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US-Japan: is this the finish post?
The new US-Japan civil aviation bilateral might go down in history as the agreement that metamorphosed from a full open skies prospect into a reality check. Given the increasingly obvious premise that full open skies was not on the table, it eventually came down to the US Department of ...
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And then there were four . . .
The latest 'virtual merger' means four airlines have 70 per cent of the US market. The airline alliance dance has moved into a new phase with the announcement of the virtual merger between Northwest Airlines and Continental Airlines. The entire industry is still trying to digest the implications of this ...
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Looking peaky
In its third straight year of profit, the airline industry broke all records last year. But some Asians are suffering and tougher times may be ahead. Richard Whitaker reports. It's early days yet and many carriers have not yet reported full-year financial results for 1997, but it is clear that ...
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Weakened by taxation
Growing profits at many airlines have led to an increase in the taxes levied by governments and a rash of new charges. Tom Gill assesses the current state of affairs worldwide.'An airline is like a fat cow - everyone is milking it.' Like most airline executives, Franco Mancassola of UK-based ...
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P&W starts geared turbofan revolution
Karen Walker Pratt & Whitney will unveil details tomorrow of its new PW8000 geared turbofan, the engine which it says will "-change the rules of the game." P&W has made the unusual decision to launch the PW8000 without a customer. But company president Karl Krapek says it is time to ...
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Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE)
Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE) is to consider a Singapore and New York Stock Exchange listing in 2000 as a capital-raising exercise to help boost its portfolio. Managing director John Willingham says SALE has no definitive plans to list at the moment, although owners Singapore Airlines (SIA), Boullioun Aviation Services ...
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Swearingen's Asia target
Why opt for secondhand when you can have a brand new executive jet for just $3.5 million With 103 firm orders - 60 per cent from the USA and 40 per cent from Europe - in its slipstream so far, Sino Swearingen is hoping its SJ30-2 will capture the ...
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Preston sells second TAAM to Boeing
The Preston Group (Stand C132) has announced at the show the sale of a second Total Airport and Airspace Modeller (TAAM) licence to Boeing. Boeing has been using TAAM since 1994 to satisfy the needs of its commercial airline customers by simulating potential projects in the modernisation of air traffic ...
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Marginal routes offer scope for turboprops
The economic turmoil in Asia-Pacific could provide turboprop manufacturers such as Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) with a major opportunity, senior vice-president, commercial, Alain Brodin said at the show. He says it is possible that airlines operating jets on marginal routes could move them to lower-cost operators which would use ...
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CAE simulators
Canada's CAE Electronics has received a contract from Delta Airlines for four flight simulators. CAE will design and manufacture one Boeing 777-200 FFS and three 777-200 Flight Training Devices (FTD), to be installed at the airline's new state-of-the-art training centre in Atlanta, Georgia. The order follows the recent ...
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No clear explanation yet of China Air crash
Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) says it will release a preliminary report into the cause of the 16 February China Airlines (CAL) Airbus Industrie A300-600R crash within ten days. Deputy director Lee Wan Lee of the CAA's flight standards department says the aircraft's flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit ...
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Canadair racks up six more RJ orders
Alan Dron Bombardier yesterday received orders for six Canadair Regional Jets - five from Montpellier, France-based Air Littoral, and one from Air Adria, of Ljubljana, Slovenia. The French order, for five Series 100 machines, will take the airline's fleet of the 50-seat aircraft to 19. Deliveries of its ...
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Economic crisis puts region's deals at risk
Geoff Thomas Manufacturers were continuing to put on a brave face at the show yesterday, despite ever-strengthening indications that the region's economic turmoil is indeed having an effect on the industry. Beyond the obvious threats to airliner orders, it was being suggested that seemingly unrelated moves like Cathay ...
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Never a dull moment with Pierson at the podium
Mike Martin Jean Pierson's last air show appearance as chief executive of Airbus Industrie was vintage stuff. Some 13 years ago, when he joined the company, he told his team to "-fasten their seat belts: I promise we will cause some turbulence". Staff reaction went unrecorded, but the indomitable ...
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Lido offers integrated flight planning system
Lufthansa's former flight preparation procedures department, now an independent company in the Lufthansa group, is set to expand its international customer base by up to 50%. Kai Kosicki, director marketing and sales of Lufthansa Aeronautical Services - Lido Gmbh - says the requirements of airlines in this region parallel those ...
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New simulator for SAS
One year from now, SAS Flight Academy's centre in Stockholm will begin using its second Boeing 737-600/700/800 Full Flight Simulator. SAS has announced the order for the second simulator, to be manufactured by CAE Electronics, at Asian Aerospace '98. SAS Flight Academy currently has a total of 15 Full Flight ...
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P&W plans PW8000 first run for 1999
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Pratt & Whitney's new PW8000 geared turbofan is expected to make its first run in early 1999, with an entry into service date as early as 2002, says the company, which formally announced the three year development programme on 17 February (Flight International, 18-24 February). ...
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CAL A300 crashes at Taipei
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE A China Airlines (CAL) Airbus Industrie A300-600R crashed next to Taipei's international airport in Taiwan on 16 February as the crew was apparently initiating a go-around. There are indications that the aircraft may have stalled in the attempt. The seven year old aircraft, aiming for runway 05L, ...
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A330/340 pump fire danger doused
Fire danger from faulty Airbus Industrie A330/A340 auxiliary hydraulic pumps has been addressed in a US Federal Aviation Administration airworthiness directive (AD), issued on 17 February, requiring their complete removal. Airbus, however, points out that all necessary corrective actions have already been taken, explaining that the electrically driven pumps (EHPs) ...
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Belgium's VLM gears up to enter millennium with Fokker 70 fleet
Herman De Wulf/ANTWERPIN a bid to boost services and spread its business, Belgian regional airline VLM, of Antwerp is seeking to move up to a jet-powered fleet with the acquisition of Fokker 70s by 2000. The carrier has a fleet of four Fokker 50 turboprops, and new managing director Christian ...