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The right balance
Profits and losses dominate the headlines, but balance sheets give a better long term view of a company's health Ian Milne explains.In the rapidly changing, increasingly results-oriented airline industry most attention is paid to operating performance, in the shape of the profit and loss account, in assessing the immediate success ...
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Holding back the tide
Relations between Europe's major airlines and their flight deck crews have reached an all-time low, as pilots resist cost cuts and changes to scope clauses. A return to profit by US carriers looks set to damage relations with their pilots too. Mark Odell assesses the pilots' case.Overpaid, overreacting and overhead. ...
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EC to act on Nordic link
The European Commission has set out the conditions it will impose before approving the proposed alliance of Lufthansa and SAS, while Transwede and Finnair are putting on a brave face about the prospect of a northern European giant operating in their backyard. The Commission has notified Lufthansa and ...
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LOT to think about AMR
LOT Polish Airlines has a lot to think about. The most pressing issues are doubts over its cooperation with AMR Corp, its proposed codeshare with American Airlines and the refinancing of its recent fleet acquisition. AMR Corp's ground services management contract with LOT is up for a two ...
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GB Airways
GB Airways, a British Airways franchise operator, has promoted Anne Davies to deputy cabin services manager for the airline. For the last five years she has been a cabin service co-ordinator. Source: Flight International
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Regional winner?
Embraer's first public flight of its EMB-145 was acclaimed by observers. Graham Warwick/SAO PAULO JUDGING BY the reactions of regional-airline executives attending the 18 August roll-out and first public flight of the EMB-145 regional-jet, Embraer has produced a potential winner - if the newly privatised Brazilian ...
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The Gordon-Bennett Race...
The Gordon-Bennett Race After an interval of seven years, the classic Gordon-Bennett race, in which speed is the only consideration, is to be resumed at Etampes near Paris. The speed course this year is somewhat longer than that for the event which was held in 1913, being 300 kilometres (186 ...
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Meeting demands
Airbus Industrie rolls out the A319 to complete its present range of airliners. Julian Moxon/TOULOUSE IN JUST 25 years since its creation in December 1970, Airbus Industrie has fielded a range of airliners spanning 124-350 seats, knocked McDonnell Douglas (MDC) into third place in ...
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KLM/Garuda intensify co-operation
KLM ROYAL Dutch Airlines and Garuda Indonesia have strengthened their long-established commercial co-operation with a new agreement signed in Jakarta on 23 August, following the conclusion of talks between Garuda's president Soepandi and Pieter Bouw, president of the Dutch carrier. Bouw was in Indonesia as part of a Dutch trade ...
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African aviation
The African aviation industry has been preaching about regional co-operation for years: it could soon happen. Kevin O'Toole/Johannesburg In the middle of August the African aviation community met in Johannesburg to discuss its future. There was nothing new about the issues. The industry, like much else within the ...
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Airbus shows DGPS in Africa
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE has demonstrated precision approaches and landings with an A340 guided by a differential global-positioning system (DGPS) at Mmabatho in South Africa. The trial took place as South African Airways moved into the final stages of selecting its new long-haul replacement aircraft. Airbus used a Sextant Avionique ...
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Laser gyro at the core of Honeywell ADIRS
HONEYWELL'S GG1320 LASER GYRO, developed for the Boeing 777, forms the core of the company's new air-data/inertial-reference system (ADIRS) (Flight International, 23-29 August) selected by Boeing for the 737-600/-700/-800 family. The new gyro is also included in Honeywell's VIA 2000 integrated avionics system. Source: Flight International
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Stretched Il-76 on display
ILYUSHIN HAS DISPLAYED its Il-76MF transporter, considered to be the only real competitor so far for Antonov's troubled An-70 programme. The aircraft's cabin has been stretched by 6.6m, compared with earlier versions of the Il-76, offering an increase in cargo capacity of up to 1.5t. The new variant also has ...
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Kamov reveals two-seat Ka-52 mock-up
KAMOV HAS unveiled an engineering mock-up of its two-seat, fully combat-capable Ka-52 derivative of the Ka-50 (Hokum), with company officials claiming that the new helicopter will be equipped with a millimetre-wave (MMW) radar. Meanwhile Mil, which still claims to be contesting the Russian army requirement, unveiled the first ...
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Tupolev reveals Tu-304 details
TUPOLEV HAS revealed new details of its planned Tu-304 long-range, widebodied twin, adding that it has signed a protocol with Rolls-Royce to power the aircraft. The agreement with the UK engine manufacturer covers the use of the 400kN (90,000lb)-thrust Trent 884 turbofan. Tupolev is coming to the end ...
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Ilyushin develops cargo variant of Il-114
THE ILYUSHIN design bureau and the TAPO Tashkent production plant are completing development of a cargo version of the Il-114 regional turboprop. The freighter will have a door measuring 3.31 x 1.78m in the tail section of the fuselage, and a take-off weight of 23,500kg. With a 6,000kg ...
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Airlines 'abuse CFMU' warns Eurocontrol
Julian Moxon/PARIS MULTIPLE FLIGHT-plan bookings by "unscrupulous" airlines using Eurocontrol's new central flow-management unit (CFMU) are causing significant delays for traffic using French and Swiss airspace, says the head of the CFMU unit. The problem centres on the CFMU's recently introduced automated flight-plan processing system, ...
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Embraer flies EMB-145
Graham Warwick/SAO PAULO EMBRAER FLEW THE prototype EMB-145 regional jet for the first time on 11 August. The Brazilian manufacturer had logged some 8h flying by the time of the official roll out and first public flight at its Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, plant on 18 ...
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Safety-resource management
David Learmount/LONDON Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Paul Phelan/CAIRNS AS MILITARY BUDGETS shrink and resources become more scarce, there are signs, that military aviation flight safety leaders, are taking up ideas developed by the civil air transport community. In one of the most significant of these ...