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Cessna flies piston and jet on same day
Cessna accomplished two first flights on 19 April, flying the Citation Bravo business-jet and Model 172 piston-single prototypes from different airports in Wichita, Kansas, within 45min of each other on the same day. Certification of the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW530A-powered Citation Bravo is scheduled for April 1996. ...
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CAAC caution holds up Sichuan A320 handover
An agreement for International Lease Finance (ILFC) to supply three Airbus Industrie A320's to Chinese domestic operator Sichuan Airlines, is being delayed by the failure of the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) to approve the deal. ILFC, under an agreement signed in March with China Aircraft Supplies ...
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PW150 for Dash 8-400
Bombardier has selected the Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) PW150 to power the planned de Havilland Dash 8-400 high-speed regional turboprop. The company received board approval on 24 April to offer the 70-seat aircraft to airlines and is aiming for a June launch. First flight of the Dash 8-400 is ...
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AlliedSignal wins key SAS deal for MD-80 anti-icing
SCANDINAVIAN Airlines System (SAS) has selected AlliedSignal's overwing anti-icing system for its McDonnell Douglas MD-80s. The airline lost an MD-80 in 1991 when ice shed from its wings caused the rear-mounted engines to flame out. Its selection of AlliedSignal's Electro-Thermal Ice Protection System (ETIPS) for its 69 MD-80s ...
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JAA is still cautious over Russian types
RUSSIAN AEROSPACE officials are voicing concern at the lack of progress with the European Joint Airworthiness Authorities (JAA) over agreement on certification procedures for Russian aircraft, despite progress with the US Federal Aviation Administration on the same issue. Tupolev, which is working on having a Rolls-Royce-powered variant of the Tu-204 ...
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Manufacturers vie for SAA order
HIGH-RANKING executives from Airbus, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas are due in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 5 May to brief board members of South African Airways (SAA), and its parent company Transnet, on their proposals to fulfil a planned R4 billion ($1 billion fleet requirement. The meeting is the ...
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Shannon rescue faces EC query
UK aircraft-maintenance interests are to complain to the European Commission about the Irish Government's plan to bail out troubled Shannon Aerospace (SAL). SAL airline shareholders Swissair and Lufthansa concede that the overhaul concern faces collapse without the proposed injection of Ir£12 million (£11.9 million). They blame ruinous pricing ...
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DASA ready to join GTAR radar partners
DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) is in the final stages of negotiation to join GEC-Marconi and Thomson-CSF in a next-generation combat-aircraft radar programme. Go-ahead for the deal could come as early as June. The agreement will clear the way for the present GEC-Thomson Radar (GTAR) company becoming GEC-Thomson Daimler-Benz Radar, ...
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Canadian opens Russian route
CANADIAN AIRLINES International has become the first carrier to use a newly agreed cross over point between Russian and Chinese airspace, which will cut 2-3h off the flight-time between Vancouver and Beijing. Designated ARGUK, the crossing, lies between Khabarovsk in Russia and Haiqing in China. Previously, flights had ...
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FLS sets up office in Texas
FLS AEROSPACE HAs taken the first step towards possible acquisition of a US maintenance operation, with the setting up of an office in Fort Worth,Texas. Chairman Steffen Harpoth says that one of the objectives of the new office is to "...see if we can establish the foundation ...
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EU proposes trans-Atlantic bilateral treaty counter-attack
EUROPEAN Commission (EC) Transport Commissioner Neil Kinnock, has warned that, unless the EC is given a mandate to centrally negotiate future aviation agreements with the USA, "we will witness implementation of a policy that is not just America first, but America first, last, both ways across the Atlantic and within ...
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Financial results
Alitalia improved its operating result and cut its loss, but net debt rose 50% to $1.9b as net assets fell to $280m. Staff cuts cost $77.5m. Cathay's net profit rose 4.1% yet turnover grew 13.4%. Gross yield fell 4.3% and available tonne km per employee rose 7.5% to 573,700. ...
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Tough finding the right niches
There are encouraging signs of start-ups and expansion in Europe though financial returns and yields are low. Europe's regional airlines are emerging from the recessionary gloom comparatively unscathed. The last three and a half years have seen their share of closures, but on balance the sector is growing. ...
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Fast growth, structural change
The increasingly high cost of expansion in Asia-Pacific is encouraging new solutions such as regional groupings.Like their big-jet brothers, Asia-Pacific's regional airlines are undergoing their most significant period of expansion ever. Buoyed by increasing deregulation, higher incomes swelling passenger numbers, and growing intra-regional trade, new carriers are emerging at a ...
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Age old decision
New aircraft or old? Airline executives are weighing up the options to make the right fleet decisions to last the next decade. Sara Guild contrasts the narrowbody decisions made by Air Canada, Finnair and Northwest.For an aircraft, getting old and creaky used to mean that your owner was about ...
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Transfers hold key to growth
North American regionals and majors will become even more tightly linked as future commuter operations grow.The increasing trend whereby major airlines transfer short-haul jet routes to regional carriers is expected to encourage the growth of regional airlines in the US and Canada. Already, 95 per cent of regional airline passengers ...
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Heated competition
Privatisation seems to have finally taken hold among airlines in the Caribbean. The resulting US-style management and new competition could spell permanent change for the region. By Mead Jennings.During last February's inaugural celebration for Barbados-based Carib Express, a 90 per cent privately owned regional airline, those in attendance heard the ...
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Coming of age
This worldwide survey of regional airlines, the first of its type, paints a picture of an industry segment that has come of age. The tables reveal a business which carried over 100 million passengers last year, generated nearly $8 billion in revenue, and turned in a net profit of nearly ...
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Psyched up
Austrian Airlines is bouncing back after three years without profit. Carrier president Herbert Bammer says alliances and open skies with the US could lead to a turnaround. Mead Jennings reports. A small airline from a small country: Austrian Airlines has two of the essential ingredients for an inferiority complex, ...
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Facing up to new frontiers
As described in Pricing it Right in the February issue of Airline Business, O&D yield management is the current frontier in airline marketing planning. In addition to the direct revenue benefits to be gained by controlling the mix of passenger itineraries flowing over an airline's route network, the ...