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Gill Air
The team which has just taken over UK regional airline Gill Air (Flight International, 1-7 February, P16) have a wealth of experience in the UK air-transport business. Managing director Trefor Jones (left), like finance director Mike Robinson (right), came from Jersey European Airways. Before that, however, Jones had been director ...
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High-Speed Strut Team
Lufthansa Technik has set up an Express Strut Team at its Hamburg maintenance base. Strut attachments on all Boeing 747s are being modified after three accidents in which strut structural elements played a role. Source: Flight International
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Bedek's Spanish Tie-Up
Iberia and the Bedek aviation group of Israel Aircraft Industries are to co-operate on aircraft and engine maintenance work following the signing of a memorandum of understanding in late December. Initially, the two companies are to market their services in Boeing 747 pylon modifications. ...
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Gill Air
The team which has just taken over UK regional airline Gill Air (Flight International, 1-7 February, P16) have a wealth of experience in the UK air-transport business. Managing director Trefor Jones (left), like finance director Mike Robinson (right), came from Jersey European Airways. Before that, however, Jones had been director ...
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Human software is the safest option
Sir - "Lessons from the cockpit" (Flight International, 11-17 January, P24) shows that, although the automation of aircraft is sold as an improvement in safety, it is unfortunately not all gain. The main shortcoming is that the "modernisers" assume that the pilot receives relevant information from the instrument ...
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Duncan
Fred Hensley has become manager of design services at fixed-based operator Duncan Aviation, of Lincoln, Nebraska. He was most recently director of maintenance at Page Avjet, based at Fort Worth, Texas. Cecil Sloan has been promoted to engine sales representative. Sloan, with Duncan since 1979, was most recently service manager. ...
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Late decisions
Kieran Daly/LONDON Frequency congestion in Europe is giving the future air-navigation system a bad name and delaying its implementation. Progress towards use of the future air-navigation system (FANS) continues to prove slow for regulator and airline alike. Operators and governments remain reluctant to make the ...
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ATR-BAe link rocks Europe
If, as expected, the long-awaited alliance between ATR and British Aerospace's Jetstream division goes ahead, the deal should provide the spark for the rationalisation of the entire European regional aircraft industry. At presstime, there were strong indications an agreement would be signed before the end of January. One ...
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Arabasco Inauguration
Arabian Aircraft Services (Arabasco) has inaugurated a fixed-base operation at King Abdul Aziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Aranasbco, in partnership with Switzerland's Zimex Aviation, is also enhancing its airframe, engine and avionics maintenance capability. Source: Flight International
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Imperial approach to luxury travel
IMPERIAL AIRLINES, LAUNCHED BY a Bermuda-based consortium of private investors at the start of 1994 to serve the luxury-charter market, expects to begin operations on 15 February with a 14-day trip for an unnamed client from Washington DC to the Far East. The airline operates a McDonnell Douglas DC-8-52, purchased ...
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Regional rivals welcome ATR's alliance with BAe
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON EUROPE'S regional-aircraft manufacturers have given a broad welcome to the alliance between ATR and British Aerospace's Jetstream and Avro operations, but all acknowledge that the real battle for leadership will come when the issue of new-aircraft development arises over the next couple of years. ...
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Air UK
Robert Nunn has been appointed managing director of Air UK Engineering in Norwich, Norfolk. Nunn was most recently general manager line maintenance for British Midland Airways and, before that, he was with British Caledonian Airways, based at Gatwick Airport. Source: Flight International
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Air Macau chiefs resign after row
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE START-UP CARRIER Air Macau has suffered a major setback with the resignation of its chief executive David Young and two other senior managers, following a row over control and direction of the company. Young has quit the joint venture Sino-Portuguese airline only four months ...
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TEAM spirit returns to Aer Lingus staff
TEAM AER LINGUS reports that it is back in business and beginning to rebuild its third-party maintenance work, following the labour disputes which brought the Irish maintenance operation near to closure in 1994. As part of the 1994 Aer Lingus survival plan, the TEAM workforce had been ...
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Maintenance errors cripple A320
AN EXCALIBUR AIRLINES Airbus Industrie A320 was left with four of its five starboard spoilers disabled following a right-outboard-flap change carried out by British Airways maintenance at London Gatwick Airport, says a recent report by the UK Air Accident Investigation Branch. The pilots departed Gatwick on 26 August ...
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Leisure Air flies to Chapter 11
LEISURE AIR, a Winston-Salem, North Carolina-based carrier, grounded temporarily by the US Federal Aviation Administration in November 1994, has filed for Chapter 11, bankruptcy protection. The airline, which operates scheduled and charter flights, voluntarily suspended flight operations after the FAA completed a special weeklong safety inspection, which found ...
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Zambia troubles spark regional-airline hopes
THE COLLAPSE OF Zambia's flag carrier is proving the catalyst for the probable creation of a new domestic carrier and the possible formation of a network of southern African regional airlines. South Africa's SA Express (SAX) has told Zambia that it is willing to fund 40% of the ...
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Taxi service
Span Air, a new Indian private-taxi operator, is launching a regional service in the state of Maharashtra, using three Reins-Cessna F406s acquired from Sembawan Aviation of Singapore. It is believed that Span is paying $1.5 million per aircraft. The taxi operator says that it is also talking to aircraft and ...