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NZ sidesteps ICAO rules in ATC strike
Paul Phelan/CAIRNSDavid Learmount/LONDON NEW ZEALANDS privatised air-traffic-control (ATC) service sidestepped International Civil Aviation Authority (ICAO) procedures during a 4-6 December controller strike says, the international aviation organisation. The strike, which seriously disrupted domestic and international schedules, was due to be repeated on 12-15 December. The ...
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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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Restructured USAfrica ready for relaunch
USAFRICA AIRWAYS is optimistic that it will be able to restart services early in 1996 following the signing of a marketing pact with Continental Airlines and bankruptcy court approval for a refinancing package. USAfrica began serving South Africa in June 1994 from Washington, but it ceased operations and ...
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Bombardier follows Dash success with Pelangi sales
DOMESTIC MALAYSIAN carrier Pelangi Air has ordered four Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-200Qs and two larger -300s for delivery from April 1996. A further two Dash-8-300s are on option. The aircraft will replace Pelangi's three remaining Dornier 228s and two Fokker 50s, the disposal of which will be accomplished with ...
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KAL service
Korean Air (KAL) has launched a weekly service from Seoul to Tel Aviv in Israel, using a Boeing 747SP. KAL already operates services to Jeddah and Bahrain and, by flying to Tel Aviv, hopes to open up Jerusalem to Far East pilgrim flights. Source: Flight International
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CIS operators hit by series of crashes
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW David Learmount/LONDON THREE SEPARATE crashes have left more than 150 people killed and at least 38 seriously injured in the CIS. An Azerbaijan Airways (AZAL) Tupolev Tu-134, a Baku Air Boeing 707 operated by AZAL, and an Aeroflot Russian International Airlines (ARIA) Tu-154M all ...
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Avro deal threatened by Saudi dissidents
POLITICAL FRICTION between the UK and Saudi Arabia over the continued presence of Saudi dissidents in London is jeopardising an estimated $250 million bid by British Aerospace subsidiary Avro Aerospace International to supply flag carrier Saudia with 12 Avro RJ70/85 regional passenger jets. The contract has been under ...
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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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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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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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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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Boeing strike talks resume
BOEING AND ITS striking workers resumed stalled talks on 6 December, as the impact of the two-month-old stoppage mounted on customers and suppliers. Major Boeing subcontractor Northrop Grumman has announced that it will extend its scheduled holiday plant shutdowns by four to nine days, idling more than 6,000 employees, "...to ...
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KLM
Jan Meurer has been named vice-president for operations at Dutch national carrier KLM, replacing Henny Essenbert, who becomes group managing director, for Air UK. Enno Osinga succeeds Meurer as vice-president for customer service at KLM Cargo. He was formerly manager of cabin- crew divisions and deputy to the manager of ...
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VLM expands
Belgian airline VLM is to add Dusseldorf to its scheduled flights linking the European continent to London City Airport. Source: Flight International
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Australian start-up
Pacific Transair, the first Australian carrier to start up since Compass Airlines failed, plans to fly two hushkitted Boeing 737-200s on the key Melbourne-Sydney-Brisbane route. The company, headed by Sydney aviation service provider Nicholas Leach, has applied for an air operators' certificate. Operations could begin as early as January. ...
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Cargo expansion
Polar Air Cargo plans to add six Boeing 747-200s to its fleet of 12 747-100 freighters, and is projecting that it will be operating 22-24 aircraft within two years. The Long Beach, California-based carrier operates cargo services to Asia, Australia, Europe, New Zealand and South America. Source: Flight ...
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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: ...