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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will design, develop and produce the fuselage and tail for the de Havilland Dash 8-400. Timco has been awarded the contract to carry out T-cap repairs and complete the interior refurbishment of Northwest Airlines DC9-30s. Sita has signed Russian carrier Vnukovo ...
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Brave new shoots
The emergence of a new generation of start up carriers in Europe has finally begun. Sara Guild talks to some of the new players and examines their strategies for survival.It's a bit like attending the Academy Awards and not knowing when the envelopes will be opened. European aviation has been ...
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China stakes on the line?
Recent high-level signals from Beijing suggest the Chinese authorities are backing away from a policy which clears the way for foreign investment in airlines and are directly contradicting plans for foreign stock market listings for China's three main carriers. In late October, Civil Aviation Administration of China's deputy ...
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Delta poised for antitrust
A decision on the antitrust immunity application for Delta Air Lines, Swissair, Austrian and Sabena could be hampered by a similar request from American and Canadian Airlines International. The US Department of Justice finished its analysis of the Delta proposal in early November, and the application is now ...
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Indian centre
Switzerland's Jet Aviation has agreed to help India's Eastern Airways design, build, equip and operate a general-aviation centre in Calcutta, providing assistance with corporate-aircraft handling, management and maintenance, and charter and air-taxi operations. Source: Flight International
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IAI to pick Galaxy fuselage maker before 1996
Ramon Lopez/NEW YORK ISRAEL AIRCRAFT Industries (IAI) is expected to select by the end of the year the new fuselage and empennage subcontractor for production versions of its Astra Galaxy Mach 0.85 wide body twin-engine business jet. The company held a bidder's conference in October, ...
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China approves foreign investment in Hainan
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE THE CHINESE Government has, for the first time, allowed a foreign investor to buy into a Chinese airline, with the approval of a 25% share sale in Hainan Airlines to American Aviation Investment, a fund led by US financier George Soros. According to ...
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Atlantic
Ben Waide has become chairman, chief executive and director of service company, Atlantic Aviation, of Wilmington, Delaware, replacing Stockton Smith, who has resigned. Waide was most recently chief operating officer of a strategic business unit for DuPont, having been director of that company's corporate-aviation department. Source: Flight International
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Hawaiian defers
Hawaiian Airlines has deferred to 9 December $7.1 million in McDonnell Douglas DC-10 maintenance and lease payments to American Airlines, to allow more time to negotiate a capital infusion from a private investor group. A letter of intent signed with the group expires on 8 December. ...
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JDAM win
Loral has won $11 million in contracts from McDonnell Douglas to supply hardware, design engineering and programme support for Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) production. The Pentagon plans to buy 74,000 units worth an estimated $2 billion. Loral's contracts could exceed $400 million. Source: Flight International
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JAL approval
The US Federal Aviation Administration has re-instated its approval for Japan Airlines' engineering department to maintain and service US-registered aircraft. FAA repair-station approval was given after new inspections of JAL's maintenance centre. The Japanese carrier had been accused of subcontracting work out to unauthorised companies, re-using spare parts and inadequate ...
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Lufthansa Technik chief angry
THE CHAIRMAN AND chief executive of German maintenance company Lufthansa Technik, Wolfgang Mayrhuber, says that he may complain to the European Commission about the low prices which some loss-making, government-subsidised, European airlines and maintenance companies are charging. Mayrhuber says that he does not mind if a government helps ...
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Air New Zealand signs up to buy a stake in Ansett
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Air New Zealand (ANZ) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with TNT to acquire an initial 25% interest in Ansett Holdings for A$200 million ($151 million). ANZ chairman Bob Matthew says, that a formal agreement on the two-stage A$425 million purchase, is ...
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Employee doubts played part in United decision on USAir
UNITED AIRLINES chairman Gerald Greenwald suggests that "significant doubts" among the group's employee owners contributed to the decision to drop its pursuit of a merger with USAir. United finally announced on 13 November that it would no longer press ahead with its talks. American Airlines, which has ...
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SIA Engineering performs B747-400 maintenance...
SIA Engineering performs B747-400 maintenance at Changi Airport GAMCO's wide-body hangar has a floor area of 12,268m2 Fokker 50 overhaul by Malaysia Airlines Royal Air Maroc is equipped to test nine different engine types D check on Fokker F28 at Airod, Malaysia AMECO performs section 41 modifications to Chinese airlines ...
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Austflight signs Shanghai manufacturing venture
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Australian ultra-light aircraft manufacturer Austflight has signed a joint venture agreement with the Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Factory to build the Australian-designed Drifter SB582 two-seat ultralight aircraft in Shanghai. Under the agreement, the joint venture also plans to offer to supply components, to two other ...
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Novel design
Peter Henley/NORTH WEALD A MERE GLANCE at the Grob 200 reveals its designer's novel approach to his task. The airframe is constructed of composite materials, its engine is mounted behind the cabin (driving a three-bladed pusher propeller which lives on the end of a long tailcone), directional stability ...
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Teleflex/GE join forces
TELEFLEX AND GE Aircraft Engines have agreed to form a joint venture, called Airfoil Technologies International, to repair commercial aero-engine fan blades and compressor aerofoils. The venture, which will be 51% owned by Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania-based Teleflex, is expected to begin operations before the end of this year. ...
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Swissair and Sabena World launch joint sales effort
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS SWISSAIR AND BELGIAN Sabena World Airlines are to launch a joint sales operation and offer shuttle services linking Brussels with Zurich and Geneva in 1996. Code sharing is also to be introduced on long-haul flights to the Middle East, Far East and South America. ...
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Maintaining documents
Unisys is to market software developed by Denmark's Computer Resources International for aircraft maintenance. Document-management software is combined with tools for redesigning work procedures to take advantage of the availability of digitised aircraft-maintenance information. Source: Flight International