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    Finalist: Aeromedic Innovations Group

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Finalist: Aeromedic Innovations Group Location London, UK Achievement: Official licensing for providing airline medical kit. In October 1996, Aeromedic Innovations became the first company in the world to be licensed by a regulatory authority - the UK's Medicines Control Agency - to make and maintain a ...

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    U-buy stake

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Taiwan's U-Land Airline says that it is negotiating to buy an undisclosed stake in Vietnam's struggling Pacific Airlines. The two-year-old Taiwan domestic carrier wants to use Pacific Airlines to help expand internationally. U-Land operates four McDonnell Douglas MD-82s and plans to acquire two more. Pacific Airlines is struggling to survive, ...

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    Hokkaido Airlines expects profits by 1999

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Hokkaido International Airlines, which plans to launch low-fare domestic services in Japan in 1998, has revealed bullish profit projections in only its second year of operation. The airline plans to start operations at the end of April 1998 with a single Boeing 767-300, flying three daily services from ...

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    Sun Air privatisation goes into the final furlong

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    South Africa has announced a shortlist of four bidding groups to go forward to the next phase in the privatisation of domestic airline Sun Air. Malaysian Airlines, Virgin Atlantic and rival regional Comair are listed. Each of the three airlines, together with a fourth bid led by Phoenix ...

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    India's jet challenger

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Even its most ardent supporters would have to concede that India's airline deregulation has been less than successful. Of the wave of airlines which emerged in the early 1990s to challenge the Indian Airlines domestic monopoly, only a handful are still flying. Their cause has not been helped by a ...

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    Corporate shuttle

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    British Aerospace Asset Management - Turboprops has leased a Jetstream 31 to Nashville, Tennessee-based Corporate Flight Management. The aircraft has a ten-seat corporate-shuttle interior and will be used for on-demand charter work. Corporate Flight Management is a subsidiary of Nashville-based Corporate Express Airlines. Medical Air Services Association, of Roanoke, Texas, ...

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    BAeFT and Manx Airlines sponsor pilot-training scheme

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    British Aerospace Flight Training (BAeFT) has signed a deal with UK regional carrier Manx Airlines for a three-way-sponsored ab initio pilot-training scheme operated by British Aerospace Flight Training (BAeFT). The partnership airline selection scheme (PASS) is also interesting several other airlines, says BAeFT's marketing director Capt Chris Long. ...

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    Jet Airways investors take first steps towrds share sale

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Domestic Indian carrier Jet Airways has held talks with shareholders Gulf Air and Kuwait Airlines about divesting their stakes in the airline, following the Indian Government's decision to change rules on foreign ownership. Gulf and Kuwait invested around $8 million in the carrier when it started five years ...

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    UK challenges on single-engined ban

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    The UK Civil Aviation Authority may attempt to rush through Parliament an amendment to the Air Navigation Order prohibiting the use of single-engined aircraft at night for commercial-transport operations. The decision hangs on a court case being brought by UK-based Martini Airfreight Services after its operations using a chartered Norwegian-registered ...

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    Airbus makes Trent 500 deal with Rolls-Royce

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Airbus Industrie has struck a non-exclusive deal with Rolls-Royce for the supply of its Trent 500 engines. The agreement ends Airbus's search for a powerplant supplier for the A340-500 and -600 ultra long-range/stretch versions of the A340. It is believed that Airbus continues to keep the ...

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    Aerospatiale combines with Onera to tackle structural flexing

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Aerospatiale and the French research agency Onera have developed an active-control technique to overcome problems of structural flexing in airframes. With the adoption of fly-by-wire technology, there are opportunities to optimise the control laws which translate pilot inputs into aircraft dynamics, which in turn determine aircraft performance, passenger ...

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    Reed Aerospace poised to launch 24h information service

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Reed Aerospace, publisher of Flight International and Airline Business, is to launch the world's first round-the-clock air transport-dedicated newswire as part of a major new electronic information service. An initial team of eight journalists worldwide is being recruited to provide the first-hand news that will make up the ...

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    -including powerful on-line database

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Alongside its rolling news service, Air Transport Intelligence (ATI) will offer customers an extensive online database. ATI's data modules will cover suppliers, aircraft, airlines, airports, powerplants, other organisations, a who's-who of key industry personnel, events, jobs, safety statistics and data from sister company OAG. The databases ...

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    GE unveils new CF6 variant

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    General Electric is developing a higher-thrust, "bolt-less-turbine" version of the CF6 turbofan on the back of Delta Air Lines' launch in April of the stretched Boeing 767-400. The derivative is based around an improved turbine made from Rene 88, a high-temperature-resistant alloy, which allows the "bolt features" to ...

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    AVIC deals lift Chinese industry

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) has agreed separate deals with Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) and CFM International (CFMI) aimed at developing China's aerospace industry. The deal with AI(R) involves the establishment of a joint venture to assess the possibility of assembly of ATR turboprops in China. ...

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    Converted A300F lands in Paris with FAA approval

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    British Aerospace Aviation Services (BAeAS) has received US Federal Aviation Administration approval for its Airbus A300B4 freighter conversion, some six months later than originally targeted. Meanwhile, C-S Aviation Services, which is BAe's major customer for the conversion, has announced its first lease-placements, with the confirmation of two aircraft ...

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    Burnham: service is the key to growth

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    AlliedSignal Aerospace is not a company that wastes time - its own or anybody else's. So when company president Dan Burnham calls a press conference, reporters should be on red alert that he has something to shout about. So it proved on Monday at Paris, when Burnham coolly ...

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    Saab confident of continuing turboprop market

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Saab remains confident that there will still be a strong market for turboprops well into the next century, despite the increasing number of orders for regional jets. Saab Aircraft president Gert Schyborger says the impact of the 50-seat regional jets has been to expand the market and create ...

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    Sunrock $250m order for 737s

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Boeing announced yesterday that it has sold seven 737s - five of them new generation -600s - to the Sunrock Aircraft Corporation in a deal worth $250million. The announcement brings total 737 orders to 3,677 of which 557 are next generation models. Negotiations continue on a ...

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    Jetphone to pick up C&W clients

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Air/ground telephony provider Jetphone is set to pick up at least two airline customers left without a supplier by the market exit of Cable and Wireless Flightlink (C&W), reports Reed Aerospace news and data service Air Transport Intelligence (ATI). The electronic news service, formally launched yesterday, says Crossair ...