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The Americas
The 1997 Flight International World Airline Directory lists airlines involved in scheduled services or those which offer significant charter services. Our selection criterion has been to list operators with one or more aircraft with more than 19 seats. Where justified by significance of service or national-carrier status, airlines operating aircraft ...
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General Electric snaps up Greenwich Air/UNC
Just weeks after Greenwich Air Services agreed to buy UNC to create the world's largest independent engine-maintenance business, General Electric has stepped in to buy both groups. The acquisition of Greenwich/UNC, which is due to be completed within the next six months, would give GE Engine Services sales ...
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Austrian Airlines takes control of rival Lauda Air
Austrian Airlines (AUA) is taking a controlling stake in rival Lauda Air, incorporating it into a national-airline group alongside regional carrier Tyrolean Airways. "The Austrian market is too small for three competing airlines, so it is our strategy to work jointly to be more competitive with other major ...
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Avior aims to build fixed-base operator chain across USA
THE AVIOR GROUP, a US company specialising in relief-charter operations in Africa, is expanding into its home market. The Miami-based concern hopes to build up a chain of "a dozen" fixed-base operators (FBOs) and wants to acquire a manufacturing capability to support its growing maintenance business. Avior has ...
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Aerospatiale talks to China about FANS
Aerospatiale is negotiating with China on opening a new Future Air Navigation System (FANS) air-traffic route which would enable Virgin Atlantic to cut up to 45min from its Airbus A340 Hong-Kong-London service. China Airlines, which is due to receive its first A340 in March, is also likely to ...
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FLS completes first 727 cargo conversion
FLS Aerospace has completed its first freighter conversion of a Boeing 727, and the aircraft has now entered service with TNT Express Worldwide on its European network. The aircraft, a -200 Adv, was modified at FLS' Stansted, UK, centre, using the Aircraft Engineering & Installation Services (AEI), Miami, supplemental type ...
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West Star
Greg Laabs has been appointed director of aircraft maintenance at maintenance company West Star Aviation, of Grand Junction, Colorado. He was previously with Duncan Aviation, of Lincoln, Nebraska. Joe Kendrick has been promoted to director of customer service. He has been with the company for 20 years. Source: Flight ...
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NATA
Fred Workley, manager of maintenance operations at the US National Air Transportation Association (NATA) of Alexandria, Virginia, is to become a contract technical advisor on aviation matters for the Association. He wishes to focus on his own business, Workley Aircraft & Maintenance, at Dulles International Airport. ...
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TNT looks at large freighters
TNT Express Worldwide is aiming to introduce its first large freighter aircraft in 1998, if a strategic analysis of the market which it is now undertaking concludes that such a move is required. The express-parcel company, acquired by Dutch postal company KPN late in 1995, is timing the ...
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Mesa consolidates regional operations
US REGIONAL MESA Air Group has re-organised into four operating divisions, aligned with its codesharing partners. The move comes as Mesa consolidates flight and maintenance operations to comply with regulations upgrading US regionals from Part 135 to Part 121 certification. Four operating divisions and two subsidiaries have been ...
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Rich International retrieves FAA certificate
RICH INTERNATIONAL Airways has been re-awarded its air-carrier certificate from the US Federal Aviation Administration, but the carrier still awaits authorisation from the US Department of Transportation (DoT) to restart charter flights. The Miami-based operator was grounded by the FAA in September 1996 after a safety audit uncovered ...
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SASCO completes 30th 747 overhaul for Japan Air Lines
Singapore Technologies Aviation Services (SASCO) has completed its 30th airframe overhaul and modification of a Boeing 747 for Japan Airlines (JAL). Work to date has included 24 section 41 and 10 pylon modifications. JAL, in the meantime, has announced that it is to send a further seven 747-100/200s to SASCO ...
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MDC reveals FedEx MD-10 freighter-conversion sites
McDonnell Douglas (MDC) has chosen US and European sites to convert up to 60 ex-United Airlines and American Airlines DC-10-10s to phase 1 of the MD-10 freighter specification. The aircraft are destined for FedEx. Phoenix, Arizona-based Dimension Aviation, a division of Sabreliner (previously SabreTech/ DynAir Tech), has been ...
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Kiwi Airlines
Jack Warren has been named system director of maintenance and engineering for Kiwi International Airlines, of Newark, New Jersey, which restarted scheduled domestic services in January. He was formerly director of maintenance for Polar Air Cargo and, before that, spent most of his career with Pan Am World Airways. ...
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Workshop
++ Pemco World Air Services of Copenhagen, Denmark, is to undertake ad hoc line maintenance on Icelandair's Boeing 757-200s when they are flown to the Danish capital's airport. ++ Shannon Aircraft Motor Works has been approved by the Irish Aviation Authority as a certified design organisation. Shannon has developed its ...
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Lufthansa passes EU eco-audit scrutiny
Lufthansa Technik (LHT) has become the first aircraft maintenance and overhaul firm to win certification under the European Union's (EU) ecology-audit regulations. Certification is voluntary, but LHT says that it differentiates the firm from its competitors, and provides "a systematic view of the environmental impact of our activities". ...
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Asia-Pacific safety infrastructure is scheduled for overhaul in June
Asia-Pacific's commercial air-transport safety infrastructure needs a major overhaul, according to the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) group's air-safety experts. Poor safety oversight by some civil-aviation authorities (CAAs) and a growing potential for air-traffic conflicts were identified as two of the vital issues. A plan for regional action to improve safety ...
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Next Hubble service mission will also repair insulation blankets
The next planned Space Shuttle mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope in orbit, in December 1999, will involve repairs to damaged insulation blankets over the telescope's central equipment bays. The damage was probably caused by ultraviolet radiation and atomic oxygen. The damage to the area of the ...
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AlliedSignal reveals new Chinese ventures
AlliedSignal is exploring at least eight new joint ventures in China as part of a $200 million company-wide investment to ensure a long-term strategic stake in Asia and aid selection of its systems for the AE-100 regional-aircraft project. "What we're doing is establishing a footprint for the business ...
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Puel revamps Aerospatiale's loss-making maintenance arm
Henri-Paul Puel, the new president of Sogerma has set about a major re-organisation of the loss-making maintenance arm of Aerospatiale, partly blaming poor recent performance on a series of misjudged deals struck before his arrival. The action follows a disappointing year for Sogerma, which saw its net losses ...