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Tentative Agreement
FedEx has tentatively agreed a new five-year contract with its 3,000 pilots, including pay increases partly linked to profitability and work-rule changes to improve flexibility and productivity. FedEx pilots, who took industrial action when talks broke down, have yet to vote on the deal. The carrier began direct US-China cargo ...
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Bankruptcy fails to prevent Fokker 50 handover
INDEPENDENT BELGIAN COMMUTER AIRLINE VLM took delivery of its fourth Fokker 50 on 15 March - the day that Fokker went bankrupt. The airline, which operates daily scheduled services linking Antwerp and Rotterdam with London City Airport, will use the aircraft on its new Dusseldorf-London route, to be inaugurated on ...
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Hong Kong delay
China National Aviation has reportedly delayed the start-up of its planned Hong Kong-based carrier until June. The provisionally named China Hong Kong Airlines had intended to begin operations from 1 April, with a single leased Boeing 737-500, but now needs more time to complete its application for a Hong Kong ...
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Rolls-Royce
Colin Green, vice-president for business operations at Allison Engine, and who will become managing director of the Rolls-Royce Aerospace Group on 30 April, has been appointed an executive director at R-R, with effect from the same date. Source: Flight International
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Lockheed
Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems, of Fort Worth, Texas, has appointed Dr Vernon Lee to the new position of vice-president of the newly created Systems Development Center and the FS-X fighter aircraft. He was most recently vice-president of Lockheed Martin's Japan FS-X programme, which he will continue to oversee. Richard ...
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UK turns up heat on engine-control study
Andrew Doyle/LONDON AN ADVANCED electronic engine-control (EEC) system, capable of operation in the high-temperature core of a jet engine, rather than being mounted on the fan casing, is under development by a UK consortium. The project could lead to production of more-responsive and reliable EECs ...
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AeroMexico on firmer footing
AEROMEXICO HAS emerged from a critical year with its financial restructuring safely in place and its losses apparently under control. The Mexican carrier, which came close to collapse during 1995, reports that net losses ended the year at 173 million pesos ($23 million). That compares to more than ...
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Varig outlines blueprint for expansion
VARIG BRAZILIAN Airlines president Fernando Pinto has outlined a new expansion programme following two years of substantial cuts in staff, unprofitable routes and aircraft. The airline plans to invest $40 million developing new routes and is negotiating with leasing companies GECAS and GPA to acquire two McDonnell Douglas ...
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Lessons to learn from Concorde
Sir - In "Twenty years young" (Flight International, 7-13 February, P41) you comment that "...in terms of flight cycles and hours, the aircraft [Concordes] are remarkably young, despite the physical age of the fleet". British Airways, you report, operates each Concorde for 900-1,100h a year - one-quarter (or less) of ...
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Boeing plans to step up production during 1997
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES BOEING PLANS to increase production of all models in 1997 in response to the recent surge in orders and strong indications of a continuing recovery in the industry. The increase will take monthly output of all types to 27 aircraft by the ...
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Found finds new market for old design
New company Found Aircraft Canada plans to restart production of a light-utility aircraft certificated and produced in the mid-1960s. The Toronto based company says, that re-instating the Canadian and US type certificates for the Found FBA-2C, will save "several million dollars" compared to a full certification programme. Canadian ...
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CVR data indicate chaos in 757 crash
David Learmount/LONDON THE COCKPIT-VOICE recorder (CVR) of the Birgenair Boeing 757-200 which crashed in February reveals a picture of pilots who, faced with minor problems, became confused and lost control of a flyable aircraft, according to an interim report by the Dominican Republic's accident-investigation commission. ...
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Biting into false alarms
Despite modern diagnostics, "no fault found" is frequently the mechanics' verdict after avionics fault alerts. Terence Hardeman/SINGAPORE FAULT INDICATIONS on avionics line-replaceable units (LRUs) are costing airlines millions of dollars, and engineering executives around the world have called for action by component manufacturers to combat ...
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Airbus partners scale up combined R&D for A3XX
Andrew Doyle/LONDON AIRBUS INDUSTRIE IS pushing for an unprecedented level of co-operation between its partners and suppliers during the research-and-development (R&D) phase of the proposed A3XX ultra-high-capacity airliner. The new approach, under the so-called "3E Plan", is seen as crucial to the consortium's efforts to keep the aircraft's ...
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Cathay profits leap
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CATHAY PACIFIC Airways beat market expectations with a 25% leap in profits for 1995, boosted by higher revenue and improved cost efficiency, but also helped by an accounting change. The Hong Kong carrier turned in a net profit of just under HK$3 billion ...
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Rolls-Royce joins GE-Allison JAST team
Guy Norris/Los Angeles ROLLS-ROYCE HAS formally signed an agreement giving it full participation in the joint General Electric/Allison development of a cruise engine and lift engine for the Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) aircraft programme. GE says, that the long expected agreement with R-R, makes ...
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Ansett prepares for ANZ with executive shake-up
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS ANSETT HAS CLEARED the decks for the imminent Air New Zealand (ANZ) buy-in, with managing director Graeme McMahon and two of his senior managers departing in favour of a new ten-member executive structure at the Australian airline. News Limited chief and executive chairman of Ansett Holdings, Ken Cowley, ...
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LOT on fast track
LOT POLISH AIRLINES, virtually trebled profits in 1995, helped by soaring traffic figures - especially on its fast-growing domestic network. The Polish carrier ended the year with net profits of Pzl6 million ($2 million), as passenger numbers rose by 16%, to 1.8 million. Flights to Central ...
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Saab scoops large Mesaba order
SAAB AIRCRAFT HAS beaten Daimler-Benz Aerospace to a major order from US regional Mesaba Airlines. The Northwest Airlink carrier is acquiring up to 72 34-seat Saab 340s, in preference to the Dornier 328, to replace its existing fleet of 26 Fairchild Metro IIIs and 25 de Havilland Canada Dash 8-100s. ...
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MDC outlines five-year plan
Guy Norris/LOS ANGFELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS is studying the launch of three new products over the next 18 months, including a stretched MD-95 and two re-winged variants of the MD-11. Douglas Aircraft vice-president and general manager John Feren says that future milestones already include delivery of ...