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Teleflex/GE join forces
TELEFLEX AND GE Aircraft Engines have agreed to form a joint venture, called Airfoil Technologies International, to repair commercial aero-engine fan blades and compressor aerofoils. The venture, which will be 51% owned by Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania-based Teleflex, is expected to begin operations before the end of this year. ...
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Transavia seals Boeing 737 deal
Peter Legro (left), chief executive of Dutch charter and scheduled airline Transavia, has confirmed an order for eight Boeing 737-800s, with an option on a further 12, in a signing ceremony at the airline's headquarters at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. Boeing president Ron Woodard is seen countersigning the order, which is ...
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KLM reporting a record first half
BRITISH AIRWAYS HAD a clutch of record traffic figures and its highest-ever profits to show as the group revealed an "outstanding" set of results for the first half of the financial year. Net profits climbed to £323 million over the six months to September, as sales broke through ...
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Reduced separations lie ahead on Atlantic routes
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES THE NORTH ATLANTIC Systems Planning Group (NATSPG) plans to start preparations in December to pave the way for the introduction of a trial 1,000ft (300m) reduced vertical- separation minima (RVSM) across the Atlantic by January 1997. The NATSPG, which includes all major ...
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India prepares for change to CNS/ATM
David Learmount/SEATTLE INDIA HAS DRAWN up plans to replace its terrestrial air-traffic-control (ATC) system with a global-navigation satellite-system (GNSS)-based communications, navigation and surveillance/air-traffic management (CNS/ATM) by 2015. A Government study shows that the new system has the potential to yield tenfold increases in system air-traffic capacity ...
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Swissair and Sabena World launch joint sales effort
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS SWISSAIR AND BELGIAN Sabena World Airlines are to launch a joint sales operation and offer shuttle services linking Brussels with Zurich and Geneva in 1996. Code sharing is also to be introduced on long-haul flights to the Middle East, Far East and South America. ...
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USA and Thailand talks make 'major progress'
The USA and Thailand have announced "major progress" in talks to agree the basic framework for a new bilateral agreement. As a result, negotiators have been instructed to begin formal negotiations at soon as possible. The two countries have been at loggerheads for several months over the deal. ...
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BA shrugs off US doubts
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON BRITISH AIRWAYS chairman Sir Colin Marshall shrugs off uncertainties over the fate of its US partner USAir, although he admits that the UK carrier has few clues over the likely outcome of the United and American Airlines approaches to the US airline. "We ...
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Air India makes loss and expects worse to come
AIR INDIA SWUNG firmly back into the red in the first half of its financial year, and losses could rise higher depending on the outcome of wage negotiations with pilots and ground engineers. First-half losses of $23 million are expected to double when the airline reports for its ...
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Airbus prepares for shortened A330 launch launch imminent
Julian Moxon/PARIS AIRBUS INDUSTRIE IS preparing to launch the shortened version of the A330 long-range wide body twinjet "before the end of the year", for service entry in 1998. The manufacturer has been pushing to launch the 250-seat A330-M10 as soon as the market showed sufficient ...
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Air Greece almost breaks even after first year of operation
AIR GREECE, one of the new batch of privately owned Greek start-up carriers, says that it came close to break-even over its first year of operations to September 1995. The airline had sales of GDr2.1 billion ($9 million) over the year, carrying nearly 121,000 passengers on its scheduled ...
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Brunei plans to expand
THE BRUNEI Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) is drawing up a three-phase expansion plan to develop the country's airport into a regional hub. Brunei wants to develop the airport following the formation of the East ASEAN Growth Area (EAGA), formed between Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. Under the ...
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Road to Damascus
Lord Hesketh, the charismatic chairman of British Mediterranean Airways, celebrates the airline's first anniversary in style. Guynter Endres/BEIRUT and DAMASCUS BRITISH MEDITERRANEAN Airways' charismatic chairman Lord Alexander Hesketh might not be the archetypal airline boss, but he has achieved success in one of the ...
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Vnukovo completes privatisation
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW VNUKOVO AIRLINES has become the first of Russia's state-owned carriers to complete its privatisation, with the sale of a 41% stake to a Russian investment company for $150 million. The holding was purchased by VIL, a little-known Russian trading company, after the privatisation auction ...
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AeroMexico reverses losses despite passenger decline
AEROMEXICO, FRESH from its financial restructuring, has delivered a third-quarter net profit, despite another heavy fall in passenger numbers. The Mexican airline turned around 1994's losses to end the September quarter with net profits of NP143 million ($20 million). The result leaves the carrier close to break-even so ...
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Lufthansa to establish Munich hub
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH LUFTHANSA IS planning to introduce intercontinental flights and broaden its European services from Munich, Germany's third-largest airport. The move will effectively turn the Bavarian capital into the airline's second hub after Frankfurt, says Lufthansa. The carrier cites Munich Airport's modern infrastructure, positive development forecasts ...
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New York bound
Cathay Pacific Airways plans to launch its long-awaited service to New York from 1 July, 1996, following the recent signing of a new air-services agreement between Hong Kong and the USA. The service will operate five times a week via Vancouver, initially with a Boeing 747-400. The Hong Kong carrier ...
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JAL and ANA deliver an upbeat message
Japan Airlines (JAL) and All Nippon Airways (ANA) have given upbeat reports for the first half, reflecting signs of recovery in the Japanese economy. JAL's sales grew by a healthy 6.7% over the six months to September and the airline is forecasting that revenues for the full 1995/6 ...
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Estonia inaugurates London Gatwick service
ESTONIAN AIR has started scheduled services between Estonian capital Tallinn and London. The arrival of the Boeing 737-500 at Gatwick Airport on 2 November marked the first-ever service between the two cities. Four flights a week are operating to London, two of them via Copenhagen. The Estonian national ...
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JAL orders stretched 777-300
JAPAN AIRLINES HAS ordered five stretched Boeing 777-300s in a deal worth $800 million. It already has ten 777-200s on order, with options for a further ten. The first -200 Model will enter service in the second quarter of 1996, with service entry for the stretched -300 planned for 1998. ...