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CIS test purchase
Israel's Rada Electronic Industries has sold its SmartCATS commercial-aviation test system to an unidentified "aeronautical design bureau" in the CIS. The agreement allows the bureau to develop maintenance software for existing Russian aircraft and to market the SmartCATS in the CIS. Source: Flight International
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Maintenance change
Lockheed Martin has consolidated its Aircraft Services company with the Palmdale, California-based Skunk Works. Maintenance and modification operations at Ontario, California, will become a division of the Skunk Works. Source: Flight International
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AlliedSignal
John Hamilton has become vice-president and general manager of environmental-control systems at AlliedSignal Aerospace, of Torrance, California. He was previously director of repair and overhaul at South Bend, Indiana. Tig Krekel becomes vice-president and general manager for military customer support in marketing sales and service, having been vice-president of military ...
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Locator rule irks Australian AOPA
AUSTRALIAN GENERAL-aviation pilots are trying to block a new Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) requirement for all light aircraft to carry aircraft-mounted emergency locator transmitters (ELTs). The Australian Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) says that while over three-quarters of its membership agrees that ELT carriage should ...
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Road to Damascus
Lord Hesketh, the charismatic chairman of British Mediterranean Airways, celebrates the airline's first anniversary in style. Guynter Endres/BEIRUT and DAMASCUS BRITISH MEDITERRANEAN Airways' charismatic chairman Lord Alexander Hesketh might not be the archetypal airline boss, but he has achieved success in one of the ...
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Aloha
Hawaiian airline Aloha has promoted James King, who was formerly, staff vice-president, to vice-president of planning and development. Terry Smith moves from staff vice-president of quality assurance and engineering, to vice-president of maintenance and engineering. Stephanie Ackerman, formerly director of corporate communications, becomes staff vice-president for corporate communications. ...
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El Al deal with P&W
Israeli national airline El Al has signed an engine-maintenance agreement with Pratt & Whitney, which could last up to 15 years. The contract covers "power-by-the-hour" maintenance for its 14-strong fleet of PW4056-powered Boeing 747s. The repair work will be performed at P&W's site in Cheshire, Connecticut. Source: Flight ...
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Jet Aviation names date for shared-scheme start
Basle, SWITZERLAND-based Jet Aviation will begin operating its new Corpavia Club shared-aircraft scheme at the beginning of 1996, using two Beechjet 400As: it has options on a further ten. Corpavia Club members do not buy shares in aircraft: each pays a joining fee, an annual subscription and a ...
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CIRS get on the Internet
The heads of six national confidential incident reporting systems (CIRS) have agreed to use the Internet to post information and data derived from reporting systems, and to transmit requests for information about safety. According to Jean-Pol Henrotte, head of the intra-European system EUCARE, the Internet bulletin board site ...
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EVA enjoys the fruits of youth
If spectacular improvements in efficiency and productivity are a measure of success, then on the surface at least Taiwan's international newcomer EVA Airways appears to be setting new standards. Productivity, measured in terms of revenue per employee, soared 62 per cent last year. Unit costs plunged 21 per cent and ...
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Profit share: a stroke of genius
Singapore Airlines' chairman J Y Pillay has absolutely no doubt that in an unforgiving airline industry, survival rests on the continuing struggle to improve productivity and keep ahead of costs. And there can be little doubt that Pillay's message is getting through at an airline which consistently turns in some ...
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Growth spurs on drive for cuts
Air Canada, in the midst of a significant growth phase, is attempting to counteract the costs of expansion with employee productivity gains and new technology. Air Canada expects to double its transborder service to the US within the next three years and in recent months has added new flights ...
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Fruits of change
South African Airways has had a year of radical change. Profitable at last, bolstered by high load factors and a new partnership with Lufthansa, the carrier is optimistic about the future. Sara Guild reports from Johannesburg. The days of the orange and blue aircraft are numbered. By the turn of ...
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Swiss show true colours
No sooner had Brussels given Swissair access to the single European market through its investment in Sabena than the Swiss government played the protectionist card, opening itself and the Commission up to criticism. The Swiss government was acting within the UK-Swiss air services agreement when it refused to ...
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Hawaiian set to post profit
American Airlines has reprieved Hawaiian Airlines for the fourth time over $6.9 million in payments due on its leased DC10s, as the carrier continues its restructuring efforts after emerging from bankruptcy 14 months ago. The payments Hawaiian owes American represent lease and maintenance charges that accumulated late last ...
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Two birds, one stone
In a major strategy shift, Indian Airlines will transfer its unprofitable routes into a stand-alone subsidiary, operating a mix of turboprops and jets. But the main aim is to counter its parent's shortage of senior pilots. Airlines Allied Services will operate Indian Airlines' short haul flights, and take ...
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International tactics
Taiwan's international carriers are engaged in a bitter battle for market share. Paul Lewis/TAIPEI COMPETITION IS heating up between Taiwan's two established international players, flag carrier China Airlines (CAL) and four-year-old Eva Airways. Ambitious fleet-expansion plans, the opening up of profitable trunk routes to Hong Kong and ...
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Canada injects extra funding into CAATS programme
TRANSPORT CANADA IS to contribute an additional C$75 million ($55.7 million) to the Canadian Automated Air Traffic System (CAATS) under an amended contract with Hughes Aircraft of Canada. The additional money pushes the project's total budget to C$734 million. An independent report by Intermetrics of McLean, Virginia, suggests, ...
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UPS expects instant ETOPS for 767
Guy Norris/LOUISVILLE UPS Airlines has "tentative approval" from the US Federal Aviation Administration for instant 180min extended-range twinjet operations (ETOPS) with its new General Electric CF6-80C2-powered Boeing 767-300ER freighter. If approved, the UPS 767 will become the second twinjet after the United Airlines 777-200 to ...
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Egypt selects Matra Marconi
MATRA MARCONI Space has been awarded a $158 million contract to build and launch Egypt's Nilesat direct-broadcast television satellite. The deal was clinched despite competition from Aerospatiale and Lockheed Martin. The contract with Egyptian Radio and Television Union provides for the supply of a telecommunications satellite in orbit, ...