News from FlightGlobal – Page 1027
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Bearing compartment module behind secondary Trent 900 oil leak
Qantas Airways has specified the part it is replacing in some of its Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines due to a secondary oil leak. That oil leak is unrelated...
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Qantas acquires Perth charter operator
Qantas Airways will acquire Perth charter operator Network Aviation, moving into the market for air charter services in the mining sector.
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AB25: reflections from Akbar Al-Baker and Samer Majali
To mark the 25th anniversary of Airline Business, 25 leading airline industry executives who have helped shape the sector over the last quarter century, give their reflections on the last 25 years and the challenges for the years to come. Here two of the Middle East region's most influential chef ...
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Sukhoi to have three Superjets ready by year-end
Sukhoi is expecting to complete three serial examples of its Superjet 100 regional jet before 2011. Russian presidential plenipotentiary envoy in the...
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Investigators locate cockpit recorder of Dagestan Tu-154
Russian investigators have retrieved the cockpit-voice recorder of the crashed Dagestan Airline Tupolev Tu-154M in Moscow, nearly a week after the accident.
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AB25: anniversary reflections from Sir Michael Bishop
"Air transport is a tumultuous industry, frequently dictated by uncontrollable events"
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SIA modifies Trent 900s to latest variant
Singapore Airlines (SIA) is modifying some Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines to the latest "C mod", following the 4 November uncontained engine failure on a...
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Replacement Twin Otter arrives in Antarctica
A Twin Otter aircraft is due to arrive today at Australia's Casey station in Antarctica to replace a damaged CASA 212-400 aircraft operated by Sydney-based...
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ATSB focuses on "mod A" and "mod B" Trent 900s
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) ordered stub pipe inspections on only two specific versions of the Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine as part of...
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SIA Engineering renews services agreement with SilkAir
Maintenance, repair and overhaul firm SIA Engineering has renewed an existing services agreement with SIA subsidiary SilkAir, which was due to expire in...
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Tiger extends lease on two A320s
Singapore-based low-cost carrier Tiger Airways has extended the leases on two Airbus A320 aircraft for 18 months from January 2011. This will increase...
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Lufthansa to place fifth Airbus A380 on JFK-Frankfurt route
Lufthansa plans to begin operating its fifth Airbus A380 on the New York JFK-Frankfurt route in February.
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Boeing at work behind the scenes on 737 re-engining project
Boeing's customers may have given a tepid reaction to a 737 re-engining project, but behind the scenes the airframer has not slowed the pace on work to refine the design of an updated narrowbody.
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No impact on A320 values due to Neo: IBA
Boeing is likely to respond within two to three years to Airbus's A320NEO launch with a 737NG.
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SpiceJet firms up Q400 plans
India's SpiceJet has firmed up plans to order 15 Bombardier Q400 turboprops. The carrier's board of directors last month gave approval for the carrier...
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Two Flybe aircraft in weeks shed unlatched engine doors
Just two months after a Flybe jet lost unlatched engine cowl doors on take-off, another Flybe aircraft lost an engine access door in similar circumstances,...
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Emirates A380 wing damaged as catering truck collapses
Emirates has removed one of its Airbus A380 aircraft from service after an incident in which a scissor-lift catering truck collapsed at Toronto, damaging...
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Trent 900 shortage keeps Qantas A380s grounded
A lack of spare Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines is preventing Qantas Airways from returning two more Airbus A380 aircraft to service, the carrier says.