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On-time software keeps FAA datalink on track
Key software for the US Federal Aviation Administration's controller-pilot datalink communications (CPDLC) programme has been delivered to prime contractor Computer Sciences (CSC). The on-time delivery of router software for the aeronautical telecommunications network (ATN) keeps the CPDLC programme on track as the FAA struggles with budget and schedule problems ...
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NASA details ISS price list
Tim Furniss/LONDON Users of the US share of International Space Station resources will be charged a standard price of $20.8 million a year, according to a preliminary price structure released by NASA. The charge is quoted for use of each of two typical "bundles" of equipment, excluding transportation ...
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Midland determined on long haul
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON British Midland (BM) is adamant that it will begin long-haul services next year, but is tight lipped about its contingency plans should it not receive clearance for transatlantic flights. The airline had expected to be in a position to detail its plans for transatlantic flights from London Heathrow ...
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More EchoStars on the way
DISH EchoStar communications has ordered three new satellites for its US DISH Network direct-broadcast system. Two craft will be built by Space Systems/Loral and one by Lockheed Martin. EchoStar operates five satellites, with a sixth to be launched in the second quarter. Of the new satellites, the Lockheed Martin-built ...
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Eclipse poised for market entry
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC US Engine manufacturer Williams International is developing a personal jet for new company Eclipse Aviation. Williams is under contract to develop and certificate the Eclipse 500 twinjet and its EJ22 engine, and to turn over to Eclipse a certificated factory ready to produce the aircraft. A team ...
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Gulfstream Five
Gulfstream has delivered its fifth GIV-MPA multipurpose version of the GIV-SP to the Japanese Air Self Defence Force. The aircraft, designated the U-4, is equipped with a multimission, rapid-change interior. Source: Flight International
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Jet power
The potential for Indian air transport has never been greater Julian Moxon/MUMBAIWith a population of close to 1 billion people, most of whom travel by train, India offers immense potential for air transport. That potential was unlocked with the Indian Government's liberalisation of the domestic civil aviation industry in 1990. ...
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Fairchild leads charge for 100-seater market
The 100-seat airliner market debate was freshly stirred at Asian Aerospace 2000 as the regional aircraft manufacturers showed themselves to be ever more confident about their prospects in this controversial sector. In a far cry from two years ago, when the regional manufacturers insisted that they would not risk ...
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Northwest adds new fare
Jane Levere New York Northwest Airlines is gambling on attracting a larger share of the US business traveller market by creating a new type of discounted advance purchase fare that does not include overnight an Saturday stay requirement. The new tariff, available only on US and Canadian routes, features ...
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BA underscores its African presence
ROGER MAKINGS JOHANNESBURG British Airways and its oneworld alliance could be about to strengthen its challenge in sub-Saharan African, following the UK carrier's decision to buy into regional partner Comair. BA plans to take an 18% stake, worth around R168 million ($28 million) in Johannesburg-based Comair, which signed as a ...
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American gives more room to stretch
KAREN WALKER WASHINGTON DC In a move designed to steal more high yield market share and publicly address growing dissatisfaction among passengers with US airline service, American Airlines will increase leg room in the economy cabin across its entire fleet. Even if the percentage of business travellers who switch ...
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BA gambles on business class seating strategy...
COLIN BAKER LONDON The bloodletting on the North Atlantic has forced British Airways to take a gamble with a radical alteration of seating plans in favour of business class. An average of 15%of economy seats will be taken out of BA's transatlantic fleet to give more space for a ...
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Legend take-off renews Love battle
CAROLE SHIFRIN WASHINGTON DC Legend Airlines, a new business-traveller oriented airline, has been cleared for take-off by a US Circuit Court of Appeals after a two-year wrangle over its plan to operate from restricted Dallas Love Field. The carrier's services, which will bring long-haul scheduled flights to Love ...
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Out of the blue
CAROLE SHIFRIN NEW YORK New York's new start-up carrier gets off the ground, boasting an impressive management team, some attention-grabbing innovations and a sizeable sum of money. Does it also have staying power? David Neeleman, the 40-year-old founder and chief executive of JetBlue Airways, exudes confidence that the newest low-fare ...
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Maverick in Brazil
BRIAN HOMEWOOD RIO DE JANEIRO TAM has grown out of its regional status to become Brazil's second biggest airline. Its chief executive wants greater competition, although not an open skies deal with the USA. Every weekday morning between 06.00 and 07.00, TAM president Rolim Amaro can be found on ...
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Virgin's Brisbane choice revives terminal debate
Virgin Australia's selection of Brisbane as its operations centre raises questions about the airline's strategy and revives the debate over airport terminal access. Brisbane is the smallest of Australia's three big cities and it handles the smallest share of their air traffic. Statistics show that 51% of all domestic ...
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Threat to single cargo platform
A three-year initiative aimed at developing a seamless, door-to-door system for conventional air cargo could be in jeopardy if a meeting in Los Angeles on 24 February votes as expected. At stake are plans by the International Air Transport Association's special interest group, Cargo 2000, to create a ...
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Drafting a new contract
TOM GILL LONDON Europe is rapidly catching up with the USA with its own passenger rights proposals First it was the turn of US politicians to get fired up about passenger rights. In fact, it looks as though the major US carriers have pre-empted that initiative with ...
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Domestic fares fall as Japan deregulates
NICHOLAS IONIDES ATI SINGAPORE Japan's major carriers are to introduce new discount fares for domestic travel from April following a revision to Japanese aviation laws. The changes to aviation laws were made official on 1 February, when the current approval system for domestic fares was replaced with a filing ...
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Freedom's paths
CHRIS LYLE AT ICAO MONTREAL The debate on liberalisation no longer centres on whether it will happen, but on how. Should the air transport industry continue to steer its own path or hand over the process to the World Trade Organisation? When the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) hosted its ...