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Honeywell wins American deal
AMERICAN AIRLINES HAS selected the Honeywell/ Trimble HT9100 satellite-based navigation system for a fleetwide retrofit of 340 Boeing 727s and McDonnell Douglas DC-10s and MD-80s. The contract, is the first major fleet satellite-navigation avionics contract awarded, since the introduction of the Boeing/Honeywell FANS 1 system and is the ...
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Airbus offers composites work to boost MAS bid
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE has offered to transfer, production of composite airframe components to Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Engineering, in a last-ditch effort to secure a deal with the national carrier for up to ten A340s. The offer, made by Airbus president Jean Pierson, centres on the production of composite cargo-compartment ...
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CityLine hands turboprop operations to Contact Air
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH LUFTHANSA CITYLINE is to hand over its Fokker 50 operations to partner Contact Air to enable it to concentrate on jet-airliner operations. In a related move, Contact Air is to return five de Havilland Dash 8-300s to the Canadian manufacturer. The move, approved ...
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Air Liberte takes over Euralair routes
Julian Moxon/PARIS AIR LIBERTE has made the first move towards consolidating France's privately owned airlines with an agreement to take over the scheduled routes of Euralair. Euralair president Alexander Couvelaire calls the deal with Air Liberte "the opening shot in the regrouping of private-airline forces in ...
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Canadian agrees on further cost cuts
CANADIAN AIRLINES International has reached a 38-month agreement with its 3,100 ticket agents, airport agents and crew schedulers to reduce costs by more than C$17 million ($13 million) a year. The carrier's pilots, dispatchers and simulator technicians have all signed agreements, which are expected to save the airline ...
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Qantas will fly to India again
QANTAS HAS made sweeping schedule changes, which will include the carrier resuming services to Bombay via Singapore from next July, ending a six-year absence from India. A direct Boeing 747-400 flight from Melbourne to Johannesburg will be the first from Australia's East Coast. The three existing flights depart ...
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Boeing defines plans for a 'simple' 777-300 stretch
Guy Norris/SEATTLE DETAILED PLANNING for the design of the stretched Boeing 777-300 is to be completed by mid-February 1996. Half of the design will be released to manufacturing by September, and major assembly is due to begin in late March 1997. Boeing is keeping the ...
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Vietnam poised to sign up for Regionair A320-200s
VIETNAM AIRLINES is expected this month to sign a lease with Singapore company Regionair for ten Airbus A320-200s, to replace eight similar aircraft now reaching the end of their leases from European airlines. Air Vietnam's requirement will mean an imminent order with Airbus, as Regionair has no other ...
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MDC details test plans for F-18E/F
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) expects to fly the second F-18E Super Hornet by 16 December. Flight testing of the first F-18E is expected to resume shortly after repair of an environmental-control-system bleed door, failure of which caused the 29 November first flight to be cut short. ...
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Greek start-up
Greece's newest private airline, Skybus, started operations on 15 November with three daily flights between Athens and Thessaloniki, using Venus Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-82s until it obtains its own air operator's certificate. The airline is evaluating the MD-82 and Boeing 737 for its fleet acquisition. Source: ...
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Booking cyberseat
British Midland will be the first airline to provide a reservations booking service with payment on the Internet. To be known as CyberSeat, the service enables travellers to specify a chosen route, date of travel and the number of seats required, and to make payment by credit card. Personal information ...
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Destination London
Sempati Air Transport of Indonesia is seeking permission to launch a non-stop direct service between the resort island of Bali and London. The airline hopes to begin its Denpasar-Heathrow service by late 1997 or early 1998, using either long-range Airbus Industrie A340s or Boeing 777s. Until now, Sempati has been ...
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MIAT targets safety
THE NEW HEAD of Mongolian Airlines (MIAT), Huvaahuugiin Aleksandr, has made improving the national airline's safety record the main priority of his tenure. MIAT has suffered 20 fatal air crashes in its history, the latest on 21 September when an Antonov An-24 flew into a mountainside on approach to the ...
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Sabena hit by strike
Herman De Wulf/BRUSSELS STRIKING SABENA workers closed down the airline on 29 November in the first of what is expected to be a series of industrial actions following the abrupt cancellation of all labour agreements on 27 November. The unprecedented contract move surprised observers who are ...
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HAECO teams with Rolls-Royce
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE HONG KONG AIRCRAFT Engineering (HAECO) is to hive off its engine-overhaul business to a new 50:50 joint-venture company to be formed in partnership with Rolls-Royce Aero Engine services. Hong Kong Aero Engine Services (HAESL) is expected to begin operations from I January, 1997. HAECO ...
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Growing up
Boeing has begun assembly of its firstnew-generation 737.Guy Norris/SEATTLE IT IS UNPRECEDENTED but, by mid-1997, Boeing's Renton site in Seattle, Washington, will be producing six different models of the same jet airliner. The aircraft is the best-selling 737, and the ramp-up represents the phase in its development when production of ...
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Finnair maintains strong position
THE FINNAIR GROUP continued its impressive performance improvement in the six months to the end of September. Compared to the same first-half period of 1994, Finnair made a FIM462 million ($110 million) profit before reserves and taxes, against FIM298 million. Turnover increased by 7.7% to FIM3.6 billion, while ...
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McDonnell Douglas flies first Super Hornet
MCDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) flew the first F-18E Super Hornet on 29 November, two days ahead of schedule. The first flight, from St Louis Lambert International Airport, was cut short when an environmental control-system warning light illuminated, but the aircraft "...was smooth, precise and easy to control", according to project pilot ...
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New direction for East West
EAST WEST AIRLINES, India's largest private airline, has received Government permission to import four Boeing 737-400s to meet demand for more capacity into Bombay and to service a new Delhi-Hyderabad route. The 737-400s are expected to be leased from Malaysia Airlines. Two are scheduled for delivery in December, ...
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Lufthansa posts profits despite continued exchange-rate trials
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH LUFTHANSA achieved a growth in profits for the first nine months of 1995, despite the massive exchange-rate losses which have blighted German industry all year. The German airline's pre-tax profits, before special items, showed a modest DM4 million ($2.9 million) improvement on the corresponding ...