All MRO articles – Page 527
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AMR searches for a buyer for its fixed-base operations chain
American Airlines' parent company AMR has put its AMR Combs fixed-base operation (FBO) network up for sale along with its AMR Services and TeleService Resources units. The company says it wants to focus on its core airline and Sabre computer reservations businesses. AMR acquired the Combs Gates network of ...
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MTU/Snecma sign Asia deals
MTU and Snecma Services have signed separate initial agreements with China Southern Airlines and China Southwest Airlines respectively, to establish engine overhaul and maintenance joint ventures in Asia. Under a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between MTU of Germany and Guangzhou-based China Southern, a feasibility study is to be conducted ...
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EVA pursues options to fill business void
Brent Hannon/TAIPEI EVA Airways has been talking to oneworld and the Star Alliance and hopes to join one of the alliances as soon as it decides which is most suitable, says president and vice-chairman Frank Hsu. Meanwhile, the airline is boosting its cargo business to fill the void left ...
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Corrosion detector fishes for faults in the field
Researchers at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and the University of Alaska's Fishery Technology Center are developing ultra-sensitive magnetic field detectors which are already finding applications in the aircraft maintenance business, even though the technology was originally aimed at improving efficiency in the fishing industry. Known as Superconducting Quantum ...
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Garuda system reliability queried
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE A US lawsuit filed against Sundstrand has called into question the reliability and effectiveness of the company's Mk2 ground proximity warning system (GPWS), following the fatal crash of a Garuda Indonesia Airbus A300B4 in Sumatra a year ago. The Chicago-based Nolan Law Group, representing the family ...
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Growing pains
Emma Kelly/LONDONThe in-flight entertainment (IFE) industry is growing up. But it has had to. The IFE industry today is showing the first signs of realism and credibility - much improved characteristics than the over-promises and disappointments that have plagued the industry in recent years. After years of considerable effort, interactive ...
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Bombardier muscles into 90-seat battle
Bombardier expects to launch a 90-seat regional jet in the next 12 months. The plan not only edges the Canadian manufacturer into the territory of Airbus Industrie and Boeing, but also throws down the gauntlet to Fairchild Dornier, which has its own 90-seat jet ambitions. Bombardier admits that its ...
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Bottom line maintenance
The indirect costs of maintaining aircraft and engines need to be attributed in a radical new way to give airlines a clear picture of the real costs involved and support major decisions. Airline maintenance and engineering organisations have struggled, not always with success, to achieve the same kinds of ...
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SELLING the BRAND
Following the lead of supermarkets and chain stores, major airlines are contemplating the offer of financial market products such as insurance policies and loans. So British Airways is going to offer its customers financial services too . . . When the company announced its intention in March, it joined ...
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FAA to extend ageing checks
The US Federal Aviation Administration is to unveil in the next few weeks a new safety initiative covering detailed inspection of wiring and other operating systems for older airliners. The probe, with phased implementation, will cover such systems as aircraft wiring, control systems, hydraulics, pneumatics and pumps. The safety ...
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Delta and Korean Air wrap up assistance deal
Korean Air (KAL) has finalised a $20 million agreement for Delta Air Lines to give assistance with the overhaul of the South Korean flag carrier's flight operations and training. Under the deal, the US carrier will help overhaul KAL's flightdeck operations, cabin services and safety from 1 October. The ...
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Boeing/Flight Safety head for training take-off
Boeing and FlightSafety International (FSI), parent companies of global airline-training joint venture FlightSafety Boeing (FSB) Training International, say phase one of the start-up initiative will be completed in January 1999. The milestone will be marked by the transition of the former FSI training centre at Kunming, China, to FSB ...
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PAL collapse causes new chaos
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE The almost unprecedented demise of Philippine Airlines (PAL) has left the country's domestic carriers scrambling to find additional capacity to fill the void, while creditors and bargain hunters are beating a path to Manila to pick over the bones of the defunct flag carrier. The decision ...
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Maintenance: Europe and the CIS
Andrew Chuter/London and Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC, Data supplied by Air Transport Intelligence After a Farnborough air show at which airliner sales exceeding $20 billion were announced, any talk of recession seems like scaremongering. But the air transport industry is already bracing itself for the next downturn - the ...
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Low cost maintenance
FLS Aerospace has secured its second big low-cost airline maintenance contract this year with a deal to support UK carrier easyJet. In April the London Stansted-based maintenance company won a similar contract with British Airways low-cost carrier Go covering total support, from line maintenance through to heavy maintenance checks. Monarch ...
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Honeywell remains optimistic on satellite system
Honeywell believes that a failure to approve the global positioning system (GPS) for sole means use because of concerns over jamming will not harm the long-term market prospects for its satellite landing system (SLS). The company says improved versions of the SLS, now under development, will overcome problems with ...
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Marketplace
-SilkAir has taken delivery of its first International Aero Engines V2500-A5-powered Airbus A320. The regional division of Singapore Airlines is replacing its Boeing 737-300 fleet with four A320s and four A319s, and holds options on another 10 aircraft. -ING Lease International Equipment Management has sold and delivered an ex-Pan American ...
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Repair merger
American Aircarriers Support, a spare parts supplier, is to acquire Florida-based American Jet Engine Services, an overhaul and repair facility, and Global Air Spares and Atlantic Airmotive, distributors of engines and parts. Source: Flight International
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World operates MD-11 for El
El Al is operating a Boeing MD-11ER on a short- term wet-lease from World Airways alongside its Boeing 747s and 767s. The MD-11 was introduced in June on an aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance lease and is being flown on services from Israel to US cities. El Al is preparing ...
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EF2000 deal firms up first batch order
Eurofighter, Eurojet and the NATO Eurofighter and Tornado Management Agency have signed fixed-price agreements covering production of the first batch of 148 EF2000 fighters and 363 engines. The so-called "Supplement 2" agreements have translated the maximum prices defined in the production contracts signed in January into fixed-price firm orders, ...