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Airbus delays a small price to get it right
Mike Martin Airbus Industrie is struggling with the economics of the AE31X project, outgoing chief executive Jean Pierson admitted at Asian Aerospace '98 yesterday. At the other end of the range, Airbus's A3XX 555-seat and up superjumbo could be further delayed if technical challenges to delivering the promised ...
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Australasian airline results suffer as Asian crisis bites
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS A relatively buoyant round of first half financial results from Air New Zealand(ANZ), Ansett Australia and Qantas has been overshadowed by warnings over Asia-Pacific's economic crisis. All three carriers announced plans to redeploy capacity elsewhere on their international networks as Asian markets continue to shrink, raising ...
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Airlines join forces in spare parts venture
Andrew Mollet United Airlines' UAL Services, Air Canada and Lufthansa Technik are to form a joint venture company to buy and sell aircraft materials in the secondary spare parts market. "There is a big need among airlines for high quality spare parts at low prices which can be produced quickly ...
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Putting customers first pays off for AlliedSignal
Karen Walker AlliedSignal executives can point to one product in particular on their Asian Aerospace stand (Stand A712) and see proof that an ongoing campaign of culture change is bearing fruit. That product is the 331-500 auxiliary power unit (APU) which equips the Boeing 777 and was produced in partnership ...
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AlliedSignal signs pact with Yunnan
AlliedSignal has signed a multi-year APU procurement and maintenance service agreement valued at $5 million with China's Yunnan Airlines. Under the agreement, Yunnan will use AlliedSignal's 85-129 series APUs exclusively on its fleet, as well as utilising TAECO, the company's in-China repair and overhaul base, for repair and overhaul. ...
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Pan Am runs short of cash but Frontier hopes for better times
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Financial problems continue to mount for the US low fares airlines, with the new Pan American World Airways warning that it is short on cash and could face bankruptcy. Frontier Airlines also reported big losses in the third quarter, but faces improving prospects with the demise of ...
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BA opens bids
British Airways said it had invited arch aerospace rivals Boeing and Airbus Industrie to bid to replace BA's European aircraft fleet with up to 100 short-haul jets worth up to $3.3 billion. But the airline has challenged the two manufacturers to come up with new ways of financing the deal, ...
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Litton opens office in Beijing
Litton announced yesterday that it has opened Litton Worldwide Services in Beijing to provide customer support in Asia. Based in Tianwei Erjie, Litton Worldwide will assist in the maintenance and repair of the Litton LTN-101 Flagship navigation system on Airbus aircraft. China Southern Airlines and China Sichuan Airlines ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Rockwell Collins enters entertainment business
The name has changed, but the faces are familiar: The former Hughes-Avicom inflight entertainment manufacturer is appearing at an airshow for the first time under its new owner, Rockwell Collins. Since completing its acquisition of Hughes-Avicom in December, Rockwell Collins has already scored a major coup. Huge Ken McNamara, vice-president ...
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Face the Facts with... Colin Green
The recent turmoil in Asia's economies and the fight to eradicate the so-called Millennium Bug were among the topics covered by Colin Green, managing director, Rolls-Royce Aerospace Group, when he talked with Alan Dron. Q:Do you see Asia's current economic problems as a six-month blip, or are its effects likely ...
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FAA calls public meetings on 727 freighter payload limits
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The US Federal Aviation Administration is giving affected cargo carriers a final chance to express their views on four proposed airworthiness directives (ADs) that would severely limit the payloads of Boeing 727 freighters converted by third party maintenance organisations. The FAA has scheduled public meetings ...
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SkyWest buys Brasilias for new United Express services
Skywest Airlines is to buy 20 new Embraer EMB-120 Brasilias after United Airlines awarded the carrier a contract to provide United Express regional services in the US Pacific North-west, replacing WestAir. Skywest will also acquire seven used Brasilias because it requires a total of 27 additional aircraft for its ...