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Optical fibres are light years ahead of wires
Mark Hannant The lid came off the world's first optically powered aircraft fuel quantity control indicating system at the show yesterday. By eliminating all electrical connections between an aircraft fuel tank and its avionics and power busses, the application, developed by Raytheon and Smiths Industries, will improve reliability. ...
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ANA converts 777 orders to long-range -200ERs
Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA) has converted an order for a single Boeing 777-200 and three 777-300s to four longer-range 777-200ERs as part of its newly unveiled restructuring plan. ANA spokeswoman Kate Opekar says from Tokyo that the first of the new aircraft will be delivered in October ...
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Joins hands
The old Chinese saying says that a 1,000-mile journey begins with a single step, and China's Shenyang Liming Engine company took that step yesterday with the hope of becoming a long-term supplier of components to BMW Rolls-Royce. Yan Tiannan, vice-president of China National Aero Technology International (CATIC), which oversees ...
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Workshop
Nordam has announced orders for 26 shipsets of Stage 3 hushkits for the Boeing 737-200 - six for US lessor C-S Aviation Services; five for aircraft leased by Vanguard Airlines from Unicapital Air Group (three) and GECAS (two); four for US lessor Triton Aviation, two to be installed on aircraft ...
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Routes
Northwest Airlines Cargo will introduce its ninth Boeing 747-200 freighter on 1 September on transpacific services, enabling the carrier to upgrade services from Chicago and New York from shared capacity on a single freighter to full aircraft capacity. The Australian Government has agreed to allow Emirates to introduce an additional ...
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Sabena expands Schreiner franchise deal
Dutch regional airline Schreiner Airways is re-organising its franchise agreement with Sabena as it moves to expand its feeder operations under the new Sabena Connect brand. Schreiner operates four 50-seat Bombardier Dash 8-300s for Sabena on wet-lease and franchise services, but plans to add more aircraft and routes from ...
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SITA commits to new datalink
Emma Kelly/GENEVA Airline telecommunication giant SITA has committed itself to the next generation of aeronautical datalink services - VHF datalink mode 2 (VDL-2) - by awarding a $23 million contract to Harris for a global network of VHF ground stations (VGS). The VDL-2 aircraft-to-ground datalink protocol will provide a ...
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Low fuel prices mask grim year for European carriers
Europe's carriers made a consolidated profit of around $2 billion in 1998, the Association of European Airlines (AEA) has estimated, although it says that around half that sum "was a windfall from historically low fuel prices". The AEA's 27 members saw a 7.5% increase in passenger kilometres, but seat kilometre ...
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Tanzania may pull out of Ugandan carrier
The Tanzanian Government may be preparing to pull out of Uganda-based carrier SA-Alliance Air in response to the latter's growing links with South African Airways (SAA) and ahead of the privatisation of flag carrier Air Tanzania (ATC). Transport minister Ernest Nyanda is to "review" Tanzania's future involvement with the ...
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Passenger comfort from the bottom up
Mark Hannant The way to a man's heart may traditionally be through his stomach, but when it comes to the hearts and minds of business travellers it seems it's their bottoms that hold the key. The battle to hold position in the business- and first-class travel markets has ...
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The black hole
The secretive investigation into the crash of a SilkAir 737-300 in Indonesia shows up major cultural differences in dealing with accidents Andrzej Jeziorski/JAKARTA The thing about black holes, in astronomical terms, is that nothing ever comes out of them. Some people liken the controversial investigation into the crash in ...
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Extra ATRs for Eurowings
French-Italian manufacturer ATR announced a $68-million order for five ATR 42-500 aircraft at the show yesterday. The buyer is Eurowings. Deliveries are scheduled for the beginning of next year and will replace older ATR aircraft in the fleet. Richard Santner, chairman of Eurowings, says: "With this order, we ...
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ATR signs Indian contract in uncertain market
ATR has sealed a deal for five new 70-seat ATR72-500 turboprops with privately owned Indian scheduled airline Jet Airways. The airline says the aircraft will "form the nucleus of a modern regional aircraft fleet". The Jet Airways aircraft have been acquired under an operating lease through Aircraft International Renting, ...
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CSA checks out its options on alliances
Andrew Doyle/PRAGUE CSA Czech Airlines is bucking the east European trend and holding back from joining a major alliance, preferring to develop codeshares to evaluate potential partners. While other flag carriers in the region - Hungary's Malév, LOT Polish Airlines, Tarom of Romania and Balkan Bulgarian - are in advanced ...
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Northwest Airlines cements alliance with JAS
Northwest Airlines has strengthened its growing international partnership network by concluding an alliance with Japan Air System (JAS). Its partner, KLM, is set to follow by further expanding its own bilateral relationship with the Japanese carrier. An alliance between JAS and Northwest has been pending since 1996, and was ...
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Two airlines target Las Vegas for new services
Two US airlines have launched new scheduled services, with an "underserved" Las Vegas, Nevada, market set firmly in their sights. Start-up National Airlines began flights from its Las Vegas hub to Los Angeles and Chicago Midway on 27 May. Five days later, charter carrier Sun Country Airlines ventured into ...
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Air Caribbean plans long-haul services
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Fast-growing east Caribbean airline Air Caribbean is finalising a deal for its first widebodied aircraft as it prepares to begin long-haul services to North America and the UK. Based in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, the private airline is negotiating to acquire three secondhand Boeing 767-200ERs. "We are on ...
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New Air aims to copy Southwest method
New Air, which plans to launch low-fare, high-frequency domestic services from New York's Kennedy Airport in January 2000, aims to emulate low-cost operator Southwest Airlines to survive in the market. In its application to the US Department of Transportation, privately owned New Air says it aims to achieve operating ...
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New telecoms advances for SITA
SITA, one of the world's leading providers of telecommunication systems to the air transport industry, is unveiling a number of new developments in the field of air-ground communications. The company has expanded its Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) to provide VHF radio coverage in every country of ...
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More bite for Jaguars with upgraded Adour
Geoff Thomas The current upgrade programme for RAF Sepecat Jaguars has received a shot in the arm, as the Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Adour Mk106 engine has successfully completed altitude testing at Saclay in France. This moves the latest standard of engine a step closer to reaching qualification and entering ...