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Body politic
At long last, moves are afoot to convert Airbus from an anachronistic partnership into a proper limited company. The structure under which Airbus has operated for 27 years is inappropriate for an enterprise which turns over $10 billion a year and plans a massive investment in a new aircraft. ...
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Aircraft news
UK charter carrier Leisure International Airways has ordered four Airbus A321-200s with deliveries scheduled to start in the first quarter of 1997. Comair has increased orders for Canadair Regional Jets from 45 to 50. The Delta Connection carrier also secured five more options for a total of 25. ...
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Appointments
Harold J M Williams has been appointed president of Fairchild Aircraft. Ford Ennals has resigned as marketing director of British Airways. Derek Dear, general manager for marketing communications and information, is standing in. McDonnell Douglas has selected Andrew W Quinn as MDC China's regional vice president ...
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The Tan dynasty
Lucio Tan has begun sweeping change in his first year as chairman of Philippine Airlines. He hopes a more stable future will enable him to complete the carrier's turnaround. Tom Ballantyne reports from Manila.When Philippine Airlines' chief financial officer Jamie Bautista set out in early June to raise money in ...
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Breaking the monopoly
Several startup carriers are attacking Philippine Airlines' former domestic monopoly and have international ambitions. Tom Ballantyne reports.Considering the skies over the Philippines were a stage monopolised by Philippine Airlines as recently as 18 months ago, the nation has since witnessed one of the Asia-Pacific region's most remarkable commercial aviation explosions. ...
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Baltic bandwagon
The three Baltic states have had independence for only five years but the countries' airlines are already jumping on the privatisation bandwagon. Mark Blacklock reports from Latvia and Estonia.Latvia's two main carriers may have shut down less than a year ago, but a passenger studying the departure board at Riga ...
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ANA juggles with slots
When Japan's All Nippon Airways launched daily flights from Osaka's newly opened Kansai airport to Seoul, South Korea in September 1994, the move was far more strategic than commercial. ANA already flew to the Korean capital from Tokyo/Narita and decided to switch its services to Osaka due to ...
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Aces high
In-flight gambling is about to make its long-awaited debut, as three of the world's leading carriers plan to test the software over the coming months. Mead Jennings reports on the potential of what proponents claim is the airline industry's next major revenue stream and looks at some of the possible ...
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Airline news
Air France Cargo was set to launch a weekly Boeing 747 cargo service from Paris/Charles de Gaulle to Helsinki at the end of May. American Airlines Cargo is to introduce a 4.3 per cent fuel surcharge on its US domestic cargo and priority parcel service charges in July. ...
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Likud victory fires doubts
The Likud election victory in Israel will have profound implications for both El Al's future and plans for Palestine's fledgling air transport sector. Somewhat surprisingly, El Al changed course in its search for capital before the general election at the end of May. The new policy aims to ...
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No trust in a joint venture
Joint ventures proposed by General Electric and Pratt & Whitney to develop an engine for the stretched B747X, and a possible alliance between McDonnell Douglas and Dasa to work on the Airbus A3XX, pose questions about how antitrust laws apply when rivals retain separate identities but pool efforts. ...
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MAS largess foots the bill
Malaysia Airlines is facing a large increase in its wages bill, which has already affected the carrier's second half financial results, after signing new pay agreements covering almost its entire workforce. The 14,000 members of the Malaysia Airlines Employees Union (Maseu) get rises of between 20 and 26.8 ...
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China boost for Japanese
Japan's major airlines have won clearance to use a new air corridor to Beijing which will save them millions of dollars annually in operating costs and could give them a significant competitive advantage over US rivals. Flight times from Japan to the Chinese capital will be slashed by ...
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Alliance flop?
No alliance can hope to survive and prosper when the partners are at each others' throats. A clear message runs through this month's cover story about KLM/Northwest: what a pity if the world's most successful airline alliance were destroyed by infighting. If asked about the conditions needed for ...
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New Airbus at a stretch
Airbus Industrie and its four owners are preparing for long and complex negotiations about restructuring the partnership. In a report due in July, the four-man committee headed by former Daimler Benz chairman Edzard Reuter will discuss the options, now that the French, German, UK and Spanish governments have agreed in ...
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US ticket tax battle peaks
Several US airlines have been in the odd position of lobbying for the reimposition of a 10 per cent ticket tax, which has not been in effect since the beginning of the year and whose absence was credited for helping spur record carrier profits during the traditionally slow winter period. ...
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Modi loses German link
The termination of Lufthansa's technical agreement with ModiLuft is a severe body blow to the cash-strapped Indian independent but does not spell the end of the German carrier's involvement in the subcontinent. The decision in late May to terminate the relationship with ModiLuft is a result of the ...
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Financial results
Air-India moved to a loss despite sales growth of almost 10%. The carrier blamed competition and interest charges and depreciation on its B747-400s. British Midland's pretax profit fell 7% to £4.1m (US$6.4m) but the Manx and Loganair regional airlines moved from a £5.1m loss to a £1.3m profit. ...
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Smiths
Keith Butler-Wheelhouse, has been named chief executive of aerospace technology company Smiths Industries, of London, UK, from November. He succeeds Sir Roger Hurn, who will continue as chairman. Butler-Wheelhouse has been chief executive of Saab Automobile in Sweden for the past four years, and will become an executive director of ...
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RAeS/Roll-Royce
Professor Bob Stone, of VR Solutions, and James Angus, of Rolls-Royce, have been awarded the UK Royal Aeronautical Society's (RAeS) Sir Vernon Brown prize for their paper "Virtual maintenance". Stone (left) is seen receiving the Award from the immediate past president of the Society, Sir Donald Spiers. The VR Solutions/R-R ...