News from FlightGlobal – Page 2212
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Flightsafety secures long-term deals for regional jet training
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC FlightSafety International (FSI) has signed long-term training agreements with three regional airlines to build and operate regional jet simulators. Under a 15-year deal with American Eagle, FSI will build its first simulator for the Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) Series 700. The machine will be ...
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UPS contract leads Thomson to Windows NT
Thomson Training &Simulation (TTS) has launched a Windows NT-based full flight simulator with an order from United Parcel Service. TTS says the simulator, for the Airbus A300-600R, will be the world's first to feature a PC-based real-time computing architecture using the Windows NT operating system. Presently, the company uses ...
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Bombardier wins and loses in trade battle with Embraer
Bombardier and the Canadian Government are claiming victory in their long battle with Embraer and the Brazilian Government over the subsidising of regional aircraft exports. The Canadian manufacturer believes that a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling against Brazil's Proex export finance programme will give its de Havilland Dash 8 turboprop ...
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Sibir bounces back with turnover up 10%
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW Former Aeroflot carrier Sibir is showing signs of rebounding from the Russian economic collapse, with traffic and financial figures showing improvement during 1998. The Novosibirsk-based airline carried 620,000 passengers last year, up 3% on 1997, while cargo volumes were up by 5%, to 5,800t. Sibir's success is all ...
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Rivals to bid for stake in Thai
The rival oneworld and Star alliances look set to submit bids for an equity stake in Star member Thai Airways International, which is due to be partly privatised later this year. Australia's Qantas Airways, a oneworld founder, has confirmed its interest in securing a holding, while Lufthansa executive vice ...
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Cargo Air takes to Israel's open skies
Israeli freight specialist Cargo Air Lines (CAL) is preparing to launch independent services in December, after receiving Israeli Government licences to operate scheduled cargo flights. CAL was set up by Israeli agricultural growers' organisations in 1977 to serve as a broker agency, leasing cargo aircraft capacity from Israeli national ...
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JEA moves focus to 100-seat study
Jersey European Airways (JEA) is turning its attention to 100-seater requirements after sealing a $250 million deal with Bombardier for up to 15 Dash 8Qs and Canadair Regional Jets (CRJ). JEA chief executive Barry Perrott says the airline has been viewing its options for a new large aircraft to ...
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Mandarin plans fleet revamp
Brent Hannon/TAIPEI China Airlines (CAL) subsidiary Mandarin Airlines plans to acquire at least four Next Generation Boeing 737s when the merger with Formosa Airlines is completed later this year. The CAL board approved the Mandarin/Formosa merger this month and plans to complete the changes by the end of the third ...
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Marketplace
Monarch Airlines is to add an International Aero Engines V2533-A5-powered Airbus A321-200 in March, on lease from Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise. Boeing has delivered the first two 757-300s to launch customer Condor. Five more are due for delivery by July. Frontier Airlines is taking two hushkitted Boeing 737-200s on lease ...
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Regional prepares for 70-seaters
French carrier Regional Airlines is evaluating 70/85-seat jets and plans to make a selection by the end of this year, clearing the way for the first three aircraft to be introduced from 2002. The largest type in the airline's fleet is the 50-seat Embraer RJ-145 (above). Under study are the ...
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Routes
US Airways has gained "competitive" slots at London Gatwick to enable the airline to launch services to the airport from Charlotte, North Carolina. Schedule details will be released soon. Earlier, Gatwick had offered slots that the US airline considered unusable for the service, and the resulting wrangle caused problems for ...
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Airbus counts cost of short-haul price war with Boeing
Chris Jasper/LONDON Airbus Industrie has made provisions for losses totalling £400 million ($650 million) as a result of the mid-90s price war with Boeing over shorthaul airliner sales, the European manufacturer has revealed. Around £200 million of the charge was absorbed last year, resulting in a loss to the ...
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US carriers optimistic as market shows recovery
ChrisJasper/LONDON The USA's major carriers are suddenly more bullish about their financial prospects for the rest of the year following a modest improvement in overall market conditions and better than expected performance in the first quarter. Most of the country's big airlines expressed serious concerns about their likely fortunes ...
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JAL to concentrate on high-profit routes
Japan Airlines (JAL) is to transfer low-profit operations to its subsidiaries in an effort to cut costs under a new business plan running to 2001. JAL plans to rename Japan Air Charter and transform it into a scheduled carrier operating short-haul flights to mainland Asia, Hawaii and Oceania, while ...
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FAA rules out 737 rudder malfunction crash link
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Recent Boeing 737 rudder malfunctions are not being linked to rudder control unit failures suspected of causing fatal 737 crashes in 1991 and 1994, senior US Federal Aviation Administration officials say (Flight International, 3-9 March, P13). Preliminary rulings refer to a MetroJet Boeing 737-200 incident on ...
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Air 2000 delays A330s in favour of 767s
Air 2000 has completed integrating the Leisure International Airways (LIA) fleet following last year's merger. The airline's two ex-LIA Boeing 767-300ERs (above), leased from International Lease Finance, will be joined this month by the first of two similar aircraft leased from GE Capital Aviation Services. Air 2000 has dropped plans ...
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CFMI prepares for massive slowdown in engine orders
Guy Norris/CINCINNATI CFM International is predicting a significant slow-down in new orders for 1999 and 2000 , to levels possibly 50% below last year's intake. At the same time, the General Electric/Snecma joint venture is having to achieve record production levels to meet the demand from massive orders ...
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European Air Express launched with Fokker 50s
A former shareholder in Debonair Germany has setup an airline to operate on the Mönchengladbach-Munich route using 48-seat turboprops. UK-based Debonair pulled out of the German domestic market in December after signing a wet-lease deal with Lufthansa. European Air Express (EAE) is operating twice-daily flights using two Fokker 50s ...
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ICAO leads way with enhanced proximity warning proposals
David Learmount/AMSTERDAM In a visible break with tradition, the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) is set to make mandatory the use of flight data analysis (FDA) and enhanced ground proximity warning systems (EGPWS) even though they have not yet been declared requirements in any member state. Previously, the organisation ...
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Gandalf targets Linate traffic with 328JET fleet
Italian new entrant Gandalf Airlines is to launch operations from Bergamo at the end of this month and will take delivery of four Fairchild Dornier 328JETs between September and December. Initial flights will be operated to Munich and Stuttgart in Germany, using two 328 turboprops dry-leased from the manufacturer, ...