Systems & interiors – Page 788
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Old pals act
Just when it seemed that Philippine Airlines was on a plausible road to recovery, the road has been spiked by the carrier's major shareholder. Controversial beer and tobacco mogul Lucio Tan is one of the wealthiest men in the Philippines. He already owns about 70% of the Philippines national ...
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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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African Star ships in aircraft as it claims licence approval
Hilka Birns/CAPE TOWN South Africa's first independent and majority black-owned international airline, African Star, may have jumped the gun by announcing that the government has granted it an international air service licence. According to sources at the country's transport department, Pretoria's Air Services Licensing Council has given only ...
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European airlines call for ATC rethink
Emma Kelly/LONDON The Association of European Airlines (AEA) has called for a radical rethink on European air traffic control (ATC), after the latest capacity and delay predictions. European air navigation organisation Eurocontrol had originally targeted accommodating 8% more traffic this year, compared with the previous year, with a ...
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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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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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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, ...
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Sikorsky eyes Latin American Black Hawk orders
Sikorsky has set aside six completed S-70 Black Hawk helicopters for sale to Venezuela, which has yet to conclude a purchase contract, while pursuing follow-on orders from Brazil, Columbia and Chile, and potential new sales in Ecuador and Peru. Venezuela is trying to raise funding for the six machines - ...
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Airports
Minneapolis/St Paul-based Sun Country Airlines and the local Metropolitan Airports Commission have agreed a deal that makes Sun Country the principal tenant at a new $53 million, 27, 870m2 (300,000ft2) terminal, which opens in April 2001 adjacent to the Hubert Humphrey terminal, where the airline now operates. Sun Country will ...
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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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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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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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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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Fairchild talks continue as ATR revises Airjet
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Fairchild Aerospace and ATR partners Aerospatiale and Alenia have failed to resolve the main obstacles to their possible collaboration on a family of regional jets. Talks continue in an effort to find a compromise. While differences remain over the location of final assembly lines, engines and ...