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Eurocontrol steps up air traffic enforcement
Eurocontrol is stepping up its activities to implement a European notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) process. The air navigation organisation is working towards introducing formal contractual arrangements with air traffic management (ATM) service providers after proposals from Eurocontrol's council were approved last month. A European NPRM, which would allow ...
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Eurowings discusses RJ-X launch order
Jens Flottau/DORTMUND Eurowings is in negotiations with British Aerospace to become launch customer for its updated Avro RJ-X model, with which it would replace its ageing BAe 146s. The airline is discussing an order for up to six examples. The RJ-X is BAe's planned, re-engined, AlliedSignal AS977-powered development ...
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Competition puts pressure on LIAT to restructure
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC LIAT is facing growing pressure to restructure its business due to the impending entry of Eastern Caribbean Express into a market overcrowded with financially struggling regional carriers. St Lucia-based Eastern Caribbean plans to make its debut early next year, backed by Air Jamaica. The carrier, ...
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Routes
United Airlines will begin daily services between Los Angeles and Paris Charles de Gaulle next April using Boeing 777s. Sabena is introducing daily services from Brussels to Washington this month using Airbus A330-300s The airline has also upgraded its flights between London City Airport to Brussels, replacing de Havilland Dash ...
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Europe's Allianz is tipped to acquire Fairchild Aerospace
European insurance and financial services giant Allianz has emerged as a potential buyer of regional jet manufacturer Fairchild Aerospace, which has headquarters in the USA. Allianz will not comment on any possible bid for the 56% share of Fairchild held by chairman Carl Albert, but industry sources say the ...
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Eurofighter sales team gets going
Eurofighter International will hold its first board meeting in Turin, Italy, on 4 November. The London-based company is taking over sales and marketing for the Typhoon from the partner companies - Alenia, British Aerospace, CASA and DaimlerChrysler Aerospace (Dasa). Cesare Gianni, chief executive of Lockheed Martin Alenia Tactical Transport ...
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Connecting East Africa
Kenya Airways has shown how to succeed, but its East African regional rivals are struggling Michael Wakabi/KAMPALA A shareholders' meeting on 26 November could pose ominous implications for the East African air industry. The stockholders control African Joint Air Services Agreement (AJAS), the holding company behind SA Alliance, the ...
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Pan Am starts career training
Pan Am International Flight Academy (PAIFA) has entered the ab initio pilot training market by buying Westwind Aviation Academy. Following its acquisition of Phoenix, Arizona-based Westwind, PAIFA has launched a career pilot training programme, under which it will work with airlines to select and train students all the way ...
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Rupture caused Delta III failure
A rupture of the combustion chamber in the second-stage RL-10B-2 engine caused the failure of the second Delta III launcher in May, according to an interim report by Boeing. The engine, which was being used for the first time, suffered "a 67in² [43,225mm²] diamond-shaped breach of its combustion chamber" ...
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Thai closes on privatisation
Jens Flottau/TOKYOThai Airways International chief executive Thamnoon Wanglee says a decision on the privatisation of the carrier will be taken next March or April, with the choice of investor determining whether the carrier remains within the Star Alliance. Wanglee confirms that British Airways and Qantas have made approaches on behalf ...
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FAA proposes new rules to ensure fuel tank safety after TWA crash
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The US Federal Aviation Administration is proposing a new regulation that will have an impact on airliner manufacturers. Under the new rule, they will have to conduct design reviews and develop new, compulsory maintenance programmes for fuel tank systems on existing aircraft to ensure that ...
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Sierra develops new Citation upgrade
Sierra Industries, the Uvalde, Texas-based company known for its after-market airframe modifications, has developed an engine package to upgrade Cessna 500 series Citations. The company has fitted Williams FJ44-2 turbofans in place of the original Pratt & Whitney Canada JT15Ds. As a result, Sierra is offering the FJ44 Eagle ...
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Lockheed upheaval
Lockheed Martin president Peter Teets has retired after taking the blame for the company's poor financial performance. Teets announced his retirement after the company slashed its earnings outlook for next year by 50%. The company mainly blames satellite launch delays and failures. Micky Blackwell, executive vice-president of Lockheed Martin's aeronautical ...
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Turboprop makers bullish about stable future sales
The market for regional turboprop airliners is set for a relatively stable future, despite explosive demand for regional jets, say manufacturers. Production, they say, is expected to remain at consistent levels throughout the next decade. ATR expects to build more than 300 ATR 42/72 turboprops over the next 10 ...
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Air France signs A330 deal to replace A310/767 fleet
Julian Moxon/PARIS Air France has finalised its long-awaited medium capacity fleet renewal plans, with an order for up to 13 Airbus A330-200s. The order, worth about $1.5 billion, includes eight firm orders and five options, and provides the airline with a replacement for its medium-range fleet of 10 ...
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Marketplace
Air New Zealand has begun to update its regional fleet with delivery of the first of seven ATR 72-500s. The new aircraft will replace the airline's older ATR 72-210s. Meanwhile, the airline has sold six 13/14-year-old Nordam Stage 3 hushkitted Boeing 737-200Advs to Mexican carrier Aviacsa. Sabena has phased ...
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Saab repossesses Argentinian 340s
Saab Aircraft Leasing has repossessed Kaiken Lineas Aereas' fleet of Saab 340 turboprops after the Argentinian regional carrier failed to make payments for almost a year. In the first action of its kind by the former Swedish manufacturer, all three of Kaiken's Saab 340As were seized at Rio Grande ...
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A330s set to wing their way to Iran
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Iran has reached agreement with France over its planned purchase of four Airbus A330-300s for operation by flag carrier Iran Air, with deliveries of the aircraft to begin in 2001. Iranian transport minister Mohammed Hojjati told the country's official news agency, IRNA, that the $480 million deal was ...
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A lesson in low cost
Debonair's demise has provided a salutary lesson to other of Europe's low-fares carriers not to stray too far from the low-cost formula. Conventional wisdom may be much maligned, but it is not always wrong. Almost from the day that Franco Mancasola sketched out his plans to launch a ...
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Boeing reverses policy to create full-service finance unit
DAVID KNIBB SEATTLE In a major policy reversal, Boeing is turning the customer finance unit it inherited from McDonnell Douglas (MDC) into "a full-service financing organisation". The former MDC finance unit, renamed Boeing Capital, will be combined with the finance services of its treasury as part of the move ...