News from FlightGlobal – Page 2253
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-Austrian Airlines has become the first carrier to take delivery of the recently certificated Pratt & Whitney PW4000-powered Airbus A330-200, with the handing over of the first of four aircraft it plans to acquire. Meanwhile, Korean Air has become the first Asian airline to take delivery of the type, with ...
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Air Atlantic closes down after Canadian kills agreement
Canadian regional carrier Air Atlantic will cease operations in October, following a decision by Canadian Airlines Inter- national (CAI) to end its long-standing agreement with its regional connector. The void will partly be filled by Inter-Canadian, another regional carrier recently sold by CAI to a group of Montreal investors. ...
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Routes
-Continental Airlines and British Midland have signed a code-sharing agreement for routes between and Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland and New York Newark, via Manchester. -Lufthansa franchise partner Augsburg Airways will launch services from Hof and Bayreuth to Frankfurt, operating Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8 turboprops in Team Lufthansa ...
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Strikes ground North American airlines
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Brian Dunn/MONTREAL The first week of strikes by pilots at Northwest Airlines and Air Canada have crippled the two carriers' operations. Estimates put the revenue losses in the two unconnected labour disputes at over $150 million by 5 September. Northwest was the first to be ...
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Tata consigns plans for new Indian carrier to scrapheap
The Tata Group has finally thrown in the towel and abandoned plans to launch a privately owned domestic Indian airline in the face of more than three and half years of government procrastination, as well as repeated changes to its aviation policy. Tata dropped plans to launch the new ...
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Fight for control of Transaero heads for court dates in Moscow and Orel
The fight for control of Russian carrier Transaero has gone to court as founder Alexander Pleshakov seeks retribution for his recent ousting by Boris Berezovsky after a hostile take-over of the airline (Flight International, 26 August-1 September). Court action is being taken in Moscow and the southern Russian town ...
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Results dampen Air New Zealand and Ansett prospects
Challenging regional market conditions are expected to continue dampening the prospects of Air New Zealand (ANZ) and its 50%-owned partner Ansett Australia. The tougher conditions were already evident in the results for the 12 months ending 30 June. ANZ relied on marginal improvements to domestic performance to produce a ...
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Asian crisis bites hard into Chinese airlines
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Asian economic woes have finally begun to catch up with the Chinese air transport industry, with the country's two largest carriers China Southern Airlines and China Eastern Airlines sliding into the red in the first half of 1998 as the result of growing overcapacity and deteriorating yields. ...
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SAirLines buys into Italian charter airline Volare
SAirLines, the airline division of the Swiss SAir Group, has bought a 34% stake in Italian charter carrier Volare. The shareholding was acquired on 28 August as part of a capital increase by the Italian airline. The Swiss company says this will provide its own charter carrier Balair/CTA with greater ...
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Time's Up
Awareness of the year 2000 computer problem has reached that level in industrialised nations where any casual mention of the Millennium Bug is likely to elicit accusations of hype. That should worry those nations' airlines, as they fly daily into regions of the world where awareness of the date rollover ...
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Varig picks GE90-powered 777 in $2.9 million fleet expansion
Varig of Brazil has committed to a major fleet expansion, with orders and options for up to 39 Boeing 737s, 767s and 777s worth an estimated $2.9 billion. An announcement confirming the deal is expected at the show. The most significant element is the selection of four 777-200ERs, with ...
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Turboprop- and proud of it
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Cutaway Poster/Tim Hall Gentlemen prefer blondes and passengers prefer jets - two claims as hard to disprove as they are to prove. But Bombardier believes it can prove the latter claim to be inaccurate with its new 70/78-seat regional turboprop, the Q400, formerly the de Havilland Dash ...
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Industry watchdogs
David Learmount/LONDON Religion, especially in medieval times, used the fear of hell as its most potent weapon to make people believe and behave. The promise of heaven never had quite the same power of persuasion. Those who wish to persuade industry to believe in the Y2K "bug", and ...
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Groen wins new gyroplane order from China
Groen Brothers Aviation (GBA) says it has secured a further large order for its gyroplanes from Shanghai Energy and Chemicals (SECC) of China . The order is on top of an existing contract for 200 of the Utah-based company's Hawk III gyroplanes, and covers purchase options on further Hawk ...
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PZL-Okecie flies P&WC-powered Kruk variant
Polish aircraft manufacturer PZL-Okecie has begun test flights of a new variant of its PZL-106 Kruk agricultural aircraft, powered by a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-34AG turboprop engine. According to the company, the modified aircraft is aimed at the export market, with particular emphasis of sales to South America, ...
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Comair negotiates 428JET order
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Fairchild Dornier is in advanced talks with US regional airline Comair which could lead to a launch order for the 42/44-seat 428JET. The manufacturer confirms that negotiations cover a potential order for 30-40 aircraft, but it does not expect to be ready to make any conclusive ...
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S Korean aerospace businesses to merge
Three of South Korea's largest aerospace manufacturers, Daewoo Heavy Industries (DHI), Hyundai Space & Aircraft and Samsung Aerospace, have agreed in principle to merge their businesses into a single entity as part of wider corporate consolidation move. South Korea's five major corporate conglomerates, or chaebols, have announced plans to ...
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BMW R-R focuses on core as BR715 is approved
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH BMWRolls-Royce will begin testing a complete Engine 3E core, incorporating the company's new experimental staged combustion chamber, early next year. The core could eventually update its BR715 engine, certificated in late August. The Engine 3E ("Environment, Efficiency, Economy") programme involves BMW R-R and rival German engine manufacturer MTU ...
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Telstra aids Qantas
Qantas has signed a six-year deal with Telstra, which will construct and manage a pan-Australian asynchronous transfer mode telecommunications network for use by the airline. Source: Flight International
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Boeing fails in bid to switch Emirates from A340-500
Emirates Airlines has finalised an order with Airbus Industrie for up to 12 A340-500s, after a last-ditch effort by Boeing to overturn the deal when an improved 777-200X offer failed to sway the Middle Eastern carrier. The Emirates contract, which is expected to be announced at the Farnborough air ...