Fleets – Page 957
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Eastern rising
EVA Airways of Taiwan has achieved formidable progress in six years Brent Hannon/TAIPEI EVA Airways, launched with little fanfare in mid-1991, today boasts a fleet of 30, a route network which extends to London, New York and Panama City, and a balance sheet which shows ...
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Airbus and Boeing benefit as ILFC orders new aircraft
International Lease Finance (ILFC) has placed orders for 126 new aircraft, shared almost equally between the Airbus Industrie consortium and Boeing. The orders from the world's largest aircraft-leasing company are for 61 Boeings, worth $4.5 billion, and 65 Airbuses, worth around $3.9 billion. ILFC has 112 airline customers ...
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Keeping promises
Emma Kelly/London The in-flight-entertainment (IFE) industry has undergone a radical change this year, with the leading hardware providers finally conceding that they are guilty of over-promising and under-delivering to their airline customers. After years of trying to meet airline requests for ever-more ambitious IFE applications, the makers have ...
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Asiana gains widebody approval
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Asiana Airlines has finally been given government approval to order its first tranche of 14 new Airbus and Boeing widebody aircraft, following commitments from the manufacturers to meet last-minute South Korean demands for offset work. Tentative agreement on the question of industrial concessions has ...
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Azerbaijani airlines look West to help expansion
Andrew Chuter/BAKU Azerbaijan's two largest airlines are looking to acquire Western aircraft so that they can expand their international and regional routes. The buying plans of Azerbaijan Airlines (Azal), and its privately owned rival Imair, are aimed at taking advantage of the influx of foreign investment, primarily to ...
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Dasa's Airbus conversion orderbook expands
Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) Airbus will subcontract six Airbus A300B4 cargo conversions to its French partner Sogerma in 1998, as its orderbook swells and it seeks additional conversion capacity. The company expects its A300B4 conversion to be certificated by mid-September. It has recently taken orders and commitments for a ...
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SAS postpones decision on replacements for 767 fleet
The decision by SAS on a possible replacement for its long-haul fleet of 14 Boeing 767s is now not expected until 1998. A final decision could run into 1999 as the airline looks hard at the cost justification for the investment. The Scandinavian airline expects to take 15-20 ...
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Prime suspect
Boeing says that it may be late delivering some aircraft this year, because neither it nor its suppliers can keep up with its delivery schedule. Rolls-Royce says that its results are not as good as they should have been because it is working too much overtime and because its suppliers ...
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Boeing fights to stay on schedule
Guy Norris/LOSANGELES Boeing is temporarily transferring "several hundred" assembly workers from the 767 line to the adjacent 747 line as part of an effort to stave off impending delivery delays, which may result in the late handover of at least one of each model this year. ...
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easyJet considers new 737 and A320 in fleet-expansion plans
easyJet has expanded its plans for the acquisition of new Boeing 737s, and is now considering the Next Generation -700, as well as an offer of A320s from Airbus. The company is in final negotiations and says that a firm order should be placed soon. The Luton, UK-based ...
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SASCommuter confirms selection of 15 Dash-8 400s
SASCOMMUTER confirms that it plans to sign a $350 million deal for 15 Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-400 turboprops, plus 18 options, representing the largest single order to date for the Canadian manufacturer's new high-speed 70-seat aircraft. The Dash 8-400 selection will fill a gap between the mainline ...
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Swissair and Lufthansa study 747 replacements
Airbus could land two more prestige customers for its A340-600 later this year, as Swissair and Lufthansa examine the aircraft to replace their Boeing 747 "Classic" ßeets. Swissair says that it expects to make a decision on the long-term future of its 747-300 ßeet by the year-end. The Ìve aircraft ...
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Global Aircraft puts flexible propeller under test
A flexible self-optimising propeller which combines the advantages of fixed-pitch and constant-speed units is being tested by US firm Global Aircraft of Starkville, Mississippi. Production of the Quasi-Constant-Speed (QCS) propeller, priced at $3,500, is set to start this month, initially aimed at experimental aircraft. Production of units certificated for general-aviation ...
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Aircraft news
United Airlines has ordered eight Boeing 767-300s, with four deliveries in 1998, one in 1999 and three in 2000. Air Canada has ordered five Airbus A330-300s and three A340-300s, plus 20 options, with deliveries starting in October 1999. Brit Air has ordered two Bombardier RJ 100s, ...
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Olympic sees the endgame
The European Commission looks set to authorise Olympic Airways' outstanding state aid and once the funds are in place, the flag carrier plans to implement ambitious restructuring measures. Olympic chief executive Jordan Karatzas is confident that the Commission will shortly unfreeze Olympic's outstanding state aid, amounting to GDr35 ...
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No ticket to ride catching on fast
Electronic ticketing - or ticketless travel - continues to grow in popularity in the US, where the concept was invented, and should become widespread in the international arena in the near future, carrier officials say. First adopted by ValuJet and Morris Air, electronic ticketing was next embraced by Southwest - ...
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PAL sues the home team
It looks like an aeropolitical first. The sudden abandonment of planned open skies talks between Singapore and the Philippines in late July had nothing to do with a dispute between the two nations and all to do with Philippine Airlines initiating legal action against the head its own country's negotiating ...
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State grip on Tunisair slips
It's out with the old and in with the new for Tunisair. The airline's new president is gearing up to take the airline out of state control by renewing the fleet and shedding staff. Since taking over as Tunisair's president and director general in March, Ahmed Smaoui has ...
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US and Japan keep talking
Negotiators are pressing to meet a self-imposed deadline of 30 September for a Japan-US bilateral deal. Both sides know a failure to settle their differences could set off a round of sanctions. At presstime, a second round of talks had been scheduled for the end of August - ...
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Cathay will re-engine entire 747-400 fleet
Hong Kong Aero Engine Services (HAESL) will ship Cathay Pacific Airway's first hybrid Rolls-Royce RB211-524G/H-T engine to Boeing in early September for flight certification, following agreement to modify the airline's entire fleet of 21 747-400s. HAESL is now modifying the first -524G and plans to run the engine ...