Air France has new franchise agreements with French regional Proteus Airlines, for three daily services from Paris/Orly to Chambéry, and with Gill Airways for twice daily Newcastle-Paris/Charles de Gaulle services. Air France was also due to suspend services to Brazzaville and Cancun, from 26 October.
American Airlines is to operate daily between London's Heathrow and New York/ Newark from 3 March 1998.
Lufthansa is to restart flights from Frankfurt to Beirut on 26 October and to Amman on June 1998, each with three services a week.
British Airways World Cargo has launched twice-weekly London/Stansted-Tel Aviv flights.
Air UK will start 22 weekly services on Manchester-London/ City as a codeshare with KLM.
Continental Airlines has launched daily New York/ Newark-Rio de Janeiro flights.
Jet Airways was to introduce daily services on Nagpur-Mumbai, Delhi-Chennai and Chennai-Pune, the latter via Bangalore, from October.
Cargolux has introduced a weekly service from Luxembourg to Buenos Aires.
DHL was to begin daily freighter service on Brussels-Harare in October with Zimbabwe's Affretair. DHLalso launched daily services from Los Angeles to Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Denver and Salt Lake City.
Malaysia Airlines and Virgin Atlantic Cargo started a twice weekly joint freighter operation from London/Heathrow to Osaka and Melbourne, via Kuala Lumpur, on 1 October.
Dragonair was to start twice weekly Hong Kong-Wuhan services on 2 October.
From 26 October Jersey European started 14 flights a week from Exeter to Birmingham; daily flights from Bristol to the Isle of Man; two daily services from Glasgow to the Channel Islands, via Birmingham; and two daily services from Glasgow to Exeter.
LOT Polish Airlines is to start twice weekly flights from London/Gatwick to Gdansk in mid-1998.
UK startup Euroscot Express has begun operations with services from Bournemouth to Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Lufthansa and Air Littoral started a thrice daily codeshare service between Munich and Nice and daily services on Munich-Nantes in September. The German carrier will codeshare with VLM on twelve weekly services from Munich to Rotterdam and Antwerp.
British Airways and Canadian Airlines are to codeshare on Toronto-Sault Ste.Marie; Toronto-London, Ontario; Toronto-Thunder Bay; Calgary-Kelowna and Montreal-Ottawa from 26 October.
British Airways and Qantas will introduce codeshare services from London/Heathrow via Singapore to Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Darwin and Cairns.
Delta Air Lines is to codeshare with Swissair on its daily Zurich-Hanover and Zurich-Bangkok flights.
Thai Airways and South African Airways started a thrice weekly codeshare service from Bangkok to Johannesburg in September.
British Midland has withdrawn from the London/Heathrow-Gothenburg route.
Deutsche BA abandoned its service from Berlin/Tegel to London/Gatwick in October.
Lufthansa is to sell its 17.95 per cent stake in Hapag Lloyd to Preussag AG.
Aircraft News
America West has ordered 22 Airbus A319s and 24 A320s, with deliveries starting in 1998, and taken options on up to 40 A320s, for delivery between 2001 to 2005. British Midland has ordered four A320s and four A321s for delivery in 1998. Lufthansa has ordered two A340-300s, for delivery in 1998 and 1999 while Virgin Atlantic Airways has ordered one A340 and Air France Europe one A319.
Easyjet has ordered 12 Boeing B737-300s for delivery between mid-1998 and late 1999. Icelandair has ordered two B757-300s and two B757-200s, for delivery between 1998 and 2002. Boullioun Aviation has ordered three B737-300s.
Volga-Dnepr Airlines has ordered four Ilyushin IL-96T freighters, with deliveries starting in 1998.
Hokkaido Air System has ordered two Saab 340Bs.
Tarom has ordered nine ATR 42-500s, with deliveries starting in November.
EVA Air has ordered two McDonnell Douglas MD-11s, for delivery in late 1998.
Suppliers
AAR Corp's Aircraft and Engine Group is to purchase British Airways' fleet of 14 B747-136s between 1998 and 2000, while Allied Signal will acquire BA's wheel and brakes repair and overhaul operations. British Airways is also selling its landing gears business to Hawker Pacific.
Embraer has selected Rolls-Royce's Allison AE3007A3 turbofan engine to power its EMB-135s.
Deutsche Aerospace Airbus and Sogerma Maintenance are to convert at least 10 Airbus A300-B4s to freighters, while British Aerospace Aviation Services will convert another 11, with options for 10 more.
Pratt & Whitney is to acquire Howmet Corporation's airfoil refurbishment business and the Flight Repair Group of Interturbine.
Appointments
Dieter Heinen is Lufthansa's new senior vice president northern & eastern Europe.
Masashi Izumi has been named director of government affairs, network management at All Nippon Airways.
Deutsche BA has named Philip Saunders director of sales and marketing and Sabine Forest head of the new customer services division.
Bertrand d'Yvoire has joined Flandre Air as managing director but will continue to run his Consultair consultancy.
Atlas Air chairman Michael Chowdry will reassume his role as president.
Bob O'Donnell is the new managing director of TNT International Aviation Services.
Charles Cleaver has been appointed treasurer/director, aircraft programmes for American Trans Air.
Timothy F Hannegan is now a managing director at GKMG Consulting Services.
Cathay Pacific's David Turnbull has been appointed chairman of Abacus.
Source: Airline Business
