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GECAS set to seal $8 billion order
Guy Norris/LOSANGELES ONE OF THE LARGEST commercial-aircraft orders ever placed is expected to be announced within the next few weeks by GE Capital Services (GECAS), the leasing arm of US engineering conglomerate General Electric. The deal is widely expected to include orders and options for ...
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The fight goes on
Airliner markets are on the mend, but the fight for orders remains as fierce as ever. Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE AIRLINER MARKET is finally on the upturn. While 1995 may not have been a vintage year for the big-three jet-aircraft manufacturers, the tally of new orders was respectable ...
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Business Express will return RJ70s
Andrew Doyle/LONDON US REGIONAL OPERATOR Business Express is to hand back all three of its Avro International Aerospace RJ70s to the leasing company, casting doubts over the future of its remaining nine firm orders and eight options for the type. The first of the three ...
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Filling the gap
THE 1995 BUSINESS FIGURES for the airliner manufacturers tell many stories. Boeing regained market leadership with an outstanding year, selling 346 aircraft worth some $31.2 billion. Airbus Industrie, which outsold Boeing in 1994, dropped back into second place in 1995, but delivered more aircraft than ever, giving it record revenues. ...
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Boeing beats rivals to Malaysian deal
Andrew Chuter/LONDON BOEING HAS made a clean sweep of a $4 billion Malaysian Airlines (MAS) order for long-range, high-capacity, aircraft, beating Airbus and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) to a deal, which could eventually cover 65 aircraft. MAS was expected to announce on 9 January an order ...
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Airlines turn to ultrasonic/ eddy-current wheel testing
METOPTIC International is marketing what it claims to be the world's first system for testing aircraft wheels, which combines the use of eddy currents and ultrasonics. Eddy-current inspection systems are used to detect surface faults on the outer surface of a wheel hub, while more sophisticated ultrasonic ...
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Qantas leases Dash 8 simulator from CAE
QANTAS HAS SIGNED a ten-year lease with CAE for a de Havilland Canada Dash 8 simulator. The simulator will be housed at the Qantas jet base in Sydney. Three Qantas-owned regional airlines (Southern Australia, Sunstate and Eastern Australia), along with National Jet Systems, will be among the users, ...
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Airborne chooses 767 freighter
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA US CARGO CARRIER Airborne Express has agreed to acquire 12 used Boeing 767-200s for conversion to freighters, and plans to acquire between ten and 15 additional aircraft for a total investment of $600 million over eight years. The 767s will be the first wide-body aircraft operated ...
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China starts investing in its infrastructure
CHINA'S AIRLINES are beginning to make substantial investments in infrastructure to match their rapidly growing fleets. China Southern Airlines has awarded AMR's Sabre Decision Technologies (SDT) a contract to develop an operations control centre, while China Eastern has ordered Airbus A300-600R training equipment from Thomson Training & Simulation. ...
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Boeing re-asserts its lead in recovering airliner market
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON BOEING RE-ASSERTED its dominance of world airliner markets in 1995, revealing a total of 346 new orders for the year, more than treble the result of either Airbus or McDonnell Douglas (MDC). Ron Woodard, president of Boeing's Commercial Airplane Group, is upbeat about ...
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US airlines 'will make $2 billion'
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC US SCHEDULED airlines are expected to report net profits of $2 billion for 1995, says the US Air Transport Association (ATA) in its year-end report. The ATA says that long-haul carriers earned $2.2 billion in the first nine months of the year, ...
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Airbus pressured to speed up A3XX studies
Julian Moxon/PARIS A STRING OF major airline orders involving the Boeing 747/777 combination is increasing pressure on Airbus Industrie to "accelerate its studies" into a rival programme known as the A3XX. "We can't leave the 747 to dominate the market," says an Airbus source, "so ...
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SIA orders ATEC test system for use on 777s and A340s
Julian Moxon/TOULOUSE AEROSPATIALE HAS sold one of its ATEC Series 6 automated test systems to Singapore Airlines (SIA) for use on the carrier's Boeing 777s and Airbus A340s. The French company says that it expects the airline to order more "...once its 777 budget is in place". ...
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CAL places 737-800 order
CHINA AIRLINES (CAL) of Taiwan, after considerable delay, has finally placed an order for six Boeing 737-800s, plus nine options, to meet its requirement for a new 150-seat passenger airliner. The aircraft will replace CAL's three early-build 737-200s and two wet-leased Airbus A320s due to be returned by ...
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Boeing optimistic about GE-powered 777s
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA BOEING delivered three General Electric GE90-powered 777s by the end of 1995, after GE's proposed increase of the fan-blade-tip clearances had been approved by the US Federal Aviation Administration (Flight International, 20 December, 1995-2 January, P4). Efforts continued to determine the cause of an engine ...
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DASA stands by ailing Fokker
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) has confirmed it will continue to fund Fokker into the new year, in a move to counter growing fears that the manufacturer would be left to fend for itself unless a funding agreement was agreed with the Dutch Government before the year-end. ...
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Air Jamaica Airbus
Jamaica's privatised flag carrier Air Jamaica has placed an order with Airbus for four CFM56-5B-4-powered A320s, to be delivered from October. The contract represents the final phase of the airline's strategy to renew its fleet with Airbus aircraft. Last October, Air Jamaica received the first of six leased A310-300s. The ...
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ANA orders powerplants for its A321s and 777s
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE ALL NIPPON AIRWAYS (ANA) has announced $400 million worth of orders for V2500 and growth PW4090 engines to power its new fleet of Airbus A321-100s and Boeing 777-300s. The Japanese carrier has selected the International Aero Engines 135kN (30,000lb)-thrust V2530-A5 for its A321s. ...
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Avianova flies Fokker 70
ALITALIA subsidiary Avianova put the first of its new Fokker 70 regional jets into service on 20 December, between Turin and Paris. The Rome-based airline has now taken delivery of the first three of its 15 ordered aircraft, with seven more to come in the third quarter, and the remaining ...
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Airbus boost
Airbus Industrie waited until the last few days of December to land its first major order of 1995, announcing a deal with Philippine Airlines for 24 aircraft. Boeing was also included, with eight 747-400s included in the order. The Airbus share of the $3 billion deal includes four A340-300s, eight ...