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Monarch to take on Alitalia leases
Gnter Endres/LONDON MONARCH AIRLINES is on the verge of taking over the contentious wet-leased Boeing 767-300ER operation, now provided by Ansett Worldwide Aviation Services on behalf of Alitalia. The new deal is an extension of a long-standing agreement between Monarch and Ansett, under which the UK ...
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Jet Aviation backs business-jet timeshare-scheme launch
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA JET AVIATION is backing a new business-jet timeshare scheme, the Corpavia Club, launched by a group of investors from Europe and the Middle East. The scheme will start with two Learjet 31As, on order for delivery in September and October, which will be based with, and ...
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Transwede is forced into radical change
INCREASINGLY unsustainable losses have forced independent Swedish airline Transwede to initiate a radical restructuring programme centred on the establishment of three separate business units. From this month, scheduled, charter and maintenance activities will be operated as independent profit centres. The move, which involved 160 redundancies at the end ...
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Financial results
Air Canada cut its operating loss from C$12m to C$7m. Passengers and yields both rose 6%. There were C$40m of non-operating gains in 1994. Operating income trebled to US$162.2m, moving ANA into the black. Boosted by the Kobe earthquake and the strong yen, traffic rose 6.1%. ...
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SAA boosted by Lufthansa
The cooperation agreement between South African Airways and Lufthansa is a major boost for the African carrier, while the pact nearly completes the German flag's global net of alliances. SAA has sought a European partner for more than two years and senior general manager John Hare says few ...
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USAir boost: BA doubts
The winding down of Continental Lite has helped USAir increase yields and bounce back into profitability, and the airline now has agreements with three out of its four unions. However, the proposed employee board representation has thrown up a potential conflict with partner British Airways. Investors in USAir, ...
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Finnair leases DC-10s to Air Liberte
FINNAIR IS TO LEASE its entire McDonnell Douglas DC-10 fleet to French airline Air Liberte. The agreement covers four aircraft on a five-year lease. The deal will net Finnair revenues of around FM140 million ($32 million) a year. Air Liberte has been leasing one of the four DC-10s ...
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Europe on course for TCAS by year 2000
Julian Moxon/PARIS Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC EUROCONTROL IS TO recommend mandatory introduction to Europe of an aircraft collision-avoidance system from the 2000, after a 26 June meeting of its committee of management. The move had been expected, and is supported by the European Joint Airworthiness ...
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EC moves nearer to open skies
Julian Moxon/PARIS EUROPEAN TRANSPORT ministers meeting in Luxembourg have signaled their tentative support to giving the European Union (EU) the power to negotiate open-skies deals on behalf of its members. The 15 EU states have asked the European Commission (EC) to fine-tune its preliminary open-skies ...
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Arianespace signs four new contracts
ARIANESPACE HAS signed four new launch contracts, bringing to 40 the number of satellites booked to be launched, with a total value of $2 billion. The new payloads are Malaysia's Measat 2; Thailand's Thaicom 3; Indonesia's Indostar 1; and Europe's Helios 1B reconnaissance satellite. Ariane Flight V74, carrying ...
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Intertechnique targets USA for expansion plans
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS FRENCH EQUIPMENT manufacturer Intertechnique believes that it is back on course for expansion and is targeting the US market with two small acquisitions already in prospect. The company, which is known for its oxygen masks and its fuel-management and environmental-control systems, emerged from ...
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Livermore tests corrosion device
Guy Norris/SEATTLE A DUAL-BAND infra-red (IR) corrosion-detection system is being tested on aircraft skins by scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California in the hope of developing a non-destructive commercial system. The IR system uses flash lamps to heat the metal skin with uniform ...
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Bright light
A NASA-led initiative may help GA emerge from the doldrums - almost Karen Walker/ATLANTA Once upon a time there was a thriving general-aviation (GA) industry in North America - and you do not have to be especially well informed to know that this story may not end ...
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AlliedSignal cuts down on BAe 146 engine-maintenance costs
ALLIEDSIGNAL HAS pledged to cut LF502 engine maintenance costs for British Aerospace 146 operators to below $40/h over the next five years. The programme is a joint initiative with BAe's Asset Management Organisation (AMO), which handles the manufacturer's 100-strong fleet of leased 146s. AMO managing director Robin Southwell ...
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Prospects look modest for new freighters
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES NEW FREIGHTER deliveries will remain sluggish over the next ten years as used-aircraft conversions and belly-hold capacity absorb the bulk of cargo traffic growth, according to latest predictions from McDonnell Douglas (MDC) and Boeing. MDC predicts that cargo traffic will continue to average ...
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Honeywell co-operates with Trimble for GPS retrofit market
HONEYWELL HAS teamed with Trimble Navigation to develop and market global-positioning-system (GPS) products for the air-transport retrofit market. The agreement, signed on the eve of the Paris air show, does not affect Honeywell's alliance with Canadian Marconi, which supplies the sensor for the US manufacturer's new-airliner GPS products. ...
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Indian Maintenance
Aviall Caledonian Engine Services has signed a three-year agreement with Jet Airways of Bombay, India, to maintain the CFM International CFM56-3 engines which power the airline's fleet of Boeing 737-400s. Jet Airways, which began operating scheduled services in May 1993, operates four 737-300s and two -400s, and is due to ...
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AAR Unites Operations
AAR has combined its two Singapore-based aircraft support operations into to a single expanded unit near Changi International Airport. The new factory houses the sales offices for the company's US-based inventory services and the local maintenance base. Source: Flight International
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IAE works on variable-area nozzle
INTERNATIONAL AERO Engines (IAE) and Calcor Aero Systems are to develop the world's first variable-area exhaust nozzle for a civil aero-engine. IAE, a joint venture between Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce, MTU, FiatAvio and Japanese Aero Engines, will work with California-based Calcor to produce a technology demonstrator for IAE's ...