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Europe: few direct answers
Will Europe's aviation industry be ready for the year 2000? The honest answer is that nobody yet knows. To date, companies have largely been preoccupied with their own internal compliance issues, but the wider debate over how the issue will affect the industry as a whole has only just begun. ...
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Latin America: slow start
Latin America earns high marks for recognising the year 2000 problem, but how fast that will turn into results remains uncertain. 'I see no reason why Latin America cannot address the Y2K issue as fast as any other part of the world,' says Thomas Windmuller, who heads the world-wide ...
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Report weakens airport campaign
First, the good news. According to an official report, most of the runways in the US national airport system are in good to excellent condition. The bad news is that this may not be good for the airports. It will not be good news if the report, compiled by ...
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Weighing in
US holding company The Aviation Group of Dallas, Texas, is to acquire General Electrodynamics, the Texas-based manufacturer of scales used for weighing aircraft during maintenance and repair procedures. The holding company will pay $1.6 million for the business, which achieved revenues exceeding $5 million in 1997. The Aviation Group acquired ...
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Managing safely
Australasia hopes to lead by example with its candid approach to safety measures in the cockpit Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Has cockpit resource management (CRM) delivered the safety outcomes projected when the concept was launched in the early 1980s? Not universally, admit specialists such as Robert Helmreich, Ashleigh Merit and John ...
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Commander offers trade-up scheme
Commander Aircraft has introduced a factory-direct trade-up programme. The company hopes this will boost sales of new and used Commander 114B/TC piston singles by making it easier for owners of Beech, Cessna, Mooney and Piper piston singles to trade-in their aircraft. "We offer prospective customers a fair market value for ...
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Libya holds talks with BAe over aviation update
Carol Reed/LONDON A potential multi-billion-dollar business deal involving reconstruction of Libya's aviation infrastructure is being put on the table by the state's leader, Col Muammer Gadaffi, as a bargaining chip for Western states to lift their close to a decade-long sanctions against the North African country. British Aerospace ...
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IAI seeks to wrap up FedEx deal with further Airtruck investors
Israel Aircraft Industries' (IAI) Airtruck specialised cargo aircraft has been selected in principle by FedEx to meet its requirement for a Fokker F27 replace- ment. The Israeli company is struggling to meet FedEx's price demands, however, and is seeking additional customers, partners and investors to enable the programme to be ...
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Air Jamaica plan for all-Airbus fleet hit by shortage of aircraft
Graham Warwick/Washington DC Air Jamaica wants to move to an all-Airbus fleet "as soon as possible", to cut costs, but is being stymied by a lack of available aircraft. The Jamaican flag carrier is looking for at least four A320s and one A340, says chief executive Christopher Zacca. ...
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Pratt & Whitney will appeal against Chromalloy ruling
Pratt & Whitney says it will appeal against a US court ruling that clears the way for engine repair supplier Chromalloy Gas Turbine to provide airlines with P&W-approved repairs of components of PW2000, PW4000 and International Aero Engines V2500 turbofans. "We don't agree with the judgement and we will ...
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Delta speeds up 727 retirement
Delta Air Lines is accelerating the retirement of its Boeing 727-200s. The last of the tri-jets are set to leave the fleet in 2005, some three years earlier than previously planned, . The 117 727-200Advs in the mainline fleet and the 14 similar aircraft allocated to Delta Shuttle operations ...
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Orenda gets OE-600A approval
Orenda Recip has received Canadian approval to begin production of its 450kW (600hp) OE-600A vee-8 piston aero engine. Certification of the first re-engineing programme using the powerplant is expected before year-end, with others pending. The Canadian company plans to produce engines at a new plant set to open at ...
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Workshop
-HeavyLift Engineering has been contracted by Sabre Airlines to provide "full technical support" for the airline's new Boeing 737-800. The first aircraft entered entered service with the airline recently. -Sabreliner's Goodyear Arizona-based subsidiary Dimension Aviation, which recently had its contract to convert McDonnell Douglas DC-10s and MD-11s to freighters terminated ...
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Japan stalls on trainer choice
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Japan's impending selection of a new basic trainer aircraft is now scheduled for the end of August, as the Government once again hesitates to grasp the politically contentious issue of choosing between a cheaper off-the-shelf foreign contender or continuing its traditional policy of supporting the domestic aerospace ...
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IAI negotiates to set up Moscow maintenance centre
Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) is in negotiations with Russian airline Transaero to set up a maintenance centre at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport. The Bedek division of IAI has been maintaining Transaero's fleet of Boeing 757s and McDonnell Douglas DC-10s since 1993, with Bedek technicians performing line maintenance in Moscow. Heavy ...
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El Al attempts to block plans to open Israeli freight market
Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV El Al is trying to foil an Israeli Government plan to open up the country's air cargo market to another local carrier, claiming that the move would threaten its revenue as it prepares for privatisation. El Al is the only Israeli airline with a licence ...
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Aviation Sales agrees to purchase
Growing US spares group Aviation Sales (AVS) has emerged as the buyer of Triad International Maintenance (TIMCO), in a move which adds widebody work to its expanding aircraft maintenance portfolio. AVS will pay $70 million for TIMCO, which was put up for sale by its parent, Primark group, which ...
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KAL asks for 747-400 deferrals
Paul Lewis/SEOUL Korean Air (KAL) is asking Boeing to defer delivery of three 747-400s in 1999 in return for maintaining next year's acceptance schedule for three 777s. Fellow cash-strapped South Korean carrier Asiana Airlines has also opened negotiations with the US manufacturer for the return of a $140 million deposit ...
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Daewoo fuels civil expansion with 747-400 frame delivery
Paul Lewis/CHANGWON Daewoo Heavy Industries (DHI) has begun deliveries to Northrop Grumman of the first computer-designed fuselage frames for the Boeing 747-400, as part of wider expansion by the South Korean company of its civil aerostructures subcontracting business. Under a new contract signed with Boeing and Northrop Grumman ...
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Parc to float
PARC group, the Irish aviation recruitment consultancy, is to seek a listing on the London and Dublin stock exchanges to raise cash for its expansion. PARC, separated from Aer Lingus in a management buy-out three years ago, has grown rapidly, including a series of acquisitions. Annual sales are now running ...