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British Midland applies for transatlantic routes
David Learmount/LONDON British Midland (BM) has filed bids to launch a series of transatlantic services from London Heathrow, starting what it says will be a market development programme lasting between five and seven years. The carrier says that it has made its move in anticipation of a UK/US "open ...
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Marketplace
-Pearljet of Australia has purchased a second British Aerospace Jetstream 41 from BAe Asset Management - Turboprops (AMT), to be based at Brisbane. -O'Connor Airlines of Mount Gambier, Australia, has become the first customer in the Asia- Pacific region for the British Aerospace Jetstream 32EP enhanced performance aircraft, leasing two ...
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GE aims to expand oriental engine support ventures
General Electric Engine Services is focusing efforts on firming up planned new engine-overhaul joint ventures in China and the Philippines, following the recent start of its partnership with EVA Airways in Taiwan. GE has confirmed that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Xiamen Aviation Industrial to ...
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Pan Am suspends airline operation
Pan American World Airways filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on 26 February and "temporarily" ceased operations while the parent company seeks debtor-in-possession financing. The company is in default on aircraft lease payments of around $4 million and failed to make a $3.3 million security payment to Airline Reporting, which ...
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BA allies with Finnair
British Airways agreed an alliance deal with Finnair on 27 February which will initially see codesharing between London, Helsinki and Swedish capital Stockholm. Deutsche BA and the Finnish airline will also codeshare. The deal came at the end of a busy week for the UK carrier, which started with ...
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Asian crisis hits airline profits
Andrew Chuter/LONDON Economic turbulence in the Asia-Pacific region will wipe an estimated $2 billion off airline profits this year, according to figures from the International Air Transport Association (IATA). The losses estimates have been released as part of a revision of the region's traffic growth forecasts to 2001 ...
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AirTran aims for 'fresh start' after making heavy losses
US low fare airline AirTran says that it is "positioned for a turn-around", despite posting heavy losses for last year. The former ValuJet has reported a net loss for 1997 of $96.7 million, more than double its 1996 loss, on operating revenues that fell slightly, to $211.5 million. One-time ...
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Lufthansa cargo loads profits
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Lufthansa Cargo has revealed a "turnaround after two difficult years" in 1997, but warns that the air freight market remains uncertain. Profits for 1997 are expected to exceed DM100 million ($61.7 million) while yields in the fourth quarter showed a 10% improvement on the previous year. ...
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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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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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Range, range...range
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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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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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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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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BA alliance faces delay
Patience is a virtue that American Airlines and British Airways surely must be learning. Both carriers seem resigned to more months of delay as their proposed alliance faces scrutiny on both sides of the Atlantic. But BA now hopes that the European Commission might put all alliances at a ...
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Up in arms over Uganda
The battle for dominance of African air space is intensifying with Alliance Air striving to gain control of soon to be privatised Uganda Airlines. Alliance's executive director John Murray says it is 'vital' for Kampala-based Alliance to gain control of Uganda Airlines to prevent it from falling prey to ...