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Brown is beautiful
As demand for express products continues to grow in overseas markets, United Parcel Service has carefully tailored its international operations to suit each region and is willing to take a long-term view in waiting for the rewards. Karen Walker reports. The last 12 months have been somewhat colourful for ...
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The Asian miracle turns to a malaise
For many years, the traditional lore in the airline business has been that Asia-Pacific represents the most vibrant, fastest growing, most profitable element of the industry, with the brightest prospects and the greatest resilience to factors like wars and recession to which most other carriers are vulnerable. As ...
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Asia links the American way
American Airlines is blanketing Asia-Pacific with codeshare agreements, even though the US and Japan are discussing a new bilateral which is likely to allow it to codeshare with Japan Airlines to many of the same points via Japan. Asiana Airlines is American's latest codeshare partner in a blanket ...
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Airtran does the business
ValuJet is giving up more than its name in the planned merger with fellow Atlanta startup AirTran Airways. The no-frills, single-class, open-seating service is going as well in a quest to attract the business traveller. From November the new ValuJet, renamed AirTran Airlines, will no longer focus purely ...
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Airline news
Air France has new franchise agreements with French regional Proteus Airlines, for three daily services from Paris/Orly to Chambéry, and with Gill Airways for twice daily Newcastle-Paris/Charles de Gaulle services. Air France was also due to suspend services to Brazzaville and Cancun, from 26 October. American Airlines is ...
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A breath of fresh air
US-Canada open skies, tentatively begun just over two and a half years ago, has been a resounding success for all concerned. Report by Karen Walker. The doom and gloom experts had better find another target. Despite concerns by some that the US-Canada open skies agreement, forged over three years ago, ...
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The tigers advance
Asian carriers have taken the biggest share of the rapid growth in the US-Pacific market. April Pearson reports. Over the past five years, transpacific traffic to and from the US has risen by 33 per cent - nearly 10 percentage points more than the transatlantic market - according to ...
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Pilots warned of software glitch
Flight manuals for the Airbus A320 family are being amended to alert pilots to a "software anomaly" which can cause the aircraft to adopt "an unintended flight path". The US Federal Aviation Administration airworthiness directive (AD), to take effect on 3 November, is sufficiently urgent for the FAA to have ...
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France requires diesel testing
Julian Moxon/PARIS The first flight of the four-cylinder MR250 diesel engine, under development by Socata and Renault Sport, has been delayed until the beginning of December to allow time for an endurance test demanded by the French certification authorities. Trials of the engine in various configurations ...
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Crash recorders found
The crashed Garuda Airbus A300's flight recorders have been found buried at the Sumatra accident site, airline officials have reported. Evidence indicates that the 26 September accident was not caused by technical problems but to the crew's failure to initiate a turn ordered by air-traffic control to intercept the instrument-landing ...
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FedEx leads orders for rigid cargo bulkhead
FedEx is to replace the nylon nets used in its fleet of older widebody aircraft to protect crew from the hazards of loose cargo pallets, with a new rigid cargo bulkhead from US structures specialist Tolo. The barrier is based on Tolo's patented Grid-Lock technology and is formed ...
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Boeing pays the price for production crisis
The full financial impact of Boeing's growing commercial production and delivery crisis has been revealed, with costs estimated at $2.6 billion attributed to late deliveries and recovery plans. The bulk of the costs, some $1.6 billion, are associated with penalty payments for late deliveries in the third quarter, ...
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FAA rethinks fuel-tank approval
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC In an apparent change of heart, the US Federal Aviation Administration is considering the case for changing the way it certificates commercial-aviation fuel tanks, say senior officials close to the year-long investigations into the mid-air explosion of a Trans World Airlines Boeing 747-100. ...
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Airbus supplement: Restructuring
Wherever aerospace executives gather to discuss consolidation of Europe's aerospace industry, it will not be long before the talk turns to Airbus Industrie and its anxiously awaited restructuring. Whatever other pitfalls may yet befall Europe on the way towards the holy grail of consolidation, it has become an ...
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777 suffers new engine troubles
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Pratt & Whitney and General Electric are inspecting their respective PW4090 and GE90 engines for the Boeing 777, after a new series of problems with powerplants on British Airways and United Airlines aircraft. The GE90 suffered a crack in a rotating seal on ...
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Qantas considers A340/777 competition
Qantas' new order will lift its 747-40 Qantas is evaluating the Airbus and Boeing 300-seat models, and has confirmed orders for three additional Boeing 747-400s, worth some A$650 million ($478 million)including engines and spares. According to chief executive James Strong, Qantas has been studying closely its ...
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Airbus supplement: A330 A340
When Airbus first discussed the A340 seriously with potential customers in the mid-1980s, "...the maximum range requirement was not much more than 6,000nm [11,100km]," recalls Airbus vice president strategic planning Adam Brown. "By launch in 1987 this had grown to 6,600nm [12,200km], and the A340-300 now in production can fly ...
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US Airways selects engines and secures deliveries for A320s
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTONDC US Airways has moved closer to finalising its long-standing commitment for up to 400 Airbus A320 family aircraft, with the selection of CFM International CFM56 engines, and an agreement over the delivery schedule for the first 30 aircraft. Some of the early delivery positions ...
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Airbus supplement: A319 flighttest
Peter Henley/HAMBURG The 124-seat A319 is the smallest of the Airbus Industrie family of airliners, featuring the same basic flightdeck and similar handling characteristics to all the other Airbus fly-by-wire (FBW)aircraft. A "shrink" derivative of the 150-seat A320, the A319 is offered with the same engines ...
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Germans despatch inspector to examine Mir components
A German camera-equipped spacecraft called the Inspektor, has been delivered to the Russian Mir 1 space station aboard the Progress M36 tanker. It will fly, remotely controlled by a cosmonaut inside the Mir, to conduct close inspection of various components using a camera. The 70kg Inspektor, ...