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Burnham: service is the key to growth
AlliedSignal Aerospace is not a company that wastes time - its own or anybody else's. So when company president Dan Burnham calls a press conference, reporters should be on red alert that he has something to shout about. So it proved on Monday at Paris, when Burnham coolly ...
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Saab confident of continuing turboprop market
Saab remains confident that there will still be a strong market for turboprops well into the next century, despite the increasing number of orders for regional jets. Saab Aircraft president Gert Schyborger says the impact of the 50-seat regional jets has been to expand the market and create ...
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Jetphone to pick up C&W clients
Air/ground telephony provider Jetphone is set to pick up at least two airline customers left without a supplier by the market exit of Cable and Wireless Flightlink (C&W), reports Reed Aerospace news and data service Air Transport Intelligence (ATI). The electronic news service, formally launched yesterday, says Crossair ...
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Computer lends assistance at take-off
Dedicated to his job and not wanting to miss an air show, Morten Raaby, Sales and Project Engineer from Dataflight, is delaying his honeymoon to be here at the Paris show. "I got married last week, but couldn't let that stop me from being here," he laughs. ...
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Boeing's part of the web
Boeing reports more than 200 customers have started using its Web site to order spare parts within six months of launching the service. The Boeing PART Page processes an average 1,700 transactions every day. Pre-registered users can access the company's spares inventory database through a standard ...
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Zero-gravity training aircraft open for business
The doors of the world's largest 'vomit comet' are being thrown open to selected guests at the Paris show. Invitations to inspect the A300 Zero-G parabolic flight training aircraft are being sent out by Novespace, a private company supported by the French Space Agency (CNES). Initially ...
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Air Madeira prepares for transatlantic flights
A new Portuguese airline, Air Madeira, will start operations later this year with a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar 500 on transatlantic charter flights. The airline is also planning to set up a short-haul network. Air Madeira is based in Lisbon and backed by the Portuguese travel group Pestana Hotels. ...
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EuroLOT primed for take-off as parent suffers 1996 loss
LOT Polish Airlines is preparing to start operations of its regional, low-cost subsidiary EuroLOT in the hope of cutting costs on its shorter routes, after dropping sharply from modest profitability into loss in 1996. EuroLOT, which is expected to become operational early in July, will initially take over ...
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Air Littoral becomes a Lufthansa partner
Lufthansa has signed a commercial alliance with French regional airline Air Littoral, further strengthening its position in the French market. The deal ends the German flag carrier's hunt for a suitable French partner to expand its services to southern Europe. This will be done through Air Littoral's increasing ...
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Authorities push Air Macau into expansion
Local authorities are pressing start-up carrier Air Macau to expand and diversify its services regionally, in an effort to reduce the Portuguese enclave's overwhelming reliance on traffic between China and Taiwan. After a slow start, traffic at Macau's new international airport is picking up, and is projected to ...
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Customer interest is renewed as first MD-95 takes shape
McDonnell Douglas (MDC) hopes to conduct final negotiations at the Paris air show with potential MD-95-30 customers as production of the first twinjet moves into final assembly. "Our timing is good because we want to place orders 21 months before delivery," says MD-95 vice- president and general manager ...
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Russia's Orient and East Line to merge
Russian airline Orient Avia and one of the country's leading freight carriers, East Line Air, are to merge. The merged airline will concentrate operations at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport. Orient, which flies to Vladivostok and Petropavlovsk in the Far East and Kaunas in Lithuania, from Moscow Sheremetyevo airport, operates ...
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Corporate strategy
Winner: Embraer Location Sao Paulo, Brazil Achievement Successfully launching the EMB-145 onto the world market, while battling with privatisation and overcoming heavy losses. The new management which took over Embraer following its privatisation at the end of 1994 faced a seemingly desperate situation. Hit by Brazil's ...
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Finalist: Wavionix Software
Finalist: Wavionix Software Location Lausanne, Switzerland Achievement Successful design and testing of a computer software tool for airport air-traffic procedures design. Designers of airport air-navigation procedures have long dreamed of a way to computerise what can be a frustrating and time-consuming task, based on endless manual ...
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Infrastructure
Joint Winner: Luftfartsverket Location Norrkoping, Sweden Joint Winner: SAS Location Stockholm, Sweden Achievement Pioneering work within the NEAN project to demonstrate the potential of ADS-B to modernise Europe's overburdened air traffic control (ATC)infrastructure is already constraining air-transport growth in the region ...
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Bombardier looks to change perception of regionals
North American airline passengers are disenchanted with turboprop aircraft because they see them as noisy, cramped and subject to greater turbulence. But the development of new wide-body turboprops is changing this perception, says Pierre Lortie, president of Bombardier regional aircraft division. Speaking at Le Bourget yesterday, Lortie says ...
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Jetstream family gets extra payload boost
Improvements to the hot and high performance of British Aerospace's Jetstream 19-seat turboprop family that could be worth up to 350kg of extra payload will be on the market from July. British Aerospace produced around 400 of its Jetstream 31s, Super 31s and 32s, putting most of them into ...
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Design goes well with showgoers
It's unanimous - British Airways has pulled off an artistic masterstroke with its inspirational new logo and tailfin designs, if the views of Paris showgoers are an accurate barometer. The airline unveiled its new corporate image - one of the biggest rebranding exercises in corporate history - on 10 ...
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Menziken chance
Menziken Aerospace Group has enjoyed a long association with the Paris air show, and the company, which operates on both sides of the Atlantic, is keen to make a strong impression this week. Sales manager Alex Wyler says there is no better place than Paris to meet with ...
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AlliedSignal alliance set to storm aftermarket
AlliedSignal Aerospace has formed an alliance with logistics company Caterpillar in an initiative to strengthen its position in the aftermarket, it was announced at the show yesterday. The aims are to help customers cut flight delays and aircraft downtime, and to enable them to save millions of dollars ...