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Premium Sales
With the worst over in the airliner discount wars, John Leahy is focused on securing a premium for Airbus technology. Salesmen stuck with a mundane commodity product must look with green-eyed longing at the airliner market. What could be further from the stack it high and sell it cheap philosophy ...
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All kinds of everything
Boeing believes its comprehensive range of airliners sets it up well for the next industry upturn, when each airline will seek out the product that most closely matches its requirements. All the sizes in all the colours. If Boeing's product range was available in the local department store, even the ...
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Get your aircraft economics right
Operating ageing aircraft can be an expensive business, as cost figures for the US majors clearly demonstrate. But how great is the cost difference between old and new? There has always been a trade-off between the cheap acquisition cost of older aircraft and the slick operating economics of modern types. ...
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Pinto survives power struggle within Varig
The manager of the Brazilian football team knows his job is never safe in a land where defeat is viewed as a national catastrophe. The situation appears to be little different for Fernando Pinto, the president of Varig. Pinto is the fourth Varig president in the last six years and ...
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Iberia gets down to business
With the BA equity deal all but sealed, membership of oneworld under its belt and full privatisation slated by year end, Iberia has much to be cheerful about. But while the Spanish flag carrier reinvents itself as a serious international business airline, it will need to keep a close eye ...
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Maintenance gets smart
Every business has its dark corners. Secret fiefdoms or forgotten Cinderellas, where planning is a black art and true costs difficult to pin down. By tradition, maintenance has been one such corner of the airline industry. The label may be an exaggeration, but the boardroom drive to get a stronger ...
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Delta's retiring Boeings find a new future in freighter role
Pratt & Whitney and the Republic Financial Corp-oration have jointly acquired the rights to 119 Boeing 727-200s being retired by Delta Air Lines. The move secures airframes for conversion to freighters and perpetuates JT9D-15/15A engine overhaul and spares work. Delta is due to withdraw all of its 727s from ...
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Turkish carriers sign for Next Generation 737s
Istanbul Airlines and SunExpress Airlines have become the latest Turkish carriers to make major commitments to the Boeing Next Generation 737 family, with plans to acquire a total of 26 aircraft between them. A firm order for 12 737-800s has been placed by Istanbul Airlines, with options on a further ...
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Honeywell ready to sign LAAS development agreement
Honeywell will sign an agreement in early April with the US Federal Aviation Administration to begin development of the local area augmentation system (LAAS), which will allow the global positioning system (GPS) to be used as the sole source of navigation information. Honeywell has assembled a team which includes ...
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Devaluation forces Varig aircraft and route cuts
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON Brian Homewood/RIO DE JANEIRO Varig Brazil has announced cuts in international services to the USA and Europe and plans to withdraw its fleet of McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 passenger aircraft by the end of the year as a massive Brazilian currency devaluation begins to affect airline traffic. ...
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R-R tackles Trent 700 surge/vibration issues
Andrew Doyle/ZURICH Early operators of Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engines powering the Airbus Industrie A330 twin are working with the manufacturer to eliminate surge, vibration and turbine disk corrosion problems. These have led to a higher than expected number of engine removals recently. R-R has developed solutions for the surge and ...
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Marketplace
Delta Air Lines has taken delivery of its first Boeing 777-200ER ahead of a planned entry into commercial service on transatlantic routes from 1 May. The 277-seat Rolls-Royce Trent-powered aircraft will initially be operated between Atlanta and London and, from September, between Cincinnati and London and Atlanta and Frankfurt. The ...
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Moving on up
Number five worldwide and climbing: can Canada keep up the momentum? When the count is complete, Canada expects to have ended 1998 with the world's fifth largest aerospace industry, ahead of Japan in sales terms - one rung higher than in 1997 and one step closer to its goal of ...
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Cirrus SR20 demonstrator kills test pilot in prison crash
Dave Higdon/DULUTHNational Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and Federal Aviation Administration investigators are examining the aileron control system as a possible cause of the crash on 23 March of the first production SR20 that killed Cirrus Design's chief test pilot. The aircraft left the assembly line on 20 March and was ...
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Pan American eyes grounded Kiwi International
Charter specialist Pan American has moved to acquire US domestic carrier Kiwi International Airlines, which has been grounded by the US Federal Aviation Administration for "numerous" safety violations. Kiwi's three Boeing 727s were taken out of service a day after the US Department of Transportation (DoT) threatened to revoke ...
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BA gives Sheffield a boost
Andrew Doyle/SHEFFIELD Newly established Sheffield City airport in the UK has received a major boost with the decision by British Airways franchisee British Regional Airlines (BRAL)to launch a hub operation there later this year. The only scheduled flights at the airport, which opened in February 1998, are operated by KLM ...
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1,000 jets face retirement
Almost 1,000 jet airliners in fleet use could be retired from passenger operations between now and the end of 2000, according to predictions made by John Flynn, president of California-based leasing company Triton Aviation Services. The forecast, made at the recent Speednews suppliers conference in Los Angeles, predicts a ...
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Pelangi signs for Fokker F28 expansion
Malaysian regional carrier Pelangi Airways is poised to begin jet operations with two Fokker F28s. It is to acquire the regional jets, with an additional option, under a $7 million contract signed with Singapore-based Transasian. According to Pelangi's general manager Zain Salahin, the aircraft are being acquired to serve ...
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Claiming a crisis
Tim Furniss/LONDON One more failure and the space insurance business could go into the red Space industry insurers are nervously tallying up their accounts in the wake of 27 loss claims filed for satellite and launch failures last year. The business faces a crisis after meeting more than $1.7 ...
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Good business
Air Namibia plans to make its fortune by cutting costs, increasing income and building partnerships Stewart Penney/WINDHOEKA new managing director at Air Namibia is determined to reverse the carrier's flagging fortunes and prepare it for privatisation by aggressively attacking costs while increasing income and creating a series of alliances. The ...