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Emirates is looking at Airbus replacements
Max Kingsley-Jones andAndrew Doyle/LONDON EMIRATES IS evaluating bids from Airbus and Boeing for around 16 aircraft to replace its fleet of Airbus A300-600Rs and A310-300s after 1998. Gulf rival Kuwait Airways, meanwhile, has agreed a deal swapping Boeing 747-400 orders for Boeing 777s. The packages ...
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Western Pacific nears decisions on orders
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON WESTERN PACIFIC is about to finalise plans for the acquisition of new aircraft, with orders anticipated for a 30- to 40-seat aircraft for its new commuter-airline division, and orders for Boeing 737-300s and -700s expected for its main fleet. The Colorado Springs, USA-based ...
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Cycles in the sky
The aviation-industry recovery is in full swing, but economists are even now forecasting when the next downturn will occur Kevin O'Toole/LONDON IN GERMANY THEY CALL it the pig cycle. When pork prices rise, farmers pile into the market to cash in on the boom, only to find ...
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UK's easyJet expands services under Air Foyle AOC
EASYJET HAS contracted Air Foyle Charter Airlines to operate all its services under the latter's air-operator's certificate (AOC), replacing a previous arrangement with GB Airways. London Luton Airport-based easyJet recently added to its fleetan ex-Monarch Airlines Boeing 737-300, leased from Yankee Alpha Aviation with an Air Foyle crew, ...
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A330s and 777 share Asiana deal
Paul Lewis/JAKARTA ASIANA AIRLINES of South Korea has signed agreements with Airbus Industrie and Boeing to order up to 58 new Airbus A330s, Boeing 777s, 747-400s and 767-300s in what is likely to be the largest widebody deal to be agreed this year. The carrier ...
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Air Inter takes first A319
AIR INTER EUROPE HAS taken delivery of its first Airbus A319, becoming the second airline (after Swissair) to operate the full range of Airbus single-aisle models. The airline will by next March receive eight more A319s on firm order, and will fly the CFM International CFM56-powered aircraft on internal French ...
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Boeing benefits from Garuda restructure
GARUDA INDONESIA is to buy up to six Boeing 777-200s, as part of a $1.6 billion deal to restructure its outstanding orders (Flight International, 19-25 June). Under an agreement with Boeing, the Indonesian flag carrier has traded in orders for five General Electric CF6-80-powered 747-400s for six ...
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Fokker looks for east Asian joint venture
FOKKER SERVICES of the Netherlands, a division of Fokker Aviation, the company born out of the bankruptcy of Fokker Aircraft in March this year, is seeking a joint venture with an East Asian maintenance company or airline to meet the service requirements of operators in the region. Erik ...
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Britannia takes first 767-300ERs
UK CHARTER CARRIER BRITANNIA AIRWAYS has taken delivery of its first three General Electric CF6-80C2-powered Boeing 767-300ERs, which received instant 180min extended-range twin-engined operations approval from the UK Civil Aviation Authority. Delivery of a fourth aircraft, which was due shortly, has been delayed until 1997. The 328-seat 767-300ERs, which join ...
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Amman bound
Israeli airline El Al began scheduled flights to Jordan on 23 June. The airline will operate a Boeing 737 five times a week on a route opened up by the Middle East peace talks. The Royal Jordanian subsidiary Royal Wings began its service on the route in April, operating five ...
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Compass founder plans a comeback
THE BOSS OF failed Australian low-cost operator Compass Airlines says that he is to launch a new carrier following a successful Federal Court battle with rival Qantas over rights to terminal space at key domestic airports. Bryan Grey says that he plans to have a new airline, ...
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UK charter operator Excalibur finally folds
UK CHARTER OPERATOR Excalibur Airways, pilloried in the UK media for two weeks over a series of embarrassing delays, went into liquidation on 26 June. The decision is blamed partly on the "sensationalised media coverage", which followed a scare among passengers over technical problems on a leased McDonnell ...
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CityFlyer Express expects to grow by introducing Avro RJ100s in 1997
CITYFLYER EXPRESS has placed firm orders for two AI(R) Avro RJ100s, plus options on a further two aircraft, for delivery in 1997. It is understood that the aircraft are being leased, but the airline, which operates as a British Airways Express carrier, declines to comment on how the deal is ...
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IFE market starts to come right for BEA
BE AEROSPACE (BEA) claims that the long-awaited upturn in its fortunes is at last in sight, after returning a modest $1.4 million profit for the first quarter - the group's best quarterly performance in two years. A year ago, the cabin-equipment group had posted a loss of $33 million as ...
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Eurowings turns first profit
Andrzej Jeziorski/NUREMBERG GERMAN AIRLINE Eurowings, buoyed by strong growth in Europe's regional market, has announced its first profit since its formation from the merger of NFD Luftverkehrs and Regionalflug in 1993. The airline reports a net profit of DM2 million ($1.3 million), reversing a loss ...
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FedEx nears MD-10 decision
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES OVERNIGHT US freight giant FedEx is expected to make a decision by mid-July on the upgrade and conversion of a massive fleet of up to 80 McDonnell Douglas (MDC) DC-10s. The decision over the so-called "MD-10" programme involves upgrading FedEx's current 35-strong ...
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Air France shows profit
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON AIR FRANCE, now in the final stretch of its restructuring plan, has posted its first full-year operating profit since 1989, but the news is tempered by uncertainty over whether the European Commission (EC) will approve the final tranche of state aid. The latest ...
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Hopping hot
Hong Kong's Civil Aviation Department is focusing its investigation into a false fire-alarm aboard a new Cathay Pacific Airways Boeing 777-200, on two crates of live frogs being carried in the aircraft's hold. Over 300 passengers were forced to make an emergency evacuation on landing at Kai Tak Airport after ...
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Means to an end
IT WOULD BE EASY to assume from recent events on both sides of the Atlantic that the ultimate power of airline regulation has passed from the hands of the professional, independent, regulatory authorities to a rag-bag of customers, self-interest groups, the media, local politicians and the airlines themselves. In some ...
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EC to focus on airline competition issues
THE EUROPEAN Commission (EC) will increasingly turn its attention to airline-competition issues such as access to new routes, airport slots and computer reservation systems (CRS) EC Transport Commissioner Neil Kinnock has pledged. Kinnock acknowledges that the EC has so far been pre-occupied with the issue of state aid, ...