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Little Cayman Island in the Caribbean will be able to take larger aircraft from next year after the completion of a new 1,220m (4,000ft) runway. The Cayman Ministry of Transportation recently approved the development and expects to pick a contractor in time for work to begin late this year, to ...
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Counter-suit filed in dispute over two-seat sport design
A second law suit has been filed in the continuing clash between US manufacturers Aviat Aircraft and Roy LoPresti over a new two-seat sport aircraft based on a 1946 Globe Aircraft design. The legal dispute began in April, when Aviat filed an infringement suit against LoPresti claiming that LoPresti's ...
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Eurocopter/Kawasaki fly EC145
Eurocopter and Kawasaki have begun test flights of the EC145 medium utility helicopter, a successor to the jointly developed BK117 twin turboshaft. The manufacturers decline to reveal programme details, but the helicopter is understood to be a development of the BK117, incorporating some cockpit and forward fuselage features of ...
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Eutelsat contract
Italy's Alenia Spazio has been selected to build the 20 Ku-band transponder Atlantic Bird 1 satellite for Eutelsat, the company's first Eutelsat prime contract. Alenia will shortly become a part of the new Matra Marconi Space-Dasa-Alenia company, Astrium. Source: Flight International
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The tie that binds
The game is far from over for the global airline grouping, as Delta's deal with Air France demonstrates. But if there is more realignment to come, the SAirGroup is putting its trust in old-fashioned equity. The course of love never did run smooth. Neither, it seems, do the course ...
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Mixed results from Asia-Pacific
Year-end results for Asia-Pacific's airline groups were not universally bad but the struggle is not over yet. Asia-Pacific airline executives many well remember 1998 as the year of red ink. And for the region as a whole, it was certainly the toughest in recent memory. But as the year-end financial ...
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USA offers extra-bilateral rights via Alaska
David Knibb/SEATTLE Washington is offering almost any foreign airline the right to serve the USA without regard to existing bilateral rights so long as that airline will stop in Alaska. Foreign carriers serving the USA may add Alaska as a co-terminal point on existing US routes or launch ...
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Alliances battle over LOT and Malev
Peter Bennett/VIENNA British Airways could be thwarted in its ambitions to buy an equity stake in Poland's LOT and Hungary's Malév, following better offers from Star Alliance and the Qualiflyer Group. British Airways was favourite to take a 38% equity stake in Lot, but relations between the two have deteriorated. ...
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SAA bid offers no alliance tie
When it first began, the contest to take a 20% stake in South African Airways (SAA) had seemed like a straight choice between the rival global alliances. Yet, as a decision nears, it seems that the contest is leaning in favour of a bid which does not require the carrier ...
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A touch of Swiss prudence
Jackie Gallacher/BRUSSELS Sabena is back in profit and experiencing one of the fastest growth rates in the industry. But under Swiss chief executive, Paul Reutlinger, there has been little fanfare surrounding the transformation. For a man who has just steered a foundering european flag carrier back to profits, Sabena's Paul ...
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Circling the globe
Jackie Gallacher Antitrust immunity has allowed many of the global alliances to pursue schedule co-ordination and joint pricing initiatives. But as the "customer-driven" oneworld hopes to prove, there is still plenty alliances can do without it. There are no prizes for identifying the main landmark in airline strategy over ...
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American justice?
Karen Walker/WASHINGTON DC Rather than wait for the Department of Transportation to define the thin line between fair and predatory competition, the Department of Justice has launched a high profile antitrust lawsuit against American Airlines. In this clash of the Titans, who stands to claim victory? If the US Department ...
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surfing for value
Nancy Schwartz and Michael Zea at Mercer Management Consulting in Washington DC Many airlines have begun using the Internet to market and distribute their products, but few have yet made a success of the medium. Internet-related market value has exploded over the past few years, especially in the USA, so ...
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Air Madagascar receives first new 767-300ER on lease
Air Madagascar has taken delivery of its first new Boeing 767-300ER, on lease from GE Capital Aviation Services. The General Electric CF6-80C2-powered 228-seat aircraft, which is the first 767 to be equipped with an in-flight entertainment system that was installed and certificated during aircraft production, is expected to replace a ...
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Condor and British Airways to plug airliners into cyberspace
Emma Kelly/LONDONCondor Flugdienst is activating Rockwell Collins' Integrated Information System (I2S) on two Airbus A320s this month as part of a project to test technologies linking an aircraft-based intranet to airline terminal area databases. At the same time, British Airways is equipping the first of two Boeing 747-400s as part ...
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European ministers move on Galileo studies
European Union (EU) transport ministers have called on the European Commission (EC) to accelerate studies on co-operation issues and cost-benefit analysis for the Galileo satellite navigation system. The Galileo, Europe's second-generation global navigation satellite system to follow the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System, will be independent of the US ...
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Upgrade will extend lives of 747 Classics
KLM and Canadian Marconi are finalising details of a turnkey cockpit upgrade package to offer operators of Boeing 747 Classics. The move follows the experience gained by the partners on the programme to upgrade KLM's own fleet of 747 Classics. The Dutch airline became the first to commit to ...
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Regional wars
Access to the US market is critical if Embraer, Bombardier and Fairchild are to see any payback Paul Lewis/PARIS The fight for the 70/100-seat regional jet market early in the 21st century has already begun with an opening exchange of fire between Fairchild Aerospace and Embraer. Also manoeuvring into ...
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The big numbers
Airbus and Boeing continue to dispute the sales prospects for large airliners Max Kingsley-Jones/PARIS Airbus Industrie and Boeing renewed their long-term debate over the size and timing of demand for very large capacity aircraft at the Paris air show by releasing their market forecasts for the next 20 years. ...