News from FlightGlobal – Page 2470
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Most regionals meet FAA safety...
Almost all US regional airlines have met the US Federal Aviation Administration's 20 March deadline for tougher safety rules, with only six out of the 39 affected carriers failing to do so. The new regulations require regional operators to meet the same standards as those operating large jet-powered ...
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Vietnam Airlines revises growth plans
State-run Vietnam Airlines is revising plans to expand its passenger fleet in the wake of slower-than-expected traffic growth. In 1996, Vietnam Airlines carried 2.5 million passengers, an 18% increase over 1995. Senior airline officials, however, had been projecting growth of between 25% and 28%. As the result of ...
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SIA/Tata plans suffer setback...
THE PROPOSED JOINT domestic-carrier venture between Singapore Airlines (SIA) and the TATA Group has been dealt another major blow by the Indian Government's endorsement of a new aviation policy barring foreign-airline investment. The cabinet's decision to throw its support behind civil-aviation minister C M Ibrahim's controversial new policy ...
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Auditors warn on TWA losses
TRANS WORLD Airlines (TWA)has been dogged by further poor financial news, with a warning from the group's auditors over the carrier's future in the light of mounting losses and falling cash reserves. The warning from KPMG Peat Marwick accompanies TWA's official filing of its annual results with the ...
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Allied near to completing F-22...
AlliedSignal is in "the final throes" of high-altitude testing of the auxiliary-power generating system (APGS) for the Lockheed Martin F-22, in a bid to clear the full envelope before the fighter has its first flight, planned for the end of May. Revealing details of the integrated APGS on ...
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Air France re-activates Concorde from storage
Air France is boosting its operational BAC/Aerospatiale Concorde fleet to six, with the planned return to service in early July of an aircraft which has been in storage at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport for the past five years. Despite plans for an expanded fleet, however, the French ...
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British Midland selects Airbus A320 family for fleet renewal
British Midland Airways (BM) expects to sign a $1 billion firm order with Airbus Industrie for A320s and A321s in May, having concluded an initial memorandum of understanding in early April for up to 20 aircraft. The airline, which selected the Airbus single-aisle family over Boeing's 737-800 and ...
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Belgium's CityBird takes to the...
New Belgian low-cost airline CityBird (formed by the City Hotels Group, ex-owner of Euro Belgian Airlines) began operations on 27 March, when its first McDonnell Douglas MD-11 took off for Mexico. On 30 March, scheduled services to Miami and Orlando in Florida began, and from June more scheduled US routes ...
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MDC talks up MD-80 freighter for China
McDonnell Douglas (MDC) remains optimistic that its MD-80 cargo conversion plan proposed to Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) earlier this year will receive the go-ahead before the end of 1997, despite uncertainty caused by the planned merger with Boeing. A key aspect of the plan is the supply ...
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Euro liberalisation could still cause problems
The final stage of European air-transport liberalisation came into effect on 1 April, to the accompaniment of predictions that airlines will be unlikely to take full advantage of the increased market access contained within the legislation. "In most important respects, the European market has been fully liberalised since ...
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Gulf Air reactivates TriStars following disposal of 767s
Gulf Air is planning to return up to three of its five stored L-1011 TriStar 200s to service, for operation on services within the Gulf, and to the Indian sub-continent. The move comes in the wake of the sale of six Boeing 767-300ERs to Delta Air Lines. One ...
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Indian carriers receive aircraft import...
India's Civil Aviation Ministry has given the go-ahead for three domestic private airlines to increase their fleets by importing more aircraft. The approval, announced by the ministry's Aircraft Acquisition Committee (AAC), affects Skyline NEPC, JVG Group and Bengal Air. Bombay-based NEPC Skyline will add two Boeing 737-200s to ...
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Egypt's AMC orders launch MD-90-30ER
AMC Aviation of Egypt has placed the launch order for the McDonnell Douglas MD-90-30ER (extended range), with a contract for two aircraft. The MD-90ER features increased maximum take-off weight (MTOW) and additional fuel tanks, to boost range to over 4,000km (2,200nm). Compared to the standard MD-90, ...
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norfolk island route...
A new Australasian start-up will contest the potentially lucrative tourism route between Australia and Norfolk Island, an Australian territory in the Southwest Pacific recently vacated by Ansett Australia. Norfolk Jet Express (NJE) will operate a British Aerospace BAe146-100 from the island on wet-lease from National Jet Systems (NJS), which runs ...
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NATS bargain...
Air-traffic-control (ATC) user charges have dropped by 18% on North Atlantic routes within UK oceanic-control areas. Also cut by 7% are UK National Air Traffic Services (NATS) ATC user charges at UK operator BAA's three London airports. Charges are cut by 13-16% at Scotland's main airports. ...
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Supplying a total system
DEVELOPINGSUPPORT and training systems concurrently with the aircraft and engine has allowed designers to take advantage of the capabilities of the F-22's integrated avionics. The aircraft has extensive onboard diagnostics, required for sensor fusion and fault tolerance, which can be used to eliminate ground-support equipment, while the flight software is ...
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Large aircraft: Airbus v Boeing...
Sir - Your discussion of the different results from Airbus and Boeing for new large aircraft assumes that the fall in the size of aircraft flying over the North Atlantic is demand-led (Flight International, 19-25 March, P29). Could I suggest that US airlines' balance sheets a few years ...
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BA plans for 'shell company'face opposition from USA
PLANS BY British Airways to use Airline Management (AML), a start-up company, to take on tourist routes from London Gatwick to San Juan, Puerto Rico and Tampa, Florida, have run into opposition in the USA, with claims that AML is being set up as a "shell" company without its own ...
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SA floats Sun Air with...
South Africa has launched the privatisation of regional carrier Sun Air, giving the opportunity for a foreign airline partner to take a share of up to 49%. Prospective buyers are being asked to register their interest by 10 April, says NatWest Markets, the UK investment bank which is ...
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ICO diputes TRW patent claims
ICO Global Communications is to campaign to invalidate patents granted to TRW, to protect the "exclusivity" of the US company's "invention" of a satellite system operating in medium-Earth orbit (MEO), to provide global communications to hand-held terminals via ground stations. Following the receipt of three US and two ...