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China is poised to receive its first A320
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE SICHUAN AIRLINES IS expected to take delivery of its first Airbus Industrie A320 by the end of July, following recent certification of the aircraft by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). The airline still requires final approval from China's State Planning Commission to ...
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Qatar Airways to expand with 747s
QATAR AIRWAYS is raising the stakes in its competition with Dubai-based Emirates and the multi-national Gulf Air. According to Qatar chief executive Sheikh Hamad bin Ali bin Jaber al-Thani, the airline is acquiring two ex-All Nippon Airways 747-200s from Boeing to facilitate a large-scale expansion of its network which ...
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Ryanair threatens Stansted move
INDEPENDENT Irish airline Ryanair, is threatening to transfer operations to London Stansted, as part of a protest over charges levied by Irish airports authority, Aer Rianta at Dublin Airport. Incoming Ryanair chairman Tony Ryan, the former boss of leasing giant GPA, has launched a campaign for a second ...
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Virgin to enter South Africa
Chris Yeats/MANCHESTER VIRGIN AIRWAYS is to enter the South African market in 1996, according to company boss Richard Branson. Speaking at the launch of Virgin's new scheduled service from Manchester to Orlando, Florida, he said: "We are 90% sure we'll be flying the route early next year." ...
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Canadian heads for a seventh year of losses
Despite reaching a "tentative" agreement with its pilots' union over cost savings, Canadian Airlines has admitted that it is on course for its seventh successive year of losses. The Canadian carrier had started the year forecasting a net profit of around C$52 million ($38 million) for 1995, but ...
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Emirates 'pauses for breath' before next spurt of growth
EMIRATES reports that its spectacular growth slowed a little during the last financial year, but managing director Maurice Flanagan promises that this is no more than a "pause for breath". Passenger numbers rose by over 12%, while cargo traffic grew by nearly 25% during the 1994/5 year. Flanagan ...
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Aviadvigatel
Debate over the reliability and life of the Aviadvigatel Perm PS-90A, the only series-produced turbofan engine in Russia, has raged on during the past year. Only two PS-90As were manufactured in 1994, and it is believed that none has been built so far this year. Many of the ...
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US airlines report record quarters
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Apart from fears over the threatened fuel tax, US airlines had little to complain about from their financial performance in the second quarter, turning in a clutch of record profits. The major carriers ended the quarter showing a combined net profit of more ...
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The costs of timesharing
Sir - In the article "Jet Aviation backs business-jet timeshare-scheme launch" (Flight International, 19-25 July, P13) there is a mistake. Part owners will not have to pay $150,000 a year, then pay $500 per flight hour, but, for one-third of an aircraft, they will have to make a ...
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Carib Expands
Carib Express, the Caribbean airline in which British Airways has a 20% holding, introduced new services to Antigua and Georgetown, Guyana on 31 July. Served by 76-seat BAe 146-100s, the Georgetown service operates direct from Barbados, while the six weekly flights to Antigua have a varied routing, linking in at ...
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Hartsfield Goes Dutch
Martinair will become the 21st international airline to serve Atlanta, Georgia's Hartsfield International Airport, when the Netherlands airline begins all-cargo services from Amsterdam on 6 August. Hartsfield says that international cargo volume increased more than 20% in the first five months of 1995. Source: ...
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Nations Air Resumes
Nations Air resumed flights on 22 July, about one week after voluntarily suspending them. The US carrier, which began FAR Part 121 operations in March, ceased operating its two Boeing 737-200s after safety questions were raised during a routine US Federal Aviation Administration inspection. The FAA authorised Nations Air to ...
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Aircraft news
Saudia has confirmed its order for 23 Boeing 777-200s, five B747-400s, 29 MD-90s and four MD-11s. Announcing its intention to build a stretched version of the B777, Boeing received orders for 10 B777-300s from All Nippon Airways and six from Thai International. Cathay Pacific has converted ...
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USAir setback
USAir suffered a setback with its restructuring plan when its flight attendants voted 55 to 45 per cent against the proposal. The struggling carrier has yet to get pilot or machinist approval, and must now start talking with the flight attendants again to reach their targeted saving of $52.8 million. ...
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Financial results
Air Canada cut its operating loss from C$12m to C$7m. Passengers and yields both rose 6%. There were C$40m of non-operating gains in 1994. Operating income trebled to US$162.2m, moving ANA into the black. Boosted by the Kobe earthquake and the strong yen, traffic rose 6.1%. ...
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Same old story
Bilaterals The reasons underlying the long-running bilateral dispute between the US and Japan are little changed. But David Knibb explains that economic and political imperatives could well signal the end to what has become an uncomfortable impasse.The scene is a familiar one: a US airline proposes a route beyond Japan, ...
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Technology tradeoffs
As the taxi pulls into the airport, the passenger's personal digital assistant (PDA) flashes the message that his flight is delayed for an hour, and asks him to confirm his inflight meal selection. He swipes his SmartCredit card through the taximeter, enters his personal authorisation code, adds a tip for ...
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The sum of future parts
Global Airways flight 632 is midway between Manchester and Orlando. A line maintenance technician in Orlando, monitoring the aircraft's systems via satellite, is alerted to a malfunctioning aft fuel pump. The technician, who has never handled this problem before, consults a virtual workplace to review the system design and get ...
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Superjumbo or white elephant?
Mrs Akido is flying from Sapporo to Fukuoka to visit her mother. While the aircraft is taxiing to the runway, she goes through the safety procedure on her virtual reality screen. In the noise-proofed cabin she cannot hear the roar of the engines, nestling under the 80 metre wingspan, as ...
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Tomorrow's flight plan
They call it the autonomous aeroplane. An aircraft which can be navigated around the world independently of any ground navigation aid and which, rather less easily, can return to earth anywhere in any weather. Technically the concept is a practicable one. Whether it will be coming to an airport near ...