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FlightSafety Boeing picks Luton for first European training unit
Max Kingsley-Jones/LUTON FlightSafety Boeing Training International (FSBTI) has rethought its European strategy, deciding to set up small training centres across Europe rather than one major hub near London Heathrow. The change of plan comes as the company initiates the development of a £44 million ($73.5 million) training centre, which ...
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Dragonair hunts A320 customers
Andrzej Jeziorski/HONG KONGHong Kong-based Dragonair expects to sign the first contracts with customers for its new Airbus A320 flight training centre in January. General manager Felix Hart says the centre should become operational next June. The company is in talks with A320 operators in the Asia-Pacific region, with possible customers ...
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Air France signs A330 deal to replace A310/767 fleet
Julian Moxon/PARIS Air France has finalised its long-awaited medium capacity fleet renewal plans, with an order for up to 13 Airbus A330-200s. The order, worth about $1.5 billion, includes eight firm orders and five options, and provides the airline with a replacement for its medium-range fleet of 10 ...
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Marketplace
Air New Zealand has begun to update its regional fleet with delivery of the first of seven ATR 72-500s. The new aircraft will replace the airline's older ATR 72-210s. Meanwhile, the airline has sold six 13/14-year-old Nordam Stage 3 hushkitted Boeing 737-200Advs to Mexican carrier Aviacsa. Sabena has phased ...
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Congressman urges UK ban
US Transportation Committee chairman Bud Shuster has called for a ban on all UK carrier flights to Chicago O'Hare and New York Kennedy airports unless an open skies agreement, allowing greater access to London, Heathrow, for US carriers, is finalised within six months. Congressman Shuster has also introduced a bill ...
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Top 50 Cargo Airline Ranking - 1998
Top 50 Cargo Airline Ranking - 1998 Ranking 1998 Airline Country Cargo Traffic Cargo share Total RTK's Cargo revenue $ million Cargo share of revenue Cargo yield USC/RTK Period End RTK million Change ...
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A lesson in low cost
Debonair's demise has provided a salutary lesson to other of Europe's low-fares carriers not to stray too far from the low-cost formula. Conventional wisdom may be much maligned, but it is not always wrong. Almost from the day that Franco Mancasola sketched out his plans to launch a ...
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More to come says Star, as it welcomes new members
BEN MCMILLAN/ATI TOKYO Singapore Airlines (SIA) took centre stage at the inauguration of Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA) into the Star Alliance in Tokyo in October by confirming its widely anticipated entrance into the multilateral airline grouping from spring next year. ANA was to join Star on 31 ...
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Delta buys Comair
Delta Air Lines is buying Comair Holdings, parent of Comair, in a $1.8 billion deal. Comair, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, is a Delta Connection regional carrier which feeds passengers from cities in the midwest and Florida to Delta's hubs in Cincinnati and Orlando. Comair chairman and chief executive David Mueller, ...
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In brief
Joint operations - Qantas Airways and British Airways are to merge commercial operations in Hong Kong from next April. The carriers say the new organisation is designated to integrate commercial operations such as telephone sales, ticketing and marketing. The two have joint operations in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. ...
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One Chinese merger plan fails, but another takeover is revived
NICHOLAS IONIDES BEIJING Merger talks between Air China and China Southern Airlines have ended in failure but supporters of consolidation in China's bloated airline sector will be pleased with another positive development: two other Chinese carriers have forged a tentative deal. Beijing-based industry sources say China National Aviation (CNAC), ...
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Shanghai opens second airport
With the opening of Pudong in October, Shanghai became China's first city with two international airports. Now the question is how to co-ordinate the two. Under a three-phase plan approved by Beijing, Pudong will boost operations in stages. During its first month, Shanghai Airlines and China Eastern planned to shift ...
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Freeing up the skies
PETER BENNET VIENNA Free flight promises to solve chronic capacity problems and, although it is 15 years away, Europe's aviation industry is moving ahead with creating the infrastructure. "Free flight is a misunderstood concept," says Lars Lindberg, president of AvTech aviation technology consultants in Sweden. "Some people think it is ...
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A year to forget
PETER CONWAY LONDON It took a while for the Asian downturn to affect the air cargo industry, but last year the bad news really hit home. There is little hiding from the fact that 1998 was a dismal year for the air cargo industry. And final figures from the ...
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Arabian dream
CHUCK GRIEVE DUBAI A new commuter airline in the Arabian Gulf, is linking the UAE cities of Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Will it succeed where others have failed? Robin Cutts is a man for a quote. Like this one: "Airlines publish ambitions and then charge you for it." And: ...
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Facing the markets
TOM GILL CASABLANCA Moroccan flag carrier Royal Air Maroc is preparing for privatisation and hopes to join Air France's global alliance. But it has not escaped the market turmoil hitting the rest of the industry. "When you make a lot of profit it is a bit worrying. You say ...
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Philippines scraps Taiwan accord
The Philippines Government, as threatened last month, has scrapped its air services agreement with Taiwan as a high-stakes dispute over a new air accord has boiled over. The Philippine Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) has ordered the suspension from November after Taiwan refused to agree to a demand that its ...
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Asia stays cautious despite signs of recovery
The latest round of financial results from Asia's airlines show how far the bulk of the region has come over the past year. But faced with continuing depressed yields in many markets, executives across the region feel compelled to warn that a full recovery is still a distant prospect. Carriers ...
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New contenders join the contest in Peru
DAVID KNIBB SEATTLE Substitute LanChile and Grupo TACA for Cintra and Delta Air Lines and a new chapter opens in Peruvian aviation. LanPeru and TACA Peru, backed by their main patrons LanChile and Grupo TACA, have replaced the fallen AeroPeru that was owned by Mexico's Cintra and Delta. Meanwhile, a ...
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Cintra faces new investigation
Mexico's competition commission has launched a new investigation into Cintra, the holding company for Aeromexico and Mexicana. The commission intends to focus on whether Cintra complied with conditions the commission set in 1995 when it approved Cintra's formation. This is the commission's second investigation of Cintra. In 1997 it ...