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-CIT Group has delivered two Stage 3 hushkitted Boeing 727-200s to Champion Air on seven-year operating leases. -Cabot Aviation has arranged the sale of a 16-year-old, ex-TAP Air Portugal Lockheed L-1011 TriStar 500 to Canadian charter airline Air Transat. The aircraft has been delivered, following a C check, and will ...
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JAL realigns to face aggressive market
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE Japan Airlines (JAL) is expanding its international services and delegating more regional routes to its low cost subsidiaries as it braces itself against increased competition at home and abroad. The carrier says the major catalysts for intensified competition are the emergence of new domestic Japanese carriers ...
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PC-12 heads for US commercial history
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Start-up US regional carrier Community Air hopes to begin scheduled passenger services in April, with the single-engined 10-seat Pilatus PC-12. The small carrier is the first to exploit recent US Federal Aviation Administration legislation that allows the carriage of fare-paying passengers in single engined aircraft under ...
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COPA completes deal for 12 new Boeing 737-700s
COPA has finalised a deal to acquire 12 new Boeing 737-700s through order and operating leases. The carrier will re-equip its fleet completely and expand services to Central and South America. The privately owned Panamanian carrier has ordered eight 737s from Boeing and will lease a further four aircraft, ...
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Thriving business
Andrew Doyle/TEL AVIV In an era when airline bosses preach the merits of focusing on "core activities", Arkia Israeli Airlines has learned to thrive through diversification. As Israel's largest domestic carrier, Arkia built its international charter unit into a major leisure travel business, selling everything from hotel rooms ...
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DaimlerChrysler Airbus will link headquarters
DaimlerChrysler has ordered an Airbus A319 Corporate Jet (CJ) for delivery in early 2000. The aircraft will be operated by a new subsidiary company, DaimlerChrysler Aviation, based in Stuttgart, to ferry employees between the German city and the conglomerate's second headquarters in Detroit, USA. Before it receives the International ...
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Airbus forecasts lower sales for 1999 as demand dwindles
Julian Moxon/PARIS Airbus Industrie expects to achieve "significantly lower" sales during 1999, following its record breaking year of orders and deliveries, but insists it will continue the near-50% market share achieved in 1998 in all areas where it competes with Boeing. Commercial vice-president John Leahy declines to predict the ...
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Software problems delay WAAS implementation
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has delayed initial fielding of the Raytheon Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) by at least 14 months because of software development problems. The WAAS was to have entered service in July 1999, but the FAA says this has been pushed back to September ...
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-Hawaiian Airlines has purchased two McDonnell Douglas DC-9-50s from the Italian airline Meridiana, for delivery in February. The airline already operates 13 DC-9-51s on its inter-island route network, and is exempt to the US Stage 2 phase-out noise legislation that takes full effect at the end of 1999, because Hawaii ...
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-UK remarketing agent Cabot Aviation has purchased Thai Airways International's two eight-year-old ATR 42-320s, which are now being offered for onward sale or lease. -Swedish lessor Indigo Aviation has acquired two Boeing 737-400s which are currently leased to Istanbul Airlines and Italy's Blue Panorama. The aircraft are leased until 2003. ...
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Debonair broadens its horizons
The last few months of 1998 have been a busy time for ambitious UK low-fare airline Debonair. First came the regional frequent flier initiative, followed by approval from above for an extensive air-bridge operation for pilgrims travelling to the religious sanctuary of Lourdes from 10 European cities. Then came ...
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Japanese start-up - Japanese startup Amakusa Airlines has ordered one 39-seat Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-100Q in preparation for its launch in the spring of 2000. The airline, which follows Symark and Air Do into Japan's newly opened domestic market, is majority owned by a local government interests. Money ...
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-Continental Airlines has placed a $75 million order with Rolls-Royce for RB211-535E4B engines to power five Boeing 757-200s. The 757s were ordered in 1997 and are due for delivery between December 1999 and June 2000. -American International Airways, a division of Kitty Hawk, has taken delivery of an ex-Middle East ...
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Marconi begins NG 737 head-up display tests
Marconi Avionics has begun flight testing the HUD 2020 head-up display for the Next Generation (NG) 737 on a leased 737-800 based at Mojave, California. The tests are aimed at achieving US Federal Aviation Administration certification in the first quarter of 1999, followed by immediate deliveries to Boeing for ...
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-C-S Aviation Services has placed five Airbus A300B4 freighters with Grupo TACA, for delivery at the end of this year, plus lease options for two more aircraft. C-S has also placed an A300B4F on a five-year lease with International Cargo Charters of Canada. The airline operates Emery Worldwide services from ...
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TWA twin-source deal surprises market
Trans World Airlines' decision to set up deals with Airbus Industrie and Boeing for competing 100-seaters - totalling 250 aircraft, including options - has raised questions over the US airline's future strategy. The deal remains to be finalised, but TWA has signed letters of intent (LoIs) for 50 717-200s, ...
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-Boullioun Aviation Services has ordered three Boeing 737-300s, to increase its orderbook with the manufacturer to 63. The -300s will be delivered in the second half of 1999. -Varig has leased a Boeing 737-700 from GE Capital Aviation Services. -French charter airline Euralair will take delivery of the first of ...
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-International Lease Finance (ILFC) has placed two new Boeing 777-200ERs with Varig Brazil. The two General Electric GE90-powered aircraft will be delivered in March and April 2000 on 10-year leases with extension options. -The last Fokker 70 built has been delivered to Austria's Tyrolean Airways. The aircraft was originally ordered ...
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Green light shows for Quiet Skies 707 hushkit
The first Quiet Skies-developed Stage 3 hushkit for a Pratt & Whitney JT3D-3B-powered Boeing 707-300 is due to be delivered to the inaugural customer, a private European owner, by the end of this month. The delivery follows the award of a supplemental type certificate (STC) by the US Federal ...