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Boeing sees good potential in region's air cargo market
The financial turmoil of Asia-Pacific is not reflected in any downturn in air cargo forecasts. The market remains stable, Boeing's James Edgar, regional director, cargo marketing, said at the show yesterday. The broader picture shows world air cargo traffic tripling over the next 20 years. "In fact, the ...
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Lido offers integrated flight planning system
Lufthansa's former flight preparation procedures department, now an independent company in the Lufthansa group, is set to expand its international customer base by up to 50%. Kai Kosicki, director marketing and sales of Lufthansa Aeronautical Services - Lido Gmbh - says the requirements of airlines in this region parallel those ...
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Canadair racks up six more RJ orders
Alan Dron Bombardier yesterday received orders for six Canadair Regional Jets - five from Montpellier, France-based Air Littoral, and one from Air Adria, of Ljubljana, Slovenia. The French order, for five Series 100 machines, will take the airline's fleet of the 50-seat aircraft to 19. Deliveries of its ...
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Brasilia production rates to be doubled
Karen Walker Boosted by a fresh batch of orders from the USA, Embraer is planning to double its production rates of the EMB-120 Brasilia over the next two years. Embraer president and chief Mauricio Botelho says Brasilia production will be increased from 12 to 24 aircraft a year. In ...
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British Midland moves to protect bases
British Midland is stressing that its plans for transatlantic services announced yesterday are at an early stage and are very much dependent on the signing of an "open skies" air services agreement between the UK and USA. The airline says the decision is a "move to protect its bases", ...
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Caravan rolls on to another record year
Mike Martin It may not be the most exciting looking aircraft on the park, but the Cessna Caravan is the bird you want to see in some remote place - and it's selling better than at any time in its 14 years in service. This year - around November - ...
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No clear explanation yet of China Air crash
Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) says it will release a preliminary report into the cause of the 16 February China Airlines (CAL) Airbus Industrie A300-600R crash within ten days. Deputy director Lee Wan Lee of the CAA's flight standards department says the aircraft's flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit ...
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Global 'extranet' spreads technological advances
Mark Hannant The space race not only put a man on the moon, it also famously gave the world Teflon and the non-stick frying pan, perhaps the greatest example of everyday benefits from aerospace technology. The industry has always been a leader and possibly no more so than in the ...
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Boeing studies 747 stretch options
Karen Walker Boeing is weighing up the merits of two alternative stretch plans for the 747-400, including a 500-seat version with a wing root extension that would take the aircraft's range to 7,800nm (14,430km). Having axed proposals for the 747-500X and the -600X because they would have cost too much ...
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Sun Jet sale
A US bankruptcy court has approved an offer by investment firm Aviation Industries to acquire the assets of charter carrier Sun Jet International, which suspended operations in June 1997. Initial financing provided by Aviation Industries will enable Florida-based Sun Jet to resume charter operations, possibly within three months. Source: Flight ...
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Tradewinds launches
US cargo carrier TradeWinds Airlines launched passenger charter services on 12 February with its first ex-Gulf Air, 345-seat Lockheed L-1011 TriStar leased from Interlease Aviation Group. Tour operator Sunburst Holidays has chartered TradeWinds to fly Boston-Montego Bay, Jamaica. A second Interlease aircraft is due in April. Source: Flight International
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Routes
-US carrier Midwest Express has signed a codesharing agreement with regional airline American Eagle providing connecting service at Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, and Los Angeles, California. Midwest, meanwhile, will add five McDonnell Douglas DC-9s to its fleet this year, bringing the total to 29. -Trans World Airlines will feed Delta Air ...
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KLM may rationalise long haul fleet
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Airbus Industrie and Boeing are vying to provide KLM with up to 30 long haul aircraft to enable the Netherlands flag carrier to standardise its widebodied fleet and to reduce the number of types in operation. Any deal could also involve aircraft for its strategic partner, Alitalia. Although ...
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Face the Facts with... Walt McConnell
Fourteen months ago, Walt McConnell was appointed vice-president and general manager of Honeywell's Air Transport Systems division, based in Phoenix, Arizona. McConnell tells Karen Walker that so far, it is going "just famously". Q:How is business at Honeywell going? A:Business is very strong at the moment due to the ...
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FAA keeps restrictions on North Korean flights
The US Federal Aviation Administration has decided that it will continue to ban flights by US carriers and US registered aircraft through much of North Korean airspace, even after the planned opening of the Pyongyang flight information region (FIR) to international traffic in April. Newly amended FAA Special Federal ...
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TWA cuts deficit and stays optimistic
Despite posting another year-end loss, Trans World Airlines ended 1997 optimistic that its turnaround is finally beginning to gather momentum. As expected, the carrier ended the year with a net loss, but had managed to cut the deficit to $90 million (before a tax writedown), compared with the $275 ...
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Mesa drops independent CRJ operations
Troubled Mesa Air Group terminated regional jet services from its fledgling Fort Worth, Texas, hub on 20 February. Five Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets (CRJs) operated by subsidiary Mesa Airlines, will be re- assigned to more profitable routes. Mesa has not said where the CRJs will be used, but the ...
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UPS closes on widebody freighter selection
UPS is expecting to finalise its choice of widebody aircraft to replace its fleet of Douglas DC-8-70 freighters by the end of March, to enable the first to enter service in 1999. The Louisville, Kentucky-based freight carrier revealed in October 1997 that it was examining various aircraft to replace a ...
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Embraer chalks up new orders in US
Karen Walker Embraer announced yesterday that it has clocked up new orders for 20 EMB-120 Brasilia turboprops and nine RJ145 regional jets. The Brazilian company says it is also on track to roll out its 37-seater regional jet earlier than expected. Mauricio Botelho, Embraer's president and chief executive officer, ...
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Indonesian carriers in danger of collapse
Alan Peaford Four domestic Indonesian airlines were said last night to be on the verge of collapse after the Indonesian National Air Carriers Association (INACA) held an emergency meeting with the directorate general of air communications in an attempt to save them from folding. INACA president Hadi Soemarto says the ...