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Threesome Inter Africa
Three African regional carriers are forming a joint venture dubbed Air Inter Afrique, in the latest example of cooperation on the continent. Benin Air Express, Air Niger and Peace Air Togo plan to join forces in late 1996 in a scheme devised by multinational carrier Air Afrique. The ...
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Romanian regional
DAC Air says that it will take delivery of the first of four 50-seat Canadair Regional Jets in late September. The Romanian regional airline already operates four Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-300s on lease from General Electric Capital Aviation Services, and will take the first of four new Dash 8-300s ...
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easyJet adds
EasyJet has announced further expansion, with the addition of a fourth Boeing 737 (its second 737-300) and extra services to its network, which includes flights from London Luton to Aberdeen, Amsterdam, Edinburgh and Glasgow. The UK start-up airline will introduce the new aircraft in October. Source: ...
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UPS
Package-deliver carrier UPS, of Louisville, Kentucky, has appointed Kerry Fielden business-development director for the UK, the Nordic countries and Ireland. Fielden, who is based at the UK headquarters in Feltham, Middlesex, replaces John Haack who will return to the UPS US operation. Neil Taylor replaces Fielden as sales manager in ...
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Seven-year countdown
Airbus makes progress towards a launch of its vitally important new large aircraft. Julian Moxon/TOULOUSE THIS AIRCRAFT "-will be the biggest challenge in civil-aviation history", says Jurgen Thomas, head of the new large-aircraft division of Airbus Industrie charged with developing the A3XX. While such words ...
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Lebanese events
Lebanese cargo carrier Trans Mediterranean Airlines (TMA) suspended all operations indefinitely on 5 August. The carrier operated a fleet of four Boeing 707-300 freighters and employed 460 people. In 1995, TMA announced that it would suspend 200 employees because of its deteriorating financial condition. Separately, Lebanese flag carrier Middle East ...
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Family favourites
Boeing's new-generation 737is the same, only different Guy Norris/SEATTLE EXACTLY 30 YEARS ago, the first Boeing 737 was taking shape at the company's plant in Renton, Washington. At the time, not everyone was convinced that the "Baby Boeing" gamble would be a winner. The concern ...
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The curtain rises
Coming soon - the next installment in an exciting tale of aircraft engines and orders. Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES This year's Farnborough air show provides the stage for an extraordinary drama, the cut and thrust of which would defy even the most imaginative playwrights of the West End ...
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Slow progress
Progress towards achieving a US/Russian bilateral airworthiness agreement remains slow. Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE USA AND RUSSIA will break no speed records in their marathon efforts to complete a bilateral airworthiness agreement, say US aviation officials involved in the negotiations. While some progress is reported ...
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Regional rivalry
The Embraer EMB-145's Farnborough debut will help to focus attention on regional airliners. Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON WHILE THE 1996 show is the first occasion on which the three major airliner manufacturers - Airbus Industrie, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) - will be exhibiting their latest commercial wares at ...
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X-tended players
Airbus Industrie, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas are all poised to move forward with their X projects. Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDONGuy Norris/LOS ANGELES THE LATEST AIRCRAFT models of the big three airliner manufacturers are all now carrying revenue passengers, and the industry is standing by for the next ...
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Former EBA team sets up long-haul charter
BELGIAN entrepreneur Victor Hasson, who established Euro- Belgian Airlines (EBA) as one of Europe's first low-cost carriers, is preparing to launch a new charter business based on the McDonnell Douglas MD-11. Details of the new operation will be revealed shortly, but Hasson is understood to be considering a ...
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Australia and South Africa reach agreement on capacity boosts
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS AUSTRALIA HAS AGREED to several capacity increases on international routes, which will enable carriers to step up the number of services operated. South Africa and Australia have lifted capacity restrictions and approved codeshare arrangements between the two countries. This will enable a fourth ...
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Ireland launches scheduled services
IRELAND AIRWAYS STARTED OPERATIONS on 16 August, using a 24-seat Shorts 330, on scheduled services between Dublin and Donegal. A Dublin-Sligo service, using a soon-to-be-acquired 44-seat Fokker F27, may be added in October. Ireland Airways, was formed by Dublin-based charter company EI-Air Exports, which aims to create Ireland's third major ...
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Passenger/baggage matching system planned
MICRON Communications has signed a co-operative research-and-development agreement with the US Federal Aviation Administration to develop a prototype positive passenger-baggage matching system. The objective is for the system to recognise automatically when baggage has been placed on an aircraft without the associated passenger, says Boise, Idaho-based Micron. ...
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Relative safety
Europe is joining the USA in pressing less-powerful nations to put aviation safety at the top of their national-budget priorities. David Learmount/LONDON THE EUROPEAN UNION decision to join the USA in invoking its own aviation-safety assessment rules will raise the pressure for the less- powerful nations of ...
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Seoul Air calls a halt to turboprop operations as BAe reclaims aircraft
SEOUL AIR International has ceased its turboprop-aircraft operations amid serious financial difficulties, and most of its aircraft have been returned to lessor British Aerospace. The South Korean airline acquired two ATPs and one Jetstream 41 in early 1995, directly from Jetstream Aircraft. Two used Jetstream 31s were also ...
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GE prepares Snecma invitation to A340-600 engine project
Julian Moxon/PARIS GENERAL ELECTRIC Aircraft Engines says that Snecma will "-definitely be invited" to join development of a power plant for the Airbus A340-600, if Airbus Industrie accepts the US company's proposal to supply an engine for the aircraft. Under a six-month exclusivity deal signed ...
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Air France looks to year-end for US link
Julian Moxon/PARIS AIR FRANCE has set the end of the year as its preferred deadline for a commercial alliance with a US airline. The French state-owned carrier says that a deal is the final priority in its restructuring plan, which is otherwise coming close to completion, although ...
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Cargo and Catering departments face Sabena axe
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS SABENA PLANS to shed its cargo and catering departments, with the possibility that they will be merged into the larger operations being run by the carrier's alliance partner and effective owner Swissair. Paul Reutlinger, who was brought in as Sabena president by Swissair ...