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Emirates turns down Star for its own global network plans
Doug Cameron/Dubai Emirates has turned down an offer to join the Star Alliance, the Dubai-based flag carrier opting instead to develop its own global network following an order for up to 12 ultra long haul aircraft. A decision between the Airbus Industrie A340-500 and Boeing 777-200X - for six firm ...
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Where's the glue
The major alliance groups are each taking different approaches as they try to balance the need for IT integration against potential divorce. When United Airlines' chairman Gerald Greenwald announced the planned alliance with Delta Air Lines, he pointed to IT as one of the major hurdles that would determine ...
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HUDs for hubs
Tony Booth/Basle Switzerland's Crossair has completed the installation of head-up displays (HUDs) in its Saab 2000s, thus providing the schedule reliability required for its EuroCross strategy to turn Basle Airport into a major European regional hub. With careful arrival and departure co-ordination, Crossair now guarantees more than 500 ...
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FAA approves TLS
The Transponder Landing System (TLS) developed by Advanced Navigation & Positioning of Hood River, Oregon, has been certificated by the US Federal Aviation Administration. The TLSallows Category 1 localiser and glidepath signals to be transmitted from an airfield base station to aircraft equipped for instrument landing system use, without the ...
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Luscombe Spartan
Luscombe Aircraft's four-seat Spartan 185 is scheduled to make its first flight on 19 June at Altus, Oklahoma. The aircraft was originally built between 1935 and 1966 under the title Luscombe 11A, and about 3,000 are still in operation. To date, about $4 million has been invested in retooling for ...
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CAG secures its first order for Y-12 Twin Panda
Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing will deliver its first Y-12(IV) Twin Panda turboprop airframe to the Canadian Aerospace Group (CAG) in August for final completion and supplementary type certification, before delivery to a US customer in March 1999. CAG says it has secured the first order for two Y-12s from an ...
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Asian crisis will cost 150 orders in next five years, says Boeing
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON The still unfolding economic crisis in Asia has had a big impact on Boeing's latest long-term aircraft forecasts, with predictions that the regional downturn will cost 150 aircraft orders over the next five years. Prospects for the launch of a high-capacity aircraft above the 747-400 have ...
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Europeans forge ahead with EGNOS, despite AEA fears
Julian Moxon/PARIS Europe is pressing ahead with the introduction of a high fidelity complement to the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) despite repeated accusations from the Association of European Airlines (AEA)that it "-fails to provide any operational benefits for users". Final negotiations are now under way with the ...
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Sextant/Dassault agree new venture
Julian Moxon/PARIS Sextant Avionique and Dassault Electronique have agreed details of their new joint venture, which will operate under the name CNS Avionics within a French GIE structure similar to the consortium arrangement used for Airbus Industrie. The two companies will continue to market their own avionics lines, ...
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Hunting sells cargo airline to complete aviation disposals
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON The UK's Hunting group has completed the last major piece in the year-long dismantling of its loss-making aviation division, with the sale of the Hunting Cargo Airlines business. It has gone to Belgian shipping group CMB, which bid jointly with South African freight carrier Safair. The ...
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Engine pooling concept targets airline costs
Guy Norris/SAN DIEGO Shannon Engine Support (SES), an Irish-based company specialising in supporting the CFM International CFM56-3, is promoting a concept in which airlines will club together to create a pool of spare engines. The initiative has been prompted by estimates that the industry will have to spend $30 ...
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Growing DeCrane buys up specialist Avtech
Fast-growing US aerospace group DeCrane Aircraft is continuing on the acquisition trail with a deal to buy Avtech, a Seattle-based electronic systems specialist, for $83 million. Chairman Jack DeCrane says the purchase should take the group's sales above $200 million next year. Avtech supplies a range of communication, power and ...
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Controlling interest
Privatising the UK's ATC service is part of a world wide move to put control of the airways on a commercial footing Having swung between ambiguity and hostility over possible privatisation of the UK National Air Traffic Services (NATS) while in opposition, the UK's Labour Government caught everybody flatfooted ...
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On the horizon
The Inmarsat Council has approved steps to establish interim funding to allow for the start of the Horizons project in advance of Inmarsat's transition into a private company. Horizons will involve a constellation of four geostationary-orbiting satellites to offer broadband, high speed, mobile multimedia services. Source: Flight International
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Lufthansa looks at cargo version of Tu-204
Sirocco Aerospace demonstrated the Rolls-Royce RB211-powered Tupolev Tu-204-120C to Lufthansa in early June as a potential medium haul freighter for the airline's cargo division. Lufthansa is the technical advisor to the Sirocco programme, but wanted to check the freighter version's capacity to load/unload the containers and pallets used by ...
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Corporate A319
Airbus Industrie has selected Switzerland's Jet Aviation and Germany's Lufthansa Technik as approved cabin outfitters for the A319CJ corporate aircraft. The European companies will offer a choice of six standard cabin layouts ranging from 10 to 39 seats, with prices starting at about $4 million. Source: Flight International
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Cimber picks ATR 72s in fight to win Danish rail travellers
Julian Moxon/SONDERBORG Danish regional airline Cimber Air is to expand its fleet with the purchase of ATR 72s and, eventually, regional jets. The plan follows the airline's sale of a 26% stake to SAS. The carrier has been linked with SAS since October 1995, operating feeder services into ...
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IATA seals Afghanistan deals
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE The Afghanistan Government and national carrier Ariana Afghan Airlines have concluded a series of wide ranging agreements with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to overhaul local air traffic communications as well as to improve aircraft and airport safety. Under an $8 million deal concluded with ...
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Surprise share plan changes UK's air traffic control chart
David Learmount/LONDON Privatisation of the UK air traffic control (ATC) system has been put back on the political agenda, with the year-old Labour Government mooting the sale of 51% of the Civil Aviation Authority's National Air Traffic Services (NATS). ATC privatisation has been a running issue within UK ...
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Airline comeback disguises Asian crisis
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Airline profits rebounded strongly to near record levels last year, says the International Air Transport Association (IATA),but director general Pierre Jeanniot again warns that margins remain too low and that the headline figures disguise the crisis still unfolding in Asia. The detailed figures, issued in the ...