All air transport news – Page 2464
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Condor studies long-range 757
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES German charter airline Condor Flugdienst is studying a longer-range version of the Boeing 757 as well as the recently launched 767-400 as part of a long- term strategy to introduce extended range and higher payload aircraft into its fleet. Condor, which was the ...
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Greyhound abandons low-cost air service
Greyhound Canada is to end its Greyhound Air low-cost airline operation on 21 September, leaving Kelowna Flightcraft, which flies seven Boeing 727-200s for Greyhound, considering its options. Greyhound Air had lost C$28 million ($19 million) since beginning operations in July 1996, despite achieving good load factors, but is ...
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KAL jettisons A300B4s in fleet modernisation
Korean Airlines (KAL) is phasing out all of its Airbus Industrie A300B4s and replacing them with newer, leased A300-600Rs as part of a wider move to modernise its fleet of widebody and narrowbody jet airliners. Ansett Worldwide (AWAS) has acquired two of KAL's eight A300B4s and will take ...
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P&W effort to improve PW4000 reliability starts to pay dividend
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Pratt & Whitney says that an upgrade effort to counter reliability problems on more than 1,600 PW4000 engines is showing results, with a "dramatic reduction" to in-flight shutdown rates. The upgrade effort, known as the Number 1 reliability programme, involves around 100 service ...
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Saab pushes 35-seat option
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Saab Aircraft president Gert Shyborger says that Europe should look at the 30- to 35-seat market for its next regional jet, rather than the 70-seat sector being pursued by Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)). The comments come as Saab re-assesses its future in the regional-aircraft ...
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PZL-Mielec reveals 30-seater Skytruck stretch
Polish aircraft manufacturer PZL-Mielec has unveiled two new stretched variants of its 18-seat M-28 Skytruck development of the Antonov An-28 twin-turboprop. The M28-03 and M28-04 are being marketed as the Skytruck Plus. The fuselage has been stretched by 1.84m, and the cabin ceiling raised by 0.25m, allowing passengers ...
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Comair consortium wins battle to take over Sun Air
A consortium led by South African regional carrier British Airways Comair has won the race for state-owned Sun Air. Comair, a BA franchise partner, will take a 25%stake in the rival domestic carrier, with another 5%earmarked for Sun Air staff, and the remaining 70%taken by two investment vehicles ...
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Workshop
++ Air UK Engineering has signed a five-year deal with Skyways to undertake heavy maintenance on the Swedish carrier's fleet of eight Fokker F50s after the UK company successfully completed a year-long contract. ++ Dee Howard has begun heavy maintenance of an Airborne Express Douglas DC-8-63 under an agreement covering ...
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Low-cost Air South files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
Air South has become the latest of the low-fare US start-ups to run into trouble, filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection at the end of August, just days after its third anniversary. The carrier was forced to suspend operations and ground its leased fleet of seven Boeing 737-200s, ...
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Air New Zealand looks to alliances to boost profits
Paul Phelan/CAIRNSKevin O'Toole/LONDON Air New Zealand (ANZ)is looking for benefits from its alliance strategy, including closer ties with newly acquired Ansett Australia, to help lift profits this year after posting a major slump in its results for 1996/7. Over the next year, the airline plans to ...
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Taiwanese tourists boost CAL
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON A return in confidence among Taiwanese travellers has lifted profits at China Airlines (CAL)over the first half of 1997, and the airline expects better to come during the rest of the year, which includes Taiwan's peak holiday season. CAL posted pre-tax profits of nearly ...
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GE gets Greenwich
General Electric completed its $530 million acquisition of Greenwich Air Services, as promised on 2 September, but is still waiting for a vote by UNC shareholders on whether to join the engine maintenance giant. That vote is expected this month. Source: Flight International
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Thai profits fall
PROFITS AT Thai Airways were almost halved over the latest quarter to the end of June, as it counted the cost of a massive increase in salary bills, and the continued impact of fuel price rises. Pre-tax profits slumped to just under Baht413 million ($12 million) over the ...
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Eastern rising
EVA Airways of Taiwan has achieved formidable progress in six years Brent Hannon/TAIPEI EVA Airways, launched with little fanfare in mid-1991, today boasts a fleet of 30, a route network which extends to London, New York and Panama City, and a balance sheet which shows ...
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Jetcruzer 500P first flight is completed
Advanced Aerodynamics & Structures' (AASI) Jetcruzer 500P business turboprop had its maiden fight on 22 August. The 500P, which is an upgraded, higher-speed version of the Jetcruzer 450, had a 45min flight from the US manufacturer's base at Long Beach, California. AASI plans to synchronise amended US Federal ...
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AI(R) holds talks on 70-seater plans
Aero International (Regional) (AI(R) is in last-minute talks with potential partners on its planned Airjet family of regional jets as it nears a decision on whether to go ahead with the 70-seat aircraft. Embraer, Saab and Aerostructures are all competing to supply the wing, although the US firm ...
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Boeing looks again at plans for NLA
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing has restarted efforts which could lead to the rebirth of the New Large Airplane (NLA) concept, dropped in 1995 in favour of plans to develop the stretched, re-winged 747-500X/600X. One of the initiatives is aimed at creating "faster, cheaper", processes which would ...
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Airbus and Boeing benefit as ILFC orders new aircraft
International Lease Finance (ILFC) has placed orders for 126 new aircraft, shared almost equally between the Airbus Industrie consortium and Boeing. The orders from the world's largest aircraft-leasing company are for 61 Boeings, worth $4.5 billion, and 65 Airbuses, worth around $3.9 billion. ILFC has 112 airline customers ...
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BA aims to fly Qantas 747-400s in stopover periods
British Airways is seeking clearance from the UK Civil Aviation Authority to allow its pilots and cabin crews to operate Qantas Boeing 747-400s on routes from London Heathrow Airport for an unlimited period. An application to the CAA from BA says that the approval is "-initially to facilitate ...
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Europe aims to keep pressure on USA over subsidies issue
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON The European aerospace industry is considering calling for the cancellation of the 1992 transatlantic agreement on aircraft subsidies as one of its options to keep up pressure on the USA in the wake of the Boeing/McDonnell Douglas (MDC) merger, say sources in Brussels. The ...