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China Airlines has started an IBM-based online booking system for internet reservations. IBM Global Services Australia is taking over the management and control of Cathay Pacific's data centrein Sydney. Unisys has supplied Cathay Pacific with the electronic ticketing system Unisys Aircare. Servisair has won a contract to provide ...
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GE joins forces with Eva in overhaul operation
General Electric (GE) has announced a joint venture with Taiwan's second-largest carrier, Eva Airways, to form an engine overhaul and aircraft maintenance joint venture, to be named Evergreen Aviation Technologies (EAT). The Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) was signed in Taipei on 24 February. Eva will hold an 80% share ...
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Derco names new top management
Derco Aerospace has appointed a new chairman and new president as part of its organisational restructuring. Eric Dermond is the new chairman and chief executive officer, while Max Dermond has been named president and chief operating officer. Eric Dermond will focus his attention on issues such as acquisition ...
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Overhaul specialist expands with international contracts
Alitalia Technical Operations division has secured contracts to overhaul two Continental Airlines DC-10s at its Rome maintenance centre and is optimistic that it will win a longer term commitment from the US carrier. One contract is for a C-check, the other a D-check. Winning a more substantial contract would satisfy ...
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CFM focuses on loyalty to beat the opposition
"When the customers are happy with you, then they come back to you." That's an observation by Gerard Laviec, CFM International's president and chief executive officer. CFM's overwhelmingly strong position in the narrowbody market seems to bear that out, but what Laviec now has to concentrate on is maintaining that ...
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Swearingen's Asia target
Why opt for secondhand when you can have a brand new executive jet for just $3.5 million With 103 firm orders - 60 per cent from the USA and 40 per cent from Europe - in its slipstream so far, Sino Swearingen is hoping its SJ30-2 will capture the ...
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ANA to set up own APU servicing centre
All Nippon Airways (ANA) has struck a deal with Sundstrand to set up its own aircraft auxiliary power unit (APU) maintenance and repair unit at its main plant at Haneda, Tokyo. This is the first time an airline company has set up its own APU servicing centre. ANA ...
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Face the Facts with... Edmond Marchegay
Edmond Marchegay wears three hats: President of Intertechnique, president of the French equipment industry and commissaire general of the French industry group here at Asian Aerospace '98. He talked to Mike Martin about the revolution which has swept through the French aerospace equipment sector, the market situation in Asia-Pacific and ...
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New team sharpens CASA business focus
Sarah Lazenby Spanish aircraft manufacturer CASA has restructured its top team for a sharper focus on future business growth and investment. The re-organisation, announced yesterday at Asian Aerospace '98, comes seven months after Alberto Fernandez was appointed chairman and chief executive. Pedro Mendez will now head the space division, with ...
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Airfoil repair centre opens in Singapore
Sarah Lazenby A S$36 million ($22 million) jet-engine airfoil repair centre has opened in Singapore to target the Asian market. The centre, owned by Airfoil Technologies International (ATI), is expected to refurbish more than a million compressor airfoils a year and hopes to gain a large slice of the repair ...
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Global 'extranet' spreads technological advances
Mark Hannant The space race not only put a man on the moon, it also famously gave the world Teflon and the non-stick frying pan, perhaps the greatest example of everyday benefits from aerospace technology. The industry has always been a leader and possibly no more so than in the ...
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Partners forecast strong demand for EC120B Colibri
Geoff Thomas Now celebrating its first century of sales, the Eurocopter EC120B Colibri helicopter is making its formal debut at the show. The single-engine EC120B is a new generation 1.5-tonne aircraft with 4/5 seats and it was designed from the outset with performance, safety, comfort and affordability in mind. Partners ...
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Face the Facts with... Walt McConnell
Fourteen months ago, Walt McConnell was appointed vice-president and general manager of Honeywell's Air Transport Systems division, based in Phoenix, Arizona. McConnell tells Karen Walker that so far, it is going "just famously". Q:How is business at Honeywell going? A:Business is very strong at the moment due to the ...
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University of NSW offers maintenance degree
With an ever-growing number of airliners flying around the globe, aircraft maintenance skills are increasingly in demand, and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia (Stand C132) is marketing its wide variety of courses in the field at Asian Aerospace. In conjunction with the Southern Sydney Institute, ...
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FLS makes move for Danish expansion
FLS Aerospace is expanding into Continental Europe with the setting up of a maintenance base in Denmark. The company is believed to be about to announce a deal to set up an operation at a site previously occupied by Pemco World Air Services at Copenhagen Airport which went out ...
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UPS closes on widebody freighter selection
UPS is expecting to finalise its choice of widebody aircraft to replace its fleet of Douglas DC-8-70 freighters by the end of March, to enable the first to enter service in 1999. The Louisville, Kentucky-based freight carrier revealed in October 1997 that it was examining various aircraft to replace a ...
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SIA/R-R centre gets go-ahead
The new Singapore Airlines (SIA)/Rolls-Royce engine maintenance joint venture is to open for business in March, following certification by the European Joint Airworthiness Authorities and local authorities. International Engine Component Overhaul's (IECO) newly completed $15.7 million facility based in Singapore has been designed primarily to support R-R's family of ...
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Lufthansa confirms low cost short haul carrier concept
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH A Lufthansa study has confirmed the feasibility of forming a new low cost, short haul airline in the Lufthansa group, says the German carrier. The concept, known informally as "Lufthansa Light", envisages an autonomous carrier serving short haul second city pairs in Germany and other parts ...
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UK CAA will not revise requirements
The UK CAA will not revise requirements governing the location of key electronic equipment in airliners after completing a review in response to recommendations made by the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB). The AAIB recommendations followed its investigation into an incident involving a British Airways Boeing 737 which experienced ...
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Boeing maintenance
Boeing is to establish a maintenance base at Kelly AFB in San Antonio, Texas, which is scheduled to be closed in 2001. The centre is to open in 18 months. New Piper Aircraft has sold 16 Archer III piston singles to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Institute of Aviation ...