Fleets – Page 899
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Airbus counts cost of short-haul price war with Boeing
Chris Jasper/LONDON Airbus Industrie has made provisions for losses totalling £400 million ($650 million) as a result of the mid-90s price war with Boeing over shorthaul airliner sales, the European manufacturer has revealed. Around £200 million of the charge was absorbed last year, resulting in a loss to the ...
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FAA rules out 737 rudder malfunction crash link
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Recent Boeing 737 rudder malfunctions are not being linked to rudder control unit failures suspected of causing fatal 737 crashes in 1991 and 1994, senior US Federal Aviation Administration officials say (Flight International, 3-9 March, P13). Preliminary rulings refer to a MetroJet Boeing 737-200 incident on ...
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CFMI prepares for massive slowdown in engine orders
Guy Norris/CINCINNATI CFM International is predicting a significant slow-down in new orders for 1999 and 2000 , to levels possibly 50% below last year's intake. At the same time, the General Electric/Snecma joint venture is having to achieve record production levels to meet the demand from massive orders ...
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Gandalf targets Linate traffic with 328JET fleet
Italian new entrant Gandalf Airlines is to launch operations from Bergamo at the end of this month and will take delivery of four Fairchild Dornier 328JETs between September and December. Initial flights will be operated to Munich and Stuttgart in Germany, using two 328 turboprops dry-leased from the manufacturer, ...
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Expanding Jersey to order new aircraft
Jersey European Airways (JEA) has finalised negotiations with Bombardier for its major fleet re-equipment. The UK regional airline's chief executive, Barry Perrott, is expected to announce the order in London on 17 March. The deal, thought to be worth over $250million, is expected to total at least 15 aircraft, ...
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Troubled Olympic may defer 737-800 deliveries as new team arrives
Julian Moxon/PARIS Olympic Airways, struggling with financial and management problems, is considering deferring delivery of eight new Boeing 737-800s for up to a year. The Greek flag carrier, which remains 100% government-owned, says the decision on whether to delay delivery "must await the arrival of a new consulting team ...
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PIA turns to Cathay Pacific for 747-300 lease
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has signed a letter of intent with Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways for the lease of five Boeing 747-300s as interim replacements from mid-April for the carrier's six 747-200Bs. PIA has long been planning a 747-200 replacement programme, examining the Boeing 747-400 and 777 and Airbus ...
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Royal Air Maroc fine-tunes fleet renewal requirements
Emma Kelly/CASABLANCA Royal Air Maroc (RAM) will finalise its long-haul fleet requirements by June. It is close to completing its fleet plans for the next 13 years, but is "fine-tuning" its needs, says chairman and chief executive Mohamed Hassad. The Moroccan flag carrier has decided that its major requirement ...
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Lufthansa eyes new 767 options
Guy Norris/SEATTLE Lufthansa is studying a possible new version of the Boeing 767 being evaluated as a potential spin-off development of the new -400 entering production. The German flag carrier could be interested in a longer-range version of the 767-300ER and an extended-range variant of the -400ER, which ...
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Fairchild and ATR close in on joint venture decision
Jens Flottau/MUNICH Andrew Doyle/BERLIN The chief executives of Fairchild Aerospace and ATR partners Aerospatiale and Alenia are expected to meet on 22 March to discuss joint-venture plans amid signs that the US company may be willing to make major concessions to secure a regional aircraft tie-up. Meanwhile, it ...
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Escape route
Reducing the number of cabin exits to accelerate emergency passenger evacuation sounds like a contradiction in terms. That is, however, what Airbus Industrie is arguing as it tries to persuade European and US regulators to change the certification rules which affect the exit layout for its stretched A340, the -600 ...
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Marketplace
Augsburg Airways has moved on plans to order Bombardier Dash 8Q-400s, with a deal for five aircraft, including two options (Flight International, 17-23 February). Deliveries will take place in mid-2000. Alitalia regional subsidiary Alitalia Express has ordered three ATR 72-500s for delivery between July and December, to replace ...
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Bavaria Leasing eyes 328JETs for Mediterranean services
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Bavaria International Aircraft Leasing is studying the Fairchild Dornier 328JET 33-seat regional jet for operations between southern Germany and Mediterranean destinations, and expects to decide by April. The plan stems from a desire by Bavaria Leasing's 100% shareholder, the Schoerghuber family, to boost premium class flight ...
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Iberia examines 747 replacements
Max Kingsley-Jones/MADRID Iberia is finalising the last element of its fleet renewal programme to enable it to begin phasing out its Boeing 747-200s in three-four years' time. Last year, the Spanish flag carrier signed deals with Airbus Industrie covering orders for up to 76 Airbus A320 family aircraft ...
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KLM completes testing of 747 cockpit upgrade
KLM Engineering & Maintenance and Canadian Marconi have completed flight tests of a Boeing 747 Classic cockpit upgrade, and have achieved supplemental type certification. The upgrade will extend the life of KLM's fleet of 13 747-200/300s beyond 2010. The cockpit upgrade is built around three Canadian Marconi CMA-900 flight management ...
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Lease disposals key to Atlantic's jet buy
Atlantic Coast Airlines' (ACA) search for a new 30-seat class of passenger jet hinges on the disposal of the carrier's large fleet of British Aerospace Jetstream 41 and smaller J32 turboprops. Many are locked in long-term leases from BAe Asset Management Turboprops (AMT). The United Express partner carrier is ...
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Boeing delays 767-400ERX service entry to 2003
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Boeing is pushing back the projected entry into service date of the 767-400ERX to 2003, as American Airlines' interest in the proposed extended range development cools in the face of softening traffic and yields. Initial delivery of the 767-400ERX had tentatively been targeted for March ...
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More Asian woes loom for Boeing
South Korea's Asiana Airlines has confirmed it is in talks with Boeing on possible cancellations of aircraft orders. But the airline adds: "It is too early to say exactly how many we want to take or don't want to take." The Seoul-based carrier has 15 outstanding firm orders for ...
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Marketplace
· FedEx has revised its wet-lease contract with Atlas Air covering the lease of two Boeing 747-400 freighters and one -200F. This has resulted in the latter being returned to Atlas and it is now placed with Ladeco. · Mesa Air Group has sold 16 of its ...
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SEC clears PAL to resume 737 payments
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE The Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved the resumption of payments by debt-ridden Philippine Airlines (PAL) on four leased Boeing 737-300s. Monthly payments of $220,000 for each aircraft will restart to Airplanes Finance, GE Capital Aviation Services and the GPA Group. The go-ahead staves off ...