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Market change
ARIANESPACE HAS analysed three major factors for the reduction of GEO civil-communications satellites. The globalisation (or regionalisation) of space projects has caused a significant change in the telecommunications market. National projects are tending to disappear, replaced by projects "without borders". The monopolies held by organisations such as Intelsat are at ...
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Lufthansa Cargo cuts costs and capacity
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON LUFTHANSA CARGO IS clamping down on costs and capacity, as the world's largest international freight carrier steels itself for another couple of tough years in the heavily oversubscribed international freight market. The operation ended its first year of independence in 1995, showing a DM20 ...
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The cabin challenge
Perceptions of new cabin dangers are emerging as old problems resurface. Paul Phelan/CAIRNS David Learmount/LONDON AIRLINE PASSENGERS ignore safety briefings because they believe that it is the cabin crew's responsibility to protect them, according to recent research. Professor Helen Muir, of Cranfield University in the UK, ...
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ValuJet bids to resume flying with smaller fleet
VALUJET AIRLINES hopes to win the US Federal Aviation Administration's approval to resume service as early as the first week of August. It has submitted a plan to the FAA's Atlanta, Georgia, regional office describing how the grounded low-fare carrier would resume flights with about 15 aircraft. More ...
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Kenya soars despite pilots pay award
PROFITS CONTINUE TO soar at Kenya Airways, but the newly privatised carrier has outlined a major round of cost cuts following the court award of a massive pay hike to pilots. The pay award, which virtually doubles salaries, came after the airline's 108 pilots referred a pay dispute ...
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Asian governments are offered Saeaga shareholding
MALAYSIAN timber tycoon Ting Pek Khiing has offered the governments of Brunei, Indonesia and Philippines each a 10% stake in his struggling start-up regional carrier Saeaga Airlines. Ting's offer follows recent talks between Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohammad and Philippine president Fidel Ramos on establishing a joint regional ...
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BA tones up alliance defence
British Airways' proposed tie-up with American Airlines could be the most scrutinised partnership in airline history Kevin O'Toole and Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON RARELY CAN AN AIRLINE alliance have whipped up such controversy. Since it was announced, the proposed tie-up between British Airways and American Airlines has been drawing unprecedented ...
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First New Zealand Airbus goes to Kiwi International
Kiwi International Airlines has become the first New Zealand airline to operate an Airbus type, with the acquistion of an A320 on lease from Orix. It will be used for flights to Australia, serving Sydney and Brisbane, and to extend the airline's network to include Melbourne and Perth. ...
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Air Malta outlines plans for Azzura Air
AIR MALTA has purchased two AI(R) Avro RJ85s to start its new Italian-based venture AzzuraAir. The airline expects to add a third aircraft to the order by the end of July (Flight International, 22-28 May). Joseph Tabone, the Air Malta chairman, says that he expects to launch AzzuraAir ...
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Hub crack is blamed for MD-88 fan failure
A FATIGUE crack in the fan hub is the likely cause of the uncontained failure of a Pratt & Whitney JT8D-219 powering a Delta McDonnell Douglas MD-88. Two passengers were killed and four injured when the left-engine fan disintegrated, sending debris into the cabin during the take-off run of Flight ...
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Trent 777 ETOPS testing resumes
BOEING RESUMED extended-range twin-engined operations (ETOPS) testing of the Rolls-Royce Trent 800-powered 777 on 11 July, after foreign-object damage was determined to be the cause of a surge which halted testing on 16 June (Flight International, 3-9 July). Testing for 180min ETOPS clearance is expected to be completed on schedule ...
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WestPac agrees big 328 deal
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH DORNIER LUFTFAHRT has secured the first new orders for the Dornier 328 turboprop since a majority of the company was sold to Fairchild in June. Western Pacific Airlines ("WestPac") has placed an order for up to 24 328s, which it selected over the Aero International (Regional) ...
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Germany will close three radar centres by 2000
Andrzej Jeziorski/FRANKFURT T HE GERMAN AIR-traffic- services agency Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS) is to close down three of its six radar centres by the year 2000 as part of the agency's efficiency drive. No decision has yet been made about which centres are to go, says DFS ...
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VASP gets eighth MD-11
VASP Brazilian Airlines took delivery of its eighth McDonnell Douglas MD-11 from Long Beach, California, on 2 July. The Sao Paulo-based operator introduced its first MD-11 into service in 1992. More than 150 MD-11s are now in service with 19 operators. Source: Flight International
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FAA should tidy up its own back yard
Sir - When the US Federal Aviation Administration began its programme of declaring foreign airworthiness authorities as unfit, and prevented airlines under its jurisdiction from expanding services to the USA, I regarded this as tantamount to air piracy. As recent events, surrounding the ValuJet crash investigations have revealed, ...
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Regional Saab
Regional Airlines, the Nantes, France-based carrier, has accepted its fifth Saab 2000 into service. The aircraft will be introduced on the new Marseille to Amsterdam route early in August. The airline, which also operates eight Saab A340s, is believed to considering acquiring a further two Saab 2000s, possibly for delivery ...
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Out of the wilderness
The new chief executive of Air Niugini, Moses Maladina, is leading the national airline of Papua New Guinea towards privatisation. Paul Phelan/PORT MORESBY AIR NIUGINI'S new chief executive and former company secretary, 31-year-old lawyer Moses Maladina, faces daunting tasks in his work of grooming the airline ...
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GEC-Marconi raises profits
GEC-MARCONI HAS impressed analysts with an unexpectedly strong rise in profits, and the GEC group claims that is has now resolved the contract-overrun problems which have dogged its defence-electronics arm over the past year. The GEC unit ended the financial year to March with operating profits up at ...
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Family fortunes
Braathens SAFE celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, with the founder's grandson at the helm Max Kingsley-Jones/OSLO AT THE LAST COUNT, the Norwegian population totalled some 4.5 million. In 1995, Norway's flag carrier, Braathens SAFE, carried more than 4 million passengers on its domestic routes, representing 52% ...