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Lufthansa and SAS extend partnership to cargo flights
Lufthansa Cargo and SAS Cargo have prepared a plan to extend the Lufthansa/SAS strategic partnership - which has to date concentrated on passenger operations - into the cargo field. From the end of March, the airlines' cargo sales teams will offer both companies' products and services. Integration of ...
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...simulators are on the market now
Sir - In response to Capt T A Seedsman's letter (Flight International, 5-11 February, P41), the maintenance-training department at SimuFlite Training International recognises the value and importance of simulation training for maintenance staff. Engine-run and taxi certification is made available to all of our business-aircraft maintenance-training clients. When ...
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Saab subscribes
Saab Aircraft is subscribing to Jeppesen's Maintenance Information Service, in an effort to expand the electronic maintenance-documentation services which it offers to operators of Saab 340s and 2000s. The Jeppesen service includes document-viewing software for aircraft-maintenance manuals. Source: Flight International
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GIV training expanded
FlightSafety International has added the Flight Visions head-up display to the Gulfstream IV-SP Level D simulator at its Savannah, Georgia, training centre. SimuFlite Training International has introduced GIV maintenance training at Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. Source: Flight International
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Maintenance needs stepping up-...
Sir - You attribute to maintenance error three aircraft accidents and 260 fatalities in the Airline Safety Review for 1996 (Flight International, 15-21 January, P31). Engineering departments/ organisations must act now, to prevent an increase in this statistic. I suggest replacing accountant types with professional engineers at management ...
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Brit'Air order launches Canadair stretched CRJ
FRENCH REGIONAL airline Brit'Air is the launch customer for the stretched, 70-seat Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ)Series 700, with a firm order for four aircraft. The Canadian company says that it has options and conditional orders for a further 28 aircraft, plus memoranda of understanding for another 35, ...
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Embraer focuses on Asian market for Brasilia business
Brazilian manufacturer Embraer is exploring risk-sharing and licence-production deals with companies in several Asian countries as part of a push to improve sales in the region of the 30-seat EMB-120 Brasilia regional turboprop aircraft. Ex-Fokker salesman Peter Obeysekere, Embraer's new vice-president for Asia, the Far East and South ...
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Greenwich absorbs UNC to create overhaul giant
Greenwich Air Services is poised to make its biggest acquisition to date with agreement to take over UNC. The combined group will become the world's largest independent engine-services operation, with annual sales of around $1.8 billion and more than 10,000 employees. Greenwich chairman Eugene Conese says that the ...
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Fokker Aviation bolsters Asian sales support
Fokker Aviation is to take over LAB Asia Pacific's airframe-maintenance site in Singapore, in an effort to bolster flagging after-sales support for airlines in the region which are continuing to operate Fokker aircraft. The Dutch company has reached an accord with LAB to take over the running of ...
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Maintenance Directory Part 1, The Americas
MAINTENANCE AND overhaul companies in North and South America are benefiting from the return to profitability of the region's airlines. While cost-cutting measures such as outsourcing main- tenance have slipped down the airlines' priority lists as profits have soared, overhaul companies say that business has improved since the recession's end. ...
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BAe flies its first converted A300B4 freighter
British Aerospace's Filton, UK-based division, BAe Aviation Services, flew its first converted Airbus A300B4 freighter on 23 January, and hopes to be able to secure approval from the US Federal Aviation Administration and UK Civil Aviation Authority approval by the end of March. The conversion of the first ...
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CFMI gears up for bumper year
CFM International (CFMI) is stepping up production of CFM56 engines in response to record orders placed during 1996 for 1,280 powerplants valued at $5.5 billion. CFMI president Gerard Laviec says that the company had planned for only "about 700 orders" for the year. As a result of the ...
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KLM to upgrade 747-200/300s
KLM is to carry out a $53 million upgrade of its Boeing 747-200/300s and keep the aircraft in service well into the next century. KLM is the first airline to commit to an extensive cockpit upgrade of so-called 747 'Classics'. The package includes a major cockpit upgrade, aimed ...
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Airliner Maintenance Directory: Introduction
This Flight International Third-Party Airliner Maintenance Directory Part 1 covers companies in the Americas and is an update of the information published in the issue of 10-16 July, 1996. Part II, covering Africa, Asia, the CIS, the Middle East and Australasia/ Pacific Rim, is to be published in ...
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Spare a thought
Airlines in Europe are becoming increasingly reliant on third-party component support services. Maintaining a comprehensive spare-parts inventory for a modern airline is an expensive business, particularly for a small- or medium-sized operator. Many expensive components may be languishing in storage, under-used but held in case an unforeseen failure grounds an ...
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Blame CIS aircraft for 'freight fright'
Sir - We were disappointed with the conclusions drawn from the 1996 accidents statistics in the editorial "Freight fright" (Flight International, 15-21 January). Excluding training accidents, in 1996 there were 13 fatal accidents to cargo aircraft above 5,700kg, and ten of these were to Russian aircraft. Only one ...
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Honeywell
Honeywell, of Phoenix, Arizona, has named Bill Bouchard director of operations for its Business and Commuter Aviation Systems division, in Glendale, Arizona. He succeeds Roger Custer, who has moved to Honeywell Asia Pacific in Hong Kong as vice-president of manufacturing. Bouchard, with the company since 1979, was most recently marketing ...
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IAI's expanding Commodore moves into SabreTech's Miami site
Commodore Aviation, the overhaul subsidiary of Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI), is expected to complete a deal acquiring the troubled SabreTech's maintenance operation at Miami International Airport within the next two weeks. The IAI unit, which is based at Miami International, will move into SabreTech's much larger site after ...
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Workshop
++ MTU has received a five-year contract from Qantas to support the General Electric CF6-50C2s which power the airline's fleet of Airbus A300B4s. ++ Sabena Technics has signed a long-term contract with Biman Bangladesh Airlines to provide maintenance support for the airline's fleet of two Airbus A310-300s. Sabena Technics will ...