FOKKER 100 COCKPIT SOFTWARE PUSHES THE

Fokker 100 Cockpit Software Pushes The

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''An awful lot of markets that we want to make part of our growth plan could use smaller aircraft.''Officials at American said they would use some of the F-100's to support a new hub in San Jose, Calif., and to build up a route from St. Carty, senior vice president for finance at American. ''Until this order, our smallest aircraft had 142 seats,'' said Donald J. Fewer Seats an AdvantageThat will be its role at American Airlines, which last month placed 75 firm orders and 75 options for F-100's. In this system, large airlines set up centers, or hubs, to receive passengers from feeder routes, or spokes.Officials at Fokker, which had $1.5 billion in revenues last year, like to call the F-100 the biggest plane for a small airline, like a commuter airline, and the smallest plane for a big airline.

Manufacturers were pretty well sold out through 1993-94,'' he said. Carty of American gave another important reason for the huge Fokker order. An industry maxim is that shrunken planes have higher costs per passenger mile than the original models.Mr. The Fokker is 20,000 pounds, or 18 percent, lighter than the Boeing 737-500. American had stopped serving that route, having found it uneconomical to use a 142-seat plane for a flight that often had as few as 70 passengers.Noting that the F-100 - which sells for about $20 million - would cut per-mile costs by 32 percent, American Airlines executives said it was a clear winner over the competition: British Aerospace's 146, a four-engine 100-seater McDonnell Douglas's MD-87, a shorter version of the MD-80, and Boeing's 737-500, a scaled-down version of the 737.

Competition From BoeingDespite this success, Fokker officials still expect tough competition from Boeing's 110-seat 737-500, which has drawn 182 orders and options. ''But with the growing concern about noise and aging planes, airlines are looking at new planes to serve these routes, and the F-100 is very competitive.''Indeed, thanks to its Rolls-Royce Tay engines, the Fokker aircraft has passed noise tests at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, Calif., which has the nation's toughest noise standards.''The American acquisition has focused a lot of attention on the F-100,'' said Cees Biesma, Fokker's executive vice president for marketing. Now that American, long an industry trend-setter, has placed its large order, Fokker hopes that United Airlines and Delta will follow.''Traditionally, you served secondary routes by throwing older, fully depreciated planes at them,'' said Paul Turk, an analyst with Avmark, an aviation consulting firm.

At Swissair's insistence, Fokker installed a highly electronic cockpit, with cathode-ray-tube displays, and a radio signal guidance system that facilitates landings in heavy fog. But as initial customers offered suggestions to improve the F-100, its development costs ballooned to $800 million.Ultimately, the F-100 was 80 percent new. The Dutch Government agreed to provide a $450 million development loan.Fokker officials believed that the F-100 would be 20 percent new, keeping 80 percent of the F-28. In 1983, Fokker decided to develop replacements for its 45-seat F-27, a workhorse with 786 sales, and for its 85-seat F-28, with 256 sales.Fokker estimated that it would cost $500 million to develop its 50-seat F-50, a turboprop, and the F-100. Impressed by the F-100's low-operating costs, GPA has placed 52 firm orders and 48 options for the plane.Although the F-100 proved to be Fokker's salvation, it was almost the company's downfall. King, chief operating officer of the GPA Group, the Irish aircraft leasing company.

It has had trouble coordinating suppliers of the F-100, and last year planes were often delivered weeks late. ''That's a big task for any company, let alone one Fokker's size.''With its financial crisis behind it, Fokker has new, if less serious, problems. The Government engineered a rescue plan that included two stock flotations and $105 million from the Government in return for a 32 percent stake in Fokker.''Fokker took on quite a task in developing two new planes at once,'' said Ian Wild, an analyst with Barclays de Zoete Wedd, a London brokerage. ''Then we encountered a cash-flow problem.''When Fokker ran short of development money, Dutch legislators criticized management as incompetent, and newspapers wrote that Fokker employees would not see their next paycheck. Nederkoorn, Fokker's chief financial officer. A Cash-Flow Problem''Our customers had wishes and we respected them,'' said Erik J.

The executives expect revenues to rise by at least 50 percent this year and net income to exceed last year's $6.6 million by a large amount.Company officials say they will decide in the next two months whether to build a new assembly line in Europe or in the United States. This would help push revenues far above last year's $1 billion.