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Ageing airliners
AiRLINES DEFINED AS ageing are turbine-powered aircraft with accommodation for at least 30 passengers (or an equivalent freight capacity), and built more than 15 years ago (before 1 January, 1982). The 1996 Flight International Ageing-Airliner Census covers 38 turbine-powered passenger and cargo aircraft types, designs with few examples still flying ...
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Boeing prepares new strategy
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES BOEING HOPES to finalise by the end of October a broad-based product-development strategy to take the company into the next century. The company is wrestling with several options and, because it is short of engineers, is attempting to prioritise without over-reaching itself. ...
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ValuJet warns over debt covenants
VALUJET HAS warned that it may begin to run into problems with debt covenants by the end of September because of its grounding, which has been in place since mid-June in the wake of the Florida crash. In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the ...
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Stevens launches Orenda engine
STEVENS AVIATION has placed a $20 million launch order for 140 Orenda Aerospace Vee-8 piston aero engines, which it plans to retrofit to Raytheon Beech King Air C90 twin turboprops. Stevens plans to re-engine the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-powered King Airs with the Orenda 600 piston engines ...
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Skyhigh healthcare
Airlines are finally considering fitting telemedicine equipment. Patrick Hook/LONDON DESPITE THE HUGE costs involved every time a scheduled service is diverted from its route to off-load a sick passenger, airlines have always demonstrated a reluctance to fit their aircraft with telemedicine equipment which might improve ...
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Rush to hush
Different approaches to hushkits exist in Europe and the USA. Andrew Doyle/LONDON HUSHKIT SALES are booming, but the US domestic market is eclipsing that of Europe, highlighting the radically different approaches being taken by the airlines and airports of the two regions. The major passenger ...
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United move
United Airlines has applied to launch a new thrice-weekly service from San Francisco to Jakarta, via Osaka, in a move likely to further inflame the long running US-Japan bilateral air-services dispute. Japan has rejected a similar application by Northwest Airlines, and says that it will not approve any other new ...
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The politics of safety
Tony Broderick talks on politics, safety and the need for a new funding regime. Paul Phelan/CAIRNS TONY BRODERICK understands better than most the perils which political intervention can put in the path of effective aviation-safety oversight. After nearly two decades at the US Federal Aviation ...
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Dragonair to Taiwan
After months of delay, Dragonair has initiated its first thrice-daily service between Hong Kong and Kaohsiung in Taiwan. The airline has added a fourth leased Airbus Industrie A330-300 to its fleet for the new route. Under a recently announced agreement with China, it will also launch a new service to ...
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Canada 3000 looks at long-haul types
CANADA 3000 IS IN the middle of an evaluation process for its future fleet needs, which could see it conclude acquisition agreements for new long-haul aircraft before the end of the year. The Toronto, Canada-based charter carrier operates a fleet of leased Airbus A320s and Boeing 757s on ...
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PW4090 flight-test programme starts on first Boeing 777
PRATT & Whitney's 400kN (90,000lb)-thrust PW4090 engine has entered a five-month flight-test programme on the first Boeing 777 aircraft, WA001. The engine will power 777-200IGW versions on order from Korean Air and United Airlines, the first of which will enter service in March 1997. The engine is an ...
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Lufthansa Technik warns against maintenance monopoly dangers
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH LUFTHANSA TECHNIK (LHT) chairman Wolfgang Mayrhuber has criticised manufacturers which offer their own maintenance packages for aircraft and aero engines. LHT says that aircraft and engine manufacturers are increasingly attempting to "-elbow their way" into the maintenance and overhaul market and restrict current ...
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FBI agents raid SabreTech premises
US FEDERAL BUREAU of Investigation (FBI) agents have raided Miami-based SabreTech, maintenance contractor to ValuJet and alleged to be implicated in the cause of the 11 May crash, seizing company documents. FBI officials will not discuss the reasons for the search. Meanwhile, Lewis Jordan, president of grounded ValuJet, ...
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Aiming for the top
Phillipine Airlines is being revamped in a determined effort to polish its tarnished image Paul Lewis/MANILA For many years Phillipine Airlines (PAL) had the reputation of being a carrier with a problem. A series of soap-opera-type shareholder battles for control, a geriatric fleet of aircraft, poor punctuality ...
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Air Nostrum plans for expansion
AIR NOSTRUM may acquire a small fleet of regional-jet aircraft to enable it to expand its European network. The Spanish regional carrier, based in Valencia, flies seven leased Fokker 50s on a network of scheduled routes, within mainland Spain and to the Balearic Islands. Two more Fokker 50s ...
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Air South shakes up management
AIR SOUTH has received a much-needed cash infusion from investment banking firm Hambrecht & Quist, in exchange for new management and a one-third reduction in flights. The amount of additional capital which the struggling low-fare Columbia, South Carolina-based carrier received is not disclosed, but the investor has acquired ...
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Air charter swaps
Air France subsidiary Air Charter is to take over the Spanish routes formerly operated by Air Inter (now Air France Europe) later this year, flying daily scheduled services from Paris to Malaga, Palma and Seville. Air France Europe abandoned the routes this year to save money. Source: Flight ...
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Leaked figures lead to suspension of Lauda Air shares
Shares in Lauda Air were suspended on the Vienna stock exchange after a bank official prematurely released first-half financial figures showing a sharp increase in first-half losses. Following the leak on 6 August, shareholders fought to sell off Lauda shares ahead of the official announcement, which was brought ...
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American attacks United's 'hypocrisy'
AMERICAN AIRLINES (AA) says that rival carrier United Airlines is "hypocritical and unprincipled" in its position on international airline alliances. The airline's comments were contained in a Department of Transportation filing over United's request for anti-trust immunity to allow it to pursue a marketing pact with Air Canada. ...
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Delta launches low-cost Express from Florida base
Karen Walker/ATLANTA DELTA AIRLINES has entered the low-fare market with the launch of Delta Express, a single-class service providing non-stop flights between Florida and cities in the mid-western and north-eastern USA. Services, using a dedicated fleet of 25 Boeing 737-200s, will begin on 1 October ...