashir and FSBTI president Wake Smith signed a memorandum of understanding at the show which sets up the ...
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Pan-European orders boost Embraer order book
Karen Walker European regional airline chief executives lined up at an Embraer press conference yesterday to announce a string of regional jet orders with a value that totalled $1.5 billion. This latest collection of sales brings Embraer's Paris air show firm and option orders' total to date to ...
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Extra ATRs for Eurowings
French-Italian manufacturer ATR announced a $68-million order for five ATR 42-500 aircraft at the show yesterday. The buyer is Eurowings. Deliveries are scheduled for the beginning of next year and will replace older ATR aircraft in the fleet. Richard Santner, chairman of Eurowings, says: "With this order, we ...
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ATR signs Indian contract in uncertain market
ATR has sealed a deal for five new 70-seat ATR72-500 turboprops with privately owned Indian scheduled airline Jet Airways. The airline says the aircraft will "form the nucleus of a modern regional aircraft fleet". The Jet Airways aircraft have been acquired under an operating lease through Aircraft International Renting, ...
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Air Caribbean plans long-haul services
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Fast-growing east Caribbean airline Air Caribbean is finalising a deal for its first widebodied aircraft as it prepares to begin long-haul services to North America and the UK. Based in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, the private airline is negotiating to acquire three secondhand Boeing 767-200ERs. "We are on ...
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New Air aims to copy Southwest method
New Air, which plans to launch low-fare, high-frequency domestic services from New York's Kennedy Airport in January 2000, aims to emulate low-cost operator Southwest Airlines to survive in the market. In its application to the US Department of Transportation, privately owned New Air says it aims to achieve operating ...
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Il-96 marks a first with US certification
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW The Ilyushin Il-96T freighter has become the first Russian commercial transport to receive US Federal Aviation Administration certification, clearing the way for deliveries to begin to Aeroflot Russian International Airlines. The four-engined widebody, powered by Pratt & Whitney PW2337s and equipped with Rockwell-Collins avionics, won Federal ...
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NG737 clocks up largest-ever order
Alan Dron International Lease Finance (ILFC) yesterday announced plans for the largest order yet for the Boeing Next Generation 737 family and says it is looking carefully at the sub-100-seat market. Steven Udvar-Hazy, ILFC president and chief executive officer, says his company has agreed a firm order for ...
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Crossair starts ERJ-170/190 family rolling
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Embraer has launched its new family of 70/108-seat regional jets with a commitment from Crossair for up to 160 aircraft. The deal, involving about 60 firm orders, covers 70-seat ERJ-170s and 108-seat ERJ-190-200s for delivery from late 2002. The Swiss regional carrier has orders and options ...
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Air Ukraine orders An-140s and signs commitment for more
Air Ukraine has ordered four Antonov An-140 regional airliners and has signed a letter of intent for 40 more. The Ukrainian national airline, which controls more than 10 regional carriers in the country, will use the 46-52/seat An-140s to replace 60 An-24s, An-26s and An-30s. Air Ukraine has specified ...
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$1 billion A320 sale underlines recovery in Asia Pacific market
Mike Martin Airbus Industrie announced a $1-billion A320 family order from Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE), providing more evidence that the Asia-Pacific region is pulling out of its economic crisis. The order is for 23 aircraft, 20 A320s and three A321s, with deliveries from 2001 and 2008. Engine ...
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Fleet increase for BWA
British World Airways (BWA) is to increase to six its fleet of British Aerospace ATPs by leasing a further two examples of the twin turboprop from British Aerospace Asset Management. London Southend-based BWA, which specialises in wet leasing and charter flights within Europe, is scheduled to take delivery of ...
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Volvo Aero strikes spares deal
Volvo Aero has signed a five-year deal with Boeing allowing it to sell surplus spare parts for the Boeing fleet worldwide. Boeing will continue to sell its own spare parts primarily through the Internet. The deal covers components which are no longer used in aircraft production. Volvo Aero, through ...
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Heathrow depot almost at full capacity
AlliedSignal's parts customers in Europe, Africa and the Middle East should be experiencing a considerably enhanced service, as the company's newly-opened distribution centre - near London's Heathrow airport - is now close to operating at full capacity. Many customers, such as KLM in Amsterdam, are already benefiting from a ...
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Boeing identifies a need for intermediate twin-aisle aircraft
Tony Stephenson Over the next 20 years more than $1.38 trillion will be invested in new commercial aircraft, according to Boeing's Current Market Outlook report, launched at Le Bourget yesterday. Of that, more than $570 billion will be spent on intermediate twin-aisle aircraft such as the 767 and ...
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Rolls-Royce clocks $88m orders for jets
Geoff Thomas Rolls-Royce announced at Le Bourget yesterday that it has won new business worth up to $88 million for its AE 3007 engines to power Embraer ERJ-145 regional jets. Italian regional operator Alitalia Express has ordered six aircraft with options for an additional 10, with deliveries due ...
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IAE confirms $600m in orders from leasing firms
Geoff Thomas International Aero Engines (IAE) announced yesterday at Le Bourget that it had new, firm orders worth $600 million for its V2500 family of engines. The orders are from three international leasing companies which will use the engines to power aircraft from Airbus Industrie's A320 family. ...