All air transport news – Page 2413
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. . . as Swiss go stateside
Swiss caution and American zeal seem as unlikely a combination as yodelling and rock music, but Swissair is certain that an American chief executive at its helm will fashion a more international outlook. Swiss national pride undoubtedly took a knock following Swissair's decision to hand over operating control ...
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TWA is still in dire straits
A move by Trans World Airlines to raise $26 million in cash from pre-purchase tickets is further evidence of the airline's growing financial woes. TWA struck an advance purchase deal with 20 leading businesses in its home town of St Louis for discounted tickets. It is the second ...
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Cleaning up on yields
The benefits of a yield management system depend upon what competing airlines are doing. Peter P Belobaba and John L Wilson from MIT's Flight Transportation Laboratory explain why. Most airlines have embraced the practices of differential pricing and yield management over the past decade. By offering a range of fare ...
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Broader ties for Alliance?
Mozambique and Zambia have both expressed an interest in joining the multinational African carrier Alliance Air, as it emerges that two of its founder members are preparing to merge their operations. Talks with Mozambique's national carrier LAM have been 'ongoing for more than a year and they are ...
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Boeing tries to convince
Boeing's attempts to clinch a second big exclusive aircraft deal, similar to the one signed with American Airlines last November, comes at a time when the US manufacturer is trying to persuade regulators on both sides of the Atlantic to approve its merger with McDonnell Douglas. The company's ...
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CAI survives the big chill
Canadian Airlines International has survived the winter with the help of government, employees and creditors, but competition in western Canada is still growing with charter operator Canada 3000 expanding its scheduled services. Canadian's cash position has improved enough to defer searching for a C$60 million (US$40 million) credit ...
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Clinton still confident
The American economy has shown remarkable resilience in the 1990s. Over the last five years more than 11 million new jobs have been created, the rate of unemployment has fallen to 5.4 per cent of the workforce and inflation has been kept below 3 per cent. Even the US budget ...
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Private funds elude Alitalia
Put your wallet away: Alitalia's no longer for sale. The carrier has abandoned its quest for private investors and turned to state holding company IRI for the full capital injection. The Italian treasury has now confirmed that IRI will inject the remaining L1.5 trillion (US$880 million) of fresh ...
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Rolls-Royce
UK aero-engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce has made senior appointments in South-East Asia. Dr Robin Singleton becomes regional executive for Indonesia, based in Jakarta; Jonathan Asherson is named regional executive for Maaysia, based in Kuala Lumpur; Chua Pheng Cher becomes regional manager for Singapore and Brunei, based in Singapore; and Peter Clogger ...
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Precision success
Dunlop Precision Rubber is to supply electrically conductive wing-root seals to Embraer EMB-145 subcontractor Sonaca of Belgium. Dunlop already supplies seals for EMB-145 applications. Source: Flight International
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Greek F-16s ready
Lockheed Martin has rolled out, ahead of schedule, the first two of a second batch of 40 F-16C/Ds ordered by Greece under the Peace Xenia programme. The first, an F-16C, will be used for flight testing in the USA. The second, an F-16D, will be transferred to Greece in July. ...
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737 AD issued
US Boeing 737 operators are being ordered to retrofit their fleets with four newly developed rudder-system components, following the formal issue by the US Federal Aviation Administration of two airworthiness directives (ADs). The announcement follows a US National Transportation Safety Board report, urging the FAA to make its proposed AD ...
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Carnival joins PanAm
The merger between new Pan American World Airways and Carnival Air Lines has gone ahead, reviving the plans which were abandoned in August 1996, when the two airlines failed to agree terms for a deal. Pan Am was reborn in September 1996, when it began offering low-cost long-haul scheduled services, ...
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FAA Accepts DSR
The US Federal Aviation Administration has formally accepted the initial display-system replacement (DSR) developed by Lockheed Martin Air Traffic Management. The delivery culminates 23 months of development and testing to assure operational performance of the next-generation air-traffic-control (ATC) system. Lockheed Martin will produce the controller workstations under an $898 million ...
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Civil warfare
Italy's airline industry is at a crossroads. Long dominated by flag carrier Alitalia, the country's air-transport industry is still coming to terms with the 1995 liberalisation of the domestic market. Despite the dramatic events of the last year or so, most agree that there is still plenty of room for ...
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Taiwanese/Czechs link on AE-270
Taiwan's Aerospace Industrial Development (AIDC) and Aero Vodochody of the Czech Republic have signed a $60 million joint-venture agreement to co-produce a ten-seat turboprop aircraft, the AE-270. Each will take a 50% stake. AIDC president Wang Shih-sen and Aero Vodochody chief executive Adam Stranak signed the agreement on ...
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Cessna Aircraft cuts back 1997 production targets for singles
Cessna Aircraft has almost halved its 1997 single-engined-aircraft production plans - but the company remains optimistic that sales in 1998 and beyond will reach their targets. Instead of delivering about 1,000 aircraft this year (made up by $150 million-worth of new 172R Skyhawks and 182S Skylanes), the Wichita-based ...
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Cirrus nears test SR20 completion
Cirrus Design has nearly completed construction of its C-1, the test aircraft which will be used to win US Federal Aviation Administration certification of the new SR20 four-seat piston single. The C-1's first flight is expected in mid-year, says the company, reflecting a six-month delay from earlier plans ...
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Lockheed Martin and Bovis win contract
Lockheed Martin and UK-based Bovis Construction have been named preferred bidders for the contract to provide the new Scottish Air Traffic Control Centre (SCATCC) located at Prestwick. Scheduled to become operational in 2001/2, the SCATCC will replace the existing Prestwick centre, which controls Scottish airspace and oceanic regions ...
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SIA ponders A340-500 and 777-200X
Singapore Airlines (SIA) says that it will need at least ten new ultra-long-range aircraft to open fresh routes and frequencies to the USA, after the recent signing of an open-skies bilateral air agreement between the two countries. The airline is looking at the proposed Boeing 777-200X and rival ...