All Fleets articles – Page 967
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Kelowna sells stretched Convair 5800s to IFL
Kelowna Flightcraft has sold its two stretched, re-engined Convair 5800 freighters to US cargo operator IFL Group. The first aircraft is already in service with Pontiac, Michigan-based IFL's Contract Air Cargo. The second is being repainted at Flightcraft's Kelowna, British Columbia, plant ready for delivery. The Canadian company ...
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Mesaba to double RJ85 fleet
Mesaba Airlines, a US regional feeder for Northwest Airlines, is to double its fleet of Avro RJ85 regional jets in a move that is bound to anger Northwest pilots who are already in bitter contract negotiations. The Northwest Airlink affiliate agreed to amend its regional jet agreement to increase ...
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Air Wisconsin adds to fleet with CRJs
Air Wisconsin has placed a firm order for four 50-seat Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets (CRJs), worth $84 million. The US regional will fly the aircraft under the United Express banner from Denver, Colorado, from the first quarter of 1999. Air Wisconsin says that the CRJ allows service to ...
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Aer Lingus is to lose Team
With the disposal of an unprofitable non-core subsidiary finally on the horizon, Aer Lingus now has to confront the bigger questions of ownership and alliances. At presstime the management of the Irish flag carrier had still not convinced the 1,550 strong workforce of its unprofitable aircraft maintenance arm, Team, ...
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ARIA fumes over tax delays
Aeroflot-Russian International Airlines (ARIA) has hit out at the Moscow Government for delaying signature of a decree exempting the airline from paying taxes on imported aircraft. Speaking during the delivery of ARIA's first Boeing 777, director-general Valeri Okulov (son in law of Russian president Boris Yeltsin) criticised the Government, saying: ...
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Pilatus Britten Norman for sale
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON Pilatus Britten Norman (PBN), the UK-based utility aircraft manufacturer, has been put up for sale by its parent company Pilatus Aircraft.The sale is believed to be part of wider rationalisation by Pilatus holding company Oerlikon-Buhrle. Although PBN, which produces the utility piston and turbine powered BN-2 Islander and ...
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Race for the bronze
Aircraft lessors are jockeying for position as Asian airlines start to think more seriously about operating leases. No-one is challenging the two giants. International Lease Finance Corp and General Electric Capital Aviation Services remain the top aircraft operating lessors. But a three-way race is on to see who will ...
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Taiwan curbs CAL growth
Taiwan's decision to ban new aircraft orders by China Airlines is viewed by industry insiders as designed more for public consumption than any real advance in air safety. Citing the fatal February crash of a CAL jet at Taipei's international airport, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications has temporarily ...
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Chinese join global pack
Chinese flag carrier Air China has become the first Chinese airline to enter fully into an international alliance, but its decision is likely to trigger similar alliance moves from other Chinese carriers. Air China is set to join a strategic alliance with Northwest Airlines and its partners Continental Airlines, ...
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A first class idea
While the rest of the airline industry promotes the idea of no-frills, virtually fat-free flying, Midwest Express is pampering its passengers with premium service. Meanwhile, in France Fairlines hopes to emulate this success. A handful of peanuts and a dribble of Coca-Cola never satisfied anyone, least of all an airline ...
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Are you IT- compatible?
Anybody who has not realised that strategic alliances between airlines are the future of the industry must have been asleep for the last few years. But as the major alliance groups seek to implement the close ties their strategists have planned, they are becoming acutely aware of a painful reality: ...
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Courting trouble
By the time that the European courts actually got round to ruling on the Air France state aid issue, it is a fair bet that few people remembered that the case was still pending. It is, after all, four years since the European Commission waved through approval for the French ...
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Israel seeks a maintenance deal with Jordan
The Israeli Civil Aviation Authority has offered to sign a deal with its counterpart in Jordan, allowing Israeli airlines to undertake aircraft maintenance in Jordanian facilities. Israeli CAA director-general Avner Yarkoni has written to his Jordanian counterpart, Capt Yaser Zawad, offering to sign an agreement which will allow the ...
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Emirates turns down Star for its own global network plans
Doug Cameron/Dubai Emirates has turned down an offer to join the Star Alliance, the Dubai-based flag carrier opting instead to develop its own global network following an order for up to 12 ultra long haul aircraft. A decision between the Airbus Industrie A340-500 and Boeing 777-200X - for six firm ...
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Gill sets up Fokker 100s for Air France franchise
Gill Airways is close to completing a deal to take Fokker 100s to enable it to expand its franchise operations for Air France in 1999. The airline is looking to acquire either Fokker 100s or British Aerospace 146/Avro RJs, but says it has a clear preference for the Dutch twinjet. ...
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CAG secures its first order for Y-12 Twin Panda
Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing will deliver its first Y-12(IV) Twin Panda turboprop airframe to the Canadian Aerospace Group (CAG) in August for final completion and supplementary type certification, before delivery to a US customer in March 1999. CAG says it has secured the first order for two Y-12s from an ...
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Asian crisis will cost 150 orders in next five years, says Boeing
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON The still unfolding economic crisis in Asia has had a big impact on Boeing's latest long-term aircraft forecasts, with predictions that the regional downturn will cost 150 aircraft orders over the next five years. Prospects for the launch of a high-capacity aircraft above the 747-400 have ...
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Iberia Airbus order
Iberia has firmed up an order for 31 Airbus A320s and 19 A321s, all powered by CFM56s, with options for 26 A320 family aircraft. Deliveries will begin in the second quarter of 1999 and will be completed by 2004, replacing ageing DC-9s and 727s. Source: Flight International
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PAL to slash aircraft fleet
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Philippine Airlines (PAL) is to offload 74% of its aircraft, including 15 new Airbus A330/ 340s, and will dump 68% of its international and domestic services in a bid to keep its finances afloat. Under a dramatic restructuring plan presented to the Philippine Securities and Exchange ...