News from FlightGlobal – Page 2524
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Sepcarb success
Lufthansa has selected Messier-Bugatti's new-generation Sepcarb III carbon brakes for its recently ordered fleet of 20 Airbus A319s, plus 20 options. The German flag carrier is also considering replacing the early-generation carbon brakes fitted to its A320s, and the steel brakes on its A321s with Sepcarb IIIs. ...
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Canadian returns aircraft
Canadian Airlines International is to return three leased aircraft at the end of October following a review of its route network and narrowbody fleet requirements. Canadian will also discontinue selected services in northern Canada, turning some over to Canadian Regional and Calm Air. Source: Flight International
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Nashville tunes up
Nashville Air has applied for certification from the US Department of Transportation, and plans to begin Boeing 737 services from Nashville, Tennessee, to Atlanta, Detroit, New York and Orlando by the end of 1995. The airline is still attmepting to raise the $20 million necessary to begin flight operations. ...
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Kiwi Travel wins approval for tran-Tasman services
KIWI TRAVEL International Airlines has emerged successfully from its dispute with the New Zealand Civil Aviation Authority (NZCAA), finally gaining approval for starting scheduled services across the Tasman Sea to Australia. NZCAA chief Kevin Ward had opposed the granting of a licence, principally until the US Federal Aviation ...
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Balkan/Malta link-up
Air Malta and Sofia, Bulgaria-based Balkan Airlines are to operate a joint Sofia-Malta-New York-John F Kennedy, USA scheduled service using a Balkan-operated Boeing 767-200ER. Air Malta chairman Joseph Tabone says that the weekly service, starting in November, results from negotiations aimed at providing a viable, non-stop New York service from ...
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Meeting demands
Airbus Industrie rolls out the A319 to complete its present range of airliners. Julian Moxon/TOULOUSE IN JUST 25 years since its creation in December 1970, Airbus Industrie has fielded a range of airliners spanning 124-350 seats, knocked McDonnell Douglas (MDC) into third place in ...
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SAMECO plans abandoned
Plans for the Sino-Singapore joint-venture company, Shenzhen Aircraft Maintenance and Engineering (SAMECO), have been scrapped after the venture failed to win government approval to perform heavy maintenance work. SAMECO was due to open by early 1996, initially providing line maintenance, but with the long-term intention of developing a ...
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GAMECO looks for partners to fund Chinese expansion
GUANGZHOU AIRCRAFT Maintenance Engineering (GAMECO) is considering opening up its joint venture to new partners, as part of its planned expansion into central China. The company plans to start building a new two-bay widebody aircraft maintenance hangar in early 1996 and has targeted the city of Wuhan as ...
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African aviation
The African aviation industry has been preaching about regional co-operation for years: it could soon happen. Kevin O'Toole/Johannesburg In the middle of August the African aviation community met in Johannesburg to discuss its future. There was nothing new about the issues. The industry, like much else within the ...
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DASA plans to fly Dornier 328 with hydrogen power in 1998
Andrzej Jeziorski/Munich DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) is planning to turn a Dornier 328 turboprop into a hydrogen-powered testbed, with a view to possible serial production. The test aircraft is scheduled to be flown in late 1998, and the flight could lead to production of an operational, hydrogen-powered ...
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IATA slams Canadian ATC charges
THE INTERNATIONAL Air Transport Association (IATA) has condemned what it calls unfair and discriminatory overflight charges, to be introduced by Transport Canada in November. Transport Canada is trying to recover two-thirds, or C$165 million ($120 million), of the total annual cost of C$250 million in just one year. ...
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KLM/Garuda intensify co-operation
KLM ROYAL Dutch Airlines and Garuda Indonesia have strengthened their long-established commercial co-operation with a new agreement signed in Jakarta on 23 August, following the conclusion of talks between Garuda's president Soepandi and Pieter Bouw, president of the Dutch carrier. Bouw was in Indonesia as part of a Dutch trade ...
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Xiamen plans fleet for overseas travel
Paul Lewis/Xiamen CHINA'S XIAMEN Airlines expects official approval by the end of the year to launch international flights and is planning to acquire a further ten passenger aircraft, including widebody jet-powered airliners. The airline wants to start its first overseas service in 1996, providing it receives ...
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Airbus shows DGPS in Africa
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE has demonstrated precision approaches and landings with an A340 guided by a differential global-positioning system (DGPS) at Mmabatho in South Africa. The trial took place as South African Airways moved into the final stages of selecting its new long-haul replacement aircraft. Airbus used a Sextant Avionique ...
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Regional winner?
Embraer's first public flight of its EMB-145 was acclaimed by observers. Graham Warwick/SAO PAULO JUDGING BY the reactions of regional-airline executives attending the 18 August roll-out and first public flight of the EMB-145 regional-jet, Embraer has produced a potential winner - if the newly privatised Brazilian ...
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Varig loses out after disastrous yen financing
BRAZILIAN AIRLINE Varig is to dispose of five Boeing 747s because of the cost of its Japanese yen financing, which has left the airline showing losses for the first half of the year. Financial director Carlos Ebner claims that Varig lost almost $71 million on the financing deal ...
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Tupolev reveals Tu-304 details
TUPOLEV HAS revealed new details of its planned Tu-304 long-range, widebodied twin, adding that it has signed a protocol with Rolls-Royce to power the aircraft. The agreement with the UK engine manufacturer covers the use of the 400kN (90,000lb)-thrust Trent 884 turbofan. Tupolev is coming to the end ...
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R-R-powered Tu-204 heads for sales break
THE AVIASTAR production plant is in advanced negotiations for the sale of 60 Rolls-Royce-powered Tupolev Tu-204s to a Russian leasing company. In a separate move, Tupolev says that it is close to clinching an agreement on a potential sale of a further ten aircraft. Negotiations between Aviastar, R-R, ...
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Orders grow for 777s but 1995 deliveries show decline
Egyptair has ordered three high gross-weight Boeing 777-200s, expanding the US airframe builder's firm orderbook to 167. At the same time, however, Boeing predicts that its 1996 deliveries will fall for the fourth consecutive year. The predicted 1996 delivery tally of 210, compared with 235 for 1995, was ...