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Suppliers in demand
What enlarged role could suppliers and manufacturers play as airlines look to outsourcing as a cost control mechanism? Kevin P Michaels and William D Angeloni of the Canaan Group explore the possibilities.Airline suppliers have already endured a tumultuous decade - order boom followed by order bust, complicated by the constant ...
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Spreading the free trade gospel
The world economic summit in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is an important time for the post second world war global institutions. It will set the direction for reshaping the organisations which have contributed to the peace since 1945 and which, since the end of the Cold War, have been spreading ...
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A mighty match
Can the Boeing 747-400 freighter be more profitable than an older conversion? Mark W Lyon reports.A new freighter aircraft can be a financial conundrum. How can one be confident of financing a $150 million investment over 20 years when cargo yields fluctuate wildly and show a disturbing long-term decline? Between ...
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Aloha
Mickey Cohen has been named senior vice-president of operations for Aloha Airlines of Hawaii. He was formerly vice-president of line maintenance for USAir and has also held positions with Pacific Southwest, Dalfort Aviation and Northrop. Randal Okita becomes director for internal audit. Okita, previously with Ikeda & Wong CPA, has ...
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Team launches DC-10 upgrade
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) has teamed with Alenia subsidiary Aeronavali to launch a DC-10 product-improvement programme ranging in scope from a completely new, two-crew, digital flightdeck to a full conversion from passenger to freighter. The plan is aimed mainly at the expected growth in ...
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Avro introduces maintenance and refurbishment services
Avro International, the British Aerospace regional-jets subsidiary, has begun offering maintenance and refurbishment services through its flight-test department at Woodford, UK. Under the Avrotec name, the company will initially offer support for the BAe146/Avro RJ series, but in the future it intends to extend its work to cover ...
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When an inspection calls
Operators are seeking better, less expensive ways to evaluate ageing airframe condition Graham Warwick/ATLANTA While cost-conscious carriers are keeping aircraft in service longer, they want to minimise the maintenance burden of ageing airliners. New inspection techniques provide one answer. The goal of NASA's Airframe ...
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SIA remains the world's most profitable carrier
SINGAPORE AIRLINES (SIA) again emerged as the world's most profitable carrier as it revealed improved results for its latest financial year. The group warns, however, that it faces tougher times ahead from aggressive international competition and the strength of the Singapore dollar. The group has revealed that net ...
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Maintenance-subsidies inquiry starts at EC
THE EUROPEAN Commission (EC) has launched an investigation into illegal state subsidies to Germany's Lemwerder airliner-maintenance operation. It has also promised a second inquiry to look at the Irish Government cash due to be injected into the troubled Shannon Aerospace venture. The Lemwerder aid dates back to 1993, ...
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Lufthansa and SAA in tie-up
Lufthansa and South African Airways (SAA) have agreed on an alliance to co-ordinate flight schedules and examine extending the co-operation to ground handling and, possibly, aircraft overhaul and acquisition. The deal, expected to come into effect early in 1996, ends speculation that SAA and British Airways were about ...
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NEPC acquires Damania
NEPC AIRLINES, one of India's fastest-growing private carriers, has bought rival Damania Airways for some $33.3 million. It is unclear whether Damania will remain a separate company, or be merged with NEPC, which operates five Fokker F27s on feeder routes in southern India. Merger seems more likely since, ...
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Bedek faces probe after 747 work is questioned
A US FEDERAL Aviation Administration inspection team is to visit Israel Aircraft Industries' (IAI) Bedek overhaul division later this month, following concerns over the company's Boeing 747 maintenance work. Bedek, one of the world's primary 747 over-hauls, has meanwhile consented, to stepped-up FAA surveillance of its work on ...
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Japan and Boeing back off from contest
JAPAN'S PROPOSED YS-X aircraft will not be offered in competition with the new Boeing 737-600, and an initial agreement on co-operation with Boeing is still expected to be signed in the next few months, say Japanese aerospace officials. The YS-X is the subject of a joint feasibility ...
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Coping with technology
Kieran Daly/TOULOUSE The almost universal use of cockpit-resource-management (CRM) techniques will be one of the major features of training as airline pilot-recruitment reaches its next peak. Even though the concept is today far from new, its practice is still very much in development and is having to evolve ...
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Lufthansa Technik Deal
Austrian Airlines has signed a deal with Lufthansa Technik for the maintenance and overhaul of its two Airbus A340s. The maintenance arm of Lufthansa has also won a five-year contract to overhaul 100 International Aero Engines V2500s used by United Airlines on its fleet of Airbus A320s. Source: ...
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Fokker plans new Indian link
FOKKER IS CONSIDERING closer co-operation with aerospace company Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL), including an extension to the components work already undertaken by the Indian company for the Fokker 50. The Dutch concern is targeting India for sales of the turboprop Fokker 50 and the Fokker 70 and 100 regional ...
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Tying the knot
In the world of airline alliances, few proposed so far have implications as great as that between Lufthansa and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) - not entirely from what is being done (though that is impressive enough), but also from what is not. This deal pulls together, in ...
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Maintenance Record
US maintenance specialist Greenwich Air Services has posted record results for the six months ended 31 March, with sales more than doubling, to $83.1 million, and net income up to $2.4 million, from $1.6 million for the same period in 1994. Source: Flight International
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SimuFlite
Dick Holland has become manager of Gulfstream training programmes at SimuFlite Training International, of Dallas/Forth Worth Airport, Texas. Holland, a corporate pilot, has also been director of operations for Alpha Aviation, Dallas, and was a captain with Becker Gaming of Las Vegas, Nevada. Jim Jetton becomes regional sales manager for ...
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737 control-system study produces no crash clues
A REVIEW OF THE design of Boeing 737 flight control has uncovered no flaws, which could have caused the unexplained crashes of two aircraft, says the US Federal Aviation Administration. The critical design review of the flight control system, was prompted by the 1991 United Airlines crash at Colorado Springs ...