News from FlightGlobal – Page 2493
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Australian training plan sparks row
AUSTRALIA'S FLYING training industry has condemned an Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) plan for its restructure, calling the regulatory proposals "...over-regulation and an attempt to create more jobs in CASA". The review recommends sweeping increases in minimum experience and training for instructor ratings at all levels, with ...
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China starts investing in its infrastructure
CHINA'S AIRLINES are beginning to make substantial investments in infrastructure to match their rapidly growing fleets. China Southern Airlines has awarded AMR's Sabre Decision Technologies (SDT) a contract to develop an operations control centre, while China Eastern has ordered Airbus A300-600R training equipment from Thomson Training & Simulation. ...
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Second LM2E success gives China a boost
Tim Furniss/LONDON CHINA'S LONG MARCH 2E (LM2E) booster had its second successful launch within 30 days on 28 December, 1995, when it carried the Lockheed Martin-built US Echostar 1 direct-broadcasting communications satellite into geostationary transfer orbit. The Asiasat 2, also built by Lockheed Martin, was launched ...
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Boeing re-asserts its lead in recovering airliner market
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON BOEING RE-ASSERTED its dominance of world airliner markets in 1995, revealing a total of 346 new orders for the year, more than treble the result of either Airbus or McDonnell Douglas (MDC). Ron Woodard, president of Boeing's Commercial Airplane Group, is upbeat about ...
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US airlines 'will make $2 billion'
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC US SCHEDULED airlines are expected to report net profits of $2 billion for 1995, says the US Air Transport Association (ATA) in its year-end report. The ATA says that long-haul carriers earned $2.2 billion in the first nine months of the year, ...
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KLM
P F Hartman executive vice-president for personnel and organisation at Netherlands national carrier KLM is named executive vice-president for engineering and maintenance, replacing R G van Groenewoud, who is to leave the company. Hartman is replaced by, C van Woudenberg now executive vice president, for flight services. C J M ...
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EBA takes control of French tour firm
BELGIAN AIRLINE EBA, has taken a majority share in French tour company Look Voyages, of France. The French company owns regional-charter operator Star Europe. The EBA move is aimed at speeding up its activities in France, where it recently acquired French subsidiary Air Provence is based. Look Voyages had a ...
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Canadian service
Five US airlines have received permission to fly to Montreal, Canada, under rights available during the second year of the US-Canadian bilateral air agreement. Delta Air Lines has won authority to serve Montreal twice daily from Cincinnati, while United Airlines will fly a daily service from Miami. Continental, Flagship (American ...
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France opens up internal routes
Julian Moxon and Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS FRANCE OFFICIALLY opened its internal air routes to competition from national airlines on 1 January, marking the final phase of the country's transformation to the fully liberalised European internal air-transport market on 1 April, 1997. All French airlines are now ...
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KLM aims suit at Northwest
KLM HAS FILED a lawsuit against Northwest and its directors over the US carrier's move to introduce a "poison pill" preventing a single investor from gaining a controlling stake in Northwest (Flight International, 22-29 November, 1995). The Dutch carrier alleges that Northwest's action was designed to keep KLM ...
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ANZ takes control at Air Nelson
AIR NEW ZEALAND (ANZ), has acquired full control of regional scheduled-service operator Air Nelson. ANZ previously held a 50% shareholding in the carrier. The move further tightens ANZ's hold on the local regional market in the wake of its deal to acquire a 25% stake in Australian carrier ...
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Finmeccanica and Fiat in engine merger talks
Andrea Spinelli/GENOA STATE-OWNED Finmeccanica is negotiating a possible rationalisation of the Italian aero-engine business with the Fiat Group. A successful outcome to the talks would see Fiat Avio merge with the smaller Finmeccanica operation at Alfa Romeo Avio. Previous attempts to marry the ...
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Airbus pressured to speed up A3XX studies
Julian Moxon/PARIS A STRING OF major airline orders involving the Boeing 747/777 combination is increasing pressure on Airbus Industrie to "accelerate its studies" into a rival programme known as the A3XX. "We can't leave the 747 to dominate the market," says an Airbus source, "so ...
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SIA orders ATEC test system for use on 777s and A340s
Julian Moxon/TOULOUSE AEROSPATIALE HAS sold one of its ATEC Series 6 automated test systems to Singapore Airlines (SIA) for use on the carrier's Boeing 777s and Airbus A340s. The French company says that it expects the airline to order more "...once its 777 budget is in place". ...
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ValuJet offloads reservations
VALUJET AIRLINES has turned its reservations system over to outside contractors in a bid to retain its competitive edge and preserve "a low-cost, low-fare niche in the industry". Some 1,000 employees - about one-third of the airline's workforce - are to be offered jobs with the outside contractors, Amlease and ...
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CAL places 737-800 order
CHINA AIRLINES (CAL) of Taiwan, after considerable delay, has finally placed an order for six Boeing 737-800s, plus nine options, to meet its requirement for a new 150-seat passenger airliner. The aircraft will replace CAL's three early-build 737-200s and two wet-leased Airbus A320s due to be returned by ...
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Executive Airlines to fit GPS to ATRs
PUERTO RICO-based American Eagle carrier Executive Airlines is equipping its ten ATR 42s and 72s with global-positioning systems (GPS) to allow cost-saving direct routing. Executive has selected Universal Avionics' UNS-1M GPS-based navigation-management system for its aircraft. The airline's decision follows a six-month proof-of-concept programme, which demonstrated ...
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DHL expands its Panama presence
DHL WORLDWIDE Express is to invest $30 million over the next three years to expand its Latin American and Caribbean network. Initially, the fast-package carrier will upgrade its Panama hub with a new automated sorting system and introduce a Boeing 727-200F freighter service operated by new Panamanian carrier DHL Aero ...
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Boeing optimistic about GE-powered 777s
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA BOEING delivered three General Electric GE90-powered 777s by the end of 1995, after GE's proposed increase of the fan-blade-tip clearances had been approved by the US Federal Aviation Administration (Flight International, 20 December, 1995-2 January, P4). Efforts continued to determine the cause of an engine ...
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DASA stands by ailing Fokker
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) has confirmed it will continue to fund Fokker into the new year, in a move to counter growing fears that the manufacturer would be left to fend for itself unless a funding agreement was agreed with the Dutch Government before the year-end. ...