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China offers no guarantee
The Civil Aviation Administration of China has signalled an expansion of operating leasing in China by ordering airlines to cease providing lessors with a Bank of China guarantee. However, future growth may be limited to lessors willing to accept unguaranteed deals and carriers which can prove their own financial health. ...
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Ansett deals few changes
The shakeup of Australia's aviation sector following Air New Zealand's successful acquisition of Ansett is likely to have more of an impact outside the country than within. ANZ's swoop to appoint Cathay Pacific managing director Rod Eddington to head Ansett is a rare managerial coup in the region. Eddington will ...
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Airline News
Alpi Eagles was to start daily flights from Catania, Sicily to Venice, Verona, Cagliari and Lampedusa and twice daily flights to Rome in October, using Fokker 100s. British Airways franchisee Maersk Air is due to commence six daily services between Birmingham and Berlin/Tegel in January 1997, using Boeing ...
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Sabena links with Virgin Express for Heathrow route
Herman De Wulf/BRUSSELS Virgin Express is launching scheduled services between Brussels and London Heathrow, in a code-share deal with Sabena under which it will replace the Belgian flag carrier on the route. The low-cost Brussels-based airline launched services on 27 October with nine daily return ...
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Asiana engine bidders await decision
Competing power plant manufacturers are hoping for a decision from Asiana Airlines in November on the selection of engines for its planned fleet of 20 Boeing 777-200/300 and 28 Airbus A330-200/300 wide-body aircraft. According to local sources, General Electric, Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce are now into the ...
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Serco acquires
Aeronautical Visual Aids has been acquired by Serco Aviation Services, forming Serco-AVAL, based at Liverpool Airport in the UK. The company provides design, installation and maintenance services for airfield ground-lighting systems, and associated navigational aids and electrical systems. Source: Flight International
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AlliedSignal invests to boost LF507 despatch reliability
AlliedSignal says that it is aiming for 99.95% LF507 dispatch reliability on the Avro RJ100 by the end of 1997 as the main target of an aggressive support campaign. The engine's reliability was criticised recently by Crossair president Moritz Suter (Flight Inter- national, 16-22 October). Allied- Signal Engines ...
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IAI privatisation date is due in 1998
Privatisation of Israel Aircraft industries (IAI) is on course to begin in 1998. An overhaul of the group's structure will be embarked upon as an intermediate step, says the group's chairman, Yanuch Ben-Gal. He says that IAI will be reshaped into a holding-company structure, with each of the ...
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. . . as newcomers target local Japan market
TWO PRIVATE Japanese companies have announced plans to launch new domestic airlines. This move follows recent initiatives by the transport ministry to liberalise parts of the country's over-regulated airline industry, which carries 75 million passengers annually, and is the second-largest domestic market in the world. Cut-rate Japanese ...
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Inchon incoming
Seoul is struggling to meet targets for its new airport. Paul Lewis/SEOUL THE GROWING IMPORTANCE of Asia as a world economic powerhouse is best illustrated by the fact there are no less than four major new international airports, either being planned or built in the ...
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Constellation finalises re-equipment plan
Herman De Wulf/BRUSSELS CONSTELLATION, THE Brussels-based charter airline, has selected the Boeing 737-300 to replace its aging 727 fleet, while additional investors have been secured to boost capital. The airline, which had been evaluating the CFM-powered Boeing 737 family and Airbus A320, will acquire up ...
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Maersk begins overhaul of Estonian Air
Max Kingsley-Jones/BILLUND MAERSK AIR has set about ploughing its airline expertise into Estonian Air, following ratification of its agreement to take a 49% stake in the privatised Baltic carrier. In May, the Danish airline, in partnership with investment consortium Baltic Creco, was chosen by the ...
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AAR refinishes
AAR is to refinish the exteriors of between 70 and 100 American Eagle Aero International (Regional) ATR 42s and Saab 340s at its Oklahoma City maintenance centre over 24-36 months, beginning in late October. AAR will also overhaul landing gear and flap-carriage assemblies, of 12 Polar Air Cargo Boeing 747 ...
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Sogerma
Henri-Paul Puel has become chairman and chief executive of Aerospatiale's Sogerma-Socea, responsible for maintenance and aeronautical-repairs activities. Puel, who began his career with Aerospatiale in 1962, was chief executive of Aero International (Regional), responsible for sales, marketing and customer support for ATR, Jetstream and Avro aircraft. Source: Flight ...
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Sabena places new long-haul fleet
Herman De Wulf/BRUSSELS THE RATIONALISATION of Sabena's long-haul-aircraft types is the priority item on the carrier's fleet-planning agenda, with a decision expected soon on standardising on a single type. The long-haul decision is seen as a more urgent than the replacement of its older Boeing 737-200s, ...
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Piper with attitude
New Piper Aircraft has appointed Attitudes International as its exclusive supplier of flight training. Based at Vero Beach, Florida, alongside Piper, Attitudes will provide pilot and maintenance training on the PA-32 Cherokee/Saratoga, PA-34 Seneca and PA-46 Source: Flight International
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BAe succeeds with Airbus cargo conversions
BRITISH AEROSPACE Aviation Services' Airbus A300B4 passenger-to-freighter conversion programme has been boosted by a $25 million order from a US lease-management company, for three conversions. C-S Aviation Services of New York has contracted BAe for the conversion of three ex-Air France A300B4s, to be completed by mid-1997. The ...
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Pemco will convert UPS 727 freighters for passenger charters
United Parcel Service (UPS) has awarded Pemco World Air Services a contract to convert five Boeing 727-100QF freighters to quick-change configuration for its planned weekend passenger-charter service. Pemco will design and certificate the conversion, and modify the aircraft at its Dothan, Alabama, maintenance centre. The work ...
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LF507 reliability levels 'not acceptable' says Crossair
Julian Moxon/HANOVER LOWER-THAN-expected despatch reliability of the AlliedSignal Engines LF507 turbofan powering Aero International Regional (AI(R)) RJ100 Avroliners has forced the engine manufacturer to spend $30 million on developing solutions. Crossair president Moritz Suter criticised the engine's 99.3% dispatch reliability during the recent European Regional Airlines ...
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Merpati concludes BAe 146 lease agreement with NJS
NATIONAL JET Systems (NJS), of Australia, has signed an agreement to sublease up to ten BAe 146s to Merpati Nusantara Airlines. The aircraft will partially replace the Indonesian domestic carrier's ageing Fokker fleet of 15 F27s and 25 F28s on regional routes, beginning in November. Adelaide-based NJS, which ...