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China Eastern plans to begin conversions after cargo go-ahead
China Eastern plans to begin converting its fleet of five Boeing MD-11 passenger trijets into freighters from September 1999, following Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) approval to establish a new subsidiary cargo operation. The carrier is understood to be in negotiations with Alenia-owned Aeronavali and the Boeing Aerospace ...
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Delta takes Next Generation 737 sales beyond 1,000
Sales of Boeing's Next Generation 737 have passed 1,000 with part of a new order placed by Delta Air Lines under the latest phase of a deal agreed with Boeing in March 1997. The orders for eight 737-800s take total announced Next Generation sales to 1,003 and means that ...
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Israeli airline decides to buy Air France 767s
El Al has decided to purchase two Boeing 767-200ERs directly from Air France in a deal worth $86 million. The Israeli airline had originally planned to lease the two widebodied aircraft from Arkia but was finalising a decision to purchase the aircraft as Flight International closed for press. The ...
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FlightSafety Boeing picks London to be European training hub
FlightSafety Boeing Training International, a joint venture commercial training operation between FlightSafety Inter-national and Boeing Enterprises, will decide next month on the final location of a UK based $85 million European training hub. The greenfield site, located near either London Gatwick or Heathrow airports, will be the first of ...
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Advanced GE90 compressor gets over initial test hurdle
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES General Electric has successfully completed initial tests of an upgraded GE90 compressor which is expected to yield specific fuel consumption (SFC) and temperature margin improvements on the Boeing 777-200ER, as well as act as a potential platform for new thrust growth. Key to the improvement is the ...
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Marketplace
-Singapore Airlines has concluded a sixth sale and lease-back deal on a Boeing 747-400 for five years. The agreement with special purpose company Sansome Planes II was again brokered by San Francisco-based Babcock and Brown. -Shaanxi Aircraft has leased two Chinese licence-built Y-8 turboprop transports to Iran for an undisclosed ...
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Japanese airlines object to US slot allocation
Japan's carriers have criticised the decision by the country's Ministry of Transport to allocate a further 74 slots to US carriers in its first slot expansion programme at Narita Airport in seven years. "This means that US carriers have almost as many slots at Narita as all the Japanese carriers ...
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Routes
-The US Department of Transportation plans to award Continental Airlines authority to begin a non-stop Cleveland-London Gatwick service on 19 February, 1999. The US carrier intends to operate the route on a daily basis from Cleveland's Hopkins International using Boeing 757s in a two-class configuration. -British Airways has started operating ...
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Uzbekistan Airways takes first production Il-114 turboprop
Uzbekistan Airways has become the first airline to take delivery of an Ilyushin Il-114 turboprop, with the handover of a production aircraft from the Tashkent Aircraft Production factory (TAPO). The airline remains the only firm customer for the type, which first flew in March 1990, and received provisional certification in ...
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Cathay makes history with first loss as public company
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Cathay Pacific Airways has posted the first net loss in its history as a public company, as the airline struggled with tumbling Asian traffic and plumetting yields. The Hong-Kong carrier announced a net loss of HK$175 million ($23 million) for the first six months, in stark contrast to ...
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Safety assault
Cultural factors have long been suggested as a cause for cockpit human factors accidents. This, however, is rocky ground - not only for the politically correct, but for all responsible people and organisations - because nobody can say for certain that it is true. There has never been a ...
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Cuban revolution
Andrzej Jeziorski/HAVANA The Franco-Italian regional aircraft consortium ATR scored a coup when it became the first manufacturer outside the ex-Communist Bloc to sell aircraft to Cuba since Fidel Castro's revolution in 1959. The sale is the start of a massive fleet renewal programme covering all of the Caribbean island's ...
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Parts partnerships
Paul Seidenman/SAN FRANCISCO Fewer air carriers want to be in the business of stocking and maintaining huge inventories of parts, so they are looking to shift the burden to those companies which supply everything from bearings and seals to engines and airframes. "Until the early 1990s, the industry was more ...
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Boeing aims at TrunkLiner gap
Guy Norris/SEATTLE Boeing is in talks with China over a wide range of potential ventures, including possible involvement in the 717-200, as the company seeks to fill the void left by China's recent decision to scrap the MD-90 TrunkLiner effort. Boeing Commercial Airplane Group president Ron Woodard says: ...
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China Airlines aligns with SIA as it ponders 777 acquisitions
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE China Airlines (CAL) has reached an internal decision to order a fleet of Boeing 777s, but final board approval remains pending as it weighs the full scope of potential co-operation with newly announced strategic partner Singapore Airlines (SIA). The Taiwanese carrier has in principle selected the 777-200 as ...
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Advertisement director appointed
Reed Aerospace has appointed Richard Thiele as advertisement director of Flight International and Airline Business. Thiele joins Reed Aerospace on 1 September from Penton Publications, where he is now managing director, Europe. Source: Flight International
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UK welcomes EC alliance proposals despite misgivings
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON The European Commission's (EC) alliance proposals have been given a broad welcome by the UK, despite concern over some "significant" gaps, but they have met fierce criticism in Germany, where the conditions have been dismissed as "unacceptable". John Bridgeman, director of the UK's the Office of ...
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Windshear alert goes on trial in Hong Kong
Pilots flying into Hong Kong's new Chep Lap Kok Airport are being urged to familiarise themselves with a new windshear alerting system, installed after a meteorological investigation revealed that severe turbulence would be encountered for a total of 20h each year. Chep Lap Kok is adjacent to Lantau Island, ...
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NG737 HUD goes to American
Following American Airlines' order for GEC-Marconi's HUD 2020 head-up display for 75 new Boeing 737-800s in January (Flight International, 4-10 February), the UK company has delivered the first production-standard examples to the American Airlines Flight Academy in Dallas, Texas. It will be installed in a simulator, and has integrated another ...
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Taking pole position
Paul Lewis/NEW YORK and HONG KONG The International Air Transport Association's (IATA) Asia-Pacific technical office and airline regional co-ordinating group (RCG) has enjoyed a busy three years. Having negotiated safe passage over Afghanistan and helped broker the opening of North Korean airspace, the group scored again with the initial ...