All air transport news – Page 2531
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Mexican overhaul
Standard Aero, of Winnipeg, Canada, and Mexican overhaul company Servicios Aereos Del Centro, have won a C$1 million ($725,000) renewable yearly contract from the Mexican Government to repair and overhaul Allison 250 and Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 engines powering the Procuraduria General de la Republica's fleet. Source: ...
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SJ30 tests make progress
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA SINO SWEARINGEN Aircraft (SSAC) has completed bird-strike testing for the SJ30 light business-jet. Tests were conducted at windshield manufacturer PPG in Huntsville, Alabama, and SSAC says "...the metal cockpit structure required no repairs after the 320kt [590km/h], 4lb [1.8kg] bird strikes." The first US ...
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Austrian orders two A340-300s
AUSTRIAN AIRLINES has placed a Sch3.22 billion ($320 million) order for two high-capacity Airbus A340-300s, for delivery in 1997 and 1999. The new aircraft, to be configured for 297 passengers in a two-class layout, will be used to supplement or replace the existing A340-200s on routes to Johannesburg, ...
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SAA and Lufthansa to co-operate
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH LUFTHANSA AND South African Airlines (SAA) have put signatures to a co-operation agreement, now scheduled to come in to force from 1 April. The agreement, signed by Lufthansa's chairman Jurgen Weber and his SAA counterpart Mike Myburgh on 15 December, follows a memorandum of ...
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Hamilton Standard signs with Russian firm
HAMILTON STANDARD has signed a joint venture with Nauka, a Russian designer and manufacturer of environmental-control systems (ECS). The joint company, announced in Moscow at the end of November, is already set up for Westernised production of ECS units. The venture employs 35 workers, but there are plans ...
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New talks for Thailand
Many Washington aviation officials believe Federico Peña's November tour of Asia was more show than substance, with Peña signing agreements already negotiated. However, one development has been a long time in coming. Thailand renounced its US bilateral in 1990, the result of what Bangkok felt was an overabundance ...
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Aircraft news
SAS is to buy six more B737-600s worth an estimated $210 million, adding to its existing order for 35. South African Airways is to acquire seven B777-200s and two B747-400s. Amsterdam-based carrier Transavia has ordered eight B737-800s, with options on an additional 12. Gulf ...
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Suppliers
EDS is to assume responsibility for Rolls-Royce Aerospace Group's information technology in a $900 million deal. America West Airlines and Reno Air have introduced EDS' electronic ticketing system. Rolls-Royce and Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Company have a formed an engine overhaul joint venture, Hong Kong Aero Engine Services. ...
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Appointments
Henrik Arle, EVP staff/finance, is taking on the responsibilities of general international relations, following the retirement of Oiva Rejasammal. The marketing aspects become the responsibility of EVP marketing Leif Lundstrom. Air New Zealand has appointed Annabel Cotton manager investor relations, and John H Blair company secretary and corporate ...
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Finance
Atlas Air has completed a $100 million public offering to finance three of the 10 Boeing 747-200s which Haeco is converting to freighters. Atlas Air operates 10 B747 freighters on behalf of British Airways, China Airlines, Emirates, KLM, Lufthansa and Varig. Hong Kong's Provisional Airport Authority has signed ...
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Politics top bill at Aria
Planning decisions critical to the development of Aeroflot Russian International Airlines (Aria) are on hold following a Kremlin-instigated clearout of the carrier's boardroom which has placed the flag more firmly under political control. Only one member of the previous board of directors, chairman Gennady N Zaitsev, has survived ...
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Alitalia faces capital test
Alitalia is treading a fine line as it finalises its new restructuring plan, trying to avoid the attentions of Brussels over its capital injection and further conflict with its unions. At presstime, the Italian flag was considering a report on Alitalia's restructuring drawn up by an independent financial ...
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Mexico goes into a shell
Aeromexico and Mexicana should come under the oversight of a holding company by the end of the month. The search for potential buyers for the single entity could begin once the slow process of putting the two carriers' finances in order is complete. The holding company, called the ...
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A system approach
O&D revenue management systems can increase an airline's revenues by a valuable 1 per cent, but they require airline managers to look at the system as a whole rather than an individual route. Richard Whitaker looks at one and answers common questions about the concept. Every yield manager knows that ...
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Solo act in Doha
Now two years old, Qatar Airways has survived the pain of its launch period. But the carrier still has to transform Doha from a regional outpost into a global hub able to compete with Dubai and Bahrain. Report by Sara Guild. One expects to find a sheikh up front, but ...
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Hubs and partners
Since being spun off into the world's first separate airline cargo subsidiary last January, Lufthansa Cargo has been free to pursue its aggressive global network strategy. Jackie Gallacher reports.As the biggest non-integrated cargo carrier in the world and the second largest air freight carrier after Federal Express, Lufthansa Cargo Airlines ...
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Hanoi hangups
Vietnam Airlines is going for controlled growth in a volatile economy, but the political climate has ruled out its near-term access to foreign capital. Tom Ballantyne reports.It is a classic case of Communist doctrine versus free market thinking. Vietnam's economic reform policy - known as doi moi - was designed ...
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New chapter of growth
A year after emerging from bankruptcy, America West is resuming growth, but this time the carrier plans to do things differently. By David Knibb.America West Airlines has unveiled a business plan designed to leave its checkered past behind and set a smooth course for at least the next two years. ...
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Airline news
EVA Air was due to launch services from Taipei to Macau, Los Angeles and Panama in December and will begin Hong Kong services in February. Emirates has launched services to Ho Chi Minh City and Nairobi, both on a twice weekly basis. Elsewhere the carrier has launched Mercator, ...
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DHL delivers Asian jigsaw
DHL has successfully 'frightened' some of Asia's major airlines into a deal in which it will add capacity to handle DHL's spectacular growth in the regional freight business. Continental Micronesia, Cathay Pacific and two unnamed Asian carriers were afraid that DHL would bring in its own aircraft, losing ...