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FedEx buys big
FedEx is to buy twelve American Airlines' MD-11s over three years from January 1996 after conversion to freighter configuration. The company also holds options with American on a further seven MD-11s with a purchasing decision due between 2000 and 2002. Source: Airline Business
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Gulf drops 777s
In the first blow to Boeing's 777 programme, Gulf Air has cancelled its order for six of the aircraft. The carrier is understood to have been concerned over the cost of integrating the new type in a fleet that already includes the A340s. ...
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Tough finding the right niches
There are encouraging signs of start-ups and expansion in Europe though financial returns and yields are low. Europe's regional airlines are emerging from the recessionary gloom comparatively unscathed. The last three and a half years have seen their share of closures, but on balance the sector is growing. ...
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Fast growth, structural change
The increasingly high cost of expansion in Asia-Pacific is encouraging new solutions such as regional groupings.Like their big-jet brothers, Asia-Pacific's regional airlines are undergoing their most significant period of expansion ever. Buoyed by increasing deregulation, higher incomes swelling passenger numbers, and growing intra-regional trade, new carriers are emerging at a ...
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Age old decision
New aircraft or old? Airline executives are weighing up the options to make the right fleet decisions to last the next decade. Sara Guild contrasts the narrowbody decisions made by Air Canada, Finnair and Northwest.For an aircraft, getting old and creaky used to mean that your owner was about ...
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Transfers hold key to growth
North American regionals and majors will become even more tightly linked as future commuter operations grow.The increasing trend whereby major airlines transfer short-haul jet routes to regional carriers is expected to encourage the growth of regional airlines in the US and Canada. Already, 95 per cent of regional airline passengers ...
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Heated competition
Privatisation seems to have finally taken hold among airlines in the Caribbean. The resulting US-style management and new competition could spell permanent change for the region. By Mead Jennings.During last February's inaugural celebration for Barbados-based Carib Express, a 90 per cent privately owned regional airline, those in attendance heard the ...
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Coming of age
This worldwide survey of regional airlines, the first of its type, paints a picture of an industry segment that has come of age. The tables reveal a business which carried over 100 million passengers last year, generated nearly $8 billion in revenue, and turned in a net profit of nearly ...
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Psyched up
Austrian Airlines is bouncing back after three years without profit. Carrier president Herbert Bammer says alliances and open skies with the US could lead to a turnaround. Mead Jennings reports. A small airline from a small country: Austrian Airlines has two of the essential ingredients for an inferiority complex, ...
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FedEx faces China crisis
FedEx may have thought it was simply buying Evergreen International's all-cargo route authority to China. In fact, it bought a ringside seat to an aviation row between Beijing and Washington, which had, at presstime, left the carrier unable to operate any China services. Evergreen was the only US ...
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Airline news
American Airlines will start New York/JFK-Buenos Aires services from October three times a week with a B767-300ER. Frequencies are set to rise to six a week by end 1996. Continental Airlines is to launch a daily service from New York/Newark to Manchester, UK from 15 July using a ...
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Facing up to new frontiers
As described in Pricing it Right in the February issue of Airline Business, O&D yield management is the current frontier in airline marketing planning. In addition to the direct revenue benefits to be gained by controlling the mix of passenger itineraries flowing over an airline's route network, the ...
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Air China will go to market
Despite speculation to the contrary, Air China president Yin Wenlong insists the carrier will list on the New York stock exchange and is already being urged to do so by several major international financial institutions. He also says a Hong Kong-based finance house - Yin refuses to identify ...
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Meeting market needs is essential
Airlines are turning their organisations upside down - creating new problemsIn examining the airline business, many company strategists are working overtime these days. Following the disastrous start to the 1990s, most airlines are going through the most intensive period of soul-searching ever. They are asking questions like: What is our ...
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Coveting the other's home
British Airways and Lufthansa are increasing penetration of each other's home markets through airlines they have minority stakes in - the UK major with Deutsche BA and its German rival through Business Air. But the strategies are markedly different. At Deutsche BA, BA managing director Robert Ayling is ...
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'Worst' UK air miss reported
A NEAR-COLLISION between a Suckling Airways Dornier 228 and a Business Air Saab 340 near the UK's Trent VOR navigation beacon was the closest the investigators "...had ever had to consider", according to an Aircraft Proximity Hazard Panel report. The two aircraft were on reciprocal headings on Airway ...
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Enaer Namcu close to certification
TYPE CERTIFICATION OF the Chilean-designed Enaer Namcu (Eaglet) two-seat trainer, is under way and is expected to be completed, by the end of 1995. The aircraft will be certificated in the Netherlands, to European and U S standards, by Enaer's Dutch partner, Aviation Maintenance. The Chilean manufacturer has ...
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Continental will offload Lite
CONTINENTAL Airlines has announced that it is finally scrapping its low-fare Lite operation and has reached agreement on aircraft deferrals with Boeing. The news came as the airline revealed that net losses grew to $613 million in 1994. The troubled carrier has already trimmed back heavily on ...
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Dauphin simulator delivered
THOMSON TRAINING & Simulation has delivered its first Dauphin SA.365 naval mission simulator, to an unspecified Middle East customer. Assembled at its new integration hall at Cergy-Pontoise, near Paris, the simulator is equipped with a six-degrees-of-freedom motion base, and is based around the new Space visual system developed ...
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MDC prepares for last phase of ACT programme
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is preparing "best and final" offers in competition with Boeing for the last phase of NASA's Advanced Composite Technology (ACT) programme. The company's Advanced Transport Aircraft Development (ATAD) division delivered a composite stub-wing box test specimen to NASA's Langley Research Center, Virginia, in February under ...