News from FlightGlobal – Page 2405
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STAe will expand leasing business
Singapore Technologies Aerospace (STAe) plans to acquire a leasing fleet of up to 20 aircraft over the next five years as part of a wider effort to expand the commercial side of its business. STAe, together with its parent holding company Singapore Technologies, has already established a joint-venture ...
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Bombardier beats Embraer to ASA deal
Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA) has followed its fellow Delta Connection carriers Comair and Skywest with the selection of the Canadair Regional Jet for its regional-jet needs, after a competition which also involved the Embraer EMB-145 (Flight International, 8-14 January, P10). The Atlanta, Georgia-based regional says that it will ...
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SIA's Indian airline investment clears another major hurdle
Singapore Airlines' (SIA) long-running plan to establish a new domestic Indian airline in partnership with the TATA Group has cleared one major hurdle, with approval from India's Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB). The deal could still be derailed by the country's civil-aviation ministry, however, which plans to ban foreign equity ...
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British Aerospace AMJ sees BAe 146 sales rise as markets harden
British Aerospace Asset Management-Jets(AMJ) is targeting further sales from among its 107-strong fleet of leased BAe 146s this year, as the market for regional jets strengthens. AMJ general manager Andrew Davies says that, over the past four years, the organisation has completed its initial aim of re-establishing the ...
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Sabena revives study of off-shore contracts
Sabena has confirmed that it has resurrected cost-saving plans to employ flying personnel on out-of-country contracts. The proposal, which is still under study, would see pilots and cabin crew continue to be based in Brussels, but paid in Switzerland, probably via Sabena's partner Swissair, with the transaction made through a ...
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Garuda take delivery
Garuda Indonesia received its first Rolls-Royce Trent-powered Airbus A330-300 in December. Five more A330s will be delivered to the airline before March, while the final three are due in mid-1998. The Indonesian carrier has also recently taken delivery of the first of three extended-range McDonnell Douglas MD-11ERs. ...
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Uzbek confirms RJ buy
Uzbekistan Airways has confirmed its order with Aero International (Regional) for three Avro RJ85s (Flight International, 18-31 December, 1996). They will be delivered in 1997 for regional, domestic and international routes. Source: Flight International
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Flying down to Rio
BRAZIL'S REGIONAL AIRLINES, simulated by deregulation and an anti-inflation plan which has boosted the economy, have enjoyed staggering growth in the last two years, with some doubling their revenues. They have also taken advantage of a loophole in legislation to compete, at least indirectly, with Varig, VASP and Transbrasil, which, ...
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Outside control
There is nothing new in the perception of inadequacy in African and Third-World air-traffic control (ATC) - merely in the articulation of that perception. The major international bodies (the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) have long known not only about the problems, but ...
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Air 21 ceases services
US start-up Air 21, based in Fresno, California, has ceased all scheduled services through to 15 January, and is due to file for bankruptcy. The airline's chairman, Mark Morro, had stepped down in December as discussions (which subsequently failed) were being held with Pacific Southwest Airlines on a possible take-over. ...
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NATSwill introduce North Atlantic ATN
The UK's National Air Traffic Services (NATS) is pushing on with the implementation of the aeronautical telecommunications network (ATN), clearing the way for the debut of the Future Air Navigation System (FANS) on North Atlantic routes. An upgrade of the Oceanic Control Centre at Prestwick, Scotland, being planned ...
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Boeing offers airlines 767-400ERX stretch
BOEING IS NOW formally offering the stretched 767-400ERX to airlines. Authority to offer was given at the beginning of January, and the company expects a formal launch early this year, leading to a first flight in 1999 and certification and first delivery in 2000 (Flight International, 18-31 December, 1996, P5). ...
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Blanc attacks French Government
The president of Air France, Christian Blanc, has launched an unprecedented attack on the French Government for its "counter-productive and defensive" attitude to air-transport liberalisation. In an interview with the Paris-based political club "Fondation Saint-Simon", Blanc accuses the Government of pursuing a "totally catastrophic" air-transport policy over the ...
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The last challenge
It has long been accepted that certain world regions provide a disproportionate number of the global air-transport industry's serious accidents. These events influence public perception of air-transport safety and, if they are serious accidents, that perception does not take much account of where they happen. Even if they do occur ...
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Naming the defects
Pakistan International Airlines' Capt Amjad Faizi is well placed to speak about the national infrastructure inadequacies at the root of the aviation safety problems which Third World countries face: his own country can lay claim, economically, to be in the Third-World league. His airline, however, has a good safety record, ...
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Australia considers making GPWS compulsory
Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) has begun industry consultation on proposed new standards for the installation of ground-proximity-warning systems (GPWS) on Australian commercial aircraft. The move to adopt the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) approved standards follows a coroner's re- commendation after the crash of a third-level ...
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Kenya ponders regional revamp
Kenya Airways is evaluating a switch to an-all jet-airliner fleet which could involve its Fokker 50s being replaced by Boeing 737s in the interim, before a longer-term decision is made on a new regional jet. The airline has asked Aircraft Leasing and Management (ALM) of the UK to remarket a ...
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Boeing boosts 737 production to match previous all-time high
Production of the Boeing 737 is set to emulate the previously highest-ever rate of 21 aircraft a month by the end of this year, with Boeing having announced a further boost in production of the twinjet. The monthly rate is set to reach the new peak during the ...
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AMR plans regional-jet contest for Bombardier and Embraer
AMR EAGLE is to start a competition later this month between Bombardier and Embraer 50-seat regional jets. The contest will be another clash in what promises to be a long-running battle between the Canadair Regional Jet and Embraer EMB-145 for dominance in the regional-jet field. Any regional-jet purchase ...
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Caravans make Costa Rican journeys
SANSA, the domestic regional-airline division of Costa Rica's LACSA Airlines, has taken delivery of its first four Cessna Grand Caravans. The four aircraft will replace some of the older turboprops in SANSA's fleet. According to the chief executive of LACSA's parent company, El Salvador-based TACA Group, Federico Bloch, the Caravans ...