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TWA twin-source deal surprises market
Trans World Airlines' decision to set up deals with Airbus Industrie and Boeing for competing 100-seaters - totalling 250 aircraft, including options - has raised questions over the US airline's future strategy. The deal remains to be finalised, but TWA has signed letters of intent (LoIs) for 50 717-200s, ...
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HAL and Airbus sign on A320 freighter
Hindustan Aeronautics and Airbus Industrie have signed a memorandum of understanding to study cargo versions of the A320 family. Initially, the study will explore the commercial and technical aspects of the project. Freighter, Quick Change and Convertible versions of the A319, 320 and 321 are under consideration. The aircraft ...
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Garuda pushes to renegotiate 737 leases
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE Garuda Indonesia is in talks with the US Export-Import Bank, Boeing and General Electric to renegotiate leases on six Boeing 737s. The airline says talks attended by airline president Abdul Gani and president commissioner Robby Djohan began on 11 December in Seattle, focusing on credit terms ...
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AirOne results
Italian airline AirOne has reported a turnover increase of 40% for the first nine months of this year, to L226.7 billion ($135 million) compared with the same period last year. The carrier has also recorded an operating profit for the first time in its three years of operation. The L5.8 ...
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Airports
-Augsburg Airport, near Munich, is to undergo a DM50 million ($31 million) upgrade. It will involve the introduction of a new passenger terminal, a runway extension to accommodate aircraft up to the size of the Airbus A319, and the installation of instrument landing systems at both ends. Work is due ...
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KLM reveals plans for cargo alliance
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON KLM has revealed a three-stage plan that will lead to the setting up of a standalone cargo airline early in the next decade in a joint venture with its alliance partners, Alitalia and Northwest Airlines. The plan is part of the recently finalised link between KLM ...
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Marketplace
-Boullioun Aviation Services has ordered three Boeing 737-300s, to increase its orderbook with the manufacturer to 63. The -300s will be delivered in the second half of 1999. -Varig has leased a Boeing 737-700 from GE Capital Aviation Services. -French charter airline Euralair will take delivery of the first of ...
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Oneworld infrastructure begins to take shape
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Airline efforts to establish working arrangements for the recently unveiled oneworld alliance are intensifying, with the first meeting of chief executives from the five founding members and the proposed creation of a new common ground-handling operation in Europe. The heads of American Airlines, British Airways, ...
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PAL hunts for fresh funding as Northwest turns its back
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Philippine Airlines (PAL) is again involved in a desperate search for fresh financing, as Northwest Airlines shows little interest in coming to the rescue of the stricken national carrier after Cathay Pacific Airways pulled out of investment talks. Cathay has officially confirmed that it has ...
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PS-90A overtakes 6,000h milestone
The lead Aviadvigatel/ Perm Motors PS-90A turbofan passed the 6,000h on the wing mark at the end of November, on an Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-96-300 flying a regular scheduled flight. Aviadvigatel general director Yuri Reshetnikov says that the engine will shortly be removed and given a full stripdown examination, a ...
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Routes
-Royal Brunei Airlines gives "the regional economic situation" as its reason for "temporarily" suspending scheduled services between Bandar Seri Begawan in Brunei and Osaka, Japan. -Northwest Airlines is to double its seasonal frequency between Tokyo, Japan and Anchorage, Alaska, by operating two weekly McDonnell Douglas DC-10 flights. -Royal Air Maroc ...
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Swiss World seeks protection from bankruptcy
Swiss World Airways (SWA) suspended operations on 2 December after suffering consistently poor load factors on its single route between Geneva and New York Newark. The airline has informed the Swiss Federal Office for Civil Aviation (OFAC) that it is seeking Chapter 11-style bankruptcy protection through the courts and ...
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Moscow court case brings end to Aeroflot/Transaero union
Alexander Velovich and Paul Duffy/MOSCOW The two-year-old alliance between Aeroflot Russian International Airlines and Transaero has ended, following a Moscow court ruling that Aeroflot must pay Transaero R3 million ($176,000) as a balance of mutual financial claims by the two airlines. In early September, Aeroflot officially informed Transaero ...
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Belgium's City Bird announces first profits
Herman De Wulf/BRUSSELS Belgian long haul airline City Bird is diversifying into main-deck freight operations with a deal to acquire two new Airbus A300-600Fs for delivery in mid-1999. The expansion comes as the low-cost passenger carrier recorded its first net profit since starting operations on 27 March,1997. Last ...
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Government saves Air Namibia
Hilka Birns/CAPE TOWN The Namibian Government has injected N$20-million ($3.7 million) into Air Namibia and has appointed a Malaysian financier to restructure, and re-capitalise the troubled national carrier as a state-owned company. The move takes the airline out of the control of state holding company TransNamib, which has ...
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African dawn
Lois Jones/DAKAR David Learmount/CAPE TOWN Air traffic services (ATS) in many parts of Africa are already unable to cope with current traffic levels, never mind increased demand. Meanwhile, wars and political instability raging in parts of the continent mean that basic air traffic control (ATC) is often neglected and ...
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ATR holds 728JET partnership discussions
Julian Moxon/PARIS ATR is holding discussions on a possible regional jet partnership with Fairchild Dornier, as it postpones plans to launch its proposed ATR Airjet 70 into 1999. The Aerospatiale/Alenia partnership is also continuing talks on a tie-up with Embraer. Industry sources say the surprise talks between the ...
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Boeing cuts production as Far East orders dive
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing plans to make dramatic cuts to commercial aircraft production and numbers of workers in 1999 and 2000 as a result of the Asian economic crisis. "It's not a pretty picture," admits Boeing president Harry Stonecipher, who says the cuts are being made because "the ...
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Swissair reveals Express brand
Swissair is introducing an Express brand to coincide with the launch on 5 November of wet-lease services by Debonair of the UK on behalf of the Swiss flag carrier and Italian independent airline Air One. Debonair will operate one of its British Aerospace 146-200s, painted in Swissair Express colours, ...
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Developing crisis
It is a nightmare scenario for any company. Immense production problems are overcome at huge expense, just in time for the market to collapse. For Boeing, the timing could hardly be worse. As quickly as the company's production recovery takes effect, the deepening impact of the Asian economic crisis starts ...