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Air China will go to market
Despite speculation to the contrary, Air China president Yin Wenlong insists the carrier will list on the New York stock exchange and is already being urged to do so by several major international financial institutions. He also says a Hong Kong-based finance house - Yin refuses to identify ...
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Meeting market needs is essential
Airlines are turning their organisations upside down - creating new problemsIn examining the airline business, many company strategists are working overtime these days. Following the disastrous start to the 1990s, most airlines are going through the most intensive period of soul-searching ever. They are asking questions like: What is our ...
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Coveting the other's home
British Airways and Lufthansa are increasing penetration of each other's home markets through airlines they have minority stakes in - the UK major with Deutsche BA and its German rival through Business Air. But the strategies are markedly different. At Deutsche BA, BA managing director Robert Ayling is ...
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Continental will offload Lite
CONTINENTAL Airlines has announced that it is finally scrapping its low-fare Lite operation and has reached agreement on aircraft deferrals with Boeing. The news came as the airline revealed that net losses grew to $613 million in 1994. The troubled carrier has already trimmed back heavily on ...
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MDC prepares for last phase of ACT programme
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is preparing "best and final" offers in competition with Boeing for the last phase of NASA's Advanced Composite Technology (ACT) programme. The company's Advanced Transport Aircraft Development (ATAD) division delivered a composite stub-wing box test specimen to NASA's Langley Research Center, Virginia, in February under ...
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Crash and murders hit China Airlines profits
CHINA AIRLINES (CAL) has reported a sharp cut in 1994 profits following the crash of an Airbus A300-600R a year ago and the slump in the number of Taiwanese tourists visiting China. The airline's 1994 pre-tax profit plunged to NT$642 million ($25 million), down from NT$3.4 billion. CAL ...
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Fairchild and Let drop joint venture plans
FAIRCHILD AIRCRAFT and Czech regional-turboprop manufacturer Let Kunovice have finally dropped long-standing plans for a joint-venture company, according to Let president Zdenek Pernica. Pernica says that the companies have backed away from the plan because the privatisation and restructuring process of the Czech Company was taking too long. ...
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Ansett Australia director resigns
ANSETT AUSTRALIA has declined to link the sudden resignation of its operations director with the outcome of internal inquiries into the partial wheels-up landing of one of its Boeing 747-300s on 19 October 1994. The director, Capt. John Dorward, resigned on 12 April. Following the accident, a consultancy ...
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Gentle giant
It seemed remarkable to be flying the 777 a mere year after it was first unveiled, but such has been the pace of the programme from the start. Flight test hours have grown at twice those for previous models, in a schedule of certificating three engine types and early qualification ...
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USA/Russia optimistic on bilateral deal
US AND RUSSIAN aviation officials, are confident of reaching agreement on the first certification bilateral, between the two nations by mid-1996, significantly easing development problems which threaten several joint ventures. US Federal Aviation Administration aircraft-certification service director Tom McSweeney says that the latest meetings with the Russian Department ...
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MarkAir returns to bankruptcy
MARKAIR, THE Alaska-based carrier which emerged from Chapter 11 in 1994, has again sought federal bankruptcy-court protection following a demand for overdue lease payments from General Electric's GE Capital Aviation Service (GECAS). MarkAir filed for Chapter 11 after GECAS warned the carrier that it would repossess four ...
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Open for business
Heralded as "the airport for the 21st century", sceptics began to believe that Denver International (DIA) might not see its first passenger until then. Technical problems involving the airports automated baggage-handling system, delayed DIA's grand opening four times, for a total of 16 months. Each month cost the ...
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Southern gateway
The first 11-gate phase of Miami Airport's new concourse A is due to open in June as part of the southern gateway's $2.7 billion expansion and redevelopment programme which is due to last until 2010. Gateway is the operative word at Miami, Florida, which boasts more carriers - ...
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TAT finalises Orly plans
BRITISH AIRWAYS' French subsidiary TAT is at last ready to reveal plans on how it will exploit its hard-won access to the domestic hub at Paris Orly. Several other airlines have already begun competing with incumbent French domestic airline Air Inter between Orly and Marseilles, Toulouse and Nice, ...
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KAL sees growth as key to 777 engine order
KOREAN AIR'S (KAL) selection of an engine for its fleet of Boeing 777s was due before 1 May, with future growth potential and commonality likely to be the major deciding factors. KAL has ordered eight 777s for delivery between February 1997 and June 2000 and has taken options ...
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GE looks to 1995 for rise
GENERAL ELECTRIC'S annual accounts reveal that its aircraft-engines division turned in a lacklustre performance in 1994, but hopes to lift profits significantly over the coming year. Sales were down again by 13% on the year, at around $5.7 billion, with revenues from US Government business down by ...
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Aero contracted to make Dash 8 components
CZECH AIRCRAFT manufacturer Aero Vodochody is to begin manufacturing sub-assemblies for the de Havilland Dash 8 regional turboprop, according to Aero technical director Adam Stranak. The company has signed a deal with de Havilland, following negotiations begun late in 1994, and is to begin manufacturing elements of the ...
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737 FDR cost deal
The US Federal Aviation Administration is seeking a compromise over the US National Transportation Safety Board's (NTSB) recommended schedule for retrofitting Boeing 737s with enhanced flight-data recorders (FDR). The NTSB proposal would require US airlines to install improved FDR on more than 4,000 aircraft by the end of ...
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SIA to seek replacement for A310
SINGAPORE AIRLINES (SIA) is expected to issue a request for tenders for a new medium-haul passenger aircraft, as a partial replacement for its fleet of Airbus Industrie A310s. The airline is understood to be looking to order up to 17 new wide bodies, plus a similar number ...
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777 completes its joint certification
On 19 April Boeing's 777 became the first of the US manufacturer's commercial airliners to receive simultaneous type/design and production certification from both the US and European airworthiness authorities. The certification ceremony at Seattle, Washington marks the first milestone in Boeing's co-operative and concurrent certification (CCC) programme begun ...