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MDC chooses nose manufacturers
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is studying proposals to establish a dual back-to-back capability for the production of MD-90 and MD-95 nose sections in China and South Korea. The plan calls for Korean Air's Aerospace division to share production of the MD-95 nose with Chengdu Aircraft ...
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Mesa plans Texas regional
US REGIONAL carrier Mesa Air Group plans to begin a high frequency, low-fare jet service from Fort Worth's Meacham Airport in Texas on 5 May, 1997. The service, which will be operated as Mesa Airlines, will use 13 of the 16 Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets ordered in August and will ...
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Cathay Pacific boss heads for Ansett Australia
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Cathay Pacific Airways managing director Rod Eddington has been named as the new executive chairman at Ansett Australia, charged with seeing through a major shake-up at the loss-making carrier. The announcement, which comes in the wake of the Air New Zealand (ANZ) acquisition of ...
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ARIA 'still wants to buy Tu-204s'
Aeroflot Russian International Airlines (ARIA) has long-term plans to buy Tupolev Tu-204s, says the carrier's general director Marshal Yergeny Shapsahnikov. The plan was outlined in a public statement designed to diffuse the political row over the airline's recent order for ten Boeing 737-400s (Flight International, 25 September - 1 October). ...
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Firm sale
Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE) has finalised its purchase of eight Airbus Industrie A320s and four A321s (Flight International, 19-25 June, P6). The deal calls for the first delivery in January 1998 and includes options for a further 12 aircraft. SALE is expected to make its engine selection shortly, choosing ...
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Airbus puts on AIRS for human-factor reports
Airbus Industrie is to provide customers, free of charge, with the software and training to record and share information on human-factors (HF)-related incidents with the con- sortium's safety department. To be known as the Aircrew Incident Reporting System (AIRS), it will be the first such manufacturer-provided service. Four ...
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Airbus pushes on with new versions of A340
David Learmount/TOULOUSE Airbus Industrie is to challenge Boeing's 777-300 stretch with an enlarged, rewinged A340 which carries as many passengers and flies further, says the European consortium's A330/ A340 commercial programme manager David Pound. The European consortium is effectively launching the -500 and-600 variants of the ...
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Airbus moves closer to forming AE-100 partnership
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE members and Alenia have reached a broad consensus on the need to establish a new European aerospace joint venture to partner China in the development of the proposed AE-100 regional jet. The planned new Airbus-led consortium is intended to take over Aero International (Regional)'s (AI(R)'s) partnership ...
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South African Airways puts 777 order on hold and considers options
SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS (SAA) says that it has put its Boeing 777 contract on hold and is reviewing the order, which could see it reduced in size or switched to a lease rather than a purchase. SAA placed orders in December 1995 for four 777-200s and one Boeing ...
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Airbus set for A310 boost from VASP
VASP is in final negotiations with Airbus Industrie for a big A310 order, which will represent largest deal for the aircraft in the past four years. The Brazilian carrier is the hitherto undisclosed customer for ten A310-300s during the recent Farnborough Air Show (Flight International, 18-24 September). According ...
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City Bird is ready to take flight
CITY BIRD, the new long-haul holiday airline launched by former EBA boss Victor Hasson, will begin operations between Belgium and the USA next March with two McDonnell Douglas MD-11s. Hasson's City Hotels group holds a 62.5% stake, with the rest being taken up by private investors who were ...
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Options for change
Alaska Airlines' order for 12 Boeing 737-400s, plus 12 options (Flight International, 25 September - 1 October) includes the right to switch the options for the new 737-800. The airline will take delivery of the firmly ordered 737s over three years from mid-1997. The 140-seaters will replace some of the ...
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JAL returns to Thomson Training fold with 767 machine
JAPAN AIRLINES (JAL) has ordered a Boeing 767-300 full-flight simulator from Thomson Training & Simulation (TTS). The Level D machine will be delivered to JAL's Haneda Airport, Tokyo, training centre in late 1997, along with a desktop flight-management-system trainer produced by TTS. The sales, is welcome news for ...
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Myanmar leases A320s in face of US trade-sanctions threat
Myanmar Airways International is to acquire Airbus A320s on lease, in the face of threatened US Government trade sanctions being imposed against Myanmar's Yangon regime. The three-year-old joint venture (with Singapore) carrier is understood to be finalising a five-year operating lease with Airbus Industrie for two International Aero ...
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Lufthansa criticises 747-X design
Andrzej Jeziorski/HAMBURG LUFTHANSA operations chief executive Klaus Nittinger has criticised recent changes in Boeing's design proposals for its 747-500/600X. "The aircraft has changed so drastically [since November] that it has moved far away from what we would like to see," says Nittinger. Lufthansa was enthusiastic about ...
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American edges to regional goal
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA American Airlines and its pilots union have tentatively agreed a complex formula governing the introduction of regional jets by commuter arm AMR Eagle. The agreement foresees the acquisition of up to 218 45- to 70-seat regional jets by 2009, but limits AMR Eagle to a maximum ...
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Air Liberte wins reprieve in effort to stay airborne
Julian Moxon/PARIS AIR LIBERTE has been given six months to implement a survival plan or face bankruptcy. The independent airline is credited with leading the battle to open up the French air market, and was also recently voted the country's most popular carrier The concession was ...
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Condor moment
Lufthansa's Condor charter arm has become the launch customer of the B757-300 stretch with an agreement to take up to 24 of the 252-seat aircraft. The first of 12 firm deliveries start in 1999 and it also holds 12 options. Source: Airline Business
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TAM's distant Lapsa link
Call it ownership once removed. The Brazilian domestic carrier TAM has signed a $40 million management contract to run the Paraguayan flag carrier, Lapsa. But while the deal gives TAM access to international routes it will not co-brand the operation in order to protect its own image. TAM ...
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Land of the giants
Airlines appear unworried by the domination of Gecas and ILFC but manufacturers certainly are. Doug Cameron assesses current developments in the rapidly maturing operating lease sector. You don't need brains in a bull market. Developments in the operating lease sector over the last year bring, for some, uncomfortable echoes of ...