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Milan moves in to manage
A consortium headed by the Milan airport operator SEA has won a 30 year concession to manage Argentina's 33 state-owned airports. The winning consortium is called Argentina 2000. SEA holds a 30 per cent stake, US ground handling company Ogden 28 per cent, and local partner Corporacion America Sudamericana ...
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Looking peaky
In its third straight year of profit, the airline industry broke all records last year. But some Asians are suffering and tougher times may be ahead. Richard Whitaker reports. It's early days yet and many carriers have not yet reported full-year financial results for 1997, but it is clear that ...
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Mesa faces tough times
A new board of directors at Mesa Air Group is flexing its muscles in a bid to respond to challenges facing the carrier. The airline's new board includes Virgin Express chief executive officer Jonathan Ornstein and Virgin Express director, James Swigart. Larry Risley and his wife, both co-founders of ...
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Labour strife hits Europe
Cancellations are set to continue at Olympic Airlines if the question of staff shortages is not resolved, while labour strife is also plaguing Virgin Express. Olympic's unions are demanding that the airline reinstate the 64 seasonal flight attendants it fired in February. At presstime, the airline was forced to ...
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Degrees of new disaster
The Asian economic crisis may have thrown the entire region into turmoil, but differing attitudes among Asian startups illustrate how misfortunes vary between countries. Harlequin Air, a new affiliate of Japan Air System, is confident that while Japan may have economic worries, its citizens still have disposable income. Harlequin ...
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Indians clash over cash
A war of words is developing between the Indian finance and aviation ministries, over whether fresh public funds should be poured into ailing Indian Airlines. The finance ministry is reluctant to back Indian Airlines' restructuring plan, prepared by the Kelkar Committee - India's equivalent of the group of Wise ...
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Southern boom
The US carriers, led by American Airlines, have benefited the most from the growth in demand to Latin America. Report by April Pearson. With growth of 23.9 per cent over the last five years, US-Latin America air traffic is outpacing economic growth. Growth still lags behind the larger European and ...
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Sharp exit out of Asia
The Asian crisis is forcing Qantas and Air New Zealand to shift capacity out of Asia and into a face-off closer to home. Both airlines withdrew from Korea in January; Qantas has now announced cutbacks to Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia. Air New Zealand retreated from these markets last year. ...
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Asia chops its policies
Fleets, financing and fares are all under review as airlines in the most troubled parts of Asia look for ways to weather the financial turbulence. Boeing predicts that Asian customers could delay up to 60 aircraft deliveries over the next three years. Asian airlines have placed firm orders for ...
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1997 at a glance
January Boeing and McDonnell Douglas announce plans for a $13.3 billion merger. Norwegian travel agents threaten to sue SAS over plans to reduce commissions. Delta Air Lines winds down its Frankfurt hub, ending its intra-European services. Swissair, Austrian, Sabena and Delta establish a revenue pool on the North Atlantic. A ...
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P&W starts geared turbofan revolution
Karen Walker Pratt & Whitney will unveil details tomorrow of its new PW8000 geared turbofan, the engine which it says will "-change the rules of the game." P&W has made the unusual decision to launch the PW8000 without a customer. But company president Karl Krapek says it is time to ...
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Lockheed Martin wants to make new friends
Strong international partnerships are still the ambition of Lockheed Martin, says Micky Blackwell, president of the company's Aeronautics Sector. During a whistlestop one-day visit to Asian Aerospace, he says: "We are looking for partnerships as stepping stones to other things". Blackwell points to recent link-ups with Australian, Italian ...
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Overhaul specialist expands with international contracts
Alitalia Technical Operations division has secured contracts to overhaul two Continental Airlines DC-10s at its Rome maintenance centre and is optimistic that it will win a longer term commitment from the US carrier. One contract is for a C-check, the other a D-check. Winning a more substantial contract would satisfy ...
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No brakes on Messier-Bugatti in global market
Asian Aerospace exhibitor Messier-Bugatti (Stand A411), which is owned by Snecma, is now the world's leading supplier of carbon brakes, with around 30% of its possible global market. Airbus has certified Messier-Bugatti carbon brakes for each of its aircraft types and Dassault also specifies them for the Mirage 2000 ...
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Preston sells second TAAM to Boeing
The Preston Group (Stand C132) has announced at the show the sale of a second Total Airport and Airspace Modeller (TAAM) licence to Boeing. Boeing has been using TAAM since 1994 to satisfy the needs of its commercial airline customers by simulating potential projects in the modernisation of air traffic ...
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CFM focuses on loyalty to beat the opposition
"When the customers are happy with you, then they come back to you." That's an observation by Gerard Laviec, CFM International's president and chief executive officer. CFM's overwhelmingly strong position in the narrowbody market seems to bear that out, but what Laviec now has to concentrate on is maintaining that ...
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ANA to set up own APU servicing centre
All Nippon Airways (ANA) has struck a deal with Sundstrand to set up its own aircraft auxiliary power unit (APU) maintenance and repair unit at its main plant at Haneda, Tokyo. This is the first time an airline company has set up its own APU servicing centre. ANA ...
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Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE)
Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE) is to consider a Singapore and New York Stock Exchange listing in 2000 as a capital-raising exercise to help boost its portfolio. Managing director John Willingham says SALE has no definitive plans to list at the moment, although owners Singapore Airlines (SIA), Boullioun Aviation Services ...
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Multi-billion deal for Airbus?
Airbus and International Aero Engines are believed to have sealed a major multi-billion-dollar deal with three Latin American airlines for 100 A319/A320/A321s equipped with the V2500 turbofan. LanChile of Chile, Taca of El Salvador and TAM of Brazil have joined forces for this particular purchase in an effort to ...
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Hamburg boost lifts Airbus to a record level of output
The Hamburg final assembly line of the Airbus Industrie A321 and A319 is to raise production from six aircraft a month to 11 by the end of this year. It will mean that together with the A320 line in Toulouse, Airbus will achieve a record 18 single-aisle aircraft a ...