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New Snecma chief aims
The new president of French engine manufacturer Snecma, Jean-Paul Béchat, says that the company's debt will be halved by the year-end, with "balanced books by the end of 1997". He is also making headway in attempts to avoid a sell-off of group subsidiaries - the prospect being faced by his ...
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AE-100 engine competition accelerates as rivals fight
The competition to power China's planned AE-100 passenger aircraft is intensifying, with rival engine manufacturers extending increasingly more attractive offers of industrial co-operation and co-production. Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) has stipulated that the joint venture will select an engine primarily on the basis of performance, reliability and ...
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Russia will privatise Domodedovo
The Russian Government has decided to privatise Domodedovo Commercial Aviation Enterprise, which runs Moscow's main domestic airport and the Domodedovo airline operation. Anew public company, Domodedovo Service, will be set up to run the airport, which handled close to 6 million passengers in 1995, although a majority 51% will stay ...
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SECA
Henri-Paul Puel, chairman and chief executive of France's Sogerma Maintenance Centre, has been appointed chairman and chief executive of Sogerma subsidiary SECA. Puel is a replacement for Maurice Bloch, who has held the position since 1990, and was deputy executive officer from 1976. Source: Flight International
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Airbus upgrade
Aerospatiale maintenance and overhaul subsidiary Sogerma-Socea has signed contracts with Air France and Air France Europe covering the supply of equipment for Airbus A320s and A340s.The company is to upgrade galleys and crew rest areas for seven Air France A340s. Delivery of the first two ship sets is due in ...
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GAO reports on US airline safety
New US airlines suffer higher accident rates than those of established carriers, Congressional investigators say. Start-up carriers during their first five years of operation were also shown to have higher incident- and enforcement-action rates. The US General Accounting Office says that the analysis highlights the need for better ...
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Nordem/GE venture
GE Engine Services and the Nordam Group of the USA are to form an aero-engine component-overhaul joint venture in the UK. The plant is scheduled to begin operations in May 1997. Nordam Europe will be 51%-owned by Nordam, with GE holding the balance, and based at a $9.3 million unit ...
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Air Canada sets sights on ValuJet DC-9 work
Air Canada has resumed discussions with ValuJet Airlines on maintaining the low-cost carrier's fleet of McDonnell Douglas DC-9s. Talks lapsed when Atlanta, Georgia-based ValuJet was grounded in June following the May crash of a DC-9 in Florida, but resumed after the airline restarted operations in September. The work ...
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SIA's results disappoint
Financial analysts have begun to revise down their year-end profit forecasts for Singapore Airlines (SIA), in the face of weak first-half results which showed the impact of rising fuel prices, declining yields and the strength of the local Singapore dollar. The carrier's operating profit for the first six ...
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US airlines break records again, but fear for the future
The major US airlines produced another record-breaking performance in the third quarter, but profits were marred by growing fears that this may now be the peak of the cycle, with rising fuel prices and re-imposition of the federal fuel tax promising to dampen the boom. Trans World Airlines ...
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AVIC and AIA discuss extended-range AE-100
Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) and Aero International Asia (AIA) are discussing development of an extended-range version of the proposed AirExpress AE-100 family of regional aircraft. According to industry sources, it is planned to offer the option of a longer-range derivative, designed to fly up to 4,800km ...
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China signs contract for CFM56-5B4s to power its A320 fleet
China Aviation Supplies (CASC) has signed a $130 million contract with General Electric/Snecma for CFM56-5B4 engines to power 13 Airbus A320s for China Northwest Airlines and Zhejiang Airlines. Under a deal already agreed with CASC, ten of the A320s will be allocated to China Northwest, and the remaining ...
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Maintenance Directory Part 3
Compiled by Jennifer Pite/LONDON Introduction by Paul Lewis/Singapore A quick look at the activities of operators listed in this section of Flight International's three-part directory shows that, in the regions covered, the prime movers in maintenance at the moment are mostly based in Asia-Pacific. The ...
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Leaving home
Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV In recent years, Bedek Aviation, the maintenance and overhaul division of Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI), has become one of the "money makers" for its parent group. The business has become so successful, in fact, that it is asking potential customers to postpone the transfer of ...
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Hughes WAAS
Hughes Aircraft has signed a contract worth more than $483 million to continue development of the US Federal Aviation Administration's wide-area augmentation system (WAAS). The FAA says that Hughes, unlike original WAAS contractor Wilcox Electric, has the skill to design, develop, test and deliver the system with minimum cost, schedule ...
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CATS venture
RADA, the Israeli manufacturer of the commercial aviation test system (CATS), and Horsham Enterprises, a British Virgin Islands-based company, have formed a joint venture which will establish three avionics maintenance sites in Asia-Pacific. Source: Flight International
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Air France
Jean-Marie Leroi, vice-president of Air France Industries, has left the company. He will be, succeeded by Philippe Lazare, who will continue as vice-president of Air France Maintenance. Didier Lux, now director of Air France Europe's engineering division, is due to succeed Lazare as head of, Air France Maintenance. ...
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Suppliers
McDonnell Douglas is to convert 60 DC-10s into MD-10 freighters for Federal Express by 1999. The first 36 aircraft are coming from United Airlines. MDC expects to launch its long-range jetliner, the MD-XX, in early 1997. Pemco World Air Services is to convert five B727-100 freighters to quick ...
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Appointments
Tony Tyler is to become Cathay Pacific's director corporate development and Robert Cutler will replace him as director service delivery. Northwest Airlines has elected James Lawrence to the position of executive vice-president finance/chief financial officer. David Brooks has been named as president of American Airlines' cargo ...
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Sunshine Express
Delta has finally launched its low-cost carrier. But has management learned from the mistakes made by other US majors in setting up such low-fare units? Jane Levere first looks at the arguments for and against the Florida-based Express operation and then turns to California to review the performance of Shuttle ...