Fleets – Page 1002
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Cargo talks stumble on
After a period of fractious relations, the US and Japan may still be able to agree to a limited liberalisation of the air cargo market between the two countries. But events of the past month have dashed US officials' hopes that renegotiating the cargo bilateral would be a relatively easy ...
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FAA hurts its neighbours
The US Federal Aviation Administration's controversial rating of the oversight practices of foreign civil aviation authorities is threatening the existence of Venezuelan carrier Avensa and starting to harm the international expansion plans of Air Jamaica. After an FAA safety audit, Venezuela was categorised as a Category II country ...
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Mesaba setback hits Dornier workforce
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH DORNIER HAS PUT half of its production workforce on short time after losing to Saab Aircraft on the order for 72 turboprop aircraft from US regional carrier Mesaba Airlines. The short working begins on 1 April, and will continue for six months. What ...
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Lining up
BOEING ANNOUNCES a production rate increase and the world is convinced, that the airline recession is over. Why is that so? Because Boeing, is both a bastion and a bellwether of the industry. Boeing has been particularly successful recently with customers seeking a family of aircraft, whether ...
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Boeing plans to step up production during 1997
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES BOEING PLANS to increase production of all models in 1997 in response to the recent surge in orders and strong indications of a continuing recovery in the industry. The increase will take monthly output of all types to 27 aircraft by the ...
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Vietnam to receive delayed A320s
VIETNAM AIRLINES WILL now take delivery of its first new Airbus A320 in early July, after finally reaching agreement with Region Air and leasing underwriters to register the aircraft locally. Region Air of Singapore and Airbus, have been waiting to close the deal, to lease ten A320s since ...
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Catering for tropical needs
Sir - In your editorial "Filling the gap" (Flight International, 10-16 January) you place great emphasis on the ability of Airbus Industrie to "...create a world-bearing product-line, with world-beating technology". While it may be able to create advanced airliners, Airbus appears to have little or no consideration for ...
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Saab scoops large Mesaba order
SAAB AIRCRAFT HAS beaten Daimler-Benz Aerospace to a major order from US regional Mesaba Airlines. The Northwest Airlink carrier is acquiring up to 72 34-seat Saab 340s, in preference to the Dornier 328, to replace its existing fleet of 26 Fairchild Metro IIIs and 25 de Havilland Canada Dash 8-100s. ...
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MDC outlines five-year plan
Guy Norris/LOS ANGFELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS is studying the launch of three new products over the next 18 months, including a stretched MD-95 and two re-winged variants of the MD-11. Douglas Aircraft vice-president and general manager John Feren says that future milestones already include delivery of ...
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Fokker bankrupt
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON ON 15 MARCH Fokker finally admitted defeat in its attempts to stave off bankruptcy, ending 77 years of aircraft manufacturing in the Netherlands when bids from AVIC of China and Samsung of South Korea failed to materialise. The collapse leaves question marks hanging ...
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Russia refuses to back down on 757
RUSSIA HAS REFUSED to back down on its claim for $25 million in excise duty, which, it says, is owed on a Baikalavia-operated Boeing 757, despite intense pressure from the US Government to remove the levy. The 757-200, leased from International Lease Finance, has been impounded by police, ...
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JAL in the year 2000
Japan Airlines is sharpening its act for the new century. Kevin O'Toole/TOKYO JAPAN AIRLINES (JAL) has no intention of seeing out the millennium quietly. Under its latest five-year plan, the group aims to emerge in the year 2000 having captured one-third of Japan's sizeable domestic ...
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CFMI forced into redesign of CFM56-5A/B
Andrew Doyle/LONDON CFM INTERNATIONAL has been forced into a redesign of a turbine rear-frame (TRF) destined for use on all CFM56-5A/B turbofans, after cracks were discovered in the double-annular combustor (DAC) variant, powering Swissair Airbus A320s and A321s. The problem was uncovered, by Swissair engineers ...
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Delta warns Europe of coming low-cost threat
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC EUROPE'S AIR-transport markets will soon face major structural change as the influence of low-cost carriers begins to spread, according to Delta Airlines chairman Ron Allen. Speaking at the US Federal Aviation Administration's Commercial Aviation Forecast conference in Washington on 5 March, Allen ...
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ILFC's latest order spree counts in favour of Airbus
Gunter Endres/LONDONGuy Norris/LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL LEASE Finance (ILFC) is further strengthening its aircraft portfolio with an order for 38 new Airbus aircraft, plus eight options, and 18 Boeing 777-200/-300s, plus two options, estimated to be worth a combined $5.8 billion. This latest transaction with Airbus consists ...
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Air UK Leisure signs for Airbus
AIR UK LEISURE has signed a contract with GE Capital Aviation Services for the lease of three Airbus A320-200s, replacing its Boeing 737-400 fleet from April (Flight International, 14-21 February). Three of the seven Boeing aircraft have already gone to ModiLuft in India, with the remaining four due to ...
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Canadian airlines seek upswing
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON CANADA'S TWO MAIN airlines struggled to deliver their promised profit improvements in 1995, but the heads of Air Canada and Canadian Airlines believe that recovery will come this year as the effects of capacity expansion and cost-cutting show through. Canadian Airlines International saw ...
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Condor the favourite as launch customer for stretched 757
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELESKevin O'Toole/LONDON GERMAN CHARTER airline Condor is expected to sign up as the launch customer for Boeing's proposed 757-300X, the long-anticipated stretched version of the 200-seat twinjet. Boeing and Condor are in negotiations over the terms of the launch, which could come as early as ...
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Battle of the giants is predicted by Boeing
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES BOEING'S GROWING family of large wide-bodies will be in competition with the Airbus A3XX in a market, which could be worth as much as $254 billion over the next 20 years, according to the US manufacturer's latest long-term forecasts. Boeing's 1996 Current ...
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Boeing assists Taiwan with leasing company
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE BOEING IS HELPING Taiwan Aerospace (TAC) with plans to establish a major new international aircraft-leasing company, specialising in placing narrow-body airliners into the Far East market. The US manufacturer is understood to have dispatched consultant and former GPA head James King to Taiwan ...