Fleets – Page 1027

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    China Hainan plans big boost to Metro fleet

    1995-10-25T00:00:00Z

    CHINA HAINAN AIRLINES is to buy an additional 19 Fairchild Metro 23 19-seat regional aircraft to meet increased demand for feeder services in China. The carrier has signed a memorandum of understanding with Fairchild Aircraft. The San Antonio, US-based manufacturer's financial division will help to finance the deal. ...

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    A dying breed

    1995-10-25T00:00:00Z

    VALUJET EFFECTIVELY (and finally) launched the McDonnell Douglas (MDC) MD-95 on 19 October, with an order for 50. The deal will be seen by some as the launch of the last of the old-style regional jets, but its pricing appears to be all too modern. Either way, ValuJet's order will ...

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    Taiwan's domestic airlines jockey for position

    1995-10-25T00:00:00Z

    FORMOSA AIRLINES with 23 aircraft, has the largest fleet of Taiwan's domestic airlines. It has two Saab 340As, six Saab 340Bs, three Fokker 50s, seven Dornier 228s and two Pilatus Britten-Norman BN-2 Islanders. Another Fokker 50 will be delivered in November. Two Fokker 100s will be delivered, one in December ...

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    Deutsche BA negotiates to acquire more Saab 2000s

    1995-10-18T00:00:00Z

    DEUTSCHE BA is negotiating to convert two of its five options for Saab 2000 turboprops into firm orders. The company expects to convert the other three options in 1996. The current talks on the exchange of two smaller Saab 340s for the Saab 2000s are expected to be ...

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    UPS receives first 767 Freighter

    1995-10-18T00:00:00Z

    UNITED PARCEL SERVICE (UPS) TOOK delivery of its first Boeing 767-300 Freighter, powered by General Electric CF6-80C2s, on 12 October. Atlanta-based UPS became the first customer for the 767 Freighter in January 1993 when it placed orders and options for 60. The aircraft is capable of carrying a 60t maximum ...

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    Boeing managers asked to finalise assembly

    1995-10-18T00:00:00Z

    Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES WITH NO END in sight to the strike at Boeing, managers are being drafted in to help complete work on aircraft due for delivery before the industrial action began on 5 October. Some 34,000 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace ...

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    Avro wins more orders for RJs

    1995-10-18T00:00:00Z

    LUFTHANSA CityLine and Turkish Airlines have announced further orders for Avro RJ regional jets, while National Jet Systems has become the first operator of the aircraft in Australia. The CityLine deal involves two RJ85s, in addition to the five aircraft ordered in September. The seven aircraft, five due ...

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    Air China may order Boeing 777 and 747s

    1995-10-18T00:00:00Z

    BOEING HAS high hopes that the forthcoming visit of Chinese President Jiang Zemin to the USA will clear the way for an Air China order for new 747-400 and 777s. Air China is understood to be ready to order ten Boeing 777s and five 747-400s. The 777s are ...

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    Alitalia fails to reach break-even

    1995-10-18T00:00:00Z

    Kevin O'Toole and Allan Winn/LONDON ALITALIA HAS admitted that it will fail to reach the promised break-even point this year, largely because of the industrial action from the pilots' union which has cost the airline L80 billion ($49 million) in cancelled flights. The Italian carrier has ...

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    Repairing the damage

    1995-10-18T00:00:00Z

    Despite having its fleet scattered or destroyed during the Gulf War, Kuwait Airways has resumed successful operations. Alan George/LONDON AS KUWAIT AIRWAYS continues to expand its route network with new services to Chicago, Copenhagen and Malaga, using new Airbus Industrie and Boeing aircraft, it is hard ...

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    Additional ATR 72s

    1995-10-11T00:00:00Z

    British Airways Express franchise operator CityFlyer Express has ordered two additional ATR 72-200s. The first will be delivered in November, and the second in February 1996. The order brings CityFlyer's ATR fleet to four ATR 72s and six ATR 42. Source: Flight International

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    Air India takes wet-lease route to expansion

    1995-10-11T00:00:00Z

    AIR INDIA IS to wet-lease five 200/250-seat aircraft to advance its expansion plans. With effect from December, two long-range Lockheed L1011-500 TriStars and one Airbus A310-300 will be leased from Antigua-based Caribjet, and two more A310-300s from Air Club International, of Montreal, Canada. The new ...

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    Hong Kong and USA agree bilateral treaty

    1995-10-11T00:00:00Z

    Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE HONG KONG AND the USA have finally reached an agreement on a new bilateral air-services treaty, which will extend beyond the colony's 1997 hand-over date to China and promises to open up new routes in Asia and North America. The deal comes at ...

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    Ethiopian Airlines signs understanding for Fokker 50s

    1995-10-11T00:00:00Z

    NATIONAL FLAG carrier Ethiopian Airlines has signed a memorandum of understanding for the acquisition of five Fokker 50 turboprops to replace its two 46-seat ATR 42-300s and some 18-seat de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otters. Delivery of the new aircraft, which will be acquired on a ten-year finance ...

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    Crack causes delay in Trent 777 ETOPS tests

    1995-10-11T00:00:00Z

    THE START OF extended-range twin-operations (ETOPS) testing of the Rolls-Royce Trent-powered Boeing 777 is to be delayed by "two to three weeks", says the engine maker, after a seal crack developed in the low-pressure (LP) turbine. The crack, in the seal arm of the LP1 turbine disc, ...

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    ValuJet goes back to MDC and Boeing as Airbus waits

    1995-10-11T00:00:00Z

    VALUJET HAS re-opened negotiations with McDonnell Douglas (MDC) and Boeing after failing to reach agreement with Airbus over the seemingly imminent sale of up to 25 A319s. The negotiations with Airbus, were expected to be sealed by the beginning of October, but appear to have foundered, primarily ...

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    Ageing-airliner census

    1995-10-04T00:00:00Z

    Compiled by Martin Fendt/Jennifer Pite/LONDON THIS SURVEY SHOWS THAT there has been a growth in the number of aging jet-powered aircraft in service (aged 15 years or older), from 5,204 in 1994 to 5,671 in 1995 - an increase of 467. The figures for turboprops are 2,509 and ...

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    Joining the FANS club

    1995-10-04T00:00:00Z

    Qantas has been proving FANS equipment and refining procedures. Paul Phelan/SYDNEY/LOS ANGELES AIRLINE PLANNERS AND civil-aviation authorities understand the long-term benefits of future-air-navigation-systems (FANS) technology. Early unease among pilot unions over reduced separation standards and other aspects, however, suggests that some line crews may have been kept ...

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    SIA expands 777 options

    1995-10-04T00:00:00Z

    SINGAPORE AIRLINES (SIA) has widened its "Y aircraft" evaluation of the Boeing 777 to include the longer range -200 B-market and -300 stretch variants. The 777 is competing against the Airbus Industrie A330/340 for an SIA order for up to 17 aircraft. A final selection was due ...

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    DASA turns down Eurofighter offer

    1995-10-04T00:00:00Z

    Douglas Barrie/LONDON DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) has rebuffed an UK Government-brokered compromise solution to the highly charged problem of work-share on the four-nation Eurofighter combat-aircraft programme. The UK proposal offered a trade-off on management restructuring in exchange for allowing DASA to maintain a higher level of ...