News from FlightGlobal – Page 2574
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Airbus and Boeing fight for key Asiana contract
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE ASIANA AIRLINES of South Korea is near to selecting a new 150- to 180-seat passenger jet-airliner, as the first step in a wider fleet-modernisation programme. The airline has narrowed its choice to the Airbus Industrie A321 and rival Boeing 737-800. The two manufacturers ...
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Augsburg finds early success at City
THE EARLY success of its new service from London City Airport to Cologne/Bonn and Augsburg (Flight International, 15-21 November, 1995, P8), has prompted Augsburg Airways (formerly Interot Airways) to increase frequencies. From 31 March, Cologne/Bonn will be served three times a day, with two flights carrying on to Augsburg. The ...
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Business Express yields to bankruptcy protection
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC BUSINESS EXPRESS, the US regional carrier based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, has been forced into the federal bankruptcy court by Saab Aircraft. The airline owes Saab more than $20 million - much of it in unpaid lease payments. A major creditor, Saab ...
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GECAS may order up to 100 A320s
Julian Moxon/PARIS AIRBUS INDUSTRIE is set to secure between 60 and 100 orders and options for new narrow-body aircraft from GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS), according to sources close to the negotiations (Flight International, 17-23 January). The order would follow on the heels of the huge ...
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Fokker's dream
REPORTS OF Fokker's death may be somewhat exaggerated, but the company's descent into administrative protection does spell the end of two dreams: that the Netherlands Government could somehow sustain a full-competence national aircraft maker, and that Daimler-Benz could be the nucleus of a powerful third Euro-pean aerospace force. ...
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Regional raises domestic stakes
Julian Moxon/PARIS FRANCE'S REGIONAL Airlines has joined the list of domestic carriers taking advantage of the 1 January liberalisation of French internal routes. The Nantes-based airline says that it will open several new cross-country routes between Nantes-Lyon, Bordeaux-Marseille, Lyon-Lille and Lyon-Strasbourg in the second quarter. ...
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China turns down Dragonair stake to go it alone
CHINA NATIONAL Aviation (CNAC) has rejected Swire Pacific's offer of a 6% share in Dragonair, and will instead press on with plans to launch its own Hong Kong-based carrier. Beijing-controlled CNAC is reported to have already leased a Boeing 737 from the USA for delivery in March. The ...
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Boon to aerospace
A background in shipbuilding has helped the head of Singapore Technologies Aerospace keep the company afloat. Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE BOON SWAN FOO'S first year at the helm of Singapore Technologies Aerospace (STAe) has proved to be tough. The former Singapore Shipbuilding and Engineering president has had to contend ...
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Tahiti's FANS makes headway
Julian Moxon/PARIS FRANCE'S THOMSON-CSF has completed the second phase of Tahiti's new satellite-based oceanic air-traffic-control system, with delivery of the automated data-link component. When complete in early 1997, the Tahiti system will be one of the main components of the South Pacific Future Air Navigation ...
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Airtran picks hushkit
Florida-based hushkit manufacturer AvAero has won an order from Airtran Airways of Orlando to supply five Boeing 737 hushkit shipsets. The order, which also includes options on four more shipsets, includes the replacement of a Nordam-made hushkit with the AvAero system on the first aircraft. "They ...
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...while Continental and United forge ahead with record results
FURTHER GOOD news from the US airline industry included record profits at Continental Airlines and progress from United Airlines as it ends its first full year under employee ownership. "This was a whopper year for us no matter how you measure it...we're back on the map and ...
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Checking the numbers
There are fears that Hong Kong's new airport is already heading for a capacity problem. Chris Yates/HONG KONG IT IS THE WORLD'S single largest project in civil engineering today and one of the most complex combined excavation and reclamation projects in history, requiring the largest fleet of seaborne dredgers, ...
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Emission control
Experiments are in hand to determine the real impact aircraft are having on the atmosphere. Martin Hindley/LONDON SCIENTISTS STUDYING the effects of aircraft emissions on the Earth's atmosphere have produced results, which may dispel one of the most commonly held theories about air pollution. After more than ...
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Delta is debut customer for electro-optical ice detector
ROBOTIC VISION Systems (RVSI) has received its first airline order for the ID-1 wide-area aircraft ice-detection system. Delta Air Lines has ordered four of the hand-held electro-optical systems for use this winter at its main US East Coast airports. Hauppauge, New York-based RVSI says that the Delta order ...
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A tale of two crises
Could Fokker have performed better if it had followed Avro's lead in cutting quicker and deeper? Kevin O'Toole/LONDON FOKKER MAY NOT appreciate the irony, but its latest crisis has come just as the regional-jet market is showing few signs of life. If a recovery in ...
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Raisbeck
Tom Halvorson has joined Raisbeck Engineering as vice-president marketing. Halvorson's 35-year aviation career has spanned marketing, fixed base operations, aircraft sales and regional-airline management. He joins Raisbeck Engineering after 15 years with Western Aircraft of Idaho where he has held a variety of positions, most recently company president. In the ...
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American West
American West Airlines has appointed Michael Carreon as vice-president and controller. He will be responsible for developing, implementing and maintaining internal accounting controls. Carreon joined American West in 1994 as senior director of corporate audit. Source: Flight International
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Bombardier lands new Dash-8 and Regional Jet deals
BOMBARDIER IS to supply private Romanian airline DAC Air with a mix of 50-seat Dash 8-300s and Regional Jets to replace its aging Antonov An-24s. The Canadian company has also landed a Dash-8 deal with UK carrier Brymon Airways. The Romanian deal is potentially worth $425 million, and ...
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Boeing counts the cost of airliner-delivery slump
BOEING'S COMMERCIAL aircraft business emerged from a tough 1995 with profits down by more than one-quarter as airliner deliveries continued to slide, a situation worsened by the ten-week machinists' strike. It delivered only 206 airliners over the year - the lowest for a decade - to record nearly ...
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Brake selection
Korean Air has selected Messier-BFGoodrich carbon brakes for its seven firm-ordered Airbus A330s. Deliveries of the brakes, jointly developed by France's Messier-Bugatti and BFGoodrich of the USA, will begin in February 1997. Source: Flight International