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FAA looks at LAAS to replace Cat I WAAS
US Federal Aviation Administration officials are considering whether alternatives such as the Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS) would be a better and cheaper way of achieving Category I approach capability than the troubled Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS). WAAS acceptance testing was halted in January because of excessive false ...
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Delta signs massive CRJ deal
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Delta Air Lines has signed a $10 billion, 500-aircraft, regional jet deal with Bombardier which will provide Delta Connection carriers with 40-, 44- and 50-seat versions of the Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) 200, and 70-seat CRJ700s. The yet-to-be launched 90-seat CRJ900 is not included. Delta ...
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Raytheon wins data system ground work
Raytheon is to provide the ground network infrastructure for the Faisat satellite-based wireless data system being developed by Final Analysis. The deal includes a "significant" equity investment to be made by Raytheon in Lanham, Maryland-based Final Analysis. Raytheon will be subcontractor to General Dynamics Information Systems, an investor in ...
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Glowing endorsement
Saf-T-Glo has been selected to supply the cabin pathway lighting for the new Embraer RJ-170/190 family of regional jets. Programme interior partner CD Aerospace has awarded the Florida-based company a $1 million contract to supply lighting for the first 180 aircraft. Saf-T-Glo has also been selected by national carrier LanChile ...
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Loral wins MTSAT replacement
Space Systems/Loral has been awarded a contract by Japan's Ministry of Transport to build the replacement for the MTSAT satellite lost in the failure of the national H2 booster last year. The MTSAT 1R will be launched in 2002, but its launcher and launch site have yet to be ...
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Qantas upgrade
Qantas is investing $400 million ($242 million) in new passenger entertainment systems, catering and airport lounge improvements, the bulk of which - $300 million - is to be spent on Rockwell Collins' interactive in-flight entertainment hardware. Rockwell's Total Entertainment System, to be installed in all three classes of the Boeing ...
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USN to test upgraded Seahawks
Lockheed Martin Federal Systems (LMFS) is preparing to deliver the first Sikorsky SH-60R Seahawk prototypes to the US Navy and expects to be awarded a low-rate initial production (LRIP) contract in May for five modernised machines. The US Navy has awarded LMFS a $37.2 million contract to upgrade a third ...
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Travel agents hit back at Iberia's Internet ticket sales
BARRY CROSS LONDON Spanish flag carrier Iberia launched its first aggressive Internet sales campaign at the end of February, offering 150,000 seats to 30 destinations at discounts of up to 40%. To qualify, passengers simply had to book online. Travel agents reacted with a week's ban on Iberia ticket ...
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Argentina wary of US open skies agreement
DAVID KNIBB SEATTLE August is the earliest Buenos Aires will reconsider its decision to suspend Argentina's open skies bilateral with the USA. But if the present mood prevails, the bilateral faces a tough future. At least four US officials have met with their Argentinian counterparts since the new government in ...
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TAESA faces bleak future
DAVID KNIBB SEATTLE The rise in Mexico's credit rating to investment grade may have come too late to save Taesa, the country's third largest airline. Grounded since mid-November and under government orders to raise more capital before it resumed flying, the carrier entered bankruptcy in late February. Its future depends ...
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Blue sky thinking
Colin Baker LONDON The aims of Europe's environmental policy have been There is little argument that last November's policy paper on transport and the environment from the European Commission was a comprehensive piece of work. Yet, while the air transport industry may agree on the broad aim of a ...
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SAA springs surprise with Boeing decision
ROGER MAKINGS JOHANNESBURG South African Airways (SAA) has acquired 21 Boeing 737-800s, plus 21 options, raising eyebrows among observers who expected the carrier to buy Airbus A320s. SAA chief executive Coleman Andrews claims that Boeing's offer was clearly ahead on price, but some in South Africa remain suspicious over the ...
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A people business
The departure of Bob Ayling from British Airways may have had more than one simple cause, but his apparent lack of ability to motivate staff and sell his vision provide important lessons as the airline looks for a new head. It may be a well-worn maxim, but the airline ...
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Changing channels
Tom Gill LONDON Global distribution systems face unprecedented challenges to their traditional businesses as the Internet gathers pace "They have had a very easy life for a very long time. But distribution is no longer secure. Supply is no longer secure. Other people have replicated the technology functionality at a ...
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EASA delayed by debate over powers
ALAN GEORGE BRUSSELS The protracted project to create a European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) now seems unlikely to come to fruition until 2002 at the earliest. It still remains uncertain whether the new body will be an agency of the European Commission (EC), or, as originally envisaged, an international agency ...
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KLM gives profit plan details
COLIN BAKER LONDON KLM has detailed its plans to bring the airline back to profitability next year. The measures include a cost-cutting programme and a change in fleet deployment to bring total savings of DFl700 million ($307 million). The airline says the measures, aimed to tackle rising fuel costs, ...
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Europe Online
COLIN BAKER LONDON European carriers have issued a response to the threat of the online travel market by clubbing together to launch their own joint website First it was the turn of the US majors to launch a joint Internet site. At the end of February, the European majors ...
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Galileo takes over Trip.com
Jane Levere NEW YORK Galileo International, the US-based global distribution system (GDS), acquired the remaining 80% of web site Trip.com that it did not buy last year. The new purchase cost $269 million, in a combination of stock and cash. The web site, which uses Galileo as its ...
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Lawyers question trend to prosecute over safety
DAVID KNIBB WASHINGTON DC US lawyers are raising concerns over a growing tension between air safety and criminal law. An 80% rise in US airline fines in 1999 and a jury's conviction of SabreTech for its role in a ValuJet crash have drawn attention to a trend by prosecutors to ...
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Life at the top
KAREN WALKER SINGAPORE Airbus is right to feel proud of its 1999 performance, as it overtook Boeing on new orders. But the fight to stay on top will be fierce. If Airbus Industrie's managers find the heights to which they climbed in 1999 overwhelming, they show no signs of vertigo ...