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Air Canada Financing
Air Canada has signed its $1,466 million export-credit lease-financing agreement for the six Airbus A340s and 25 A319s ordered in 1994. The deal was arranged, by a syndicate of French, German and UK banks. The aircraft will arrive between November 1996 and May 1998, by which time the airline believes ...
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Lockheed Martin
Marillyn Hewson has been named director of commercial practices at Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems, of Marietta, Georgia. She was formerly business manager for operations. Source: Flight International
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Sabena eyes pact with VLM
SABENA HAS STARTED discussions with struggling Antwerp-based regional VLM over a possible collaboration pact. Both airlines deny that a take-over or equity injection is on the agenda. Some observers, however, question the motives of Sabena, suggesting that its co-operation strategy is a ploy to keep the small independent ...
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Boeing wins first round of JAA certification row over new 737
David Learmount/LONDON BOEING HAS WON the first round of a battle to have its new 737 family of aircraft declared as derivatives by the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA). The move will allow the US company to claim "grandfather rights" and avoid having to meet current safety regulations ...
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Air France gives Europe to Air Inter
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS AIR INTER, traditionally France's domestic trunk airline, is to become the Air France Group's low-cost European operation, if plans unveiled by the Group's chief executive, Christian Blanc, go ahead. Blanc says that the operation would be running by 1997, when the intra-European-Union "open-skies" policy ...
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Vnukovo forms link with ARIA
MOSCOW-BASED Vnukovo Airlines has announced a deal with Aeroflot-Russian International Airlines (ARIA) to co-operate on Russian domestic, intra-CIS routes, and some international services. The international destinations are those in Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. Co-operative arrangements are intended to improve passenger services, enable sales-office sharing, ...
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Has ValuJet broken the mould?
ValuJet has been rewriting the rules for low-cost US start-ups, but for how long can it keep on growing? Kevin O'Toole/ATLANTA ValuJet's success has been remarkable by any standard. With its own distinctive brand of low-cost operations, and scant regard for conventional wisdom, the start-up carrier has stormed ...
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Monarch to take on Alitalia leases
Gnter Endres/LONDON MONARCH AIRLINES is on the verge of taking over the contentious wet-leased Boeing 767-300ER operation, now provided by Ansett Worldwide Aviation Services on behalf of Alitalia. The new deal is an extension of a long-standing agreement between Monarch and Ansett, under which the UK ...
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Embraer forced to impose job cuts
Brian Homewood/RIO DE JANIERO BRAZILIAN AIRCRAFT manufacturer Embraer, privatised in late 1994, is to make 1,700 of its 5,550 employees redundant in a bid to cut costs, says president Juaraz de Siqueira Britto Wanderley. The redundancies, most of which will be voluntary, began in June. ...
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Avatar rockets into top ranks
A NEW COMPANY has propelled itself into the top level of the world's spares resellers with a $400 million cash deal to buy Delta Air Lines' surplus-parts inventory. Avatar Alliance believes that the acquisition of some 17 million parts for 12 aircraft types "...may be the largest transaction ...
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North Dakota reforms praised
GENERAL-AVIATION product-liability reforms enacted by North Dakota have been hailed as a model for other US states. North Dakota has established a ten-year limit on an aircraft-manufacturer's liability for manufacturing defects, arguing that the 18-year statute of repose passed by US Congress in 1994 does not go far enough. ...
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Pacific first for Saab 2000
AIR MARSHALL ISLANDS' FIRST Saab 2000 arrived in Majuro, the island nation's capital, late in June. The delivery was the first in the Pacific region, although Australian carrier Kendell Airlines has two options which could be converted to firm orders later this year. The Saab 2000 will replace Hawker-Siddeley 748s ...
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Transwede is forced into radical change
INCREASINGLY unsustainable losses have forced independent Swedish airline Transwede to initiate a radical restructuring programme centred on the establishment of three separate business units. From this month, scheduled, charter and maintenance activities will be operated as independent profit centres. The move, which involved 160 redundancies at the end ...
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Continental and Air Canada agree to extend code-share deal
CONTINENTAL AIRLINES and shareholder Air Canada have announced new code-share services, beginning on 8 July. Rival Canadian Airlines International and American Airlines launched their code-sharing agreement on 1 June. The US-Canada "open-skies" aviation pact, signed in February, allows unlimited code-sharing between the countries' airlines, with temporary limits on ...
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Collins and Dassault team up on GCAS
ROCKWELL-COLLINS has linked with Dassault Electronique of France to develop a ground-collision avoidance system (GCAS). Airbus Industrie will flight-test a "red-label" prototype of the Dassault unit in late 1995, in an A319, and the system is to enter service with Air Inter in early 1997. Rockwell's Collins Commercial ...
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Aircraft news
Continental Express has ordered 25 Beech 1900Ds. The contract is worth $105 million with deliveries due to start in July and continue through to mid-1996. Qantas has ordered three B737-400s and two 767-300ERs, worth $325 million. Maersk Air has ordered six Boeing 737-500s with options on ...
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Appointments
Graham Atkinson has been named vice president Atlantic division for United Airlines. This gives him responsibility for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The Board of Airline Representatives in the UK has appointed Peter North as its first chief executive. Ed Bavaria has been named deputy ...