News from FlightGlobal – Page 2259
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Brussels has the last word
Europe's privately owned and publicly quoted airlines must be wondering what they have to do to make a dent in the European Commission's stance on state aid. Their jubilation at the European Court of Justice's annulment of the FFr20 billion (US$3.3 billion) aid package to Air France on 25 June ...
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737-600 set for September delivery
Boeing hopes to deliver the first of 41 737-600s to launch customer SAS in September, pending European Joint Aviation Authorities approval, expected by the end of August. The manufacturer received type certification for the -600, the smallest member of the Next Generation (NG) family, on 18 August from the US ...
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American boosts 777 orders
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON American Airlines has placed a $2.1 billion order for 15 more Boeing 777-200ERs, boosting its total for the aircraft to 34. The carrier placed an initial order for 777s in November 1996, and selected the Rolls-Royce Trent 800 engine. At that time, the airline concluded a ...
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Air Jamaica plan for all-Airbus fleet hit by shortage of aircraft
Graham Warwick/Washington DC Air Jamaica wants to move to an all-Airbus fleet "as soon as possible", to cut costs, but is being stymied by a lack of available aircraft. The Jamaican flag carrier is looking for at least four A320s and one A340, says chief executive Christopher Zacca. ...
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IAI seeks to wrap up FedEx deal with further Airtruck investors
Israel Aircraft Industries' (IAI) Airtruck specialised cargo aircraft has been selected in principle by FedEx to meet its requirement for a Fokker F27 replace- ment. The Israeli company is struggling to meet FedEx's price demands, however, and is seeking additional customers, partners and investors to enable the programme to be ...
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Skymark Airlines takes first aircraft and prepares to launch
Japanese start-up Skymark Airlines has taken delivery of its first aircraft, a Boeing 767-300ER, one of two examples being leased from International Lease Finance. Skymark will launch operations with the 309-seater on 19 September, operating three daily round-trip flights between Tokyo and Fukuoka. Source: Flight International
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Delta speeds up 727 retirement
Delta Air Lines is accelerating the retirement of its Boeing 727-200s. The last of the tri-jets are set to leave the fleet in 2005, some three years earlier than previously planned, . The 117 727-200Advs in the mainline fleet and the 14 similar aircraft allocated to Delta Shuttle operations ...
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Ethiopian seeks more 767s as A340 deal collapses
Ethiopian Airlines has scrapped plans to lease an Airbus A340 for its recently introduced transatlantic operations and is seeking alternative equipment. Ethiopian concluded an agreement in May with Airbus Industrie Financial Services (AIFS) for the three-year lease of an ex-Gulf Air A340-300 to operate its new service to Washington ...
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Gill Air closes on Fokker 100 leases for franchise flights
Gill Air is finalising a deal to acquire three Fokker 100s to enable it to launch jet operations on its Air France franchise routes early next year. The UK regional airline, based in Newcastle, has selected the 100-seat Fokker for its jet requirement over the similarly sized British Aerospace ...
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Ilyushin prepares for Il-96T US approval
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW Ilyushin expects the freighter version of the Pratt & Whitney PW2337-powered Il-96, the -96T, to receive US Federal Aviation Administration certification by October, but the US engine manufacturer is less optimistic. The Il-96T recently received Russian/CIS certification for operation by CIS airlines, but deliveries cannot begin ...
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Marketplace
Embraer has delivered the first ERJ-145ER to City Airline of Sweden. The new carrier will use the 50-seater on services from Gothenburg to major European destinations. Continental Micronesia will retire its four Boeing 747-200s next April. The aircraft will be replaced with a similar number of McDonnell ...
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Northwest goes polar
On 19 August Northwest Airlines made the first scheduled commercial flight using one of the new routes through polar and Siberian airspace, using a Boeing 747-400. The first of its four weekly Detroit, USA-Beijing, China, flights took off at about 16:00 local time, flying the Polar 2 route which takes ...
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One Eleven Stage 3 hushkit begins flight testing
Ian Sheppard/LONDON European Aviation and Quiet Technologies have completed initial flight tests of a proof of concept BAC One-Eleven Stage 3 hushkit prototype, and are satisfied that the aircraft will meet Stage 3 noise limits. The companies are to continue with development, having also shown that the fuel ...
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Routes
British Airways has started code-sharing on Malév Hungarian Airlines' services between Budapest Ferihegy and London Gatwick. Vietnam Airlines has suspended Hanoi-Seoul services and will stop the Ho Chi Minh City-Seoul route in mid-September. Air Tahiti Nui will launch services in November with three weekly flights ...
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Transaero shake-up may lead to merger
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW A battle for control at Russian airline Transaero has seen the airline's founder, Alexander Pleshakov, ousted, with Aeroflot Russian International Airlines majority shareholder Boris Berezovsky now believed to be have taken control through a share trading deal. There is now speculation that the two airlines could be ...
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Pan Am Academy investor hunt ends in Boston
Pan Am International Flight Academy (PAIFA) has been acquired by a US investment firm which has agreed to at least double the size of the Miami, Florida-based independent training company over the next three years. PAIFA was purchased by private Spanish investors in 1992 from the estate of defunct ...
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Qantas warns on competition
Paul Phelan/SYDNEY Qantas has warned that increasingly desperate competition from rivals in the region will make it difficult for the Australian airline to sustain the record profits it has just declared for the 1997/8 financial year. Operating profit was up 13.6% on the previous year at US$282 million, ...
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Slimming down
Assembly times are under attack on British Aerospace's regional airliner production line Ian Sheppard/Woodford While Boeing struggles to stay profitable producing hundreds of airliners a year, British Aerospace Regional Aircraft (BARA) faces a different challenge - how to make money producing a handful of aircraft each year. Based at Woodford, ...
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Thinking thin
Ian Sheppard/London Launched in April, the UK Lean Aerospace Initiative (LAI) is a 50:50 Government/industry-funded programme co-ordinated by the Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC) as part of its Competitiveness Challenge. Donald Craig, seconded from Rolls-Royce as SBAC LAI programme manager, believes that the UK is leading the ...
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Skynet 5 goes national
European military space integration has been ditched by the UKTim Furniss/LONDON The UK is to develop a new generation of military communications satellites rather than enter the Trimilsatcom collaborative programme with France and Germany (Flight International, 19-25 August). When he announced the Ministry of Defence decision on 12 August, Lord ...