News from FlightGlobal – Page 2452
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Air Madeira prepares for transatlantic flights
A new Portuguese airline, Air Madeira, will start operations later this year with a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar 500 on transatlantic charter flights. The airline is also planning to set up a short-haul network. Air Madeira is based in Lisbon and backed by the Portuguese travel group Pestana Hotels. ...
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Atlas Air confirms plans for 747-400 purchase
Atlas Air has confirmed plans to buy new Boeing 747-400 freighters, and has signed a Ìrm purchase contract worth about $1.7 billion for ten aircraft, and options on a further ten. The transaction, which represents the US cargo carrier's first purchase of new aircraft, was forecast earlier this ...
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Continental goes Boeing
CONTINENTAL Airlines has become the third US major to enter into a long-term, sole-supplier pact with Boeing, following the signature of a letter of intent (LoI) for up to 35 widebodied aircraft to satisfy its future fleet requirements. The estimated value of the deal is more than $3 billion. ...
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EuroLOT primed for take-off as parent suffers 1996 loss
LOT Polish Airlines is preparing to start operations of its regional, low-cost subsidiary EuroLOT in the hope of cutting costs on its shorter routes, after dropping sharply from modest profitability into loss in 1996. EuroLOT, which is expected to become operational early in July, will initially take over ...
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Air Littoral becomes a Lufthansa partner
Lufthansa has signed a commercial alliance with French regional airline Air Littoral, further strengthening its position in the French market. The deal ends the German flag carrier's hunt for a suitable French partner to expand its services to southern Europe. This will be done through Air Littoral's increasing ...
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Authorities push Air Macau into expansion
Local authorities are pressing start-up carrier Air Macau to expand and diversify its services regionally, in an effort to reduce the Portuguese enclave's overwhelming reliance on traffic between China and Taiwan. After a slow start, traffic at Macau's new international airport is picking up, and is projected to ...
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Marketplace
++ Montreal-based Royal Airlines has sold two Boeing 727s to Texan leasing company Aircorp for C$10 million ($7.25 million), to help pay for three Airbus A310-300s. The carrier still operates five 727s, as well as two Lockheed L-1011 TriStars. ++ Boeing has delivered its 757th 757, a Pratt & Whitney ...
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Customer interest is renewed as first MD-95 takes shape
McDonnell Douglas (MDC) hopes to conduct final negotiations at the Paris air show with potential MD-95-30 customers as production of the first twinjet moves into final assembly. "Our timing is good because we want to place orders 21 months before delivery," says MD-95 vice- president and general manager ...
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Russia's Orient and East Line to merge
Russian airline Orient Avia and one of the country's leading freight carriers, East Line Air, are to merge. The merged airline will concentrate operations at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport. Orient, which flies to Vladivostok and Petropavlovsk in the Far East and Kaunas in Lithuania, from Moscow Sheremetyevo airport, operates ...
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Finalist Rockwell Avionics & Communications
Finalist: Rockwell Avionics & Communications, Collins Air Transport division Location Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA Achievement A multi-mode receiver combining both existing and future landing-aid technology One of the most enduring technical issues for the world airline industry over the past decade has been over ...
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Corporate strategy
Winner: Embraer Location Sao Paulo, Brazil Achievement Successfully launching the EMB-145 onto the world market, while battling with privatisation and overcoming heavy losses. The new management which took over Embraer following its privatisation at the end of 1994 faced a seemingly desperate situation. Hit by Brazil's ...
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Finalist: Wavionix Software
Finalist: Wavionix Software Location Lausanne, Switzerland Achievement Successful design and testing of a computer software tool for airport air-traffic procedures design. Designers of airport air-navigation procedures have long dreamed of a way to computerise what can be a frustrating and time-consuming task, based on endless manual ...
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Infrastructure
Joint Winner: Luftfartsverket Location Norrkoping, Sweden Joint Winner: SAS Location Stockholm, Sweden Achievement Pioneering work within the NEAN project to demonstrate the potential of ADS-B to modernise Europe's overburdened air traffic control (ATC)infrastructure is already constraining air-transport growth in the region ...
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Continental goes Boeing
Ramon Lopez/WASINGTON DC CONTINENTAL Airlines has become the third US major to enter into a long-term, sole-supplier pact with Boeing, following the signature of a letter of intent (LoI) for up to 35 widebodied aircraft to satisfy its future fleet requirements. The estimated value of the deal is ...
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Bombardier looks to change perception of regionals
North American airline passengers are disenchanted with turboprop aircraft because they see them as noisy, cramped and subject to greater turbulence. But the development of new wide-body turboprops is changing this perception, says Pierre Lortie, president of Bombardier regional aircraft division. Speaking at Le Bourget yesterday, Lortie says ...
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Jetstream family gets extra payload boost
Improvements to the hot and high performance of British Aerospace's Jetstream 19-seat turboprop family that could be worth up to 350kg of extra payload will be on the market from July. British Aerospace produced around 400 of its Jetstream 31s, Super 31s and 32s, putting most of them into ...
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Design goes well with showgoers
It's unanimous - British Airways has pulled off an artistic masterstroke with its inspirational new logo and tailfin designs, if the views of Paris showgoers are an accurate barometer. The airline unveiled its new corporate image - one of the biggest rebranding exercises in corporate history - on 10 ...
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Menziken chance
Menziken Aerospace Group has enjoyed a long association with the Paris air show, and the company, which operates on both sides of the Atlantic, is keen to make a strong impression this week. Sales manager Alex Wyler says there is no better place than Paris to meet with ...
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AlliedSignal alliance set to storm aftermarket
AlliedSignal Aerospace has formed an alliance with logistics company Caterpillar in an initiative to strengthen its position in the aftermarket, it was announced at the show yesterday. The aims are to help customers cut flight delays and aircraft downtime, and to enable them to save millions of dollars ...
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Embraer sales keep rolling in
Embraer expects to announce more orders for its EMB-145 regional jet during the show, confirms Mauricio Botelho, the Brazilian manufacturer's chief executive officer. Botelho's apparent confidence raises speculation that Embraer might be the winner of a long-awaited order for regional jets from American Airlines' subsidiary AMR Eagle. ...