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Air France Cargo was set to launch a weekly Boeing 747 cargo service from Paris/Charles de Gaulle to Helsinki at the end of May. American Airlines Cargo is to introduce a 4.3 per cent fuel surcharge on its US domestic cargo and priority parcel service charges in July. ...
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Likud victory fires doubts
The Likud election victory in Israel will have profound implications for both El Al's future and plans for Palestine's fledgling air transport sector. Somewhat surprisingly, El Al changed course in its search for capital before the general election at the end of May. The new policy aims to ...
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MAS largess foots the bill
Malaysia Airlines is facing a large increase in its wages bill, which has already affected the carrier's second half financial results, after signing new pay agreements covering almost its entire workforce. The 14,000 members of the Malaysia Airlines Employees Union (Maseu) get rises of between 20 and 26.8 ...
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Alliance flop?
No alliance can hope to survive and prosper when the partners are at each others' throats. A clear message runs through this month's cover story about KLM/Northwest: what a pity if the world's most successful airline alliance were destroyed by infighting. If asked about the conditions needed for ...
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New Airbus at a stretch
Airbus Industrie and its four owners are preparing for long and complex negotiations about restructuring the partnership. In a report due in July, the four-man committee headed by former Daimler Benz chairman Edzard Reuter will discuss the options, now that the French, German, UK and Spanish governments have agreed in ...
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US ticket tax battle peaks
Several US airlines have been in the odd position of lobbying for the reimposition of a 10 per cent ticket tax, which has not been in effect since the beginning of the year and whose absence was credited for helping spur record carrier profits during the traditionally slow winter period. ...
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Smiths
Keith Butler-Wheelhouse, has been named chief executive of aerospace technology company Smiths Industries, of London, UK, from November. He succeeds Sir Roger Hurn, who will continue as chairman. Butler-Wheelhouse has been chief executive of Saab Automobile in Sweden for the past four years, and will become an executive director of ...
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Shorts
Bombardier's UK subsidiary, Shorts, of Belfast, Northern Ireland, has appointed Roy McNulty chairman. McNulty has been president since the Bombardier acquisition in 1989. He succeeds Laurent Beaudoin, chairman and chief executive, who will continue as a member of the Shorts board. Ken Brundle has been appointed vice-president and general manager, ...
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Dunlop
Aircraft-component company Dunlop Equipment, of Coventry, UK, has appointed Dennis Scott business-development manager. He was formerly consultant technologist to UK power plant manufacturer Rolls-Royce Aero Engines. Before that, he worked with British Aerospace, Israel Aircraft Industries and Atlas Aircraft of South Africa, before returning to BAe to work on the ...
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Far-seeing Far Eastern view
Sir - An article entitled "McDonnell Douglas's Venture Falters" (Wall Street Journal, 22 May, 1996) states that "-the company envisioned taking an equity stake in the venture, becoming China's full risk-sharing partner". Your prophetic comment "Oriental headache" (Flight International, 13-19 September, 1995) pointed out the longstanding, obvious and ...
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Six teams compete
OF THE NINE original contenders for the T-38 avionics-upgrade programme, six remain. Lockheed Martin elected not to bid, later re-entering the competition by acquiring Loral, while teams led by Harris and Singapore Technologies Aerospace, were eliminated from contention by the USAF. The six remaining are: Chrysler Technologies ...
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India's private malaise
MODILUFT'S dispute with Lufthansa over lease payments has made headlines, but it also highlights a deeper malaise afflicting India's fledgling private-airline operators. Of the five major private carriers established in India since liberalisation began some three years ago, only Jet Airways and the cargo carriers appear to ...
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Burbank wins thrust-reverser approval
California-based hushkit specialist Burbank Nacelle (BNC) has won a US Federal Aviation Administration supplemental type certificate (STC) for an acoustic thrust-reverser for McDonnell Douglas (MDC) DC-9s fitted with ABS Partnership Stage 3 hushkits. The key element of the new reverser is an acoustic liner made by Astech Manufacturing ...
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Airbus evaluates age forming for wing skins
Andrew Doyle/LONDON BRITISH AEROSPACE Airbus is studying the possible introduction of "age-forming" techniques in the manufacture of wing skins for all Airbus narrow-body aircraft, following its successful implementation for part of the upper-wing skin of the A321. The company is using a 14m-long oven supplied by Aeroform of ...
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BA courts JAL as world tie-ups spread
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE BRITISH AIRWAYS is now focusing attention on Japan Airlines (JAL) as a possible strategic partner in Asia, following the UK carrier's recently announced tie-up with American Airlines. BA executive chairman Sir Colin Marshall travelled to Tokyo to meet JAL chairman Susumu Yamaji shortly ...
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China to resume satellite launches
CHINA GREAT WALL Industry (CGWIC) is to resume satellite launches with Asia Pacific Satellite's Hughes-built ApStar 1A aboard a Long March 3 (LM3) booster from Xichang, in July. This follows a hiatus in launches, after the loss of the first Long March 3B booster on 15 February, along with its ...
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Lufthansa struggles with weak first half
CONCERNS ARE growing among analysts that Lufthansa may be left showing a loss for the first half of the year after a poor set of traffic performances over the first five months of the year. "The traffic figures are not very promising at all. The year has ...
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Hong Kong wins more Chinese rights
IN A MAJOR SIGN of improved relations between the UK and Chinese Governments, Hong Kong carriers Cathay Pacific Airways and Dragonair have been granted additional rights to fly across and into China. Under the deal, Beijing has opened up new routes through Chinese airspace to Europe, North ...
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Boeing reveals massive 737 production boost
Guy Norris/SEATTLE BOEING IS TO boost production of its 737 to 17a month by January 1998, and is studying more increases that could see production exceeding the record-breaking rates of the early 1990s, when 21 aircraft a month were being built at Renton in Washington. ...
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Heathrow slots are price for BA/American go-ahead
THE US DEPARTMENT of Transportation (DoT) is demanding that additional slots be freed up at London Heathrow as the price for granting anti-trust immunity to the proposed alliance between BA and American Airlines. Senior DoT policy official Patrick Murphy says that new US carriers would have to be ...