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Repair overhaul
Kuwait Airways has renewed its Airbus landing gear repair and overhaul contract with Messier Services. The $8 million contract covers Kuwait's fleet of Airbus A300-600s, A310-300s, A320s and A340s. The work will be carried out at Messier's Molsheim plant in France. Messier Services Asia has also won a six-year $5 ...
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Vulcan delivers Observer to Italian police force
VulcanAir has delivered its first Partenavia P68 Observer 2 to the Italian State Police, around 18 months after the Casoria, Naples-based company acquired fellow Italian company Aerocosmos, former owner of the P68 type certificate. The Observer 2 piston twin, an upgraded version of the standard Observer model, offers a ...
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Matra Marconi wins Helios deal
Matra Marconi Space (MMS) has been selected by the French Defence Agency as prime contractor to supply the ground segment for the Helios II reconnaissance satellite. It is to enter service in 2003 to process data from Helios IB and Helios IIA and B satellites and possibly future military spacecraft. ...
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Final Mir, first ISS crews are named
Two Russian cosmonaut crews have been named for the final mission to the Mir space station to be launched in February 2000. The prime crew is rookie Sergei Zaletin and Alexander Kaleri, a Mir veteran. A two-person back-up crew has been named as Salizham Sharipov - who flew on ...
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Kuwait buys
The Kuwaiti Ministry of the Interior has ordered two Eurocopter EC135 light twin helicopters to equip its air transport department. The manufacturer points out the EC135 is already in service with 16 police forces around the world, and that Kuwait's armed forces already operate Eurocopter aircraft. The EC135 has attracted ...
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UK plans partial ATC sell-off
David Learmount/LONDONUK air traffic control (ATC) is on course for partial privatisation by the middle of next year, with the government last week announcing plans to put a bill transforming the National Air Traffic Services (NATS) into a "public private partnership" before parliament during the 1999/2000 session. As the government ...
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EgyptAir data fail to supply any answers
David Learmount/LONDON Initial evaluation of the crashed EgyptAir Boeing 767-300ER cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and flight data recorder (FDR) has failed to confirm the causes of the dive which began the fatal manoeuvre sequence, says US National Transportation Safety Board chairman Jim Hall. On 17 November, Hall released ...
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Oneworld allies seek codeshares
Chris Jasper/LONDON British Airways and its oneworld ally, American Airlines, have filed applications with the US Department of Transportation (DoT) for codeshares on flights serving 75 destinations in the UK, USA, Europe and Africa in a long-awaited move which should breathe new life into the pair's faltering alliance. American ...
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Airports
A major refurbishment of Tashkent Airport's international terminal will begin in December, with Donald Smith, Seymour & Rooley as engineering consultant. Work is scheduled to be completed in June 2001. Belgian regional airports Liège-Bierset and Charleroi-Gosselies (rebranded as "Brussels South"), both operated by the country's regional government for the Walloon ...
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Catching African bugs
Age is beautiful for many African airports, which have avoided the biggest problems in becoming Y2K compliant Michael Wakabi/KAMPALA Africa is never short of contradictions. In the run-up to the year 2000, the very things that made some African airports the laughing stock of yesteryear are the reason that ...
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737 safety probe prompts tests
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing is modifying a 30-year-old ex-United Airlines 737-200 for ground and flight tests of the rudder system as part of a US Federal Aviation Administration-led safety evaluation. The 737 is being leased from Indiana-based Purdue University, which acquired the aircraft after United Airlines retired it in 1997. ...
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Leasing companies drop 767-400ER commitments after poor demand
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Leasing companies General Electric Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) and International Lease Finance (ILFC) have dropped their combined orders for seven Boeing 767-400ERs after failing to find sufficient market interest in the stretched twins. ILFC says it has switched its four remaining -400ER commitments for ...
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Board poised for A3XX decision
The Airbus Industrie supervisory board is to decide whether to authorise managing director Noel Forgeard to begin soliciting airline commitments for the A3XX at an extraordinary meeting planned for 8 December. If the consortium gets the green light, Forgeard will visit key target customers for the ultra-high capacity airliner ...
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Boeing claims 747-X will catch A3XX
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing is claiming that its new stretched 747-400X design is capable of meeting and even beating the direct operating costs of the all-new Airbus A3XX. The startling assertion is based on revised performance estimates for the 747-400X, plus new, independent airline analysis of the latest A3XX proposals. ...
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Emirates eyes 120-seater for new regional network
Emirates will shortly start talks with Airbus and Boeing to acquire 120-seat aircraft to launch a network of regional services from its Dubai hub. The carrier is also studying airline alliances, to allow it to decide whether to join a grouping, says Emirates chairman Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum. ...
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Routes
British Airways is launching a new three times daily route from London Gatwick to Hanover, operated by franchise partner CityFlyer Express. United Airlines is introducing 20 new daily nonstop flights to key Californian business destinations, including Santa Barbara, Medford, Reno, Palm Springs and San Diego, from its Los Angeles hub. ...
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The Manufacturer's view
Max Kingsley-Jones/LUTON Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Roger Lecomte, Airbus Industrie's vice-president of engineering support, says: "The introduction of the A330-200 was like that of the A321 [after the A320] for us. We were able to benefit from the lessons we learned with the introduction of the A330-300 and A340." ...
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Messier-Dowty man's new role
Global landing gear company Messier-Dowty has announced that Andy Stevens has been promoted to become chief operating officer of Messier-Dowty International. Stevens, who has been with the company for more than 20 years, was named MD of the company's European arm in October 1997 and has been on the ...
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Singapore site for new gear JV
A joint venture between Singapore Aerospace Manufacturing (SAM) and Messier-Dowty International will produce landing gear assemblies and related components in the Far East from 1 January 2000. SAM's chairman Loh Chuk Yam and Messier-Dowty's chairman and CEO Dominique Paris signed the agreement that will see SAM transferring its landing ...
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Sicma takes a load off weary feet
Show-goers weary from hours spent tramping around the halls of Dubai 2000 should stop at the Sicma Aero Seat stand (W322)and try out the French company's latest first class seat. Sicma is demonstrating the seat specially developed for the Emirates Airbus Industrie A330-200 fleet. It features a range of electrically-driven ...