Aircraft News - Europe.Aug 13, 2007 Air Berlin Technik Air Berlin said Air Berlin Technik will service the airline's fleet of 130 aircraft and will look to develop third-party business. "Air Berlin is hoping that by merging these technical operations it will achieve better utilization of the facilities at the individual sites and a reduction in technical costs. The intention is also to separate these activities from seasonal flight operations," the airline said. Aug 10, 2007 Air Berlin Technik Air Berlin announced the creation of a new, independent maintenance and engineering company that will combine its own Air Berlin Technik Berlin division, 600 employees working for LTU LTU Luleå Tekniska Universitet (Luleå University of Technology; formerly Luleå Tekniska Högskola) LTU Lithuania LTU La Trobe University (Australia) LTU Lufttransport-Unternehmen GmbH in Dusseldorf and Munich, Air Berlin employees in Dusseldorf and 130 dba-Technik workers in Munich. The new company, Air Berlin Technik, will employ 1,100. The LTU workers and AB's employees in Dusseldorf will comprise Air Berlin Luftfahrttechnik Dusseldorf, a subsidiary of ABT ABT About ABT Abteilung (German: Department) ABT Abbott Laboratories (stock symbol) ABT American Ballet Theatre ABT Associação Brasileira de Telemarketing ABT Abort ABT Availability Based Tariff . Aug 10, 2007 Air France Air France in full Compagnie Internationale Air France French passenger and cargo airline with more than 200 destinations in some 80 countries. It introduced supersonic Concorde service in 1976, but financial loss led the company to cease its Concorde KLM KLM Kaiserliche Marine (Enigma: Rising Tide game) KLM Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (Royal Dutch Airlines) KLM Klub Langer Menschen (German: Tall Person Club) , Embraer Air France KLM Group subsidiaries Regional and KLM Cityhopper KLM Cityhopper is the regional airline subsidiary KLM based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It operates international services within Europe. It is based at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam. last week placed a joint order for 20 Embraer E-170/190 aircraft plus 18 options. The group said the combined order "will lead to substantial synergies both in the purchasing of aircraft, engines and spare parts and in fleet management, operational maintenance and crew training." Regional will take six 170s and four 190s and Cityhopper will take 10 190s and replace its oldest Fokker F100s. Deliveries are scheduled between 2008 and 2011. Regional flies to 46 destinations with a fleet of 28 ERJ-145s, nine -135s, seven 120s, three 190s, nine F100s and five F70s. Cityhopper operates 55 aircraft. Aug 6, 2007 Airbus No Mechanical Error In Brazil Air Crash - Airbus An Airbus A320 airliner that crashed in Sao Paulo last month killing 199 people had shown no signs of mechanical or computer error, a company official told Brazil's Congress on Thursday. Aug 10, 2007 Airbus Airbus and Singapore Airlines have begun pre-delivery tests for the first A380 to enter commercial service. Aug 6, 2007 BAE Systems BAE Systems Regional Aircraft BAE Systems Regional Aircraft produced the last fully UK-built airliner in November 2001, the Avro RJX (formerly the BAE 146). While this unit no longer produces aircraft it continues to lease aircraft and provide support, spares and training for its products, the Finnair, Aeroflot Cargo Finnair has eight Airbus A330/340s plus four options, 11 A350 XWBs and six Embraer E-190s still on order. Seven MD-11s have been sold to Aeroflot Cargo and will be transferred in 2008-2009. It also warned that six of its seven labor agreements are set to expire at the end of the current quarter. Aug 10, 2007 London City Airport London City Airport (IATA: LCY, ICAO: EGLC) is a single-runway airport, intended for use by STOL (Short Take Off and Landing) airliners, and principally serving the financial districts of London. This airport could also be considered a STOLport. On Wednesday 1 August a Dornier 328 jet on a private charter by executive jet operator, IceJet, touched down at London City Airport (LCY LCY Local Currency LCY Loose Cubic Yards (earth moving engineering equipment) LCY London, England, United Kingdom - London City (Airport Code) ) after a 2h 50m flight from Iceland. It is the largest VIP-style executive aircraft to have used the docklands airport. Aug 7, 2007 Lufthansa Systems Lufthansa Systems will help Air Dolomiti implement e-ticketing. In a first phase, the Italian carrier will incorporate interline in·ter·line 1 tr.v. in·ter·lined, in·ter·lin·ing, in·ter·lines To insert between printed or written lines. in agreements with Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines. Aug 9, 2007 Rolls-Royce Rolls-Royce Engine Certified For Boeing's 787 Rolls-Royce said on Tuesday its Trent 1000 engine had received its airworthiness air·wor·thy adj. air·wor·thi·er, air·wor·thi·est Being in fit condition to fly: an airworthy helicopter; airworthy avionics. certification, clearing the way for the first flight of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner. Aug 8, 2007 Rolls-Royce Rolls-Royce Trent 1000, launch engine for the 787, becoming the first engine to be validated concurrently under new regulatory procedures. The certification comes as scheduled and just 18 months after the engine's first ground run. Nine development engines have been used in ground testing and a further 10 will support inflight testing on four 787s. According to Rolls, the results of rig and engine testing have allowed the Trent 1000 to be certificated with significant margins to CAEP CAEP Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians CAEP Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection (ICAO) CAEP China Academy of Engineering Physics CAEP Certificat d'Aptitude a l'Exercice de la Profession 6 standards for all emissions. Aug 8, 2007 Rolls-Royce, Boeing Rolls-Royce said on Tuesday its Trent 1000 engine had received its airworthiness certification, clearing the way for the first flight of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner. GE Aviation has also developed an engine for the 787, which is the fastest selling airliner in Boeing's history. On a date symbolizing the plane's name, (70807) the seventh day of the eighth month of 2007, officials from the European Aviation Safety Agency European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is an agency of the European Union with offices in Cologne, Germany, which has been given specific regulatory and executive tasks in the field of civilian aviation safety. (EASA EASA European Aviation Safety Agency EASA European Advertising Standards Alliance (Brussels, Belgium) EASA European Association of Social Anthropologists EASA European Architecture Students Assembly EASA European Academic Software Award ) handed over the airworthiness certificate. A spokesman said the US Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), component of the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets standards for the air-worthiness of all civilian aircraft, inspects and licenses them, and regulates civilian and military air traffic through its air traffic control (FAA) also certified the engine on Tuesday. Aug 8, 2007 ZZ Editorial eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For Air Transport & Travel Business Experts contact our Director of Content Aram Gesar eMail: bizintel@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please subscribe to our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com AirGuideFlightTracker is a new service that keeps travelers informed on flight and airport status via the Web. For more go to http://www.airguideonline.com/airline_tracker.htm Copyright [c] 2007 Pyramid Media Group / Air Travel Media. All rights reserved. |
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