News from FlightGlobal – Page 2251
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Airbus wins the battle, but the war goes on
Karen Walker and Mike Martin Farnborough '98 turned into the show that Airbus Industrie was able to relish, but which Boeing might want to forget.. Boeing's problem was mainly one of timing, however. The company came to the show still smarting from highly public production problems and the ...
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Airlines choose the new FMS
Seven major airlines have chosen the new Flight Management System (FMS), produced jointly by Sextant Avionique and Smiths Industries, for their Airbus fleets. Air France, America West, Asiana, China Northwest, China Southwest, US Airways and one other undisclosed US major, have bought the system for both retrofit use and ...
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Delta Air orders two more 777s
American operator Delta Air Lines has ordered an additional two Boeing 777s powered by Rolls-Royce's Trent 892 engines, it was announced at Farnborough yesterday. The order is worth more than $50 million to Rolls-Royce and the aircraft will be delivered in 1999. These two incremental aircraft increase Delta's ...
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UAE orders CAE training units
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) armed forces has placed orders with CAE for two Pilatus PC-7 Flight Training Devices with MAXVUE Plus Visual Systems. The $9.5 million contract was announced at the show. The equipment will be delivered to the UAE's training college in Abu Dhabi by September ...
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survey reveals harsh realities of marketplace
Alan Dron If you want to be an airline pilot, don't bother with university. And if you do make it into a cockpit, there is a 33% chance of being unemployed at some time in a given five-year timespan, with the average fallow period being one year. These ...
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Russian Zenit crash blow to Boeing's Sea Launch
Tim Furniss The failure of a Russian Zenit 2 booster during launch yesterday with the loss of 12 Globalstar mobile communications satellites, may force Boeing to carry a dummy satellite on its First Sea Launch flight, a booster based on the Zenit 2 and equipped with an additional third ...
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Green light for Emerald Isle carrier's alliance bid
State-owned Irish flag-carrier Aer Lingus will take around six months to find an investor and strategic alliance partner after getting the go-ahead for partial privatisation, the Irish Government has predicted. Dublin has given Aer Lingus the green light to press on with efforts to enter a global alliance and ...
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Delta to offer one premium class on long-haul flights
Delta Air Lines plans to replace its existing intercontinental first- and business-class service with "new, premium two-class service" in the spring of 1999. The new in-flight cabin service product will replace the two premium classes that Delta offers today on long-haul services with one. The marketing effort will include ...
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Star Alliance selects Unisys for IT project
The Star Alliance airline group has moved ahead in its first joint information technology project, choosing Unisys to develop a pilot implementation for a new integrated communications network called Starnet. With Starnet, the Star Alliance carriers expect to be able to provide seamless travel, code-sharing and global recognition of ...
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THY orders 737-800 full-flight simulator
THY Turkish Airlines has ordered a Boeing 737-800 full-flight simulator (FFS) from CAE Electronics. The simulator is to be delivered late next year and installed at the national carrier's flight training centre in Istanbul. The sale is CAE's first to THY, which has also ordered a computer-based Next Generation 737 ...
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First lessons for pilots
The first class in a new training scheme, implemented as a result of a new agreement between Oxford Air Training School, UND Aerospace and Raytheon Systems, is currently under way. The training, which will take place at UND's facilities in Mesa, Arizona, provides initial training for classes of 10 ...
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MTU plans Chinese venture
MTU and China Southern Airlines are to establish a joint venture that will broaden their range of maintenance activities. The move will strengthen Daimler affiliate MTU's position as a leading independent maintenance provider. Following a feasibility study, the joint venture agreement should be finalised by June 1999 to ...
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New Gulf maintenance base planned
Abu Dhabi-based GAMCO and Oman Air have announced their intention to form a new joint venture company, specialising in regional aircraft maintenance, to be based at Seeb International Airport, Oman. The new company, provisionally titled GAMCO Oman, is due to be launched in January next year. It will support ...
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Sun-Air third ATP
Sun-Air of Scandinavia, a British Airways franchise airline, is buying its third ATP aircraft from British Aerospace Asset Management. The latest purchase will be deliverd to Billund, a Denmark based airline, in November. It will be used to operate charters between Denmark and Norway, from Europe's newest airport ...
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Lucas licensed to make PDU for B747s
Lucas Aerospace will manufacture and market power drive units (PDUs) for Elektro-Metall Export's (EME's) Boeing 747-100, -200F/C and -400F aircraft under the terms of a licensing agreement signed at the show. The licence permits Lucas Aerospace to manufacture the PDU in the US and to market them in the ...
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Chemical stocks
Many hundreds of chemicals and plastics are used in the manufacture and maintenance of aircraft and a new service - at an air show for the first time - is available to handle and deliver stocks. Chemchain, from B&K (Hall 4, Stand G4) offers total chemical management for aerospace ...
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More problems detailed at HK airport inquiry
The public inquiry set up to investigate the troubled opening of Hong Kong's new airport at Chek Lap Kok has heard further evidence of apparent mismanagement. Yeung Kwok-keung, Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals (HACTL) deputy managing director, has spoken of bungled fire safety tests that ultimately led to the ...
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Air Canada continues search for Air Alliance buyer
Air Canada is still seeking a buyer for its Air Alliance subsidiary, three months after putting the unprofitable Quebec-based regional on the block. The company continues to drain Air Canada's resources, despite annual sales of around $35 million. A strike last year resulted in the loss of several million ...
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Boeing racks up $2bn more in orders
Mike Martin Boeing announced a raft of orders together worth more than $2 billion yesterday. The biggest order, totalling $1.27 billion, was from GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) for nine extended range 767-300ERs and three 767-400ERs. All the aircraft will be powered by General Electric CF6-80C2 engines. ...
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Thai Airways prepares for revamp
Thai Airways International chief executive Mahidol Chantrangkun is preparing a sweeping proposal designed to revamp the airline's domestic and international operations. Mahidol, who also serves as the Thai government's permanent secretary for transport, is heading the working group tasked with addressing repeatedly delayed privatisation plans, loss-making routes and outstanding ...