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FlightSafety adds new Miami hub
FlightSafety Boeing Training International is to establish a $100 million Latin American training hub in Miami, Florida. This follows the August announcement by the Boeing/ FlightSafety joint venture of plans to build an $85 million European training hub in London. The new Miami centre is scheduled to open in ...
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Bombardier refines 90-seater
Guy Norris/PALM SPRINGS Bombardier has refined its plans for the proposed BRJ-X regional jet family and says a launch decision is likely to be taken around October 1999, pending the conclusion of a solid business case. Bombardier is now outlining plans for two main family members, a 90-seater ...
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Boeing tests 747-X trailing edge wedge
Boeing has begun flight tests of a trailing-edge wedge wing modification on a 747-400 as the first element of a potential package of changes that could be applied to future 747 derivatives. The modification consists of a triangular-shaped wedge on the lower surface of the wing trailing edge, and ...
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Aerospatiale stakes claim for A3XX assembly at Toulouse
Julian Moxon/PARIS The new chief of Aerospatiale's aeronautics division, Jean-Francois Bigay, has added to the controversy over the location of the new assembly line for the Airbus A3XX by pitching strongly to set up a plant at the existing Toulouse location. Aerospatiale is responsible for the final assembly of all ...
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BA closes on RB211 'hybrid' retrofit deal
Andrew Doyle/SEATTLE Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON British Airways is finalising a deal with Rolls-Royce to upgrade the engines on half of its 50-strong fleet of RB211-powered Boeing 747-400s, as it finalises a plan to phase out the remainder of its "classic" 747 variants within the next four years. The proposed contract, which ...
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MD-11 probe leads to entertainment disconnection
Swissair has voluntarily disconnected the in-flight entertainment systems on its Boeing 747 and MD-11 fleets as a precaution because some heat-damaged wiring associated with it has been found in the MD-11 which crashed off Nova Scotia, Canada, on 2 September. Both the airline and the Transportation Safety Board of Canada ...
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Stormy weather?
This year's hurricane season has been unkind to the Caribbean, with Georges cutting a particularly devastating swathe through many of the region's islands. But for the local airlines, hurricanes are the least of their worries. Just ask Conrad Aleong, who stepped in this year to take the helm of ...
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as sell-off row surfaces
India's mercurial foreign ownership rules are again causing controversy, with an apparent split between ministries over whether airline partners will be allowed to buy shares in either Air-India or Indian Airlines as they come up for privatisation. Civil aviation minister Ananth Kumar plans strict enforcement of the domestic aviation ...
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Much noise but little progress
The endless debate on how best to square air traffic growth at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport with concerns over the ensuing noise pollution goes on. The incoming government promptly tightened the screw after its election victory in March, reducing the allowable noise footprint from that agreed previously. Yet the issue ...
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Japanese react to recession
Japan Airlines (JAL) and All Nippon Airways are both accelerating plans to restructure in response to falling yields. As the two carriers prepared to announce first-half results at the end of October, neither was expecting to hit previous forecasts. "Japan's recession is JAL's fundamental problem," says Isao Kaneko, the ...
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A Renaissance hub
With the opening of the new Malpensa airport, northern Italy may at last achieve its ambition of challenging northern Europe's major hubs. On the face of it, the transfer of international flights to Milan's shiny new airport at Malpensa should hardly have caused much of a fuss. Yet fuss ...
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FLEETS
Long commitment The world's fourth-largest regional airline, Comair, has signed a 10-year agreement with Bombardier to acquire 50 more CRJs, comprising 30 CRJ-200s and 20 CRJ-700s. The deal includes a further 115 options. Wayout west America West has taken delivery of two more Airbus A320s, ...
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Fresh start for Virgin Express
The move by Virgin Express to establish a new Irish subsidiary in Shannon will, alongside its fledgling French operation, give the carrier the resources and cost structure it needs to pursue growth. Gus Carbonell, director of marketing and planning at the Brussels-based carrier, says the heavy social charges attached ...
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End of the road for Southern
Having failed to find a rescuer, Southern Air Transport (SAT) ceased operations at the end of September. The US cargo carrier, which had operated for more than 50 years, was largely hampered by its fleet of Lockheed L-100 Hercules, which left it as an oddball in today's freighter market and ...
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Gaining an edge
Managers may dream of introducing the ground-breaking innovation that reshapes the industry. Or of the revolution that launches their airline to new heights of sustained performance. But in today's real world of increasingly competitive marketplace, victories tend to be smaller, more fleeting and harder to win. Welcome to the age ...
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Deluge of troubles flood Peru
Peruvian aviation was never for the fainthearted, but its current turmoil is volatile even by Lima's standards. The chief executive of bankrupt local carrier Faucett Peru is the apparent victim of a behind-the-scenes power struggle even with his airline in receivership. A new law allowing foreign carriers to operate domestic ...
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Current outlook
There are still some glimmers despite the gloom, it seems. Although there is little doubt that the world is poised for downturn, the latest projections coming out for the airline industry, if not exactly buoyant, are at least cautiously optimistic. The new passenger forecasts from the International Air Transport ...
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POLAR steering a new course
Good navigators, whether in cockpits or corner offices, sense when it is time to change course. The navigators for Long Beach-based Polar Air Cargo think that the time is now. But knowing when to change is only part of their challenge; they also must know what to change and what ...
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Taiwan and China edge closer
The prospect of direct flights between Taiwan and China suddenly looks brighter. Prior predictions have all proven wrong, but now there are signs that such flights could follow a warming in relations. First, there have been recent breakthroughs in shipping. Taipei has previously said that shipping could be a ...