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Boeing acts on data dispute
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA BOEING HAS MOVED to resolve a growing dispute, between avionics suppliers and simulator manufacturers, over the data required, to simulate aircraft systems. The manufacturer says that it was forced to intervene by the volume of complaints received from suppliers and airlines. Tom Goldade, ...
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Strong results encourage SIA
SINGAPORE AIRLINES (SIA) turned in another strong profits rise over the first half of its financial year and is "cautiously optimistic" that the improvement will continue, helped by signs of an upturn in passenger traffic. Group net profits for the six months to the end of September were ...
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Boeing awards NAL first Indian research contract
BOEING HAS awarded a research and development (R&D) contract worth $130,000 to India's National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), under which it will investigate aircraft damage-tolerance. Bangalore-based NAL says, that the contract, which follows a preliminary proposal, which it submitted to Boeing in 1994, is the first to be awarded ...
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British World retains Black Gold route in the Shetlands
BRITISH WORLD Airlines (BWA) has won a fierce contest to renew a five-year deal to ferry oil-industry workers between Aberdeen and Sumburgh in the Shetland Islands. The £50 million ($88 million) contract awarded by Shell UK Exploration and Production, is also believed to have been fought for, by Newcastle-based Gill ...
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Embraer delivers 300th Brasilia
EMBRAER HAS DELIVERED its 300th EMB-120 Brasilia, the third for one of Brazil's newest airlines, Interbrasil Star. The company is the regional-branch airline of Transbrasil: it started operations on 3 July and now flies three EMB-120s on routes out of the capital Brasilia and Sao Jose do Rio Preto in ...
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Germany to participate in Helios 2
GERMANY IS ON the brink of joining France, Spain and Italy in the $2 billion development of the two-satellite Helios 2 optical reconnaissance-satellite programme after months of uncertainty. German technology minister Jurgen Reuttgers, speaking at a European Space Agency meeting in Toulouse on the 18-20 October, said: "It ...
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VASP acquires Bolivia's LAB
BRAZILIAN AIRLINE VASP has taken control of Lloyd Aero Boliviano (LAB), following the Bolivian flag carrier's privatisation. VASP has taken a 49% stake in the airline, which gives effective control under the terms of the privatisation programme. The share is valued at $48 million, although the bulk of ...
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Boeing seizes two MarkAir 737s
MARKAIR, the financially troubled scheduled airline based at Denver International Airport (DIA), has gone out of business following repossession of two of its four aircraft by Boeing. It had been operating under bankruptcy court protection since April and now plans to liquidate. MarkAir flew to several US cities, ...
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China Hongkong may fly domestic as well
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CHINA NATIONAL Aviation's (CNAC) planned start-up carrier China Hongkong Airlines is considering operating domestic services within China as well as flights to Hong Kong. The company is moving quickly to begin operations as soon as it is granted a Hong Kong Air Operator's Certificate. ...
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US airlines break records
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON NET PROFITS for the major US airlines topped $1 billion in the third quarter after a clutch of record-breaking performances. Although passenger and capacity figures remained virtually unchanged, yields rose by 5.5% across the industry, with none of the carriers posting a decline. ...
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Saudis finally sign for 61 airliners
SAUDI ARABIA has signed a $6 billion deal to buy 61 US-built airliners on 26 October, but details of financing have yet to be revealed. The order, to re-equip state-owned Saudi Arabian Airlines, consists of 23 Boeing 777-200s and five 747-400s, worth around $4 billion, plus 29 McDonnell Douglas (MDC) ...
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Boeing admits strike is biting
BOEING CHAIRMAN Frank Shrontz has warned that the group's profitability, already hit by heavy restructuring charges and depressed airliner-sales, will be damaged further as the machinists' strike drags into its fourth week. He admits that the group now faces a "substantial" number of delivery delays over the remainder ...
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UK secures Airbus alone
The UK's Export Credit Guarantee Department has completed its first aircraft securitisation, but without the involvement of its German and French counterparts, Hermes and Coface. ECGD says its partners 'did not want to come with us on this' and that its government approval was hard won. 'We have ...
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Two birds, one stone
In a major strategy shift, Indian Airlines will transfer its unprofitable routes into a stand-alone subsidiary, operating a mix of turboprops and jets. But the main aim is to counter its parent's shortage of senior pilots. Airlines Allied Services will operate Indian Airlines' short haul flights, and take ...
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Past keeps AmWest shy
With the resolve of a carrier that has returned to health but the hesitancy of one that only emerged from bankruptcy protection last year, America West Airlines has instituted its first growth programme in four years. Its 29 per cent growth plan over two years is conservative compared to the ...
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Bonn eyes open skies
US and German transport officials are planning a round of December talks that could lead to open skies between the two countries by early 1996. However, what has become a strong link between open skies and antitrust immunity - sought by the United-Lufthansa alliance - could be a stumbling block ...
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International tactics
Taiwan's international carriers are engaged in a bitter battle for market share. Paul Lewis/TAIPEI COMPETITION IS heating up between Taiwan's two established international players, flag carrier China Airlines (CAL) and four-year-old Eva Airways. Ambitious fleet-expansion plans, the opening up of profitable trunk routes to Hong Kong and ...
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Indecision rules in Asia
China and South Korea must overcome major stumbling blocks if they are to realise their ambition of building a 100-seat aircraft. Paul Lewis/BEIJING TIME IS RUNNING out for two of Asia's aspiring aviation nations. One year after announcing ambitious plans to share the building of ...
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Lord quietens Cessna and Beech
LORD, THE Pennsylvania-based noise-control specialists has confirmed major contracts received from Cessna for its Citation X, and from Stevens Aviation, which will act as US distributor for its NVX active noise system, on the Raytheon Beech King Air 200 and 300. Lord has worked with Cessna for some ...
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IR energy to be used for de-icing
AN AIRCRAFT DE-ICING system in which infra-red (IR) heaters are used instead of environmentally damaging glycol-based fluids is ready to become operational at airports at Rheinlander, Wisconsin, and Rochester, New York. A prototype, developed by Process Technologies of Cheektowaga, New York, has already been tested at Greater Buffalo ...