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    Maintenance tie-up

    1999-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Air Zealand and Ansett Australia have formed a maintenance company, merging the carriers' respective Auckland and Melbourne-based facilities. The joint venture, dubbed Ansett Australia and Air New Zealand Engineering, will offer maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services, and is forecast to have an equity value of A$1 billion ($625 million). ...

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    Guesstimation

    1999-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Accident investigation is in danger of getting a bad name. The three US authorities - the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) - associated with the EgyptAir flight 990 investigation deserve some understanding given the ferocity of the media ...

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    LHT Middle East

    1999-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Lufthansa Technik (LHT) is aiming to announce a maintenance, repair and overhaul operation in the Middle East in conjunction with a local airline by the end of the year. The operation would be similar to AMECO Beijing in China, which is a joint venture with Air China. Source: Flight International

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    Eurocontrol plan for congestion gets green light

    1999-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Julian Moxon/PARIS Eurocontrol's Provisional Council has approved the agency's plans to reduce air traffic congestion in the short-to-medium term after a year in which delays have been among the worst on record. Although the Kosovo crisis has been blamed for causing most of the delays from April-July, the ...

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    Canadian regionals may merge

    1999-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Brian Dunn/MONTREAL A Toronto-based business group, Regional Airlines Holdings, aims to establish a new national airline by buying and merging the regional carriers of Air Canada and Canadian Airlines. The move would appear viable if the two majors themselves merge. Regional Airlines Holdings wants Ottawa to force Air Canada to ...

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    UK plans partial ATC sell-off

    1999-11-24T00:00:00Z

    David Learmount/LONDONUK air traffic control (ATC) is on course for partial privatisation by the middle of next year, with the government last week announcing plans to put a bill transforming the National Air Traffic Services (NATS) into a "public private partnership" before parliament during the 1999/2000 session. As the government ...

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    EgyptAir data fail to supply any answers

    1999-11-24T00:00:00Z

    David Learmount/LONDON Initial evaluation of the crashed EgyptAir Boeing 767-300ER cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and flight data recorder (FDR) has failed to confirm the causes of the dive which began the fatal manoeuvre sequence, says US National Transportation Safety Board chairman Jim Hall. On 17 November, Hall released ...

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    Oneworld allies seek codeshares

    1999-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Chris Jasper/LONDON British Airways and its oneworld ally, American Airlines, have filed applications with the US Department of Transportation (DoT) for codeshares on flights serving 75 destinations in the UK, USA, Europe and Africa in a long-awaited move which should breathe new life into the pair's faltering alliance. American ...

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    Airports

    1999-11-24T00:00:00Z

    A major refurbishment of Tashkent Airport's international terminal will begin in December, with Donald Smith, Seymour & Rooley as engineering consultant. Work is scheduled to be completed in June 2001. Belgian regional airports Liège-Bierset and Charleroi-Gosselies (rebranded as "Brussels South"), both operated by the country's regional government for the Walloon ...

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    Cirrus Airlines to introduce regional jet services

    1999-11-24T00:00:00Z

    German regional carrier Cirrus Airlines is expanding into jet operations, with a deal for up to four Embraer RJ-145s. Saarbrücken-based Cirrus, which operates three Bombardier Dash 8 and Fairchild Dornier 328 turboprops, has placed a firm order for one 50-seat ERJ-145 for delivery in February, plus options on three ...

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    Air Gulf Falcon will launch next month

    1999-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Air Gulf Falcon is to launch charter operations with nine Boeing 747s next month and is evaluating narrowbody types for expansion next year. The company is to be launched by the Sharjah, United Arab Emirates-based Falcon Air group, which includes Falcon Air Leasing and Falcon Aircraft Maintenance Centre. Air ...

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    BWIA aims to revive LIAT link

    1999-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON BWIA hopes to revive plans to link with LIAT on regional services, as the two carriers face up to competition from Air Jamaica-backed start-up Eastern Caribbean (EC) Express. The airline is also poised to cement codeshare links with United Airlines from its hub in Washington Dulles, which ...

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    Southern Air ready to go after DoT vote

    1999-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Start-up cargo carrier Southern Air has won US Department of Transportation approval to begin operations, but will have to do so without routes from bankrupt Southern Air Transport (SAT). Services will begin next year. The Columbus, Ohio-based company plans to offer aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance (ACMI) wet-lease services ...

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    Catching African bugs

    1999-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Age is beautiful for many African airports, which have avoided the biggest problems in becoming Y2K compliant Michael Wakabi/KAMPALA Africa is never short of contradictions. In the run-up to the year 2000, the very things that made some African airports the laughing stock of yesteryear are the reason that ...

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    NetJets Middle East adds Hawkers

    1999-11-24T00:00:00Z

    National Air Services (NAS) has signed a $170 million order for 14 Raytheon Hawker 800XPs, taking the NetJets Middle East aircraft portfolio and orderbook to $760 million. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia-based NAS, which operates Executive Jet' s NetJets fractional ownership programme in the Middle East, Turkey and Cyprus, will take ...

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    Continental paints 777 for New York's millennium celebration

    1999-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Continental Airlines has painted its latest Boeing 777-200ER in a novel colour scheme designed by renowned pop artist Peter Max to commemorate the City of New York's millennium celebration, dubbed "NYC 2000". The airline operates 14 Boeing 777s and the type has begun its ninth transatlantic route for Continental, replacing ...

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    Leasing companies drop 767-400ER commitments after poor demand

    1999-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Leasing companies General Electric Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) and International Lease Finance (ILFC) have dropped their combined orders for seven Boeing 767-400ERs after failing to find sufficient market interest in the stretched twins. ILFC says it has switched its four remaining -400ER commitments for ...

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    Egyptian start-up expands with A320 acquisition

    1999-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Egyptian start-up Midwest Airlines is expanding operations with the acquisition of Airbus A320s and planning to launch scheduled operations. Privately owned Midwest launched operations in June with two ex-Air Afrique Airbus A310-300s. Based in Cairo, the airline operates charters between Egyptian tourist destinations and Europe. The airline has ordered ...

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    Board poised for A3XX decision

    1999-11-24T00:00:00Z

    The Airbus Industrie supervisory board is to decide whether to authorise managing director Noel Forgeard to begin soliciting airline commitments for the A3XX at an extraordinary meeting planned for 8 December. If the consortium gets the green light, Forgeard will visit key target customers for the ultra-high capacity airliner ...

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    Boeing claims 747-X will catch A3XX

    1999-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing is claiming that its new stretched 747-400X design is capable of meeting and even beating the direct operating costs of the all-new Airbus A3XX. The startling assertion is based on revised performance estimates for the 747-400X, plus new, independent airline analysis of the latest A3XX proposals. ...