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Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Confused over Boeing's plans for future 747 derivatives? Take heart. For two years since the cancellation of the ambitious 747-500X/600X development, Boeing appears to have been as perplexed as anybody. Devising a strategy for product development is, at best, an inexact science. Boeing knows this ...
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FAA seeks further FANS funding
The US Federal Aviation Administration is seeking Congressional approval to divert more than $100 million in 1998 funding towards future air navigation system (FANS) modernisation of US air traffic control centres (ATCCs), following complaints that it was not moving fast enough. Funding is needed to upgrade 20 US continental ...
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Eastern premise
The abiding lesson from the recent Singapore air show is not the magnitude or nature of the present economic unrest in the Asia-Pacific region, but the vulnerability of the aerospace community in the region to such a crisis. Much as time and effort needs to be expended in countering the ...
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Embraer chief confirms plan for international flotation
Embraer president Mauricio Botelho has confirmed that the company is on course for a share flotation on international markets later this year, raising cash for new product development, but also underlining the Brazilian manufacturer's ambitions to increase its world presence. Botelho, speaking at the show, said that it is ...
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Asians sign up for Trent work
A memorandum of understanding for a proposed joint venture to undertake Trent engine overhaul and maintenance in Asia- Pacific has been signed by Rolls-Royce, Singapore Airlines Engineering (SIAEC) and Hong Kong Aero Engines Services (HAESL). HAESL, a joint venture between R-R and Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering, is the only ...
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AIA 98 FINALIST:Alenia Difesa and Swedavia (Infrastructure)
The FarAway project, co-ordinated by Italy's Alenia Difesa, represents another step in the development of the future air traffic management concepts that Europe will have to adopt if growth is to continue in its overcrowded airspace. The project, financed by the European Commission, aims to validate the benefits of ...
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AIA 98 WINNER:Airport Authority Hong Kong (Infrastructure)
First landing at Chep Lap Kok Airport Hong Kong's new international airport at Chek Lap Kok passed a major milestone on 20 February, 1997 when the first aircraft touched down. Admittedly, the flight was only a short hop by a Raytheon Beech Super King Air from Hong Kong's existing ...
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AIA 98 WINNER:AMECO-Beijing (Maintenance & Modification)
AMECO-Beijing took its first important steps into the international market for heavy aircraft maintenance in 1997, showing how far the Chinese joint venture has come over the past eight years. AMECO was set up at Beijing's Capital Airport in 1989 as a joint venture between Air China and Lufthansa, ...
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Business Express leads 30-seater orders
Business Express has become the first US regional carrier to declare its hand for a 30-seat regional jet, signing an order for 20 Embraer RJ-135s, and 40 options, in a total package worth around $810 million. The first aircraft are scheduled for delivery in October 1999 and will follow ...
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AB float time
AB Airlines is to float 30-40 per cent of its share capital on the London Stock Exchange during April/May to finance new aircraft purchases and route expansion. The carrier flies from London/Gatwick to Shannon, Lisbon and Berlin. Source: Airline Business
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Weakened by taxation
Growing profits at many airlines have led to an increase in the taxes levied by governments and a rash of new charges. Tom Gill assesses the current state of affairs worldwide.'An airline is like a fat cow - everyone is milking it.' Like most airline executives, Franco Mancassola of UK-based ...
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MetroJet set to propel US
US Airways' new airline, MetroJet, will throw down the gauntlet to the US champion of low-costs, Southwest Airlines, when it launches operations out of Baltimore-Washington on 1 June 1998. Details of US Airways' low-cost competitive response hold no surprises, according to analysts. By launching a service out of Baltimore ...
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Kiwi quests
Air New Zealand sees its future in a global alliance but has yet to gain access to the Star Alliance. Meanwhile the carrier still needs to overcome major challenges close to home. David Knibb reports from Auckland. Air New ZealandThey say events often happen in threes - all the more ...
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Latin race heats up
Even before the American-Tacapact gets final approval, it is sparking a flurry of competitive reactions from other UScarriers, set on improving their own Latin American positions. The US Department of Transportation's tentative approval of the American-Tacadeal last December has pushed Continental Airlines to apply to fly to six Central ...
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And then there were four . . .
The latest 'virtual merger' means four airlines have 70 per cent of the US market. The airline alliance dance has moved into a new phase with the announcement of the virtual merger between Northwest Airlines and Continental Airlines. The entire industry is still trying to digest the implications of this ...
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US-Japan: is this the finish post?
The new US-Japan civil aviation bilateral might go down in history as the agreement that metamorphosed from a full open skies prospect into a reality check. Given the increasingly obvious premise that full open skies was not on the table, it eventually came down to the US Department of ...
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Mesa faces tough times
A new board of directors at Mesa Air Group is flexing its muscles in a bid to respond to challenges facing the carrier. The airline's new board includes Virgin Express chief executive officer Jonathan Ornstein and Virgin Express director, James Swigart. Larry Risley and his wife, both co-founders of ...
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Labour strife hits Europe
Cancellations are set to continue at Olympic Airlines if the question of staff shortages is not resolved, while labour strife is also plaguing Virgin Express. Olympic's unions are demanding that the airline reinstate the 64 seasonal flight attendants it fired in February. At presstime, the airline was forced to ...
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Enter the eurozone
Airlines need to get to grips with the pricing and IT issues that are posed by the planned arrival of Europe's single currency on 1 January, 1999. Report by Gemini's Keith Turner. A year ago it was debatable whether Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) would ever happen. Since then there ...
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Delta toys with TWA tie
A proposed codeshare by Delta Air Lines and Trans World Airlines on US-Japan routes is sparking speculation of the start of a stronger relationship between the two. Earlier in February, Delta's plans for a merger with Continental Airlines were thwarted when Continental opted instead for an alliance with Northwest ...