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Rockwell Collins makes Boeing comeback on 767
Boeing has chosen Rockwell Collins to provide the flightdeck liquid crystal displays (LCDs) for the 767-400ER. This is a significant victory for Collins in its battle to regain Boeing flightdeck display market share from Honeywell. "In a sense it is a comeback for us," says Steve Piller, vice-president Boeing ...
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Fairchild wraps up 328JET testing and confirms stretch plans
Andrew Doyle/OBERPFAFFENHOFEN Fairchild Aerospace has almost completed flight-testing its 328JET30-seater and expects to receive certification from the European Joint Aviation Authorities and the US Federal Aviation Administration by 1 July. First deliveries to US carrier Skyways will take place that month. Meanwhile, the US company claims to have ...
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Marconi expects in-flight TV to go global in 2002
Canadian Marconi (CMC) expects to have avionics equipment available for airlines to receive the global AirTV in-flight television service in the second quarter of 2002. The Canadian manufacturer, best known for its satellite communication antennas and flight management systems, is the exclusive antenna supplier to AirTV, which aims to ...
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Routes
Australian deal - Under a revised agreement, Australia and Austria are to allow unlimited cargo flights and greatly boost passenger allowances between the two countries. Austrian carriers are granted an immediate 53% increase in the number of seats sold, while airlines from both countries can add extra flights from October ...
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TAAN joins Venezuelan start-up
Despite warnings from industry observers that Venezuela's future calls for fewer rather than more airlines, new carriers continue to line up to fill the hole left by the demise of flag carrier Viasa. TAAN (Transporte Aereo Andino) is the latest planned start-up, and one of three carriers seeking operating certificates ...
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Pilots hamper TAP privatisation
SAirGroup has agreed to take a stake in Tap Air Portugal, but a dispute over pilots' pay may jeopardise the Portuguese carrier's fragile profitability and remaining privatisation plans. As expected, Swissair's parent is to cement its relationship with the Portuguese flag carrier by taking a 20% stake, pending ...
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but UAL doubts US-UK open skies
United Airlines is losing faith that a UK-US open skies deal will ever materialise despite industry hopes that progress is at last being made. Despairing of the lack of progress towards a new UK-US air transport pact, Michael Whitaker, United's vice-president international and regulatory affairs, claims that "there ...
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Growth continues
Regional airlines continue to thrive around the world, with traffic and profits climbing again last year, as the latest rankings indicate. But there are structural issues on the horizon as Kevin O'Toole, Karen Walker, Jackie Gallacher and Tom Gill report. And so regional markets continue to boom. Equipped with ...
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Phone alone
Handheld internet terminals, led by the mobile phone, are promising to revolutionise contact with the customer. Jackie Gallacher reports. Hold onto your mobile phones, the wireless internet is coming your way. Scarcely has the world got to grips with email and the internet on personal computers, than the next ...
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All change in Taiwan
Sandy Liu, newly-confirmed president of China Airlines, is resorting to a radical approach to turn the airline around. Nicholas Ionides reports from Taipei. When Sandy Liu, president of China Airlines (CAL) has time on his hands, he picks up the company's internal telephone directory and picks a name. Liu then ...
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Time to talk about the scope clause
Union limits on the scale and scope of regional flying are due to be brought out into the open as US regional carriers prepare to meet in Phoenix. How times have changed. In the not too distant past, regional airlines were the minnows of the aviation world, flying on "hometown" ...
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Subduing the shunto
With crisis gripping Japan's airlines, even the trade unions are unwilling to fight cost-cutting measures Andrzej Jeziorski/TOKYO Springtime in Japan is traditionally marked not only by the flowering of cherry blossom, but by the stirrings of industrial unrest. This year's strike season, known locally as "shunto", should be well under ...
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Soaring sales
Sales of the Falco kit aircraft have soared by more than 76% in the past year, according to supplier Sequoia Aircraft. The Falco, originally designed by Stelio Frati of Italy and first flown in 1955, was re-introduced by Sequoia in 1979 as a kit aircraft. Sequoia attributes the sales increase ...
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Mixed picture for B/E
Cabin interiors specialist B/E Aerospace made record revenues of $701 million in the year to 27 February, boosted by the sale of its in-flight entertainment business to Sextant Avionique, but still recorded a net $40 million loss after closing seven sites. Source: Flight International
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Mergers
Pan Am parent Guilford Transportation Industries is planning to buy ailing Nations Air. The purchase could hasten Pan Am's shift to scheduled operations - a move that might also be aided by the US FAA's decision to suspend, rather than revoke, the air operator's certificate of Kiwi International Airlines, in ...
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Herculean task
The European Commission's air transport liberalisation programme can justly claim to have succeeded with its legal framework to allow airline competition. To critical observers, the results can be clearly seen through improved attitudes to the passenger and to quality of service, aircraft condition and operational efficiency. The architects ...
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Link to the future
Europe's air traffic control datalink work is forging on Kieran Daly/COPENHAGEN and STOCKHOLM Processing in loose line astern up the east Swedish coast through the broken cloud of a winter Sunday morning, our four-strong formation is something of an oddity: a light twin turboprop flat out at 240kt (440km/h), tailed ...
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USA and Netherlands to further landing research
The US Federal Aviation Administration and the Netherlands Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) have signed an agreement to co-operate on local area augmentation system (LAAS) research and development. Using LAAS, which will augment the accuracy and integrity of global positioning system (GPS) signals, approaches can be designed to ...
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Windeagle wins first order for Turboprop
Interdoc Aerospace has placed the launch order for the Windeagle Turboprop, a re-engined derivative of the four-seat Windecker Eagle developed by Windeagle Aircraft of Ontario, Canada. The Midrand, South Africa-based company has ordered 15 aircraft, valued at around $9 million, with first deliveries expected by the end of the ...
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New Collins avionics go Continental
Rockwell Collins has expanded its Pro Line 21 integrated avionics system with the addition of next-generation radio sensors. The first new aircraft to have the system will be Bombardier's Continental business jet. The Pro Line 21 CNS sensor suite will provide the functionality required for the future communication, navigation, ...