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* A new regional airport is under development at Pajalai in the Lapland region of northern Sweden, which will open with a single paved 1,420m (4,655ft) runway equipped with an initial NDB approach. This will be followed by an eventual global positioning system procedure. The airport is due to be ...
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Indian Airlines drops fleet renewal plans
State-owned Indian Airlines has shelved plans to replace its fleet of 11 ageing Airbus A300B2/B4s and 12 Boeing 737-200s, opting instead to pursue a refurbishment programme. The programme, which will include an interior refit, will allow the aircraft to be operated for "several more years", according to Indian Airlines. ...
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BWIA signs 737-800 lease deal with ILFC, plans share offering
Max Kingsley-Jones/London BWIA International Airways has selected Boeing's Next Generation 737 to upgrade its fleet and replace its BoeingMD-80s. The carrier has concluded a deal with International Lease Finance (ILFC) for six aircraft. The Caribbean carrier has selected the 737 over the Airbus A320, and its deal with ...
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Control snags hit Metrojet 737
A Metrojet Boeing 737-200 suffered a sudden unexplained roll in the cruise at 33,000ft (10,000m). The 737, operated by the US Airways' low-fare subsidiary, made a safe precautionary landing and the US National Transportation Safety Board is investigating. The in-flight incident follows changes to the 737 rudder system, prompted ...
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717 beats performance targets as production version flies
Guy Norris/Los Angeles MaxKingsley-Jones/London Boeing has revealed that its 717 twinjet is bettering its performance targets by up to 5%, as the first production example, "P-1", made its maiden flight from Long Beach, California on 24 February. Boeing's just-released performance details of the baseline 717 reveal it is ...
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UPS goes with Pratt & Whitney PW4000
United Parcel Service (UPS) has choses Pratt & Whitney's PW4158 turbofan for its planned fleet of 75 new Airbus A300-600 freighters. It is the engine's first freighter application. The deal, worth up to $3 billion, is P&W's largest single sale of the 2.39m (94in) fan-diameter PW4000 engine series in ...
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City Bird orders 747-400Fs
Herman De Wulf/BRUSSELS City Bird, the Belgian low-cost long-haul airline, is undertaking a major expansion of its all-cargo operations which will see it introducing two new Boeing 747-400 freighters next year. The Brussels-based airline confirms that it has placed orders with Boeing for two 747-400Fs for delivery in ...
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Airbus focuses A3XX efforts on alliance groups
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Airbus Industrie predicts that the world's four main airline alliance groupings will absorb almost three quarters of all A3XX-sized aircraft delivered by 2020, with most going to just two - oneworld and Star Alliance. Moves by the major alliances to combine their networks and improve asset ...
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Tu-154 crashes as China flags ATC plans
China Southwest Air lines has grounded its fleet of four remaining Tupolev Tu-154Ms after one crashed on 24 February, killing all 61 people on board. The aircraft, descending towards its destination at Wenzhou, dived steeply into the ground with no time for an emergency call from the pilots. The ...
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Embraer wins order for a LOT of ERJ-145s
LOT Polish Airlines is to acquire up to 12 Embraer ERJ-145 regional jets as part of a major restructuring plan which is aimed at reversing three consecutive years of losses. The carrier will use its new fleet of 50-seaters, replacing Boeing 737s, to boost frequencies on low-density routes to ...
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Routes
Japanese codes - Cathay Pacific Airways and Japan Airlines (JAL) are to start codesharing on Hong Kong-Osaka services on 28 March. JAL will also halt its Boeing 767-operated Nagoya-Hong Kong service on 1 April, when it starts codesharing on Cathay's daily service. Meanwhile, All Nippon Airways (ANA) and United Airlines ...
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Third Party Pressure
The third party maintenance, repair and overhaul business will consolidate further as the dominant companies seek greater economies of scale and airlines turn their attention back to improving costs. If you were asked to name the landmarks of the aircraft maintenance and overhaul industry over the past year, you ...
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US yields spoil the party
Despite a solid set of 1998 results, the US majors are nagged by doubts over yields. After all the pessimism, and the damage of the Northwest Airlines strike, the year-end figures from the US majors held little to complain about. That little something, however, was an overall fall in yields. ...
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Licking its wounds
Northwest Airlines had less to celebrate at the end of last year than most of its US competitors. Jane Levere examines the potential impact of last year's battles on this year's performance. For Northwest Airlines, 1998 will go down as the year it would rather forget. The effects of the ...
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Majors play the mating game
US carriers are again testing the water with a series of new acquisition proposals. Perhaps it has something to do with the season, but it is almost exactly a year since they last indulged in a frenzy of mating activity and the US majors are at it again. Only this ...
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Japan's majors face loss of slots
Low-cost start-up carriers appear to be having more of an impact on Japan's "big three" than expected and new rules are on the way that could erode their dominance on busy domestic routes. The "big three" - All Nippon Airways, Japan Airlines and Japan Air System - are ...
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Double Standards
Airlines face a growing array of different and often divergent competition rules, as recent transatlantic cases have shown. David Knibb, a former antitrust lawyer, examines the issues. Antitrust authorities are positioning themselves as the new policeman of the world marketplace. And as they do so, they begin to replace the ...
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Swissair/Delta could win SAA deal
Lufthansa, long considered the front runner in the race for a 30% stake in South African Airways (SAA), now appears to be facing a determined combined challenge from Swissair/Delta Air Lines. The German carrier launched an aggressive public relations exercise weeks ago announcing that, if successful, it would ...
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Guyana sets sell-off date
The government of Guyana is hoping to have handed over control of Guyana Airways Corporation (GAC) by the end of April. The government's privatisation unit says it had set a deadline of 16 February for would-be purchasers to submit proposals and then it was hoping to complete the sale within ...
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Low cost: improving the odds
Low-cost entrant airlines in the USA are attracting a lot of government and political support because of their poor success rate. But some industry experts argue there is more that start-ups could do for themselves to better their chances of survival. What do restaurants and airlines have in common? ...