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ANA launch
All Nippon Airways (ANA) plans to launch a new service from Tokyo's Narita Airport to Jakarta, Indonesia, from 30 October. The new route will served twice weekly by a Boeing 767-300 aircraft. ANA is also intending to add Bombay, Frankfurt, Milan and New Delhi to its network of international destinations, ...
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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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Southwest selects E&S visual for 737
US CARRIER Southwest Airlines has selected the Evans & Sutherland (E&S) ESIG-3350 visual system for a Boeing 737-700 full-flight simulator which is on order from Thomson Training & Simulation (TTS). The Level C simulator is to enter service at the end of 1997, when 737-700 launch customer Southwest receives the ...
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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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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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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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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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Boeing and GE target Air France 777 deal
BOEING AND GENERAL Electric are attempting to sign up Air France as the launch customer for the GE90-100B-powered version of the 777-300. Boeing programme sources confirm that Air France is "definitely the most likely customer" for the 445kN (100,000lb)-thrust GE90-100B, but suggests that no signing is imminent. ...
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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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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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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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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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World departs from schedule to focus on core businesses
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC WORLD AIRWAYS is departing entirely from scheduled-airline operations, having already decided to phase out unprofitable scheduled charter flights to Europe. The US carrier now says that it is terminating scheduled flights from New York to Tel Aviv and Johannesburg. World Airways will operate ...
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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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United to dedicate fleet to shuttle division
SHUTTLE BY UNITED, THE US airline's low-cost division set up in October 1994, will operate a dedicated fleet of 45 Boeing 737s from next March. The division's 23 134-seat 737-300s and 22 116-seat 737-500s will have new interior layouts, with galleys replaced by eight economy seats and new galley equipment. ...
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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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Indian courts resolve Skyline leasing wrangle
Andrew Chuter/LONDON US LEASING COMPANY PLM International has failed in a legal action to have Indian carrier Skyline NEPC, return two Boeing 737-200s, which it has on lease. The Bombay court has ordered the airline to pay arrears, which have accrued from non-payment of leases since late ...