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Strong impression
Menziken Aerospace Group has enjoyed a long association with the Paris air show, and the company, which operates on both sides of the Atlantic, is keen to make a strong impression at Le Bourget this week. With roots in Switzerland stretching back to the turn of the century, ...
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Finalist: Aeromedic Innovations Group
Finalist: Aeromedic Innovations Group Location London, UK Achievement: Official licensing for providing airline medical kit. In October 1996, Aeromedic Innovations became the first company in the world to be licensed by a regulatory authority - the UK's Medicines Control Agency - to make and maintain a ...
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Hokkaido Airlines expects profits by 1999
Hokkaido International Airlines, which plans to launch low-fare domestic services in Japan in 1998, has revealed bullish profit projections in only its second year of operation. The airline plans to start operations at the end of April 1998 with a single Boeing 767-300, flying three daily services from ...
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Sun Air privatisation goes into the final furlong
South Africa has announced a shortlist of four bidding groups to go forward to the next phase in the privatisation of domestic airline Sun Air. Malaysian Airlines, Virgin Atlantic and rival regional Comair are listed. Each of the three airlines, together with a fourth bid led by Phoenix ...
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India's jet challenger
Even its most ardent supporters would have to concede that India's airline deregulation has been less than successful. Of the wave of airlines which emerged in the early 1990s to challenge the Indian Airlines domestic monopoly, only a handful are still flying. Their cause has not been helped by a ...
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Corporate shuttle
British Aerospace Asset Management - Turboprops has leased a Jetstream 31 to Nashville, Tennessee-based Corporate Flight Management. The aircraft has a ten-seat corporate-shuttle interior and will be used for on-demand charter work. Corporate Flight Management is a subsidiary of Nashville-based Corporate Express Airlines. Medical Air Services Association, of Roanoke, Texas, ...
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Jet Airways investors take first steps towrds share sale
Domestic Indian carrier Jet Airways has held talks with shareholders Gulf Air and Kuwait Airlines about divesting their stakes in the airline, following the Indian Government's decision to change rules on foreign ownership. Gulf and Kuwait invested around $8 million in the carrier when it started five years ...
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UK challenges on single-engined ban
The UK Civil Aviation Authority may attempt to rush through Parliament an amendment to the Air Navigation Order prohibiting the use of single-engined aircraft at night for commercial-transport operations. The decision hangs on a court case being brought by UK-based Martini Airfreight Services after its operations using a chartered Norwegian-registered ...
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GE unveils new CF6 variant
General Electric is developing a higher-thrust, "bolt-less-turbine" version of the CF6 turbofan on the back of Delta Air Lines' launch in April of the stretched Boeing 767-400. The derivative is based around an improved turbine made from Rene 88, a high-temperature-resistant alloy, which allows the "bolt features" to ...
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Converted A300F lands in Paris with FAA approval
British Aerospace Aviation Services (BAeAS) has received US Federal Aviation Administration approval for its Airbus A300B4 freighter conversion, some six months later than originally targeted. Meanwhile, C-S Aviation Services, which is BAe's major customer for the conversion, has announced its first lease-placements, with the confirmation of two aircraft ...
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Burnham: service is the key to growth
AlliedSignal Aerospace is not a company that wastes time - its own or anybody else's. So when company president Dan Burnham calls a press conference, reporters should be on red alert that he has something to shout about. So it proved on Monday at Paris, when Burnham coolly ...
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Latvian passenger tax hits Air Baltic's target
Anew airport-departure tax imposed by the Latvian Government may stop Riga-based carrier Air Baltic from meeting its break-even target this year. Former company chief executive Kjell Fredheim says that a $12-per-passenger charge has been levied from 1 June, and a new fuel tax is forcing the airline to ...
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Air Madeira prepares for transatlantic flights
A new Portuguese airline, Air Madeira, will start operations later this year with a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar 500 on transatlantic charter flights. The airline is also planning to set up a short-haul network. Air Madeira is based in Lisbon and backed by the Portuguese travel group Pestana Hotels. ...
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Atlas Air confirms plans for 747-400 purchase
Atlas Air has confirmed plans to buy new Boeing 747-400 freighters, and has signed a Ìrm purchase contract worth about $1.7 billion for ten aircraft, and options on a further ten. The transaction, which represents the US cargo carrier's first purchase of new aircraft, was forecast earlier this ...
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Continental goes Boeing
CONTINENTAL Airlines has become the third US major to enter into a long-term, sole-supplier pact with Boeing, following the signature of a letter of intent (LoI) for up to 35 widebodied aircraft to satisfy its future fleet requirements. The estimated value of the deal is more than $3 billion. ...
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Air Littoral becomes a Lufthansa partner
Lufthansa has signed a commercial alliance with French regional airline Air Littoral, further strengthening its position in the French market. The deal ends the German flag carrier's hunt for a suitable French partner to expand its services to southern Europe. This will be done through Air Littoral's increasing ...
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Continental goes Boeing
Ramon Lopez/WASINGTON DC CONTINENTAL Airlines has become the third US major to enter into a long-term, sole-supplier pact with Boeing, following the signature of a letter of intent (LoI) for up to 35 widebodied aircraft to satisfy its future fleet requirements. The estimated value of the deal is ...
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Menziken chance
Menziken Aerospace Group has enjoyed a long association with the Paris air show, and the company, which operates on both sides of the Atlantic, is keen to make a strong impression this week. Sales manager Alex Wyler says there is no better place than Paris to meet with ...
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Simulators make inroads in airline market
More than 30 airlines worldwide are using the FMGS Trainer simulator programme made by Faros. The French firm which develops training programmes has come to the Paris Show for the first time "-to get our products known in the industry", says manager Claude Kieffer. Designed for ...
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CFMI joins Chinese in new working alliance
CFM International (CFMI) and Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) have joined forces in a Joint Leadership Council to coordinate activities and promote a closer working relationship between the two organisations. Talks are being pursued at the Paris air show between Gerard Laviec, CFMI chairman and chief executive officer, ...