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Rolls-Royce completes Trent 8104 design and waits for 777-X
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Rolls-Royce is expected to complete design work on the 454kN (102,000lb)-thrust Trent 8104 by the start of June and is still "on track" to run the first engine in December, despite the slowdown of the Boeing 777-200X/300X derivative programme for which the powerplant is being developed. ...
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FAA decides to extend wiring checks to non-Boeing types
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The USA's major airlines have agreed to check fuel tank wiring in a controlled sample of Lockheed and McDonnell Douglas aircraft to determine whether they need mandatory inspections like those recently ordered for older Boeing airliners. The high-time passenger aircraft which the US Federal ...
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Fairchild Dornier outlines financing plans for 728JET
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Fairchild Dornier says "up to $350 million" of the $850 million required to develop its 728Jet 70-seat regional jet "-is already on the table" from potential risk sharing partners and equipment suppliers. President Jim Robinson says risk-sharing suppliers of the wing, fuselage and empennage would ...
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Air France pilots unions use the World Cup as a political football
Julian Moxon/PARIS French pilots' unions are using football's World Cup contest to threaten a series of strikes against Air France, the official carrier for the event. Recent meetings with president Jean-Cyril Spinetta have failed to resolve the management demand for salary cuts of up to 15% in exchange for a ...
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Boeing defines 747-400X
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Paul Lewis/SEATTLE Almost 18 months after cancelling the 747-500X/ 600X programmes, Boeing has finally settled on a firm design configuration for the next version of the 747-400, which could be in service in less than three years. The long awaited move increases the maximum take-off ...
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Airbus firms up second engine option for high-capacity A3XX
A second engine option is now officially available from Airbus Industrie on its planned A3XX high capacity airliner, with the firming up of plans to offer the General Electric/Pratt & Whitney Engine Alliance joint venture GP7000 on the aircraft. Airbus signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Engine ...
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Dragonair forced to rethink expansion
Hong Kong's Dragonair is deferring delivery of its last of nine new Airbus A320 family aircraft and has shelved the planned launch of new services to Japan and South Korea because of the Asian economic downturn. The airline is undertaking a fleet roll-over with International Lease Finance (ILFC), with ...
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American switches to Raisbeck for Stage 3 727 solution
American Airlines has decided against hushkitting its Boeing 727-200s and will instead switch to an aerodynamic modification developed by Raisbeck, which will enable the aircraft to meet Stage 3 noise limits. Jeffrey Lown, vice-president for the Raisbeck Commercial Air Group's Stage 3 system, says the company persuaded American away ...
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Aircraft News
United Airlines has ordered 16 Boeing 777-200s, one 747-400 and six 767-300s. Deliveries are scheduled to commence in the first quarter of 1999 through 2002. KLM has ordered four 737-800s for delivery in 2000. Federal Express has confirmed an order for three MD-11 freighters, the first of which will ...
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Boeing feels the pressure
Karen Walker With Boeing's troubles piling up, Airbus threats to become market share leader are no longer the war cries of the underdog. This year, Airbus is likely to take at least 50 per cent of the world market. As Boeing announces another depressing set of results - first ...
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How does your airline grow?
Tom Barkin and Todd Morgan With most airlines failing to deliver satisfactory shareholder returns over the full business cycle, it is essential to look beyond the core business for profitable growth. But seeking out and exploiting the best opportunities is not easy. Airlines need to combine their unique capabilities or ...
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Ryanair passes go in Europe
Tom Gill With soaring profits, share price and traffic, Europe's largest and longest established low-cost airline may yet achieve its ambition to be the Southwest of Europe. But as it strives to continue its profitable growth path Ryanair can expect to cross swords with the new British Airways ...
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SAA moves key players
Roger Makings Transnet's board of directors decided to oust Zukile Nomvete from his position as executive director of South African Airways on 8 May, following the airline's dismal performance during his two-year stewardship. Sources within SAA predict that Mafika Mkwanazi, deputy managing director of SAA's parent company, Transnet, will ...
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Boeing breaks 4,000 sales mark for 737s
Sales of the Boeing 737 have passed through the 4,000 mark as a result of top-up deals from various Next Generation 737 customers. American Airlines has concluded a deal for 25 more 737-800s, bringing its total 737 orders to 100. The newly ordered aircraft will arrive between January 2000 ...
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Canada 3000 loses business to Royal
Canada 3000, the Toronto-based charter airline, has lost the business of major customer Signature Vacations, which will switch to rival Royal Aviation this year. Signature, the Toronto-based subsidiary of UK tour operator First Choice (Air 2000's parent), has been a major customer for Canada 3000 since the carrier was launched ...
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Boeing warns on China hopes
Paul Lewis/BEIJING Boeing is sounding a warning that earlier expectations of a large new order for aircraft from China in June could be affected by a marked slowdown in local airline traffic growth and the knock-on effects from Asia's wider economic difficulties. The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) ...
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Lufthansa eyes 747-400 freighter
Shahe Ouzounian/FRANKFURT Lufthansa Cargo says it will need to replace its fleet of Boeing 747-200Fs early in the next decade, with the 747-400 freighter the prime candidate, even though the German operator considers the aircraft "too expensive". Wilhelm Althen, chairman of the executive board, says that its fleet ...
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Marketplace
-Augsburg Airways has placed orders for six additional Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8s, including two series 200s and four larger series 300s, and taken options on a further seven aircraft. The order represents the ratification and expansion of a deal originally reached in November 1997 for three aircraft. The options ...
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CAL orders frozen
China Airlines (CAL) has been ordered by Taiwan's transport ministry not to order any new aircraft until it has improved its operations and safety standards. This move is the Taiwan Government's latest to force the carrier to upgrade its safety standards. CAL has suffered two major widebody accidents since April ...
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P&W corrects PW4098 cracks and confirms 777-300 delay
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Paul Lewis/SEATTLE Pratt & Whitney estimates that corrections to cure cracked compressor stators in the PW4098 discovered in April will push deliveries of the first heavyweight Boeing 777-300 to Korean Air (KAL) back by almost three months, to December. "It's a cast part, and we've ...