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KLM
Daan Meyer, most recently director of operational affairs at Transavia Airlines, has been appointed executive vice-president of KLM Engineering and Maintenance, succeeding Peter Hartman, who moves to KLM's board on 5 August. Meyer has previously worked for KLM Engineering and Maintenance as vice-president marketing and sales, director of aircraft maintenance ...
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Delta
Stephan Egli has been appointed vice-president for the Atlantic/ Pacific business unit of Delta Air Lines, from July. He was formerly vice-president for network management at Swissair. Malcolm (Mac) Armstrong is named vice-president for corporate safety and compliance. Armstrong was formerly vice-president for corporate safety and regulatory compliance at US ...
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BEA growth continues
Airline cabin-interiors specialist B/E Aerospace (BEA) confirms its return to health with record results for the first quarter to the end of end of May. Net sales were up 17%, to almost $114 million and net profits rose fivefold, to almost $7 million. The backlog grew by $105 million, to ...
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India may perform U-turn on overseas investors
The Indian Government is considering reversing its ban on foreign airlines taking an equity stake in domestic operators. The ban was enacted earlier this year by the administration led by prime minister Deve Gowda. His replacement in April by a new leader has led to a reconsideration of the move, ...
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Western Pacific and Frontier plan low-fare marriage
The two Colorado-based independent carriers, Western Pacific Airlines (Westpac) and Frontier Airlines, have announced plans to merge and form one of the largest low-fare operators in the USA after Southwest Airlines. The two airlines lost $21 million between them in the first quarter of 1997 and hope to ...
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Pulkovo commits to new-terminals investment
Pulkovo Air Transport, which runs airport and air services at St Petersburg, Russia, is planning a $280 million investment programme, including construction of new passenger and cargo terminals. The investment will be backed largely by a loan from the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, possibly joined by ...
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Air Jamaica aims to defeat American in the Caribbean
Graham Warwick/MONTEGO BAY AIRJAMAICA has inaugurated a Caribbean hub at Montego Bay, and signed a co-operation agreement with Delta Air Lines, in a bid to challenge American Airlines' dominance in the region. The Montego Bay hub, which was officially inaugurated on 30 July, links flights from ...
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P&W and SIA sign engine-overhaul agreement
Pratt & Whitney has signed a preliminary agreement to invest in Singapore Airlines' (SIA) engine service-and-overhaul capability and develop it as a regional joint-venture business. Under the memorandum signed, P&W plans to take a 51% stake in the joint venture, with SIA's engineering subsidiary holding the rest. The ...
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Malaysian start-ups plan for expansion
Malaysia's two new start-up carriers, AirAsia and Saeaga Airlines, are negotiating for additional passenger aircraft to serve a planned expansion in regional and international routes. AirAsia is understood to have asked manufacturers to submit initial proposals for a mixed fleet of new aircraft. According to industry sources, the ...
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Made for each other?
Joint ventures between Western and Central European airlines have mostly failed. Yet the region still has growth potential, and may prove to be fertile ground for meaningful partnerships AndrzejJeziorski/PRAGUE The irony of watching consecutive presentations on successful alliance strategies from representatives of Air France and Czech ...
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Debonair seeks public listing and own licence
Debonair, one of the new wave of European low-fare carriers, is preparing to raise new capital through an international share sale, and also reveals that it is close to obtaining its own airline operator's licences. The carrier plans to become one of the first UK-based companies to seek ...
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Changing the differences
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW In common with all Soviet overhaul sites, Factory N402 at Moscow's Bykovo Airport had specific work allocated to it. Until the early 1990s, it was the overhaul centre for most of the world's ageing Ilyushin Il-18 turboprops. The Factory was also the only centre in the ...
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Embry-Riddle opens simulation centre
EMBRY-RIDDLE Aeronautical University's Advanced Flight Simulation Centre has opened at its Daytona Beach, Florida, campus, equipped with a Raytheon Beech 1900D full-flight simulator built by FlightSafety International. The centre is a joint venture between Embry-Riddle and FlightSafety, and offers training to airlines as well as to the university's students. ...
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Cannon expands on superalloys
CANNON-MUSKEGON is investing almost $5 million to expand its capability to develop and produce superalloys. Its CMSX single-crystal alloys are used in Allison and Rolls-Royce aero-engines. The Muskegon, Michigan-based company says that a new vacuum induction furnace will increase vacuum-melt capabilities, while a new $1.5 million finishing line ...
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NATCO and BSC to move Cathay simulators
CATHAYPACIFIC Airways has selected Northwest Aerospace Training (NATCO) to move its simulators to Hong Kong's new Chek Lap Kok Airport. NATCO, a Northwest Airlines subsidiary, has teamed with Binghamton Simulator (BSC) to carry out the project. Planning began in June, and the simulators will be moved early in 1999. ...
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Sun-Air takes ATPs as step to jet power
Sun-Air of Scandinavia, the Danish regional-turboprop operator and British Airways franchise airline, is to purchase two ex-Seoul Air International British Aerospace ATPs from BAe Asset Management-Turboprops (AMT). The move comes as a result of increasing load factors on the airline's twice-daily Manchester-Billund service, and as part of a long-term fleet ...
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Why should Eurotunnel be given financial assistance?
Sir - The recent announcement by Eurotunnel that it is seeking to renegotiate its enormous debt, and that its French shareholders may be disinclined to agree to the banks taking a larger share in return for their co-operation, prompts me to question whether these continuing financial arrangements breach European Union ...
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MDC creates Asian leasing joint venture to boost sales
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE McDonnell Douglas (MDC) is hoping to revive flagging sales of its narrowbody-aircraft range, with the planned establishment of a joint-venture leasing company in partnership with Taiwanese interests. Under a letter of intent signed with Taiwan-based Central Leasing, the US manufacturer plans to take a ...
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Hopes of Alitalia profit rise with March figures
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON A strong improvement in Alitalia's performance is fuelling optimism that the group could be back in profit this year and that the upturn will ease the way for European Commission (EC) approval for recapitalisation Unofficial figures show that the airline group made a profit ...