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    Start-ups look to profit from AeroPeru gap

    1999-07-07T00:00:00Z

    Two foreign-backed Peruvian start-up airlines are preparing to fill the domestic and international void left by AeroPeru, as time runs out to rescue the bankrupt national carrier. Chilean-backed LanPeru aimed to start scheduled services on 5 July and will be joined shortly by Central American-supported TransAm. The carriers have ...

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    Routes

    1999-07-07T00:00:00Z

    Yugoslavia's JAT resumed some international flights from Belgrade on 25 June. All flights had been suspended since 24 March, when NATO bombing of the country started. By 9 July, JAT expects to be flying to Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Tunisia and China, the airline says. Most of Europe may remain ...

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    Japanese majors cut fares

    1999-07-07T00:00:00Z

    Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE Fare cuts by Japan's "big three" airlines have taken their toll on the country's two new domestic carriers, Skymark and Air Do. The start-ups, which challenged All Nippon Airways, Japan Airlines and Japan Air System on high-density domestic routes, have suffered falling load factors since April and ...

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    US firm develops Jetstream cargo conversion

    1999-07-07T00:00:00Z

    US cargo specialist Murray Aviation is carrying out the first cargo conversion of a British Aerospace Jetstream 31 (J31), and is aiming to secure a supplemental type certificate early next year. The Detroit-based company has bought a 13-year-old ex-US Airways Express J31, which is undergoing conversion at its base. ...

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    Marketplace

    1999-07-07T00:00:00Z

    Regional start-up Shuttle America plans to grow its 50-seat Bombardier Dash 8-300 fleet from three aircraft to six by the end of the year. The airline, which operates three secondhand aircraft leased from the manufacturer, holds lease options for 18 more Dash 8-300s. Atlas Air has signed a long-term lease ...

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    Airports

    1999-07-07T00:00:00Z

    Little Cayman Island in the Caribbean will be able to take larger aircraft from next year after the completion of a new 1,220m (4,000ft) runway. The Cayman Ministry of Transportation recently approved the development and expects to pick a contractor in time for work to begin late this year, to ...

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    BA confirms ambitions for domestic Italian carrier

    1999-07-07T00:00:00Z

    Andy Nativi/GENOA Jens Flottau/BERLIN British Airways has confirmed that it is continuing to study the launch of an airline to compete in the Italian domestic market. It plans to decide on the venture shortly. The UK carrier originally considered establishing an Italian franchise operation this year, but was forced ...

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    Lufthansa takes on PAL restructure

    1999-07-07T00:00:00Z

    Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Lufthansa Consulting, a subsidiary of the German flag carrier, has signed a two-year contract with Philippine Airlines (PAL), which should see it play a major role in the restructuring of the struggling Asian carrier. The move effectively kills plans for Regent Star, a consultancy formed by ...

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    Aeroflot continues down recovery road with profit

    1999-07-07T00:00:00Z

    Paul Duffy/MOSCOW Aeroflot Russian International Airlines says it is recovering from the consequences of last year's economic slide and continues to pay off its debts, including $170 million a year in lease fees on 25 Western airliners. Chief executive Valery Okulov admits that the airline was in danger of ...

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    FLSA plans strategic US buy

    1999-07-07T00:00:00Z

    Chris Jasper/DUBLIN Maintenance specialist FLS Aerospace (FLSA) plans a US purchase by the end of this year as part of a strategy that could see it rival Aviation Sales as the world's largest third-party-only aircraft overhaul provider. The Copenhagen-based company, a division of diversified Danish conglomerate FLS Industries, says ...

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    UPS buys cargo carrier in drive for Latin America

    1999-07-07T00:00:00Z

    United Parcel Service (UPS) aims to improve its position in the Latin American market with the purchase of Challenge Air Cargo (CAC), a freight-only carrier flying to 17 cities in that region from Miami and Dallas. CAC founder and president Bill Spohrer says the deal includes the acquisition of ...

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    NATO slams Europe's warfighting capability after Kosovo conflict

    1999-07-07T00:00:00Z

    Stewart Penney/LONDON NATO's new military committee chairman, Adm Guido Venturoni, and UK defence secretary George Robertson have criticised Europe's ability to support alliance operations such as the recent conflict with Yugoslavia. Both acknowledge that the USA provided the lion's share (70-80%) of air assets in Kosovo. Venturoni says that, ...

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    X-34 makes first captive flight

    1999-07-07T00:00:00Z

     The first Orbital Sciences X-34 vehicle made its maiden captive flight beneath a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar on 29 June, from Edwards AFB, California. Captive flights will be made to get US Federal Aviation Administration approval. Next year, another X-34 will fly unpowered glide flights to a runway after being dropped ...

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    Eagle 150 popularity soars in North America

    1999-07-07T00:00:00Z

    Australia's Eagle Aircraft has started to export its two-seat Eagle 150 to its US subsidiary, less than six months after the single-engined aircraft was granted US certification. According to the Orlando, Florida-based company that will assemble the Teledyne Continental IO-240-powered aircraft for the North American market, orders "are nearing ...

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    Controlling Chile

    1999-07-07T00:00:00Z

    Chile has a good safety record despite unusual air traffic challenges David Learmount/SANTIAGO DE CHILE No other country is as long and thin as Chile. Few other countries contain such vast distances and terrain so unkind that its main 5,500km (3,420 mile)-long north-south trunk road has to retreat temporarily ...

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    Boeing doubts demand

    1999-07-01T12:07:00Z

    Boeing is raising further doubts over likely demand for a new airliner in the class above 400 seats. At the Paris air show, Randy Baseler, vice-president marketing, said that Boeing sees only 80 deliveries of such aircraft over the next decade. The number rises to 360 over the next 20 ...

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    Routes

    1999-07-01T11:31:00Z

    Iberia ends dispute with pilots - Iberia has struck a deal with its pilots that paves the way for the integration of subsidiary Aviaco and the unification of its Airbus fleet. The company has dropped plans to sue pilots for damages for strike action earlier this year and pilots have ...

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    Routes

    1999-07-01T11:30:00Z

    KLM/Alitalia's Latin rejig - Alliance partners KLM and Alitalia are reorganising their networks to Latin America. For summer 2000, KLM will replace indirect flights between Amsterdam and Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires with direct services, while dropping its Rio de Janeiro service in favour of Alitalia, which flies there five ...

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    The tie that binds

    1999-07-01T00:00:00Z

    The game is far from over for the global airline grouping, as Delta's deal with Air France demonstrates. But if there is more realignment to come, the SAirGroup is putting its trust in old-fashioned equity. The course of love never did run smooth. Neither, it seems, do the course ...

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    USA and UK revisit open skies talks

    1999-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Talks on a new US-UK liberalised aviation bilateral agreement are due to resume at the start of July, but the hosts in Washington DC remain cautious about the likely outcome of this latest round. Talks were set to restart in mid-June but were cancelled by the UK Government, which said ...